2026 Stephen Lam: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	100	8264	7771	316	301	623	37246

Stephen Lam 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 Stephen Lam sits on this spectrum.

101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 623 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stephen Lam 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 Stephen Lam sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stephen Lam is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, with a focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine among other subfields.

The primary areas of study for Stephen Lam include:

Medicine
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within subfields, their work covers:

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Molecular Biology
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Oncology
Biomedical Engineering

Stephen Lam's main research topics involve:

Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
RNA modifications and cancer
Global Cancer Incidence and Screening

Their publication record includes articles in several prominent scientific journals, highlighting the focus on lung cancer, screening, and related conditions. Frequent publication venues are:

Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Lung Cancer
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Journal of Breath Research
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Stephen Lam has published several recent papers, including:

The effect of smoking on chronic inflammation, immune function and blood cell composition (2020, Scientific Reports)
Causal relationships between body mass index, smoking and lung cancer: Univariable and multivariable Mendelian randomization (2020, International Journal of Cancer)
Air Pollution and Lung Cancer: A Review by International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Early Detection and Screening Committee (2023, Journal of Thoracic Oncology)
Screening for Lung Cancer in Individuals Who Never Smoked: An International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Early Detection and Screening Committee Report (2021, Journal of Thoracic Oncology)
Towards large-scale case-finding: training and validation of residual networks for detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease using low-dose CT (2020, The Lancet Digital Health)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen Lam include:

John K. Field
Geoffrey Liu
Rayjean J. Hung
Martin C. Tammemägi
Christopher I. Amos

Best Publications

Side Population in Human Lung Cancer Cell Lines and Tumors Is Enriched with Stem-like Cancer Cells

Maria M. Ho;Alvin V. Ng;Stephen Lam;Jaclyn Y. Hung

1342
Citations
Probability of Cancer in Pulmonary Nodules Detected on First Screening CT

Annette McWilliams;Martin C. Tammemagi;John R. Mayo;Heidi Roberts

1309
Citations
Small-Airway Obstruction and Emphysema in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

John E. McDonough;Ren Yuan;Masaru Suzuki;Nazgol Seyednejad

1235
Citations
Knockout Rats via Embryo Microinjection of Zinc-Finger Nucleases

Aron M. Geurts;Gregory J. Cost;Yevgeniy Freyvert;Bryan Zeitler

1199
Citations
Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy for optical diagnosis of lung cancer

Zhiwei Huang;Annette McWilliams;Harvey Lui;David I. McLean

964
Citations
K13-propeller mutations confer artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum clinical isolates

Judith Straimer;Nina F. Gnädig;Benoit Witkowski;Chanaki Amaratunga

836
Citations
Localization of Bronchial Intraepithelial Neoplastic Lesions by Fluorescence Bronchoscopy

Stephen Lam;Timothy Kennedy;Michael Unger;York E. Miller

775
Citations
Molecular Damage in the Bronchial Epithelium of Current and Former Smokers

Ignacio I. Wistuba;Stephen Lam;Carmen Behrens;Arvind K. Virmani

723
Citations
High Resolution Chromosome 3p Allelotyping of Human Lung Cancer and Preneoplastic/Preinvasive Bronchial Epithelium Reveals Multiple, Discontinuous Sites of 3p Allele Loss and Three Regions of Frequent Breakpoints

Ignacio I. Wistuba;Carmen Behrens;Arvind K. Virmani;Gina Mele

590
Citations
Autofluorescence of normal and malignant bronchial tissue.

Jaclyn Hung;Stephen Lam;Jean C. Leriche;Branko Palcic

581
Citations
Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia: An Important Target for Accelerated New Agent Development: Recommendations of the American Association for Cancer Research Task Force on the Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia

Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy;Gary J. Kelloff;Gary B. Gordon;Andrew J. Dannenberg

531
Citations
Detection of dysplasia and carcinoma in situ with a lung imaging fluorescence endoscope device

Stephen Lam;Calum MacAulay;Jaclyn Hung;Jean LeRiche

519
Citations
Genome-scale analysis of DNA methylation in lung adenocarcinoma and integration with mRNA expression

Suhaida A. Selamat;Brian S. Chung;Luc Girard;Wei Zhang

496
Citations
Bronchial Thermoplasty for Asthma

Gerard Cox;John D. Miller;Annette McWilliams;J. Mark FitzGerald

468
Citations
Human Cancer Long Non-Coding RNA Transcriptomes

Ewan A. Gibb;Ewan A. Gibb;Emily A. Vucic;Emily A. Vucic;Katey S. S. Enfield;Katey S. S. Enfield;Greg L. Stewart;Greg L. Stewart

456
Citations
Clinical features and natural history of occupational asthma due to western red cedar (Thuja plicata)

Moira Chan-Yeung;Stephen Lam;Sandra Koener

419
Citations
Genetic alterations defining NSCLC subtypes and their therapeutic implications.

Larissa A. Pikor;Varune R. Ramnarine;Stephen Lam;Wan L. Lam

367
Citations
Release of leukotrienes in patients with bronchial asthma.

Stephen Lam;Henry Chan;Jean C. LeRiche;Moira Chan-Yeung

352
Citations
Detection and Localization of Early Lung Cancer by Imaging Techniques

Stephen Lam;Calum MacAulay;Branko Palcic

336
Citations
Progress in chemoprevention drug development: the promise of molecular biomarkers for prevention of intraepithelial neoplasia and cancer--a plan to move forward.

Gary J. Kelloff;Scott M. Lippman;Andrew J. Dannenberg;Caroline C. Sigman

311
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wan L. Lam BC Cancer Research Centre

Adi F. Gazdar The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Ming-Sound Tsao Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Stig E. Bojesen University of Copenhagen

Geoffrey Liu Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Rayjean J. Hung Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Harvey O. Coxson University of British Columbia

Christopher I. Amos Baylor College of Medicine

David C. Christiani Harvard University

John K. Field University of Liverpool

External Links

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