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David A. Williams 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 David A. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 656 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David A. Williams 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 David A. Williams sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 120 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1999 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

David A. Williams is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a substantial focus on Pharmacology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, Neurology, Infectious Diseases, and Physiology as subfields. The topics of their work include Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research, Musculoskeletal Pain and Rehabilitation, Long-Term Effects of COVID-19, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Recent publications by David A. Williams include:

  • Mechanisms underlying genetic susceptibility to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), 2021, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Patient-Centered Pain Care Using Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Health Tools, 2022, JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Therapeutic trials for long COVID-19: A call to action from the interventions taskforce of the RECOVER initiative, 2023, Frontiers in Immunology
  • Predicting chronic postsurgical pain: current evidence and a novel program to develop predictive biomarker signatures, 2023, Pain
  • Synergies between centralized and federated approaches to data quality: a report from the national COVID cohort collaborative, 2021, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Williams include Daniel J. Clauw, Steven E. Harte, Andrew Schrepf, Abu Saleh Mohammad Mosa, and Ravi Jhaveri.

Regarding publication venues, Williams often publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Pain
  • Pain
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Pain Medicine
  • Clinical Journal of Pain

Throughout their career, Williams has been recognized by several scientific organizations, having been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) multiple times, in 2004, 2005, and 2007. Additionally, they have been a member of Academia Europaea since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry

    William O. Foye;Thomas L. Lemke;David A. Williams

  • Update on Empirically Validated Therapies, II

    Dianne L. Chambless;Mary J. Baker;Donald H. Baucom;Larry E. Beutler

  • Stem cell factor is encoded at the SI locus of the mouse and is the ligand for the c-kit tyrosine kinase receptor

    Krisztina M. Zsebo;David A. Williams;Edwin N. Geissler;Virginia C. Broudy

  • Pain catastrophizing and neural responses to pain among persons with fibromyalgia

    R. H. Gracely;M. E. Geisser;T. Giesecke;M. A.B. Grant

  • Mouse model of X-linked chronic granulomatous disease, an inherited defect in phagocyte superoxide production

    Jonathan D. Pollock;David A. Williams;David A. Williams;Mary A.C. Gifford;Ling Lin Li

  • Evidence of Augmented Central Pain Processing in Idiopathic Chronic Low Back Pain

    Thorsten Giesecke;Richard H. Gracely;Masilo A. B. Grant;Alf Nachemson;Alf Nachemson

  • Mutant GABA A receptor γ2-subunit in childhood absence epilepsy and febrile seizures

    Robyn H. Wallace;Carla Marini;Steven Petrou;Louise A. Harkin;Louise A. Harkin

  • Calcium gradients in single smooth muscle cells revealed by the digital imaging microscope using Fura-2

    David A. Williams;Kevin E. Fogarty;Roger Y. Tsien;Fredric S. Fay

  • Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding interleukin 11, a stromal cell-derived lymphopoietic and hematopoietic cytokine.

    S R Paul;F Bennett;J A Calvetti;K Kelleher

  • Two Phase 3 Trials of Adalimumab for Hidradenitis Suppurativa.

    Alexa B Kimball;Martin M Okun;David A Williams;Alice B Gottlieb

  • Hematopoietic cell regulation by Rac1 and Rac2 guanosine triphosphatases.

    Yi Gu;Marie-Dominique Filippi;Jose A. Cancelas;Jose A. Cancelas;Jamie E. Siefring

  • Exit from dormancy provokes DNA-damage-induced attrition in haematopoietic stem cells

    Dagmar Walter;Amelie Lier;Anja Geiselhart;Frederic B. Thalheimer

  • Modulating the stem cell niche for tissue regeneration

    Steven W Lane;David A Williams;Fiona M Watt

  • Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Gene Therapy for Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy

    Florian Eichler;Christine Duncan;Patricia L. Musolino;Paul J. Orchard

  • Subgrouping of fibromyalgia patients on the basis of pressure-pain thresholds and psychological factors.

    Thorsten Giesecke;David A. Williams;Richard E. Harris;Thomas R. Cupps

  • Truncation of the GABAA-Receptor γ2 Subunit in a Family with Generalized Epilepsy with Febrile Seizures Plus

    Louise A Harkin;Louise A Harkin;David Nicholas Bowser;Leanne M Dibbens;Leanne M Dibbens;Rita Singh

  • Rac1 Activation Controls Nuclear Localization of β-catenin during Canonical Wnt Signaling

    Ximei Wu;Xiaolin Tu;Kyu Sang Joeng;Matthew J. Hilton

  • Effect of Steel factor and leukaemia inhibitory factor on murine primordial germ cells in culture

    Yasuhisa Matsui;Deniz Toksoz;Satomi Nishikawa;Shin Ichi Nishikawa

  • Side effects of retroviral gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells

    Christopher Baum;Jochen Düllmann;Zhixiong Li;Boris Fehse

  • Efficacy of gene therapy for X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency: update on trial No.1 follow-up and preliminary results of multicentric collaborative trial No. 2 (Paris - Boston - London)

    S Hacein-Bey-Abina;L Caccaveli;F Touzot;L Dal-Cortivo

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Clauw
Daniel J. Clauw University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jose A. Cancelas
Jose A. Cancelas Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Yi Zheng
Yi Zheng Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Christopher Baum
Christopher Baum Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Adrian J. Thrasher
Adrian J. Thrasher University College London
Stuart H. Orkin
Stuart H. Orkin Harvard University
Richard H. Gracely
Richard H. Gracely University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Axel Schambach
Axel Schambach Hannover Medical School
Steven Petrou
Steven Petrou Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Philip J. Mease
Philip J. Mease University of Washington

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