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D-Index
59
Citations
12397
World Ranking
10143
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Gerard Downey is affiliated with Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority in Ireland. Their research spans interdisciplinary fields including Chemistry, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering.

The main subfields of study focus on Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, and Biomedical Engineering. Their work covers topics related to Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, and Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies.

One notable publication by Gerard Downey is titled "Development of chemometric models using Vis-NIR and Raman spectral data fusion for assessment of infant formula storage temperature and time", published in 2020 in the journal Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies. This paper has garnered attention within the scientific community with 23 citations.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Downey include:

  • Xiao Wang
  • Carlos Esquerre
  • Lisa E. Henihan
  • D.J. O'Callaghan
  • Colm P. O'Donnell

Publications predominantly appear in Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, which is the primary venue recorded.

Gerard Downey has been recognized as a Member of the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Hyperspectral imaging – an emerging process analytical tool for food quality and safety control

    A.A. Gowen;C.P. O'Donnell;P.J. Cullen;G. Downey

  • Recent technological advances for the determination of food authenticity

    Linda M. Reid;Colm P. O'Donnell;Gerard Downey

  • Breaking with trends in pre-processing?

    Jasper Engel;Jan Gerretzen;Ewa Szymańska;Jeroen J. Jansen

  • Mid-infrared spectroscopy coupled with chemometrics: a tool for the analysis of intact food systems and the exploration of their molecular structure-quality relationships - a review

    Romdhane Karoui;Gerard Downey;Christophe Blecker

  • Effect of thermal and high pressure processing on antioxidant activity and instrumental colour of tomato and carrot purées

    Ankit Patras;Nigel Brunton;Sara Da Pieve;Francis Butler

  • Multivariate class modeling for the verification of food-authenticity claims

    Paolo Oliveri;Gerard Downey

  • Detecting and quantifying sunflower oil adulteration in extra virgin olive oils from the eastern mediterranean by visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

    Gerard Downey;Peter Mcintyre;Antony N. Davies

  • Application of principal component and hierarchical cluster analysis to classify fruits and vegetables commonly consumed in Ireland based on in vitro antioxidant activity

    Ankit Patras;Nigel P. Brunton;Gerard Downey;Ashish Rawson

  • Preventing over‐fitting in PLS calibration models of near‐infrared (NIR) spectroscopy data using regression coefficients

    A. A. Gowen;G. Downey;G. Downey;C. Esquerre;C. Esquerre;C. P. O'Donnell

  • Hyperspectral imaging combined with principal component analysis for bruise damage detection on white mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)

    A. A. Gowen;C. P. O’Donnell;Masoud Taghizadeh;P. J. Cullen

  • Near- and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopies in Food Authentication: Coffee Varietal Identification

    Gerard Downey;Romain Briandet;Reginald H. Wilson;E. Katherine Kemsley

  • Food and food ingredient authentication by mid-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics

    Gerard Downey

  • Application of Near and Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy to Determine Cheese Quality and Authenticity

    Tony Woodcock;Tony Woodcock;Colette C. Fagan;Colm P. O’Donnell;Gerard Downey

  • A Review of near Infrared Spectroscopy in Muscle Food Analysis: 2005–2010

    Jittima Weeranantanaphan;Gerard Downey;Paul Allen;Da-Wen Sun

  • Preliminary contribution to the characterisation of artisanal honey produced on the island of Ireland by palynological and physico-chemical data.

    Gerard Downey;Karen Hussey;J. Daniel Kelly;Thomas F. Walshe

  • Simultaneous data pre-processing and SVM classification model selection based on a parallel genetic algorithm applied to spectroscopic data of olive oils.

    Olivier Devos;Gerard Downey;Ludovic Duponchel

  • Non-destructive prediction of selected quality attributes of beef by near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy between 750 and 1098 nm.

    C.E. Byrne;G. Downey;D.J. Troy;D.J. Buckley

  • Better Quality Food and Beverages: The Role of near Infrared Spectroscopy:

    Tony Woodcock;Gerrard Downey;Colm P. O'Donnell

  • Rapid Non-destructive Detection of Spoilage of Intact Chicken Breast Muscle Using Near-infrared and Fourier Transform Mid-infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Statistics

    Dimitris Alexandrakis;Dimitris Alexandrakis;Gerard Downey;Amalia G. M. Scannell

  • Review: Authentication of food and food ingredients by near infrared spectroscopy

    Gerard Downey

  • Initial Study of Honey Adulteration by Sugar Solutions Using Midinfrared (MIR) Spectroscopy and Chemometrics

    J F Daniel Kelly;Gerard Downey;Vanessa Fouratier

  • Detection of honey adulteration by addition of fructose and glucose using near infrared transflectance spectroscopy

    Gerard Downey;Vanessa Fouratier;J. Daniel Kelly

  • Detection of sugar adulterants in apple juice using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics.

    J. F. Kelly;Gerard Downey

  • Geographical classification of honey samples by near-infrared spectroscopy: a feasibility study.

    Tony Woodcock;Gerard Downey;J. Daniel Kelly;Colm O’Donnell

Frequent Co-Authors

Colm P. O'Donnell
Colm P. O'Donnell University College Dublin
Declan J. Troy
Declan J. Troy Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
Nigel P. Brunton
Nigel P. Brunton University College Dublin
Patrick J. Cullen
Patrick J. Cullen University of Sydney
James M. Harnly
James M. Harnly United States Department of Agriculture
Lutgarde M. C. Buydens
Lutgarde M. C. Buydens Radboud University
Da-Wen Sun
Da-Wen Sun University College Dublin
Frank J. Monahan
Frank J. Monahan University College Dublin
Torres Sweeney
Torres Sweeney University College Dublin
Olaf Schmidt
Olaf Schmidt University College Dublin

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