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D-Index
115
Citations
103694
World Ranking
4421
National Ranking
436

Zhengming Chen 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 Zhengming Chen sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 775 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Zhengming Chen 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 Zhengming Chen sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 115 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Zhengming Chen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields within the biomedical sciences, primarily focusing on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Chen's research encompasses significant subfields including genetics, public health, environmental and occupational health, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, epidemiology, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed to several important topics in their work. These include genetic associations and epidemiology, nutritional studies and diet, liver disease diagnosis and treatment, cardiovascular health and risk factors, air quality and health impacts, obesity, physical activity, and diet, as well as diabetes, cardiovascular risks, and lipoproteins.

Chen's recent research output includes publications in notable journals, with selected papers listed below:

  • Multi-ancestry genetic study of type 2 diabetes highlights the power of diverse populations for discovery and translation, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Body-mass index and obesity in urban and rural China: findings from consecutive nationally representative surveys during 2004-18, 2021, The Lancet
  • Stroke genetics informs drug discovery and risk prediction across ancestries, 2022, Nature
  • Genetic diversity fuels gene discovery for tobacco and alcohol use, 2022, Nature
  • Identification of type 2 diabetes loci in 433,540 East Asian individuals, 2020, Nature

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, reflecting their diverse research interests and collaborative efforts:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 32 publications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal - 17 publications
  • International Journal of Epidemiology - 15 publications
  • The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific - 15 publications
  • Chinese Medical Journal - 10 publications

Collaborations are an important aspect of Chen's work, with particularly frequent co-authors including:

  • Canqing Yu, with 309 joint works
  • Liming Li, with 283 joint works
  • Jun Lv, with 275 joint works
  • Huaidong Du, with 215 joint works
  • Yiping Chen, with 211 joint works

Best Publications

  • Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

    Leandra Abarca-Gómez;Ziad A Abdeen;Zargar Abdul Hamid;Niveen M Abu-Rmeileh

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohammad H Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H Ross Anderson;Victoria F Bachman

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    Mohsen Naghavi;Haidong Wang;Rafael Lozano;Adrian Davis

  • Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: A pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19.2 million participants

    Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;James Bentham;Gretchen A Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

    Bin Zhou;Rodrigo M Carrillo-Larco;Goodarz Danaei;Leanne M Riley

  • The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with simvastatin plus ezetimibe in patients with chronic kidney disease (Study of Heart and Renal Protection): a randomised placebo-controlled trial

    Colin Baigent;Martin J Landray;Christina Reith;Jonathan Emberson

  • Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks in 188 countries, 1990-2013

    Mohammad H. Forouzanfar;Lily Alexander;H. Ross Anderson;Victoria F. Bachman

  • Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

    Emanuele Di Angelantonio;Shilpa N Bhupathiraju;David Wormser;Pei Gao;Pei Gao

  • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants

    Bin Zhou;James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Honor Bixby

  • Addition of clopidogrel to aspirin in 45 852 patients with acute myocardial infarction: randomised placebo-controlled trial

    Z M Chen;L X Jiang;Y P Chen;J X Xie

  • CAST: randomised placebo-controlled trial of early aspirin use in 20 000 patients with acute ischaemic stroke

    Zheng-Ming Chen

  • The International Stroke Trial (IST): A randomised trial of aspirin, subcutaneous heparin, both, or neither among 19 435 patients with acute ischaemic stroke

    P Sandercock;R Collins;C Counsell;B Farrell

  • A century of trends in adult human height

    James Bentham;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Mariachiara Di Cesare;Gretchen A. Stevens;Bin Zhou

  • Stroke in China: advances and challenges in epidemiology, prevention, and management

    S Wu;B Wu;M Liu;Z Chen

  • Early intravenous then oral metoprolol in 45 852 patients with acute myocardial infarction: randomised placebo- controlled trial

    Z M Chen;H C Pan;Y P Chen;R Peto

  • Respiratory risks from household air pollution in low and middle income countries

    Stephen B. Gordon;Nigel G. Bruce;Jonathan Grigg;Patricia L. Hibberd

  • China Kadoorie Biobank of 0.5 million people: survey methods, baseline characteristics and long-term follow-up

    Zhengming Chen;Junshi Chen;Rory Collins;Yu Guo

  • Emerging tobacco hazards in China: 1. Retrospective proportional mortality study of one million deaths.

    B Q Liu;R Peto;Z M Chen;J Boreham

  • Vitamin C selectively kills KRAS and BRAF mutant colorectal cancer cells by targeting GAPDH

    Jihye Yun;Edouard Mullarky;Edouard Mullarky;Changyuan Lu;Kaitlyn N. Bosch

  • HPS2-THRIVE randomized placebo-controlled trial in 25 673 high-risk patients of ER niacin/laropiprant: trial design, pre-specified muscle and liver outcomes, and reasons for stopping study treatment

    R. Haynes;L. Jiang;J. C. Hopewell;J Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Liming Li
Liming Li Peking University
Richard Peto
Richard Peto University of Oxford
Michael V. Holmes
Michael V. Holmes University of Oxford
Rory Collins
Rory Collins University of Oxford
Derrick A. Bennett
Derrick A. Bennett University of Oxford
Mark Woodward
Mark Woodward Imperial College London
Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Jost B. Jonas
Jost B. Jonas Heidelberg University
Andrew P. Morris
Andrew P. Morris University of Liverpool
Olli T. Raitakari
Olli T. Raitakari Turku University Hospital

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