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D-Index
78
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22121
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18048
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8997

Leslie J. DeGroot 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 Leslie J. DeGroot sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 365 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leslie J. DeGroot 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 Leslie J. DeGroot sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% 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

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Leslie J. DeGroot was affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. The academic career focused on research activities, though specific recent papers or frequent co-authors are not documented in the available data.

The scientist's work did not have publicly recorded publication venues or detailed records of field and subfield specializations. Similarly, there is no available information regarding particular research topics or thematic concentration areas.

Recognition of scholarly contributions includes being named a Member of the Association of American Physicians. The exact year of this award is not specified, and no additional citation details were provided.

DeGroot's status is recorded as deceased. The body of work and academic involvement thus belong to a completed career.

Best Publications

  • Natural history, treatment, and course of papillary thyroid carcinoma.

    Leslie J. Degroot;Edwin L. Kaplan;Maureen Mccormick;Francis H. Straus

  • A comparison of recombinant human thyrotropin and thyroid hormone withdrawal for the detection of thyroid remnant or cancer.

    Bryan R. Haugen;Furio Pacini;Christoph Reiners;Martin Schlumberger

  • Familial Syndrome Combining Deaf-Mutism, Stippled Epiphyses, Goiter and Abnormally High PBI: Possible Target Organ Refractoriness to Thyroid Hormone12

    Samuel Refetoff;Loren T. Dewind;Leslie J. Degroot

  • CTLA-4 Gene Polymorphism at Position 49 in Exon 1 Reduces the Inhibitory Function of CTLA-4 and Contributes to the Pathogenesis of Graves’ Disease

    Tsuyoshi Kouki;Yoshikuni Sawai;Cyprian A. Gardine;Maria-Elena Fisfalen

  • CTLA-4 gene polymorphism associated with Graves' disease in a Caucasian population.

    T. Yanagawa;Y. Hidaka;V. Guimaraes;Mosaad Soliman

  • Comparison of administration of recombinant human thyrotropin with withdrawal of thyroid hormone for radioactive iodine scanning in patients with thyroid carcinoma

    Paul W. Ladenson;Lewis E. Braverman;Ernest L. Mazzaferri;Françoise Brucker-Davis

  • Decreased levels of helper T cells: a possible cause of immunodeficiency in pregnancy.

    Vitaya Sridama;Furio Pacini;Sen-Lian Yang;Atef Moawad

  • Generalized resistance to thyroid hormone associated with a mutation in the ligand-binding domain of the human thyroid hormone receptor beta

    Akihiro Sakurai;Kyoko Takeda;Kenneth Ain;Paola Ceccarelli

  • Serum Thyroglobulin in the Follow-Up of Patients With Treated Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

    M. Ozata;S. Suzuki;T. Miyamoto;Rue Tsuan Liu

  • A study of recurrence and death from papillary thyroid cancer with 27 years of median follow-up

    Raymon H. Grogan;Sharone P. Kaplan;Hongyuan Cao;Roy E. Weiss

  • The effect of hepatic enzyme-inducing drugs on thyroid hormones and the thyroid gland

    Peter G. Curran;Leslie J. Degroot

  • Recessive inheritance of thyroid hormone resistance caused by complete deletion of the protein-coding region of the thyroid hormone receptor-beta gene.

    K Takeda;A Sakurai;L J DeGroot;S Refetoff

  • Triiodothyronine binding to isolated liver cell nuclei.

    Leslie J. Degroot;Janine Torresani

  • Long-Term Follow-up Study of Compensated Low-Dose 131I Therapy for Graves' Disease

    Vitaya Sridama;Maureen McCormick;Edwin L. Kaplan;Renee Fauchet

  • The causes of autoimmune thyroid disease.

    Leslie J. Degroot;Jose Quintans

  • Biosynthesis of thyroid hormone: Basic and clinical aspects☆

    Leslie J. Degroot;Hugo Niepomniszcze

  • Thyroid Carcinoma and Radiation: A Chicago Endemic

    Leslie DeGroot;Edward Paloyan

  • Morbidity and mortality in follicular thyroid cancer.

    L. J. DeGroot;E. L. Kaplan;M. S. Shukla;George I. Salti

  • Human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen-DQA1*0501 allele associated with genetic susceptibility to Graves' disease in a Caucasian population.

    Tatsuo Yanagawa;Ampica Mangklabruks;Youn-Bok Chang;Yasuyuki Okamoto

  • Studies of a sibship with apparent hereditary resistance to the intracellular action of thyroid hormone.

    Samuel Refetoff;Leslie J. DeGroot;Bernard Benard;Loren T. DeWind

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff University of Chicago
Basil Rapoport
Basil Rapoport University of California, San Francisco
Juan Bernal
Juan Bernal Autonomous University of Madrid
Akira Nakai
Akira Nakai Yamaguchi University
Bruce G. Robinson
Bruce G. Robinson University of Sydney
Aldo Pinchera
Aldo Pinchera University of Pisa
Lewis E. Braverman
Lewis E. Braverman Boston University
Nancy J. Cox
Nancy J. Cox Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Graeme I. Bell
Graeme I. Bell University of Chicago

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