2026 Richard N. Baumgartner: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	85	14367	13527	7263	6721	266	44236

Richard N. Baumgartner 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 Richard N. Baumgartner sits on this spectrum.

101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 266 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard N. Baumgartner 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 Richard N. Baumgartner sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Richard N. Baumgartner is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Oncology, Artificial Intelligence, Epidemiology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their work addresses multiple topics such as Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials, Cancer survivorship and care, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Neural Networks and Applications, and Virology and Viral Diseases.

Baumgartner has published research in various venues, with a notable presence in arXiv (Cornell University), where eight publications appear. Other frequent publication venues include Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention with five publications, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment with two, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research with two, and Scientific Reports with one publication.

Frequent co-authors include Stephanie D. Boone, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Avonne E. Connor, Shahrul Mt-Isa, and Natalie Dupré.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Baumgartner include:

Pyoderma Gangrenosum in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2020, Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Self-reported symptoms of arm lymphedema and health-related quality of life among female breast cancer survivors, 2021, Scientific Reports
Ethnic and biological differences in the association between physical activity and survival after breast cancer, 2020, npj Breast Cancer
Optimal Treatment Regimes: A Review and Empirical Comparison, 2023, International Statistical Review
Utility of AI digital pathology as an aid for pathologists scoring fibrosis in MASH, 2024, Journal of Hepatology

Best Publications

Epidemiology of Sarcopenia among the Elderly in New Mexico

Richard N. Baumgartner;Kathleen M. Koehler;Dympna Gallagher;Linda Romero

4890
Citations
Estimation of skeletal muscle mass by bioelectrical impedance analysis.

Ian Janssen;Steven B. Heymsfield;Richard N. Baumgartner;Robert Ross

1703
Citations
Cadaver validation of skeletal muscle measurement by magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography

N. Mitsiopoulos;R. N. Baumgartner;S. B. Heymsfield;W. Lyons

1619
Citations
Skeletal Muscle Cutpoints Associated with Elevated Physical Disability Risk in Older Men and Women

Ian Janssen;Richard N. Baumgartner;Robert Ross;Irwin H. Rosenberg

1489
Citations
Body composition in healthy aging.

R. N. Baumgartner

1310
Citations
Sarcopenia: Its assessment, etiology, pathogenesis, consequences and future perspectives

Y. Rolland;S. Czerwinski;G. Abellan van Kan;J. E. Morley

1292
Citations
Fear of falling and restriction of mobility in elderly fallers

Bruno J. Vellas;Sharon J. Wayne;Linda J. Romero;Richard N. Baumgartner

1272
Citations
Appendicular skeletal muscle mass: effects of age, gender, and ethnicity.

Dympna Gallagher;Marjolein Visser;Ronald E. De Meersman;Dennis Sepúlveda

1169
Citations
One-Leg Balance Is an Important Predictor of Injurious Falls in Older Persons

Bruno J. Vellas;Sharon J. Wayne;Linda Romero;Richard N. Baumgartner

1116
Citations
Sarcopenic obesity predicts instrumental activities of daily living disability in the elderly.

Richard N. Baumgartner;Sharon J. Wayne;Debra L. Waters;Ian Janssen

1097
Citations
Predictors of skeletal muscle mass in elderly men and women

Richard N. Baumgartner;Debra L. Waters;Dympna Gallagher;John E. Morley

1091
Citations
From the Chicago MeetingsSarcopenia

John E. Morley;Richard N. Baumgartner;Ronenn Roubenoff;Jean Mayer

1078
Citations
Longitudinal changes in testosterone, luteinizing hormone, and follicle-stimulating hormone in healthy older men

John E. Morley;Fran E. Kaiser;Horace M. Perry;Ping Patrick

1046
Citations
Total-body skeletal muscle mass: estimation by a new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry method.

Jaehee Kim;ZiMian Wang;Steven B Heymsfield;Richard N Baumgartner

935
Citations
Elevated Biomarkers of Inflammation Are Associated With Reduced Survival Among Breast Cancer Patients

Brandon L. Pierce;Rachel Ballard-Barbash;Leslie Bernstein;Richard N. Baumgartner

797
Citations
Influence of Pre- and Postdiagnosis Physical Activity on Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors: The Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle Study

Melinda L. Irwin;Ashley Wilder Smith;Anne McTiernan;Rachel Ballard-Barbash

724
Citations
Physical activity levels before and after a diagnosis of breast carcinoma: The health, eating, activity, and lifestyle (HEAL) study

Melinda L. Irwin;Diane Crumley;Anne McTiernan M.D.;Leslie Bernstein

719
Citations
Human body composition: advances in models and methods

Steven B. Heymsfield;ZiMian Wang;Richard N. Baumgartner;Robert Ross

683
Citations
Weight stability masks sarcopenia in elderly men and women.

Dympna Gallagher;Else Ruts;Marjolein Visser;Stanley Heshka

602
Citations
Human Body Composition and the Epidemiology of Chronic Disease

Richard N. Baumgartner;Steven B. Heymsfield;Alex F. Roche

544
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven B. Heymsfield Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Rachel Ballard-Barbash National Institutes of Health

John E. Morley Saint Louis University

Leslie Bernstein University of Southern California

Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California

Bruno Vellas Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Dympna Gallagher Columbia University

Robert Ross Queen's University

Anna R. Giuliano University of South Florida

Melinda L. Irwin Yale University

External Links

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