2026 Gyongyi Szabo: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	113	784	749	477	452	464	40013
Medicine	115	4595	4309	2495	2310	463	43440

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Gyongyi Szabo is affiliated with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on liver disease, including diagnosis, treatment, and transplantation, along with related fields such as alcohol consumption effects, metabolism, and immune system disorders.

The scientist's main fields of study include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with subfields of expertise spanning Epidemiology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Molecular Biology, Hepatology, and Immunology.

Among the key topics covered in their research are:

Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Liver Disease and Transplantation
Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
Inflammasome and Immune Disorders
MicroRNA in Disease Regulation
Drug-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Protection

Gyongyi Szabo has published extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent venues of publication include Hepatology, Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology Communications, Gastroenterology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Craig J. McClain, Mack C. Mitchell, Mrigya Babuta, Srinivasan Dasarathy, and Bruce Barton.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Szabo include:

COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets, 2021, Nature
Pathophysiology of decompensated cirrhosis: Portal hypertension, circulatory dysfunction, inflammation, metabolism and mitochondrial dysfunction, 2021, Journal of Hepatology
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: the role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, 2020, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Role of the Inflammasome in Liver Disease, 2021, Annual Review of Pathology Mechanisms of Disease
Inflammasomes in chronic liver disease: Hepatic injury, fibrosis progression and systemic inflammation, 2024, Journal of Hepatology

Best Publications

Elafibranor, an Agonist of the Peroxisome Proliferator−Activated Receptor−α and −δ, Induces Resolution of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Without Fibrosis Worsening

Vlad Ratziu;Vlad Ratziu;Stephen A. Harrison;Sven Francque;Pierre Bedossa

1134
Citations
IL-1 receptor antagonist ameliorates inflammasome-dependent alcoholic steatohepatitis in mice

Jan Petrasek;Shashi Bala;Timea Csak;Dora Lippai

798
Citations
Fatty acid and endotoxin activate inflammasomes in mouse hepatocytes that release danger signals to stimulate immune cells.

Timea Csak;Michal Ganz;Justin Pespisa;Karen Kodys

791
Citations
Gut-liver axis in alcoholic liver disease.

Gyongyi Szabo

759
Citations
Circulating microRNAs in exosomes indicate hepatocyte injury and inflammation in alcoholic, drug-induced and inflammatory liver diseases

Shashi Bala;Jan Petrasek;Shiv Mundkur;Donna Catalano

710
Citations
COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets.

Toni M. Delorey;Carly G. K. Ziegler;Graham Heimberg;Rachelly Normand

673
Citations
Diagnosis and Treatment of Alcohol-Associated Liver Diseases: 2019 Practice Guidance From the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases

David W. Crabb;Gene Y. Im;Gyongyi Szabo;Jessica L. Mellinger

667
Citations
MicroRNAs in liver disease

Gyongyi Szabo;Shashi Bala

656
Citations
Consequences of alcohol consumption on host defence

Gyongyi Szabo

613
Citations
Inflammasome activation and function in liver disease

Gyongyi Szabo;Jan Petrasek

609
Citations
Signalling pathways in alcohol-induced liver inflammation☆

Pranoti Mandrekar;Gyongyi Szabo

587
Citations
Inflammasomes in liver diseases

Gyongyi Szabo;Timea Csak

575
Citations
The critical role of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 in alcoholic liver disease is independent of the common TLR adapter MyD88

Istvan Hritz;Pranoti Mandrekar;Arumugam Velayudham;Donna Catalano

522
Citations
Recovery of ethanol-induced Akkermansia muciniphila depletion ameliorates alcoholic liver disease.

Christoph Grander;Timon E Adolph;Verena Wieser;Patrick Lowe

521
Citations
A recent perspective on alcohol, immunity and host defense

Gyongyi Szabo;Pranoti Mandrekar

506
Citations
Cytokines and Alcohol

Fulton T. Crews;Rabih Bechara;Lou Ann Brown;David M. Guidot

501
Citations
Standard Definitions and Common Data Elements for Clinical Trials in Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis: Recommendation From the NIAAA Alcoholic Hepatitis Consortia

David W. Crabb;Ramon Bataller;Naga P. Chalasani;Patrick S. Kamath

482
Citations
Up-regulation of MicroRNA-155 in Macrophages Contributes to Increased Tumor Necrosis Factor α (TNFα) Production via Increased mRNA Half-life in Alcoholic Liver Disease *

Shashi Bala;Miguel Marcos;Karen Kodys;Timea Csak

461
Citations
Exosomes from Hepatitis C Infected Patients Transmit HCV Infection and Contain Replication Competent Viral RNA in Complex with Ago2-miR122-HSP90

Terence N. Bukong;Fatemeh Momen-Heravi;Karen Kodys;Shashi Bala

422
Citations
Hepatitis C core and nonstructural 3 proteins trigger toll-like receptor 2-mediated pathways and inflammatory activation

Angela Dolganiuc;Shilpa Oak;Karen Kodys;Douglas T. Golenbock

411
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna Catalano University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Jan Petrasek Czech Academy of Sciences

Evelyn A. Kurt-Jones University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Craig J. McClain University of Louisville

Bruce A. Barton University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Laura E. Nagy Cleveland Clinic

Timothy R. Morgan California State University, Long Beach

Adrian M. Di Bisceglie Saint Louis University

Douglas T. Golenbock University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Donald E. Ingber Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Gyongyi Szabo

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