2026 Edward J. Calabrese: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	108	6001	5638	3209	2974	714	42890

Overview

Edward J. Calabrese is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a notable focus on subfields such as Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Plant Science.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

Effects of Radiation Exposure
Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Genomics, Phytochemicals, and Oxidative Stress
Radiation Dose and Imaging
Radioactive Contamination and Transfer
Effects and Risks of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Edward J. Calabrese has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Evgenios Agathokleous
Vittorio Calabrese
Gaurav Dhawan
Rachna Kapoor
James Giordano

Their recent published papers include:

"Healthy Effects of Plant Polyphenols: Molecular Mechanisms," 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
"Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory," 2020, Trends in Plant Science
"The hormetic dose-response mechanism: Nrf2 activation," 2021, Pharmacological Research
"Micro/nanoplastics effects on organisms: A review focusing on 'dose'," 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials
"Ecological risks in a 'plastic' world: A threat to biological diversity?," 2021, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Edward J. Calabrese has consistently published in several scientific venues, with significant contributions in:

The Science of The Total Environment (21 publications)
Chemico-Biological Interactions (20 publications)
Environmental Research (11 publications)
Environmental Pollution (10 publications)
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development (9 publications)

Best Publications

Toxicology rethinks its central belief

Edward J Calabrese;Linda A Baldwin

883
Citations
Hormesis: The Dose-Response Revolution

Edward J. Calabrese;Linda A. Baldwin

831
Citations
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

820
Citations
Cellular Stress Responses, The Hormesis Paradigm, and Vitagenes: Novel Targets for Therapeutic Intervention in Neurodegenerative Disorders

Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Edward J. Calabrese

753
Citations
Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologists.

Edward J. Calabrese

748
Citations
Paradigm lost, paradigm found: the re-emergence of hormesis as a fundamental dose response model in the toxicological sciences.

Edward J. Calabrese

700
Citations
The occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literature, the hormesis database: an overview.

Edward J Calabrese;Robyn Blain

695
Citations
The Frequency of U-Shaped Dose Responses in the Toxicological Literature

Edward J. Calabrese;Linda A. Baldwin

555
Citations
Hormesis: U-shaped dose responses and their centrality in toxicology

Edward J. Calabrese;Linda A. Baldwin

551
Citations
The Hormetic Dose-Response Model Is More Common than the Threshold Model in Toxicology

Edward J. Calabrese;Linda A. Baldwin

550
Citations
Hormesis and plant biology.

Edward J. Calabrese;Robyn B. Blain

495
Citations
How does hormesis impact biology, toxicology, and medicine?

Edward J Calabrese;Mark P Mattson

475
Citations
Cellular stress responses, hormetic phytochemicals and vitagenes in aging and longevity.

Vittorio Calabrese;Carolin Cornelius;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova;Ivo Iavicoli

458
Citations
The hormesis database: the occurrence of hormetic dose responses in the toxicological literature.

Edward J. Calabrese;Robyn B. Blain

450
Citations
Chemical hormesis: its historical foundations as a biological hypothesis.

E J Calabrese;L A Baldwin

434
Citations
U-shaped dose-responses in biology, toxicology, and public health.

Edward J Calabrese;Linda A Baldwin

425
Citations
How much soil do young children ingest: An epidemiologic study

Edward J. Calabrese;Ramon Barnes;Edward J. Stanek;Harris Pastides

394
Citations
Traumatic Brain Injury: Oxidative Stress and Neuroprotection

Carolin Cornelius;Carolin Cornelius;Rosalia Crupi;Vittorio Calabrese;Antonio Graziano

359
Citations
Healthy Effects of Plant Polyphenols: Molecular Mechanisms

Manuela Leri;Maria Scuto;Maria Laura Ontario;Vittorio Calabrese

344
Citations
Hormesis: a generalizable and unifying hypothesis.

Edward J. Calabrese;Linda A. Baldwin

341
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Vittorio Calabrese University of Catania

Mitsutoshi Kitao Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

Mark P. Mattson Johns Hopkins University

Salvatore Cuzzocrea University of Messina

Ramon M. Barnes University of Massachusetts Amherst

Damià Barceló University of Almería

Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova University of Dundee

Zhaozhong Feng Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Aristidis Tsatsakis University of Crete

Suresh I. S. Rattan Aarhus University

External Links

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