Duncan C. Thomas

24.0k citations

232 papers · 14.1k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 56

Impact in

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis top 0.05%
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
Speech and Hearing top 0.05%
- Noise Effects and Management

Papers in

Statistics and Probability 32
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 47
- Air Quality and Health Impacts 39
- Climate Change and Health Impacts 18

Co-authors: W. James Gauderman John Peters Kiros Berhane Rob McConnell Edward L. Avol Frank D. Gilliland Fred Lurmann Hita Vora
Journals: Genetic Epidemiology (28 papers)American Journal of Epidemiology (15 papers)Environmental Health Perspectives (14 papers)The American Journal of Human Genetics (8 papers)Biometrics (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Denmark

In The Last Decade

Duncan C. Thomas

228 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study 2007 · 568 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 The Lancet
2004 New England Journal of Medicine
2000 Environmental Health Perspectives

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Duncan C. Thomas, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	The UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill (2023/4): framing strategies used by tobacco and nicotine industry actors faced with an endgame policy (a generational sales ban of tobacco products) and nicotine product restrictions Tobacco Control ·Britta Matthes, Vassil N. Zlatarski, Rosemary Hiscock, Elise Lauren Ryan, 美智恵中村, W.M.D.L. Wijethunge, Duncan C. Thomas, Anna Gilmore	2025	0
2	Only shine the light where and when it is needed – the impact of light pollution Future Healthcare Journal ·Duncan C. Thomas, P Beauchard, John C. Barentine	2025	0
3	Ambient air pollution and COVID-19 incidence during four 2020–2021 case surges Environmental Research ·Margo A. Sidell, Zhanghua Chen, Brian Z. Huang, Ting Chow, Sandrah P. Eckel, Mayra P. Martinez, Frederick Lurmann, Duncan C. Thomas, Frank D. Gilliland, Anny H. Xiang	2022	27
4	Ambient Air Pollutant Exposures and COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in a Cohort of Patients with COVID-19 in Southern California American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Zhanghua Chen, Margo A. Sidell, Brian Z. Huang, Ting Chow, Sandrah P. Eckel, Mayra P. Martinez, 弘樹近藤, Fred Lurmann, Duncan C. Thomas, Frank D. Gilliland, Anny H. Xiang	2022	36
5	Bayesian parameter estimation for automatic annotation of gene functions using observational data and phylogenetic trees PLoS Computational Biology ·Monsalve Chavez, Duncan C. Thomas, John L. Morrison, Huaiyu Mi, Paul D. Thomas, Paul Marjoram	2021	1
6	Incorporating prior knowledge into regularized regression Bioinformatics ·И. Б. Мурашова, Duncan C. Thomas, Juan Pablo Lewinger	2020	17
7	Reproductive Status at First Diagnosis Influences Risk of Radiation-Induced Second Primary Contralateral Breast Cancer in the WECARE Study International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ·Jennifer D. Brooks, John D. Boice, Marilyn Stovall, Anne S. Reiner, Leslie Bernstein, Esther M. John, Charles F. Lynch, Lene Mellemkjær, Julia A. Knight, Duncan C. Thomas, Robert W. Haile, Susan A. Smith, Marinela Capanu, Jonine L. Bernstein, Roy E. Shore	2012	18
8	Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology Duncan C. Thomas	2009	46
9	Multistage sampling for latent variable models Lifetime Data Analysis ·Duncan C. Thomas	2007	10
10	Traffic, Susceptibility, and Childhood Asthma Environmental Health Perspectives ·Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Ling Yao, Michael Jerrett, Fred Lurmann, Frank D. Gilliland, Nino Künzli, Jim Gauderman, Ed Avol, Duncan C. Thomas, John M. Peters	2006	496
11	Haplotype Sharing Analysis Using Mantel Statistics Human Heredity ·Lars Beckmann, Duncan C. Thomas, Christine Fischer, Jenny Chang‐Claude	2005	40
12	Prospective Study of Air Pollution and Bronchitic Symptoms in Children with Asthma American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·Rob McConnell, Kiros Berhane, Frank D. Gilliland, 陈官煊, Duncan C. Thomas, Fred Lurmann, Edward L. Avol, W. James Gauderman, John M. Peters	2003	161
13	Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children: Results from a Second Cohort American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·W. James Gauderman, Del Miembro, Hita Vora, Edward L. Avol, Daniel O. Stram, Rob McConnell, Duncan C. Thomas, Fred Lurmann, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Kiros Berhane, John Peters	2002	298
14	Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·W. James Gauderman, Rob McConnell, Frank D. Gilliland, Stephanie J. London, Duncan C. Thomas, Edward L. Avol, Hita Vora, Kiros Berhane, Edward B. Rappaport, Ayala Mann, Helene G. Margolis, Yi Zhang	2000	353
15	Bias and Efficiency in Family-Based Gene-Characterization Studies: Conditional, Prospective, Retrospective, and Joint Likelihoods The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Peter Kraft, Duncan C. Thomas	2000	84
16	Statistical methods for epidemiologic studies of the health effects of air pollution. PubMed ·William Navidi, Duncan C. Thomas, Bryan Langholz, Daniel O. Stram	1999	26
17	A Study of Twelve Southern California Communities with Differing Levels and Types of Air Pollution: II. Effects on Pulmonary Function American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·John Peters, Edward L. Avol, W. James Gauderman, William S. Linn, William Navidi, Stephanie J. London, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Hita Vora, Henry Gong, Duncan C. Thomas	1999	388
18	A Study of Twelve Southern California Communities with Differing Levels and Types of Air Pollution: I. Prevalence of Respiratory Morbidity American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine ·John Peters, Edward L. Avol, William Navidi, Stephanie J. London, W. James Gauderman, Ayala Mann, William S. Linn, Helene G. Margolis, Edward B. Rappaport, Henry Gong, Duncan C. Thomas	1999	303
19	Effect of pronuclear dna microinjection on the development of porcine ova in utero Theriogenology ·Michael J. Martin, D. S. Blau, Harold A. T. Mills, Duncan C. Thomas, B. M. Freeman, James J. Keirns, Siddhant Vyavahare	1996	9
20	Barriers to screening for cancer of the cervix Preventive Medicine ·Ruth Peters, Moraye B. Bear, Duncan C. Thomas	1989	70

About Duncan C. Thomas

Duncan C. Thomas is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Genetics, Speech and Hearing and Biophysics, having authored 232 papers that have together received 14.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (64 papers), Air Quality and Health Impacts (39 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (27 papers), BRCA gene mutations in cancer (23 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (23 papers), Noise Effects and Management (22 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (19 papers) and Climate Change and Health Impacts (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (5.8k citations), Speech and Hearing (1.9k citations), Statistics and Probability (1.3k citations), Genetics (3.2k citations) and Environmental Engineering (1.4k citations). Duncan C. Thomas has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Denmark. Frequent co-authors include W. James Gauderman, John Peters, Kiros Berhane, Rob McConnell, Edward L. Avol, Frank D. Gilliland, Fred Lurmann, Hita Vora, Stephanie J. London and Helene G. Margolis. Their work appears in journals such as Genetic Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology, Environmental Health Perspectives, The American Journal of Human Genetics and Biometrics.

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