Michael Aschner

61.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
1.0k papers, 43.6k citations indexed

About

Michael Aschner is a scholar working on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Aschner has authored 1.0k papers receiving a total of 43.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 471 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, 366 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 228 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Aschner's work include Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (358 papers), Trace Elements in Health (273 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (166 papers). Michael Aschner is often cited by papers focused on Heavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity (358 papers), Trace Elements in Health (273 papers) and Mercury impact and mitigation studies (166 papers). Michael Aschner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Michael Aschner's co-authors include Keith M. Erikson, João Batista Teixeira da Rocha, Judy L. Aschner, Marcelo Farina, Aaron B. Bowman, Tore Syversen, Dejan Milatović, Eun-Sook Lee, Marta Sidoryk‐Wȩgrzynowicz and Daiana Silva Ávila and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Michael Aschner

1.0k papers receiving 42.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Caenorhabditis elegans: An Emerging Model in Biomedical and Environmental Toxicology

2008 803 citations Michael Aschner et al. profile →
Nutritional aspects of manganese homeostasis

2005 676 citations Michael Aschner et al. profile →
Manganese Is Essential for Neuronal Health

2015 460 citations Samuel Caito, Aaron B. Bowman et al. profile →
Metals, oxidative stress and neurodegeneration: A focus on iron, manganese and mercury

2012 439 citations Marcelo Farina, Daiana Silva Ávila et al. profile →
Neuroprotective Effects of Quercetin in Alzheimer’s Disease

2019 370 citations Michael Aschner et al. profile →
The role of astrocytic glutamate transporters GLT-1 and GLAST in neurological disorders: Potential targets for neurotherapeutics

2019 319 citations Edward Pajarillo, Michael Aschner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Aschner United States	99	17.9k	13.1k	9.1k	4.6k	3.8k	1.0k	43.6k
John M.C. Gutteridge United Kingdom	90	5.9k 0.3×	10.4k 0.8×	18.4k 2.0×	1.8k 0.4×	7.1k 1.9×	232	60.6k
Dean P. Jones United States	109	5.5k 0.3×	5.1k 0.4×	26.9k 2.9×	1.7k 0.4×	7.5k 2.0×	742	54.8k
Bruce N. Ames United States	115	7.8k 0.4×	7.2k 0.6×	32.7k 3.6×	1.4k 0.3×	6.9k 1.8×	317	69.9k
Ashley I. Bush Australia	118	6.8k 0.4×	17.4k 1.3×	17.1k 1.9×	5.8k 1.3×	26.9k 7.1×	536	57.7k
João Batista Teixeira da Rocha Brazil	76	5.6k 0.3×	7.3k 0.6×	5.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	2.2k 0.6×	865	28.8k
Helmut Sies Germany	132	4.3k 0.2×	13.5k 1.0×	30.1k 3.3×	1.8k 0.4×	10.6k 2.8×	657	81.4k
Irwin Fridovich United States	116	12.3k 0.7×	11.0k 0.8×	33.8k 3.7×	2.3k 0.5×	9.7k 2.6×	420	88.8k
Marián Valko Slovakia	41	5.9k 0.3×	5.6k 0.4×	9.2k 1.0×	645 0.1×	3.3k 0.9×	166	34.4k
Barry Halliwell United Kingdom	176	8.7k 0.5×	20.1k 1.5×	45.3k 5.0×	5.7k 1.2×	20.5k 5.4×	736	138.6k
Mohammad Abdollahı Iran	93	4.2k 0.2×	3.6k 0.3×	8.5k 0.9×	883 0.2×	3.3k 0.9×	1.1k	39.3k

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Afolabi, Blessing A., et al.. (2025). Biochemical, behavioural and mitochondria respiratory responses to neurotoxicity associated with nickel chloride exposure in lobster cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 118. 104779–104779.

Tizabi, Yousef, et al.. (2025). Role of Glial Cells and Receptors in Schizophrenia Pathogenesis. Neurochemical Research. 50(2). 85–85. 2 indexed citations

Baralić, Katarina, Biljana Antonijević, Danijela Đukić-Ćosić, et al.. (2024). Thyroid under siege: Unravelling the toxic impact of real-life metal mixture exposures in Wistar rats. Chemosphere. 360. 142441–142441. 1 indexed citations

Hu, Hong, Jianping Tang, Fuli Zheng, et al.. (2024). LncRNA NR_030777 promotes mitophagy by targeting CDK1-related mitochondrial fission and ATG12 to attenuate paraquat-induced Parkinson's disease. Environmental Pollution. 349. 123875–123875. 1 indexed citations

Pajarillo, Edward, et al.. (2024). Dopaminergic REST/NRSF is protective against manganese-induced neurotoxicity in mice. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(9). 107707–107707. 7 indexed citations

Ceretta, Luciane Bisognin, et al.. (2024). Critical period of exposure to mercury and the diagnostic of autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review. Journal of Neurochemistry. 168(9). 2092–2104. 4 indexed citations

Tinkov, Alexey A., Anatoly V. Skalny, José L. Domingo, et al.. (2023). A review of the epidemiological and laboratory evidence of the role of aluminum exposure in pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. Environmental Research. 242. 117740–117740. 5 indexed citations

Sánchez‐Chapul, Laura, Abel Santamarı́a, Michael Aschner, et al.. (2023). Thallium-induced DNA damage, genetic, and epigenetic alterations. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1168713–1168713. 24 indexed citations

Martins, Airton C., Miriam B. Virgolini, Daiana Silva Ávila, et al.. (2023). Mitochondria in the Spotlight: C. elegans as a Model Organism to Evaluate Xenobiotic-Induced Dysfunction. Cells. 12(17). 2124–2124. 12 indexed citations

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Aschner, Michael, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of the Safety and Efficacy of Curcumin-Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles in Rats Exposed to Chlorpyrifos During Puberty Development. Current Molecular Medicine. 24(11). 1437–1444.

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Ijomone, Omamuyovwi M., et al.. (2021). Application of Fluorescence Microscopy and Behavioral Assays to Demonstrating Neuronal Connectomes and Neurotransmitter Systems in C. elegans. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 2 indexed citations

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Parish, Stanley T., Michael Aschner, Warren Casey, et al.. (2020). An evaluation framework for new approach methodologies (NAMs) for human health safety assessment. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. 112. 104592–104592. 135 indexed citations

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Ijomone, Omamuyovwi M., et al.. (2020). Epigenetic influence of environmentally neurotoxic metals. NeuroToxicology. 81. 51–65. 63 indexed citations

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Fang, Yuanyuan, Dongjie Peng, Yuan Liang, et al.. (2020). Sodium P-aminosalicylic Acid Inhibits Manganese-Induced Neuroinflammation in BV2 Microglial Cells via NLRP3-CASP1 Inflammasome Pathway. Biological Trace Element Research. 199(9). 3423–3432. 18 indexed citations

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Wu, Shenshen, Hao Sun, Yajie Wang, et al.. (2019). MALAT1 rs664589 Polymorphism Inhibits Binding to miR-194-5p, Contributing to Colorectal Cancer Risk, Growth, and Metastasis. Cancer Research. 79(20). 5432–5441. 66 indexed citations

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Caito, Samuel & Michael Aschner. (2015). Mitochondrial Redox Dysfunction and Environmental Exposures. Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 23(6). 578–595. 68 indexed citations

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Peres, Tanara V., Fabiano Mendes de Córdova, Mark William Lopes, et al.. (2013). In VitroManganese Exposure Disrupts MAPK Signaling Pathways in Striatal and Hippocampal Slices from Immature Rats. BioMed Research International. 2013. 1–12. 12 indexed citations

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Shelton, Richard C., James B. Claiborne, Marta Sidoryk‐Wȩgrzynowicz, et al.. (2010). Altered expression of genes involved in inflammation and apoptosis in frontal cortex in major depression. Molecular Psychiatry. 16(7). 751–762. 403 indexed citations

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Funck, Vinícius Rafael, Denise Bohrer, Robson Luiz Puntel, et al.. (2008). Diphenyl diselenide, a simple organoselenium compound, decreases methylmercury-induced cerebral, hepatic and renal oxidative stress and mercury deposition in adult mice. Brain Research Bulletin. 79(1). 77–84. 118 indexed citations

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Aschner, Michael, et al.. (2007). Biological pathway-centric approach to integrative analysis of array data as applied to mefloquine neurotoxicity. 1 indexed citations

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