Fred K. Tabung

7.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
135 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Fred K. Tabung is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred K. Tabung has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 69 papers in Physiology and 42 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Fred K. Tabung's work include Nutritional Studies and Diet (95 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (46 papers) and Cancer Risks and Factors (21 papers). Fred K. Tabung is often cited by papers focused on Nutritional Studies and Diet (95 papers), Diet and metabolism studies (46 papers) and Cancer Risks and Factors (21 papers). Fred K. Tabung collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Saudi Arabia. Fred K. Tabung's co-authors include Edward L. Giovannucci, Susan E. Steck, James R. Hébert, Teresa T. Fung, Nitin Shivappa, Frank B. Hu, Stephanie A. Smith‐Warner, Walter C. Willett, Yunsheng Ma and Thomas G. Hurley and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, Nature Medicine and Journal of Clinical Oncology.

In The Last Decade

Fred K. Tabung

130 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A population-based dietary inflammatory index predicts levels of C-reactive protein in the Seasonal Variation of Blood Cholesterol Study (SEASONS)

2013 571 citations Fred K. Tabung et al. profile →
Development and Validation of an Empirical Dietary Inflammatory Index

2016 323 citations Fred K. Tabung, Stephanie A. Smith‐Warner et al. Journal of Nutrition profile →
Construct validation of the dietary inflammatory index among postmenopausal women

2015 302 citations Fred K. Tabung, Amy E. Millen et al. profile →
Long-Term Leisure-Time Physical Activity Intensity and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Prospective Cohort of US Adults

2022 134 citations Dong Hoon Lee, Leandro F. M. Rezende et al. profile →
Optimal dietary patterns for prevention of chronic disease

2023 126 citations Mingyang Song, A. Heather Eliassen et al. profile →
Healthy Eating Patterns and Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

2023 105 citations Kathryn M. Rexrode, Fred K. Tabung et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred K. Tabung United States	35	2.9k	2.0k	930	650	552	135	4.6k
Elisabet Wirfält Sweden	45	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	643 0.7×	345 0.5×	640 1.2×	93	5.3k
Walter C. Willett United States	14	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.7×	692 0.7×	445 0.7×	313 0.6×	21	4.2k
Traci Mouw United States	22	1.3k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	987 1.1×	387 0.6×	379 0.7×	27	4.1k
Robert J. MacInnis Australia	39	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	1.7k 1.8×	505 0.8×	804 1.5×	145	5.2k
Kristine R. Monroe United States	33	1.2k 0.4×	832 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	434 0.7×	848 1.5×	85	4.0k
Simonetta Salvini Italy	31	3.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	761 0.8×	469 0.7×	473 0.9×	49	5.8k
F. B. Hu United States	16	1.4k 0.5×	934 0.5×	438 0.5×	318 0.5×	439 0.8×	32	3.2k
Maria Ida Maiorino Italy	48	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.7×	581 0.6×	535 0.8×	1.4k 2.5×	186	7.0k
Monica Ferraroni Italy	39	2.3k 0.8×	856 0.4×	1.4k 1.6×	737 1.1×	562 1.0×	144	5.6k
Song‐Yi Park United States	34	1.3k 0.4×	656 0.3×	772 0.8×	290 0.4×	432 0.8×	110	3.0k

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Orenduff, Melissa C., Carl F. Pieper, Emma H. Allott, et al.. (2025). Plasma Insulin-like Growth Factor–Binding Protein-7 Is Positively Associated with Age, Obesity, Mortality, and Cancer in Postmenopausal Women. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 34(6). 922–932. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Ni, Rhea Harewood, Amanda E. Toland, et al.. (2025). Insulinemic and inflammatory dietary patterns and colorectal cancer risk: a dietary data harmonization study of one million participants in the Consortium of Metabolomics Studies (COMETS). American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 123(1). 101099–101099.

Azam, Shadi, Saurabh Deepak Chitnis, Katharine A. Collier, et al.. (2024). Association between Inflammatory Dietary Pattern and Mammographic Features. Journal of Nutrition. 154(11). 3437–3445. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Ni, Cristina Menni, Mary C. Playdon, et al.. (2024). Pro-inflammatory and hyperinsulinaemic dietary patterns are associated with specific gut microbiome profiles: a TwinsUK cohort study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. e12–e12. 2 indexed citations

Hill, Emily B., Alice Hinton, Ni Shi, et al.. (2024). An Improved Assessment Method to Estimate (Poly)phenol Intake in Adults with Chronic Pancreatitis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 69(8). 2996–3007. 1 indexed citations

Navarro, Sandi L., Brian D. Williamson, Ying Huang, et al.. (2024). Metabolite Predictors of Breast and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Women’s Health Initiative. Metabolites. 14(8). 463–463. 5 indexed citations

LaMonte, Michael J., Rachael Hageman Blair, Fred K. Tabung, et al.. (2024). Developing and evaluating the construct validity of a dietary pattern predictive of plasma TMAO and choline. Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases. 34(9). 2190–2202. 1 indexed citations

Aslani, Zahra, et al.. (2023). Associations of Dietary Patterns with Colorectal Adenomas in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Cohort. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 32(9). 1260–1264. 2 indexed citations

Navarro, Sandi L., G. A. Nagana Gowda, Lisa Bettcher, et al.. (2023). Demographic, Health and Lifestyle Factors Associated with the Metabolome in Older Women. Metabolites. 13(4). 514–514. 8 indexed citations

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Long, Lu, Xing Liu, Jessica L. Petrick, et al.. (2023). Dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential, risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, and chronic liver disease mortality. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 7(2). 10 indexed citations

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Langlais, Crystal S., Rebecca E. Graff, Erin L. Van Blarigan, et al.. (2022). Postdiagnostic Inflammatory, Hyperinsulinemic, and Insulin-Resistant Diets and Lifestyles and the Risk of Prostate Cancer Progression and Mortality. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 31(9). 1760–1768. 15 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhenzhen, Fred K. Tabung, Qi Jin, et al.. (2022). Diet-Driven Inflammation and Insulinemia and Risk of Interval Breast Cancer. Nutrition and Cancer. 74(9). 3179–3193. 4 indexed citations

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Peila, Rita, Rowan T. Chlebowski, JoAnn E. Manson, et al.. (2021). Low-Fat Dietary Modification and Risk of Ductal Carcinoma In Situ of the Breast in the Women's Health Initiative Dietary Modification Trial. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 30(9). 1753–1756. 4 indexed citations

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Lee, Dong Hoon, Leandro F. M. Rezende, Gérson Ferrari, et al.. (2021). Physical activity and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the impact of reverse causation and measurement error in two large prospective cohorts. European Journal of Epidemiology. 36(3). 275–285. 36 indexed citations

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Aroke, Desmond, Edmund Folefac, Ni Shi, et al.. (2020). Inflammatory and Insulinemic Dietary Patterns: Influence on Circulating Biomarkers and Prostate Cancer Risk. Cancer Prevention Research. 13(10). 841–852. 25 indexed citations

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Chandler, Paulette D., Raji Balasubramanian, Nina P. Paynter, et al.. (2020). Metabolic signatures associated with Western and Prudent dietary patterns in women. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 112(2). 268–283. 19 indexed citations

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Katagiri, Ryoko, Mingyang Song, Xuehong Zhang, et al.. (2019). Dietary Intake of Branched-Chain Amino Acids and Risk of Colorectal Cancer. Cancer Prevention Research. 13(1). 65–72. 17 indexed citations

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Lee, Dong Hoon, Teresa T. Fung, Fred K. Tabung, et al.. (2019). Dietary Pattern and Risk of Multiple Myeloma in Two Large Prospective US Cohort Studies. JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 3(2). pkz025–pkz025. 39 indexed citations

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Petimar, Joshua, Stephanie A. Smith‐Warner, Teresa T. Fung, et al.. (2018). Recommendation-based dietary indexes and risk of colorectal cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 108(5). 1092–1103. 54 indexed citations

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Tabung, Fred K., Ambika Satija, Teresa T. Fung, Steven K. Clinton, & Edward L. Giovannucci. (2018). Long-Term Change in both Dietary Insulinemic and Inflammatory Potential Is Associated with Weight Gain in Adult Women and Men. Journal of Nutrition. 149(5). 804–815. 55 indexed citations

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