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Biology and Biochemistry
Canada
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
81
Citations
22315
World Ranking
3919
National Ranking
126

Peter S. McPherson 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 Peter S. McPherson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 223 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter S. McPherson 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 Peter S. McPherson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 1996 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter S. McPherson is affiliated with the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital in Canada. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine.

Their work covers multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and Physiology. The main topics of their research involve cellular transport and secretion, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Recent publications by Peter S. McPherson include the following:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 infects cells after viral entry via clathrin-mediated endocytosis," 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Identification of highly specific antibodies for Serine/threonine-protein kinase TBK1 for use in immunoblot, immunoprecipitation and immunofluorescence," 2022, F1000Research
  • "Scaling of an antibody validation procedure enables quantification of antibody performance in major research applications," 2023, eLife
  • "Rapid macropinocytic transfer of α-synuclein to lysosomes," 2022, Cell Reports
  • "Antibody Screening by Immunoblot," 2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors involved in their research include:

  • Carl Laflamme
  • Riham Ayoubi
  • Maryam Fotouhi
  • Walaa Alshafie
  • Thomas M. Durcan

Peter S. McPherson has published extensively in several scientific venues with particular frequency in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • F1000Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • UNC Libraries

In 1996, they received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Tubular membrane invaginations coated by dynamin rings are induced by GTP-γS in nerve terminals

    Kohji Takei;Peter S. McPherson;Sandra L. Schmid;Pietro De Camilli

  • SynGO : An Evidence-Based, Expert-Curated Knowledge Base for the Synapse

    Frank Koopmans;Pim van Nierop;Maria Andres-Alonso;Andrea Byrnes

  • Phosphoinositides as Regulators in Membrane Traffic

    Pietro De Camilli;Scott D. Emr;Peter S. McPherson;Peter Novick

  • A presynaptic inositol-5-phosphatase

    Peter S. McPherson;Peter S. McPherson;Elizabeth P. Garcia;Vladimir I. Slepnev;Carol David

  • Mutant huntingtin impairs axonal trafficking in mammalian neurons in vivo and in vitro.

    Eugenia Trushina;Roy B. Dyer;John D. Badger;Daren Ure

  • The ryanodine receptor/Ca2+ release channel.

    P S McPherson;K P Campbell

  • Differential immunohistochemical localization of inositol 1,4,5- trisphosphate- and ryanodine-sensitive Ca2+ release channels in rat brain

    AH Sharp;PS McPherson;TM Dawson;C Aoki

  • A role of amphiphysin in synaptic vesicle endocytosis suggested by its binding to dynamin in nerve terminals

    C David;P S McPherson;O Mundigl;P de Camilli

  • Endocytic protein intersectin-l regulates actin assembly via Cdc42 and N-WASP

    Natasha K. Hussain;Sarah Jenna;Michael Glogauer;Christopher C. Quinn

  • SARS-CoV-2 infects cells after viral entry via clathrin-mediated endocytosis.

    Armin Bayati;Rahul Kumar;Vincent Francis;Peter S. McPherson

  • Phosphatidylinositol polyphosphate binding to the mammalian septin H5 is modulated by GTP.

    Jianshe Zhang;Chen Kong;Hong Xie;Peter S. McPherson

  • Intersectin, a novel adaptor protein with two Eps15 homology and five Src homology 3 domains

    Montarop Yamabhai;Noah G. Hoffman;Nancy L. Hardison;Peter S. McPherson

  • Tandem MS analysis of brain clathrin-coated vesicles reveals their critical involvement in synaptic vesicle recycling

    Francois Blondeau;Brigitte Ritter;Patrick D. Allaire;Sylwia Wasiak

  • SH3-domain-containing proteins function at distinct steps in clathrin-coated vesicle formation.

    Fiona Simpson;Natasha K. Hussain;Britta Qualmann;Regis B. Kelly

  • DNAJC13 mutations in Parkinson disease

    Carles Vilariño-Güell;Alex Rajput;Austen J. Milnerwood;Brinda Shah

  • Characterization of an RNA Granule from Developing Brain

    George Elvira;Sylwia Wasiak;Vanessa Blandford;Xin-Kang Tong

  • rbSec1A and B colocalize with syntaxin 1 and SNAP-25 throughout the axon, but are not in a stable complex with syntaxin.

    E P Garcia;P S McPherson;T J Chilcote;K Takei

  • Dissection of the Endogenous Cellular Pathways of PCSK9-induced Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor Degradation EVIDENCE FOR AN INTRACELLULAR ROUTE

    Steve Poirier;Gaetan Mayer;Viviane Poupon;Peter S. McPherson

  • DENN Domain Proteins: Regulators of Rab GTPases

    Andrea L. Marat;Hatem Dokainish;Peter S. McPherson

  • SARS-CoV-2 uses clathrin-mediated endocytosis to gain access into cells

    Armin Bayati;Rahul Kumar;Vincent Francis;Peter S. McPherson

Frequent Co-Authors

Kalle Gehring
Kalle Gehring McGill University
Brian K. Kay
Brian K. Kay University of Illinois at Chicago
Pietro De Camilli
Pietro De Camilli Yale University
Bernard Brais
Bernard Brais Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Kevin P. Campbell
Kevin P. Campbell University of Iowa
Aled M. Edwards
Aled M. Edwards Structural Genomics Consortium
Kohji Takei
Kohji Takei Okayama University
Michael R. Hayden
Michael R. Hayden University of British Columbia
Opher Gileadi
Opher Gileadi Karolinska Institute
Thierry Galli
Thierry Galli Inserm

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Sandra L. Schmid

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Pier Paolo Di Fiore

University of Milan

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Linton M. Traub

Linton M. Traub

University of Pittsburgh

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Harvey T. McMahon

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Publications: 33

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Mitsunori Fukuda

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Mark A. McNiven

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Publications: 26

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