2026 John F. McDonald: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	73	2061	1960	940	881	265	17268

John F. McDonald publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John F. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 265 publications — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

John F. McDonald D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John F. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

John F. McDonald is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a particular focus on cancer biology and its molecular mechanisms.

The primary fields of study for McDonald include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study are more specialized, covering:

Molecular Biology
Cancer Research
Oncology
Genetics
Biomedical Engineering

McDonald's research topics have a focused emphasis on cancer and genomic studies. The main topics they explore are:

Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Gene expression and cancer classification
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
RNA modifications and cancer
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with select recent papers illustrating the scope and interdisciplinarity of their work:

High throughput, label-free isolation of circulating tumor cell clusters in meshed microwells (2022) published in Nature Communications
Leveraging TCGA gene expression data to build predictive models for cancer drug response (2020) published in BMC Bioinformatics
An atlas of transposable element-derived alternative splicing in cancer (2020) published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
MEDICASCY: A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Small-Molecule Drug Side Effects, Indications, Efficacy, and Modes of Action (2020) published in Molecular Pharmaceutics
Cancer Exacerbates Chemotherapy-Induced Sensory Neuropathy (2020) published in Cancer Research

McDonald frequently collaborates with a core group of co-authors, indicating ongoing research partnerships. Key frequent co-authors include:

Dongjo Ban
Lilya V. Matyunina
Stephen N. Housley
I. King Jordan
Benedict B. Benigno

The venues in which McDonald most commonly publishes reflect a focus on oncology and immunology, along with contributions to broader interdisciplinary biological sciences. Frequent publication venues include:

Cancer Research
Gynecologic Oncology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
The Journal of Immunology
Nature Communications

Best Publications

Gold nanorod assisted near-infrared plasmonic photothermal therapy (PPTT) of squamous cell carcinoma in mice.

Erin B. Dickerson;Erik C. Dreaden;Xiaohua Huang;Ivan H. El-Sayed

1370
Citations
Cell stiffness is a biomarker of the metastatic potential of ovarian cancer cells

Wenwei Xu;Roman Mezencev;Byungkyu Kim;Lijuan Wang

840
Citations
The identification of urban employment subcenters

John F. McDonald

526
Citations
Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble

John F. McDonald;Houston H. Stokes

509
Citations
Suburban Subcenters and Employment Density in Metropolitan Chicago

Daniel P. McMillen;John F. McDonald

473
Citations
LTR_STRUC: a novel search and identification program for LTR retrotransposons

Eugene M. McCarthy;John F. McDonald

399
Citations
Econometric studies of urban population density: a survey.

John F. McDonald

345
Citations
A nonparametric analysis of employment density in a polycentric city

Daniel P. McMillen;John F. McDonald

296
Citations
GENETIC VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF FIVE DROSOPHILA SPECIES AND THE HYPOTHESIS OF THE SELECTIVE NEUTRALITY OF PROTEIN POLYMORPHISMS

Francisco J. Ayala;Martin L. Tracey;Lorraine G. Barr;John F. McDonald

284
Citations
Gene expression profiling supports the hypothesis that human ovarian surface epithelia are multipotent and capable of serving as ovarian cancer initiating cells

Nathan J Bowen;L DeEtte Walker;Lilya V Matyunina;Sanjay Logani

272
Citations
Magnetic Nanoparticle−Peptide Conjugates for in Vitro and in Vivo Targeting and Extraction of Cancer Cells

Kenneth E. Scarberry;Erin B. Dickerson;John F. McDonald;Z. John Zhang

263
Citations
Evolution and consequences of transposable elements.

John F. McDonald

244
Citations
Emerging roles for PAX8 in ovarian cancer and endosalpingeal development.

Nathan J. Bowen;Sanjay Logani;Erin B. Dickerson;Laura B. Kapa

238
Citations
Peptide-Functionalized Nanogels for Targeted siRNA Delivery

William H. Blackburn;Erin B. Dickerson;Michael H. Smith;John F. McDonald

220
Citations
Drosophila Euchromatic LTR Retrotransposons are Much Younger Than the Host Species in Which They Reside

Nathan J. Bowen;John F. McDonald

198
Citations
Overexpression of miR-429 induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition (MET) in metastatic ovarian cancer cells.

Jing Chen;Lijuan Wang;Lilya V. Matyunina;Christopher G. Hill

193
Citations
Copia is transcriptionally responsive to environmental stress

Dennis J. Strand;John F. McDonald

187
Citations
Genetic response to environmental heterogeneity.

John F. Mcdonald;Francisco J. Ayala

186
Citations
L1 and HERV-W retrotransposons are hypomethylated in human ovarian carcinomas.

Laura Menendez;Benedict B Benigno;John F McDonald

181
Citations
Homogeneous and organized differentiation within embryoid bodies induced by microsphere-mediated delivery of small molecules

Richard L. Carpenedo;Andrés M. Bratt-Leal;Ross A. Marklein;Scott A. Seaman

171
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. McMillen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

I. King Jordan Georgia Institute of Technology

Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine

Facundo M. Fernández Georgia Institute of Technology

Alexander G. Gray Georgia Institute of Technology

Todd C. McDevitt University of California, San Francisco

Jeffrey Skolnick Georgia Institute of Technology

Timothy C. Cope Georgia Institute of Technology

Sue E. Crawford Baylor College of Medicine

L. Andrew Lyon Chapman University

External Links

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