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D-Index
75
Citations
18602
World Ranking
556
National Ranking
262

William R. Leonard publications per year

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1952 2025

396 publications in total across all disciplines

William R. Leonard publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where William R. Leonard sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 355 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

William R. Leonard D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where William R. Leonard sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

William R. Leonard is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with specific contributions to subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology, General Health Professions, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Leonard's scholarly work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Their recent papers reflect engagement with energy expenditure, metabolism, and environmental factors influencing human health. These include:

  • "Daily energy expenditure through the human life course," 2021, Science
  • "A standard calculation methodology for human doubly labeled water studies," 2021, Cell Reports Medicine
  • "Energy compensation and adiposity in humans," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors," 2022, Science
  • "Total daily energy expenditure has declined over the past three decades due to declining basal expenditure, not reduced activity expenditure," 2023, Nature Metabolism

Leonard publishes frequently in venues such as the American Journal of Human Biology, American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Science, Nature Food, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Peter T. Katzmarzyk
  • John R. Speakman
  • Herman Pontzer
  • Yosuke Yamada
  • Hiroyuki Sagayama

Best Publications

  • Three limitations of the body mass index

    Stanley M Garn;William R Leonard;Victor M Hawthorne

  • Metabolic costs and evolutionary implications of human brain development

    Christopher W. Kuzawa;Harry T. Chugani;Lawrence I. Grossman;Leonard Lipovich

  • Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

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

  • Climatic influences on human body size and proportions: Ecological adaptations and secular trends

    Peter T. Katzmarzyk;William R. Leonard

  • Evolutionary perspectives on human nutrition: The influence of brain and body size on diet and metabolism.

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Comparative primate energetics and hominid evolution

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • THE EFFECT OF MARKET ECONOMIES ON THE WELL-BEING OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND ON THEIR USE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES

    Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-García;Elizabeth Byron;William R. Leonard

  • Metabolic correlates of hominid brain evolution.

    William R Leonard;Marcia L Robertson;J.Josh Snodgrass;Christopher W Kuzawa

  • Demographic and Psychosocial Factors Associated With Psychological Distress and Resilience Among Transgender Individuals.

    Emily Bariola;Anthony Lyons;William Leonard;Marian Pitts

  • CULTURAL, PRACTICAL, AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF WILD PLANTS: A QUANTITATIVE STUDY IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON

    Victoria Reyes-García;Tomás Huanca;Vincent Vadez;William Leonard

  • Nutritional requirements and human evolution: A bioenergetics model

    William R. Leonard;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Effects of Brain Evolution on Human Nutrition and Metabolism

    William R. Leonard;J. Josh Snodgrass;Marcia L. Robertson

  • Correlates of delay-discount rates: Evidence from Tsimane' Amerindians of the Bolivian rain forest

    Kris N Kirby;Ricardo Godoy;Victoria Reyes-Garcı́a;Elizabeth Byron

  • The Central Siberian Origin for Native American Y Chromosomes

    Fabrício R. Santos;Fabrício R. Santos;Arpita Pandya;Chris Tyler-Smith;Sérgio D.J. Pena

  • 15O PET Measurement of Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption in Cold-Activated Human Brown Fat

    Otto Muzik;Thomas J. Mangner;William R. Leonard;Ajay Kumar

  • Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills: an empirical analysis from an Amerindian society☆

    Victoria Reyes-García;Victoria Reyes-García;James Broesch;Laura Calvet-Mir;Nuria Fuentes-Peláez

  • Climatic influences on basal metabolic rates among circumpolar populations.

    William R. Leonard;Mark V. Sorensen;Victoria A. Galloway;Gary J. Spencer

  • An ecomorphological model of the initial hominid dispersal from Africa

    S. C. Antón;W. R. Leonard;M. L. Robertson

  • Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon

    Thomas McDade;V. Reyes-García;V. Reyes-García;P. Blackinton;S. Tanner

  • Private Lives 2 : The second national survey of the health and wellbeing of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) Australians.

    William. Leonard;Marian. Pitts;Anne Mitchell;Anthony. Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

Victoria Reyes-García
Victoria Reyes-García Autonomous University of Barcelona
Ricardo Godoy
Ricardo Godoy Brandeis University
Tomás Huanca
Tomás Huanca Brandeis University
Vincent Vadez
Vincent Vadez Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Michael H. Crawford
Michael H. Crawford University of California, San Francisco
David Wilkie
David Wilkie Wildlife Conservation Society
Jayne Lucke
Jayne Lucke La Trobe University
Peter T. Katzmarzyk
Peter T. Katzmarzyk Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Anthony Lyons
Anthony Lyons La Trobe University
Daniel Eisenberg
Daniel Eisenberg University of California, Los Angeles

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