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Pamela M. Ling 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 M. Ling sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 213 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Pamela M. Ling 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 M. Ling sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Pamela M. Ling is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on medicine, with substantial contributions in the fields of physiology, pharmacology, public health, environmental and occupational health, general health professions, and sociology and political science.

The body of their work centers largely on smoking behavior and cessation, with additional emphasis on cannabis and cannabinoid research, behavioral health and interventions, obesity, physical activity, diet, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, media influence and health, and consumer attitudes and food labeling.

They have published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Tobacco Control
  • Nicotine & Tobacco Research
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • JMIR Formative Research
  • Addictive Behaviors

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Pamela M. Ling are:

  • Moving targets: how the rapidly changing tobacco and nicotine landscape creates advertising and promotion policy challenges, 2022, Tobacco Control
  • Tobacco product use and the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19: current understanding and recommendations for future research, 2022, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Smoking Cessation, Version 3.2022, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, 2023, Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
  • A Systematic Review of E-Cigarette Marketing Communication: Messages, Communication Channels, and Strategies, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Compliance with San Francisco's flavoured tobacco sales prohibition, 2020, Tobacco Control

The researcher maintains collaborations with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Nhung Nguyen
  • Joanne Chen Lyu
  • Johannes Thrul
  • Louisa M. Holmes
  • Julia McQuoid

Best Publications

  • Why and How the Tobacco Industry Sells Cigarettes to Young Adults: Evidence From Industry Documents

    Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • “Smoking Revolution”: A Content Analysis of Electronic Cigarette Retail Websites

    Rachel A. Grana;Pamela M. Ling

  • Health effects of light and intermittent smoking: a review.

    Rebecca E. Schane;Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • A Longitudinal Analysis of Electronic Cigarette Use and Smoking Cessation

    Rachel A. Grana;Lucy Popova;Pamela M. Ling

  • Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control

    Anne Landman;Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • Alternative Tobacco Product Use and Smoking Cessation: A National Study

    Lucy Popova;Pamela M. Ling

  • Smooth Moves: Bar and Nightclub Tobacco Promotions That Target Young Adults

    Edward Sepe;Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • Adolescents' attitudes towards e-cigarette ingredients, safety, addictive properties, social norms, and regulation.

    Anuradha Gorukanti;Kevin Delucchi;Pamela Ling;Raymond Fisher-Travis

  • The vector of the tobacco epidemic: tobacco industry practices in low and middle-income countries.

    Sungkyu Lee;Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • Nondaily and Social Smoking: An Increasingly Prevalent Pattern

    Rebecca E. Schane;Stanton A. Glantz;Pamela M. Ling

  • Emotions for sale: cigarette advertising and women's psychosocial needs

    Stacey J Anderson;Stanton A. Glantz;P M Ling

  • Tobacco industry consumer research on smokeless tobacco users and product development.

    Adrienne B. Mejia;Pamela M. Ling

  • The Virginia Slims identity crisis: an inside look at tobacco industry marketing to women

    B A Toll;P M Ling

  • Examining market trends in the United States smokeless tobacco use: 2005-2011.

    Cristine D Delnevo;Olivia A Wackowski;Daniel P Giovenco;Michelle T Bover Manderski

  • Using tobacco-industry marketing research to design more effective tobacco-control campaigns.

    Pamela M. Ling;Stanton A. Glantz

  • Social Smoking: Implications for Public Health, Clinical Practice, and Intervention Research

    Rebecca E. Schane;Stanton A. Glantz;Pamela M. Ling

  • Tobacco industry use of flavours to recruit new users of little cigars and cigarillos

    Ganna Kostygina;Stanton A Glantz;Pamela M Ling

  • How Philip Morris built Marlboro into a global brand for young adults: implications for international tobacco control

    N Hafez;P M Ling

  • It is time to abandon youth access tobacco programmes

    P M Ling;A Landman;S A Glantz

  • Tobacco industry marketing to low socioeconomic status women in the U.S.A.

    Cati G Brown-Johnson;Lucinda J England;Stanton A Glantz;Pamela M Ling

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanton A. Glantz
Stanton A. Glantz University of California, San Francisco
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher Stanford University
Danielle E. Ramo
Danielle E. Ramo University of California, San Francisco
Kevin L. Delucchi
Kevin L. Delucchi University of California, San Francisco
Janet Hoek
Janet Hoek University of Otago
Sharon M. Hall
Sharon M. Hall University of California, San Francisco
Carla J. Berg
Carla J. Berg George Washington University
Judith J. Prochaska
Judith J. Prochaska Stanford University
Lisa Henriksen
Lisa Henriksen Stanford University

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