Gary Taubes

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
159 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Gary Taubes is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary Taubes has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 11 papers in Physiology and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gary Taubes's work include Diet and metabolism studies (9 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers) and International Science and Diplomacy (5 papers). Gary Taubes is often cited by papers focused on Diet and metabolism studies (9 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers) and International Science and Diplomacy (5 papers). Gary Taubes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Gary Taubes's co-authors include Ronald M. Krauss, Walter C. Willett, Nita G. Forouhi, David S. Ludwig, Mark I. Friedman, Arne Astrup, Lewis C. Cantley, William S. Yancy, Jeff S. Volek and Eric C. Westman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Gary Taubes

145 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Bacteria Fight Back

2008 650 citations Gary Taubes Science profile →
Epidemiology Faces Its Limits

1995 534 citations Gary Taubes Science profile →
The carbohydrate-insulin model: a physiological perspective on the obesity pandemic

2021 164 citations David S. Ludwig, Louis J. Aronne et al. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary Taubes United States	26	754	645	630	279	278	159	3.7k
Stuart E. Lind United States	37	2.3k 3.0×	431 0.7×	344 0.5×	459 1.6×	258 0.9×	76	5.7k
Robert E. Anderson United States	42	1.2k 1.6×	429 0.7×	516 0.8×	346 1.2×	209 0.8×	349	7.3k
Yen‐Fu Chen Taiwan	42	1.0k 1.4×	562 0.9×	449 0.7×	348 1.2×	146 0.5×	220	6.9k
Robert A. Johnson United States	44	1.7k 2.3×	874 1.4×	291 0.5×	324 1.2×	294 1.1×	159	7.5k
David Young United Kingdom	47	1.1k 1.4×	904 1.4×	629 1.0×	460 1.6×	408 1.5×	338	8.0k
David Bell United Kingdom	39	1.9k 2.5×	252 0.4×	569 0.9×	231 0.8×	239 0.9×	268	6.6k
Michael Liebman United States	35	1.7k 2.3×	333 0.5×	428 0.7×	467 1.7×	311 1.1×	147	6.5k
Davide Gori Italy	39	1.1k 1.4×	351 0.5×	422 0.7×	372 1.3×	206 0.7×	199	4.7k
S. James Adelstein United States	44	1.9k 2.5×	224 0.3×	344 0.5×	218 0.8×	272 1.0×	221	7.6k
Hajime Satō Japan	35	722 1.0×	446 0.7×	208 0.3×	175 0.6×	226 0.8×	281	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Gary Taubes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gary Taubes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gary Taubes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gary Taubes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gary Taubes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gary Taubes. Gary Taubes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Friedman, Mark I., Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Gary Taubes, Jens Lund, & David S. Ludwig. (2024). Trapped fat: Obesity pathogenesis as an intrinsic disorder in metabolic fuel partitioning. Obesity Reviews. 25(10). e13795–e13795. 17 indexed citations

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Magkos, Faidon, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, David Raubenheimer, et al.. (2024). On the pathogenesis of obesity: causal models and missing pieces of the puzzle. Nature Metabolism. 6(10). 1856–1865. 26 indexed citations

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Ludwig, David S., Louis J. Aronne, Arne Astrup, et al.. (2021). The carbohydrate-insulin model: a physiological perspective on the obesity pandemic. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 114(6). 1873–1885. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taubes, Gary. (2018). What if sugar is worse than just empty calories? An essay by Gary Taubes. BMJ. 360. j5808–j5808. 4 indexed citations

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Forouhi, Nita G., Ronald M. Krauss, Gary Taubes, & Walter C. Willett. (2018). Dietary fat and cardiometabolic health: evidence, controversies, and consensus for guidance. BMJ. 361. k2139–k2139. 225 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (2012). Treat obesity as physiology, not physics. Nature. 492(7428). 155–155. 20 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (2008). Diet and delusion. The New Scientist. 197(2645). 24–25. 8 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (2008). Collateral Damage: The Rise of Resistant C. difficile. Science. 321(5887). 360–360. 8 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (2000). The cell-phone scare. Technology Review. 103(6). 117–120. 7 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1999). String Theorists Find a Rosetta Stone. Science. 285(5427). 512–517. 21 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1998). As Obesity Rates Rise, Experts Struggle to Explain Why. Science. 280(5368). 1367–1368. 107 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1997). First Atom Laser Shoots Pulses of Coherent Matter. Science. 275(5300). 617–618. 1 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1996). Software Matchmakers Help Make Sense of Sequences. Science. 273(5275). 588–590. 10 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1995). Stanford: Bringing in the Big Guns. Science. 268(5218). 1711–1711. 4 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1995). The Defense Initiative of the 1990s. Science. 267(5201). 1096–1100. 2 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1994). Heisenberg's Heirs Exploit Loopholes in His Law. Science. 263(5152). 1376–1377. 2 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1994). Small Army of Code-Breakers Conquers a 129-Digit Giant. Science. 264(5160). 776–777. 1 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1994). A New Laser Promises to Put An End to Band Gap Slavery. Science. 264(5158). 508–509. 6 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1992). A Dubious Battle to Save the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle. Science. 256(5057). 614–616. 13 indexed citations

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Taubes, Gary. (1991). The Disputed Birth of Buckyballs. Science. 253(5027). 1476–1479. 5 indexed citations

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