2026 John M. Archibald: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	61	3059	2898	111	105	178	13328

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

1113
Citations
Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cell Evolution.

John M. Archibald

587
Citations
The puzzle of plastid evolution.

John M. Archibald

564
Citations
Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

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

413
Citations
Diversity, nomenclature, and taxonomy of protists.

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

363
Citations
Cell biology. Irremediable complexity

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

301
Citations
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

300
Citations
Recycled plastids: a 'green movement' in eukaryotic evolution.

John M. Archibald;Patrick J. Keeling

290
Citations
Plant Evolution: Landmarks on the Path to Terrestrial Life

Jan de Vries;John M. Archibald

290
Citations
10KP: A phylodiverse genome sequencing plan.

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

233
Citations
The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

Christopher E. Lane;John M. Archibald

223
Citations
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

202
Citations
How a neutral evolutionary ratchet can build cellular complexity

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

195
Citations
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

187
Citations
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

183
Citations
Complex protein targeting to dinoflagellate plastids.

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

182
Citations
How do endosymbionts become organelles? Understanding early events in plastid evolution

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

179
Citations
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

176
Citations
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

160
Citations
Widespread distribution of a unique marine protistan lineage

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

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia

Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences

Andrew J. Roger Dalhousie University

Michael W. Gray Dalhousie University

Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory

Alastair G. B. Simpson Dalhousie University

Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark

W. Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University

Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford

Jan Pawlowski Heidelberg University

External Links

Personal website of John M. Archibald

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