2026 Ronald Bayer: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2304	2097	1117	1004	263	10859

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Ronald Bayer is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and health professions. Their research portfolio includes work in general health professions, epidemiology, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and emergency medical services.

The scientist's research interests cover several main topics, including:

Public Health Policies and Education
Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
HIV-related health complications and treatments
Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Disaster Response and Management
Smoking Behavior and Cessation

Among their recent scholarly publications are:

"Vexing, Veiled, and Inequitable: Social Distancing and the 'Rights' Divide in the Age of COVID-19," 2020, published in The American Journal of Bioethics
"E-cigarettes: A framework for comparative history and policy," 2024, published in Addiction
"Marking the 40th Anniversary of the AIDS Epidemic - American Physicians Look Back," 2021, published in New England Journal of Medicine
"Response of Clinicians to the Current COVID-19 Pandemic: A View from the Past," 2020, published in Social Research
"Joseph Sonnabend and the AIDS Epidemic: Pioneering and Its Discontents," 2021, published in American Journal of Public Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ronald Bayer include Denise J. Jamieson, Linda S. Adair, Amanda Corbett, Athena P. Kourtis, and Margaret E. Bentley.

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as UNC Libraries, The American Journal of Bioethics, Addiction, New England Journal of Medicine, and Social Research.

Ronald Bayer is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, an honor awarded in 2002.

Best Publications

Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis

Ronald Bayer

928
Citations
Stigma and the ethics of public health: not can we but should we.

Ronald Bayer

495
Citations
Public health policy and the AIDS epidemic. An end to HIV exceptionalism

Ronald Bayer

404
Citations
The Renormalization of Smoking? E-Cigarettes and the Tobacco “Endgame”

Amy L. Fairchild;Ronald Bayer;James Colgrove

373
Citations
The genesis of public health ethics

Ronald Bayer;and Amy L. Fairchild

347
Citations
Tobacco Control, Stigma, and Public Health: Rethinking the Relations

Ronald Bayer;Jennifer Stuber

299
Citations
Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era

Ronald Bayer;Sandro Galea

295
Citations
Directly observed therapy for tuberculosis: history of an idea.

Ronald Bayer;David Wilkinson

282
Citations
Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats

Lawrence O. Gostin;Ronald Bayer;Amy L. Fairchild

254
Citations
Changing the paradigm for HIV testing--the end of exceptionalism.

Ronald Bayer;Amy L. Fairchild

228
Citations
Private acts, social consequences : AIDS and the politics of public health

Ronald Bayer

214
Citations
Precision Medicine from a Public Health Perspective.

Ramya Ramaswami;Ronald Bayer;Sandro Galea

211
Citations
Uses and Abuses of Tuskegee

Amy L. Fairchild;Ronald Bayer

197
Citations
Science, politics, and ideology in the campaign against environmental tobacco smoke.

Ronald Bayer;James Colgrove

190
Citations
The EXODUS of Public Health What History Can Tell Us About the Future

Amy L. Fairchild;David Rosner;James Colgrove;Ronald Bayer

177
Citations
The Care of the Terminally Ill: Morality and Economics

Ronald Bayer;Daniel Callahan;John Fletcher;Thomas Hodgson

175
Citations
“Precision” Public Health — Between Novelty and Hype

Merlin Chowkwanyun;Ronald Bayer;Sandro Galea

160
Citations
Paternalism & Its Discontents: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Libertarian Values, and Public Health

Marian Moser Jones;Ronald Bayer

154
Citations
Tobacco Advertising in the United States: A Proposal for a Constitutionally Acceptable Form of Regulation

Ronald Bayer;Lawrence O. Gostin;Gail H. Javitt;Gail H. Javitt;Gail H. Javitt;Allan M. Brandt

123
Citations
Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America

Amy L. Fairchild;Ronald Bayer;James Colgrove

123
Citations
Neurosis, psychodynamics, and DSM-III. A history of the controversy.

Unknown

117
Citations
AIDS: Rights, Risk, and Reason.@@@AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics and Policies.

Virginia Berridge;Peter Aggleton;Peter Davies;Graham Hart

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda P. Fried Columbia University

Arthur L. Caplan New York University

Daniel Callahan Hastings Center

Robert Klitzman Columbia University

Susan M. Wolf University of Minnesota

Ilan H. Meyer University of California, Los Angeles

Mark L. Hatzenbuehler Harvard University

Charles F. Turner City University of New York

Ali Akbar Haghdoost Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Paul L. Wachtel City College of New York

External Links

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