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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
5176
World Ranking
6503
National Ranking
3145

Jon F. Merz publications per year

1990: 1 publications 1991: 1 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 2 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 10 publications 1996: 7 publications 1997: 4 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 9 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 12 publications 2005: 10 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 1 publications 2011: 1 publications 2012: 0 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 1 publications 2015: 1 publications 2016: 1 publications 2017: 1 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 1 publications 2020: 1 publications 2021: 4 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 4 publications 2024: 4 publications 2025: 2 publications
1990 2025

132 publications in total across all disciplines

Jon F. Merz 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 Jon F. Merz sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 114 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jon F. Merz 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 Jon F. Merz sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jon F. Merz is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focused on medicine, physics and astronomy, and health professions. Subfields of study include public health, environmental and occupational health, nuclear and high energy physics, general health professions, economics and econometrics, and health.

The scientist's main topics of work encompass ethics in clinical research, dark matter and cosmic phenomena, healthcare cost, quality, and practices, health systems, economic evaluations and quality of life, ethics in medical practice, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, and artificial intelligence in healthcare and education.

Jon F. Merz has contributed to several recent papers, notable examples include:

  • "First Indication of Solar B8 Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT" (2024) published in Physical Review Letters
  • "High-Impact RCTs without Prospective Informed Consent: A Systematic Review" (2020) published in Journal of Investigative Medicine
  • "Refusal rates and waivers of informed consent in pragmatic and comparative effectiveness RCTs: A systematic review" (2021) published in Contemporary Clinical Trials
  • "The History and Policy Evolution of Waivers of Informed Consent in Research" (2021) published in Journal of Legal Medicine
  • "First Search for Light Dark Matter in the Neutrino Fog with XENONnT" (2025) published in Physical Review Letters

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include I. Li, J. Aalbers, S. Ahmed Maouloud, L. Althueser, and B. Andrieu.

Their work is often published in venues such as Physical Review Letters, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), BMC Medical Ethics, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Ethics & Human Research.

Best Publications

  • All Gifts Large and Small

    Dana Katz;Arthur L. Caplan;Jon F. Merz

  • All Gifts Large and Small: Toward an Understanding of the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Industry Gift-Giving

    Dana Katz;Arthur L. Caplan;Jon F. Merz

  • Informed Consent for Population-Based Research Involving Genetics

    Laura M. Beskow;Wylie Burke;Jon F. Merz;Patricia A. Barr

  • Effects of Patents and Licenses on the Provision of Clinical Genetic Testing Services

    Mildred K. Cho;Samantha Illangasekare;Meredith A. Weaver;Debra G.B. Leonard

  • Response burden, reliability, and validity of the CAGE, Short MAST, and AUDIT alcohol screening measures

    Ron D. Hays;Jon F. Merz;Ronald Nicholas

  • Patient perspectives of medical confidentiality: a review of the literature.

    Pamela Sankar;Susan Mora;Jon F Merz;Nora L Jones

  • Diagnostic testing fails the test

    Jon F. Merz;Antigone G. Kriss;Debra G. B. Leonard;Mildred K. Cho

  • Voluntariness of consent for research: an empirical and conceptual review.

    Robert M. Nelson;Jon F. Merz

  • Protecting Subjects’ Interests in Genetics Research

    Jon F. Merz;David Magnus;Mildred K. Cho;Arthur L. Caplan

  • Religiosity in a hemodialysis population and its relationship to satisfaction with medical care, satisfaction with life, and adherence

    Elisheva Berman;Jon F. Merz;Michael Rudnick;Richard W. Snyder

  • Forbidden Knowledge: Public Controversy and the Production of Nonknowledge1

    Joanna Kempner;Jon F. Merz;Charles L. Bosk

  • Empirical developments in retraction

    Barbara K. Redman;H. N. Yarandi;J. F. Merz

  • Improving informed consent: the medium is not the message.

    Patricia Agre;Frances A. Campbell;Barbara D. Goldman;Maria L. Boccia

  • Verbal Expressions of Probability in Informed Consent Litigation

    Jon F. Merz;Marek J. Druzdzel;Dennis J. Mazur

  • Informed consent does not mean rational consent. Cognitive limitations on decision-making.

    Jon F. Merz;Baruch Fischhoff

  • How the Manner of Presentation of Data Influences Older Patients in Determining Their Treatment Preferences

    Dennis J. Mazur;Jon F. Merz

  • Review of abortion policy: legality, medicaid funding, and parental involvement, 1967-1994.

    Jon Merz;Catherine A. Jackson;Jacob Alex Klerman

  • Caregivers’ preferences for the treatment of patients with Alzheimer’s disease

    J.H. T. Karlawish;J.L. Klocinski;J. Merz;C.M. Clark

  • Trends in Patent Litigation: The Apparent Influence of Strengthened Patents Attributable to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

    Jon Merz;Nicholas M. Pace

  • Ethical issues in identifying and recruiting participants for familial genetic research.

    Laura M. Beskow;Jeffrey R. Botkin;Mary Daly;Eric T. Juengst

Frequent Co-Authors

Mildred K. Cho
Mildred K. Cho Stanford University
Arthur L. Caplan
Arthur L. Caplan New York University
Timothy Caulfield
Timothy Caulfield University of Alberta
Alan H. Bittles
Alan H. Bittles Edith Cowan University
Anne De Paepe
Anne De Paepe Ghent University Hospital
Bartha Maria Knoppers
Bartha Maria Knoppers McGill University Health Centre
Raoul C.M. Hennekam
Raoul C.M. Hennekam University of Amsterdam
Robert Goodman
Robert Goodman King's College London
George Loewenstein
George Loewenstein Carnegie Mellon University
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University

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