2026 Ross L. Prentice: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	126	2891	2697	1604	1475	553	78843

Research.com Recognitions

1986 - COPSS Presidents' Award
1982 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Ross L. Prentice is affiliated with the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 164 and 63 publications respectively. Within these broad fields, Prentice's work extends into several subfields, including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Physiology; Genetics; Statistics and Probability; and Oncology.

The scientist's research focuses on topics related to nutrition and health, with particular emphasis on Nutritional Studies and Diet, Diet and Metabolism Studies, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, as well as Estrogen and Related Hormone Effects. Additional areas of study cover Cancer Risks and Factors, Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease, and Nutrition and Health in Aging.

Ross L. Prentice has published extensively in several key journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
UNC Libraries
Journal of Nutrition
American Journal of Epidemiology
Current Developments in Nutrition

Frequent recurring collaborators in Prentice's work include Marian L. Neuhouser, JoAnn E. Manson, Lesley F. Tinker, Aaron K. Aragaki, and Johanna W. Lampe.

Some recent notable papers by Ross L. Prentice are:

Daily energy expenditure through the human life course (2021) published in Science
Association of Menopausal Hormone Therapy With Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality During Long-term Follow-up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials (2020) published in JAMA
Dietary Modification and Breast Cancer Mortality: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trial (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies (2021) published in Cell Reports Medicine
Energy compensation and adiposity in humans (2021) published in Current Biology

The scientist's career includes recognition such as the COPSS Presidents' Award received in 1986 and election as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1982.

Best Publications

Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial

Garnet L. Anderson;Marian C. Limacher;Annlouise R. Assaf;Tamsen Bassford

4978
Citations
Calcium plus vitamin D supplementation and the risk of fractures.

Rebecca D. Jackson;Andrea Z. LaCroix;Margery Gass;Robert B. Wallace

2286
Citations
Design of the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial and observational study

G. Anderson;S. Cummings;L. S. Freedman;C. Furberg

2219
Citations
The analysis of failure times in the presence of competing risks.

R. L. Prentice;J. D. Kalbfleisch;A. V. Peterson;N. Flournoy

1918
Citations
Menopausal hormone therapy and health outcomes during the intervention and extended poststopping phases of the women's health initiative randomized trials

Jo Ann E. Manson;Rowan T. Chlebowski;Marcia L. Stefanick;Aaron K. Aragaki

1669
Citations
Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

1506
Citations
Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Sara Lindström;Sara Lindström;Joe Dennis;Jonathan Beesley

1400
Citations
Calcium plus Vitamin D Supplementation and the Risk of Colorectal Cancer

Jean Wactawski-Wende;Jane Morley Kotchen;Garnet L. Anderson;Annlouise R. Assaf;Annlouise R. Assaf

1308
Citations
Correlated binary regression with covariates specific to each binary observation.

Ross L. Prentice

1183
Citations
Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

Nasim Mavaddat;Kyriaki Michailidou;Kyriaki Michailidou;Joe Dennis;Michael Lush

940
Citations
Estrogen therapy and coronary-artery calcification.

Jo Ann E. Manson;Matthew A. Allison;Jacques E. Rossouw;J. Jeffrey Carr

901
Citations
Smoking and mortality--beyond established causes.

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

900
Citations
Estrogen plus progestin and risk of venous thrombosis.

Mary Cushman;Lewis H. Kuller;Ross Prentice;Rebecca J. Rodabough

833
Citations
Implementation of the Women's Health Initiative study design.

Garnet L. Anderson;Joann Manson;Robert Wallace;Bernedine Lund

768
Citations
Conjugated equine estrogens and coronary heart disease: the Women's Health Initiative.

Judith Hsia;Robert D Langer;Joann E Manson;Lewis Kuller

750
Citations
Estrogen plus progestin and breast cancer incidence and mortality in postmenopausal women

Rowan T. Chlebowski;Garnet L. Anderson;Margery Gass;Dorothy S. Lane

741
Citations
Ethnicity and Breast Cancer: Factors Influencing Differences in Incidence and Outcome

Rowan T. Chlebowski;Zhao Chen;Garnet L. Anderson;Thomas Rohan

725
Citations
A multistage genome-wide association study in breast cancer identifies two new risk alleles at 1p11.2 and 14q24.1 (RAD51L1).

Gilles Thomas;Kevin B Jacobs;Kevin B Jacobs;Peter Kraft;Meredith Yeager;Meredith Yeager

645
Citations
Overweight, Obesity, and Postmenopausal Invasive Breast Cancer Risk: A Secondary Analysis of the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Clinical Trials

Marian L. Neuhouser;Aaron K. Aragaki;Ross L. Prentice;Jo Ann E. Manson

642
Citations
Estrogen Therapy and Coronary-Artery Calcification

J.E. Manson;M.A. Allison;J.E. Rossouw

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

JoAnn E. Manson Harvard Medical School

Garnet L. Anderson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Rowan T. Chlebowski UCLA Medical Center

Marcia L. Stefanick Stanford University

Karen C. Johnson University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Marian L. Neuhouser Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne

Cynthia A. Thomson University of Arizona

Andrea Z. LaCroix University of California, San Diego

Lewis H. Kuller University of Pittsburgh

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