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Susan E. Wert publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan E. Wert sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 175 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Susan E. Wert D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Susan E. Wert sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 90 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Susan E. Wert is affiliated with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology as a subfield. The main topics of their work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies.

Their publication record includes two recent papers, both addressing ontology-guided segmentation and object identification related to developmental mouse lung immunofluorescent images. The first paper was published in 2021 in BMC Bioinformatics, and the second appeared in 2020 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). These papers contribute to methods for image analysis within developmental biology contexts.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Susan E. Wert include:

  • Anna Maria Masci
  • S. M. White
  • Ben Neely
  • Mary-Anne Ardini
  • Carol Hill

The venues where these works are published emphasize bioinformatics and preprint platforms, specifically:

  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The focus on biomedical text mining and ontologies suggests an intersection of computational methods with molecular and developmental biology, highlighting structured data extraction and segmentation tools for biological images and datasets. This interdisciplinary approach integrates informatics techniques into biological research, which is reflected consistently in the scientist's recent contributions.

Best Publications

  • A Mutation in the Surfactant Protein C Gene Associated with Familial Interstitial Lung Disease

    Lawrence M. Nogee;Alston E. Dunbar;Susan E. Wert;Frederic Askin

  • Targeted disruption of the surfactant protein B gene disrupts surfactant homeostasis, causing respiratory failure in newborn mice

    Jean C. Clark;Susan E. Wert;Cindy J. Bachurski;Mildred T. Stahlman

  • ABCA3 gene mutations in newborns with fatal surfactant deficiency.

    Sergey Shulenin;Lawrence M. Nogee;Tarmo Annilo;Susan E. Wert

  • Tissue-specific regulation of the alpha-myosin heavy chain gene promoter in transgenic mice.

    A Subramaniam;W K Jones;J Gulick;S Wert

  • Targeted expression of a dominant negative FGF receptor blocks branching morphogenesis and epithelial differentiation of the mouse lung.

    K. Peters;S. Werner;Xiang Liao;S. Wert

  • Increased metalloproteinase activity, oxidant production, and emphysema in surfactant protein D gene-inactivated mice.

    Susan E. Wert;Mitsuhiro Yoshida;Ann Marie LeVine;Machiko Ikegami

  • Interleukin-1β Causes Pulmonary Inflammation, Emphysema, and Airway Remodeling in the Adult Murine Lung

    Urpo Lappalainen;Jeffrey A. Whitsett;Susan E. Wert;Jay W. Tichelaar

  • Early restriction of peripheral and proximal cell lineages during formation of the lung.

    Anne Karina T. Perl;Susan E. Wert;Andras Nagy;Corrinne G. Lobe

  • Alveolar Surfactant Homeostasis and the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Disease

    Jeffrey A. Whitsett;Susan E. Wert;Timothy E. Weaver

  • Diffuse lung disease in young children: application of a novel classification scheme.

    Gail H. Deutsch;Lisa R. Young;Robin R. Deterding;Leland L. Fan

  • Altered surfactant function and structure in SP-A gene targeted mice

    Thomas R. Korfhagen;Michael D. Bruno;Gary F. Ross;Karen M. Huelsman

  • β-Catenin Is Required for Specification of Proximal/Distal Cell Fate during Lung Morphogenesis

    Michael L. Mucenski;Susan E. Wert;Jennifer M. Nation;David E. Loudy

  • Surfactant Protein-D Regulates Surfactant Phospholipid Homeostasis in Vivo

    Thomas R. Korfhagen;Vladimir Sheftelyevich;Michael S. Burhans;Michael D. Bruno

  • Transcriptional Elements from the Human SP-C Gene Direct Expression in the Primordial Respiratory Epithelium of Transgenic Mice

    Susan E. Wert;Stephan W. Glasser;Thomas R. Korfhagen;Jeffrey A. Whitsett

  • SPDEF is required for mouse pulmonary goblet cell differentiation and regulates a network of genes associated with mucus production

    Gang Chen;Thomas R. Korfhagen;Yan Xu;Joseph Kitzmiller

  • ABCA3 mutations associated with pediatric interstitial lung disease.

    Janine E. Bullard;Susan E. Wert;Jeffrey A. Whitsett;Michael Dean

  • Compensatory roles of Foxa1 and Foxa2 during lung morphogenesis.

    Huajing Wan;Sharon Dingle;Yan Xu;Valérie Besnard

  • GM-CSF autoantibodies and neutrophil dysfunction in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

    Kanji Uchida;David C. Beck;Takashi Yamamoto;Pierre-Yves Berclaz

  • EOTAXIN IS REQUIRED FOR THE BASELINE LEVEL OF TISSUE EOSINOPHILS

    Angela N. Matthews;Daniel S. Friend;Nives Zimmermann;Mindy N. Sarafi

  • Allelic heterogeneity in hereditary surfactant protein B (SP-B) deficiency.

    Lawrence M. Nogee;Susan E. Wert;Sherri A. Proffit;William M. Hull

Frequent Co-Authors

jeffrey a whitsett
jeffrey a whitsett Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Yan Xu
Yan Xu Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jeffrey A. Whitsett
Jeffrey A. Whitsett Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Bruce C. Trapnell
Bruce C. Trapnell Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Vladimir V. Kalinichenko
Vladimir V. Kalinichenko Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Bruce J. Aronow
Bruce J. Aronow Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Michael Dean
Michael Dean National Institutes of Health
Aaron M. Zorn
Aaron M. Zorn Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Jerry B. Lingrel
Jerry B. Lingrel University of Cincinnati
Scott R. White
Scott R. White University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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