Sam J. McCright

968 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 440 citations indexed

About

Sam J. McCright is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam J. McCright has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 440 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Epidemiology, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Sam J. McCright's work include Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (4 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (2 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (2 papers). Sam J. McCright is often cited by papers focused on Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases (4 papers), MicroRNA in disease regulation (2 papers) and Inflammasome and immune disorders (2 papers). Sam J. McCright collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Sam J. McCright's co-authors include Walter K. Mowel, Jorge Henao‐Mejia, Jonathan J. Kotzin, Megha Basavappa, Christoph A. Thaiss, Sasikanth Manne, Anthony Virtue, Sean P. Spencer, Leonel Joannas and Eran Elinav and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Science Translational Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Sam J. McCright

6 papers receiving 437 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs

2019 243 citations Anthony Virtue, Sam J. McCright et al. Science Translational Medicine profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam J. McCright United States	6	296	133	121	83	58	8	440
Jasmine M. Wright United States	6	229 0.8×	82 0.6×	122 1.0×	50 0.6×	58 1.0×	6	335
Houbao Qi China	12	346 1.2×	83 0.6×	66 0.5×	42 0.5×	124 2.1×	25	522
Risheng Cao China	13	297 1.0×	206 1.5×	47 0.4×	107 1.3×	60 1.0×	17	498
Hanna Leister Germany	6	257 0.9×	48 0.4×	63 0.5×	37 0.4×	109 1.9×	10	401
Farooq Riaz China	11	137 0.5×	69 0.5×	59 0.5×	107 1.3×	63 1.1×	30	392
Justin B. Moroney United States	5	239 0.8×	46 0.3×	60 0.5×	39 0.5×	113 1.9×	12	383
Yugang Huang China	10	234 0.8×	75 0.6×	41 0.3×	32 0.4×	89 1.5×	14	373
Ian M. Cartwright United States	13	196 0.7×	49 0.4×	35 0.3×	39 0.5×	70 1.2×	31	371
Chen Niu China	8	287 1.0×	33 0.2×	77 0.6×	125 1.5×	78 1.3×	14	514
Christine S. Siegismund Germany	8	203 0.7×	148 1.1×	67 0.6×	42 0.5×	40 0.7×	15	434

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam J. McCright

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sam J. McCright. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sam J. McCright 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 Sam J. McCright. Sam J. McCright is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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8 of 8 papers shown

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McCright, Sam J., Julia Chini, Li‐Yin Hung, et al.. (2025). Dietary saturated fatty acids promote lung myeloid cell inflammasome activation and IL-1β–mediated inflammation in mice and humans. Science Translational Medicine. 17(813). eadp5653–eadp5653.

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Paneru, Bam, Julia Chini, Sam J. McCright, et al.. (2024). Myeloid-derived miR-6236 potentiates adipocyte insulin signaling and prevents hyperglycemia during obesity. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5394–5394. 7 indexed citations

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Xiao, Yang, Kirill Batmanov, Wenxiang Hu, et al.. (2023). Hepatocytes demarcated by EphB2 contribute to the progression of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. Science Translational Medicine. 15(682). eadc9653–eadc9653. 33 indexed citations

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Sterling, Jacob, Bailey Baumann, Andrew P. Voigt, et al.. (2022). Inflammatory adipose activates a nutritional immunity pathway leading to retinal dysfunction. Cell Reports. 39(11). 110942–110942. 18 indexed citations

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McCright, Sam J. & David Hill. (2021). A031 OBESITY ALTERS PULMONARY MACROPHAGE LIPID METABOLISM AND FUNCTION DURING ASTHMA. Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology. 127(5). S5–S5.

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Wang, Wenliang, Maria Fasolino, Naomi Goldman, et al.. (2020). Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and CAR-T integration site analysis at population and single-cell levels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(10). 5442–5452. 35 indexed citations

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Virtue, Anthony, Sam J. McCright, Jasmine M. Wright, et al.. (2019). The gut microbiota regulates white adipose tissue inflammation and obesity via a family of microRNAs. Science Translational Medicine. 11(496). 243 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mowel, Walter K., et al.. (2017). Control of Immune Cell Homeostasis and Function by lncRNAs. Trends in Immunology. 39(1). 55–69. 104 indexed citations

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