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Katherine L. Tucker 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 Katherine L. Tucker sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,008 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Katherine L. Tucker 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 Katherine L. Tucker sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 128 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Katherine L. Tucker is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Lowell in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine with a significant focus on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

Their work covers several main topics of scientific inquiry, including:

  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging

Katherine L. Tucker has contributed numerous publications across multiple respected journals, with frequent appearance in:

  • Current Developments in Nutrition
  • Circulation
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Journal of Nutrition
  • Gynecologic Oncology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tucker include:

  • Recurrence Rates in Patients With Cervical Cancer Treated With Abdominal Versus Minimally Invasive Radical Hysterectomy: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Review Study (2020), Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • A first-in-class pan-lysyl oxidase inhibitor impairs stromal remodeling and enhances gemcitabine response and survival in pancreatic cancer (2023), Nature Cancer
  • Red blood cell fatty acid patterns from 7 countries: Focus on the Omega-3 index (2022), Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids
  • Plant-based diets and incident cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality in African Americans: A cohort study (2022), PLoS Medicine
  • Associations Between Natural Language Processing-Enriched Social Determinants of Health and Suicide Death Among US Veterans (2023), JAMA Network Open

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Tucker include Sabrina E. Noel, Josiemer Mattei, Kelsey M Mangano, Tammy Scott, and Natalia Palacios. These collaborations have contributed to a broad range of publications in nutrition, public health, and clinical research domains.

Best Publications

  • Empirically Derived Eating Patterns Using Factor or Cluster Analysis: A Review

    P. K. Newby;Katherine L. Tucker

  • A randomized controlled trial of resistance exercise training to improve glycemic control in older adults with type 2 diabetes.

    Carmen Castaneda;Jennifer E. Layne;Leda Munoz-Orians;Patricia L. Gordon

  • Potassium, magnesium, and fruit and vegetable intakes are associated with greater bone mineral density in elderly men and women

    K. L. Tucker;M. T. Hannan;Honglei Chen;L. A. Cupples

  • Risk factors for longitudinal bone loss in elderly men and women: the Framingham Osteoporosis Study.

    Marian T. Hannan;Marian T. Hannan;David T. Felson;Bess Dawson-Hughes;Katherine L. Tucker

  • Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead <?format ?>Collisions at with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

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  • Plasma phosphatidylcholine docosahexaenoic acid content and risk of dementia and Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Heart Study.

    Ernst J. Schaefer;Vanina Bongard;Alexa S. Beiser;Stefania Lamon-Fava

  • Homocysteine as a Predictive Factor for Hip Fracture in Older Persons

    Robert R McLean;Paul F Jacques;Jacob Selhub;Katherine L Tucker

  • Relationships between use of television during meals and children's food consumption patterns.

    Katharine A. Coon;Jeanne Goldberg;Beatrice L. Rogers;Katherine L. Tucker

  • Llama-adapter: Efficient fine-tuning of language models with zero-init attention

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  • Effect of Dietary Protein on Bone Loss in Elderly Men and Women: The Framingham Osteoporosis Study†

    Marian T. Hannan;Marian T. Hannan;Katherine L. Tucker;Bess Dawson-Hughes;L. Adrienne Cupples

  • Dietary patterns and changes in body mass index and waist circumference in adults

    PK Newby;Denis Muller;Judith Hallfrisch;Ning Qiao

  • Relations of vitamin B-12, vitamin B-6, folate, and homocysteine to cognitive performance in the Normative Aging Study.

    K M Riggs;A Spiro;K Tucker;D Rush

  • Videochat: Chat-centric video understanding

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  • Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities

    Richard B. Warnecke;April Oh;Nancy Breen;Sarah Gehlert

  • Llama-adapter v2: Parameter-efficient visual instruction model

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  • Dietary vitamin K intakes are associated with hip fracture but not with bone mineral density in elderly men and women

    S. L. Booth;K. L. Tucker;Honglei Chen;M. T. Hannan

  • Why are nutritionally stunted children at increased risk of obesity? Studies of metabolic rate and fat oxidation in shantytown children from São Paulo, Brazil

    Daniel J Hoffman;Ana L Sawaya;Ieda Verreschi;Katherine L Tucker

  • Benefits of fatty fish on dementia risk are stronger for those without APOE ε4

    Tina L. Huang;P. P. Zandi;K. L. Tucker;A. L. Fitzpatrick

  • Plasma Phosphatidylcholine Docosahexaenoic Acid Content and Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer Disease

    Ernst J. Schaefer;Vanina Bongard;Alexa S. Beiser;Stefania Lamon-Fava

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose M. Ordovas
Jose M. Ordovas Tufts University
Chao-Qiang Lai
Chao-Qiang Lai US Department of Agriculture
Richard J McManus
Richard J McManus University of Oxford
Laurence D. Parnell
Laurence D. Parnell United States Department of Agriculture
Marian T. Hannan
Marian T. Hannan Harvard University
Douglas P. Kiel
Douglas P. Kiel Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
L. Adrienne Cupples
L. Adrienne Cupples Boston University
Dolores Corella
Dolores Corella University of Valencia
Bess Dawson-Hughes
Bess Dawson-Hughes Tufts University
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne

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