2026 Jeffrey L. Curtis: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	89	12671	11927	6481	5997	377	29798

Overview

Jeffrey L. Curtis is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their scholarly contributions predominantly focus on the field of Medicine, with particular emphasis on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The research spans multiple subfields including Physiology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology, underpinning a broad investigative approach to respiratory health and associated conditions.

Main topics of research explored by Curtis include:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
Asthma and respiratory diseases
Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Treatments
Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Pediatric health and respiratory diseases

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Curtis are:

Comparison of Proteomic Assessment Methods in Multiple Cohort Studies (2020, PROTEOMICS)
Reconsidering the Utility of Race-Specific Lung Function Prediction Equations (2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
Blood Eosinophil Counts in Clinical Trials for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
Lung Microbiota and Metabolites Collectively Associate with Clinical Outcomes in Milder Stage Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2022, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
The Association of Aging Biomarkers, Interstitial Lung Abnormalities, and Mortality (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)

Frequent coauthors working alongside Curtis include:

Russell P. Bowler
MeiLan K. Han
Prescott G. Woodruff
Eric A. Hoffman
Nadia N. Hansel

Most publications by Curtis have appeared in the following venues:

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
UNC Libraries
CHEST Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Annals of the American Thoracic Society

Best Publications

Azithromycin for Prevention of Exacerbations of COPD

Richard K. Albert;Richard K. Albert;John Connett;William C. Bailey;Richard Casaburi

1576
Citations
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease phenotypes: the future of COPD.

Mei Lan K. Han;Alvar Agusti;Peter M. Calverley;Bartolome R. Celli

1449
Citations
Analysis of the Lung Microbiome in the “Healthy” Smoker and in COPD

John R. Erb-Downward;Deborah L. Thompson;Meilan K. Han;Christine M. Freeman;Christine M. Freeman

1124
Citations
Comparison of the Respiratory Microbiome in Healthy Nonsmokers and Smokers

Alison Morris;James M. Beck;Patrick D. Schloss;Thomas B. Campbell

937
Citations
Analysis of the Upper Respiratory Tract Microbiotas as the Source of the Lung and Gastric Microbiotas in Healthy Individuals

Christine M. Bassis;John R. Erb-Downward;Robert P. Dickson;Christine M. Freeman

832
Citations
Clinical Significance of Symptoms in Smokers with Preserved Pulmonary Function

Prescott G. Woodruff;R. Graham Barr;Eugene Bleecker;Stephanie A. Christenson

763
Citations
Spatial Variation in the Healthy Human Lung Microbiome and the Adapted Island Model of Lung Biogeography

Robert P. Dickson;John R. Erb-Downward;Christine M. Freeman;Lisa McCloskey

577
Citations
Predictors of mortality in patients with emphysema and severe airflow obstruction.

Fernando J. Martinez;Gregory Foster;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Gerard Criner

550
Citations
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations in the COPDGene Study: Associated Radiologic Phenotypes

MeiLan K. Han;Ella A. Kazerooni;David A. Lynch;Lyrica X. Liu

537
Citations
Bacterial Topography of the Healthy Human Lower Respiratory Tract.

Robert P. Dickson;John R. Erb-Downward;Christine M. Freeman;Lisa McCloskey

530
Citations
Pulmonary arterial enlargement and acute exacerbations of COPD.

J. Michael Wells;George R. Washko;Mei Lan K. Han;Naseer Abbas

519
Citations
Gender and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: why it matters.

Mei Lan K. Han;Dirkje Postma;David M. Mannino;Nicholas D. Giardino

467
Citations
Clinical and Radiologic Disease in Smokers With Normal Spirometry

Elizabeth A. Regan;David A. Lynch;Douglas Curran-Everett;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Jeffrey L. Curtis

444
Citations
Application of a neutral community model to assess structuring of the human lung microbiome

Arvind Venkataraman;Christine M. Bassis;James M. Beck;James M. Beck;Vincent B. Young

419
Citations
Simvastatin for the Prevention of Exacerbations in Moderate-to-Severe COPD

G. J. Criner;John E Connett;S. D. Aaron;R. K. Albert

406
Citations
Sex Differences in Severe Pulmonary Emphysema

Fernando J. Martinez;Jeffrey L. Curtis;Frank Sciurba;Jeanette Alane Mumford

399
Citations
The usefulness of induced sputum in the diagnosis of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

Bigby Td;Margolskee D;Curtis Jl;Michael Pf

360
Citations
Frequency of exacerbations in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort

MeiLan K Han;Pedro M Quibrera;Elizabeth E Carretta;R Graham Barr

330
Citations
The Immunopathogenesis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from Recent Research

Jeffrey L. Curtis;Christine M. Freeman;James C. Hogg

307
Citations
Acute Exacerbations and Lung Function Loss in Smokers with and without Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Mark T. Dransfield;Mark T. Dransfield;Ken M. Kunisaki;Ken M. Kunisaki;Matthew J. Strand;Antonio Anzueto;Antonio Anzueto

297
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando J. Martinez University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

MeiLan K. Han University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Mark T. Dransfield University of Alabama at Birmingham

Russell P. Bowler Cleveland Clinic

Nadia N. Hansel Johns Hopkins University

Prescott G. Woodruff University of California, San Francisco

Gerard J. Criner Temple University

Eric A. Hoffman University of Iowa

Wanda K. O'Neal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

R. Graham Barr Columbia University

External Links

Personal website of Jeffrey L. Curtis

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