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John Parkinson

John Parkinson

University of Toronto
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
25416
World Ranking
4041
National Ranking
131

John Parkinson publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Parkinson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 341 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

John Parkinson D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 316 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 899 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,025 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,149 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,235 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,162 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,130 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,031 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 714 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 71 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Parkinson is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work encompasses several key research topics:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Probiotics and Fermented Foods
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Infant Nutrition and Health
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

John Parkinson has published frequently in various scientific venues. The predominant outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 17 publications
  • Microbiome with 3 publications
  • PLoS Computational Biology with 3 publications
  • Cell Systems with 2 publications
  • Gut Microbiome with 2 publications

Among the recent scholarly contributions are the following papers:

  • "Faecal metabolome and its determinants in inflammatory bowel disease," published in 2023 in Gut
  • "BraInMap Elucidates the Macromolecular Connectivity Landscape of Mammalian Brain," published in 2020 in Cell Systems
  • "Systematic profiling of the chicken gut microbiome reveals dietary supplementation with antibiotics alters expression of multiple microbial pathways with minimal impact on community structure," published in 2022 in Microbiome
  • "Blindly Controlled Magnetically Actuated Capsule for Noninvasive Sampling of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome," published in 2020 in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics
  • "A systematic pipeline for classifying bacterial operons reveals the evolutionary landscape of biofilm machineries," published in 2020 in PLoS Computational Biology

Frequent collaborators of John Parkinson include Ana Popovic (10 co-authored works), Xuejian Xiong (7), Nirvana Nursimulu (7), Graham L. Cromar (6), and Pauline W. Wang (6).

John Parkinson was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Nevan J. Krogan;Gerard Cagney;Gerard Cagney;Haiyuan Yu;Gouqing Zhong

  • Interaction network containing conserved and essential protein complexes in Escherichia coli

    Gareth Butland;José Manuel Peregrín-Alvarez;Joyce Li;Wehong Yang

  • The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism

    Isheng J. Tsai;Magdalena Zarowiecki;Nancy Holroyd;Alejandro Garciarrubio

  • Draft Genome of the Filarial Nematode Parasite Brugia malayi

    Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Shiliang Wang;David Spiro;Elisabet Caler

  • Panorama of ancient metazoan macromolecular complexes

    Cuihong Wan;Cuihong Wan;Blake Borgeson;Sadhna Phanse;Fan Tu

  • Organometallic Ruthenium(II) Diamine Anticancer Complexes: Arene-Nucleobase Stacking and Stereospecific Hydrogen-Bonding in Guanine Adducts

    Haimei Chen;John A. Parkinson;Simon Parsons;Robert A. Coxall

  • Cisplatin Binding Sites on Human Albumin

    Andrei I. Ivanov;John Christodoulou;John A. Parkinson;Kevin J. Barnham

  • Highly selective binding of organometallic ruthenium ethylenediamine complexes to nucleic acids: novel recognition mechanisms.

    Haimei Chen;John A. Parkinson;Robert E. Morris;Peter J. Sadler

  • IL-4 dependent alternatively-activated macrophages have a distinctive in vivo gene expression phenotype

    P'ng Loke;P'ng Loke;Meera G Nair;John Parkinson;David Guiliano

  • The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a valid and reliable tool for measuring mental well-being in diverse populations and projects

    Sarah L. Stewart-Brown;Stephen Platt;Alan Tennant;Hendramoorthy Maheswaran

  • A comparative study of leaf nutrient concentrations in a regional herbaceous flora

    Ken Thompson;John A. Parkinson;Stuart R. Band;Rita E. Spencer

  • Beyond micromachining: the potential of diatoms.

    John Parkinson;Richard Gordon

  • Identification of a Functional Connectome for Long-Term Fear Memory in Mice

    Anne L. Wheeler;Cátia M. Teixeira;Afra H. Wang;Xuejian Xiong

  • Chemogenetic Interrogation of a Brain-wide Fear Memory Network in Mice

    Gisella Vetere;Justin W. Kenney;Lina M. Tran;Frances Xia

  • Mutations in NBEAL2 , encoding a BEACH protein, cause gray platelet syndrome

    Walter H A Kahr;Jesse Hinckley;Ling Li;Hansjörg Schwertz

  • A transcriptomic analysis of the phylum nematoda.

    John Parkinson;Makedonka Mitreva;Claire Whitton;Marian Thomson

  • Local admixture of amplified and diversified secreted pathogenesis determinants shapes mosaic Toxoplasma gondii genomes

    Hernan Lorenzi;Asis Khan;Asis Khan;Michael S Behnke;Michael S Behnke;Sivaranjani Namasivayam

  • Comparative Genomics of the Apicomplexan Parasites Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum: Coccidia Differing in Host Range and Transmission Strategy

    Adam James Reid;Sarah J. Vermont;James A. Cotton;David Harris

  • Multiple bacteria encode metallothioneins and SmtA-like zinc fingers.

    Claudia A. Blindauer;Mark D. Harrison;Andrea K. Robinson;John A. Parkinson

  • A metallothionein containing a zinc finger within a four-metal cluster protects a bacterium from zinc toxicity

    Claudia A. Blindauer;Mark D. Harrison;John A. Parkinson;Andrea K. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Sadler
Peter J. Sadler University of Warwick
Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Andrew Emili
Andrew Emili Boston University
Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Jack Greenblatt
Jack Greenblatt University of Toronto
Simon Parsons
Simon Parsons University of Edinburgh
David G. Watson
David G. Watson University of Strathclyde
Tom Brown
Tom Brown University of Oxford
Michael E. Grigg
Michael E. Grigg National Institutes of Health
Robert E. Mulvey
Robert E. Mulvey University of Strathclyde

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