Ian R. McDonald

34.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
364 papers, 25.7k citations indexed

About

Ian R. McDonald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian R. McDonald has authored 364 papers receiving a total of 25.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Molecular Biology, 89 papers in Ecology and 75 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ian R. McDonald's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (55 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (47 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (43 papers). Ian R. McDonald is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (55 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (47 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (43 papers). Ian R. McDonald collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and United States. Ian R. McDonald's co-authors include J. P. Hansen, Douglas Henderson, Michael L. Klein, J. Colin Murrell, K. Singer, J. Colin Murrell, Roger Impey, Mauro Ferrario, P. A. Madden and S. Craig Cary and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ian R. McDonald

357 papers receiving 24.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Theory of simple liquids

1976 6.4k citations Ian R. McDonald et al. profile →
Hydration and mobility of ions in solution

1983 879 citations Roger Impey, Ian R. McDonald et al. profile →
Theory of Simple Liquids: with Applications to Soft Matter

2013 513 citations Ian R. McDonald et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian R. McDonald United Kingdom	74	7.2k	7.2k	5.8k	4.9k	3.9k	364	25.7k
Stuart A. Rice United States	89	3.6k 0.5×	8.2k 1.1×	3.4k 0.6×	12.7k 2.6×	2.9k 0.7×	632	35.5k
Jeffry D. Madura United States	37	8.3k 1.2×	9.7k 1.3×	5.5k 0.9×	24.2k 5.0×	1.2k 0.3×	127	43.4k
Roger Impey Canada	19	6.9k 1.0×	8.8k 1.2×	4.1k 0.7×	20.6k 4.2×	759 0.2×	42	36.5k
A. Rahman United States	41	9.0k 1.3×	6.5k 0.9×	3.4k 0.6×	8.5k 1.7×	367 0.1×	67	26.2k
Jeremy C. Smith United States	92	7.8k 1.1×	5.7k 0.8×	5.5k 0.9×	32.0k 6.6×	1.7k 0.4×	848	58.8k
David Chandler United States	100	14.4k 2.0×	19.8k 2.7×	12.5k 2.2×	8.8k 1.8×	765 0.2×	268	44.9k
Giovanni Ciccotti Italy	52	6.9k 1.0×	8.6k 1.2×	3.4k 0.6×	14.1k 2.9×	459 0.1×	220	29.4k
Robert G. Gilbert Australia	89	3.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.4×	3.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.3×	1.0k 0.3×	678	35.1k
Jayaraman Chandrasekhar India	44	9.2k 1.3×	11.8k 1.6×	4.5k 0.8×	21.9k 4.5×	772 0.2×	181	47.2k
David R. Nelson United States	99	11.0k 1.5×	12.2k 1.7×	4.3k 0.7×	4.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	410	42.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian R. McDonald

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Herbold, Craig W., et al.. (2024). Geothermal ecosystems on Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, support diverse and taxonomically novel biota. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(11). 1 indexed citations

Power, Jean F., Carlo R. Carere, Kevin C. Lee, et al.. (2024). A genus in the bacterial phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand. Nature Communications. 15(1). 179–179. 5 indexed citations

Herbold, Craig W., Charles K. Lee, Chelsea Vickers, et al.. (2024). Nutritional niches of potentially endemic, facultatively anaerobic heterotrophs from an isolated Antarctic terrestrial hydrothermal refugium elucidated through metagenomics. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 104–104. 1 indexed citations

Power, Jean F., et al.. (2023). Temporal dynamics of geothermal microbial communities in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1094311–1094311. 3 indexed citations

Lee, Charles K., et al.. (2018). Laboratory rearing of huhu, Prionoplus reticularis (Cerambycidae): insights into the gut microbiome. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 46(1). 1–12. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Charles K., Craig W. Herbold, Shawn W. Polson, et al.. (2012). Groundtruthing Next-Gen Sequencing for Microbial Ecology–Biases and Errors in Community Structure Estimates from PCR Amplicon Pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e44224–e44224. 150 indexed citations

Cary, S. Craig, Ian R. McDonald, J. Barrett, & Don A. Cowan. (2010). On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 8(2). 129–138. 410 indexed citations

Donnison, A., et al.. (2007). Survival of Escherichia coli in toroi: A traditional Māori food. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 41(4). 369–375. 4 indexed citations

Neufeld, Josh D., Hendrik Schäfer, Michael J. Cox, et al.. (2007). Stable-isotope probing implicates Methylophaga spp and novel Gammaproteobacteria in marine methanol and methylamine metabolism. The ISME Journal. 1(6). 480–491. 155 indexed citations

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Etherington, John & Ian R. McDonald. (2004). Is Bitumen a Petroleum Reserve?. SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. 24 indexed citations

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Hutchens, Elena, Stefan Radajewski, Marc G. Dumont, Ian R. McDonald, & J. Colin Murrell. (2003). Analysis of methanotrophic bacteria in Movile Cave by stable isotope probing. Environmental Microbiology. 6(2). 111–120. 214 indexed citations

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Cockburn, F., J. Paul Chapple, A. F. Heeley, et al.. (1993). PHENYLKETONURIA DUE TO PHENYLALANINE-HYDROXYLASE DEFICIENCY - AN UNFOLDING STORY. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Brenton, D. P., Jean Chapple, B. J. Clark, et al.. (1993). Recommendations on the dietary management of phenylketonuria. Report of Medical Research Council Working Party on Phenylketonuria.. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 68(3). 426–427. 217 indexed citations

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Ciccotti, Giovanni, Daan Frenkel, & Ian R. McDonald. (1987). Simulation of liquids and solids : molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods in statistical mechanics. Elsevier eBooks. 66 indexed citations

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Impey, Roger, Michael L. Klein, & Ian R. McDonald. (1984). Structure of the fast-ion conducting phase of soil lithium sulphate. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 17(22). 3941–3944. 11 indexed citations

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Bannister, Matthew & Ian R. McDonald. (1983). Turpentine composition of the pines of Guadalupe and Cedros islands, Baja California. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 21(4). 373–377. 6 indexed citations

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Klein, Michael L. & Ian R. McDonald. (1982). Properties of the paraelectric-solid and molten phases of sodium nitrite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 382(1783). 471–482. 16 indexed citations

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Cook, B., et al.. (1978). Prostatic function in the brush-tailed possum, Trichosurus vulpecula. Reproduction. 53(2). 369–375. 22 indexed citations

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McDonald, Ian R., et al.. (1977). Collective dynamical properties of molten salts: molecular dynamics calculations on sodium chloride. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 357(1688). 37–57. 66 indexed citations

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McDonald, Ian R., et al.. (1960). The analysis of sodium, potassium and calcium, in biological materials, by the 'EEL' flame photometer, with algebraic corrections for mutual interference effects.. 9. 705–732. 2 indexed citations

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