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Buford L. Nichols

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11842
World Ranking
11468
National Ranking
4955

Buford L. Nichols publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 308 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Buford L. Nichols D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Buford L. Nichols sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 61 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Buford L. Nichols is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on physiology, genetics, nutrition, and dietetics.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Conditioning with slowly digestible starch diets in mice reduces jejunal α-glucosidase activity and glucogenesis from a digestible starch feeding, 2020, Nutrition
  • Routine disaccharidase testing: are we there yet?, 2020, Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
  • Overview of Breath Testing in Clinical Practice in North America, 2020, JPGN Reports
  • A retrospective study on the association of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with low lactase activity and low activity of other disaccharidases, 2020, BMC Gastroenterology
  • Digestive enzyme expression in the large intestine of children with short bowel syndrome in a late stage of adaptation, 2020, The FASEB Journal

Frequent co-authors in Nichols's work include Roberto Quezada-Calvillo, Bruce R. Hamaker, Anna Hayes, Clay Swackhamer, and Nancy F. Butte.

Their research is published in a variety of journals such as Nutrition, Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, JPGN Reports, BMC Gastroenterology, and the European Journal of Nutrition.

Buford L. Nichols's main fields of study cover Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Subfields contributing to their work primarily include Physiology, Genetics, Nutrition and Dietetics, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Surgery.

The scientist's key research topics focus on:

  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Digestive system and related health
  • Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Food composition and properties
  • Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
  • Gastrointestinal motility and disorders

Best Publications

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance transverse relaxation times of water protons in skeletal muscle.

    Carlton F. Hazlewood;Donald C. Chang;Buford L. Nichols;Donald E. Woessner

  • Evidence for the existence of a minimum of two phases of ordered water in skeletal muscle.

    C F Hazlewood;B L Nichols;N F Chamberlain

  • Immunologic factors in human milk during the first year of lactation

    Armond S. Goldman;Armond S. Goldman;Cutberto Garza;Cutberto Garza;Buford L. Nichols;Buford L. Nichols;Randall M. Goldblum;Randall M. Goldblum

  • Human intestinal maltase-glucoamylase: crystal structure of the N-terminal catalytic subunit and basis of inhibition and substrate specificity

    Lyann Sim;Roberto Quezada-Calvillo;Erwin E. Sterchi;Buford L. Nichols

  • Human milk intake and growth in exclusively breast-fed infants.

    Nancy F. Butte;Cutberto Garza;E. O'Brian Smith;Buford L. Nichols

  • Effect of maternal diet and body composition on lactational performance.

    N F Butte;C Garza;J E Stuff;E O Smith

  • GLP-2 receptor localizes to enteric neurons and endocrine cells expressing vasoactive peptides and mediates increased blood flow.

    Xinfu Guan;Heidi E. Karpen;John Stephens;John T. Bukowski

  • Biogenetic pathways of plasma membrane proteins in Caco-2, a human intestinal epithelial cell line.

    A Le Bivic;A Quaroni;B Nichols;E Rodriguez-Boulan

  • Spin Echo Studies on Cellular Water

    D. C. Chang;C. F. Hazlewood;B. L. Nichols;H. E. Rorschach

  • The maltase-glucoamylase gene: Common ancestry to sucrase-isomaltase with complementary starch digestion activities

    Buford L. Nichols;Stephen Avery;Partha Sen;Dallas M. Swallow

  • A comparison of dietary methods in nutritional studies.

    J E Stuff;C Garza;E O Smith;B L Nichols

  • Induced Degradation of Glycosaminoglycans in Hurler's and Hunter's Syndromes by Plasma Infusion

    Nicola Di Ferrante;Buford L. Nichols;Patricia V. Donnelly;Giovanni Neri

  • Human lactoferrin stimulates thymidine incorporation into DNA of rat crypt cells.

    Buford L Nichols;Kathryn S Mckee;Joseph F Henry;Margaret Putman

  • Preliminary study of breastfeeding and bacterial adhesion to uroepithelial cells

    G.V. Coppa;O. Gabrielli;P. Giorgi;C. Catassi

  • Longitudinal changes in milk composition of mothers delivering preterm and term infants

    Nancy F. Butte;Cutberto Garza;Carmen A. Johnson;E.O'Brian Smith

  • Human Small Intestinal Maltase-glucoamylase cDNA Cloning HOMOLOGY TO SUCRASE-ISOMALTASE

    Buford L. Nichols;Joyce Eldering;Stephen Avery;Dagmar Hahn

  • Hospital malnutrition and inflammatory response in critically ill children and adolescents admitted to a tertiary intensive care unit.

    Artur Figueiredo Delgado;Thelma Suely Okay;Claudio Leone;Buford Nichols

  • Calorimetric validation of the doubly-labelled water method for determination of energy expenditure in man.

    P D Klein;W P James;W W Wong;C S Irving

  • Nutrient Intake and Growth Performance of Older Infants Fed Human Milk

    J.E. Stuff;B.L. Nichols

  • Posttranslational regulation of sucrase-isomaltase expression in intestinal crypt and villus cells.

    J F Beaulieu;B Nichols;A Quaroni

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce R. Hamaker
Bruce R. Hamaker Purdue University West Lafayette
Andrea Quaroni
Andrea Quaroni Cornell University
David R. Rose
David R. Rose University of Waterloo
W. Allan Walker
W. Allan Walker Harvard University
Hassan Y. Naim
Hassan Y. Naim University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Thomas W. Boutton
Thomas W. Boutton Texas A&M University
Dallas M. Swallow
Dallas M. Swallow University College London
Arthur L. Beaudet
Arthur L. Beaudet Baylor College of Medicine
Gary D. Brayer
Gary D. Brayer University of British Columbia
Douglas G. Burrin
Douglas G. Burrin Baylor College of Medicine

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