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Cheryl A. Conover

Cheryl A. Conover

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
83
Citations
21415
World Ranking
15764
National Ranking
7936

Cheryl A. Conover publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cheryl A. Conover sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 237 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Cheryl A. Conover D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cheryl A. Conover sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cheryl A. Conover is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular attention to molecular biology, physiology, endocrinology, diabetes, metabolism, immunology, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their extensive body of work covers several key scientific topics including adipose tissue and metabolism, growth hormone and insulin-like growth factors, birth, development, and health, molecular biology techniques and applications, renal and related cancers, pregnancy and preeclampsia studies, as well as telomeres, telomerase, and senescence.

Recent notable published papers include:

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factors Are Key Regulators of T Helper 17 Regulatory T Cell Balance in Autoimmunity, 2020, Immunity
  • The Stanniocalcin-PAPP-A-IGFBP-IGF Axis, 2023, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
  • The Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A (PAPP-A) Story, 2023, Endocrine Reviews
  • Metalloproteinase PAPP-A regulation of IGF-1 contributes to polycystic kidney disease pathogenesis, 2020, JCI Insight
  • The IGF System and Aging, 2024, Endocrine Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Conover include Laurie K. Bale, Claus Oxvig, Sally A. West, Akhila Ramakrishna, and Marius N. Stan.

Major publication venues for their work are varied but prominently feature Harvard Dataverse, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Endocrine Reviews, Experimental Gerontology, and Growth Hormone & IGF Research.

Their research contributions span multiple aspects of endocrinology and molecular biology, particularly examining pathways involving insulin-like growth factors and their roles in autoimmune regulation, aging, kidney disease, and pregnancy-related processes. This reflects a multidisciplinary approach integrating physiology and molecular mechanisms relevant to health and disease.

Best Publications

  • Senescent intimal foam cells are deleterious at all stages of atherosclerosis

    Bennett G. Childs;Darren J. Baker;Tobias Wijshake;Tobias Wijshake;Cheryl A. Conover

  • Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein A as a Marker of Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Antoni Bayes-Genis;Cheryl A. Conover;Michael T. Overgaard;Kent R. Bailey

  • The insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-dependent IGF binding protein-4 protease secreted by human fibroblasts is pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A

    James B. Lawrence;Claus Oxvig;Michael T. Overgaard;Lars Sottrup-Jensen

  • Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein-1: Recent Findings and New Directions

    Phillip D.K. Lee;Linda C. Giudice;Cheryl A. Conover;David R. Powell

  • The Insulin-Like Growth Factor Axis A Review of Atherosclerosis and Restenosis

    Antoni Bayes-Genis;Cheryl A. Conover;Robert S. Schwartz

  • Regulation and function of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1.

    Phillip D.K. Lee;Cheryl A. Conover;David R. Powell

  • Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) cleaves insulin-like growth factor binding protein (IGFBP)-5 independent of IGF: implications for the mechanism of IGFBP-4 proteolysis by PAPP-A.

    Lisbeth S. Laursen;Michael T. Overgaard;Rikke Søe;Henning B. Boldt

  • Combined effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 and transforming growth factor-β1 on periosteal mesenchymal cells during chondrogenesis in vitro

    T. Fukumoto;T. Fukumoto;J. W. Sperling;A. Sanyal;J. S. Fitzsimmons

  • Potentiation of Insulin-Like Growth Factor (IGF) Action by IGF-Binding Protein-3: Studies of Underlying Mechanism*

    Cheryl A. Conover

  • Metalloproteinase pregnancy-associated plasma protein A is a critical growth regulatory factor during fetal development

    Cheryl A. Conover;Laurie K. Bale;Michael T. Overgaard;Edward W. Johnstone

  • Insulin regulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-1 in obese and nonobese humans.

    Cheryl A. Conover;Phillip D.K. Lee;Jill A. Kanaley;Jay T. Clarkson

  • Pregnancy-associated Plasma Protein-A2 (PAPP-A2), a Novel Insulin-like Growth Factor-binding Protein-5 Proteinase

    Michael T. Overgaard;Henning B. Boldt;Lisbeth S. Laursen;Lars Sottrup-Jensen

  • In vitro and in vivo antitumor effects of the dual insulin-like growth factor-I/insulin receptor inhibitor, BMS-554417.

    Paul Haluska;Joan M. Carboni;David A. Loegering;Francis Y. Lee

  • Distinctive Expression and Functions of the Type 4 Endothelial Differentiation Gene-encoded G Protein-coupled Receptor for Lysophosphatidic Acid in Ovarian Cancer

    Edward J. Goetzl;Hana Dolezalova;Yvonne Kong;Yu Long Hu

  • Pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A): a local regulator of IGF bioavailability through cleavage of IGFBPs.

    Henning B. Boldt;Cheryl A. Conover

  • Expression of Recombinant Human Pregnancy-Associated Plasma Protein-A and Identification of the Proform of Eosinophil Major Basic Protein as its Physiological Inhibitor*

    Michael T. Overgaard;Jesper Haaning;Henning B. Boldt;Inger M. Olsen

  • Posttranslational regulation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein-4 in normal and transformed human fibroblasts. Insulin-like growth factor dependence and biological studies.

    Cheryl A. Conover;Michael C. Kiefer;Jürgen Zapf

  • Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-4 Protease Produced by Smooth Muscle Cells Increases in the Coronary Artery After Angioplasty

    Antoni Bayes-Genis;Robert S. Schwartz;Debra A. Lewis;Michael T. Overgaard

  • Extracellular Proteases in Atherosclerosis and Restenosis

    Arturo Garcia-Touchard;Timothy D. Henry;Giuseppe Sangiorgi;Luigi Giusto Spagnoli

  • Regulation and Biological Effect of Endogenous Insulin- Like Growth Factor Binding Protein-5 in Human Osteoblastic Cells*

    Cheryl A. Conover;Michael C. Kiefer

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Oxvig
Claus Oxvig Aarhus University
Michael Toft Overgaard
Michael Toft Overgaard Aalborg University
Michael Christiansen
Michael Christiansen Statens Serum Institut
David R. Holmes
David R. Holmes Mayo Clinic
Linda C. Giudice
Linda C. Giudice University of California, San Francisco
Sundeep Khosla
Sundeep Khosla Mayo Clinic
Lars Sottrup-Jensen
Lars Sottrup-Jensen Aarhus University
Raymond L. Hintz
Raymond L. Hintz Stanford University
Antoni Bayes-Genis
Antoni Bayes-Genis Autonomous University of Barcelona

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