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Gianfranco Alpini

Gianfranco Alpini

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
97
Citations
26659
World Ranking
9437
National Ranking
4868

Gianfranco Alpini publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gianfranco Alpini sits on this spectrum.

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 679 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Gianfranco Alpini D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gianfranco Alpini sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gianfranco Alpini is a researcher affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their academic work is primarily situated within the field of Medicine, with a significant focus on subfields such as Surgery, Hepatology, Epidemiology, Oncology, and Immunology. The research covers a wide range of topics related to liver health and diseases, immunological responses, and cancer studies.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
  • Liver Physiology and Pathology
  • Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
  • Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
  • Mast Cells and Histamine

Gianfranco Alpini has contributed to a number of recent papers in prominent journals, reflecting diverse aspects of liver physiology and disease mechanisms:

  • The Tumor Microenvironment in Cholangiocarcinoma Progression, 2020, Hepatology
  • Kupffer Cells, 2020, American Journal Of Pathology
  • Indole Alleviates Diet-Induced Hepatic Steatosis and Inflammation in a Manner Involving Myeloid Cell 6-Phosphofructo-2-Kinase/Fructose-2,6-Biphosphatase 3, 2020, Hepatology
  • Melatonin and Circadian Rhythms in Liver Diseases: Functional Roles and Potential Therapies, 2020, Journal of Pineal Research
  • Mast Cells Regulate Ductular Reaction and Intestinal Inflammation in Cholestasis Through Farnesoid X Receptor Signaling, 2021, Hepatology

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors contributing to a substantial body of joint work. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Heather Francis
  • Shannon Glaser
  • Lindsey Kennedy
  • Tianhao Zhou
  • Konstantina Kyritsi

Gianfranco Alpini has published extensively in several key scientific venues, emphasizing the significance of their research contributions within the liver disease and pathology community. The journals with the highest number of their publications are:

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Gastroenterology
  • American Journal Of Pathology
  • Hepatology
  • The FASEB Journal

Best Publications

  • Biliary physiology in rats with bile ductular cell hyperplasia. Evidence for a secretory function of proliferated bile ductules.

    G. Alpini;Renato Lenzi;L. Sarkozi;N. Tavoloni

  • Hedgehog signaling regulates epithelial-mesenchymal transition during biliary fibrosis in rodents and humans

    Alessia Omenetti;Alessandro Porrello;Youngmi Jung;Liu Yang

  • Human hepatic stem cell and maturational liver lineage biology.

    Rachael Turner;Oswaldo Lozoya;Yunfang Wang;Vincenzo Cardinale

  • The Pathophysiology of Biliary Epithelia

    Gianfranco Alpini;James M. McGill;Nicholas F. LaRusso

  • Ductular reaction in liver diseases: pathological mechanisms and translational significances

    Keisaku Sato;Keisaku Sato;Keisaku Sato;Marco Marzioni;Fanyin Meng;Fanyin Meng;Heather Francis;Heather Francis;Heather Francis

  • Proliferating cholangiocytes: a neuroendocrine compartment in the diseased liver.

    Domenico Alvaro;Maria Grazia Mancino;Shannon Glaser;Eugenio Gaudio

  • Expression of STING Is Increased in Liver Tissues From Patients With NAFLD and Promotes Macrophage-Mediated Hepatic Inflammation and Fibrosis in Mice.

    Xianjun Luo;Honggui Li;Linqiang Ma;Jing Zhou

  • Morphological, molecular, and functional heterogeneity of cholangiocytes from normal rat liver

    Gianfranco Alpini;Stuart Roberts;Susan M. Kuntz;Yoshiyuki Ueno

  • The biliary tree-a reservoir of multipotent stem cells

    Vincenzo Cardinale;Yunfang Wang;Guido Carpino;Gemma Mendel

  • Fate-Mapping Evidence that Hepatic Stellate Cells are Epithelial Progenitors in Adult Mouse Livers

    Liu Yang;Youngmi Jung;Alessia Omenetti;Rafal P. Witek

  • Recent advances in the isolation of liver cells

    Gianfranco Alpini;John O. Phillips;Benjamin Vroman;Nicholas F. Larusso

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Stimulates Rat Cholangiocyte Proliferation Via an Autocrine Mechanism

    Eugenio Gaudio;Barbara Barbaro;Barbara Barbaro;Domenico Alvaro;Shannon Glaser

  • Lineage tracing demonstrates no evidence of cholangiocyte epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in murine models of hepatic fibrosis

    Andrew S. Chu;Rosalyn Diaz;Jia-Ji Hui;Kilangsungla Yanger

  • Cholangiocyte proliferation and liver fibrosis.

    Shannon S. Glaser;Eugenio Gaudio;Tim Miller;Domenico Alvaro

  • Heterogeneity of the proliferative capacity of rat cholangiocytes after bile duct ligation

    Gianfranco Alpini;Shannon S. Glaser;Yoshiyuki Ueno;L. Pham

  • Estrogens stimulate proliferation of intrahepatic biliary epithelium in rats.

    Domenico Alvaro;Gianfranco Alpini;Paolo Onori;Lucia Perego

  • Regression of cholangiocyte proliferation after cessation of ANIT feeding is coupled with increased apoptosis.

    Gene Lesage;Shannon Glaser;Yoshiyuki Ueno;Domenico Alvaro

  • Exosomes in liver pathology

    Keisaku Sato;Fanyin Meng;Shannon Glaser;Gianfranco Alpini;Gianfranco Alpini

  • Molecular and functional heterogeneity of cholangiocytes from rat liver after bile duct ligation.

    Gianfranco Alpini;Charles Ulrich;Stuart Roberts;John O. Phillips

  • Functional expression of the apical Na+-dependent bile acid transporter in large but not small rat cholangiocytes.

    Gianfranco Alpini;Shannon S. Glaser;Rebecca Rodgers;Jo Lynne Phinizy

Frequent Co-Authors

Shannon Glaser
Shannon Glaser Texas A&M University
Domenico Alvaro
Domenico Alvaro Sapienza University of Rome
Eugenio Gaudio
Eugenio Gaudio Sapienza University of Rome
Yoshiyuki Ueno
Yoshiyuki Ueno Tohoku University
Pietro Invernizzi
Pietro Invernizzi University of Milano-Bicocca
David C. Zawieja
David C. Zawieja Texas A&M University
Hidekazu Tsukamoto
Hidekazu Tsukamoto University of Southern California
Yuqing Huo
Yuqing Huo Augusta University
Cynthia J. Meininger
Cynthia J. Meininger Texas A&M University
M. Eric Gershwin
M. Eric Gershwin University of California, Davis

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