Craig J. McClain

39.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
576 papers, 28.9k citations indexed

About

Craig J. McClain is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Craig J. McClain has authored 576 papers receiving a total of 28.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 269 papers in Epidemiology, 219 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine and 143 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Craig J. McClain's work include Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (234 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (205 papers) and Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (69 papers). Craig J. McClain is often cited by papers focused on Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (234 papers), Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects (205 papers) and Diet, Metabolism, and Disease (69 papers). Craig J. McClain collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Craig J. McClain's co-authors include Shirish Barve, Daniell B. Hill, Luis Marsano, Zhenyuan Song, Donald A. Cohen, Irina Kirpich, Wenke Feng, Swati Joshi‐Barve, Ion V. Deaciuc and Zhanxiang Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Craig J. McClain

555 papers receiving 28.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Circulating tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1 and interleukin-6 concentrations in chronic alcoholic patients

1991 484 citations Craig J. McClain, John I. Allen et al. profile →
Increased tumor necrosis factor production by monocytes in alcoholic hepatitis

1989 463 citations Craig J. McClain et al. profile →
Ginger‐derived nanoparticles protect against alcohol‐induced liver damage

2015 436 citations Zhongbin Deng, Jingyao Mu et al. profile →
Metagenomic Analyses of Alcohol Induced Pathogenic Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiome and the Effect of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Treatment

2013 432 citations Wenke Feng, Irina Kirpich et al. profile →
Molecular Mechanisms of Acrolein Toxicity: Relevance to Human Disease

2015 399 citations Smita Ghare, Shirish Barve et al. Toxicological Sciences profile →
Probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Prevents Liver Fibrosis Through Inhibiting Hepatic Bile Acid Synthesis and Enhancing Bile Acid Excretion in Mice

2019 263 citations Liqing He, Shirish Barve et al. profile →
Plant-nanoparticles enhance anti-PD-L1 efficacy by shaping human commensal microbiota metabolites

2025 28 citations Chao Luo, Jingyao Mu et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Craig J. McClain

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Outer Membrane Vesicles Released from Garlic Exosome‐like Nanoparticles (GaELNs) Train Gut Bacteria that Reverses Type 2 Diabetes via the Gut‐Brain Axis 2024 ·Small ·Kumaran Sundaram, Yun Teng, Jingyao Mu, Qingbo Xu, Fangyi Xu, Mukesh K. Sriwastva, Lifeng Zhang, Juw Won Park, Xiang Zhang, Jun Yan, (unknown), Michael L. Merchant, Shao‐yu Chen, Craig J. McClain, Gerald W. Dryden, Huang‐Ge Zhang	44
2	Association of Circulating Markers of Microbial Translocation and Hepatic Inflammation with Liver Injury in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes 2024 ·Biomedicines ·Leila Gobejishvili, Vatsalya Vatsalya, (unknown), (unknown), Craig J. McClain, (unknown), Shirish Barve	1
3	Multiomics Studies on Metabolism Changes in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease 2024 ·Journal of Proteome Research ·Liqing He, (unknown), (unknown), Xinmin Yin, Eugene G. Mueller, Wenke Feng, Michael A. Menze, Seongho Kim, Craig J. McClain, Xiang Zhang	0
4	Bacterial and host fucosylation maintain IgA homeostasis to limit intestinal inflammation in mice 2024 ·Nature Microbiology ·Chao Lei, Chao Luo, Zhishan Xu, Shu Ding, Mukesh K. Sriwastva, Gerald W. Dryden, Ting Wang, (unknown), Yi Han Tan, Qilong Wang, (unknown), Craig J. McClain, Zhongbin Deng	8
5	Fpr2−/− Mice Developed Exacerbated Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease 2023 ·Biology ·Josiah Hardesty, Jeffrey Warner, Ying Song, (unknown), Craig J. McClain, Dennis Warner, Irina Kirpich	4
6	Tributyrin Mitigates Ethanol-Induced Lysine Acetylation of Histone-H3 and p65-NFκB Downregulating CCL2 Expression and Consequent Liver Inflammation and Injury 2023 ·Nutrients ·Smita Ghare, B Charpentier, (unknown), Jingwen Zhang, Manicka V. Vadhanam, (unknown), Swati Joshi‐Barve, Craig J. McClain, Shirish Barve	8
7	Altered urinary tryptophan metabolites in alcohol‐associated liver disease 2023 ·Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research ·(unknown), Vatsalya Vatsalya, Liqing He, (unknown), Wenke Feng, Craig J. McClain, Xiang Zhang	5
8	Hepatic Transcriptome and Its Regulation Following Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Inhibition in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease 2023 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Jeffrey Warner, Josiah Hardesty, Ying Song, (unknown), Zhongbin Deng, (unknown), Liqing He, Xiang Zhang, Craig J. McClain, Bruce D. Hammock, Dennis Warner, Irina Kirpich	2
9	Design of a multicenter randomized clinical trial for treatment of Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis 2023 ·Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications ·Wanzhu Tu, Samer Gawrieh, Srinivasan Dasarathy, Mack C. Mitchell, Douglas A. Simonetto, Kavish R. Patidar, Craig J. McClain, Ramón Bataller, Gyöngyi Szabó, Qing Tang, Bruce Barton, Svetlana Radaeva, Arun J. Sanyal, Vijay H. Shah	14
10	Metabolic Analysis of Nucleosides/Bases in the Urine and Serum of Patients with Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease 2022 ·Metabolites ·Liqing He, Vatsalya Vatsalya, (unknown), Carolyn M. Klinge, Matthew C. Cave, Wenke Feng, Craig J. McClain, Xiang Zhang	6
11	Associations Between Residential Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds and Liver Injury Markers 2021 ·Toxicological Sciences ·Banrida Wahlang, (unknown), Hong Gao, (unknown), Rachel J. Keith, (unknown), N. Shesh, Aruni Bhatnagar, Craig J. McClain, Sanjay Srivastava, (unknown)	17
12	Interaction of Heavy Drinking Patterns and Depression Severity Predicts Efficacy of Quetiapine Fumarate XR in Lowering Alcohol Intake in Alcohol Use Disorder Patients 2020 ·Substance Abuse Research and Treatment ·Vatsalya Vatsalya, Maiying Kong, (unknown), Zimple Kurlawala, (unknown), Melanie L. Schwandt, Vijay A. Ramchandani, Craig J. McClain	0
13	Lemon Exosome-like Nanoparticles-Manipulated Probiotics Protect Mice from C. diff Infection 2020 ·iScience ·Chao Lei, Jingyao Mu, Yun Teng, Liqing He, Fangyi Xu, Xiangcheng Zhang, Kumaran Sundaram, Anil Kumar, Mukesh K. Sriwastva, Matthew B. Lawrenz, (unknown), Jun Yan, Wenke Feng, Craig J. McClain, Xiang Zhang, Huang‐Ge Zhang	64
14	Microbiome data analysis with applications to pre-clinical studies using QIIME2: Statistical considerations 2019 ·Genes & Diseases ·N. Shesh, Chen Qian, Jianmin Pan, (unknown), Ming Song, Juhi Bagaitkar, Michael L. Merchant, Matthew C. Cave, Nejat K. Egilmez, Craig J. McClain	41
15	Urinary acrolein metabolite levels in severe acute alcoholic hepatitis patients 2018 ·American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology ·Vatsalya Vatsalya, Maiying Kong, Leila Gobejishvili, Wei-Yang Chen, Sanjay Srivastava, Shirish Barve, Craig J. McClain, Swati Joshi‐Barve	15
16	Fructose Induced Endotoxemia in Pediatric Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease 2014 ·International Journal of Hepatology ·Ran Jin, (unknown), Shivani Patel, Xiaoyan Sun, Ming Song, (unknown), Astrid Kosters, Craig J. McClain, Miriam B. Vos	84
17	Zinc Deprivation Mediates Alcohol-Induced Hepatocyte IL-8 Analog Expression in Rodents via an Epigenetic Mechanism 2011 ·American Journal Of Pathology ·Yantao Zhao, Wei Zhong, Xiuhua Sun, Zhenyuan Song, Dahn L. Clemens, Y. James Kang, Craig J. McClain, Zhanxiang Zhou	17
18	Cell-mediated hepatic injury in alcoholic liver disease 1993 ·Gastroenterology ·Antonio Chedid, (unknown), (unknown), Samuel W. French, (unknown), Timothy R. Morgan, Gary A. Roselle, Bernard A. Nemchausky, Carlo H. Tamburro, Eugene R. Schiff, Craig J. McClain, Luis Marsano, John I. Allen, Arun Samanta, Robert E. Weesner, William G. Henderson	90
19	Abnormal polyunsaturated fatty acid patterns of serum lipids in alcoholism and cirrhosis: arachidonic acid deficiency in cirrhosis. 1985 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Susan B. Johnson, (unknown), Craig J. McClain, (unknown), R T Holman	64
20	Blood methanethiol in alcoholic liver disease with and without hepatic encephalopathy. 1980 ·Gut ·Craig J. McClain, Leslie Zieve, William M. Doizaki, S Gilberstadt, Gerald R. Onstad	49

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