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David J. Calkins

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Neuroscience

D-Index
52
Citations
9615
World Ranking
5334
National Ranking
2376

David J. Calkins publications per year

1989: 1 publications 1990: 1 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 1 publications 1993: 1 publications 1994: 1 publications 1995: 1 publications 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publications 2000: 1 publications 2001: 1 publications 2002: 3 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 15 publications 2007: 17 publications 2008: 12 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 6 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 9 publications 2020: 13 publications 2021: 14 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 16 publications 2024: 9 publications 2025: 8 publications
1989 2025

240 publications in total across all disciplines

David J. Calkins publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Neuroscience in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Calkins sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 210 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

David J. Calkins D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Neuroscience scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Calkins sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Overview

David J. Calkins is affiliated with Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates on topics related to glaucoma and retinal disorders, retinal development and disorders, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, retinal diseases and treatments, connexins and lens biology, ocular surface and contact lens, and neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

Their work spans several main fields of study, including medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and neuroscience. Within these, they specifically contribute to subfields such as molecular biology, ophthalmology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Lauren K. Wareham, Michael L. Risner, Nolan R. McGrady, Joseph M. Holden, and Brian J. Del Buono.

David J. Calkins has published extensively in specific venues, with notable numbers of publications in the following journals:

  • Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Glia
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by David J. Calkins include:

  • Adaptive responses to neurodegenerative stress in glaucoma, 2021, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments, 2022, Molecular Neurodegeneration
  • Bilateral visual improvement with unilateral gene therapy injection for Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Redistribution of metabolic resources through astrocyte networks mitigates neurodegenerative stress, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Neurovascular Unit in Glaucomatous Neurodegeneration, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Best Publications

  • Progressive Ganglion Cell Degeneration Precedes Neuronal Loss in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma

    Brian P. Buckingham;Denise M. Inman;Wendi Lambert;Ericka Oglesby

  • The microbead occlusion model: a paradigm for induced ocular hypertension in rats and mice

    Rebecca M. Sappington;Brian J. Carlson;Samuel D. Crish;David J. Calkins

  • Distal axonopathy with structural persistence in glaucomatous neurodegeneration

    Samuel D. Crish;Rebecca M. Sappington;Denise M. Inman;Philip J. Horner

  • Reduced retina microglial activation and improved optic nerve integrity with minocycline treatment in the DBA/2J mouse model of glaucoma.

    Alejandra Bosco;Denise M. Inman;Michael R. Steele;Guangming Wu

  • Solving neurodegeneration: common mechanisms and strategies for new treatments

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  • Critical pathogenic events underlying progression of neurodegeneration in glaucoma.

    David J. Calkins

  • Microcircuitry and Mosaic of a Blue–Yellow Ganglion Cell in the Primate Retina

    David J. Calkins;Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Peter Sterling

  • Induced Autoimmunity to Heat Shock Proteins Elicits Glaucomatous Loss of Retinal Ganglion Cell Neurons via Activated T-Cell-Derived Fas-Ligand

    Martin B. Wax;Gülgün Tezel;Junjie Yang;Guanghua Peng

  • Seeing with S cones.

    David J. Calkins

  • Microarray analysis of retinal gene expression in the DBA/2J model of glaucoma.

    Michael R. Steele;Denise M. Inman;David J. Calkins;Philip J. Horner

  • M and L cones in macaque fovea connect to midget ganglion cells by different numbers of excitatory synapses.

    David J. Calkins;Stanley J. Schein;Yoshihiko Tsukamoto;Peter Sterling

  • TRPV1: contribution to retinal ganglion cell apoptosis and increased intracellular Ca2+ with exposure to hydrostatic pressure.

    Rebecca M. Sappington;Tatiana Sidorova;Daniel J. Long;David J. Calkins

  • Optic Neuropathy Due to Microbead-Induced Elevated Intraocular Pressure in the Mouse

    Huihui Chen;Xin Wei;Xin Wei;Kin-Sang Cho;Guochun Chen;Guochun Chen

  • Bilateral visual improvement with unilateral gene therapy injection for Leber hereditary optic neuropathy

    Patrick Yu-Wai-Man;Nancy J. Newman;Valerio Carelli;Mark L. Moster

  • Light Scattering from Intact Cells Reports Oxidative-Stress-Induced Mitochondrial Swelling

    Jeremy D. Wilson;Chad E. Bigelow;David J. Calkins;Thomas H. Foster

  • Interleukin-6 protects retinal ganglion cells from pressure-induced death.

    Rebecca M Sappington;Matilda Chan;David J Calkins

  • Neurodegeneration in Glaucoma: Progression and Calcium-Dependent Intracellular Mechanisms

    Samuel D. Crish;David J. Calkins

  • Contribution of TRPV1 to Microglia-Derived IL-6 and NFκB Translocation with Elevated Hydrostatic Pressure

    Rebecca M. Sappington;David J. Calkins

  • Metabolic vulnerability disposes retinal ganglion cell axons to dysfunction in a model of glaucomatous degeneration

    Selva Baltan;Denise M. Inman;Camelia A. Danilov;Richard S. Morrison

  • TRPV1: a stress response protein in the central nervous system.

    Karen W Ho;Nicholas J Ward;David J Calkins

  • Evidence that Circuits for Spatial and Color Vision Segregate at the First Retinal Synapse

    David J Calkins;Peter Sterling

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip J. Horner
Philip J. Horner Houston Methodist
Monica L. Vetter
Monica L. Vetter University of Utah
Peter Sterling
Peter Sterling University of Pennsylvania
Kevin L. Schey
Kevin L. Schey Vanderbilt University
Donald J. Zack
Donald J. Zack Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jeffrey L. Goldberg
Jeffrey L. Goldberg Stanford University
Edward N. Pugh
Edward N. Pugh University of California, Davis
Patrick Yu-Wai-Man
Patrick Yu-Wai-Man University of Cambridge
Thomas Klopstock
Thomas Klopstock Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Valerio Carelli
Valerio Carelli University of Bologna

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