Matthew J. Watt

21.4k citations

215 papers · 14.9k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 68

Physiology top 0.1%
- Adipose Tissue and Metabolism 116
Biochemistry top 0.05%
- Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis 45
Rehabilitation top 0.2%
- Exercise and Physiological Responses 17
Cell Biology top 0.2%
- Muscle metabolism and nutrition 43
Epidemiology top 0.2%
- Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases 24
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment 24
Molecular Biology
- Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer 35
Surgery
- Pancreatic function and diabetes 24

Co-authors: Mark A. Febbraio Gregory R. Steinberg Ruth C. R. Meex Lawrence L. Spriet Bruce E. Kemp Clinton R. Bruce Andrea L. Hevener Andrew J. Hoy
Cited by: Physiology Biochemistry Rehabilitation
Journals: Nature (1 paper)Cell (1 paper)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper)
Partner nations: Australia United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Matthew J. Watt

209 papers receiving 14.7k citations

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2025 Journal of Hepatology
2019 Endocrine Reviews
2018 Cell
2017 Nature Reviews Endocrinology
2006 Diabetes

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1	Human MASLD is a diurnal disease driven by multisystem insulin resistance and reduced insulin availability at night Cell Metabolism ·(unknown),Kieran Smith,Felix Westcott,Sarah White,Elspeth Johnson,Nikola Srnic,Amy Barrett,Ellis Hall,Kate Gralton,Kaitlyn Dennis,Hamish Miller,Riccardo Pofi,Jeremy FL Cobbold,Rebecca Richmond,Fredrik Karpe,Ronnie Blazev,Matthew J. Watt,Benjamin L. Parker,Leanne Hodson,David W. Ray,Jeremy Tomlinson	2026	0
2	HEXA-FC protein therapy increases skeletal muscle glucose uptake and improves glycaemic control in mice with insulin resistance and in a mouse model of type 2 diabetes Diabetologia ·Magdalene K. Montgomery,Sihan Lin,Chieh-Hsin Yang,Krishneel Prasad,Zixi Cheng,Jacqueline Bayliss,Michael G. Leeming,Nicholas A. Williamson,Kim Loh,Liwei Dong,Matthew J. Watt	2025	1
3	Integrated liver-secreted and plasma proteomics identify a predictive model that stratifies MASH Cell Reports Medicine ·William De Nardo,Olivia W. Lee,Yazmin Johari,Jacqueline Bayliss,M. Pensa,Paula M. Miotto,Stacey N. Keenan,Andrew Ryan,Antoni Ruciński,Tessa M Svinos,Geraldine Ooi,Wendy A. Brown,William Kemp,Stuart K. Roberts,Benjamin L. Parker,Magdalene K. Montgomery,Mark Larance,Paul R. Burton,Matthew J. Watt	2025	2
4	Progressive fibrosis in human MASLD is associated with spatially linked transcriptomic signatures of metabolic reprogramming and senescence JHEP Reports ·Hani Vu,Yuliangzi Sun,Zherui Xiong,Xiao Tan,Daniel Radford‐Smith,Andrew Causer,Alex M. Dickens,Tuulia Hyötyläinen,Ilia Evstafev,Matej Orešič,Christian M. Nefzger,Eoin O’Sullivan,Matthew J. Watt,Grant A. Ramm,Andrew D. Clouston,Katharine M. Irvine,Quan Nguyen,Elizabeth E. Powell	2025	1
5	The Triple E project: a factorial randomised controlled trial to enhance engagement with eHealth approaches to improve health risk behaviours among adolescents BMC Public Health ·Louise Thornton,Clare Corliss,Hannah Deen,Maree Teesson,Katrina E. Champion,Stephanie R. Partridge,Milena Heinsch,Bonnie Spring,Lauren A. Gardner,Debra Rickwood,Matthew Sunderland,Nicola C. Newton,Sarah Zaman,Julie Redfern,Bridie Osman,Jessica Wilson,Matthew J. Watt,Frances Kay‐Lambkin	2024	0
6	ACSM1 and ACSM3 Regulate Fatty Acid Metabolism to Support Prostate Cancer Growth and Constrain Ferroptosis Cancer Research ·Raj K. Shrestha,Zeyad D. Nassar,Adrienne R. Hanson,Richard Iggo,Scott L. Townley,Jonas Dehairs,Chui Y. Mah,Madison Helm,Mohammadreza Alizadeh‐Ghodsi,Marie Pickering,Bart Ghesquière,Matthew J. Watt,Lake‐Ee Quek,Andrew J. Hoy,Wayne D. Tilley,Johannes V. Swinnen,Lisa M. Butler,Luke A. Selth	2024	18
7	Characterization of the skeletal muscle arginine methylome in health and disease reveals remodeling in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis The FASEB Journal ·Julian P. H. Wong,Ronnie Blazev,Yaan‐Kit Ng,Craig A. Goodman,Magdalene K. Montgomery,Kevin I. Watt,Christian S. Carl,Matthew J. Watt,Christian T. Voldstedlund,Erik A. Richter,Peter J. Crouch,Frederik J. Steyn,Shyuan T. Ngo,Benjamin L. Parker	2024	2
8	Liver-derived extracellular vesicles improve whole-body glycaemic control via inter-organ communication Nature Metabolism ·Paula M. Miotto,Chieh-Hsin Yang,Stacey N. Keenan,William De Nardo,Cait A. Beddows,Gio Fidelito,Garron T. Dodd,Benjamin L. Parker,Andrew F. Hill,Paul R. Burton,Kim Loh,Matthew J. Watt	2024	20
9	Mouse strain-dependent variation in metabolic associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD): a comprehensive resource tool for pre-clinical studies Scientific Reports ·Hamzeh Karimkhanloo,Stacey N. Keenan,Jacqueline Bayliss,William De Nardo,Paula M. Miotto,Camille J. Devereux,Shuai Nie,Nicholas A. Williamson,Andrew Ryan,Matthew J. Watt,Magdalene K. Montgomery	2023	17
10	Mitochondria- and NOX4-dependent antioxidant defense mitigates progression to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in obesity Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Spencer Greatorex,Supreet Kaur,Chrysovalantou E. Xirouchaki,Pei Kee Goh,Florian Wiede,Amanda J. Genders,Melanie Tran,Yaoyao Jia,Arthe Raajendiran,Wendy A. Brown,Catriona McLean,Junichi Sadoshima,Matthew J. Watt,Tony Tiganis	2023	25
11	Investigating dual inhibition of ACC and CD36 for the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in mice American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism ·Camille J. Devereux,Jacqueline Bayliss,Stacey N. Keenan,Magdalene K. Montgomery,Matthew J. Watt	2023	7
12	Multi-substrate Metabolic Tracing Reveals Marked Heterogeneity and Dependency on Fatty Acid Metabolism in Human Prostate Cancer Molecular Cancer Research ·Gio Fidelito,David P. De Souza,Birunthi Niranjan,William De Nardo,Shivakumar Keerthikumar,Kristin Brown,Renea A. Taylor,Matthew J. Watt	2022	6
13	Hepatic lipidomic remodeling in severe obesity manifests with steatosis and does not evolve with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis Journal of Hepatology ·Geraldine Ooi,Peter J. Meikle,Kevin Huynh,Arul Earnest,Stuart K. Roberts,William Kemp,Benjamin L. Parker,Wendy A. Brown,Paul R. Burton,Matthew J. Watt	2021	83
14	Skeletal muscle NOX4 is required for adaptive responses that prevent insulin resistance Science Advances ·Chrysovalantou E. Xirouchaki,Yaoyao Jia,Meagan J. McGrath,Spencer Greatorex,Melanie Tran,Troy L. Merry,Dawn Hong,Matthew J. Eramo,Sophie C. Broome,Jonathan S. T. Woodhead,Randall F. D’Souza,Jenny Sadler Gallagher,Ekaterina Salimova,Cheng Huang,Ralf B. Schittenhelm,Junichi Sadoshima,Matthew J. Watt,Christina A. Mitchell,Tony Tiganis	2021	66
15	GIP receptor deletion in mice confers resistance to high-fat diet-induced obesity via alterations in energy expenditure and adipose tissue lipid metabolism American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism ·Geke Aline Boer,Stacey N. Keenan,Paula M. Miotto,Jens J. Holst,Matthew J. Watt	2021	26
16	Western Diet Induced Remodelling of the Tongue Proteome Proteomes ·Mriga Dutt,Yaan‐Kit Ng,Jeffrey Molendijk,Hamzeh Karimkhanloo,Luoping Liao,Ronnie Blazev,Magdalene K. Montgomery,Matthew J. Watt,Benjamin L. Parker	2021	9
17	Radical gastric cancer surgery results in widespread upregulation of pro‐tumourigenic intraperitoneal cytokines ANZ Journal of Surgery ·Andrew Long,Paul R. Burton,Michael J. de Veer,Geraldine Ooi,Cheryl Laurie,Peter Nottle,Matthew J. Watt,Wendy A. Brown	2017	7
18	Differential Effects of IL6 and Activin A in the Development of Cancer-Associated Cachexia Cancer Research ·Justin L. Chen,Kelly L. Walton,Hongwei Qian,Timothy D. Colgan,Adam Hagg,Matthew J. Watt,Craig A. Harrison,Paul Gregorevic	2016	61
19	Whole Body Deletion of AMP-activated Protein Kinase β2 Reduces Muscle AMPK Activity and Exercise Capacity Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Gregory R. Steinberg,Hayley M. O’Neill,Nicolas Dzamko,Sandra Galić,Timur Naim,René Koopman,Sebastian B. Jørgensen,Jane Honeyman,Kimberly Hewitt,Zhiping Chen,Jonathan D. Schertzer,John W. Scott,Frank Köentgen,Gordon S. Lynch,Matthew J. Watt,Bryce J. W. van Denderen,Duncan J. Campbell,Bruce E. Kemp	2010	138
20	HSP72 protects against obesity-induced insulin resistance Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jason Chung,Anh-Khoi Nguyen,Darren C. Henstridge,Anna G. Holmes,Stanley M. H. Chan,José Luis Mesa Mesa,Graeme I. Lancaster,Robert J. Southgate,Clinton R. Bruce,Stephen J. Duffy,Ibolya Horváth,Ruben Mestril,Matthew J. Watt,Philip L. Hooper,Bronwyn A. Kingwell,László Vı́gh,Andrea L. Hevener,Mark A. Febbraio	2008	425

About Matthew J. Watt

Matthew J. Watt is a scholar working on Biochemistry, Physiology and Cell Biology, having authored 215 papers that have together received 14.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (116 papers), Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (45 papers), Muscle metabolism and nutrition (43 papers), Metabolism, Diabetes, and Cancer (35 papers), Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (24 papers), Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment (24 papers), Pancreatic function and diabetes (24 papers) and Exercise and Physiological Responses (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Physiology (7.3k citations), Biochemistry (2.0k citations) and Rehabilitation (1.3k citations). Matthew J. Watt has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Mark A. Febbraio, Gregory R. Steinberg, Ruth C. R. Meex, Lawrence L. Spriet, Bruce E. Kemp, Clinton R. Bruce, Andrea L. Hevener, Andrew J. Hoy, Magdalene K. Montgomery and George J. F. Heigenhauser. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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