J.E. McGeehan

7.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
113 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

J.E. McGeehan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, J.E. McGeehan has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 16 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in J.E. McGeehan's work include Optical Network Technologies (32 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (22 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers). J.E. McGeehan is often cited by papers focused on Optical Network Technologies (32 papers), Advanced Photonic Communication Systems (22 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (18 papers). J.E. McGeehan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. J.E. McGeehan's co-authors include Gregg T. Beckham, Nicholas A. Rorrer, Alan E. Willner, Kevin P. Sullivan, Maike Otto, Nick Wierckx, Yuriy Román‐Leshkov, Lucas D. Ellis, Erika Erickson and G.G. Kneale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

J.E. McGeehan

109 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Chemical and biological catalysis for plastics recycling and upcycling

2021 823 citations Nicholas A. Rorrer, J.E. McGeehan et al. Nature Catalysis profile →
Lignocellulose degradation mechanisms across the Tree of Life

2015 423 citations Simon M. Cragg, Gregg T. Beckham et al. profile →
Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization

2020 365 citations Brandon C. Knott, Erika Erickson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Techno-economic, life-cycle, and socioeconomic impact analysis of enzymatic recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate)

2021 287 citations Avantika Singh, Nicholas A. Rorrer et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
J.E. McGeehan United States	32	1.3k	1.3k	1.1k	879	812	113	4.6k
David G. Cooper Canada	31	946 0.7×	901 0.7×	562 0.5×	782 0.9×	289 0.4×	100	3.4k
Kōhei Oda Japan	33	2.5k 1.9×	2.2k 1.7×	1.8k 1.6×	653 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	198	6.2k
Kyung‐Jin Kim South Korea	32	1.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.7×	1.3k 1.2×	756 0.9×	530 0.7×	176	4.9k
Sang Jun Sim South Korea	58	373 0.3×	4.4k 3.4×	679 0.6×	2.9k 3.3×	192 0.2×	264	9.5k
Celine I.L. Justino Portugal	22	733 0.6×	930 0.7×	167 0.1×	1.0k 1.2×	574 0.7×	33	2.9k
David Bednář Czechia	32	386 0.3×	2.4k 1.9×	335 0.3×	439 0.5×	124 0.2×	96	3.4k
José L. Toca‐Herrera Austria	38	256 0.2×	1.4k 1.1×	403 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	54 0.1×	162	5.6k
Xuan Wang China	31	177 0.1×	1.9k 1.5×	214 0.2×	2.2k 2.5×	264 0.3×	81	6.8k
Christopher M. Topham United Kingdom	21	995 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	826 0.7×	320 0.4×	545 0.7×	55	2.8k
Kim R. Rogers United States	34	624 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	106 0.1×	1.0k 1.2×	182 0.2×	87	4.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J.E. McGeehan

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All Works

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Norton‐Baker, Brenna, Japheth E. Gado, Irimpan I. Mathews, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning-Guided Identification of PET Hydrolases from Natural Diversity. ACS Catalysis. 15(18). 16070–16083.

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DesVeaux, Jason S., Taylor Uekert, Manar Alherech, et al.. (2025). Process innovations to enable viable enzymatic poly(ethylene terephthalate) recycling. 2(5). 309–320. 8 indexed citations

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Knott, Brandon C., Heather B. Mayes, Michael F. Crowley, et al.. (2024). The reaction mechanism of the Ideonella sakaiensis PETase enzyme. Communications Chemistry. 7(1). 65–65. 34 indexed citations

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Avilán, Luisana, Bruce R. Lichtenstein, Gerhard König, et al.. (2023). Concentration‐Dependent Inhibition of Mesophilic PETases on Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Can Be Eliminated by Enzyme Engineering. ChemSusChem. 16(8). e202202277–e202202277. 40 indexed citations

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Kuatsjah, Eugene, Michael Zahn, Xiangyang Chen, et al.. (2023). Biochemical and structural characterization of a sphingomonad diarylpropane lyase for cofactorless deformylation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(4). e2212246120–e2212246120. 16 indexed citations

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Kincannon, William M., Michael Zahn, James Larson, et al.. (2022). Biochemical and structural characterization of an aromatic ring–hydroxylating dioxygenase for terephthalic acid catabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(13). e2121426119–e2121426119. 33 indexed citations

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Kuatsjah, Eugene, Christopher W. Johnson, Davinia Salvachúa, et al.. (2022). Debottlenecking 4-hydroxybenzoate hydroxylation in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 improves muconate productivity from p-coumarate. Metabolic Engineering. 70. 31–42. 45 indexed citations

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Erickson, Erika, Alissa Bleem, Eugene Kuatsjah, et al.. (2022). Critical enzyme reactions in aromatic catabolism for microbial lignin conversion. Nature Catalysis. 5(2). 86–98. 104 indexed citations

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Navas, Laura E., Michael Zahn, J.C. Grigg, et al.. (2022). Characterization of a phylogenetically distinct extradiol dioxygenase involved in the bacterial catabolism of lignin-derived aromatic compounds. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 298(5). 101871–101871. 8 indexed citations

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Uekert, Taylor, Jason S. DesVeaux, Avantika Singh, et al.. (2022). Life cycle assessment of enzymatic poly(ethylene terephthalate) recycling. Green Chemistry. 24(17). 6531–6543. 95 indexed citations

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Kincannon, William M., et al.. (2022). A flexible kinetic assay efficiently sorts prospective biocatalysts for PET plastic subunit hydrolysis. RSC Advances. 12(13). 8119–8130. 20 indexed citations

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Brizendine, Richard K., Erika Erickson, Stefan J. Haugen, et al.. (2022). Particle Size Reduction of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Increases the Rate of Enzymatic Depolymerization But Does Not Increase the Overall Conversion Extent. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(28). 9131–9140. 85 indexed citations

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Bleem, Alissa, Lintao Bu, S.J.B. Mallinson, et al.. (2021). Engineering a Cytochrome P450 for Demethylation of Lignin-Derived Aromatic Aldehydes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(3). 252–261. 33 indexed citations

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Erickson, Erika, Felicia Bratti, Bonnie L. Buss, et al.. (2021). Comparative Performance of PETase as a Function of Reaction Conditions, Substrate Properties, and Product Accumulation. ChemSusChem. 15(1). e202101932–e202101932. 55 indexed citations

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Erickson, Erika, Felicia Bratti, Bonnie L. Buss, et al.. (2021). Comparative Performance of PETase as a Function of Reaction Conditions, Substrate Properties, and Product Accumulation. ChemSusChem. 15(1). e202102517–e202102517. 36 indexed citations

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Knott, Brandon C., Erika Erickson, Mark D. Allen, et al.. (2020). Characterization and engineering of a two-enzyme system for plastics depolymerization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(41). 25476–25485. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Machovina, Melodie M., S.J.B. Mallinson, Brandon C. Knott, et al.. (2019). Enabling microbial syringol conversion through structure-guided protein engineering. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(28). 13970–13976. 52 indexed citations

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Mallinson, S.J.B., Melodie M. Machovina, Rodrigo L. Silveira, et al.. (2018). A promiscuous cytochrome P450 aromatic O-demethylase for lignin bioconversion. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2487–2487. 164 indexed citations

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Kern, Marcelo, J.E. McGeehan, S.D. Streeter, et al.. (2013). Structural characterization of a unique marine animal family 7 cellobiohydrolase suggests a mechanism of cellulase salt tolerance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(25). 10189–10194. 82 indexed citations

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McGeehan, J.E., et al.. (2004). Chromatic dispersion monitoring using partial optical filtering and phase-shift detection of bit rate and doubled half bit rate frequency components. Optical Fiber Communication Conference. 2. 4 indexed citations

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