Latha Palaniappan

64.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
221 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Latha Palaniappan is a scholar working on Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Latha Palaniappan has authored 221 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, 54 papers in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism and 49 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Latha Palaniappan's work include Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (36 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors (31 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (23 papers). Latha Palaniappan is often cited by papers focused on Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins (36 papers), Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors (31 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (23 papers). Latha Palaniappan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Latha Palaniappan's co-authors include Mercedes R. Carnethon, Stephen P. Fortmann, Steven B. Heymsfield, Stanley Heshka, Shankuan Zhu, Ariel T. Holland, Eric C. Wong, Sukyung Chung, Jia Pu and Katherine Hastings and has published in prestigious journals such as Circulation, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Latha Palaniappan

203 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Metabolic Syndrome 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2017 2023 2013 2024 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. The Metabolic Syndrome
    2003 1.7k citations Latha Palaniappan et al. profile →
  2. Cardiovascular Health in African Americans: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
    2017 763 citations Latha Palaniappan et al. Circulation profile →
  3. Novel Prediction Equations for Absolute Risk Assessment of Total Cardiovascular Disease Incorporating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
    2023 283 citations Sadiya S. Khan, Latha Palaniappan et al. Circulation profile →
  4. Mobile Applications for Weight Management
    2013 268 citations Latha Palaniappan et al. profile →
  5. Forecasting the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in the United States Through 2050—Prevalence of Risk Factors and Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association
    2024 117 citations Latha Palaniappan et al. Circulation profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Latha Palaniappan United States 47 2.7k 2.7k 2.2k 1.7k 1.5k 221 9.7k
Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller United States 59 3.3k 1.2× 3.3k 1.2× 2.8k 1.3× 939 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 284 14.0k
Melanie Cowan Switzerland 17 1.5k 0.5× 1.9k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 19 8.7k
Alka M. Kanaya United States 61 2.9k 1.0× 3.8k 1.4× 2.7k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 2.5k 1.7× 305 13.2k
Nizal Sarrafzadegan Iran 51 2.6k 0.9× 1.9k 0.7× 2.7k 1.2× 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 429 9.6k
Naomi Levitt South Africa 57 1.3k 0.5× 3.4k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.7× 362 11.9k
Jacques Cornuz Switzerland 56 3.2k 1.2× 1.9k 0.7× 2.1k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.3× 338 12.5k
Maren K. Olsen United States 48 1.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.4× 2.5k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 1.1k 0.7× 208 10.2k
Herman A. Taylor United States 59 5.2k 1.9× 1.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 231 11.4k
Pamela J. Schreiner United States 60 3.4k 1.2× 2.1k 0.8× 2.6k 1.2× 763 0.5× 1.2k 0.8× 313 11.6k
Scott A. Lear Canada 44 2.3k 0.8× 1.5k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 1.0k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 194 8.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Latha Palaniappan

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Latha Palaniappan's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Latha Palaniappan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Latha Palaniappan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Latha Palaniappan

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Latha Palaniappan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Latha Palaniappan. The network helps show where Latha Palaniappan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Latha Palaniappan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Latha Palaniappan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Latha Palaniappan 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 Latha Palaniappan. Latha Palaniappan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Wu, Yan Yan, Mohammed A. Khan, George Hung, et al.. (2025). Evaluating the Reliability and Robustness of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Cardiometabolic Disease in NHANES, NHIS, and BRFSS (2015–2021). Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(5). e040029–e040029.
2.
Yan, Xiaowei, Adrian Matias Bacong, Ramzi Dudum, et al.. (2025). Performance of the American Heart Association’s PREVENT Equations Among Disaggregated Racial and Ethnic Subgroups. JAMA Cardiology. 10(9). 876–876. 8 indexed citations
3.
Daida, Yihe G., A. Gabriela Rosales, Timothy B. Frankland, et al.. (2025). Differences in Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke Incidence Among Single‐Race and Multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander Subgroups in Hawaii and California: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Journal of the American Heart Association. 14(9). e039076–e039076.
4.
Kho, Pik Fang, Laurel Stell, Shirin Jimenez, et al.. (2025). Associations between accurate measures of adiposity and fitness, blood proteins, and insulin sensitivity among South Asians and Europeans. Frontiers in Endocrinology. 15. 1492778–1492778. 1 indexed citations
5.
Yan, Xiaowei, Ramzi Dudum, Powell Jose, et al.. (2024). Factors Associated with Lipoprotein(a) Testing Among Multiethnic Individuals. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 40(4). 756–763. 2 indexed citations
6.
Bacong, Adrian Matias, A. Gabriela Rosales, Timothy B. Frankland, et al.. (2024). Obesity Disparities Among Adult Single-Race and Multiracial Asian and Pacific Islander Populations. JAMA Network Open. 7(3). e240734–e240734. 6 indexed citations
7.
Hung, George, Gina Kim, Armaan Jamal, et al.. (2024). Nasopharyngeal cancer mortality in disaggregated Asian and non‐Asian Americans. Head & Neck. 46(12). 3046–3055. 1 indexed citations
8.
9.
Yi, Siyan, et al.. (2024). Perspectives of Digital Health Innovations in Low- and Middle-Income Health Care Systems From South and Southeast Asia. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 26. e57612–e57612. 11 indexed citations
10.
Tierney, Elif Seda Selamet, Latha Palaniappan, Mary B. Leonard, et al.. (2023). Design and rationale of re-energize fontan: Randomized exercise intervention designed to maximize fitness in fontan patients. American Heart Journal. 259. 68–78. 7 indexed citations
11.
12.
Jamal, Armaan, Yuichiro Yano, Tali Elfassy, et al.. (2023). Abstract P631: Association Between Suboptimal Sleep Duration and Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence Among Asian Americans. Circulation. 147(Suppl_1). 1 indexed citations
13.
Zheng, Xiaoyi, Lauren E. Higdon, Alexandre Gaudet, et al.. (2022). Endothelial Cell-Specific Molecule-1 Inhibits Albuminuria in Diabetic Mice. Kidney360. 3(12). 2059–2076. 1 indexed citations
14.
Shah, Nilay S., Kristopher Kapphahn, Malathi Srinivasan, et al.. (2022). Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Mortality in Asian American Subgroups. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 15(5). e008651–e008651. 67 indexed citations
15.
Srinivasan, Malathi, et al.. (2021). Disaggregating Asian American Cigarette and Alternative Tobacco Product Use: Results from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 2006–2018. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 9(3). 856–864. 19 indexed citations
16.
17.
Huang, Robert J., et al.. (2021). Disaggregated mortality from gastrointestinal cancers in Asian Americans: Analysis of United States death records. International Journal of Cancer. 148(12). 2954–2963. 9 indexed citations
18.
Pinheiro, Paulo S., Scarlett Lin Gomez, Katherine Hastings, et al.. (2019). Disaggregating Hispanic American Cancer Mortality Burden by Detailed Ethnicity. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 28(8). 1353–1363. 30 indexed citations
19.
20.
Sugumar, Shobana, Kamala Krishnaswamy, Vasudevan Sudha, et al.. (2013). Finger Millet (Ragi, Eleusine coracana L.). Advances in food and nutrition research. 69. 1–39. 153 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sylvia Wassertheil‐Smoller Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Melanie Cowan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Alka M. Kanaya Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nizal Sarrafzadegan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Naomi Levitt Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jacques Cornuz Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Maren K. Olsen Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Herman A. Taylor Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Pamela J. Schreiner Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Scott A. Lear
Rankless by CCL
2026