James McCullagh

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

James McCullagh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, James McCullagh has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Cancer Research and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in James McCullagh's work include Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (18 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (15 papers). James McCullagh is often cited by papers focused on Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (18 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (15 papers). James McCullagh collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. James McCullagh's co-authors include R.E.M. Hedges, Christopher J. Schofield, Elisabete Pires, Holm H. Uhlig, Sumeet Pandey, Lingzhi Gong, Nicholas E. Ilott, Stephen N. Sansom, Muhammad Farman and Julie Schulthess and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

James McCullagh

108 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

The Short Chain Fatty Acid Butyrate Imprints an Antimicrobial Program in Macrophages

2019 742 citations Elisabete Pires, James McCullagh et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James McCullagh United Kingdom	37	1.9k	569	537	473	453	116	4.2k
Eugenio Ragazzi Italy	41	1.9k 1.0×	325 0.6×	372 0.7×	58 0.1×	219 0.5×	276	6.0k
Sunia A. Trauger United States	34	5.4k 2.8×	418 0.7×	362 0.7×	412 0.9×	59 0.1×	71	8.6k
Paweł Jaruga United States	43	5.2k 2.7×	174 0.3×	1.4k 2.7×	185 0.4×	54 0.1×	113	7.3k
Andreas Tholey Germany	42	2.8k 1.5×	365 0.6×	241 0.4×	360 0.8×	31 0.1×	187	5.2k
Gennaro Marino Italy	40	3.0k 1.6×	266 0.5×	90 0.2×	496 1.0×	43 0.1×	196	5.2k
Anlong Xu China	49	4.7k 2.5×	2.5k 4.4×	683 1.3×	368 0.8×	86 0.2×	287	9.1k
Philippe Legrand France	44	2.1k 1.1×	236 0.4×	327 0.6×	116 0.2×	106 0.2×	230	7.1k
Douglas A. Gage United States	52	4.9k 2.6×	255 0.4×	215 0.4×	489 1.0×	41 0.1×	167	9.2k
Chenli Liu China	28	1.9k 1.0×	142 0.2×	353 0.7×	686 1.5×	142 0.3×	88	3.8k
Koichiro Tsuchiya Japan	46	1.9k 1.0×	482 0.8×	350 0.7×	183 0.4×	33 0.1×	215	5.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James McCullagh

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James McCullagh. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James McCullagh based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with James McCullagh. James McCullagh is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Pires, Elisabete, et al.. (2025). Integrating NMR and multi-LC-MS-based untargeted metabolomics for comprehensive analysis of blood serum samples. Analytica Chimica Acta. 1356. 343979–343979. 3 indexed citations

John, Tobias, Nadia Saffoon, John Walsby-Tickle, et al.. (2024). Aldehyde-mediated inhibition of asparagine biosynthesis has implications for diabetes and alcoholism. Chemical Science. 15(7). 2509–2517. 4 indexed citations

Bharucha, Tehmina, Bevin Gangadharan, Laura Gomez Fernandez, et al.. (2024). Using matrix assisted laser desorption ionisation mass spectrometry combined with machine learning for vaccine authenticity screening. npj Vaccines. 9(1). 155–155.

Ahmad, Bushra, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Muhammad Zulfiqar Ahmad, et al.. (2023). Antioxidant and antimicrobial potential of compounds isolated from Carissa opaca. Food Bioscience. 57. 103556–103556. 3 indexed citations

Pires, Elisabete, Frederick W. Muskett, James McCullagh, et al.. (2023). N-Acyloxymethyl-phthalimides deliver genotoxic formaldehyde to human cells. Chemical Science. 14(44). 12498–12505. 5 indexed citations

Haythorne, Elizabeth, John Walsby-Tickle, Andrei I. Tarasov, et al.. (2022). Altered glycolysis triggers impaired mitochondrial metabolism and mTORC1 activation in diabetic β-cells. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6754–6754. 64 indexed citations

Zhu, Linyi, Lada A. Koneva, Anastasios Chanalaris, et al.. (2022). Variants in ALDH1A2 reveal an anti-inflammatory role for retinoic acid and a new class of disease-modifying drugs in osteoarthritis. Science Translational Medicine. 14(676). eabm4054–eabm4054. 23 indexed citations

Liu, Shuang, Martine I. Abboud, Tobias John, et al.. (2021). Roles of metal ions in the selective inhibition of oncogenic variants of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1243–1243. 22 indexed citations

Ebrahimi, Kourosh Honarmand & James McCullagh. (2021). A lipidomic view of SARS-CoV-2. Bioscience Reports. 41(8). 9 indexed citations

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Ebrahimi, Kourosh Honarmand, Jane Vowles, Cathy Browne, James McCullagh, & William James. (2020). ddhCTP produced by the radical‐SAM activity of RSAD2 (viperin) inhibits the NAD⁺‐dependent activity of enzymes to modulate metabolism. FEBS Letters. 594(10). 1631–1644. 34 indexed citations

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Rondeau, Philippe, Emmanuel Bourdon, Elisabete Pires, et al.. (2020). Terminalia bentzoë, a Mascarene Endemic Plant, Inhibits Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells Growth In Vitro via G0/G1 Phase Cell Cycle Arrest. Pharmaceuticals. 13(10). 303–303. 18 indexed citations

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Ebrahimi, Kourosh Honarmand, Duncan Howie, Jack S. Rowbotham, et al.. (2020). Viperin, through its radical‐SAM activity, depletes cellular nucleotide pools and interferes with mitochondrial metabolism to inhibit viral replication. FEBS Letters. 594(10). 1624–1630. 27 indexed citations

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Ebrahimi, Kourosh Honarmand, Javier Gilbert‐Jaramillo, William James, & James McCullagh. (2020). Interferon‐stimulated gene products as regulators of central carbon metabolism. FEBS Journal. 288(12). 3715–3726. 13 indexed citations

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Ebrahimi, Kourosh Honarmand, Jack S. Rowbotham, James McCullagh, & William James. (2020). Cover Feature: Mechanism of Diol Dehydration by a Promiscuous Radical‐SAM Enzyme Homologue of the Antiviral Enzyme Viperin (RSAD2) (ChemBioChem 11/2020). ChemBioChem. 21(11). 1545–1545.

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Smith, Edward, James McCullagh, R. George Ratcliffe, & Nicholas J. Kruger. (2019). Limitations of Deuterium-Labelled Substrates for Quantifying NADPH Metabolism in Heterotrophic Arabidopsis Cell Cultures. Metabolites. 9(10). 205–205. 7 indexed citations

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Kaisaki, Pamela J., Edoardo Giacopuzzi, Matteo P. Ferla, et al.. (2019). Identification of Circulating Genomic and Metabolic Biomarkers in Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma. Cancers. 11(12). 1895–1895. 26 indexed citations

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Millán, Álvaro San, Macarena Toll‐Riera, Qin Qi, et al.. (2018). Integrative analysis of fitness and metabolic effects of plasmids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. The ISME Journal. 12(12). 3014–3024. 84 indexed citations

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Devièse, Thibaut, Daniel Comeskey, James McCullagh, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, & Thomas Higham. (2017). New protocol for compound‐specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 32(5). 373–379. 55 indexed citations

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Emir, Uzay, Sarah J. Larkin, Nick de Pennington, et al.. (2015). Noninvasive Quantification of 2-Hydroxyglutarate in Human Gliomas with IDH1 and IDH2 Mutations. Cancer Research. 76(1). 43–49. 94 indexed citations

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Yang, Ming, A. Hardy, Rasheduzzaman Chowdhury, et al.. (2013). Substrate Selectivity Analyses of Factor Inhibiting Hypoxia‐Inducible Factor. Angewandte Chemie. 125(6). 1744–1748. 4 indexed citations

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