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 Wilson M. Compton sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 302 publications — 17th percentile
17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Wilson M. Compton sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 93 D-Index — 47th percentile
47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.
Wilson M. Compton is affiliated with the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with extensive work in public health, environmental and occupational health, physiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, and clinical psychology. The scientist's main topics include smoking behavior and cessation, opioid use disorder treatment, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, obesity, physical activity, diet, cannabis and cannabinoid research, prenatal substance exposure effects, and behavioral health and interventions.
Compton's recent papers include the following:
Frequent coauthors include Heather L. Kimmel, Beth Han, Andrew Hyland, Christopher M. Jones, and Carlos Blanco.
The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:
Wilson M. Compton has also contributed to academic literature as shown by their book contributions. They have a publication with Cambridge University Press titled "The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions," published in 2020.
The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) across several years: 1936, 1963, and 1977.
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