2026 Naresh M. Punjabi: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	82	15879	14935	7989	7387	309	36391

Overview

Naresh M. Punjabi is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with a concentration in subfields such as Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
Diabetes Management and Research
Sleep and Wakefulness Research
Sleep and related disorders
Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research

Naresh M. Punjabi has multiple recent publications, including:

"Diagnosis and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea," 2020, published in JAMA
"Metrics of sleep apnea severity: beyond the apnea-hypopnea index," 2021, published in SLEEP
"Long-Term Noninvasive Ventilation in Chronic Stable Hypercapnic Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline," 2020, published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
"Variability and Misclassification of Sleep Apnea Severity Based on Multi-Night Testing," 2020, published in CHEST Journal
"Prone Positioning of Nonintubated Patients with COVID-19," 2020, published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

R. Nisha Aurora
Trishul Siddharthan
Darko Stefanovski
Irina Gaynanova
Sanjay R. Patel

Naresh M. Punjabi's work has been published extensively in leading venues such as:

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (12 publications)
SLEEP (9 publications)
CHEST Journal (7 publications)
UNC Libraries (7 publications)
Circulation (7 publications)

Best Publications

The Epidemiology of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Naresh M. Punjabi

2756
Citations
Prospective study of obstructive sleep apnea and incident coronary heart disease and heart failure: The sleep heart health study

Daniel J. Gottlieb;Gayane Yenokyan;Anne B. Newman;George T. O'Connor

1743
Citations
Sleep-disordered breathing and mortality: A prospective cohort study

Naresh M. Punjabi;Brian S. Caffo;James L. Goodwin;Daniel J. Gottlieb

1603
Citations
Obstructive Sleep Apnea–Hypopnea and Incident Stroke: the Sleep Heart Health Study

Susan Redline;Gayane Yenokyan;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Eyal Shahar

1492
Citations
Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Glucose Intolerance, and Insulin Resistance The Sleep Heart Health Study

Naresh M. Punjabi;Eyal Shahar;Susan Redline;Daniel J. Gottlieb

1437
Citations
Sleep-disordered Breathing and Insulin Resistance in Middle-aged and Overweight Men

Naresh M. Punjabi;John D. Sorkin;John D. Sorkin;John D. Sorkin;Leslie I. Katzel;Leslie I. Katzel;Leslie I. Katzel;Andrew P. Goldberg;Andrew P. Goldberg;Andrew P. Goldberg

1261
Citations
Association of sleep time with diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance.

Daniel J. Gottlieb;Naresh M. Punjabi;Ann B. Newman;Helaine E. Resnick

1228
Citations
Association of Usual Sleep Duration With Hypertension: The Sleep Heart Health Study

Daniel J. Gottlieb;Susan Redline;F. Javier Nieto;Carol M. Baldwin

1193
Citations
Diagnosis and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Review

Daniel J. Gottlieb;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Daniel J. Gottlieb;Naresh M. Punjabi

894
Citations
Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies identify multiple loci associated with pulmonary function

Dana B. Hancock;Mark Eijgelsheim;Jemma B. Wilk;Sina A. Gharib

746
Citations
Control of Confounding and Reporting of Results in Causal Inference Studies. Guidance for Authors from Editors of Respiratory, Sleep, and Critical Care Journals

David J. Lederer;Scott C. Bell;Richard D. Branson;James D. Chalmers

738
Citations
Effects of sleep fragmentation on glucose metabolism in normal subjects.

Katherine A. Stamatakis;Naresh M. Punjabi

686
Citations
Diabetes and Sleep Disturbances: Findings from the Sleep Heart Health Study

Helaine E. Resnick;Susan Redline;Eyal Shahar;Adele Gilpin

644
Citations
Treatment of Right Heart Thromboemboli

Peter S. Rose;Naresh M. Punjabi;David B. Pearse

567
Citations
Sleep and sleep-disordered breathing in adults with predominantly mild obstructive airway disease.

Mark H. Sanders;Anne B. Newman;Catherine L. Haggerty;Susan Redline

561
Citations
Sleep-disordered breathing and cardiovascular disease: an outcome-based definition of hypopneas.

Naresh M. Punjabi;Anne B. Newman;Terry B. Young;Helaine E. Resnick

527
Citations
Disorders of glucose metabolism in sleep apnea

Naresh M. Punjabi;Vsevolod Y. Polotsky

500
Citations
Intermittent hypoxia increases insulin resistance in genetically obese mice.

Vsevolod Y. Polotsky;Jianguo Li;Naresh M. Punjabi;Arnon E. Rubin

485
Citations
Sleep-disordered breathing and type 2 diabetes: A report from the International Diabetes Federation Taskforce on Epidemiology and Prevention

Jonathan E. Shaw;Naresh M. Punjabi;John P. Wilding;K. George M.M. Alberti

452
Citations
Effects of acute intermittent hypoxia on glucose metabolism in awake healthy volunteers

Mariam Louis;Naresh M. Punjabi

444
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan Redline Brigham and Women's Hospital

Daniel J. Gottlieb Brigham and Women's Hospital

Stuart F. Quan Brigham and Women's Hospital

Sanjay R. Patel University of Pittsburgh

Eyal Shahar University of Arizona

Helaine E. Resnick Georgetown University

Sina A. Gharib University of Washington

Larissa A. Shimoda Johns Hopkins University

Alan R. Schwartz Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

Anne B. Newman University of Pittsburgh

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