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Sally A. Amundson publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sally A. Amundson sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 125 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Sally A. Amundson D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sally A. Amundson is a researcher affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Additionally, they have contributed to research in Cancer Research and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics center on the effects of radiation exposure, radiation therapy and dosimetry, molecular biology techniques and applications, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, carcinogens and genotoxicity assessment, radiation effects and dosimetry, and the impact of spaceflight on biological systems.

Frequent venues for their publications include Radiation Research, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Radiation Biology, Advanced Science, and Cytogenetic and Genome Research.

  • Radiation Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • Advanced Science
  • Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Their collaborations include work with several co-authors, most notably David J. Brenner, Shanaz A. Ghandhi, Guy Garty, Igor Shuryak, and Brian Ponnaiya.

  • David J. Brenner
  • Shanaz A. Ghandhi
  • Guy Garty
  • Igor Shuryak
  • Brian Ponnaiya

Among recent scholarly contributions, the following papers are highlighted:

  • Inter-laboratory comparison of gene expression biodosimetry for protracted radiation exposures as part of the RENEB and EURADOS WG10 2019 exercise, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Transcriptomics for radiation biodosimetry: progress and challenges, 2021, International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • Modeling the Effects of Protracted Cosmic Radiation in a Human Organ-on-Chip Platform, 2024, Advanced Science
  • Gene expression for biodosimetry and effect prediction purposes: promises, pitfalls and future directions - key session ConRad 2021, 2021, International Journal of Radiation Biology
  • RENEB Inter-Laboratory Comparison 2021: Inter-Assay Comparison of Eight Dosimetry Assays, 2023, Radiation Research

Best Publications

  • Roles for p53 in growth arrest and apoptosis: putting on the brakes after genotoxic stress

    Sally A Amundson;Timothy G Myers;Albert J Fornace

  • p53-mediated DNA repair responses to UV radiation: studies of mouse cells lacking p53, p21, and/or gadd45 genes.

    Martin L. Smith;James M. Ford;M. Christine Hollander;Rachel A. Bortnick

  • An Informatics Approach Identifying Markers of Chemosensitivity in Human Cancer Cell Lines

    Sally A. Amundson;Timothy G. Myers;Dominic Scudiero;Shinichi Kitada

  • Amplification of PPM1D in human tumors abrogates p53 tumor-suppressor activity

    Dmitry V. Bulavin;Oleg N. Demidov;Shin'ichi Saito;Paivikki Kauraniemi;Paivikki Kauraniemi

  • p53-dependent and -independent Regulation of the Death Receptor KILLER/DR5 Gene Expression in Response to Genotoxic Stress and Tumor Necrosis Factor α

    M. Saeed Sheikh;Timothy F. Burns;Ying Huang;Gen Sheng Wu

  • Fluorescent cDNA microarray hybridization reveals complexity and heterogeneity of cellular genotoxic stress responses

    Sally A. Amundson;Mike Bittner;Yidong Chen;Jeffrey Trent

  • Biological effects in unirradiated human tissue induced by radiation damage up to 1 mm away.

    Oleg V. Belyakov;Stephen A. Mitchell;Deep Parikh;Gerhard Randers-Pehrson

  • Mechanism of radiation-induced bystander effects: a unifying model.

    Tom K. Hei;Hongning Zhou;Vladimir N. Ivanov;Mei Hong

  • Identification of Potential mRNA Biomarkers in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes for Human Exposure to Ionizing Radiation

    Sally A. Amundson;Khanh T. Do;Sohrab Shahab;Michael Bittner

  • Differential responses of stress genes to low dose-rate gamma irradiation

    Sally A. Amundson;Richard Anthony Lee;Christine A. Koch-Paiz;Michael L. Bittner

  • Mechanism of Radiation-Induced Bystander Effect: Role of the Cyclooxygenase-2 Signaling Pathway

    Hongning Zhou;Vladimir N. Ivanov;Joseph Gillespie;Charles R. Geard

  • Development of gene expression signatures for practical radiation biodosimetry.

    Sunirmal Paul;Sally A. Amundson

  • Human In vivo Radiation-Induced Biomarkers Gene Expression Changes in Radiotherapy Patients

    Sally A. Amundson;Marcy B. Grace;Christopher B. McLeland;Michael W. Epperly

  • ATF3 induction following DNA damage is regulated by distinct signaling pathways and over-expression of ATF3 protein suppresses cells growth.

    Feiyue Fan;Shunqian Jin;Sally A Amundson;Tong Tong

  • Integrating Global Gene Expression and Radiation Survival Parameters across the 60 Cell Lines of the National Cancer Institute Anticancer Drug Screen

    Sally A. Amundson;Sally A. Amundson;Khanh T. Do;Lisa C. Vinikoor;R. Anthony Lee

  • Induction of stress genes by low doses of gamma rays.

    Sally A. Amundson;Khanh T. Do;Albert J. Fornace

  • p38 and Chk1 kinases: different conductors for the G2/M checkpoint symphony

    Dmitry V Bulavin;Sally A Amundson;Albert J Fornace

  • Induction of Gene Expression as a Monitor of Exposure to Ionizing Radiation

    Sally A. Amundson;Michael Bittner;Paul Meltzer;Jeffrey Trent

  • The antiapoptotic decoy receptor TRID/TRAIL-R3 is a p53-regulated DNA damage-inducible gene that is overexpressed in primary tumors of the gastrointestinal tract

    M Saeed Sheikh;Ying Huang;Ester A Fernandez-Salas;Wafik S El-Deiry

  • BiodosEPR-2006 Meeting: Acute dosimetry consensus committee recommendations on biodosimetry applications in events involving uses of radiation by terrorists and radiation accidents

    George A. Alexander;Harold M. Swartz;Sally A. Amundson;William F. Blakely

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert J. Fornace
Albert J. Fornace Georgetown University
David J. Brenner
David J. Brenner Columbia University
Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health
Tom K. Hei
Tom K. Hei Columbia University
Jeffrey M. Trent
Jeffrey M. Trent Translational Genomics Research Institute
Timothy G. Myers
Timothy G. Myers National Institutes of Health
Qiao Lin
Qiao Lin Columbia University
Kenneth W. Turteltaub
Kenneth W. Turteltaub Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Suzanne L. Wolden
Suzanne L. Wolden Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Andrew J. Wyrobek
Andrew J. Wyrobek Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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