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Medicine D-index 176 Citations 120,084 1,208 World Ranking 230 National Ranking 154
Best Scientists D-index 177 Citations 123,489 1,288 World Ranking 466 National Ranking 318

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2023 - Research.com Best Scientist Award

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Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Law
  • Disease

His primary areas of study are Gerontology, Demography, Public health, Socioeconomic status and Prospective cohort study. His Gerontology research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Body mass index, Disease, Job strain, Social environment and Social support. His Demography research incorporates elements of Odds ratio, Epidemiology, Cross-sectional study, Confidence interval and Economic inequality.

His research integrates issues of Mental health, Marital status and Social capital in his study of Public health. In his study, Development economics is strongly linked to Demographic economics, which falls under the umbrella field of Socioeconomic status. His Prospective cohort study research integrates issues from Relative risk, Physical therapy, Myocardial infarction and Risk factor.

His most cited work include:

  • Social capital, income inequality, and mortality. (2550 citations)
  • Social ties and mental health. (2131 citations)
  • Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis. (1471 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary areas of study are Demography, Gerontology, Socioeconomic status, Public health and Confidence interval. His studies deal with areas such as Body mass index, Odds ratio, Epidemiology, Cohort study and Hazard ratio as well as Demography. His Cohort study study combines topics in areas such as Prospective cohort study and Cohort.

His Prospective cohort study research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Relative risk, Incidence, Myocardial infarction and Risk factor. His Gerontology research focuses on subjects like Social capital, which are linked to Social mobility, Social psychology, Social engagement and Multilevel model. His Socioeconomic status study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Environmental health, Marital status, Self-rated health, Social class and Economic inequality.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Demography (38.13%)
  • Gerontology (25.55%)
  • Socioeconomic status (18.79%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Demography (38.13%)
  • Confidence interval (13.52%)
  • Socioeconomic status (18.79%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Demography, Confidence interval, Socioeconomic status, Social capital and Depression are his primary areas of study. The concepts of his Demography study are interwoven with issues in Public health, Logistic regression, Cohort and Hazard ratio. His Public health research incorporates themes from Psychosocial and Epidemiology.

His research in Confidence interval intersects with topics in Odds ratio and Prospective cohort study. In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Social capital, Environmental health is strongly linked to Multilevel model. His Depression study deals with Mental health intersecting with Geriatric Depression Scale and Gerontology.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Physical distancing interventions and incidence of coronavirus disease 2019: natural experiment in 149 countries. (144 citations)
  • Association Between State-Level Income Inequality and COVID-19 Cases and Mortality in the USA. (21 citations)
  • Community-level social capital and cognitive decline after a natural disaster: A natural experiment from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (20 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Law
  • Disease

His primary areas of investigation include Demography, Socioeconomic status, Social capital, Confidence interval and Family medicine. He connects Demography with Betacoronavirus in his research. As part of the same scientific family, he usually focuses on Socioeconomic status, concentrating on Disadvantaged and intersecting with Disease, Moderation, Overweight, Diabetes mellitus and Socioeconomic inequalities.

His study in Social capital is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Natural experiment, Multilevel model, Gerontology and Social engagement. His Confidence interval research includes themes of Odds ratio, Social support, Odds and Social isolation. His work carried out in the field of Family medicine brings together such families of science as Cohort study, Medicaid, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Literacy and Health literacy.

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Best Publications

Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.

I Kawachi;B P Kennedy;K Lochner;D Prothrow-Stith.
American Journal of Public Health (1997)

4514 Citations

Social ties and mental health.

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman.
Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine (2001)

3847 Citations

Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.

Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P. Kennedy;Roberta Glass.
American Journal of Public Health (1999)

2431 Citations

Social cohesion, social capital and health

I. Kawachi.
social epidemiology (2000)

2356 Citations

Neighborhoods and health

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman.
Neighborhoods and health. (2003)

1659 Citations

Social Capital and Health

Ichiro Kawachi;S.V. Subramanian;Daniel Kim.
(2010)

1428 Citations

Rotating Night Shifts and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women Participating in the Nurses' Health Study

Eva S. Schernhammer;Francine Laden;Frank E. Speizer;Walter C. Willett.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute (2001)

1377 Citations

Social capital: a guide to its measurement

Kimberly Lochner;Ichiro Kawachi;Bruce P. Kennedy.
Health & Place (1999)

1272 Citations

A glossary for health inequalities

Ichiro Kawachi;S. V. Subramanian;N. Almeida-Filho.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2002)

1254 Citations

The local food environment and diet: A systematic review

Caitlin E. Caspi;Glorian Sorensen;S.V. Subramanian;Ichiro Kawachi.
Health & Place (2012)

1241 Citations

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