2026 George A. Brooks: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	110	5520	5185	2977	2760	404	48872

Overview

George A. Brooks is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields in biology and medicine, with a primary focus on metabolism and physiology. Their work contributes to a deeper understanding of metabolic processes involving lactate and its roles in various physiological contexts.

The scientist's recent publications include several notable papers such as:

Lactate as a fulcrum of metabolism (2020) published in Redox Biology
The anaerobic threshold: 50+ years of controversy (2020) published in The Journal of Physiology
Lactate as a myokine and exerkine: drivers and signals of physiology and metabolism (2023) published in Journal of Applied Physiology
Is Lactate an Oncometabolite? Evidence Supporting a Role for Lactate in the Regulation of Transcriptional Activity of Cancer-Related Genes in MCF7 Breast Cancer Cells (2020) published in Frontiers in Oncology
The tortuous path of lactate shuttle discovery: From cinders and boards to the lab and ICU (2020) published in Journal of Sport and Health Science

The frequent co-authors collaborating with George A. Brooks include:

José A. Arevalo
Robert G. Leija
Adam D. Osmond
Justin J. Duong
Casey C. Curl

Brooks publishes regularly in various scientific journals, with the most recurrent venues being:

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
The Journal of Physiology
American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Physiology
The FASEB Journal

The main fields of study addressed in Brooks's research involve Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these, subfields include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Cell Biology, Complementary and alternative medicine, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

Key topics in their research covers areas such as:

Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
Muscle metabolism and nutrition
Diet and metabolism studies
Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Sports Performance and Training
Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism

Best Publications

Exercise physiology: Human bioenergetics and its applications

George A. Brooks

3263
Citations
Free radicals and tissue damage produced by exercise

Kelvin J.A. Davies;Alexandre T. Quintanilha;George A. Brooks;Lester Packer

2608
Citations
Balance of carbohydrate and lipid utilization during exercise: the "crossover" concept

George A. Brooks;Jacques Mercier

1195
Citations
Anaerobic threshold: review of the concept and directions for future research

George A. Brooks

998
Citations
The Science and Translation of Lactate Shuttle Theory

George A. Brooks

957
Citations
Cell-cell and intracellular lactate shuttles

George A. Brooks

917
Citations
Muscular efficiency during steady-rate exercise: effects of speed and work rate.

Glenn A. Gaesser;George A. Brooks

873
Citations
Metabolic bases of excess post-exercise oxygen consumption: a review

Glenn A. Gaesser;Glenn A. Gaesser;George A. Brooks;George A. Brooks

728
Citations
Endurance training affects lactate clearance, not lactate production

Casey M. Donovan;George A. Brooks

710
Citations
The lactate shuttle during exercise and recovery.

George A. Brooks

670
Citations
Chronically and acutely exercised rats: biomarkers of oxidative stress and endogenous antioxidants

Jiankang Liu;Helen C. Yeo;Eva Övervik-Douki;Tory Hagen

655
Citations
Role of mitochondrial lactate dehydrogenase and lactate oxidation in the intracellular lactate shuttle

G A Brooks;H Dubouchaud;M Brown;J P Sicurello

625
Citations
Determination of metabolic and heart rate responses of rats to treadmill exercise.

G. A. Brooks;T. P. White

596
Citations
Intra- and extra-cellular lactate shuttles.

George A. Brooks

585
Citations
Reexamining cancer metabolism: lactate production for carcinogenesis could be the purpose and explanation of the Warburg Effect

Iñigo San-Millán;George A. Brooks

575
Citations
Biochemical adaptation of mitochondria, muscle, and whole-animal respiration to endurance training.

Kelvin J.A. Davies;Kelvin J.A. Davies;Lester Packer;George A. Brooks

574
Citations
Lactate shuttles in Nature

G. A. Brooks

540
Citations
Defining hypoxia: a systems view of VO2, glycolysis, energetics, and intracellular PO2.

R. J. Connett;C. R. Honig;T. E. J. Gayeski;G. A. Brooks

500
Citations
Endurance training, expression, and physiology of LDH, MCT1, and MCT4 in human skeletal muscle

Hervé Dubouchaud;Hervé Dubouchaud;Gail E. Butterfield;Eugene E. Wolfel;Bryan C. Bergman

494
Citations
Current concepts in lactate exchange.

George A. Brooks

483
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Reeves University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Lester Packer University of Southern California

Gary D. Lopaschuk University of Alberta

Kelvin J.A. Davies University of Southern California

Lorna G. Moore University of Colorado Denver

Bruce N. Ames University of California, Berkeley

Wei Gao California Institute of Technology

Dale A. Schoeller University of Wisconsin–Madison

Ronald M. Krauss University of California, San Francisco

Ali Javey University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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