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Thomas N. Robinson

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Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
42318
World Ranking
9149
National Ranking
4720

Thomas N. Robinson 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 N. Robinson sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 331 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas N. Robinson 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 N. Robinson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Thomas N. Robinson is affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Medicine, with significant contributions across several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Sociology and Political Science, and General Health Professions.

The topics central to Robinson's work encompass:

  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Social Media and Politics

Robinson has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Edward L. Jones
  • Nilàm Ram
  • Byron Reeves
  • Teresa S. Jones
  • Krzysztof J. Wikiel

Their publication record includes papers in notable venues such as Surgical Endoscopy, Childhood Obesity, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, UNC Libraries, and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The number of publications in these venues points to a broad engagement with interdisciplinary topics within medicine and health sciences.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Robinson include:

  • "Improving perioperative brain health: an expert consensus review of key actions for the perioperative care team" (2021), British Journal of Anaesthesia
  • "Time for the Human Screenome Project" (2020), Nature
  • "Digital Trace Data Collection for Social Media Effects Research: APIs, Data Donation, and (Screen) Tracking" (2023), Communication Methods and Measures
  • "Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations" (2021), Appetite
  • "Developing a Scalable Dynamic Norm Menu-Based Intervention to Reduce Meat Consumption" (2020), Sustainability

Robinson has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Vernon Press eBooks: The Gendered Self: LGBTQ+ Narratives in Global Media, Volume I, expected in 2025 in PDF e-book format.

Best Publications

  • Reducing Children's Television Viewing to Prevent Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Thomas N. Robinson

  • Overweight in Children and Adolescents Pathophysiology, Consequences, Prevention, and Treatment

    Stephen R. Daniels;Donna K. Arnett;Robert H. Eckel;Samuel S. Gidding

  • Cardiovascular Health in Childhood A Statement for Health Professionals From the Committee on Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young (AHOY) of the Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, American Heart Association

    Christine L. Williams;Laura L. Hayman;Stephen R. Daniels;Thomas N. Robinson

  • Promoting Physical Activity in Children and Youth A Leadership Role for Schools: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism (Physical Activity Committee) in Collaboration With the Councils on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young and Cardiovascular Nursing

    Russell R. Pate;Michael G. Davis;Thomas N. Robinson;Elaine J. Stone

  • The 30-second effect: an experiment revealing the impact of television commercials on food preferences of preschoolers.

    Dina L.G Borzekowski;Thomas N Robinson

  • USE OF THE BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) AS A MEASURE OF OVERWEIGHT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

    W H Dietz;T N Robinson

  • Pursuit of thinness and onset of eating disorder symptoms in a community sample of adolescent girls: A three‐year prospective analysis

    Joel D. Killen;C. Barr Taylor;Chris Hayward;Darrell M. Wilson

  • Overweight Children and Adolescents

    William H. Dietz;Thomas N. Robinson

  • Television viewing and childhood obesity.

    Thomas N. Robinson

  • Postoperative delirium in the elderly: risk factors and outcomes.

    Thomas N. Robinson;Christopher D. Raeburn;Zung V. Tran;Erik M. Angles

  • A Randomized Trial of the Effects of Reducing Television Viewing and Computer Use on Body Mass Index in Young Children

    Leonard H. Epstein;James N. Roemmich;Jodie L. Robinson;Rocco A. Paluch

  • Are Overweight Children Unhappy?: Body Mass Index, Depressive Symptoms, and Overweight Concerns in Elementary School Children

    Sarah J. Erickson;Thomas N. Robinson;K. Farish Haydel;Joel D. Killen

  • Effects of fast food branding on young children's taste preferences

    Thomas N. Robinson;Dina L. G. Borzekowski;Donna M. Matheson;Helena C. Kraemer

  • Redefining geriatric preoperative assessment using frailty, disability and co-morbidity.

    Thomas N. Robinson;Ben Eiseman;Jeffrey I. Wallace;Skotti D. Church

  • Screen Media Exposure and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.

    Thomas N. Robinson;Thomas N. Robinson;Jorge A. Banda;Lauren Hale;Amy Shirong Lu

  • Does Television Viewing Increase Obesity and Reduce Physical Activity? Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Analyses Among Adolescent Girls

    Thomas N. Robinson;LD Hammer;JD Killen;HC Kraemer

  • Simple frailty score predicts postoperative complications across surgical specialties.

    Thomas N. Robinson;Daniel S. Wu;Lauren Pointer;Christina L. Dunn

  • The center for epidemiologic studies depression scale: a review with a theoretical and empirical examination of item content and factor structure.

    R. Nicholas Carleton;Michel A. Thibodeau;Michelle J. N. Teale;Patrick G. Welch

  • Children’s food consumption during television viewing

    Donna M Matheson;Joel D Killen;Yun Wang;Ann Varady

  • American Geriatrics Society abstracted clinical practice guideline for postoperative delirium in older adults

    Mary Samuel;Sharon K. Inouye;Tom Robinson;Caroline Blaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel D. Killen
Joel D. Killen Stanford University
Darrell M. Wilson
Darrell M. Wilson Stanford University
Clifford Y. Ko
Clifford Y. Ko University of California, Los Angeles
Helena C. Kraemer
Helena C. Kraemer Stanford University
Sharon K. Inouye
Sharon K. Inouye Harvard Medical School
Marc Moss
Marc Moss University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Chris Hayward
Chris Hayward Stanford University
Daniel B. Jones
Daniel B. Jones Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Nilam Ram
Nilam Ram Stanford University
Byron Reeves
Byron Reeves Stanford University

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