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D-Index
97
Citations
53156
World Ranking
9089
National Ranking
101

Youfa Wang 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 Youfa Wang sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 483 publications — 55th percentile

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

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

Youfa Wang 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 Youfa Wang sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Youfa Wang is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong University in China and has a research focus primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly output spans several interconnected fields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, health, gender studies, and economics and econometrics. Wang's research agenda addresses a variety of social and health-related issues.

The scientist has contributed to topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Global health care issues
  • Demographic trends and gender preferences
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Obesity, physical activity, diet
  • Energy and environment impacts
  • Healthcare systems and reforms

Wang's publication record includes articles published in notable venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Applied Economics, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, BMC Geriatrics, and RePEc: Research Papers in Economics.

Recent papers authored by or involving Youfa Wang cover various aspects of economic well-being, health, and subjective well-being with a strong focus on China. Representative papers include:

  • Impact of Internet use on economic well-being of rural households: Evidence from China, 2020, Review of Development Economics
  • The relationship between smartphone use and subjective well-being in rural China, 2020, Electronic Commerce Research
  • Do Quarantine Experiences and Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Affect the Distribution of Mental Health in China? A Quantile Regression Analysis, 2020, Applied Research in Quality of Life
  • Energy poverty and subjective well-being in China: New evidence from the China Family Panel Studies, 2021, Energy Economics
  • The Relationship Between Happiness and Consumption Expenditure: Evidence from Rural China, 2020, Applied Research in Quality of Life

Collaborations are an integral part of Wang's work. Frequent co-authors include Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Lanlin Ding, Qiaoge Li, Haiyang Lu, and others, with multiple joint publications highlighting active collaborative networks.

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity

    Youfa Wang;Tim Lobstein

  • The Obesity Epidemic in the United States—Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/Ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis

    Youfa Wang;May A. Beydoun

  • Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States, Brazil, China, and Russia

    Youfa Wang;Carlos E.S. Monteiro;Barry M. Popkin

  • Will all Americans become overweight or obese? estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic.

    Youfa Wang;May A. Beydoun;Lan Liang;Benjamin Caballero

  • Tracking of Blood Pressure From Childhood to Adulthood A Systematic Review and Meta–Regression Analysis

    Xiaoli Chen;Youfa Wang

  • Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men

    Youfa Wang;Eric B Rimm;Meir J Stampfer;Walter C Willett

  • Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture

    Tim Lobstein;Rachel Jackson-Leach;Marjory L Moodie;Kevin D Hall

  • Is sleep duration associated with childhood obesity? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Xiaoli Chen;May A. Beydoun;Youfa Wang

  • Cross-national comparison of childhood obesity: the epidemic and the relationship between obesity and socioeconomic status

    Youfa Wang

  • Is China facing an obesity epidemic and the consequences? The trends in obesity and chronic disease in China.

    Wang Y;Mi J;Shan Xy;Wang Qj

  • Is Obesity Associated With Early Sexual Maturation? A Comparison of the Association in American Boys Versus Girls

    Youfa Wang

  • The global childhood obesity epidemic and the association between socio-economic status and childhood obesity

    Youfa Wang;Hyunjung Lim

  • The prevalence of prehypertension and hypertension among US adults according to the new joint national committee guidelines: new challenges of the old problem.

    Youfa Wang;Qiong Joanna Wang

  • Association between obesity and kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Y. Wang;X. Chen;Y. Song;B. Caballero

  • Epidemiologic studies of modifiable factors associated with cognition and dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis

    May A Beydoun;Hind A Beydoun;Alyssa A Gamaldo;Alison Teel

  • Energy balance and obesity: what are the main drivers?

    Isabelle Romieu;Laure Dossus;Simón Barquera;Hervé M. Blottière

  • Obesity and central obesity as risk factors for incident dementia and its subtypes: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

    May A. Beydoun;Hind Beydoun;Youfa Wang

  • Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity? Changes in the association between overweight and family income between 1971 and 2002

    Youfa Wang;Qi Zhang

  • What childhood obesity prevention programmes work? A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Y. Wang;L. Cai;L. Cai;Y. Wu;R. F. Wilson

  • Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S. adults: 1971 to 2000.

    Qi Zhang;Youfa Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jodi B. Segal
Jodi B. Segal Johns Hopkins University
Barry M. Popkin
Barry M. Popkin University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Neville Owen
Neville Owen Swinburne University of Technology
Lisa M. Powell
Lisa M. Powell University of Illinois at Chicago
Joseph Lau
Joseph Lau Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dongsong Zhang
Dongsong Zhang University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Alan B. Zonderman
Alan B. Zonderman National Institutes of Health
Ruopeng An
Ruopeng An Washington University in St. Louis
Joel Gittelsohn
Joel Gittelsohn Johns Hopkins University
Alfred Stein
Alfred Stein University of Twente

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