John A. McNeil

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

John A. McNeil is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. McNeil has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in John A. McNeil's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (5 papers). John A. McNeil is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (6 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (5 papers). John A. McNeil collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. John A. McNeil's co-authors include Jeanne B. Lawrence, Christine Clemson, H.F. Willard, Carol V. Johnson, Robert H. Singer, Meg Byron, Kenneth C. Carter, Lisa L. Hall, Kevin E. Fogarty and Phillip T. Moen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John A. McNeil

24 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

XIST RNA paints the inactive X chromosome at interphase: evidence for a novel RNA involved in nuclear/chromosome structure.

1996 645 citations Christine Clemson, John A. McNeil et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. McNeil United States	18	2.3k	1.0k	488	320	227	24	3.1k
Daniel Reines United States	36	4.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.3×	235 0.5×	210 0.7×	172 0.8×	62	4.4k
Serge Plaza France	33	2.2k 1.0×	634 0.6×	277 0.6×	283 0.9×	328 1.4×	63	2.8k
Katharina Strub Switzerland	30	3.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	414 0.8×	192 0.6×	132 0.6×	42	4.2k
Stuart A. Wilson United Kingdom	35	3.2k 1.4×	545 0.5×	211 0.4×	365 1.1×	210 0.9×	67	4.1k
Peter D. Rathjen Australia	30	3.3k 1.5×	510 0.5×	472 1.0×	154 0.5×	134 0.6×	76	4.1k
Elmar Wahle Germany	48	7.0k 3.0×	732 0.7×	421 0.9×	391 1.2×	462 2.0×	88	7.6k
Claire Moore United States	42	6.8k 3.0×	642 0.6×	424 0.9×	330 1.0×	95 0.4×	93	7.4k
Hillary F. Massa United States	20	2.1k 0.9×	2.2k 2.2×	1.1k 2.3×	461 1.4×	173 0.8×	27	3.9k
Gang Bao United States	9	4.1k 1.8×	895 0.9×	520 1.1×	115 0.4×	88 0.4×	11	4.5k
John Majors United States	26	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	494 1.0×	112 0.3×	214 0.9×	38	4.0k

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Hari, Kumar L, Ravi Jain, Aaron J. Towers, et al.. (2008). The Microbial Rosetta Stone: a database system for tracking infectious microorganisms. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 123(1). 65–69. 5 indexed citations

McNeil, John A.. (2008). Design of laser beam shaping optics: a simple algebraic method. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6872. 68720D–68720D. 3 indexed citations

McNeil, John A., Kelly P. Smith, Lisa L. Hall, & Jeanne B. Lawrence. (2006). Word frequency analysis reveals enrichment of dinucleotide repeats on the human X chromosome and [GATA]_nin the X escape region. Genome Research. 16(4). 477–484. 38 indexed citations

Ecker, David J., Rangarajan Sampath, Vivek Samant, et al.. (2005). The Microbial Rosetta Stone Database: A compilation of global and emerging infectious microorganisms and bioterrorist threat agents. BMC Microbiology. 5(1). 19–19. 66 indexed citations

McNeil, John A.. (2004). The Metal Detector and Faraday's Law. The Physics Teacher. 42(6). 369–373. 9 indexed citations

Dubnau, Josh, Ann‐Shyn Chiang, John A. McNeil, et al.. (2003). The staufen/pumilio Pathway Is Involved in Drosophila Long-Term Memory. Current Biology. 13(4). 286–296. 382 indexed citations

Johnson, Carol V., et al.. (2000). Tracking Col1a1 RNA in Osteogenesis Imperfecta. The Journal of Cell Biology. 150(3). 417–432. 133 indexed citations

Clemson, Christine, John A. McNeil, H.F. Willard, & Jeanne B. Lawrence. (1996). XIST RNA paints the inactive X chromosome at interphase: evidence for a novel RNA involved in nuclear/chromosome structure.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 132(3). 259–275. 645 indexed citations breakdown →

Wydner, Karen L., John A. McNeil, Feng Lin, Howard J. Worman, & Jeanne B. Lawrence. (1996). Chromosomal Assignment of Human Nuclear Envelope Protein Genes LMNA, LMNB1, and LBR by Fluorescencein SituHybridization. Genomics. 32(3). 474–478. 80 indexed citations

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Ward, W. Steven, et al.. (1996). Localization of Three Genes in the Hook-Shaped Hamster Sperm Nucleus by Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization1. Biology of Reproduction. 54(6). 1271–1278. 9 indexed citations

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Neuman, Elizabeth, William R. Sellers, John A. McNeil, Jeanne B. Lawrence, & William G. Kaelin. (1996). Structure and partial genomic sequence of the human E2F1 gene. Gene. 173(2). 163–169. 20 indexed citations

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Xing, Yigong, Carol V. Johnson, Phillip T. Moen, John A. McNeil, & Jeanne B. Lawrence. (1995). Nonrandom gene organization: structural arrangements of specific pre-mRNA transcription and splicing with SC-35 domains.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 131(6). 1635–1647. 203 indexed citations

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Klauck, Sabine M., Jeanne B. Lawrence, John A. McNeil, et al.. (1994). Cytogenetic and fluorescence in situ hybridization studies on sporadic and hereditary tumors associated with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome (VHL). Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 77(1). 1–13. 13 indexed citations

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Johnson, Carol V., John A. McNeil, Kenneth C. Carter, & Jeanne B. Lawrence. (1991). A simple, rapid technique for precise mapping of multiple sequences in two colors using a single optical filter set. Genetic Analysis Biomolecular Engineering. 8(2). 75–76. 41 indexed citations

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McNeil, John A., et al.. (1991). Localizing DNA and RNA within nuclei and chromosomes by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Genetic Analysis Biomolecular Engineering. 8(2). 41–58. 51 indexed citations

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Hurley, Elizabeth A., Sean A. Agger, John A. McNeil, et al.. (1991). When Epstein-Barr virus persistently infects B-cell lines, it frequently integrates. Journal of Virology. 65(3). 1245–1254. 93 indexed citations

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Hurley, Elizabeth A., John A. McNeil, Jeanne B. Lawrence, & David A. Thorley‐Lawson. (1990). Genomic Integration as a Novel Mechanism of EBV Persistence. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 166. 367–374. 6 indexed citations

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Fisher, Elizabeth, Peggy Beer‐Romero, Laura G. Brown, et al.. (1990). Homologous ribosomal protein genes on the human X and Y chromosomes: Escape from X inactivation and possible implications for turner syndrome. Cell. 63(6). 1205–1218. 335 indexed citations

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Lawrence, Jeanne B., Robert H. Singer, & John A. McNeil. (1990). Interphase and Metaphase Resolution of Different Distances Within the Human Dystrophin Gene. Science. 249(4971). 928–932. 212 indexed citations

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Takahashi, Ei-ichi, Tada-aki Hori, Jeanne B. Lawrence, et al.. (1989). Human type II collagen gene (COL2A1) assigned to chromosome 12q13.1-q13.2 byin situ hybridization with biotinylated DNA probe. The Japanese Journal of Human Genetics. 34(4). 307–311. 32 indexed citations

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