2026 Thomas Lumley: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	108	5970	5611	14	12	340	46360

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

2936
Citations
The importance of the normality assumption in large public health data sets.

Thomas Lumley;Paula Diehr;Scott Emerson;Lu Chen

1969
Citations
Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

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

1949
Citations
Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

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

1585
Citations
Genome-wide analysis of genetic loci associated with Alzheimer disease.

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

1483
Citations
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

1452
Citations
Network meta-analysis for indirect treatment comparisons

Thomas Lumley

1264
Citations
New loci associated with kidney function and chronic kidney disease

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

915
Citations
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

796
Citations
Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals Without Diabetes

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

763
Citations
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

746
Citations
Multiple loci associated with indices of renal function and chronic kidney disease

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

736
Citations
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

589
Citations
Genomewide Association Studies of Stroke

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

576
Citations
Referent selection in case-crossover analyses of acute health effects of air pollution.

Drew Levy;Thomas Lumley;Lianne Sheppard;Joel Kaufman

567
Citations
Genetic associations at 53 loci highlight cell types and biological pathways relevant for kidney function

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

555
Citations
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

542
Citations
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

498
Citations
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

494
Citations
An Introduction to Survival Analysis using Stata

Thomas Lumley

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington

Susan R. Heckbert University of Washington

Nicholas L. Smith University of Washington

André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

Albert Hofman Harvard University

Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Joshua C. Bis University of Washington

Albert V. Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Fernando Rivadeneira Erasmus University Rotterdam

External Links

Personal website of Thomas Lumley Google Scholar page

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