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Carmel Mothersill

Carmel Mothersill

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
72
Citations
17931
World Ranking
6325
National Ranking
228

Carmel Mothersill publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carmel Mothersill sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 386 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carmel Mothersill 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 Carmel Mothersill sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Carmel Mothersill is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine with a particular focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research encompasses a range of subfields including global and planetary change, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, molecular biology, and radiological and ultrasound technology.

The scientist's work primarily revolves around the effects of radiation exposure, with significant contributions to the understanding of radioactive contamination and transfer, radiation therapy and dosimetry, radioactivity and radon measurements, advanced radiotherapy techniques, nuclear issues and defense, and radiation dose and imaging.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Carmel Mothersill include:

  • Colin Seymour
  • Paul N. Schofield
  • Nguyen T. K. Vo
  • Andrej Rusin
  • Bruno F. E. Matarèse

They have published extensively in respected venues such as:

  • International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Dose-Response
  • Radiation Research
  • Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Carmel Mothersill include:

  • From tangled banks to toxic bunnies; a reflection on the issues involved in developing an ecosystem approach for environmental radiation protection (2020) in International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • Low dose radiation mechanisms: The certainty of uncertainty (2022) in Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Other key relevant works within their research network, although led by coauthors, include:

  • Low dose ionizing radiation and the immune response: what is the role of non-targeted effects? (2021) in International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • Quantum Biology and the Potential Role of Entanglement and Tunneling in Non-Targeted Effects of Ionizing Radiation: A Review and Proposed Model (2023) in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Bio-acoustic signaling; exploring the potential of sound as a mediator of low-dose radiation and stress responses in the environment (2020) in International Journal of Radiation Biology

Best Publications

  • Medium from irradiated human epithelial cells but not human fibroblasts reduces the clonogenic survival of unirradiated cells

    Mothersill C;Seymour C

  • Biological stress response terminology: Integrating the concepts of adaptive response and preconditioning stress within a hormetic dose-response framework

    Edward J. Calabrese;Kenneth A. Bachmann;A. John Bailer;P. Michael Bolger

  • RADIATION-INDUCED BYSTANDER EFFECTS: PAST HISTORY AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

    Carmel Mothersill;Colin Seymour

  • Radiation-induced bystander effects — implications for cancer

    Carmel Mothersill;Colin B Seymour

  • Cell-cell contact during gamma irradiation is not required to induce a bystander effect in normal human keratinocytes : Evidence for release during irradiation of a signal controlling survival into the medium

    Carmel Mothersill;C. B. Seymour

  • High Yields of Lethal Mutations in Somatic Mammalian Cells that Survive Ionizing Radiation

    C.B. Seymour;Carmel Mothersill;Tikvah Alper

  • Relative Contribution of Bystander and Targeted Cell Killing to the Low-Dose Region of the Radiation Dose–Response Curve

    Colin B. Seymour;Carmel Mothersill

  • Production of a signal by irradiated cells which leads to a response in unirradiated cells characteristic of initiation of apoptosis

    F M Lyng;C B Seymour;C Mothersill

  • Initiation of apoptosis in cells exposed to medium from the progeny of irradiated cells: a possible mechanism for bystander-induced genomic instability?

    F. M. Lyng;C. B. Seymour;C. Mothersill

  • The use of fish cells in ecotoxicology. The report and recommendations of ECVAM Workshop 47.

    Argelia Castaño;Niels Bols;Thomas Braunbeck;Paul Dierickx

  • The involvement of calcium and MAP kinase signaling pathways in the production of radiation-induced bystander effects.

    Fiona Lyng;Paula Maguire;B. McClean;C. Seymour

  • Delayed expression of lethal mutations and genomic instability in the progeny of human epithelial cells that survived in a bystander-killing environment

    C.B. Seymour;C. Mothersill

  • Potential indicators of radiosensitivity in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

    Mary T. Sheridan;Tadgh O'Dwyer;Colin B. Seymour;Carmel E. Mothersill

  • Causes of genome instability: the effect of low dose chemical exposures in modern society

    Sabine A S Langie;Gudrun Koppen;Daniel Desaulniers;Fahd Al-Mulla

  • Individual variation in the production of a 'bystander signal' following irradiation of primary cultures of normal human urothelium.

    Carmel Mothersill;David Rea;Eric G. Wright;Sally A. Lorimore

  • Radiation-induced bystander effects and the DNA paradigm: an "out of field" perspective.

    Carmel Mothersill;C.B. Seymour

  • Heavy metals of relevance to human health induce genomic instability

    Natasha Coen;Natasha Coen;Carmel Mothersill;Munira Kadhim;E. G. Wright

  • Relationship between radiation-induced low-dose hypersensitivity and the bystander effect.

    Carmel Mothersill;C. B. Seymour;M. C. Joiner;M. C. Joiner

  • The endocrine disrupting effect of municipal effluent on the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha).

    Brian Quinn;Francois Gagne;Mark Costello;Craig McKenzie

  • Bystander-induced Apoptosis and Premature Differentiation in Primary Urothelial Explants after Charged Particle Microbeam Irradiation

    O.V. Belyakov;M. Folkard;C. Mothersill;Kevin Prise

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard S. Smith
Richard S. Smith Laurentian University
David Sheehan
David Sheehan University College Cork
Nora M. O'Brien
Nora M. O'Brien University College Cork
John O'Halloran
John O'Halloran University College Cork
Deborah Oughton
Deborah Oughton Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Jean A. Laissue
Jean A. Laissue University of Bern
Paul N. Schofield
Paul N. Schofield University of Cambridge
Eric G. Wright
Eric G. Wright University of Dundee
Brit Salbu
Brit Salbu Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Brian Austin
Brian Austin University of Stirling

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