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Johnson Mak 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 Johnson Mak sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 140 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Johnson Mak 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 Johnson Mak sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 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: 72 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: 44 D-Index — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Johnson Mak is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and focuses their research primarily on the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Virology, Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, and Immunology.

Their work covers several main topics, notably HIV Research and Treatment, Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research, and Zoonotic diseases and public health.

Johnson Mak has contributed to a variety of publications across notable venues. The most frequent venues for their research output include mBio, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, STAR Protocols, and UNC Libraries.

Recent papers authored by or involving Johnson Mak cover a range of subjects within virology and immunology. These include:

  • Multidisciplinary Approaches Identify Compounds that Bind to Human ACE2 or SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein as Candidates to Block SARS-CoV-2-ACE2 Receptor Interactions, 2021, mBio
  • Full assembly of HIV-1 particles requires assistance of the membrane curvature factor IRSp53, 2021, eLife
  • Host glycocalyx captures HIV proximal to the cell surface via oligomannose-GlcNAc glycan-glycan interactions to support viral entry, 2022, Cell Reports
  • Antibodies to neutralising epitopes synergistically block the interaction of the receptor-binding domain of SARS-CoV-2 to ACE 2, 2021, Clinical & Translational Immunology
  • HIV-1 diverts cortical actin for particle assembly and release, 2023, Nature Communications

Their frequent collaborators include Belinda L. Spillings, Rayane Dibsy, Cyril Favard, Delphine Muriaux, and Christopher J. Day, with multiple joint publications across different research projects.

Best Publications

  • Molecular cloning, functional expression, and signaling characteristics of a C-C chemokine receptor

    Kuldeep Neote;David DiGregorio;John Y. Mak;Richard Horuk

  • Thermal response of rat fibroblasts stably transfected with the human 70-kDa heat shock protein-encoding gene

    Gloria C. Li;Ligeng Li;Yun-Kang Liu;Johnson Y. Mak

  • Bacterial membrane vesicles deliver peptidoglycan to NOD1 in epithelial cells

    Maria Kaparakis;Lynne Turnbull;Leticia Carneiro;Stephen Firth

  • Lipid rafts and HIV-1: from viral entry to assembly of progeny virions.

    S M Campbell;Suzanne Crowe;Johnson Mak

  • Dimerization of retroviral RNA genomes: an inseparable pair.

    Jean-Christophe Paillart;Miranda Shehu-Xhilaga;Roland Marquet;Johnson Mak;Johnson Mak

  • Functional and biochemical analysis of the cloned Duffy antigen: identity with the red blood cell chemokine receptor

    Kuldeep Neote;John Y. Mak;Lee F. Kolakowski;Thomas J. Schall

  • Relaxin modulates cardiac fibroblast proliferation, differentiation, and collagen production and reverses cardiac fibrosis in vivo

    Chrishan S. Samuel;Elaine N. Unemori;Ishanee Mookerjee;Ross A.D. Bathgate

  • Primer tRNAs for Reverse Transcription

    Johnson Mak;Lawrence Kleiman

  • Maintenance of the Gag/Gag-Pol Ratio Is Important for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 RNA Dimerization and Viral Infectivity

    Miranda Shehu-Xhilaga;Suzanne M. Crowe;Johnson Mak

  • Identification of tRNAs incorporated into wild-type and mutant human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

    Min Jiang;Johnson Mak;Azim Ladha;Eric Cohen

  • Establishment of HIV-1 latency in resting CD4+ T cells depends on chemokine-induced changes in the actin cytoskeleton.

    Paul U. Cameron;Suha Saleh;Georgina Sallmann;Ajantha Solomon

  • Role of Pr160gag-pol in mediating the selective incorporation of tRNA(Lys) into human immunodeficiency virus type 1 particles.

    Johnson Mak;Min Jiang;Mark A. Wainberg;Marie-Louise Hammarskjöld

  • The Origin of Genetic Diversity in HIV-1

    Redmond P. Smyth;Miles P. Davenport;Johnson Mak

  • Mutations in the kissing-loop hairpin of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reduce viral infectivity as well as genomic RNA packaging and dimerization.

    Michael Laughrea;Louis Jette;Johnson Mak;Lawrence Kleiman

  • Virion-associated cholesterol is critical for the maintenance of HIV-1 structure and infectivity.

    Shahan M Campbell;Suzanne Mary Crowe;Johnson Mak

  • The packaging and maturation of the HIV-1 Pol proteins.

    Melissa K Hill;Gilda Tachedjian;Johnson Mak

  • Defective phagocytosis by human monocyte/macrophages following HIV-1 infection: underlying mechanisms and modulation by adjunctive cytokine therapy.

    Katarzyna Kedzierska;Rula Azzam;Rula Azzam;Philip Ellery;Philip Ellery;Johnson Mak;Johnson Mak

  • Effects of alterations of primer-binding site sequences on human immunodeficiency virus type 1 replication.

    Xuguang Li;Johnson Mak;Eric J. Arts;Zhengxian Gu

  • Potent Nonnucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Target HIV-1 Gag-Pol

    Anna Figueiredo;Anna Figueiredo;Katie L Moore;Johnson Mak;Johnson Mak;Nicolas Sluis-Cremer

  • Reducing chimera formation during PCR amplification to ensure accurate genotyping

    Redmond P Smyth;Timothy E Schlub;Andrew J Grimm;Vanessa Venturi

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne M. Crowe
Suzanne M. Crowe Burnet Institute
Lawrence Kleiman
Lawrence Kleiman McGill University
Miles P. Davenport
Miles P. Davenport University of New South Wales
Gilda Tachedjian
Gilda Tachedjian Burnet Institute
Mark A. Wainberg
Mark A. Wainberg McGill University
Anthony Jaworowski
Anthony Jaworowski RMIT University
Simon Mallal
Simon Mallal Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Roland Marquet
Roland Marquet University of Strasbourg
Sharon R. Lewin
Sharon R. Lewin University of Melbourne
Paul J. Hertzog
Paul J. Hertzog Hudson Institute of Medical Research

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