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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
122
Citations
95834
World Ranking
479
National Ranking
279

Medicine

D-Index
125
Citations
103704
World Ranking
3006
National Ranking
1663

Stephanie J. London 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 Stephanie J. London sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 524 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephanie J. London 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 Stephanie J. London sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Stephanie J. London is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Physiology.

The research topics covered by Stephanie J. London include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research

Recent publications featuring Stephanie J. London's contributions include:

  • "Association Between Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry and Clinical Outcomes in US Adults," 2021, published in JAMA
  • "Association of clonal hematopoiesis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," 2021, published in Blood
  • "Outdoor Air Pollution and New-Onset Airway Disease. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report," 2020, published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society
  • "Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age," 2020, published in Genome Medicine
  • "Identifying potential causal effects of age at menarche: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study," 2020, published in BMC Medicine

Stephanie J. London frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mi Kyeong Lee
  • Janine F. Felix
  • Christian M. Page
  • George O'Connor
  • Siri E. Håberg

Their publication history reveals frequent contributions to these venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Clinical Epigenetics
  • Environmental Health Perspectives

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

    Theo Vos;Amanuel Alemu Abajobir;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Cristiana Abbafati

  • A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    Stephen S. Lim;Theo Vos;Abraham D. Flaxman;Goodarz Danaei

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • The State of US Health, 1990-2010: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors

    Christopher J. L. Murray;Jerry Abraham;Mohammed K. Ali;Miriam Alvarado

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national levels and causes of maternal mortality during 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Nicholas J. Kassebaum;Amelia Bertozzi-Villa;Megan S. Coggeshall;Katya A. Shackelford

  • Metabolic gene polymorphism frequencies in control populations.

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

  • Asthma in exercising children exposed to ozone: a cohort study.

    Rob McConnell;Kiros Berhane;Frank Gilliland;Stephanie J London

  • Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children

    W. J. Gauderman;R. McConnell;F. Gilliland;S. London

  • Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Roby Joehanes;Allan C. Just;Riccardo E. Marioni;Luke C. Pilling

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • DNA Methylation in Newborns and Maternal Smoking in Pregnancy: Genome-wide Consortium Meta-analysis

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Janine F. Felix;Paul Yousefi;Kelly M. Bakulski

  • 450K epigenome-wide scan identifies differential DNA methylation in newborns related to maternal smoking during pregnancy

    Bonnie R. Joubert;Siri Eldevik Håberg;Roy Miodini Nilsen;Xuting Wang

  • Meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies identify multiple loci associated with pulmonary function

    Dana B. Hancock;Mark Eijgelsheim;Jemma B. Wilk;Sina A. Gharib

  • Exposure to Residential Electric and Magnetic Fields and Risk of Childhood Leukemia

    Stephanie J. London;Duncan C. Thomas;Joseph D. Bowman;Eugene Sobel

  • Season, Sex, Age, and Education as Modifiers of the Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution on Daily Mortality in Shanghai, China: The Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) Study

    Haidong Kan;Stephanie J. London;Guohai Chen;Yunhui Zhang

  • A prospective study of benign breast disease and the risk of breast cancer.

    Stephanie J. London;James L. Connolly;Stuart J. Schnitt;Graham A. Colditz

  • Isothiocyanates, glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 polymorphisms, and lung-cancer risk: a prospective study of men in Shanghai, China.

    Stephanie J London;Jian-Min Yuan;Fung-Lung Chung;Yu-Tang Gao

  • A study of twelve Southern California communities with differing levels and types of air pollution. I. Prevalence of respiratory morbidity.

    J M Peters;E Avol;E Avol;W Navidi;W Navidi;S J London;S J London

Frequent Co-Authors

George T. O'Connor
George T. O'Connor Boston University
Guy Brusselle
Guy Brusselle Ghent University Hospital
R. Graham Barr
R. Graham Barr Columbia University
Isabelle Romieu
Isabelle Romieu Emory University
Sina A. Gharib
Sina A. Gharib University of Washington
Martin D. Tobin
Martin D. Tobin University of Leicester
Josée Dupuis
Josée Dupuis McGill University
Ani Manichaikul
Ani Manichaikul University of Virginia
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington

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