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Terrence Forrester 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 Terrence Forrester sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 305 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Terrence Forrester 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 Terrence Forrester sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% 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

  • 2016 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences

Overview

Terrence Forrester is affiliated with the University of the West Indies in Jamaica. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions across subfields such as Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The research topics that Terrence Forrester has extensively covered include:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Birth, Development, and Health

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Forrester include:

  • Lara R. Dugas
  • Amy Luke
  • Estelle V. Lambert
  • Pascal Bovet
  • Kweku Bedu-Addo

Terrence Forrester has published multiple papers in various scientific venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Gut microbiota and fecal short chain fatty acids differ with adiposity and country of origin: the METS-microbiome study (2023), Nature Communications
  • Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure (2023), Nature Metabolism
  • Physical activity and fat-free mass during growth and in later life (2021), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Evolution of water conservation in humans (2021), Current Biology
  • Childhood severe acute malnutrition is associated with metabolic changes in adulthood (2020), JCI Insight

Regarding publication venues, Terrence Forrester has contributed frequently to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Food
  • PLoS ONE
  • Sleep Health

Terrence Forrester was awarded the title of Fellow by The World Academy of Sciences in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

    Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

  • Novel genetic associations for blood pressure identified via gene-alcohol interaction in up to 570K individuals across multiple ancestries

    Mary F. Feitosa;Aldi T. Kraja;Daniel I. Chasman;Yun J. Sung

  • Origins of lifetime health around the time of conception: causes and consequences.

    Tom P Fleming;Adam J Watkins;Miguel A Velazquez;John C Mathers

  • Estimating African American admixture proportions by use of population-specific alleles.

    Esteban J. Parra;Amy Marcini;Joshua Akey;Jeremy Martinson

  • The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin.

    R Cooper;C Rotimi;S Ataman;D McGee

  • Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

    Cristian Pattaro;Alexander Teumer;Mathias Gorski;Audrey Y. Chu

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

    Herman Pontzer;Yosuke Yamada;Hiroyuki Sagayama;Philip N. Ainslie

  • Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease

    Peter D. Gluckman;Mark A. Hanson;Patrick Bateson;Alan S. Beedle

  • The genetics of blood pressure regulation and its target organs from association studies in 342,415 individuals

    Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Teresa Ferreira;Daniel I. Chasman;Anne U. Jackson

  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Coronary Heart Disease and Its Risk Factors in 8,090 African Americans: The NHLBI CARe Project

    Guillaume Lettre;Cameron D. Palmer;Cameron D. Palmer;Taylor Young;Kenechi G. Ejebe

  • Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Adaptation to Physical Activity in Adult Humans

    Herman Pontzer;Ramon Durazo-Arvizu;Lara R. Dugas;Jacob Plange-Rhule

  • Metabolic acceleration and the evolution of human brain size and life history

    Herman Pontzer;Mary H. Brown;David A. Raichlen;Holly Dunsworth

  • New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk

    Yingchang Lu;Felix R Day;Stefan Gustafsson;Stefan Gustafsson;Martin L Buchkovich

  • An international comparative study of blood pressure in populations of European vs. African descent

    Richard S Cooper;Katharina Wolf-Maier;Amy Luke;Adebowale Adeyemo

  • Maternal nutritional status in pregnancy and blood pressure in childhood

    K. M. Godfrey;T. Forrester;D. J. P. Barker;A. A. Jackson

  • Fetal growth is directly related to maternal anthropometry and placental volume

    M Thame;C Osmond;F Bennett;R Wilks

  • Fetal growth and cardiovascular risk factors in Jamaican schoolchildren.

    Terrence E Forrester;Rainford J Wilks;Franklyn I Bennett;Donald Simeon

  • Prevalence of NIDDM Among Populations of the African Diaspora

    R S Cooper;C N Rotimi;J S Kaufman;E E Owoaje

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Cooper
Richard S. Cooper Loyola University Chicago
Pascal Bovet
Pascal Bovet University Center for General Medicine and Public Health (Unisanté)
Clive Osmond
Clive Osmond University of Southampton
John C. Chambers
John C. Chambers Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London
Joel N. Hirschhorn
Joel N. Hirschhorn Boston Children's Hospital
Weihua Zhang
Weihua Zhang Imperial College London
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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