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Joellen M. Schildkraut

Joellen M. Schildkraut

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
34189
World Ranking
9293
National Ranking
4796

Joellen M. Schildkraut 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 Joellen M. Schildkraut sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 550 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Joellen M. Schildkraut 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 Joellen M. Schildkraut sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joellen M. Schildkraut is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States and has a research focus that spans medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work is concentrated particularly in the subfields of reproductive medicine, oncology, genetics, molecular biology, and cancer research.

Their research primarily addresses topics related to ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer risks and factors, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, genetic associations and epidemiology, endometrial and cervical cancer treatments, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, and cancer, lipids, and metabolism.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Schildkraut include Lauren C. Peres, Elisa V. Bandera, Andrew Berchuck, Jennifer A. Doherty, and Holly R. Harris.

The scientist has published numerous articles in a variety of venues, with notable publication outlets including UNC Libraries, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, Cancer Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and the British Journal of Cancer.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Schildkraut include:

  • Association Between Breastfeeding and Ovarian Cancer Risk, 2020, JAMA Oncology
  • Assessment of polygenic architecture and risk prediction based on common variants across fourteen cancers, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Racial/ethnic disparities in ovarian cancer research, 2020, Advances in Cancer Research
  • Role of neighborhood context in ovarian cancer survival disparities: current research and future directions, 2023, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Population-based targeted sequencing of 54 candidate genes identifies PALB2 as a susceptibility gene for high-grade serous ovarian cancer, 2020, Journal of Medical Genetics

Best Publications

  • Association of Risk-Reducing Surgery in BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutation Carriers With Cancer Risk and Mortality

    Susan M. Domchek;Tara M. Friebel;Christian F. Singer;D. Gareth Evans

  • Association between endometriosis and risk of histological subtypes of ovarian cancer: a pooled analysis of case-control studies.

    Celeste Leigh Pearce;Claire Templeman;Mary Anne Rossing;Alice Lee

  • The genetic attributable risk of breast and ovarian cancer

    Elizabeth B. Claus;Joellen M. Schildkraut;W. Douglas Thompson;Neil J. Risch

  • Common Genetic Variation In Cellular Transport Genes and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC) Risk

    Ganna Chornokur;Hui-Yi Lin;Jonathan P. Tyrer;Kate Lawrenson

  • Epidemiology of intracranial meningioma.

    Elizabeth B Claus;Elizabeth B Claus;Melissa L Bondy;Joellen M Schildkraut;Joseph L Wiemels

  • Multiple independent variants at the TERT locus are associated with telomere length and risks of breast and ovarian cancer

    Stig E. Bojesen;Stig E. Bojesen;Karen A. Pooley;Sharon E. Johnatty;Jonathan Beesley

  • Identification of 12 new susceptibility loci for different histotypes of epithelial ovarian cancer

    Catherine M Phelan;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Karoline B Kuchenbaecker;Jonathan P Tyrer;Siddhartha P Kar

  • Probability of Carrying a Mutation of Breast-Ovarian Cancer Gene BRCA1 Based on Family History

    Donald A. Berry;Giovanni Parmigiani;Juana Sanchez;Joellen Schildkraut

  • Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Survival by Histotype and Disease Stage.

    Lauren C Peres;Kara L Cushing-Haugen;Martin Köbel;Holly R Harris

  • Epithelial ovarian cancer risk among women with polycystic ovary syndrome

    Joellen M. Schildkraut;Pamela J. Schwingl;Eugenia Bastos;Allison Evanoff

  • GWAS meta-analysis and replication identifies three new susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer

    Paul D.P. Pharoah;Ya Yu Tsai;Susan J. Ramus;Catherine M. Phelan

  • Survival and low-grade glioma: the emergence of genetic information.

    Elizabeth B. Claus;Kyle M. Walsh;John K. Wiencke;Annette M. Molinaro

  • Characterization of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in a Large United States Sample

    Sining Chen;Edwin S. Iversen;Tara Friebel;Dianne Finkelstein

  • A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for ovarian cancer at 2q31 and 8q24

    Ellen L Goode;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Honglin Song;Susan J Ramus

  • Paternal obesity is associated with IGF2 hypomethylation in newborns: results from a Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST) cohort

    Adelheid Soubry;Joellen M. Schildkraut;Amy Murtha;Frances Wang

  • Newborns of obese parents have altered DNA methylation patterns at imprinted genes.

    Adelheid Soubry;S K Murphy;F Wang;Z Huang

  • A genome-wide association study identifies a new ovarian cancer susceptibility locus on 9p22.2.

    Honglin Song;Susan J. Ramus;Jonathan Tyrer;Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton

  • Common variants at 19p13 are associated with susceptibility to ovarian cancer.

    Kelly L Bolton;Kelly L Bolton;Jonathan Tyrer;Honglin Song;Susan J Ramus

  • FAMILIAL OVARIAN CANCER: A POPULATION-BASED CASE-CONTROL STUDY

    Joellen M. Schildkraut;W. Douglas Thompson

  • Oral contraceptive use, reproductive history, and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in women with and without endometriosis

    Francesmary Modugno;Roberta B. Ness;Glenn O. Allen;Joellen M. Schildkraut

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Berchuck
Andrew Berchuck Duke University
Ellen L. Goode
Ellen L. Goode Mayo Clinic
Susan J. Ramus
Susan J. Ramus University of New South Wales
Jennifer A. Doherty
Jennifer A. Doherty University of Utah
Paul D.P. Pharoah
Paul D.P. Pharoah University of Cambridge
Jenny Chang-Claude
Jenny Chang-Claude German Cancer Research Center
Anna H. Wu
Anna H. Wu University of Southern California
Elisa V. Bandera
Elisa V. Bandera Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Daniel W. Cramer
Daniel W. Cramer Brigham and Women's Hospital
Marc T. Goodman
Marc T. Goodman Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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