2026 William G. Nelson: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	110	5581	5244	3001	2782	356	43335

Overview

William G. Nelson is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, cancer research, oncology, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main research topics include prostate cancer treatment and research, prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer, lipids, and metabolism, molecular biology techniques and applications, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and bladder and urothelial cancer treatments.

Frequent publication venues for William G. Nelson include:

The Prostate
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Cancer Research
Tenside Surfactants Detergents
Nature Reviews Urology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by this scientist are:

Genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity in prostate cancer, 2020, Nature Reviews Urology
Resistance to androgen receptor signaling inhibition does not necessitate development of neuroendocrine prostate cancer, 2021, JCI Insight
The association of sex steroid hormone concentrations with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and liver enzymes in US men, 2020, Liver International
Single-cell atlas of epithelial and stromal cell heterogeneity by lobe and strain in the mouse prostate, 2022, The Prostate
GSTP1 positive prostatic adenocarcinomas are more common in Black than White men in the United States, 2021, PLoS ONE

William G. Nelson collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

Angelo M. De Marzo
Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian
Theodore L. DeWeese
Ajay Vaghasia
Alan K. Meeker

Best Publications

Inflammation in prostate carcinogenesis

Angelo M. De Marzo;Angelo M. De Marzo;Elizabeth A. Platz;Siobhan Sutcliffe;Jianfeng Xu

2090
Citations
DNA strand breaks: the DNA template alterations that trigger p53-dependent DNA damage response pathways.

William G. Nelson;Michael B. Kastan

1168
Citations
Proliferative Inflammatory Atrophy of the Prostate : Implications for Prostatic Carcinogenesis

Angelo M. De Marzo;Valerie L. Marchi;Jonathan I. Epstein;William G. Nelson

1139
Citations
Cytidine methylation of regulatory sequences near the pi-class glutathione S-transferase gene accompanies human prostatic carcinogenesis

Wen-Hsiang Lee;R. A. Morton;J. I. Epstein;J. D. Brooks

1064
Citations
Immunolocalization of keratin polypeptides in human epidermis using monoclonal antibodies.

Janet Woodcock-Mitchell;Riva Eichner;William G. Nelson;Tung Tien Sun;Tung Tien Sun

928
Citations
Correlation of specific keratins with different types of epithelial differentiation: Monoclonal antibody studies

Scheffer C.G. Tseng;Mikko J. Jarvinen;William G. Nelson;Jing Wei Huang

799
Citations
Copy number analysis indicates monoclonal origin of lethal metastatic prostate cancer

Wennuan Liu;Sari Laitinen;Sofia Khan;Mauno Vihinen

751
Citations
Induction of immunity to prostate cancer antigens: results of a clinical trial of vaccination with irradiated autologous prostate tumor cells engineered to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor using ex vivo gene transfer

Jonathan W Simons;Bahar Mikhak;Ju-Fay Chang;Angelo M DeMarzo

705
Citations
Pathological and molecular aspects of prostate cancer.

Angelo M DeMarzo;William G Nelson;William B Isaacs;Jonathan I Epstein

685
Citations
Androgen-induced TOP2B-mediated double-strand breaks and prostate cancer gene rearrangements

Michael C Haffner;Martin J Aryee;Antoun Toubaji;David M Esopi

674
Citations
Human papillomavirus 16 E6 expression disrupts the p53-mediated cellular response to DNA damage

Theodore D. Kessis;Robert J. Slebos;William G. Nelson;Michael B. Kastan

674
Citations
Hypermethylation of CpG Islands in Primary and Metastatic Human Prostate Cancer

Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian;Jeanne Kowalski;Mark L. Gonzalgo;Marianna Zahurak

628
Citations
Nuclear events of apoptosis in vitro in cell-free mitotic extracts: a model system for analysis of the active phase of apoptosis.

Yuri A. Lazebnik;Susan Cole;Carol A. Cooke;William G. Nelson

596
Citations
Cyclooxygenases in cancer: progress and perspective.

Shan Zha;Vasan Yegnasubramanian;William G. Nelson;William B. Isaacs

581
Citations
Synergistic activation of functional estrogen receptor (ER)-α by DNA methyltransferase and histone deacetylase inhibition in human ER-α-negative breast cancer cells

Xiaowei Yang;Dawn L. Phillips;Anne T. Ferguson;William G. Nelson

546
Citations
Keratin classes: molecular markers for different types of epithelial differentiation.

Tung-Tien Sun;Tung-Tien Sun;Riva Eichner;Riva Eichner;William G. Nelson;William G. Nelson;C.G. Scheffer Tseng;C.G. Scheffer Tseng

537
Citations
Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia: An Important Target for Accelerated New Agent Development: Recommendations of the American Association for Cancer Research Task Force on the Treatment and Prevention of Intraepithelial Neoplasia

Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy;Gary J. Kelloff;Gary B. Gordon;Andrew J. Dannenberg

531
Citations
Tracking the clonal origin of lethal prostate cancer.

Michael C. Haffner;Timothy Mosbruger;David M. Esopi;Helen Fedor

529
Citations
Bioactivity of Autologous Irradiated Renal Cell Carcinoma Vaccines Generated by Ex Vivo Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Gene Transfer

J.W. Simons;E.M. Jaffee;C.E. Weber;H.J. Levitsky

527
Citations
The controversial relationship between benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer: The role of inflammation

Cosimo De Nunzio;Gero Kramer;Michael Marberger;Rodolfo Montironi

521
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo M. De Marzo Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Elizabeth A. Platz Johns Hopkins University

William B. Isaacs Johns Hopkins University

Sabine Rohrmann University of Zurich

Alan K. Meeker Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Lori J. Sokoll Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Nader Rifai Boston Children's Hospital

Michael A. Carducci Johns Hopkins University

Alan W. Partin Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

External Links

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