2026 Linda Partridge: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	142	221	208	11	11	537	86912
Biology and Biochemistry	145	216	190	12	9	522	93804

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
1996 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Linda Partridge is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has made significant contributions to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research spans various subfields including molecular biology, aging, physiology, epidemiology, and the endocrine and autonomic systems.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Genetics, aging, and longevity in model organisms
Autophagy in disease and therapy
Circadian rhythm and melatonin
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research
Adipose tissue and metabolism
FOXO transcription factor regulation
Alzheimer's disease research and treatments

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Aging
The Lancet Healthy Longevity
Nature Communications
eLife

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Linda Partridge are:

"Hallmarks of aging: An expanding universe" (2023), published in Cell
"Autophagy in healthy aging and disease" (2021), published in Nature Aging
"The quest to slow ageing through drug discovery" (2020), published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
"Common genetic associations between age-related diseases" (2021), published in Nature Aging
"Ageing-associated changes in transcriptional elongation influence longevity" (2023), published in Nature

Frequent co-authors involved in their work include:

Sebastian Grönke
Janet M. Thornton
Maarouf Baghdadi
Magda L. Atilano
Yuxuan Lu

Linda Partridge was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1996.

Best Publications

The Hallmarks of Aging

Carlos López-Otín;Maria A. Blasco;Linda Partridge;Manuel Serrano

13838
Citations
Extending Healthy Life Span-From Yeast to Humans

Luigi Fontana;Linda Partridge;Valter D. Longo

3232
Citations
Extension of Life-Span by Loss of CHICO, a Drosophila Insulin Receptor Substrate Protein

David J. Clancy;David Gems;Lawrence G. Harshman;Sean Oldham

1739
Citations
Ageing as a Risk Factor for Disease

Teresa Niccoli;Linda Partridge

1643
Citations
Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products

Tracey Chapman;Lindsay F. Liddle;John M. Kalb;Mariana F. Wolfner

1534
Citations
Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinase 1 Signaling Regulates Mammalian Life Span

Colin Selman;Jennifer M A Tullet;Daniela Wieser;Elaine Elizabeth Irvine

1250
Citations
Promoting Health and Longevity through Diet: From Model Organisms to Humans

Luigi Fontana;Linda Partridge

1187
Citations
Mechanisms of Life Span Extension by Rapamycin in the Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster

Ivana Bjedov;Janne M. Toivonen;Fiona Kerr;Cathy Slack

1182
Citations
Oxford Surveys in Evolutionary Biology

Mark Ridley;Richard Dawkins;Paul H. Harvey;Linda Partridge

1070
Citations
Facing up to the global challenges of ageing.

Linda Partridge;Joris Deelen;Joris Deelen;P. Eline Slagboom;P. Eline Slagboom

1032
Citations
Longer lifespan, altered metabolism, and stress resistance in Drosophila from ablation of cells making insulin-like ligands

Susan J. Broughton;Matthew D. W. Piper;Tomoatsu Ikeya;Timothy M. Bass

942
Citations
Unraveling the biological roles of reactive oxygen species.

Michael P. Murphy;Arne Holmgren;Nils Göran Larsson;Barry Halliwell

918
Citations
Amino-acid imbalance explains extension of lifespan by dietary restriction in Drosophila.

Richard C. Grandison;Matthew D. W. Piper;Linda Partridge

864
Citations
Autophagy in healthy aging and disease

Yahyah Aman;Yahyah Aman;Tomas Schmauck-Medina;Malene Hansen;Richard I. Morimoto

824
Citations
Signaling by IL-6 promotes alternative activation of macrophages to limit endotoxemia and obesity-associated resistance to insulin

Jan Mauer;Bhagirath Chaurasia;Julia Goldau;Merly C Vogt

802
Citations
Optimality, mutation and the evolution of ageing

L. Partridge;N. H. Barton

796
Citations
C9orf72 repeat expansions cause neurodegeneration in Drosophila through arginine-rich proteins.

Sarah Mizielinska;Sebastian Grönke;Teresa Niccoli;Charlotte E. Ridler

763
Citations
Absence of effects of Sir2 overexpression on lifespan in C. elegans and Drosophila

Camilla Burnett;Sara Valentini;Filipe Gomes Cabreiro;Martin Goss

726
Citations
The Ecological Context of Life History Evolution

Linda Partridge;Paul H. Harvey

707
Citations
Mechanisms of ageing: public or private?

Linda Partridge;David Gems

698
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet M. Thornton European Bioinformatics Institute

David Gems University College London

Tracey Chapman University of East Anglia

Kevin Fowler University College London

Paul H. Harvey University of Oxford

Nils-Göran Larsson Karolinska Institute

Dominic J. Withers Imperial College London

Colin Selman University of Glasgow

Michael P. Murphy University of Cambridge

Ary A. Hoffmann University of Melbourne

External Links

Wikipedia of Linda Partridge Personal website of Linda Partridge

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