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Mitchell H. Gail 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 Mitchell H. Gail sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 493 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mitchell H. Gail 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 Mitchell H. Gail sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 124 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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

  • 1996 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 1994 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Mitchell H. Gail is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a substantial focus on medicine and mathematics. The scientist's work encompasses specialized subfields such as statistics and probability, epidemiology, infectious diseases, molecular biology, and periodontics.

Their research topics cover diverse areas including advanced causal inference techniques, cervical cancer and HPV research, hepatitis B virus studies, gut microbiota and health, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, statistical methods and inference, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Mitchell H. Gail has multiple frequent coauthors contributing to their work, notably:

  • Carolina Porras
  • Rolando Herrero
  • Allan Hildesheim
  • Bernal Cortés
  • Christian C. Abnet

Their publications are often featured in recognized academic venues. The most frequent publication sources include:

  • JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • Cancer Research
  • BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Biometrics
  • Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Some recent significant papers by Mitchell H. Gail include:

  • "Evaluation of Durability of a Single Dose of the Bivalent HPV Vaccine: The CVT Trial," 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Efficacy of the bivalent HPV vaccine against HPV 16/18-associated precancer: long-term follow-up results from the Costa Rica Vaccine Trial," 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • "Durability of Cross-Protection by Different Schedules of the Bivalent HPV Vaccine: The CVT Trial," 2020, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "The Oral Microbiome and Lung Cancer Risk: An Analysis of 3 Prospective Cohort Studies," 2022, JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
  • "Rationale and design of a double-blind randomized non-inferiority clinical trial to evaluate one or two doses of vaccine against human papillomavirus including an epidemiologic survey to estimate vaccine efficacy: The Costa Rica ESCUDDO trial," 2021, Vaccine

Mitchell H. Gail has received notable recognitions, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 1996. Earlier, they were elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1994 and Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 1983.

Best Publications

  • Projecting Individualized Probabilities of Developing Breast Cancer for White Females Who Are Being Examined Annually

    Mitchell H. Gail;Louise A. Brinton;David P. Byar;Donald K. Corle

  • Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity

    Katherine M. Flegal;Barry I. Graubard;David F. Williamson;Mitchell H. Gail

  • Nutrition Intervention Trials in Linxian, China: Supplementation With Specific Vitamin/Mineral Combinations, Cancer Incidence, and Disease-Specific Mortality in the General Population

    William J. Blot;Jun Yao Li;Philip R. Taylor;Wande Guo

  • Cause-Specific Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity

    Katherine M. Flegal;Barry I. Graubard;David F. Williamson;Mitchell H. Gail

  • Validation Studies for Models Projecting the Risk of Invasive and Total Breast Cancer Incidence

    J P Costantino;M H Gail;D Pee;S Anderson

  • Spectrum of AIDS-associated malignant disorders

    James J Goedert;Timothy R Coté;Phillip Virgo;Steven M Scoppa

  • Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Tamoxifen Treatment for Preventing Breast Cancer

    Mitchell H. Gail;Joseph P. Costantino;John Bryant;Robert Croyle

  • Population attributable risks of esophageal and gastric cancers.

    Lawrence S. Engel;Lawrence S. Engel;Wong Ho Chow;Thomas L. Vaughan;Marilie D. Gammon

  • Cancer Burden in the HIV-Infected Population in the United States

    Meredith S. Shiels;Ruth M. Pfeiffer;Mitchell H. Gail;H. Irene Hall

  • Estimation of effect size distribution from genome-wide association studies and implications for future discoveries

    Ju Hyun Park;Sholom Wacholder;Mitchell H. Gail;Ulrike Peters

  • Randomized clinical trials. Perspectives on some recent ideas.

    David P. Byar;Richard M. Simon;William T. Friedewald;James J. Schlesselman

  • A Prospective Study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection and the Development of AIDS in Subjects with Hemophilia

    James J. Goedert;Craig M. Kessler;Louis M. Aledort;Robert J. Biggar

  • Association Between BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations and Survival in Women with Invasive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer

    Kelly L. Bolton;Kelly L. Bolton;Georgia Chenevix-Trench;Cindy Goh;Siegal Sadetzki

  • A prospective study of red and processed meat intake in relation to cancer risk.

    Amanda J Cross;Michael F Leitzmann;Mitchell H Gail;Albert R Hollenbeck

  • Randomized Double-Blind Factorial Trial of Three Treatments To Reduce the Prevalence of Precancerous Gastric Lesions

    Wei-cheng You;Linda M. Brown;Lian Zhang;Ji-you Li

  • Biased selection of controls for case-control analyses of cohort studies.

    Jay H. Lubin;Mitchell H. Gail

  • Fifteen-Year Effects of Helicobacter pylori, Garlic, and Vitamin Treatments on Gastric Cancer Incidence and Mortality

    Jun Ling Ma;Lian Zhang;Linda Morris Brown;Ji You Li

  • A shared susceptibility locus in PLCE1 at 10q23 for gastric adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    Christian C. Abnet;Neal D. Freedman;Nan Hu;Zhaoming Wang;Zhaoming Wang

  • Community intervention trial for smoking cessation (COMMIT): I. Cohort results from a four-year community intervention

    T. J. Glynn;D. R. Shopland;M. Manley;W. R. Lynn

  • Re: Chemoprevention of Gastric Dysplasia: Randomized Trial of Antioxidant Supplements and Anti-Helicobacter pylori Therapy, Letter to the Editor

    M Gail;Linda Brown;W. You

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth M. Pfeiffer
Ruth M. Pfeiffer National Institutes of Health
Barry I. Graubard
Barry I. Graubard National Institutes of Health
James J. Goedert
James J. Goedert National Institutes of Health
Regina G. Ziegler
Regina G. Ziegler National Institutes of Health
Robert N. Hoover
Robert N. Hoover National Institutes of Health
Joseph F. Fraumeni
Joseph F. Fraumeni National Institutes of Health
Nilanjan Chatterjee
Nilanjan Chatterjee Johns Hopkins University
Catherine Schairer
Catherine Schairer National Institutes of Health
Christian C. Abnet
Christian C. Abnet National Institutes of Health
Katherine M. Flegal
Katherine M. Flegal Stanford University

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