Ross Summer

7.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Ross Summer is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross Summer has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Ross Summer's work include Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (22 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (10 papers). Ross Summer is often cited by papers focused on Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (22 papers), Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (19 papers) and Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (10 papers). Ross Summer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Ross Summer's co-authors include Alan Fine, Darrell N. Kotton, Kenneth Walsh, Noriyuki Ouchi, Freddy Romero, Otmar Pfister, Mohit Jain, Frédéric Mouquet, Ronglih Liao and Michael B. Fessler and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Journal of Clinical Investigation.

In The Last Decade

Ross Summer

93 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Adiponectin Promotes Macrophage Polarization toward an An... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Adiponectin Promotes Macrophage Polarization toward an Anti-inflammatory Phenotype
    2009 526 citations Ross Summer, Kenneth Walsh et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ross Summer United States 33 1.5k 1.4k 1.1k 1.1k 820 102 4.7k
Peter W. Mathieson United Kingdom 53 3.1k 2.1× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 491 0.5× 659 0.8× 178 9.4k
Mauricio Rojas United States 36 1.4k 1.0× 2.6k 1.8× 611 0.5× 678 0.6× 493 0.6× 114 4.7k
Véronique Ollivier France 41 1.1k 0.7× 932 0.7× 709 0.6× 648 0.6× 263 0.3× 102 5.1k
Yoshiaki Tomiyama Japan 49 2.0k 1.3× 717 0.5× 912 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 828 1.0× 275 8.3k
Alison H. Goodall United Kingdom 47 1.2k 0.8× 851 0.6× 753 0.7× 682 0.6× 332 0.4× 153 6.1k
Mauro Abbate Italy 48 2.3k 1.5× 890 0.6× 1.6k 1.4× 343 0.3× 1.3k 1.6× 116 7.2k
Maria Pia Rastaldi Italy 43 2.6k 1.7× 890 0.6× 759 0.7× 392 0.4× 480 0.6× 120 7.3k
Simon C. Satchell United Kingdom 42 1.8k 1.2× 671 0.5× 760 0.7× 457 0.4× 264 0.3× 110 6.1k
Daniela Corna Italy 46 2.1k 1.4× 686 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 345 0.3× 1.1k 1.4× 105 6.7k
Seiji Kawano Japan 32 1.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 471 0.4× 506 0.6× 255 4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ross Summer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ross Summer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross Summer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ross Summer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ross Summer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ross Summer. Ross Summer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Engel, Andrew G., et al.. (2025). The Role of the rs35705950 MUC5B Promoter Variant in Connective Tissue Disease-associated Interstitial Lung Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 211(Supplement_1). A5331–A5331.
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Summer, Ross, Jamie L. Todd, Megan L. Neely, et al.. (2024). Circulating metabolic profile in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: data from the IPF-PRO Registry. Respiratory Research. 25(1). 58–58. 15 indexed citations
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Guo, Zhifu, et al.. (2024). Inhibiting endothelial cell Mst1 attenuates acute lung injury in mice. JCI Insight. 9(17). 2 indexed citations
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Petruk, Svetlana, Ross Summer, Joel Rosenbloom, et al.. (2023). Changes in nascent chromatin structure regulate activation of the pro-fibrotic transcriptome and myofibroblast emergence in organ fibrosis. iScience. 26(5). 106570–106570. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chen, Zhifu Guo, Wennan Liu, et al.. (2023). PIMT is a novel and potent suppressor of endothelial activation. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations
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George, Gautam, et al.. (2023). Racial and ethnic disparities in antifibrotic therapy in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Respirology. 28(11). 1036–1042. 9 indexed citations
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Shaghaghi, Hoora, et al.. (2021). Glutamine restores mitochondrial respiration in bleomycin-injured epithelial cells. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 176. 335–344. 12 indexed citations
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Summer, Ross, et al.. (2020). E-cigarettes and Vaping Associated Lung Injury: A Case Series and Brief Review. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 359(3). 137–139. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Jihui, Jian Zhang, Bin Yi, et al.. (2019). The histone deacetylase inhibitor tubacin mitigates endothelial dysfunction by up-regulating the expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294(51). 19565–19576. 24 indexed citations
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Ramirez, María I., Guetchyn Millien, Zhenyu Wu, et al.. (2019). Relative Levels of NKX2-1 and the Long-Noncoding RNA NKX2-1-AS1 Regulate Expression of Immune Evasion Genes in Lung Cancer. A3965–A3965. 1 indexed citations
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Summer, Ross, et al.. (2019). Pulmonary Circulation in Obesity, Diabetes, and Metabolic Syndrome. Comprehensive physiology. 10(1). 297–316. 8 indexed citations
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Naik, Meghna U., et al.. (2017). Binding of CIB1 to the αIIb tail of αIIbβ3 is required for FAK recruitment and activation in platelets. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0176602–e0176602. 12 indexed citations
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Wang, Han, Ling Tao, Wenjun Yan, et al.. (2017). T-cadherin deficiency increases vascular vulnerability in T2DM through impaired NO bioactivity. Cardiovascular Diabetology. 16(1). 12–12. 10 indexed citations
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Fessler, Michael B. & Ross Summer. (2016). Surfactant Lipids at the Host–Environment Interface. Metabolic Sensors, Suppressors, and Effectors of Inflammatory Lung Disease. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 54(5). 624–635. 103 indexed citations
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Kawwass, Jennifer F., Ross Summer, & Caleb B. Kallen. (2015). Direct effects of leptin and adiponectin on peripheral reproductive tissues: a critical review: Table I. Molecular Human Reproduction. 21(8). 617–632. 59 indexed citations
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Romero, Freddy, Dilip Shah, Michelle Duong, et al.. (2014). A Pneumocyte–Macrophage Paracrine Lipid Axis Drives the Lung toward Fibrosis. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 53(1). 74–86. 114 indexed citations
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Ding, Shi-Ying, Mi‐Jeong Lee, Ross Summer, et al.. (2014). Pleiotropic Effects of Cavin-1 Deficiency on Lipid Metabolism. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 289(12). 8473–8483. 53 indexed citations

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