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2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
101
Citations
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World Ranking
1471
National Ranking
838

Medicine

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William W. Chin 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 William W. Chin sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 360 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William W. Chin 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 William W. Chin sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

William W. Chin is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, notably biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine. Within these broad areas, their work focuses on subfields such as molecular biology, infectious diseases, food science, pharmacology, and physiology.

The scientist's research addresses topics including gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, probiotics and fermented foods, histone deacetylase inhibitors research, cholinesterase and neurodegenerative diseases, pain mechanisms and treatments, and health and medical research impacts.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Food Research International
  • New England Journal of Medicine
  • PAIN Reports
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by William W. Chin are:

  • The Human Touch - Addressing Health Care's Workforce Problem amid the Pandemic, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Small intestine-residing probiotics suppress neurotoxic bile acid production via extracellular vesicle-mediated inhibition of Clostridium scindens, 2025, Food Research International
  • A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of histone deacetylase type 6 inhibition for the treatment of painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy, 2023, PAIN Reports
  • The NCATS Assay Guidance Manual programme: advancing the practice and rigour of preclinical translation, 2022, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Mutation of a stromal C-terminal threonine residue of Photosystem II subunit S slows down NPQ induction and speeds up relaxation, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

William W. Chin has collaborated with several researchers, with frequent co-authors including Bao-Hong Lee, Q.-S. Hsu, Chih-Yao Hou, M. Ramachandra Pai, and Chi-Wei Lin.

Best Publications

  • Interaction of oestrogen receptor with the regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol-3-OH kinase

    Tommaso Simoncini;Ali Hafezi-Moghadam;Derek P. Brazil;Klaus Ley

  • Molecular biology of the pituitary gonadotropins.

    Soheyla D. Gharib;Margaret E. Wierman;Margaret A. Shupnik;William W. Chin

  • TRAM-1, A Novel 160-kDa Thyroid Hormone Receptor Activator Molecule, Exhibits Distinct Properties from Steroid Receptor Coactivator-1 *

    Akira Takeshita;Guemalli R. Cardona;Noriyuki Koibuchi;Chen-Shian Suen

  • Identification of a thyroid hormone receptor that is pituitary-specific.

    RA Hodin;MA Lazar;BI Wintman;DS Darling

  • Escape from the acute Wolff-Chaikoff effect is associated with a decrease in thyroid sodium/iodide symporter messenger ribonucleic acid and protein.

    Peter H. K. Eng;Guemalli R. Cardona;Shih-Lieh Fang;Michael Previti

  • Direct effects of leptin on brown and white adipose tissue.

    C A Siegrist-Kaiser;V Pauli;C E Juge-Aubry;O Boss

  • Thyroid Hormone Action and Brain Development

    Noriyuki Koibuchi;William W Chin

  • Inhibition of thyroid hormone action by a non-hormone binding c-erbA protein generated by alternative mRNA splicing.

    Koenig Rj;Lazar Ma;Hodin Ra;Brent Ga

  • Molecular Identification of a Major Retinoic-Acid-Synthesizing Enzyme, a Retinaldehyde-Specific Dehydrogenase

    Dayao Zhao;Dayao Zhao;Peter McCaffery;Kathryn J. Ivins;Kathryn J. Ivins;Rachael L. Neve

  • Abnormal spermatogenesis in RXR beta mutant mice.

    P Kastner;M Mark;M Leid;A Gansmuller

  • A novel member of the thyroid/steroid hormone receptor family is encoded by the opposite strand of the rat c-erbA alpha transcriptional unit.

    M A Lazar;R A Hodin;D S Darling;W W Chin

  • Evidence for an autocrine role of activin B within rat anterior pituitary cultures.

    Anne Z. Corrigan;Louise M. Bilezikjian;Rona S. Carroll;Laura N. Bald

  • A Naturally Acquired Quotidian-Type Malaria in Man Transferable to Monkeys

    William Chin;Peter G. Contacos;G. Robert Coatney;Harry R. Kimball

  • Gastrin-releasing peptide (mammalian bombesin) gene expression in health and disease

    Mary E. Sunday;Lee M. Kaplan;Etsuro Motoyama;William W. Chin

  • Differential and tissue-specific regulation of the multiple rat c-erbA messenger RNA species by thyroid hormone.

    R A Hodin;M A Lazar;W W Chin

  • Studies of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) action using GnRH receptor-expressing pituitary cell lines.

    Ursula B. Kaiser;P. Michael Conn;William W. Chin

  • Inhibin, Activin, and Follistatin: Regulation of Follicle-Stimulating Hormone Messenger Ribonucleic Acid Levels

    Rona S. Carroll;Anne Z. Corrigan;Soheyla D. Gharib;Wylie Vale

  • Galanin is an estrogen-inducible, secretory product of the rat anterior pituitary.

    Lee M. Kaplan;Steven M. Gabriel;James I. Koenig;Mary E. Sunday

  • Transcriptional regulation of the thyrotropin subunit genes by thyroid hormone.

    M A Shupnik;W W Chin;J F Habener;E C Ridgway

  • Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding human gastrin-releasing peptide.

    Eliot R. Spindel;William W. Chin;Janet Price;Lesley H. Rees

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Yen
Paul M. Yen Duke University
Noriyuki Koibuchi
Noriyuki Koibuchi Gunma University
Joel F. Habener
Joel F. Habener Harvard University
Ursula B. Kaiser
Ursula B. Kaiser Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mitchell A. Lazar
Mitchell A. Lazar University of Pennsylvania
Paul Wan Sia Heng
Paul Wan Sia Heng National University of Singapore
Donald W. Pfaff
Donald W. Pfaff Rockefeller University
Samuel Refetoff
Samuel Refetoff University of Chicago
Thomas P. Burris
Thomas P. Burris Washington University in St. Louis
Richard H. Goodman
Richard H. Goodman Oregon Health & Science University

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