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D-Index
128
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95445
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2642
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19

Tai Hing 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 Tai Hing Lam sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 2,054 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tai Hing 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 Tai Hing Lam sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 128 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tai Hing Lam is affiliated with the University of Hong Kong in China and has a research profile spanning medicine and psychology with a strong focus on public health issues.

The main fields of study for Tai Hing Lam are Medicine and Psychology, with subfields including Physiology, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Applied Psychology, and General Health Professions.

Their research engages with several topics, notably Smoking Behavior and Cessation, COVID-19 and Mental Health, Obesity, Physical Activity, and Diet, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, and various impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Among recent notable publications are:

  • Wearing face masks in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic: altruism and solidarity, 2020, The Lancet
  • Mass masking in the COVID-19 epidemic: people need guidance, 2020, The Lancet
  • Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on International University Students, Related Stressors, and Coping Strategies, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Identification of 38 novel loci for systemic lupus erythematosus and genetic heterogeneity between ancestral groups, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Social Distancing Compliance under COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health Impacts: A Population-Based Study, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Frequent publication venues for Tai Hing Lam include:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Tobacco Induced Diseases
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Scientific Reports

Tai Hing Lam has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including Man Ping Wang, Sai Yin Ho, Kar Keung Cheng, Lin Xu, and Ya Li Jin.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4.4 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Yuan Lu;Kaveh Hajifathalian;James Bentham

  • Validity of the international physical activity questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF): A systematic review

    Paul H. Lee;Duncan J. Macfarlane;TH H. Lam;Sunita M. Stewart;Sunita M. Stewart

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions.

    Steven Riley;Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Azra C. Ghani

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

    Christl A Donnelly;Azra C Ghani;Gabriel M Leung;Anthony J Hedley

  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

    Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

  • HPS2-THRIVE randomized placebo-controlled trial in 25 673 high-risk patients of ER niacin/laropiprant: trial design, pre-specified muscle and liver outcomes, and reasons for stopping study treatment

    R. Haynes;L. Jiang;J. C. Hopewell;J Li

  • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults

    Honor Bixby;James Bentham;Bin Zhou;Mariachiara Di Cesare

  • Cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes mortality burden of cardiometabolic risk factors from 1980 to 2010: a comparative risk assessment.

    Goodarz Danaei;Yuan Lu;Gitanjali M. Singh;Emily Carnahan

  • Blood pressure, cholesterol, and stroke in eastern Asia

    A Rodgers;S MacMahon;T Yee;T Clark

  • TGF-beta 1 and 25-hydroxycholesterol stimulate osteoblast-like vascular cells to calcify.

    K E Watson;K Boström;R Ravindranath;T Lam

  • Three versions of Perceived Stress Scale: validation in a sample of Chinese cardiac patients who smoke

    Doris Yp Leung;Tai-hing Lam;Sophia Sc Chan

  • Epidemiology, transmission dynamics and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic

    Roy M. Anderson;Christophe Fraser;Azra C. Ghani;Christl A. Donnelly

  • Wearing face masks in the community during the COVID-19 pandemic: altruism and solidarity.

    Kar Keung Cheng;Tai Hing Lam;Chi Chiu Leung

  • Serum triglycerides as a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases in the Asia-Pacific region.

    A. Patel;F. Barzi;K. Jamrozik;T. H. Lam

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriel M. Leung
Gabriel M. Leung University of Hong Kong
Chaoqiang Jiang
Chaoqiang Jiang City University of Hong Kong
Sunita M. Stewart
Sunita M. Stewart The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Jean Woo
Jean Woo Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rachel R. Huxley
Rachel R. Huxley Deakin University
Karen S.L. Lam
Karen S.L. Lam University of Hong Kong
Hirotsugu Ueshima
Hirotsugu Ueshima Shiga University of Medical Science
Hung-Fat Tse
Hung-Fat Tse University of Hong Kong
Pak C. Sham
Pak C. Sham University of Hong Kong

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