2026 Mark A. Hanson: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	116	4292	4022	422	403	702	63949

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

4272
Citations
Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease

Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

2477
Citations
Nurturing care: promoting early childhood development

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

1817
Citations
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

1293
Citations
Early developmental conditioning of later health and disease: physiology or pathophysiology?

M. A. Hanson;P. D. Gluckman

1274
Citations
Early life events and their consequences for later disease: a life history and evolutionary perspective.

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

1228
Citations
Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences.

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

1115
Citations
Developmental Origins of Non-Communicable Disease: Implications for Research and Public Health

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

907
Citations
The developmental origins of the metabolic syndrome

Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

872
Citations
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

864
Citations
Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution

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

862
Citations
Epigenetic mechanisms that underpin metabolic and cardiovascular diseases

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

806
Citations
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

804
Citations
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

798
Citations
Developmental origins of disease paradigm: a mechanistic and evolutionary perspective.

Peter D Gluckman;Mark A Hanson

719
Citations
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

715
Citations
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

649
Citations
The Fetal Matrix: Evolution, Development and Disease

Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson

600
Citations
A conceptual framework for the developmental origins of health and disease

Peter Gluckman;MA Hanson;Tatjana Buklijas

598
Citations
Developmental origins of metabolic disease: life course and intergenerational perspectives

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

596
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Gluckman University of Auckland

Keith M. Godfrey University of Southampton

Karen A. Lillycrop University of Southampton

Hazel Inskip University of Southampton

Cyrus Cooper University of Southampton

Lucilla Poston King's College London

Nicholas C. Harvey University of Southampton

Clive Osmond University of Southampton

Mary Barker University of Southampton

Tom P. Fleming University of Southampton

External Links

Personal website of Mark A. Hanson

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