Peter W. Hochachka

Peter W. Hochachka publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Peter W. Hochachka D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
• 1993 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
• 1983 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1977 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution

  Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  5107
  Citations

• Defense strategies against hypoxia and hypothermia

  PW Hochachka

  1558
  Citations

• Strategies of biochemical adaptation

  Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  1255
  Citations

• Unifying theory of hypoxia tolerance: molecular/metabolic defense and rescue mechanisms for surviving oxygen lack.

  P W Hochachka;L T Buck;C J Doll;S C Land

  1236
  Citations

• Protons and anaerobiosis

  Peter W. Hochachka;Thomas P. Mommsen

  812
  Citations

• Mechanism, origin, and evolution of anoxia tolerance in animals☆ ☆

  P.W. Hochachka;P.L. Lutz

  675
  Citations

• Allometric cascade as a unifying principle of body mass effects on metabolism

  Charles-A. Darveau;Raul K. Suarez;Russel D. Andrews;Peter W. Hochachka

  672
  Citations

• Sites and patterns of protein and amino acid utilization during the spawning migration of salmon

  T. P. Mommsen;C. J. French;P. W. Hochachka

  525
  Citations

• Metabolic Arrest and the Control of Biological Time

  Peter W. Hochachka;Michael Guppy

  414
  Citations

• Invertebrate facultative anaerobiosis.

  P. W. Hochachka;T. Mustafa

  355
  Citations

• Regional blood flow during simulated diving in the conscious Weddell seal

  W. M. Zapol;G. C. Liggins;R. C. Schneider;J. Qvist

  338
  Citations

• Biochemical Adaptation to the Environment

  George N. Somero;Peter W. Hochachka

  335
  Citations

• Functional significance of isoenzymes in thermal acclimatization. Acetylcholinesterase from trout brain

  John Baldwin;P. W. Hochachka

  323
  Citations

• Ethanol: novel end product of vertebrate anaerobic metabolism

  Eric A. Shoubridge;P. W. Hochachka

  301
  Citations

• The adaptation of enzymes to temperature

  P.W. Hochachka;G.N. Somero

  298
  Citations

• Surviving Hypoxia: Mechanisms of Control and Adaptation

  Peter W. Hochachka

  264
  Citations

• Buffering capacity of deproteinized human vastus lateralis muscle.

  W. S. Parkhouse;D. C. McKenzie;P. W. Hochachka;W. K. Ovalle

  251
  Citations

• The effect of temperature on catalytic and regulatory functions of pyruvate kinases of the rainbow trout and the Antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii

  G. N. Somero;P. W. Hochachka

  234
  Citations

• Animal Life Without Oxygen: Basic Biochemical Mechanisms

  Peter W. Hochachka;Jeremy Fields;Tariq Mustafa

  231
  Citations

• Anoxic suppression of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase and constant membrane potential in hepatocytes: support for channel arrest

  L. T. Buck;P. W. Hochachka

  222
  Citations