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John M. Archibald

John M. Archibald

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
61
Citations
13328
World Ranking
3059
National Ranking
111

John M. Archibald 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 M. Archibald sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 178 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John M. Archibald 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 M. Archibald sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • 1940 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John M. Archibald is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada. Their research work spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as environmental science. The focus is on both fundamental and applied topics in these fields.

The main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

At a more specific level, Archibald's subfields of study cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ecology
  • Endocrinology
  • Plant Science
  • Oceanography

The primary topics of Archibald's research are:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Legionella and Acanthamoeba research
  • Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Archibald has contributed frequently to several scientific publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genome Biology and Evolution

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Archibald cover critical topics in genomics, evolutionary biology, and stress responses in plants:

  • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Genomic Insights into Plastid Evolution, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Why sequence all eukaryotes?, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Heat stress response in the closest algal relatives of land plants reveals conserved stress signaling circuits, 2020, The Plant Journal

Frequent co-authors in Archibald's work include:

  • Bruce A. Curtis
  • Andrew J. Roger
  • Lucie Gallot-Lavallée
  • Jan de Vries
  • Sophie de Vries

John M. Archibald has received recognition including the following awards:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2020) - Academy of the Arts and Humanities
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1940)

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cell Evolution.

    John M. Archibald

  • The puzzle of plastid evolution.

    John M. Archibald

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists.

    Sina M. Adl;Brian S. Leander;Alastair G. B. Simpson;John M. Archibald

  • Cell biology. Irremediable complexity

    M. W. Gray;J. Lukes;J. M. Archibald;P. J. Keeling

  • Lateral gene transfer and the evolution of plastid-targeted proteins in the secondary plastid-containing alga Bigelowiella natans

    John M. Archibald;Matthew B. Rogers;Michael Toop;Ken-ichiro Ishida

  • Recycled plastids: a 'green movement' in eukaryotic evolution.

    John M. Archibald;Patrick J. Keeling

  • Plant Evolution: Landmarks on the Path to Terrestrial Life

    Jan de Vries;John M. Archibald

  • 10KP: A phylodiverse genome sequencing plan.

    Shifeng Cheng;Michael Melkonian;Stephen A Smith;Samuel Brockington

  • The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

    Christopher E. Lane;John M. Archibald

  • MKKS/BBS6, a divergent chaperonin-like protein linked to the obesity disorder Bardet-Biedl syndrome, is a novel centrosomal component required for cytokinesis.

    Jun Chul Kim;Young Y. Ou;Jose L. Badano;Muneer A. Esmail

  • How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity

    Julius Lukeš;John M. Archibald;Patrick J. Keeling;W. Ford Doolittle

  • Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics

    David A. Caron;Harriet Alexander;Andrew E. Allen;Andrew E. Allen;John M. Archibald;John M. Archibald

  • Nucleomorph genome of Hemiselmis andersenii reveals complete intron loss and compaction as a driver of protein structure and function

    Christopher E. Lane;Krystal van den Heuvel;Catherine Kozera;Bruce A. Curtis

  • Complex protein targeting to dinoflagellate plastids.

    Nicola J. Patron;Ross F. Waller;John M. Archibald;Patrick J. Keeling

  • How do endosymbionts become organelles? Understanding early events in plastid evolution

    Debashish Bhattacharya;John M. Archibald;Andreas P.M. Weber;Adrian Reyes-Prieto

  • Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal That Two Enigmatic Protist Lineages, Telonemia and Centroheliozoa, Are Related to Photosynthetic Chromalveolates

    Fabien Burki;Yuji Inagaki;Jon Bråte;John M. Archibald

  • Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants.

    Jan de Vries;Bruce A Curtis;Sven B Gould;John M Archibald;John M Archibald

  • Widespread distribution of a unique marine protistan lineage

    Marie L. Cuvelier;Marie L. Cuvelier;Alejandra Ortiz;Eunsoo Kim;Heike Moehlig

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Andrew J. Roger
Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University
Michael W. Gray
Michael W. Gray Dalhousie University
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
Alastair G. B. Simpson
Alastair G. B. Simpson Dalhousie University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
W. Ford Doolittle
W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Jan Pawlowski
Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University

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