2026 Andrzej Bartke: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	102	7648	7189	3984	3686	772	39063

Overview

Andrzej Bartke is affiliated with the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas in medicine, with a focus on physiology, endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, molecular biology, and aging.

Their main fields of study include:

Medicine

Subfields of study covered by their research are:

Physiology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Molecular Biology
Aging

The primary topics of Andrzej Bartke's work involve:

Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
Birth, Development, and Health
Diet and Metabolism Studies
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Circadian Rhythm and Melatonin
Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

Some of their most recent publications include:

"Sexual dimorphic metabolic and cognitive responses of C57BL/6 mice to Fisetin or Dasatinib and quercetin cocktail oral treatment," 2023, GeroScience
"FGF21 is required for protein restriction to extend lifespan and improve metabolic health in male mice," 2022, Nature Communications
"Friend or Foe? Defining the Role of Glutamate in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease," 2022, Frontiers in Aging
"Hallmarks of Testicular Aging: The Challenge of Anti-Inflammatory and Antioxidant Therapies Using Natural and/or Pharmacological Compounds to Improve the Physiopathological Status of the Aged Male Gonad," 2021, Cells
"Growth hormone and aging," 2020, Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Andrzej Bartke include:

Erin R. Hascup
Yimin Fang
Kevin N. Hascup
Samuel McFadden
Augusto Schneider

Their research has been published repeatedly in several key scientific venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
GeroScience
Aging Cell
The Journals of Gerontology Series A
The World Journal of Men's Health

Best Publications

The endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like signals.

Marc Tatar;Andrzej Bartke;Adam Antebi

1516
Citations
The Critical Role of Metabolic Pathways in Aging

Nir Barzilai;Derek M. Huffman;Radhika H. Muzumdar;Andrzej Bartke

924
Citations
Interventions to Slow Aging in Humans: Are We Ready?

Valter D. Longo;Adam Antebi;Andrzej Bartke;Nir Barzilai

644
Citations
Extending the lifespan of long-lived mice.

Andrzej Bartke;J. Chris Wright;Julie A. Mattison;Donald K. Ingram

508
Citations
Life extension in the dwarf mouse.

Andrzej Bartke;Holly Brown-Borg

461
Citations
Minireview: Role of the Growth Hormone/Insulin-Like Growth Factor System in Mammalian Aging

Andrzej Bartke

390
Citations
Somatotropic Signaling: Trade-Offs Between Growth, Reproductive Development, and Longevity

Andrzej Bartke;Liou Y. Sun;Valter Longo

354
Citations
Targeted disruption of growth hormone receptor interferes with the beneficial actions of calorie restriction

Michael S. Bonkowski;Juliana S. Rocha;Michal M. Masternak;Khalid A. Al Regaiey

351
Citations
Delayed Occurrence of Fatal Neoplastic Diseases in Ames Dwarf Mice: Correlation to Extended Longevity

Yuji Ikeno;Roderick T. Bronson;Gene B. Hubbard;Shuko Lee

279
Citations
Fibroblast cell lines from young adult mice of long-lived mutant strains are resistant to multiple forms of stress

Adam B. Salmon;Shin Murakami;Andrzej Bartke;John Kopchick

271
Citations
Human placental growth hormone causes severe insulin resistance in transgenic mice.

Linda A. Barbour;Jianhua Shao;Liping Qiao;Leslie K. Pulawa

269
Citations
Progressive loss of SIRT1 with cell cycle withdrawal

Tsutomu Sasaki;Bernhard Maier;Andrzej Bartke;Heidi Scrable

263
Citations
Diet and aging

Matthew D.W. Piper;Andrzej Bartke

261
Citations
Time to Talk SENS: Critiquing the Immutability of Human Aging

Aubrey D. N. J. De Grey;Bruce N. Ames;Julie K. Andersen;Andrzej Bartke

257
Citations
Reduced Incidence and Delayed Occurrence of Fatal Neoplastic Diseases in Growth Hormone Receptor/Binding Protein Knockout Mice

Yuji Ikeno;Gene B. Hubbard;Shuko Lee;Lisa A. Cortez

256
Citations
Long-Lived Growth Hormone Receptor Knockout Mice: Interaction of Reduced Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/Insulin Signaling and Caloric Restriction

Khalid A. Al-Regaiey;Michal M. Masternak;Michael Bonkowski;Liou Sun

254
Citations
Genes that prolong life: relationships of growth hormone and growth to aging and life span.

Andrzej Bartke;Karen Coschigano;John Kopchick;Varadaraj Chandrashekar

253
Citations
Postnatal development of the Sertoli cell barrier, tubular lumen, and cytoskeleton of Sertoli and myoid cells in the rat, and their relationship to tubular fluid secretion and flow.

L. D. Russell;A. Bartke;J. C. Goh

252
Citations
The key role of growth hormone–insulin–IGF-1 signaling in aging and cancer

Vladimir N. Anisimov;Andrzej Bartke

251
Citations
Duration of rapamycin treatment has differential effects on metabolism in mice

Yimin Fang;Reyhan Westbrook;Cristal Hill;Ravneet K. Boparai

250
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Kopchick Ohio University

Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne

Lonnie D. Russell Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Mariusz Z. Ratajczak University of Louisville

Richard A. Miller University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Valter D. Longo University of Southern California

Magda Kucia Medical University of Warsaw

Kalman Kovacs St. Michael's Hospital

Walter E. Stumpf University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

David A. Sinclair Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Andrzej Bartke

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