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Pamela D. Waterman

Pamela D. Waterman

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 44 4058 3746 1934 1753 83 11161

Pamela D. Waterman publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Pamela D. Waterman between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Pamela D. Waterman published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 3.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 12 publications in 2026. 13 of the 101 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2001 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 12. Peak 12 publications in 2026. 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 6 publications 2004: 0 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 6 publications 2007: 2 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 0 publications 2010: 2 publications 2011: 5 publications 2012: 3 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 7 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 0 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 7 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 6 publications 2024: 1 publication 2025: 1 publication 2026: 12 publications
2001 2026

101 publications in total across all disciplines

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Pamela D. Waterman: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year Publications
2001 1
2002 2
2003 6
2004 0
2005 2
2006 6
2007 2
2008 4
2009 0
2010 2
2011 5
2012 3
2013 5
2014 4
2015 7
2016 4
2017 4
2018 6
2019 0
2020 6
2021 7
2022 5
2023 6
2024 1
2025 1
2026 12
Total 101
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Pamela D. Waterman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pamela D. Waterman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 74–83 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 83 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225 83
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Pamela D. Waterman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pamela D. Waterman sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269 44
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Pamela D. Waterman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences and medicine, with notable contributions in subfields including sociology and political science, health, molecular biology, oncology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation
  • Food security and health in diverse populations
  • Migration, health and trauma
  • Global cancer incidence and screening
  • Climate change and health impacts
  • Birth, development, and health

Waterman has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Nancy Krieger
  • Jarvis T. Chen
  • Christian Testa
  • Sarah Watkins
  • Andrew J. Simpkin

Their publications appear most often in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Public Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Epidemiology
  • The Lancet
  • Current Zoology

Selected recent papers by Pamela D. Waterman include:

  • Structural Racism, Historical Redlining, and Risk of Preterm Birth in New York City, 2013-2017 (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • Cancer Stage at Diagnosis, Historical Redlining, and Current Neighborhood Characteristics: Breast, Cervical, Lung, and Colorectal Cancers, Massachusetts, 2001-2015 (2020), American Journal of Epidemiology
  • Excess mortality in men and women in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), The Lancet
  • COVID-19 and Overall Mortality Inequities in the Surge in Death Rates by Zip Code Characteristics: Massachusetts, January 1 to May 19, 2020 (2020), American Journal of Public Health
  • Decreasing Survey Response Rates in the Time of COVID-19: Implications for Analyses of Population Health and Health Inequities (2023), American Journal of Public Health

Best Publications

  • Geocoding and Monitoring of US Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Cancer Incidence: Does the Choice of Area-based Measure and Geographic Level Matter? The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Monitoring Socioeconomic Gradients in Health: A Comparison of Area-Based Socioeconomic Measures—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;David H. Rehkopf

  • Choosing area based socioeconomic measures to monitor social inequalities in low birth weight and childhood lead poisoning: The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project (US)

    Krieger N;Chen Jt;Waterman Pd;Soobader Mj

  • Painting a truer picture of US socioeconomic and racial/ethnic health inequalities: the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project.

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;David H. Rehkopf

  • Zip Code Caveat: Bias Due to Spatiotemporal Mismatches Between Zip Codes and US Census–Defined Geographic Areas—The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • Public Health Monitoring of Privilege and Deprivation With the Index of Concentration at the Extremes

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Jasmina Spasojevic;Wenhui Li

  • Monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, and violence: geocoding and choice of area-based socioeconomic measures--the public health disparities geocoding project (US)

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen;Mah-Jabeen Soobader

  • On the wrong side of the tracts? Evaluating the accuracy of geocoding in public health research.

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela Waterman;Kerry Lemieux;Sally Zierler

  • The Fall and Rise of US Inequities in Premature Mortality: 1960–2002

    Nancy Krieger;David H Rehkopf;Jarvis T Chen;Pamela D Waterman

  • Comparing Individual- and Area-based Socioeconomic Measures for the Surveillance of Health Disparities: A Multilevel Analysis of Massachusetts Births, 1989–1991

    S. V. Subramanian;J. T. Chen;D. H. Rehkopf;P. D. Waterman

  • Racial Discrimination, Psychological Distress, and Self-Rated Health Among US-Born and Foreign-Born Black Americans

    Nancy Krieger;Anna A. Kosheleva;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen

  • Racial Disparities in Context: A Multilevel Analysis of Neighborhood Variations in Poverty and Excess Mortality Among Black Populations in Massachusetts

    S.V. Subramanian;Jarvis T. Chen;David H. Rehkopf;Pamela D. Waterman

  • Social Hazards on the Job: Workplace Abuse, Sexual Harassment, and Racial Discrimination—A Study of Black, Latino, and White Low-Income Women and Men Workers in the United States

    Nancy Krieger;Pamela D. Waterman;Cathy Hartman;Lisa M. Bates

  • The inverse hazard law: blood pressure, sexual harassment, racial discrimination, workplace abuse and occupational exposures in US low-income black, white and Latino workers.

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Cathy Hartman

  • Local residential segregation matters: stronger association of census tract compared to conventional city-level measures with fatal and non-fatal assaults (total and firearm related), using the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for Racial, Economic, and Racialized Economic Segregation, Massachusetts (US), 1995-2010

    Nancy Krieger;Justin M. Feldman;Pamela D. Waterman;Jarvis T. Chen

  • The Unique Impact of Abolition of Jim Crow Laws on Reducing Inequities in Infant Death Rates and Implications for Choice of Comparison Groups in Analyzing Societal Determinants of Health

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Brent A. Coull;Pamela D. Waterman

  • Combining Explicit and Implicit Measures of Racial Discrimination in Health Research

    Nancy Krieger;Dana Carney;Katie Lancaster;Pamela D. Waterman

  • Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

    Nancy Krieger;Jarvis T. Chen;Pamela D. Waterman;Mathew V. Kiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy Krieger
Nancy Krieger Harvard University
Jarvis T. Chen
Jarvis T. Chen Harvard University
Brent A. Coull
Brent A. Coull Harvard University
Jason Beckfield
Jason Beckfield Harvard University
David H. Rehkopf
David H. Rehkopf Stanford University
Sofia Gruskin
Sofia Gruskin University of Southern California
S. V. Subramanian
S. V. Subramanian Harvard University
Elizabeth M. Barbeau
Elizabeth M. Barbeau Harvard University
Gary G. Bennett
Gary G. Bennett Duke University
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University

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