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Thomas Lumley 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 Thomas Lumley sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 340 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Lumley 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 Thomas Lumley sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 108 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% 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

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Thomas Lumley is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research bridges mathematics and medicine, with a strong focus on statistical methods and their applications in health-related fields.

The main fields of study for Lumley include:

  • Mathematics
  • Medicine

Their work further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Genetics
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Epidemiology

The primary topics covered in Lumley's research reflect a focus on advanced statistical and causal inference techniques, among others:

  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

Lumley has published extensively in key venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Statistics in Medicine
  • BMJ Open
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Several recent publications illustrate Lumley's engagement with statistical and clinical research challenges. Examples include:

  • "Blinding and expectancy confounds in psychedelic randomized controlled trials" (2021) in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
  • "The Staphylococcus aureus Network Adaptive Platform Trial Protocol: New Tools for an Old Foe" (2022) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Multiple Imputation Through XGBoost" (2023) in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
  • "A Bayesian analysis of mortality outcomes in multicentre clinical trials in critical care" (2021) in British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • "Two-Phase Sampling Designs for Data Validation in Settings with Covariate Measurement Error and Continuous Outcome" (2021) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)

Lumley's frequent collaborators include:

  • Pamela A. Shaw
  • Bryan E. Shepherd
  • Anna Rolleston
  • Kyunghee Han
  • Nikki Earle

Their professional recognitions include being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015 and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Time-Dependent ROC Curves for Censored Survival Data and a Diagnostic Marker

    Patrick J. Heagerty;Thomas Lumley;Margaret S. Pepe

  • The importance of the normality assumption in large public health data sets.

    Thomas Lumley;Paula Diehr;Scott Emerson;Lu Chen

  • Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

    Harm-Jan Westra;Marjolein J Peters;Tõnu Esko;Hanieh Yaghootkar

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

    Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

  • Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

    Sudha Seshadri;Annette L. Fitzpatrick;M Arfan Ikram;Anita L. DeStefano

  • Health outcomes associated with various antihypertensive therapies used as first-line agents: a network meta-analysis

    Bruce M. Psaty;Thomas Lumley;Curt D. Furberg;Gina Schellenbaum

  • Network meta-analysis for indirect treatment comparisons

    Thomas Lumley

  • New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Anna Köttgen;Cristian Pattaro;Carsten A. Böger;Christian Fuchsberger

  • Efficacy of Antiseptic-Impregnated Central Venous Catheters in Preventing Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection: A Meta-analysis

    David L. Veenstra;Sanjay Saint;Somnath Saha;Thomas Lumley

  • Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals Without Diabetes

    Richard A. Jensen;Xueling Sim;Xiaohui Li;Mary Frances Cotch

  • 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

  • Multiple loci associated with indices of renal function and chronic kidney disease

    Anna Köttgen;Nicole L. Glazer;Abbas Dehghan;Shih Jen Hwang

  • Association between blood pressure level and the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, and total mortality: the cardiovascular health study.

    Bruce M. Psaty;Curt D. Furberg;Lewis H. Kuller;Mary Cushman

  • Genomewide Association Studies of Stroke

    M. Arfan Ikram;Sudha Seshadri;Joshua C. Bis;Myriam Fornage

  • Referent selection in case-crossover analyses of acute health effects of air pollution.

    Drew Levy;Thomas Lumley;Lianne Sheppard;Joel Kaufman

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

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

  • Quality control and quality assurance in genotypic data for genome-wide association studies.

    Cathy C. Laurie;Kimberly F. Doheny;Daniel B. Mirel;Elizabeth W. Pugh

  • Common variants at ten loci influence QT interval duration in the QTGEN Study.

    Christopher Newton-Cheh;Christopher Newton-Cheh;Mark Eijgelsheim;Kenneth M Rice;Paul I W de Bakker;Paul I W de Bakker

  • Genome-wide association and large-scale follow up identifies 16 new loci influencing lung function

    María Soler Artigas;Daan W. Loth;Louise V. Wain;Sina A. Gharib

  • An Introduction to Survival Analysis using Stata

    Thomas Lumley

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Susan R. Heckbert
Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington
Nicholas L. Smith
Nicholas L. Smith University of Washington
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Albert Hofman
Albert Hofman Harvard University
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Joshua C. Bis
Joshua C. Bis University of Washington
Albert V. Smith
Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Fernando Rivadeneira
Fernando Rivadeneira Erasmus University Rotterdam

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