Jennifer B. Dowd

10.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Jennifer B. Dowd is a scholar working on Health, General Health Professions and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer B. Dowd has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Health, 31 papers in General Health Professions and 25 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Jennifer B. Dowd's work include Health disparities and outcomes (38 papers), Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research (22 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (19 papers). Jennifer B. Dowd is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (38 papers), Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research (22 papers) and Global Health Care Issues (19 papers). Jennifer B. Dowd collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Jennifer B. Dowd's co-authors include Anna Zajacova, Allison E. Aiello, A. E. Aiello, Melinda Mills, Megan Todd, Amanda M. Simanek, David M. Brazel, Tia Palermo, Liliana Andriano and Valentina Rotondi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Medicine and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer B. Dowd

97 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Demographic science aids in understanding the spread and fatality rates of COVID-19

2020 589 citations Jennifer B. Dowd, Liliana Andriano et al. profile →
Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries

2021 217 citations José Manuel Aburto, Jonas Schöley et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →
Life expectancy changes since COVID-19

2022 138 citations Jonas Schöley, José Manuel Aburto et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer B. Dowd United States	39	1.4k	1.4k	1.2k	537	530	101	5.8k
Cyrille Delpierre France	36	951 0.7×	761 0.5×	514 0.4×	569 1.1×	345 0.7×	199	4.4k
Silvia Stringhini Switzerland	36	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	436 0.4×	1.3k 2.5×	470 0.9×	167	5.3k
Matthias Bopp Switzerland	46	2.7k 1.9×	2.8k 2.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 2.4×	532 1.0×	172	7.0k
Luisa N. Borrell United States	51	2.1k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	668 0.5×	1.7k 3.2×	381 0.7×	185	9.1k
Charles Agyemang Netherlands	51	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	2.3k 4.4×	275 0.5×	353	9.6k
Pierre Verger France	42	1.1k 0.8×	4.0k 2.8×	2.0k 1.6×	607 1.1×	116 0.2×	301	7.6k
Hamisu M. Salihu United States	45	1.3k 0.9×	702 0.5×	805 0.7×	1.8k 3.4×	292 0.6×	406	7.8k
Emily Banks Australia	54	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	2.3k 4.3×	356 0.7×	301	11.1k
Claire L. Niedzwiedz United Kingdom	25	984 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	303 0.2×	273 0.5×	201 0.4×	63	4.4k
Van T. Tong United States	30	799 0.6×	396 0.3×	714 0.6×	2.2k 4.1×	579 1.1×	102	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer B. Dowd

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All Works

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Jackson, Sarah E., Jamie Brown, Gautam Mehta, et al.. (2025). Trends in alcohol-specific deaths in England, 2001–22: an observational study. The Lancet Public Health. 10(5). e371–e379. 1 indexed citations

Moreno‐Agostino, Darío, et al.. (2025). The Generational Health Drift: A Systematic Review of Evidence from the British Birth Cohort Studies. medRxiv. 1 indexed citations

Goisis, Alice, et al.. (2024). Cohort Differences in Physical Health and Disability in the United States and Europe. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 79(8). 7 indexed citations

Dowd, Jennifer B., et al.. (2024). US exceptionalism? International trends in midlife mortality. International Journal of Epidemiology. 53(2). 10 indexed citations

Dowd, Jennifer B., et al.. (2024). Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality in High‐Income Countries. Population and Development Review. 51(1). 257–293. 2 indexed citations

Noppert, Grace A., Kate A. Duchowny, Rebecca C. Stebbins, et al.. (2023). Biological expressions of early life trauma in the immune system of older adults. PLoS ONE. 18(6). e0286141–e0286141. 8 indexed citations

Piltch‐Loeb, Rachael, Richard James, Sandra S. Albrecht, et al.. (2023). What Were the Information Voids? A Qualitative Analysis of Questions Asked by Dear Pandemic Readers between August 2020-August 2021. Journal of Health Communication. 28(sup1). 25–33. 2 indexed citations

Schöley, Jonas, José Manuel Aburto, Ilya Kashnitsky, et al.. (2022). Life expectancy changes since COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour. 6(12). 1649–1659. 138 indexed citations breakdown →

Aburto, José Manuel, Jonas Schöley, Ilya Kashnitsky, et al.. (2021). Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(1). 63–74. 217 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aburto, José Manuel, Ridhi Kashyap, Jonas Schöley, et al.. (2021). Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 75(8). 735–740. 99 indexed citations

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Noppert, Grace A., Rebecca C. Stebbins, Jennifer B. Dowd, Robert A. Hummer, & Allison E. Aiello. (2020). Life Course Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Aging Immune System: Findings From the Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology Series B. 76(6). 1195–1205. 18 indexed citations

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Renson, Audrey, Lora J. Kasselman, Jennifer B. Dowd, et al.. (2020). Gut bacterial taxonomic abundances vary with cognition, personality, and mood in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 9. 100155–100155. 14 indexed citations

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Noppert, Grace A., Lydia Feinstein, Jennifer B. Dowd, et al.. (2020). Pathogen burden and leukocyte telomere length in the United States. Immunity & Ageing. 17(1). 36–36. 24 indexed citations

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Andriano, Liliana, Jennifer B. Dowd, Melinda Mills, & Valentina Rotondi. (2020). Early evidence that social distancing and public health interventions flatten the COVID-19 curve in Italy. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 6 indexed citations

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Chang, Virginia W., Dawn E. Alley, & Jennifer B. Dowd. (2017). Trends in the Relationship Between Obesity and Disability, 1988–2012. American Journal of Epidemiology. 186(6). 688–695. 34 indexed citations

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Dowd, Jennifer B., Jos A. Bosch, Andrew Steptoe, et al.. (2017). Persistent Herpesvirus Infections and Telomere Attrition Over 3 Years in the Whitehall II Cohort. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 216(5). 565–572. 38 indexed citations

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Aiello, Allison E., Lydia Feinstein, Jennifer B. Dowd, et al.. (2016). Income and Markers of Immunological Cellular Aging. Psychosomatic Medicine. 78(6). 657–666. 33 indexed citations

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Zajacova, Anna, Katrina M. Walsemann, & Jennifer B. Dowd. (2014). The Long Arm of Adolescent Health Among Men and Women: Does Attained Status Explain Its Association with Mid-Adulthood Health?. Population Research and Policy Review. 34(1). 19–48. 13 indexed citations

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Dowd, Jennifer B., Nalini Ranjit, D. Phuong, et al.. (2010). Education and Levels of Salivary Cortisol Over the Day in US Adults. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. 41(1). 13–20. 26 indexed citations

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Dowd, Jennifer B., Anna Zajacova, & Allison E. Aiello. (2009). Early origins of health disparities: Burden of infection, health, and socioeconomic status in U.S. children. Social Science & Medicine. 68(4). 699–707. 137 indexed citations

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