Articles
McFarlane DJ, Ancker JS, Kukafka R. A vector space method for quantifying agreement in qualitative data. In press, Proceedings / AMIA Annual Fall Symposium, 2008 .
Ancker JS, Chan C, Kukafka R. Development and qualitative assessment of interactive risk graphics. In press, Journal of Health Communication, 2008.
Ancker JS, Kaufman DR. Rethinking health numeracy: A multidisciplinary literature review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2007; 14(6): 713-721 (electronic preprint ahead of print, August 2006).
Ancker JS, Kukafka R. A combined qualitative method for testing an interactive risk communication tool. Proceedings/AMIA Annual Fall Symposium 2007: 16-20.
Kukafka R, Khan S, Hutchinson C, McFarlane D, Li J, Ancker JS, Cohall A. Digital Partnerships for Health: Steps to develop a community-specific health portal aimed at promoting health and well-being. Proceedings /AMIA Annual Fall Symposium 2007: 428-432.
Kukafka R, Ancker JS, Chan C, Chelico J, Khan S, Mortoti S, Natarajan K, Presley K, Stephens K. Redesigning electronic health record systems to support public health. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2007; 40(4): 398-409.
Ancker JS, Flanagin A. A comparison of conflict of interest policies at peer-reviewed journals in different scientific disciplines. Science and Engineering Ethics 2007; 13(2):137-147.
Ancker JS, Senathirajah Y, Kukafka R, Starren JB. Design features of graphs for communicating health risks: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2006; 13(6): 608-618 (electronic preprint ahead of print, August 2006).
Ancker JS. The language of conditional probability. Journal of Statistics Education 2006;14(2).
Weber EU, Ancker JS. Toward a taxonomy of modes of moral decision-making. Brain and Behavioral Science 2005; 28(4):563-564.
Ancker JS. How writers can help readers understand health screening tests: writing about positive predictive values. American Medical Writers Association Journal 2005; 20(2): 59-61.
Ancker J. Assessing patient comprehension of informed consent forms [letter]. Controlled Clinical Trials 2004; 25(1): 72-74.
Ancker J. Developing the informed consent form: A review of the readability literature and an experiment. American Medical Writers Association Journal 2004;19:97-100.
Ancker J, Moore A. How to teach doctors to write: 10 lessons from teaching scientific writing in an academic medical center. American Medical Writers Association Journal 2000;16(2):17-21.
Ancker J. Frequency of selected arithmetic and reporting problems in medical manuscripts: A descriptive study. American Medical Writers Association Journal 2000;15(3):24-7.
Book chapters and proceedings
Weber EU, Ancker JS. Cultural differences in risk taking and precaution: The relative role of risk perception and risk attitude [book chapter]. In Wiener J, Rogers M, Hammitt J, Sand P, editors. The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the US and Europe. In press, Duke University Press.
Ancker J, editor. Proceedings of the Retreat on the Journal's Role in Scientific Misconduct; 2003 Nov 7-9; Lansdowne, VA. On-line publication Feb. 2004. Print publication: Science Editor May-June 2004;27:75-85.
Ancker J. Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis [book review]. American Medical Writers Association Journal 2002; 17: 49-50. Reprinted as teaching example in Gastel B, editor. The Health Writer's Handbook. 2nd edition. London: Blackwell; 2004.