2026 Patricia Hartge: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	131	340	324	208	197	460	64386
Medicine	133	2225	2072	1256	1153	460	66877

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Patricia Hartge is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their primary research focus spans medicine as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant output in genetics and molecular biology subfields. Epidemiology and reproductive medicine also form part of their research interests.

The scientist's recent publications cover various topics related to cancer and epidemiology. Notable recent papers include:

Trends in Mortality From Drug Poisonings, Suicide, and Alcohol-Induced Deaths in the United States From 2000 to 2017 (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
The Risk of Ovarian Cancer Increases with an Increase in the Lifetime Number of Ovulatory Cycles: An Analysis from the Ovarian Cancer Cohort Consortium (OC3) (2020), published in Cancer Research
Hepcidin-regulating iron metabolism genes and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies (2021), published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Associations between reproductive factors and biliary tract cancers in women from the Biliary Tract Cancers Pooling Project (2020), published in Journal of Hepatology
Modification of the Association Between Frequent Aspirin Use and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A Meta-Analysis Using Individual-Level Data From Two Ovarian Cancer Consortia (2022), published in Journal of Clinical Oncology

Hartge has contributed frequently to several publication venues, with the highest number of works appearing in UNC Libraries. Other repeated venues include Cancer Research, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, JAMA Network Open, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The scientist has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, including:

Graham G. Giles (8 collaborations)
Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte (8 collaborations)
Roger L. Milne (7 collaborations)
Demetrius Albanes (6 collaborations)
Julie E. Buring (6 collaborations)

Key research topics covered in their work include:

Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia research
Cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder cancer studies
Pancreatic and hepatic oncology research
Cancer, lipids, and metabolism
Epigenetics and DNA methylation
Genetic factors in colorectal cancer

Best Publications

The Risk of Cancer Associated with Specific Mutations of BRCA1 and BRCA2 among Ashkenazi Jews

Jeffery P. Struewing;Patricia Hartge;Sholom Wacholder;Sonya M. Baker

2940
Citations
Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

Amy Berrington De Gonzalez;Patricia Hartge;James R. Cerhan;Alan J. Flint

2892
Citations
Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

2663
Citations
Lymphoma incidence patterns by WHO subtype in the United States, 1992-2001

Lindsay M. Morton;Sophia S. Wang;Sophia S. Wang;Susan S. Devesa;Susan S. Devesa;Patricia Hartge;Patricia Hartge

2029
Citations
Effect of screening on ovarian cancer mortality: the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Randomized Controlled Trial.

Saundra S. Buys;Edward Partridge;Amanda Black;Christine C. Johnson

1574
Citations
Leisure Time Physical Activity and Mortality: A Detailed Pooled Analysis of the Dose-Response Relationship

Hannah Arem;Steven C. Moore;Alpa Patel;Patricia Hartge

1544
Citations
Association of Leisure-Time Physical Activity With Risk of 26 Types of Cancer in 1.44 Million Adults

Steven C. Moore;I-Min Lee;Elisabete Weiderpass;Peter T. Campbell

1394
Citations
50-Year Trends in Smoking-Related Mortality in the United States

Michael J. Thun;Brian D. Carter;Diane Feskanich;Neal D. Freedman

1350
Citations
EPIDEMIOLOGIC EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENT DATA IN THE PRESENCE OF DETECTION LIMITS

J H. Lubin;J S. Colt;D Camann;S Davis

1040
Citations
Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.

Brian D. Carter;Christian C. Abnet;Diane Feskanich;Neal D. Freedman

900
Citations
Menopausal hormone replacement therapy and risk of ovarian Cancer

James V. Lacey;Pamela J. Mink;Jay H. Lubin;Mark E. Sherman

886
Citations
Leisure Time Physical Activity of Moderate to Vigorous Intensity and Mortality: A Large Pooled Cohort Analysis

Steven C. Moore;Alpa V. Patel;Charles E. Matthews;Amy Berrington de Gonzalez

802
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies variants in the ABO locus associated with susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

Laufey Amundadottir;Peter Kraft;Rachael Z. Stolzenberg-Solomon;Charles S. Fuchs

783
Citations
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

700
Citations
Reporting Participation in Epidemiologic Studies: A Survey of Practice

Lindsay M. Morton;Jack Cahill;Patricia Hartge

650
Citations
A genome-wide association study identifies pancreatic cancer susceptibility loci on chromosomes 13q22.1, 1q32.1 and 5p15.33

Gloria M. Petersen;Laufey Amundadottir;Charles S. Fuchs;Peter Kraft

649
Citations
Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

Kevin B. Jacobs;Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

645
Citations
Recent Trends in Cutaneous Melanoma Incidence Among Whites in the United States

Ahmedin Jemal;Susan S. Devesa;Patricia Hartge;Margaret A. Tucker

628
Citations
Adverse Health Outcomes in Women Exposed In Utero to Diethylstilbestrol

Robert H. Hoover;Marianne Hyer;Ruth M. Pfeiffer;Ervin Adam

559
Citations
Detectable clonal mosaicism and its relationship to aging and cancer

Kevin B. Jacobs;Meredith Yeager;Weiyin Zhou;Sholom Wacholder

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Cerhan Mayo Clinic

Stephen J. Chanock National Institutes of Health

Wendy Cozen University of Southern California

Nathaniel Rothman National Institutes of Health

Richard K. Severson Wayne State University

Sophia S. Wang City Of Hope National Medical Center

Robert N. Hoover National Institutes of Health

Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne

Mark P. Purdue National Institutes of Health

Julie E. Buring Brigham and Women's Hospital

External Links

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