2026 John Lynch: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	112	5092	4777	140	135	461	55505

Overview

John Lynch is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a focus on specific subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Health, Education, and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics frequently addressed in their work include Child Abuse and Trauma, Homelessness and Social Issues, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Early Childhood Education and Development, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Child Welfare and Adoption, and Language Development and Disorders.

John Lynch has contributed to multiple journals and publication venues, notably:

International Journal of Epidemiology
International Journal for Population Data Science
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Research Square (Research Square)

Some of their recent papers include:

Causal inference and effect estimation using observational data (2022), Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
Comparison of the Tree-Based Machine Learning Algorithms to Cox Regression in Predicting the Survival of Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers: Analyses Based on SEER Database (2020), Cancers
Examining Bias and Reporting in Oral Health Prediction Modeling Studies (2020), Journal of Dental Research
The impact of women's empowerment on their children's early development in 26 African countries (2020), Journal of Global Health
Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index and risk of preterm birth: a collaboration using large routine health datasets (2024), BMC Medicine

Frequent collaborators include Rhiannon Pilkington, Murthy Mittinty, Alicia Montgomerie, Lisa G. Smithers, and Catherine Chittleborough.

John Lynch has also contributed to book publications with University of Hawaii Press and University of Ljubljana Press. Notable titles include Pacific Languages (2020) and Meritokracija: zgodba o regulativni ideji našega časa (2023).

Best Publications

Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)

Bruna Galobardes;Mary Shaw;Debbie A Lawlor;John W Lynch

3198
Citations
Life course epidemiology

D Kuh;Y Ben-Shlomo;J Lynch;Johan Hallqvist

2362
Citations
Income inequality and mortality: importance to health of individual income, psychosocial environment, or material conditions

John W Lynch;George Davey Smith;George A Kaplan;James S House

2171
Citations
Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways.

George A Kaplan;Elsie R Pamuk;John W Lynch;Richard D Cohen

1922
Citations
Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse.

J.W. Lynch;G.A. Kaplan;J.T. Salonen

1546
Citations
Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review

John Lynch;George Davey Smith;Sam Harper;Marianne Hillemeier

1225
Citations
Cumulative impact of sustained economic hardship on physical, cognitive, psychological, and social functioning

John W. Lynch;George A. Kaplan;Sarah J. Shema

1186
Citations
Bullying and symptoms among school-aged children: international comparative cross sectional study in 28 countries

Pernille Due;Bjørn E. Holstein;John Lynch;Finn Diderichsen

1121
Citations
A LIFE COURSE APPROACH TO CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY

John Lynch;George Davey Smith

1062
Citations
Epidemiologic evidence for the relation between socioeconomic status and depression, obesity, and diabetes.

Susan A Everson;Siobhan C Maty;John W Lynch;George A Kaplan

990
Citations
Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances and Cause-specific Mortality in Adulthood: Systematic Review and Interpretation

Bruna Galobardes;John W. Lynch;George Davey Smith

929
Citations
Measuring socioeconomic position in health research

Bruna Galobardes;John Lynch;George Davey Smith

921
Citations
Inequalities in non-communicable diseases and effective responses

Mariachiara Di Cesare;Young Ho Khang;Perviz Asaria;Tony Blakely

858
Citations
Income inequality and mortality in metropolitan areas of the United States.

J. W. Lynch;G. A. Kaplan;E. R. Pamuk;Richard. D. Cohen

837
Citations
Global Variability in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

Justin N. Hall;Spencer Moore;Spencer Moore;Sam B. Harper;John W. Lynch;John W. Lynch;John W. Lynch

811
Citations
A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon

Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Min Yang;John Lynch

796
Citations
Systematic Review of the Influence of Childhood Socioeconomic Circumstances on Risk for Cardiovascular Disease in Adulthood

Bruna Galobardes;George Davey Smith;John W. Lynch

731
Citations
Do Cardiovascular Risk Factors Explain the Relation between Socioeconomic Status, Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Cardiovascular Mortality, and Acute Myocardial Infarction?

John W. Lynch;George A. Kaplan;Richard D. Cohen;Jaakko Tuomilehto

684
Citations
Income inequality, the psychosocial environment, and health: comparisons of wealthy nations

John W. Lynch;George Davey Smith;M. M. Hillemeier;Mary Shaw

680
Citations
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of health-risk behaviors.

Paula M Lantz;John W Lynch;James S House;James M Lepkowski

597
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

George A. Kaplan University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Sam Harper McGill University

George Davey Smith University of Bristol

Michael G. Sawyer University of Adelaide

Jukka T. Salonen University of Helsinki

Philip L. Ritter Stanford University

Kate Lorig Stanford University

Sally Brinkman University of Adelaide

Young-Ho Khang Seoul National University

Juan Merlo Lund University

External Links

Personal website of John Lynch Google Scholar page

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