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Mark A. Hanson

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Medicine

D-Index
116
Citations
63949
World Ranking
4292
National Ranking
422

Mark A. Hanson 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 Mark A. Hanson sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 702 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark A. Hanson 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 Mark A. Hanson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 116 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Mark A. Hanson is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. The researcher's work primarily centers around medicine and health professions, with a significant number of publications in the fields of general health professions, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, obstetrics and gynecology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and health toxicology and mutagenesis.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including birth, development, and health; gestational diabetes research and management; obesity, physical activity, and diet; food security and health in diverse populations; global public health policies and epidemiology; pregnancy and preeclampsia studies; and child nutrition and water access.

Frequent publication venues for Mark A. Hanson's work include:

  • International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Acta Paediatrica
  • Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
  • BMJ
  • Epigenetics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hanson are:

  • FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) initiative on fetal growth: Best practice advice for screening, diagnosis, and management of fetal growth restriction (2021), published in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions with health education to reduce body mass index in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years (2021), published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
  • The LifeCycle Project-EU Child Cohort Network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents (2020), published in European Journal of Epidemiology
  • Management of prepregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum obesity from the FIGO Pregnancy and Non-Communicable Diseases Committee: A FIGO (International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics) guideline (2020), published in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics
  • Building resilient societies after COVID-19: the case for investing in maternal, neonatal, and child health (2020), published in The Lancet Public Health

Frequent co-authors associated with Hanson include:

  • Keith M. Godfrey
  • Fionnuala M. McAuliffe
  • Chandni Maria Jacob
  • Hazel Inskip
  • Sarah Louise Killeen

Mark A. Hanson's book publications are distributed mainly between Cambridge University Press and Elsevier BV. Titles published through Cambridge University Press include Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (2022), What Makes a Person? (2022), and The Handbook of DOHaD and Society (2024). Additionally, the book Epigenetics in Human Disease (2023) was published through Elsevier BV.

Best Publications

  • Effect of In Utero and Early-Life Conditions on Adult Health and Disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Cyrus Cooper;Kent L. Thornburg

  • Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

  • Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

    Pia R Britto;Stephen J Lye;Kerrie Proulx;Aisha K Yousafzai

  • Dietary Protein Restriction of Pregnant Rats Induces and Folic Acid Supplementation Prevents Epigenetic Modification of Hepatic Gene Expression in the Offspring

    Karen A. Lillycrop;Emma S. Phillips;Alan A. Jackson;Mark A. Hanson

  • Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

    M. A. Hanson;P. D. Gluckman

  • Early life events and their consequences for later disease: a life history and evolutionary perspective.

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Alan S. Beedle

  • Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences.

    Tom P Fleming;Adam J Watkins;Miguel A Velazquez;John C Mathers

  • Developmental Origins of Non-Communicable Disease: Implications for Research and Public Health

    Robert Barouki;Peter D. Gluckman;Philippe Grandjean;Philippe Grandjean;Mark L Hanson

  • The developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

  • Epigenetic Gene Promoter Methylation at Birth Is Associated With Child’s Later Adiposity

    Keith M. Godfrey;Allan M Sheppard;Peter D. Gluckman;Karen A. Lillycrop

  • Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Hamish G. Spencer

  • Epigenetic mechanisms that underpin metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Tatjana Buklijas;Felicia M. Low

  • Induction of altered epigenetic regulation of the hepatic glucocorticoid receptor in the offspring of rats fed a protein-restricted diet during pregnancy suggests that reduced DNA methyltransferase-1 expression is involved in impaired DNA methylation and changes in histone modifications

    Karen A. Lillycrop;Jo L. Slater-Jefferies;Mark A. Hanson;Keith M. Godfrey

  • Transgenerational effects of prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine on neonatal adiposity and health in later life.

    R C Painter;C Osmond;P Gluckman;M Hanson

  • Developmental origins of disease paradigm: a mechanistic and evolutionary perspective.

    Peter D Gluckman;Mark A Hanson

  • Epigenetic Mechanisms and the Mismatch Concept of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease

    Keith M Godfrey;Karen A Lillycrop;Graham C Burdge;Peter D Gluckman

  • The World Health Organization Fetal Growth Charts: A Multinational Longitudinal Study of Ultrasound Biometric Measurements and Estimated Fetal Weight

    Torvid Kiserud;Torvid Kiserud;Gilda Piaggio;Guillermo Carroli;Mariana Widmer

  • The Fetal Matrix: Evolution, Development and Disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

  • A conceptual framework for the developmental origins of health and disease

    Peter Gluckman;MA Hanson;Tatjana Buklijas

  • Developmental origins of metabolic disease: life course and intergenerational perspectives

    Keith M. Godfrey;Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Gluckman
Peter D. Gluckman University of Auckland
Keith M. Godfrey
Keith M. Godfrey University of Southampton
Karen A. Lillycrop
Karen A. Lillycrop University of Southampton
Hazel Inskip
Hazel Inskip University of Southampton
Cyrus Cooper
Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton
Lucilla Poston
Lucilla Poston King's College London
Nicholas C. Harvey
Nicholas C. Harvey University of Southampton
Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
Mary Barker
Mary Barker University of Southampton
Tom P. Fleming
Tom P. Fleming University of Southampton

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