William H. Walker

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William H. Walker is a scholar working on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Physiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Walker has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, 16 papers in Physiology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William H. Walker's work include Circadian rhythm and melatonin (29 papers), Dietary Effects on Health (9 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers). William H. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Circadian rhythm and melatonin (29 papers), Dietary Effects on Health (9 papers) and Impact of Light on Environment and Health (8 papers). William H. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. William H. Walker's co-authors include Randy J. Nelson, A. Courtney DeVries, James C. Walton, Jeremy C. Borniger, Jacob R. Bumgarner, O. Hecmarie Meléndez‐Fernández, Jennifer A. Liu, Michael Davidson, Lev Protas and Evelyn Hernández and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

William H. Walker

85 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Circadian rhythm disruption and mental health
    2020 574 citations William H. Walker, James C. Walton et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
William H. Walker 750 452 441 352 237 88 2.5k
Robert B. Sothern 1.5k 2.1× 1.0k 2.2× 384 0.9× 244 0.7× 242 1.0× 139 3.5k
Keiichi Takahashi 480 0.6× 423 0.9× 1.2k 2.7× 396 1.1× 411 1.7× 251 5.5k
F Halberg 1.6k 2.1× 1.0k 2.3× 259 0.6× 287 0.8× 259 1.1× 243 3.6k
Erhard Haus 2.2k 3.0× 1.4k 3.1× 364 0.8× 878 2.5× 347 1.5× 156 5.1k
F. Halberg 901 1.2× 506 1.1× 232 0.5× 138 0.4× 194 0.8× 100 3.6k
Dingcai Cao 528 0.7× 478 1.1× 819 1.9× 256 0.7× 780 3.3× 143 3.8k
Lawrence E. Scheving 1.4k 1.9× 1.0k 2.3× 537 1.2× 108 0.3× 174 0.7× 119 3.4k
Franz Waldhauser 1.7k 2.2× 536 1.2× 779 1.8× 645 1.8× 693 2.9× 93 3.3k
Laughton E. Miles 425 0.6× 514 1.1× 535 1.2× 458 1.3× 457 1.9× 36 2.7k
Kenji Hayashi 150 0.2× 349 0.8× 1.2k 2.7× 310 0.9× 421 1.8× 243 4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William H. Walker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Jennifer A., Jacob R. Bumgarner, William H. Walker, et al.. (2024). Chronic phase advances reduces recognition memory and increases vascular cognitive dementia-like impairments in aged mice. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7760–7760. 5 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., et al.. (2024). Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Cancer Survivors: From Oncogenesis to Quality of Life. Cancer Medicine. 13(20). e70353–e70353. 2 indexed citations
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DeVries, A. Courtney, et al.. (2023). Chronotherapeutics for Solid Tumors. Pharmaceutics. 15(8). 2023–2023. 6 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., Jennifer A. Liu, O. Hecmarie Meléndez‐Fernández, et al.. (2023). Social enrichment alters the response of brain leukocytes to chemotherapy and tumor development in aged mice. Heliyon. 10(1). e23366–e23366. 1 indexed citations
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Nelson, Randy J., Jacob R. Bumgarner, William H. Walker, & A. Courtney DeVries. (2021). Time-of-day as a critical biological variable. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 127. 740–746. 34 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., James C. Walton, & Randy J. Nelson. (2021). Disrupted circadian rhythms and mental health. Handbook of clinical neurology. 179. 259–270. 17 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., Samuel A. Sprowls, Jacob R. Bumgarner, et al.. (2021). Circadian Influences on Chemotherapy Efficacy in a Mouse Model of Brain Metastases of Breast Cancer. Frontiers in Oncology. 11. 752331–752331. 8 indexed citations
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Bumgarner, Jacob R., William H. Walker, & Randy J. Nelson. (2021). Circadian rhythms and pain. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 129. 296–306. 46 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., et al.. (2021). Light at night disrupts biological clocks, calendars, and immune function. Seminars in Immunopathology. 44(2). 165–173. 40 indexed citations
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Weil, Zachary M., Laura K. Fonken, William H. Walker, et al.. (2020). Dim light at night exacerbates stroke outcome. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(9). 4139–4146. 12 indexed citations
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Bumgarner, Jacob R., William H. Walker, Jennifer A. Liu, James C. Walton, & Randy J. Nelson. (2020). Dim Light at Night Exposure Induces Cold Hyperalgesia and Mechanical Allodynia in Male Mice. Neuroscience. 434. 111–119. 22 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., Jacob R. Bumgarner, Randy J. Nelson, & A. Courtney DeVries. (2020). Transcardial perfusion is not required to accurately measure cytokines within the brain. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 334. 108601–108601. 11 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., Jeremy C. Borniger, Monica M. Gaudier‐Diaz, et al.. (2019). Acute exposure to low-level light at night is sufficient to induce neurological changes and depressive-like behavior. Molecular Psychiatry. 25(5). 1080–1093. 85 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., O. Hecmarie Meléndez‐Fernández, & Randy J. Nelson. (2019). Prior exposure to dim light at night impairs dermal wound healing in female C57BL/6 mice. Archives of Dermatological Research. 311(7). 573–576. 10 indexed citations
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Russart, Kathryn L.G., et al.. (2018). Effects of light at night on laboratory animals and research outcomes.. Behavioral Neuroscience. 132(4). 302–314. 44 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., et al.. (2018). Mammary tumor and mastectomy synergistically promote neuroinflammation in a breast cancer survivor model. Brain Research. 1707. 133–140. 5 indexed citations
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Walker, William H., Jeremy C. Borniger, Surbhi Gahlot, et al.. (2017). Mammary Tumors Induce Central Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Expression, but Not Behavioral Deficits in Balb/C Mice. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 8152–8152. 28 indexed citations
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Davidson, Michael, Claudia Nesti, Lluís Palenzuela, et al.. (2005). Novel cell lines derived from adult human ventricular cardiomyocytes. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. 39(1). 133–147. 241 indexed citations
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Ali, Mahmoud, et al.. (1978). Serum ferritin concentration and bone marrow iron stores: a prospective study.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 118(8). 945–6. 82 indexed citations
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Knapp, M S & William H. Walker. (1967). Glomerular Filtration Rate. BMJ. 2(5555). 836.3–837. 7 indexed citations

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