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155
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111351
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939
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537

Kevin K. Brown 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 Kevin K. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 714 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kevin K. Brown 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 Kevin K. Brown sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 155 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Kevin K. Brown is affiliated with National Jewish Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a strong emphasis on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Over the course of their career, they have produced 141 publications in the general field of medicine, including 88 specifically in pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist has been involved in research spanning several subfields, notably physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, epidemiology, and pathology and forensic medicine. Their work extensively addresses topics such as interstitial lung diseases and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, medical imaging and pathology studies, sarcoidosis and beryllium toxicity research, occupational and environmental lung diseases, occupational exposure and asthma, systemic sclerosis and related diseases, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Kevin K. Brown include:

  • Kevin R. Flaherty
  • Athol U. Wells
  • Yoshikazu Inoue
  • Phil Fontanarosa
  • Annette Flanagin

Their most frequent publication venues demonstrate a focus on respiratory and critical care topics. The top journals where their work appears are:

  • JAMA Cardiology
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • CHEST Journal
  • Respirology

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Nintedanib in patients with progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases-subgroup analyses by interstitial lung disease diagnosis in the INBUILD trial: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial" (2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine)
  • "The natural history of progressive fibrosing interstitial lung diseases" (2020, European Respiratory Journal)
  • "Progressive pulmonary fibrosis: an expert group consensus statement" (2022, European Respiratory Journal)
  • "Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers for Chronic Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases With a Progressive Phenotype" (2020, CHEST Journal)
  • "Chronic Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis, an Interstitial Lung Disease with Distinct Molecular Signatures" (2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)

Best Publications

  • An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Statement: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management

    Ganesh Raghu;Harold R. Collard;Jim J. Egan;Fernando J. Martinez

  • American thoracic society/European respiratory society international multidisciplinary consensus classification of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias

    William D. Travis;Talmadge E. King;Eric D. Bateman;David A. Lynch

  • Efficacy and safety of nintedanib in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

    Luca Richeldi;Roland M. du Bois;Ganesh Raghu;Arata Azuma

  • An Official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society Statement: Update of the International Multidisciplinary Classification of the Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias

    William D. Travis;Ulrich Costabel;David M. Hansell;Talmadge E. King

  • Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An Official ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT Clinical Practice Guideline.

    Ganesh Raghu;Martine Remy-Jardin;Jeffrey L. Myers;Luca Richeldi

  • Nintedanib in Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases

    Kevin R Flaherty;Athol U Wells;Kevin K Brown

  • Universally sloppy parameter sensitivities in systems biology models.

    Ryan Nicholas Gutenkunst;Joshua Waterfall;Fergal Casey;Kevin Brown

  • Acute Exacerbations of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Harold R. Collard;Bethany B. Moore;Kevin R. Flaherty;Kevin K. Brown

  • Efficacy of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

    Luca Richeldi;Ulrich Costabel;Moises Selman;Dong Soon Kim

  • Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. An International Working Group Report

    Collard Hr;Ryerson Cj;Corte Tj;Jenkins G

  • A common MUC5B promoter polymorphism and pulmonary fibrosis

    Max A. Seibold;Anastasia L. Wise;Marcy C. Speer;Mark P. Steele

  • Efficacy and safety of sirolimus in lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

    Francis X. McCormack;Yoshikazu Inoue;Joel Moss;Lianne G. Singer

  • Diagnosis and Management of Cough Executive Summary: ACCP Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

    Richard S. Irwin;Michael H. Baumann;Donald C. Bolser;Louis Philippe Boulet

  • An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: The Clinical Utility of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Cellular Analysis in Interstitial Lung Disease

    Keith C. Meyer;Ganesh Raghu;Robert P. Baughman;Kevin K. Brown

  • Identification of mutations in the cardiac ryanodine receptor gene in families affected with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 2 (ARVD2)

    Natascia Tiso;Dietrich A. Stephan;Andrea Nava;Alessia Bagattin

  • BUILD-3: A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Bosentan in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Talmadge E. King;Jürgen Behr;Kevin K. Brown;Roland M. du Bois

  • Diagnostic criteria for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Fleischner Society White Paper.

    David A Lynch;Nicola Sverzellati;William D Travis;Kevin K Brown

  • An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society research statement: interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features

    Aryeh Fischer;Katerina M. Antoniou;Kevin K. Brown;Jacques Cadranel

  • A versatile gene-based test for genome-wide association studies

    Jimmy Z. Liu;Allan F. Mcrae;Dale R. Nyholt;Sarah E. Medland

  • Changes in clinical and physiologic variables predict survival in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

    Harold R. Collard;Talmadge E. King;Becki Bucher Bartelson;Jason S. Vourlekis

Frequent Co-Authors

David A. Lynch
David A. Lynch Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ganesh Raghu
Ganesh Raghu University of Washington
Kevin R. Flaherty
Kevin R. Flaherty University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marvin I. Schwarz
Marvin I. Schwarz University of Colorado Denver
Athol U. Wells
Athol U. Wells Imperial College London
Carlyne D. Cool
Carlyne D. Cool University of Colorado Denver
Fernando J. Martinez
Fernando J. Martinez University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
David A. Schwartz
David A. Schwartz University of Colorado Denver
Luca Richeldi
Luca Richeldi Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Vincent Cottin
Vincent Cottin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

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