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Monika M. Safford

Monika M. Safford

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
49543
World Ranking
8767
National Ranking
4522

Monika M. Safford 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 Monika M. Safford sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 921 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Monika M. Safford 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 Monika M. Safford sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 98 D-Index — 57th percentile

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

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Overview

Monika M. Safford is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a significant focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Additional subfields include general health professions, epidemiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics, highlighting cardiovascular health and risk factors, health disparities and outcomes, heart failure treatment and management, COVID-19 clinical research studies, blood pressure and hypertension studies, cardiac health and mental health, and the long-term effects of COVID-19.

Recent papers associated with their research include:

  • Clinical Characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York: retrospective case series, 2020, BMJ
  • Impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Viral Load on Risk of Intubation and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Predicts Mortality in Patients with and without Cancer Who Are Hospitalized with COVID-19, 2020, Cancer Cell
  • Hyperglycemia in acute COVID-19 is characterized by insulin resistance and adipose tissue infectivity by SARS-CoV-2, 2021, Cell Metabolism

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Parag Goyal
  • Emily B. Levitan
  • Laura C. Pinheiro
  • Madeline R. Sterling
  • Paul Muntner

The most common venues for their publications are:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Best Publications

  • Clinical Characteristics of Covid-19 in New York City.

    Parag Goyal;Justin J. Choi;Laura C. Pinheiro;Edward J. Schenck

  • Cardiovascular effects of intensive lifestyle intervention in type 2 diabetes

    R. R. Wing;P. Bolin;F. L. Brancati;G. A. Bray

  • Benefits of Modest Weight Loss in Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

    Rena R. Wing;Wei Lang;Thomas A. Wadden;Monika Safford

  • Long-term effects of a lifestyle intervention on weight and cardiovascular risk factors in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus: four-year results of the Look AHEAD trial.

    Rena R. Wing;Judy L. Bahnson;George A. Bray;Jeanne M. Clark

  • Effect of estrogen plus progestin on stroke in postmenopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative: a randomized trial.

    Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller;Susan Hendrix;Marian Limacher;Gerardo Heiss

  • Reduction in Weight and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: One-Year Results of the Look AHEAD Trial

    Mark Espeland;Xavier Pi-Sunyer;George Blackburn;Frederick L. Brancati

  • Characterization and clinical course of 1000 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in New York: retrospective case series.

    Michael G Argenziano;Samuel L Bruce;Cody L Slater;Jonathan R Tiao

  • Socioeconomic Position and Health among Persons with Diabetes Mellitus: A Conceptual Framework and Review of the Literature

    Arleen F. Brown;Susan L. Ettner;John Piette;Morris Weinberger

  • Association of an intensive lifestyle intervention with remission of type 2 diabetes.

    Edward W. Gregg;Haiying Chen;Lynne E. Wagenknecht;Jeanne M. Clark

  • Association of the magnitude of weight loss and changes in physical fitness with long-term cardiovascular disease outcomes in overweight or obese people with type 2 diabetes: a post-hoc analysis of the Look AHEAD randomised clinical trial.

    Edward Gregg;John Jakicic;George Blackburn

  • Validation of the Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Pooled Cohort Risk Equations

    Paul Muntner;Lisandro D. Colantonio;Mary Cushman;David C. Goff

  • Persistent B19 parvovirus infection in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1): a treatable cause of anemia in AIDS.

    Norbert Frickhofen;Janis L. Abkowitz;Monika Safford;J. Michael Berry

  • Detection of chronic kidney disease with creatinine, cystatin C, and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio and association with progression to end-stage renal disease and mortality.

    Carmen A. Peralta;Michael G. Shlipak;Suzanne Judd;Mary Cushman

  • Patterns of sedentary behavior and mortality in U.S. middle-aged and older adults a national cohort study

    Keith M. Diaz;Virginia J. Howard;Brent Hutto;Natalie Colabianchi

  • Atrial Fibrillation and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction

    Elsayed Z. Soliman;Monika M. Safford;Paul Muntner;Yulia Khodneva

  • Who has diabetes? Best estimates of diabetes prevalence in the Department of Veterans Affairs based on computerized patient data.

    Donald R. Miller;Monika M. Safford;Leonard M. Pogach

  • Disparities in stroke incidence contributing to disparities in stroke mortality

    Virginia J. Howard;Dawn O. Kleindorfer;Suzanne E. Judd;Leslie A. McClure

  • Diabetes Care Quality in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System and Commercial Managed Care: The TRIAD Study

    Eve A Kerr;Robert B Gerzoff;Sarah L Krein;Joseph V Selby

  • Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load on Risk of Intubation and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019.

    Reed Magleby;Lars F Westblade;Alex Trzebucki;Matthew S Simon

  • Comparison of Self-Report, Hospital Discharge Codes, and Adjudication of Cardiovascular Events in the Women’s Health Initiative

    Susan R. Heckbert;Charles Kooperberg;Monika M. Safford;Bruce M. Psaty

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Muntner
Paul Muntner University of Alabama at Birmingham
George Howard
George Howard University of Alabama at Birmingham
Virginia J. Howard
Virginia J. Howard University of Alabama at Birmingham
Mary Cushman
Mary Cushman University of Vermont
Jeffrey R. Curtis
Jeffrey R. Curtis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elsayed Z. Soliman
Elsayed Z. Soliman Wake Forest University
Brett M. Kissela
Brett M. Kissela University of Cincinnati
Robert S. Rosenson
Robert S. Rosenson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dawn Kleindorfer
Dawn Kleindorfer University of Cincinnati
Vera Bittner
Vera Bittner University of Alabama at Birmingham

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