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| JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, MACP |
For the second consecutive year, JoAnn E. Manson, MD, MPH, DrPH, MACP, chief of the Division of Preventive Medicine, was honored by Research.com as the Best Female Scientist in the World in recognition of the far-reaching impact and influence of her scholarly work. In total, 15 Brigham female researchers were honored on the second annual listing, which celebrated 1,000 women in science according to their H-index, a metric reflecting an author’s number of highly cited publications, as well as the total number of times they have been cited by others.
The Best Female Scientists ranking seeks to inspire female scholars, women considering an academic career, as well as decision-makers worldwide with the example of successful women in the scientific community.
Manson is an endocrinologist, epidemiologist and principal investigator (PI) or co-PI of several research studies, including the Women’s Health Initiative Clinical Center In Boston, the cardiovascular component of the Nurses’ Health Study; the VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL (VITAL); the COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS); the Vitamin D for COVID-19 (VIVID) trial, and others.
She was lauded by Research.com for achieving an H-index close to 300 and more than 330,000 citations.
Here is the complete list Brigham researchers honored, in alphabetical order:
Research.com is an online portal for scientists whose mission is to connect them to each other and to conferences and publications of interest. It also seeks to offer leading researchers better exposure of their achievements and to provide rankings of scientists based on objective and transparent metrics gathered from trusted sources of data.
