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Whitney Townsend

Health Professions · University of Michigan

Established · publishing since 1997

Publications

108

Citations

1,649

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

29

Publishing since 1997

In context
Among 255 established Health Professions PIs within our index
Citations: 1,649cohort median 1,697
Publications / year (recent): 3.2cohort median 3.4

Typically publishes in teams of ~4 · 50% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 18 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 3.2/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 1 publication192020: 3 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 7 publications7222023: 3 publications232024: 4 publications242025: 2 publications2526
Collaborators per year
Distinct co-authors at University of Michigan each year — a rough indication of whether the group around this researcher has been growing or contracting. An estimate from co-authorship, not a roster: collaborators are not necessarily lab members, and recent years can be under-counted while indexing catches up.
2017: 7 collaborators2018: 9 collaborators2019: 0 collaborators2020: 10 collaborators2021: 3 collaborators2022: 10 collaborators2023: 12 collaborators2024: 8 collaborators2025: 4 collaborators1719212325
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan)×3
  • BMJ Open×2
  • Journal of General Internal Medicine×2
  • Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism×2
  • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 25, 2026.

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