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D-Index
130
Citations
75667
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2461
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1391

James R. Sowers publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James R. Sowers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 1,002 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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James R. Sowers D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James R. Sowers sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 130 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

James R. Sowers is affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, including endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, molecular biology, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, and nutrition and dietetics.

The main areas of focus in their work include hormonal regulation and hypertension, sodium intake and health, adipose tissue and metabolism, cardiovascular, neuropeptides, and oxidative stress research, blood pressure and hypertension studies, diabetes treatment and management, and cardiovascular function and risk factors.

Recent published papers by James R. Sowers cover topics related to cardiovascular and metabolic health. These include:

  • Insulin resistance, cardiovascular stiffening and cardiovascular disease, 2021, Metabolism
  • Endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response in cardiovascular diseases, 2021, Nature Reviews Cardiology
  • Hypertension in Diabetes: An Update of Basic Mechanisms and Clinical Disease, 2021, Hypertension
  • Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications, 2021, Physiological Reviews
  • Covid-19 and Disparities in Nutrition and Obesity, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, with notable numbers of publications in:

  • Metabolism (11 publications)
  • Hypertension (6 publications)
  • American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology (3 publications)
  • Journal of the Endocrine Society (3 publications)
  • Cardiovascular Research (2 publications)

James R. Sowers collaborates regularly with a number of co-authors in their research. Frequent collaborators include Guanghong Jia, Michael A. Hill, Adam Whaley-Connell, Annayya R. Aroor, and Javad Habibi.

Best Publications

  • Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults: Executive summary

    F. X. Pi-Sunyer;D. M. Becker;C. Bouchard;R. A. Carleton

  • Diabetes, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease: An Update

    James R. Sowers;Murray Epstein;Edward D. Frohlich

  • Preserving renal function in adults with hypertension and diabetes: A consensus approach

    George L. Bakris;Mark Williams;Lance Dworkin;William J. Elliott

  • Metformin: an update.

    Dmitri Kirpichnikov;Samy I McFarlane;James R Sowers

  • Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: An Update of Mechanisms Contributing to This Clinical Entity.

    Guanghong Jia;Michael A. Hill;James R. Sowers

  • Role of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Insulin Resistance

    Jeong-a Kim;Yongzhong Wei;James R. Sowers

  • The Effect of Weight Reduction on Blood Pressure, Plasma Renin Activity, and Plasma Aldosterone Levels in Obese Patients

    Michael L. Tuck;James Sowers;Leslie Dornfeld;Gary Kledzik

  • Insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia in diabetic cardiomyopathy

    Guanghong Jia;Vincent G. DeMarco;James R. Sowers

  • Obesity as a cardiovascular risk factor

    James R Sowers

  • Obesity-related hypertension: Pathogenesis, cardiovascular risk, and treatment—A position paper of the The Obesity Society and the American Society of Hypertension†‡

    Lewis Landsberg;Louis J. Aronne;Lawrence J. Beilin;Valerie Burke

  • Insulin resistance and hypertension

    James R. Sowers

  • Insulin Resistance and Cardiovascular Disease

    Samy I. McFarlane;Maryann Banerji;James R. Sowers

  • Diabetic cardiomyopathy: a hyperglycaemia- and insulin-resistance-induced heart disease

    Guanghong Jia;Guanghong Jia;Adam Whaley-Connell;Adam Whaley-Connell;James R. Sowers

  • Final Outcome Results of the Multicenter Isradipine Diuretic Atherosclerosis Study (MIDAS): A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Nemat O. Borhani;Michele Mercuri;Patricia A. Borhani;Vardaman M. Buckalew

  • Diabetes mellitus and associated hypertension, vascular disease, and nephropathy : an update

    James R. Sowers;Murray Epstein

  • Management of High Blood Pressure in African Americans: Consensus Statement of the Hypertension in African Americans Working Group of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks

    Janice G. Douglas;George L. Bakris;Murray Epstein;Keith C. Ferdinand

  • The pathophysiology of hypertension in patients with obesity

    Vincent G. DeMarco;Annayya R. Aroor;James R. Sowers

  • Obesity-related hypertension: pathogenesis, cardiovascular risk, and treatment: a position paper of The Obesity Society and the American Society of Hypertension.

    Lewis Landsberg;Louis J. Aronne;Lawrence J. Beilin;Valerie Burke

  • Insulin and insulin resistance:: impact on blood pressure and cardiovascular disease

    James R Sowers;James R Sowers;Edward D Frohlich

  • Diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

    James R. Sowers;Melvin A. Lester

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos M. Ferrario
Carlos M. Ferrario Wake Forest University
George L. Bakris
George L. Bakris University of Chicago
Michael B. Zemel
Michael B. Zemel University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Gerald A. Meininger
Gerald A. Meininger University of Missouri
Bertram Pitt
Bertram Pitt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Keith C. Norris
Keith C. Norris University of California, Los Angeles
Suzanne Oparil
Suzanne Oparil University of Alabama at Birmingham
Allan J. Collins
Allan J. Collins University of Minnesota
Robert J. Sokol
Robert J. Sokol Wayne State University

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