2026 Carole A. Parent: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	55	2277	2048	1123	997	121	10516

Carole A. Parent publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carole A. Parent sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 121 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Carole A. Parent D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

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

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Carole A. Parent is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research contributions span several key areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, immunology, and microbiology. The subfields of their work include molecular biology, immunology, oncology, cell biology, and immunology and allergy.

Their principal research topics focus on cell adhesion molecules, immune cells in cancer, neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, extracellular vesicles in disease, cellular mechanics and interactions, chemokine receptors and signaling, and skin and cellular biology.

Key recent publications authored or co-authored by Carole A. Parent include:

The principles of directed cell migration, 2021, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
The ins-and-outs of exosome biogenesis, secretion, and internalization, 2023, Trends in Cell Biology
Extracellular vesicles: Critical players during cell migration, 2021, Developmental Cell
Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Recruit Neutrophils by Secreting TGF-β and CXCR2 Ligands, 2021, Frontiers in Immunology

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Carole A. Parent include Shuvasree SenGupta, Pierre A. Coulombe, Subhash B. Arya, Yang Xu, and Craig Johnson.

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Cell Biology, PLoS Biology, the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and Nature.

Carole A. Parent was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

Neutrophil swarms require LTB4 and integrins at sites of cell death in vivo

Tim Lämmermann;Philippe V. Afonso;Bastian R. Angermann;Ji Ming Wang

987
Citations
G Protein Signaling Events Are Activated at the Leading Edge of Chemotactic Cells

Carole A. Parent;Brenda J. Blacklock;Wendy M. Froehlich;Douglas B. Murphy

747
Citations
Cell motility in cancer invasion and metastasis: insights from simple model organisms

Christina H. Stuelten;Carole A. Parent;Denise J. Montell

428
Citations
LTB4 Is a Signal-Relay Molecule during Neutrophil Chemotaxis

Philippe V. Afonso;Mirkka Janka-Junttila;Young Jong Lee;Colin P. McCann;Colin P. McCann

418
Citations
The principles of directed cell migration.

Shuvasree SenGupta;Carole A Parent;James E Bear

414
Citations
Localization of the G Protein βγ Complex in Living Cells During Chemotaxis

Tian Jin;Ning Zhang;Yu Long;Carole A. Parent

363
Citations
Molecular Genetics of Signal Transduction in Dictyostelium

Carole A. Parent;Peter N. Devreotes

319
Citations
Making all the right moves: chemotaxis in neutrophils and Dictyostelium.

Carole A Parent

283
Citations
Receptor-mediated Regulation of PI3Ks Confines PI(3,4,5)P3 to the Leading Edge of Chemotaxing Cells

Yi Elaine Huang;Miho Iijima;Carole A. Parent;Satoru Funamoto

261
Citations
TOR complex 2 integrates cell movement during chemotaxis and signal relay in Dictyostelium

Susan Lee;Frank I. Comer;Atsuo Sasaki;Ian X. McLeod

257
Citations
mTORC2 Regulates Neutrophil Chemotaxis in a cAMP- and RhoA-Dependent Fashion

Lunhua Liu;Satarupa Das;Wolfgang Losert;Carole A. Parent

244
Citations
Adenylyl cyclase localization regulates streaming during chemotaxis

Paul W. Kriebel;Valarie A. Barr;Carole A. Parent

206
Citations
PI 3-Kinases and PTEN: How Opposites Chemoattract

Frank I. Comer;Carole A. Parent

200
Citations
Eukaryotic chemotaxis at a glance.

Anna Bagorda;Carole A. Parent

178
Citations
Constitutive reductions in mTOR alter cell size, immune cell development, and antibody production

Shuling Zhang;Julie A. Readinger;Wendy DuBois;Mirkka Janka-Junttila

163
Citations
Retraction: Exosomes Mediate LTB4 Release during Neutrophil Chemotaxis.

Ritankar Majumdar;Aidin Tavakoli Tameh;Carole A. Parent

162
Citations
Ras-mediated activation of the TORC2–PKB pathway is critical for chemotaxis

Huaqing Cai;Satarupa Das;Yoichiro Kamimura;Yu Long

148
Citations
Cell Shape Dynamics: From Waves to Migration

Meghan Driscoll;Colin McCann;Rael Kopace;Tess Homan

140
Citations
Collective cell migration requires vesicular trafficking for chemoattractant delivery at the trailing edge.

Paul W. Kriebel;Valarie A. Barr;Erin C. Rericha;Guofeng Zhang

140
Citations
TOR kinase complexes and cell migration

Lunhua Liu;Carole A. Parent

122
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John T. Fourkas University of Maryland, College Park

Peter N. Devreotes Johns Hopkins University

Alan R. Kimmel National Institutes of Health

Pierre A. Coulombe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Alessio Fasano Mead Johnson (United States)

Edward D. Korn National Institutes of Health

Satyandra K. Gupta University of Southern California

David B. Lombard University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Cornelis J. Weijer University of Dundee

Michael Sixt Institute of Science and Technology Austria

External Links

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