2026 James Neil Weinstein: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	107	6284	5911	3352	3109	399	40394

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

James Neil Weinstein is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States and has a research focus centered on health professions. Their scholarly work encompasses various dimensions within this broad field, particularly highlighting general health professions, economics and econometrics, health, emergency medical services, and public health, environmental, and occupational health.

Their research topics cover a range of issues related to global and local health care, including global health care issues, healthcare policy and management, health disparities and outcomes, health systems, economic evaluations, and quality of life. Additional areas of focus include healthcare cost, quality, practices, global health workforce issues, and primary care and health outcomes.

James Neil Weinstein has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, notable among them are William B. Weeks, Juan Lavista Ferres, Ji Eun Chang, José A. Pagán, and Stacey Y. Cao.

Their contributions have been published in multiple esteemed journals, with a particular presence in Spine, where they have seven publications. Other frequent publication venues include the Journal of General Internal Medicine with four papers, International Journal of Public Health with three, JAMA Network Open with two, and The Journal of Rural Health with two.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by James Neil Weinstein include:

Rural-urban disparities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health and an action-oriented, dynamic tool for visualizing them (2023, PLOS Global Public Health)
The Essential Role of Technology in the Public Health Battle Against COVID-19 (2020, Population Health Management)
Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse (2020, JAMA Network Open)
An observational, sequential analysis of the relationship between local economic distress and inequities in health outcomes, clinical care, health behaviors, and social determinants of health (2023, International Journal for Equity in Health)
All Sustainable Development Goals Support Good Health and Well-Being (2023, International Journal of Public Health)

In recognition of their contributions to the field, James Neil Weinstein was named a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2011.

Best Publications

Surgical vs Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disk Herniation: The Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT): A Randomized Trial

James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna N.A. Tosteson

1500
Citations
Surgical versus Nonsurgical Therapy for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

James N Weinstein;Tor D Tosteson;Jon D Lurie;Anna N A Tosteson

1420
Citations
Surgical versus Nonsurgical Treatment for Lumbar Degenerative Spondylolisthesis

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Brett Hanscom

1054
Citations
United States Trends and Regional Variations in Lumbar Spine Surgery: 1992–2003

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Patrick R. Olson;Kristen K. Bronner

1014
Citations
Surgical vs nonoperative treatment for lumbar disk herniation: the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) observational cohort

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Jonathan S. Skinner

1012
Citations
Low back pain [5] (multiple letters)

A. J. Haig;A. Wallbom;P. G. Hill;R. A. Deyo

918
Citations
Thoracolumbar burst fractures. The clinical efficacy and outcome of nonoperative management.

Joe Mumford;James Neil Weinstein;Kevin F. Spratt;Vijay K. Goel

884
Citations
Surgical compared with nonoperative treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis. four-year results in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) randomized and observational cohorts.

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Wenyan Zhao

783
Citations
Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation: four-year results for the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT).

James Neil Weinstein;Jon D. Lurie;Tor D. Tosteson;Anna N.A. Tosteson

689
Citations
Long-term follow-up of lower lumbar fusion patients.

Thomas R. Lehmann;Kevin F. Spratt;James E. Tozzi;James N. Weinstein

681
Citations
Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis four-year results of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.

James Neil Weinstein;Tor D. Tosteson;Jon D. Lurie;Anna Tosteson

657
Citations
Nail or Plate Fixation of Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures: Changing Pattern of Practice: A Review of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Database

Jeffrey O. Anglen;James Neil Weinstein

607
Citations
Racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in rates of knee arthroplasty among Medicare patients

Jonathan Skinner;James Neil Weinstein;Scott M. Sporer;John E. Wennberg

578
Citations
Surgical Versus Nonoperative Treatment for Lumbar Disc Herniation

James Weinstein;Jon Lurie;Tor Tosteson;Anna Tosteson

502
Citations
Trends and variation in incidence, surgical treatment, and repeat surgery of proximal humeral fractures in the elderly.

John Erik Bell;Brian C. Leung;Kevin F. Spratt;Ken J. Koval

491
Citations
Predictors of surgical outcome in degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis.

Jeffrey N. Katz;Gerold Stucki;Stephen J. Lipson;Anne H. Fossel

478
Citations
Chordoma of the mobile spine: fifty years of experience.

Stefano Boriani;Stefano Bandiera;Roberto Biagini;Patrizia Bacchini

461
Citations
A combined finite element and optimization investigation of lumbar spine mechanics with and without muscles

Vijay K. Goel;Weizeng Kong;Jung S. Han;James Neil Weinstein

437
Citations
American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Practice of the Orthopaedic Surgeon: Part-II, certification examination case mix.

William E. Garrett;Marc F. Swiontkowski;James Neil Weinstein;John Callaghan

414
Citations
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity

Unknown

347
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tor D. Tosteson Dartmouth College

William B. Weeks Microsoft (United States)

Anna N. A. Tosteson Dartmouth College

Vijay K. Goel University of Toledo

Todd J. Albert Hospital for Special Surgery

Alan S. Hilibrand Thomas Jefferson University

Gunnar Andersson Stockholm University

Jonathan S. Skinner Dartmouth College

Scott D. Boden Emory University

Howard S. An Rush University Medical Center

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