William J. Zacharias

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
37 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

William J. Zacharias is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Zacharias has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William J. Zacharias's work include Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (20 papers), Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (12 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). William J. Zacharias is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal Respiratory Health Research (20 papers), Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies (12 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (5 papers). William J. Zacharias collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. William J. Zacharias's co-authors include Edward E. Morrisey, Su Zhou, David B. Frank, Jarod A. Zepp, Michael P. Morley, Edward Cantu, Jun Kong, Deborah L. Gumucio, Blair Madison and Xing Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William J. Zacharias

34 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Regeneration of the lung alveolus by an evolutionarily conserved epithelial progenitor

2018 465 citations William J. Zacharias, David B. Frank et al. profile →
Distinct Mesenchymal Lineages and Niches Promote Epithelial Self-Renewal and Myofibrogenesis in the Lung

2017 386 citations William J. Zacharias, David B. Frank et al. Cell profile →
The Cellular and Physiological Basis for Lung Repair and Regeneration: Past, Present, and Future

2020 243 citations Jeremy Katzen, Minzhe Guo et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Zacharias United States	18	1.0k	974	649	255	251	37	2.1k
David Warburton United States	27	899 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	677 1.0×	151 0.6×	159 0.6×	50	2.1k
Matthias C. Kugler United States	15	1.2k 1.2×	908 0.9×	320 0.5×	89 0.3×	181 0.7×	26	2.4k
Thomas E. Hudson United States	11	367 0.4×	968 1.0×	363 0.6×	145 0.6×	430 1.7×	13	2.0k
Alexis N. Brumwell United States	11	1.6k 1.6×	882 0.9×	541 0.8×	61 0.2×	203 0.8×	11	2.5k
Brenna Carey United States	23	1.1k 1.1×	509 0.5×	668 1.0×	312 1.2×	615 2.5×	42	2.3k
Changfu Yao United States	22	1.3k 1.3×	803 0.8×	350 0.5×	56 0.2×	234 0.9×	47	2.2k
Iris Bittmann Germany	23	460 0.5×	747 0.8×	768 1.2×	339 1.3×	350 1.4×	64	2.1k
Kousuke Marutsuka Japan	30	493 0.5×	484 0.5×	516 0.8×	89 0.3×	311 1.2×	106	2.3k
Leonard Y. Lee United States	24	370 0.4×	812 0.8×	829 1.3×	300 1.2×	67 0.3×	94	2.1k
Peter Shamamian United States	29	417 0.4×	542 0.6×	649 1.0×	182 0.7×	612 2.4×	68	2.2k

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Huang, Jessie, Carlos Villacorta-Martín, Pushpinder Bawa, et al.. (2026). The chromatin remodeling complex PRC2 safeguards cell fate in alveolar epithelial type 2 cells. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Kinder, Jeremy M., Jerilyn K. Gray, Tzu‐Yu Shao, et al.. (2025). Microbiota-derived inosine programs protective CD8+ T cell responses against influenza in newborns. Cell. 188(16). 4239–4256.e19. 2 indexed citations

Rose, Kelly, Richard A. Rubin, & William J. Zacharias. (2024). Disseminated Blastomycosis Complicated by Multiorgan Failure Driven by Cytokine Release Syndrome in a Patient With Poorly Controlled Diabetes Mellitus. A3588–A3588.

Deshmukh, Hitesh, Jeffrey A. Whitsett, William J. Zacharias, et al.. (2024). Impact of Viral Lower Respiratory Tract Infection (LRTI) in Early Childhood (0–2 Years) on Lung Growth and Development and Lifelong Trajectories of Pulmonary Health: A National Institutes of Health (NIH) Workshop Summary. Pediatric Pulmonology. 60(1). e27357–e27357. 3 indexed citations

Damen, Michelle S. M. A., Jung Seop Eom, Keisuke Sawada, et al.. (2024). Obesity Uncovers the Presence of Inflammatory Lung Macrophage Subsets With an Adipose Tissue Transcriptomic Signature in Influenza Virus Infection. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 231(2). e317–e327. 1 indexed citations

He, Hua, Sheila M. Bell, Ashley Kuenzi Davis, et al.. (2024). PRDM3/16 regulate chromatin accessibility required for NKX2-1 mediated alveolar epithelial differentiation and function. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8112–8112. 5 indexed citations

Damen, Michelle S. M. A., Keisuke Sawada, Jarren R. Oates, et al.. (2023). Obesity amplifies influenza virus-driven disease severity in male and female mice. Mucosal Immunology. 16(6). 843–858. 6 indexed citations

Kannan, Paranthaman S., John Snowball, Matthew Kofron, et al.. (2023). Alveolar epithelial progenitor cells require Nkx2-1 to maintain progenitor-specific epigenomic state during lung homeostasis and regeneration. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8452–8452. 16 indexed citations

McAlees, Jaclyn W., David Haslam, Simon Graspeuntner, et al.. (2023). Delayed Microbial Maturation Durably Exacerbates Th17-driven Asthma in Mice. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 68(5). 498–510. 6 indexed citations

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Guo, Minzhe, Kathryn A. Wikenheiser‐Brokamp, Joseph A. Kitzmiller, et al.. (2023). Single Cell Multiomics Identifies Cells and Genetic Networks Underlying Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 208(6). 709–725. 14 indexed citations

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Steinmeyer, Shelby, Laura S. Peterson, Jerilyn K. Gray, et al.. (2022). The balance between protective and pathogenic immune responses to pneumonia in the neonatal lung is enforced by gut microbiota. Science Translational Medicine. 14(649). eabl3981–eabl3981. 24 indexed citations

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Snowball, John, Minzhe Guo, Matthew C. Gillen, et al.. (2022). PI3K signaling specifies proximal-distal fate by driving a developmental gene regulatory network in SOX9+ mouse lung progenitors. eLife. 11. 10 indexed citations

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Kannan, Paranthaman S., et al.. (2022). FOXF1 Regulates Alveolar Epithelial Morphogenesis through Transcriptional Activation of Mesenchymal WNT5A. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 68(4). 430–443. 7 indexed citations

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Hynds, Robert E., William J. Zacharias, Marko Nikolić, et al.. (2021). National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Building Respiratory Epithelium and Tissue for Health (BREATH) Consortium Workshop Report: Moving Forward in Lung Regeneration. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 65(1). 22–29.

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Wang, Timothy C., Jerilyn K. Gray, James P. Bridges, et al.. (2020). Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Supports a Pulmonary Niche that Promotes Type 3 Innate Lymphoid Cell Development in Newborn Lungs. Immunity. 52(2). 275–294.e9. 55 indexed citations

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Alapati, Deepthi, William J. Zacharias, Heather A. Hartman, et al.. (2019). In utero gene editing for monogenic lung disease. Science Translational Medicine. 11(488). 79 indexed citations

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Tighe, Robert M., Elizabeth F. Redente, Yen‐Rei Yu, et al.. (2019). Improving the Quality and Reproducibility of Flow Cytometry in the Lung. An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. 61(2). 150–161. 43 indexed citations

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Paris, Andrew J., Yuhong Liu, Junjie Mei, et al.. (2016). Neutrophils promote alveolar epithelial regeneration by enhancing type II pneumocyte proliferation in a model of acid-induced acute lung injury. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 311(6). L1062–L1075. 49 indexed citations

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Zacharias, William J., Blair Madison, Katherine D. Walton, et al.. (2011). Hedgehog signaling controls homeostasis of adult intestinal smooth muscle. Developmental Biology. 355(1). 152–162. 48 indexed citations

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Zacharias, William J., et al.. (2004). Tbx5 and Tbx4 transcription factors interact with a new chicken PDZ-LIM protein in limb and heart development. Developmental Biology. 273(1). 106–120. 63 indexed citations

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