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Simone Benhamou

Simone Benhamou

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
88
Citations
24769
World Ranking
13291
National Ranking
417

Simone Benhamou 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 Simone Benhamou sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 250 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simone Benhamou 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 Simone Benhamou sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simone Benhamou is affiliated with Inserm in France and has a research focus primarily in medicine, with a concentration on surgery and otorhinolaryngology. Their work also encompasses pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, and pathology and forensic medicine. The scientist's research themes include bladder and urothelial cancer treatments, head and neck cancer studies, occupational and environmental lung diseases, urinary and genital oncology studies, epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer genomics and diagnostics, as well as global cancer incidence and screening.

Benhamou has contributed to numerous publications spanning high-impact journals and repositories. Frequent publication venues include UNC Libraries with nine publications, the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine with two, and European Urology also with two. Additional publication contributions have appeared in the British Journal of Cancer and Oral Diseases.

Collaborations with other researchers are characteristic of Benhamou's work, with frequent coauthors including Zuo-Feng Zhang and Mark P. Purdue, both appearing twelve times alongside Benhamou. Wolfgang Ahrens is credited eleven times, while María Paula Curado and Paolo Boffetta have each coauthored ten papers collaboratively.

Some of the recent research papers authored by Simone Benhamou or including them as a contributor are:

  • Alcohol drinking and head and neck cancer risk: the joint effect of intensity and duration, 2020, British Journal of Cancer
  • Respirable Crystalline Silica Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Diesel Engine Exhaust Exposure, Smoking, and Lung Cancer Subtype Risks. A Pooled Exposure-Response Analysis of 14 Case-Control Studies, 2020, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Genome-wide Association Study of Bladder Cancer Reveals New Biological and Translational Insights, 2023, European Urology
  • Lessons learned from the INHANCE consortium: An overview of recent results on head and neck cancer, 2020, Oral Diseases

Best Publications

  • A susceptibility locus for lung cancer maps to nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit genes on 15q25

    Rayjean J. Hung;James D. Mckay;Valerie Gaborieau;Paolo Boffetta

  • Metabolic gene polymorphism frequencies in control populations.

    S. Garte;L. Gaspari;A.K. Alexandrie;C. Ambrosone

  • Genome-wide meta-analyses identify multiple loci associated with smoking behavior

    Helena Furberg;Yunjung Kim;Jennifer Dackor;Eric Boerwinkle

  • Alcohol Drinking in Never Users of Tobacco, Cigarette Smoking in Never Drinkers, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis in the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology Consortium

    Mia Hashibe;Paul Brennan;Simone Benhamou;Xavier Castellsague

  • Prophylactic Cranial Irradiation for Patients With Small-Cell Lung Cancer in Complete Remission

    R Arriagada;T Le Chevalier;F Borie;A Rivière

  • A Genome-wide Association Study of Lung Cancer Identifies a Region of Chromosome 5p15 Associated with Risk for Adenocarcinoma.

    Maria Teresa Landi;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Kai Yu;Lynn R. Goldin

  • A multi-stage genome-wide association study of bladder cancer identifies multiple susceptibility loci

    Nathaniel Rothman;Montserrat Garcia-Closas;Nilanjan Chatterjee;Nuria Malats

  • Rare variants of large effect in BRCA2 and CHEK2 affect risk of lung cancer

    Yufei Wang;James D McKay;Thorunn Rafnar;Zhaoming Wang

  • Multicenter Case-Control Study of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Lung Cancer in Europe

    Paolo Boffetta;Antonio Agudo;Wolfgang Ahrens;Ellen Benhamou

  • EGFR as a potential therapeutic target for a subset of muscle-invasive bladder cancers presenting a basal-like phenotype

    Sandra Rebouissou;Isabelle Bernard-Pierrot;Aurélien de Reyniès;May-Linda Lepage

  • Meta- and pooled analyses of the effects of glutathione S-transferase M1 polymorphisms and smoking on lung cancer risk

    Simone Benhamou;Won Jin Lee;Anna Karin Alexandrie;Paolo Boffetta

  • Association between manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) gene polymorphism and breast cancer risk

    Katja Mitrunen;Pia Sillanpää;Vesa Kataja;Matti Eskelinen

  • Cessation of alcohol drinking, tobacco smoking and the reversal of head and neck cancer risk

    Manuela Marron;Manuela Marron;Paolo Boffetta;Zuo Feng Zhang;David Zaridze

  • ERCC2/XPD gene polymorphisms and cancer risk.

    Simone Benhamou;Alain Sarasin

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study of Upper Aerodigestive Tract Cancers Conducted within the INHANCE Consortium

    James D. McKay;Therese Truong;Valerie Gaborieau;Amelie Chabrier

  • Lung cancer and cigarette smoking in Europe: An update of risk estimates and an assessment of inter‐country heterogeneity

    Lorenzo Simonato;Antonio Agudo;Wolfgang Ahrens;Ellen Benhamou

  • Genome-wide association study of renal cell carcinoma identifies two susceptibility loci on 2p21 and 11q13.3

    Mark P. Purdue;Mattias Johansson;Diana Zelenika;Jorge R. Toro

  • A New Genetic Defect in Human CYP2C19: Mutation of the Initiation Codon Is Responsible for Poor Metabolism of S-Mephenytoin

    R. J. Ferguson;S. M. F. De Morais;S. Benhamou;C. Bouchardy

  • ERCC2 /XPD Gene Polymorphisms and Lung Cancer: A HuGE Review

    Simone Benhamou;Alain Sarasin

  • Pooled analysis of alcohol dehydrogenase genotypes and head and neck cancer: A HuGE review

    Paul Brennan;Sarah Lewis;Mia Hashibe;Douglas A. Bell

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Boffetta
Paolo Boffetta Stony Brook Medicine
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Christine Bouchardy
Christine Bouchardy University of Geneva
Eleonora Fabianova
Eleonora Fabianova Regional Authority of Public Health
Peter Rudnai
Peter Rudnai National Institutes of Health
Antonio Agudo
Antonio Agudo University of Barcelona
Jolanta Lissowska
Jolanta Lissowska Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
Mia Hashibe
Mia Hashibe University of Utah
Lenka Foretova
Lenka Foretova Masaryk University
Franco Merletti
Franco Merletti University of Turin

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