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John F. Thompson

John F. Thompson

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Medicine
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Medicine

D-Index
137
Citations
108190
World Ranking
1854
National Ranking
55

John F. Thompson publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

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

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101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 1,738 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

John F. Thompson D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

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

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70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 137 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Australia Leader Award

Overview

John F. Thompson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their work spans various fields of study, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broader areas, Thompson has contributed extensively to subfields including Molecular Biology, Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Oncology, and Mechanical Engineering.

Thompson's research covers multiple scientific topics. Key areas of focus include:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques

Their publication record features work in a variety of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Scientific Reports
  • Economic Geology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Thompson are:

  • "Future availability of non-renewable metal resources and the influence of environmental, social, and governance conflicts on metal production", 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Geochemical and Isotopic Signature of Pyrite as a Proxy for Fluid Source and Evolution in the Candelaria-Punta del Cobre Iron Oxide Copper-Gold District, Chile", 2020, Economic Geology
  • "A Continuum from Iron Oxide Copper-Gold to Iron Oxide-Apatite Deposits: Evidence from Fe and O Stable Isotopes and Trace Element Chemistry of Magnetite", 2020, Economic Geology
  • "RETRACTED ARTICLE: Formation of giant iron oxide-copper-gold deposits by superimposed, episodic hydrothermal pulses", 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Automated next-generation profiling of genomic alterations in human cancers", 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors in Thompson's collaborative work include:

  • Irene del Real
  • Adam C. Simon
  • Martín Reich
  • Fernando Barra
  • María A. Rodríguez-Mustafa

Best Publications

  • Final Version of 2009 AJCC Melanoma Staging and Classification

    Charles M. Balch;Jeffrey E. Gershenwald;Seng Jaw Soong;John F. Thompson

  • Final Version of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging System for Cutaneous Melanoma

    Charles M. Balch;Antonio C. Buzaid;Seng-Jaw Soong;Michael B. Atkins

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Genomic Classification of Cutaneous Melanoma

    Rehan Akbani;Kadir C. Akdemir;B. Arman Aksoy;Monique Albert

  • Prognostic Factors Analysis of 17,600 Melanoma Patients: Validation of the American Joint Committee on Cancer Melanoma Staging System

    Charles M. Balch;Seng-Jaw Soong;Jeffrey E. Gershenwald;John F. Thompson

  • Sentinel-node biopsy or nodal observation in melanoma

    Donald L. Morton;John F. Thompson;Alistair J. Cochran;Nicola Mozzillo

  • Melanoma staging: Evidence-based changes in the American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition cancer staging manual.

    Jeffrey E. Gershenwald;Richard A. Scolyer;Kenneth R. Hess;Vernon K. Sondak

  • Final Trial Report of Sentinel-Node Biopsy versus Nodal Observation in Melanoma

    D. L. Morton;J. F. Thompson;A. J. Cochran;N. Mozzillo

  • Whole-genome landscapes of major melanoma subtypes

    Nicholas K. Hayward;Nicholas K. Hayward;James S. Wilmott;Nicola Waddell;Nicola Waddell;Peter A. Johansson

  • Completion Dissection or Observation for Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma

    Mark B. Faries;John F. Thompson;Alistair J. Cochran;Robert H. Andtbacka

  • Prognostic and Clinicopathologic Associations of Oncogenic BRAF in Metastatic Melanoma

    Georgina V. Long;Alexander M. Menzies;Adnan M. Nagrial;Lauren E. Haydu

  • Observation of a Centrality-Dependent Dijet Asymmetry in Lead-Lead <?format ?>Collisions at with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC

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  • Validation of the Accuracy of Intraoperative Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Lymphadenectomy for Early-Stage Melanoma: A Multicenter Trial

    Donald L. Morton;John F. Thompson;Richard Essner;Robert Elashoff

  • Measurement of the production cross-section using events with -tagged jets in collisions at and 8�TeV with the ATLAS detector

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  • Internimage: Exploring large-scale vision foundation models with deformable convolutions

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  • Loss of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine Is an Epigenetic Hallmark of Melanoma

    Christine Guo Lian;Yufei Xu;Craig Ceol;Craig Ceol;Feizhen Wu

  • Sentinel node biopsy for early-stage melanoma - Accuracy and morbidity in MSLT-I, an international multicenter trial

    Donald L. Morton;Alistair J. Cochran;John F. Thompson;Robert Elashoff

  • Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocyte Grade Is an Independent Predictor of Sentinel Lymph Node Status and Survival in Patients With Cutaneous Melanoma

    Farhad Azimi;Richard A. Scolyer;Pavlina Rumcheva;Marc Moncrieff

  • Llama-adapter: Efficient fine-tuning of language models with zero-init attention

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  • Animatediff: Animate your personalized text-to-image diffusion models without specific tuning

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Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. Scolyer
Richard A. Scolyer Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
A. V. Gritsan
A. V. Gritsan Johns Hopkins University

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