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D-Index
69
Citations
19806
World Ranking
2490
National Ranking
1195

William J. Calhoun publication distribution in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Immunology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Calhoun sits on this spectrum.

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62 publications 807+

This scientist: 231 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 807 publications or more.

William J. Calhoun D-index placement in Immunology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Immunology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Calhoun sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 157+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 157 D-Index or more.

Overview

William J. Calhoun is affiliated with The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the United States. Their research work predominantly centers on medicine, with a specific focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine. Other areas of study include physiology, surgery, infectious diseases, and endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism.

The scientist's main research topics encompass asthma and respiratory diseases, respiratory and cough-related research, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) research, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, alcohol consumption and health effects, blood pressure and hypertension studies, and cardiovascular syncope and autonomic disorders.

William J. Calhoun has contributed to various academic journals, notably publishing multiple papers in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • JAMA
  • CHEST Journal
  • The Lancet
  • European Respiratory Journal

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Efficacy of catheter-based renal denervation in the absence of antihypertensive medications (SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED Pivotal): a multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled trial (2020, The Lancet)
  • Revised ISHAM-ABPA working group clinical practice guidelines for diagnosing, classifying and treating allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycoses (2024, European Respiratory Journal)
  • Benefits of Airway Androgen Receptor Expression in Human Asthma (2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine)
  • Omalizumab in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2022, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology In Practice)
  • A Comprehensive Analysis of the Stability of Blood Eosinophil Levels (2021, Annals of the American Thoracic Society)

Frequent collaborators in William J. Calhoun's research include:

  • Nizar N. Jarjour
  • Kian Fan Chung
  • Elliot Israel
  • Bruce D. Levy
  • Joe Zein

Best Publications

  • Identification of Asthma Phenotypes Using Cluster Analysis in the Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Deborah A. Meyers;Sally E. Wenzel;W. Gerald Teague

  • Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program

    Wendy C. Moore;Eugene R. Bleecker;Douglas Curran-Everett;Serpil C. Erzurum

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • Airway microbiota and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in patients with suboptimally controlled asthma.

    Yvonne J. Huang;Craig E. Nelson;Eoin L. Brodie;Todd Z. DeSantis

  • Tiotropium bromide step-up therapy for adults with uncontrolled asthma

    Stephen P. Peters;Susan J. Kunselman;Nikolina Icitovic;Wendy C. Moore

  • Obesity and asthma, an association modified by age of asthma onset

    Fernando Holguin;Eugene R. Bleecker;William W. Busse;William J. Calhoun

  • Elevated TNF-alpha production by peripheral blood monocytes of weight-losing COPD patients.

    I de Godoy;M Donahoe;W J Calhoun;J Mancino

  • A common cold virus, rhinovirus 16, potentiates airway inflammation after segmental antigen bronchoprovocation in allergic subjects.

    William J. Calhoun;Elliot C. Dick;Lawrence B. Schwartz;William W. Busse

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Infants Is Associated with Predominant Th-2-like Response

    Mariana Román;William J. Calhoun;Kim L. Hinton;Luis F. Avendaño

  • Immediate and late airway response of allergic rhinitis patients to segmental antigen challenge. Characterization of eosinophil and mast cell mediators.

    Julie B. Sedgwick;William J. Calhoun;Gerald J. Gleich;Hirohita Kita

  • Lung function in adults with stable but severe asthma: air trapping and incomplete reversal of obstruction with bronchodilation

    Ronald L. Sorkness;Eugene R. Bleecker;William W. Busse;William J. Calhoun;William J. Calhoun

  • Molecular mechanisms of increased nitric oxide (NO) in asthma: evidence for transcriptional and post-translational regulation of NO synthesis.

    Fuhua H. Guo;Suzy A A Comhair;Shuo Zheng;Raed A. Dweik

  • Unsupervised phenotyping of Severe Asthma Research Program participants using expanded lung data

    Wei Wu;Eugene Bleecker;Wendy Moore;William W. Busse

  • Severe asthma: lessons learned from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Severe Asthma Research Program.

    Nizar N. Jarjour;Serpil C. Erzurum;Eugene R. Bleecker;William J. Calhoun

  • Use of Exhaled Nitric Oxide Measurement to Identify a Reactive, at-Risk Phenotype among Patients with Asthma

    Raed A. Dweik;Raed A. Dweik;Ronald L. Sorkness;Sally Wenzel;Jeffrey Hammel

  • Enhanced superoxide production by alveolar macrophages and air-space cells, airway inflammation, and alveolar macrophage density changes after segmental antigen bronchoprovocation in allergic subjects.

    William J. Calhoun;Holly E. Reed;Denise R. Moest;Carol A. Stevens

  • Benralizumab – a humanized mAb to IL-5Rα with enhanced antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity – a novel approach for the treatment of asthma

    Aasia Ghazi;Anita Trikha;William J Calhoun

  • Comparison of airway and blood eosinophil function after in vivo antigen challenge.

    Julie B. Sedgwick;William Calhoun;Rose F. Vrtis;Mary Ellen Bates

  • Airway Lipoxin A4 Generation and Lipoxin A4 Receptor Expression Are Decreased in Severe Asthma

    Anna Planagumà;Shamsah Kazani;Gautham Marigowda;Oliver Haworth

  • Effect of zafirlukast (accolate) on cellular mediators of inflammation: Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid findings after segmental antigen challenge

    William J. Calhoun;Bernard J. Lavins;Margaret C. Minkwitz;Rhobert Evans

  • Superoxide dismutase inactivation in pathophysiology of asthmatic airway remodeling and reactivity.

    Suzy A.A. Comhair;Weiling Xu;Sudakshina Ghosh;Frederik B.J.M. Thunnissen

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot Israel
Elliot Israel Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Mario Castro
Mario Castro Washington University in St. Louis
Stephen P. Peters
Stephen P. Peters Wake Forest University
William W. Busse
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sally E. Wenzel
Sally E. Wenzel University of Pittsburgh
Serpil C. Erzurum
Serpil C. Erzurum Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Wendy C. Moore
Wendy C. Moore Wake Forest University
Nizar N. Jarjour
Nizar N. Jarjour University of Wisconsin–Madison
Kian Fan Chung
Kian Fan Chung Imperial College London

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