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Thomas Ashby Wills

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Psychology

D-Index
85
Citations
54306
World Ranking
1158
National Ranking
715

Thomas Ashby Wills publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Ashby Wills sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 706+

This scientist: 170 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 706 publications or more.

Thomas Ashby Wills D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Ashby Wills sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas Ashby Wills is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States and primarily engages in research within the field of medicine. Their work covers various subfields including physiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and emergency medical services.

The research focus of Thomas A. Wills prominently features topics related to smoking behavior and cessation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, obesity, physical activity, and diet. Additional areas include air quality and health impacts, pediatric health and respiratory diseases, asthma and respiratory diseases, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Wills include Kelvin Choi, Ian Pagano, Pallav Pokhrel, Joseph Keawe'aimoku Kaholokula, and Samir Soneji.

Thomas Ashby Wills has contributed research articles to a number of journals, with multiple publications appearing in Nicotine & Tobacco Research, as well as individual works in European Respiratory Journal, Journal of Adolescent Health, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, and Tobacco Control.

Notable recent papers authored by Wills include:

  • E-cigarette use and respiratory disorders: an integrative review of converging evidence from epidemiological and laboratory studies (2020, European Respiratory Journal)
  • E-Cigarette Use Associated With Asthma Independent of Cigarette Smoking and Marijuana in a 2017 National Sample of Adolescents (2020, Journal of Adolescent Health)
  • Concurrent Use of E-cigarettes, Combustible Cigarettes, and Marijuana (2021, PEDIATRICS)

Best Publications

  • Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis.

    Sheldon Cohen;Thomas Ashby Wills

  • Downward Comparison Principles in Social Psychology

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  • Association Between Initial Use of e-Cigarettes and Subsequent Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Samir Soneji;Samir Soneji;Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis;Thomas A. Wills;Adam M. Leventhal

  • Measuring perceived and received social support.

    Thomas A. Wills;Ori Shinar

  • Perceived Discrimination and Substance Use in African American Parents and Their Children: A Panel Study.

    Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Michael J. Cleveland;Thomas A. Wills

  • Novelty seeking, risk taking, and related constructs as predictors of adolescent substance use: an application of Cloninger's theory.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Donato Vaccaro;Grace McNamara

  • Stress and coping in early adolescence: relationships to substance use in urban school samples.

    Thomas A. Wills

  • How are social support effects mediated? A test with parental support and adolescent substance use.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Sean D. Cleary

  • The role of life events, family support, and competence in adolescent substance use: A test of vulnerability and protective factors

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Donato Vaccaro;Grace McNamara

  • Buffering effect of religiosity for adolescent substance use.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Alison M. Yaeger;James M. Sandy

  • Risk Factors for Exclusive E-Cigarette Use and Dual E-Cigarette Use and Tobacco Use in Adolescents

    Thomas A. Wills;Rebecca Knight;Rebecca J. Williams;Ian Pagano

  • Social Networks and Social Support

    Thomas A. Wills;Michael G. Ainette

  • The Strong African American families program: Translating research into prevention programming

    Gene H. Brody;Velma McBride Murry;Meg Gerrard;Frederick X. Gibbons

  • A behavioral analysis of the determinants of marital satisfaction.

    Thomas A. Wills;Robert L. Weiss;Gerald R. Patterson

  • Behavioral and emotional self-control: Relations to substance use in samples of middle and high school students.

    Thomas A. Wills;Carmella Walker;Don Mendoza;Michael G. Ainette

  • The difficult doctor-patient relationship: Somatization, personality and psychopathology

    Steven R. Hahn;Kenneth S. Thompson;Thomas A. Wills;Virginia Stern

  • Coping dimensions, life stress, and adolescent substance use: a latent growth analysis.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;James M. Sandy;Alison M. Yaeger;Sean D. Cleary

  • Escalated substance use: a longitudinal grouping analysis from early to middle adolescence.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Grace McNamara;Donato Vaccaro;A. Elizabeth Hirky

  • Longitudinal study of e-cigarette use and onset of cigarette smoking among high school students in Hawaii

    Thomas A Wills;Rebecca Knight;James D Sargent;Frederick X Gibbons

  • Temperament and novelty seeking in adolescent substance use: Convergence of dimensions of temperament with constructs from Cloninger's theory.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Michael Windle;Sean D. Cleary

  • Family communication and religiosity related to substance use and sexual behavior in early adolescence: a test for pathways through self-control and prototype perceptions.

    Thomas Ashby Wills;Frederick X. Gibbons;Meg Gerrard;Velma McBride Murry

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederick X. Gibbons
Frederick X. Gibbons University of Connecticut
Meg Gerrard
Meg Gerrard University of Connecticut
Gene H. Brody
Gene H. Brody University of Georgia
Velma McBride Murry
Velma McBride Murry Vanderbilt University
Mike Stoolmiller
Mike Stoolmiller University of Oregon
Jeffrey S. Simons
Jeffrey S. Simons University of South Dakota
Steve Sussman
Steve Sussman University of Southern California
Richard Spoth
Richard Spoth Iowa State University
Sheldon Cohen
Sheldon Cohen Carnegie Mellon University
Chih-Ping Chou
Chih-Ping Chou University of Southern California

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