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John R. Balmes

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Medicine

D-Index
96
Citations
57891
World Ranking
9473
National Ranking
4888

John R. Balmes publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 506 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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John R. Balmes 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 John R. Balmes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 96 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

John R. Balmes is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with a specialization in health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. Their work encompasses several subfields including pollution, speech and hearing, global and planetary change, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to air quality and health impacts, climate change and health impacts, energy and environment impacts, noise effects and management, air quality monitoring and forecasting, fire effects on ecosystems, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research.

John R. Balmes has frequently published in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Environment International
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts

Their recent publications include:

  • Associations between historical residential redlining and current age-adjusted rates of emergency department visits due to asthma across eight cities in California: an ecological study, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among Californians 18-65 years of age, by occupational sector and occupation: March through November 2020, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Health effects of wildfire smoke in children and public health tools: a narrative review, 2020, Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology
  • Race and Ethnicity in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation: An Official American Thoracic Society Statement, 2023, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Outdoor Air Pollution and New-Onset Airway Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report, 2020, Annals of the American Thoracic Society

John R. Balmes collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors including Stephanie M. Holm, Mehrdad Arjomandi, Kari C. Nadeau, Elizabeth M. Noth, and Liza Lutzker. These collaborations span numerous papers and reflect interdisciplinary research across the fields they study.

Best Publications

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • EFFECTS OF A COMBINATION OF BETA CAROTENE AND VITAMIN A ON LUNG CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

    Gilbert S. Omenn;Gary E. Goodman;Gary E. Goodman;Mark D. Thornquist;John Balmes

  • An Integrated Risk Function for Estimating the Global Burden of Disease Attributable to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter Exposure

    Richard T. Burnett;C. Arden Pope;Majid Ezzati;Casey Olives

  • Outdoor air pollution and asthma

    Michael Guarnieri;Michael Guarnieri;John R Balmes;John R Balmes

  • Risk Factors for Lung Cancer and for Intervention Effects in CARET, the Beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial

    Gilbert S. Omenn;Gary E. Goodman;Mark D. Thornquist;John Balmes

  • Critical Review of Health Impacts of Wildfire Smoke Exposure

    Colleen E. Reid;Michael Brauer;Fay H. Johnston;Michael Jerrett

  • An Official American Thoracic Society Public Policy Statement: Novel Risk Factors and the Global Burden of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    Mark D. Eisner;Nicholas Anthonisen;David Coultas;Nino Kuenzli

  • Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

    Stephen B. Gordon;Nigel G. Bruce;Jonathan Grigg;Patricia L. Hibberd

  • American Thoracic Society Statement: Occupational contribution to the burden of airway disease.

    John Balmes;Margaret Becklake;Paul Blanc;Paul Henneberger

  • Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases: A Review by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies' Environmental Committee, Part 2: Air Pollution and Organ Systems.

    Dean E. Schraufnagel;John R. Balmes;Clayton T. Cowl;Sara De Matteis

  • Millions Dead: How Do We Know and What Does It Mean? Methods Used in the Comparative Risk Assessment of Household Air Pollution

    Kirk R. Smith;Nigel Bruce;Kalpana Balakrishnan;Heather Adair-Rohani

  • Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors

    Matthew Pantell;David H. Rehkopf;Douglas Jutte;S. Leonard Syme

  • Diagnosis and management of work-related asthma: American College Of Chest Physicians Consensus Statement.

    Susan M. Tarlo;John Balmes;Ronald Balkissoon;Jeremy Beach

  • Effect of reduction in household air pollution on childhood pneumonia in Guatemala (RESPIRE): a randomised controlled trial

    Kirk R Smith;John P McCracken;John P McCracken;Martin W Weber;Alan Hubbard

  • Association of prenatal and childhood blood lead concentrations with criminal arrests in early adulthood.

    John Paul Wright;Kim N Dietrich;M. Douglas Ris;Richard W Hornung

  • Air Pollution and Noncommunicable Diseases: A Review by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies’ Environmental Committee, Part 1: The Damaging Effects of Air Pollution

    Dean E. Schraufnagel;John R. Balmes;Clayton T. Cowl;Sara De Matteis

  • The Beta-Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial: Incidence of Lung Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality During 6-Year Follow-up After Stopping β-Carotene and Retinol Supplements

    Gary E. Goodman;Mark D. Thornquist;John Balmes;Mark R. Cullen

  • A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

    George D. Thurston;Howard Kipen;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;John Balmes;John Balmes

  • The health impacts of exposure to indoor air pollution from solid fuels in developing countries: knowledge gaps and data needs.

    Ezzati M;Kammen Dm;Smith Kr;Lee Be

  • SocialIsolation:APredictorofMortalityComparableto TraditionalClinicalRiskFactors

    Matthew Pantell;David Rehkopf;Douglas Jutte;S. Leonard Syme

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Blanc
Paul D. Blanc University of California, San Francisco
Ira B. Tager
Ira B. Tager University of California, Berkeley
Patricia P. Katz
Patricia P. Katz University of California, San Francisco
S. Katharine Hammond
S. Katharine Hammond University of California, Berkeley
Edward H. Yelin
Edward H. Yelin University of California, San Francisco
Mark D. Eisner
Mark D. Eisner Genentech
Kirk R. Smith
Kirk R. Smith University of California, Berkeley
Gilbert S. Omenn
Gilbert S. Omenn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fred Lurmann
Fred Lurmann University of Southern California
Stephen B. Gordon
Stephen B. Gordon Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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