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47
Citations
28940
World Ranking
6011
National Ranking
3258

Overview

John B. Carroll was affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research contributions primarily spanned the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine, with a focus on molecular mechanisms and reproductive health.

The main areas of Carroll's work included Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cell Biology, and Biophysics. These subfields reflected a diverse scientific approach, emphasizing both fundamental cellular processes and health-related applications.

The topics they explored frequently encompassed Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Reproductive Biology and Fertility, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Metabolism and Genetic Disorders, as well as Birth, Development, and Health.

Among their recent papers were:

  • Female reproductive life span is extended by targeted removal of fibrotic collagen from the mouse ovary (2022, Science Advances)
  • Mitochondria-targeted therapeutics, MitoQ and BGP-15, reverse aging-associated meiotic spindle defects in mouse and human oocytes (2020, Human Reproduction)
  • Oocyte mitochondria-key regulators of oocyte function and potential therapeutic targets for improving fertility (2022, Biology of Reproduction)
  • Depletion of oocyte dynamin-related protein 1 shows maternal-effect abnormalities in embryonic development (2022, Science Advances)
  • CENP-F-dependent DRP1 function regulates APC/C activity during oocyte meiosis I (2022, Nature Communications)

The frequent coauthors during their career included Deepak Adhikari, Wai Shan Yuen, Qing-Hua Zhang, Rebecca L. Robker, and Yasmyn E. Winstanley. These collaborations often appeared in multiple influential studies related to fertility and mitochondrial function.

Carroll's work was published extensively in several key scientific venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Science Advances
  • Nature Communications
  • Molecular Human Reproduction

The body of their research contributed to advancing understanding within reproductive biology and mitochondrial pathology, combined with insights into cell biology and developmental dynamics. The integration of these disciplines highlighted the interconnected nature of molecular function, aging, and fertility.

Best Publications

  • Human Cognitive Abilities: A Survey of Factor-Analytic Studies

    John Bissell Carroll

  • Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

    Benjamin Lee Whorf;John Bissell Carroll

  • A Model of School Learning

    John B. Carroll

  • Language, Thought, and Reality.

    A. M. Halpern;Benjamin Lee Whorf;John B. Carroll;Stuart Chase

  • The American heritage word frequency book

    John Bissell Carroll;Peter Davies;Barry Richman

  • The Carroll Model A 25-Year Retrospective and Prospective View

    John B. Carroll

  • Word Frequency and Age of Acquisition as Determiners of Picture-Naming Latency

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  • The nature of the data, or how to choose a correlation coefficient

    John B. Carroll

  • The Three-Stratum Theory of Cognitive Abilities.

    John B. Carroll

  • Modern language aptitude test.

    John B. Carroll;Stanley M. Sapon

  • Language comprehension and the acquisition of knowledge

    Roy O. Freedle;John B. Carroll

  • An analytical solution for approximating simple structure in factor analysis

    John B. Carroll

  • The Higher-stratum Structure of Cognitive Abilities: Current Evidence Supports g and About Ten Broad Factors

    John B. Carroll

  • Psychometrics, intelligence, and public perception.

    John B. Carroll

  • Age-of-acquisition norms for 220 picturable nouns

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  • Language and thought

    Jerry A. Fodor;John B. Carroll

  • The effect of difficulty and chance success on correlations between items or between tests

    John B. Carroll

  • Individual differences in cognitive abilities.

    John B. Carroll;Scott E. Maxwell

  • Ability and Task Difficulty in Cognitive Psychology

    John B. Carroll

  • On Methodology in the Study of Cognitive Abilities.

    John B. Carroll

  • Cognitive abilities in foreign language aptitude: Then and now.

    John B. Carroll

  • The Measurement of Meaning

    John B. Carroll;Charles E. Osgood;George J. Suci;Percy H. Tannenbaum

  • Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

    George L. Trager;Benjamin Lee Whorf;John B. Carroll

  • Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf

    Mario A. Pei;John B. Carroll;Benjamin Lee Whorf

  • AGE‐OF‐ACQUISITION NORMS FOR 220 PICTURABLE NOUNS1

    John B. Carroll;Margaret N. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Scott E. Maxwell
Scott E. Maxwell University of Notre Dame
Charles E. Osgood
Charles E. Osgood University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Benton J. Underwood
Benton J. Underwood Northwestern University
Lloyd G. Humphreys
Lloyd G. Humphreys University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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