2026 Dennis W. Choi: Neuroscience Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	116	429	385	254	224	270	71484

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Current World Ranking

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Neuroscience

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71484

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
1997 - Ho-Am Prize in Medicine, Samsung Foundation

Overview

Dennis W. Choi is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, particularly focusing on neurology. Their research spans various subfields including neurology, epidemiology, surgery, molecular biology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their main areas of study include acute ischemic stroke management, S100 proteins and annexins, hydrogen's biological and therapeutic effects, neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration mechanisms, venous thromboembolism diagnosis and management, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Jin Soo Lee, Seong Hwan Ahn, Sun U. Kwon, Byoung Joo Gwag, and Dong-Ick Shin.

Dennis W. Choi has published papers in multiple scientific journals. Notable recent works are:

Excitotoxicity: Still Hammering the Ischemic Brain in 2020 (2020), Frontiers in Neuroscience
Nelonemdaz for Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke Undergoing Endovascular Reperfusion Therapy: A Randomized Phase II Trial (2022), Stroke
Abstracts from the 19th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, Prague, Czech Republic, 20-22 March 2025 (2025), Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience
The Rescue on Reperfusion Damage in Cerebral Infarction by Nelonemdaz (RODIN) Trial: Protocol for a Double-Blinded Clinical Trial of Nelonemdaz in Patients with Hyperacute Ischemic Stroke and Endovascular Thrombectomy (2023), Journal of Stroke
The impact of obesity and morbid obesity on urgent/emergency colorectal resections: a regional database analysis (2021), Surgical Endoscopy

They have published frequently in journals such as Stroke, Journal of Stroke, Fatigue Biomedicine Health & Behavior, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and BMC Neurology.

Dennis W. Choi has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005, a Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2000, and receiving the Ho-Am Prize in Medicine from the Samsung Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

Glutamate neurotoxicity and diseases of the nervous system

Dennis W. Choi

7226
Citations
Excitotoxic cell death

Dennis W. Choi

3540
Citations
THE ROLE OF GLUTAMATE NEUROTOXICITY IN HYPOXIC- ISCHEMIC NEURONAL DEATH

Dennis W. Choi;Steven M. Rothman

3536
Citations
Ionic dependence of glutamate neurotoxicity

DW Choi

2779
Citations
Calcium-mediated neurotoxicity: relationship to specific channel types and role in ischemic damage.

Dennis W. Choi

2612
Citations
Glutamate neurotoxicity in cortical cell culture

Dennis W. Choi;Margaret Maulucci-Gedde;Arnold R. Kriegstein

2093
Citations
Transplanted embryonic stem cells survive, differentiate and promote recovery in injured rat spinal cord.

John W. Mcdonald;Xiao Zhong Liu;Yun Qu;Su Liu

1941
Citations
Quantitative determination of glutamate mediated cortical neuronal injury in cell culture by lactate dehydrogenase efflux assay

Jae Young Koh;Dennis W. Choi

1640
Citations
The changing landscape of ischaemic brain injury mechanisms

Jin Moo Lee;Gregory J. Zipfel;Dennis W. Choi

1492
Citations
Calcium: still center-stage in hypoxic-ischemic neuronal death

Dennis W. Choi

1418
Citations
The Role of Zinc in Selective Neuronal Death After Transient Global Cerebral Ischemia

Jae Young Koh;Sang W. Suh;Byoung J. Gwag;Yong Y. He

1293
Citations
Pharmacology of glutamate neurotoxicity in cortical cell culture: attenuation by NMDA antagonists

Dennis W. Choi;Jae-young Koh;Stephen Peters

1251
Citations
Neuronal and glial apoptosis after traumatic spinal cord injury.

Xiao Z. Liu;Xiao M. Xu;Rong Hu;Cheng Du

1230
Citations
Glutamate neurotoxicity in cortical cell culture is calcium dependent.

Dennis W. Choi

1208
Citations
CARBOXYFULLERENES AS NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS

Laura L. Dugan;Dorothy M. Turetsky;Cheng Du;Doug Lobner

1059
Citations
Combined Oxygen and Glucose Deprivation in Cortical Cell Culture: Calcium-dependent and Calcium-independent Mechanisms of Neuronal Injury

Mark P. Goldberg;Dennis W. Choi

1025
Citations
Mitochondrial production of reactive oxygen species in cortical neurons following exposure to N-methyl-D-aspartate

L. L. Dugan;S. L. Sensi;L. M T Canzoniero;S. D. Handran

1002
Citations
Cerebral hypoxia: some new approaches and unanswered questions.

Dennis W. Choi

995
Citations
ZINC AND BRAIN INJURY

Dennis W. Choi;Jae Y. Koh

964
Citations
Zinc selectively blocks the action of N-methyl-D-aspartate on cortical neurons

S Peters;J Koh;DW Choi

902
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorella M.T. Canzoniero University of Sannio

John H. Weiss University of California, Irvine

Byoung Joo Gwag Yonsei University

M. Margarita Behrens Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Mark P. Goldberg The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

John W. McDonald Johns Hopkins University

Jin-Moo Lee Washington University in St. Louis

Hannah Monyer German Cancer Research Center

Fred H. Gage Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Alain Buisson Grenoble Alpes University

External Links

Personal website of Dennis W. Choi

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