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45
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3858
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Jennifer L. Hay publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer L. Hay sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 195 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jennifer L. Hay D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jennifer L. Hay sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jennifer L. Hay is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in dermatology, sociology and political science, general health professions, oncology, and applied psychology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to skin protection and aging, behavioral health and interventions, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, risk perception and management, health literacy and information accessibility, misinformation and its impacts, and cutaneous melanoma detection and management.

Recent notable papers by Jennifer L. Hay include:

  • Prevention is political: political party affiliation predicts perceived risk and prevention behaviors for COVID-19 (2022, BMC Public Health)
  • Indoor Tanning Trends Among US Adults, 2007-2018 (2020, American Journal of Public Health)
  • Dismissing "Don't Know" Responses to Perceived Risk Survey Items Threatens the Validity of Theoretical and Empirical Behavior-Change Research (2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • Sun Exposure, Tanning Behaviors, and Sunburn: Examining Activities Associated With Harmful Ultraviolet Radiation Exposures in College Students (2021, The Journal of Primary Prevention)
  • Agency beliefs are associated with lower health information avoidance (2020, Health Education Journal)

Jennifer L. Hay frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including Elizabeth Schofield, Marc T. Kiviniemi, Heather Orom, Erika A. Waters, and Jada G. Hamilton. These collaborations reflect a multidisciplinary approach across behavioral health and medical research fields.

The scientist's publications are regularly found in several journals, with multiple contributions in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Contemporary Clinical Trials, Psycho-Oncology, The Journal of Urology, and Cancers. These venues underscore a focus on both clinical and public health aspects of medical research.

Best Publications

  • Development of the National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE)

    Ethan Basch;Ethan Basch;Bryce B. Reeve;Sandra A. Mitchell;Steven B. Clauser

  • Health Literacy and Use and Trust in Health Information

    Xuewei Chen;Jennifer L. Hay;Erika A. Waters;Marc T. Kiviniemi

  • Differences in Rural and Urban Health Information Access and Use.

    Xuewei Chen;Heather Orom;Jennifer L. Hay;Erika A. Waters

  • Measures of Sun Exposure and Sun Protection Practices for Behavioral and Epidemiologic Research

    Karen Glanz;Amy L. Yaroch;Monica Dancel;Mona Saraiya

  • Does worry about breast cancer predict screening behaviors? A meta-analysis of the prospective evidence.

    Jennifer L. Hay;Kevin D. McCaul;Renee E. Magnan

  • The role of cancer worry in cancer screening: A theoretical and empirical review of the literature

    Jennifer L. Hay;Tamara R. Buckley;Jamie S. Ostroff

  • Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Evaluate Construct Validity of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)

    Thomas M. Atkinson;Barry D. Rosenfeld;Barry D. Rosenfeld;Laura Sit;Tito R. Mendoza

  • Reliability of adverse symptom event reporting by clinicians.

    Thomas M. Atkinson;Yuelin Li;Charles W. Coffey;Laura Sit

  • PCN122 DEVELOPMENT OF THE PATIENT-REPORTED VERSION OF THE COMMON TERMINOLOGY CRITERIA FOR ADVERSE EVENTS (PRO-CTCAE)

    E Basch;B Reeve;C Cleeland;J Sloan

  • Phoneme inventory size and population size

    Jennifer Hay;Laurie Bauer

  • Fears, Feelings, and Facts: Interactively Communicating Benefits and Risks of Medical Radiation With Patients

    Lawrence T. Dauer;Raymond H. Thornton;Jennifer L. Hay;Rochelle Balter

  • Cognitive interviewing of the US National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE)

    Jennifer L. Hay;Thomas M. Atkinson;Bryce B. Reeve;Sandra A. Mitchell

  • Avoiding cancer risk information.

    Amber S. Emanuel;Marc T. Kiviniemi;Jennifer L. Howell;Jennifer L. Hay

  • Oral cancer knowledge, risk factors and characteristics of subjects in a large oral cancer screening program.

    Gustavo D. Cruz;Racquel Z. Le Geros;Jamie S. Ostroff;Jennifer L. Hay

  • Melanoma epidemiology and public health.

    Marianne Berwick;Esther Erdei;Jennifer Hay

  • Exposure to mass media health information, skin cancer beliefs, and sun protection behaviors in a United States probability sample.

    Jennifer Hay;Elliot J. Coups;Jennifer Ford;Marco DiBonaventura

  • Sun protection and skin self-examination in melanoma survivors.

    Urvi J. Mujumdar;Jennifer L. Hay;Yvette C. Monroe-Hinds;Amanda J. Hummer

  • Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Mammography-Adherent Older Women

    Jennifer L. Hay;Jennifer S. Ford;David Klein;Louis H. Primavera

  • Prevention is political: political party affiliation predicts perceived risk and prevention behaviors for COVID-19

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  • “Don't Know” Responses to Risk Perception Measures: Implications for Underserved Populations

    Erika A. Waters;Jennifer L. Hay;Heather Orom;Marc T. Kiviniemi

  • Patient perspectives and preferences for communication of medical imaging risks in a cancer care setting.

    Raymond H. Thornton;Lawrence T. Dauer;Elyse Shuk;Carma L. Bylund

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuelin Li
Yuelin Li Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jamie S. Ostroff
Jamie S. Ostroff Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Marianne Berwick
Marianne Berwick University of New Mexico
Deborah J. Bowen
Deborah J. Bowen University of Washington
Alan C. Geller
Alan C. Geller Harvard University
Kenneth Offit
Kenneth Offit Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Allan C. Halpern
Allan C. Halpern Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Tito R. Mendoza
Tito R. Mendoza The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mark E. Robson
Mark E. Robson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
David B. Buller
David B. Buller Klein Buendel (United States)

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