John Alcolado

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John Alcolado is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Biochemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Alcolado has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in John Alcolado's work include Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (13 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (11 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (7 papers). John Alcolado is often cited by papers focused on Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (13 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (11 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (7 papers). John Alcolado collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. John Alcolado's co-authors include Aled Rees, Ruth Alcolado, Andrew W. Thomas, Marco Giorgio Baroni, Emma Sherratt, D. J. Galton, J. Stocks, Roy O. Weller, Isabella Moore and Aneela Majid and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Diabetes and Diabetologia.

In The Last Decade

John Alcolado

42 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Animal models of diabetes mellitus 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Animal models of diabetes mellitus
    2005 513 citations John Alcolado et al. Diabetic Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Alcolado United Kingdom 17 562 420 361 281 233 45 1.5k
Hiroshi Sakura Japan 17 1.2k 2.2× 444 1.1× 653 1.8× 341 1.2× 352 1.5× 63 2.1k
Arnold H. Slyper United States 18 401 0.7× 358 0.9× 175 0.5× 292 1.0× 279 1.2× 42 1.3k
Michal Anděl Czechia 28 598 1.1× 481 1.1× 595 1.6× 484 1.7× 449 1.9× 118 2.2k
Agneta L. Sunehag United States 29 356 0.6× 816 1.9× 290 0.8× 287 1.0× 843 3.6× 60 2.3k
Naziha Kaabachi Tunisia 21 222 0.4× 276 0.7× 139 0.4× 176 0.6× 392 1.7× 125 1.6k
Joseph Sack Israel 25 793 1.4× 1.2k 2.7× 268 0.7× 359 1.3× 168 0.7× 103 2.6k
A.C. Roy Singapore 23 595 1.1× 217 0.5× 84 0.2× 283 1.0× 184 0.8× 82 1.8k
Yii‐Der Ida Chen United States 23 576 1.0× 547 1.3× 270 0.7× 260 0.9× 562 2.4× 54 1.8k
Leszek Pawełczyk Poland 26 629 1.1× 427 1.0× 107 0.3× 256 0.9× 112 0.5× 130 2.7k
Marie-Claude Roy Canada 22 340 0.6× 328 0.8× 554 1.5× 84 0.3× 277 1.2× 47 1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Alcolado

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Alcolado, John. (2018). How to run a bedside teaching session. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 79(2). C30–C32. 3 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John. (2015). The Rose review of NHS leadership: better leadership for tomorrow. British Journal of Hospital Medicine. 76(9). 496–497.
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Alcolado, John, et al.. (2013). Post-traumatic stress disorder in trainee doctors with previous needlestick injuries. Occupational Medicine. 63(4). 260–265. 50 indexed citations
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Price, Stephen J., Donald C. Cole, & John Alcolado. (2010). Diabetes due to exocrine pancreatic disease--a review of patients attending a hospital-based diabetes clinic. QJM. 103(10). 759–763. 14 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John. (2006). Intrauterine environment and later disease development: Infertility treatment and the risk of diabetes in offspring. Medical Hypotheses. 66(6). 1133–1136. 1 indexed citations
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Ollerton, R. L., et al.. (2004). Type�2 diabetes mellitus ? genes or intrauterine environment? An embryo transfer paradigm in rats. Diabetologia. 47(8). 1354–9. 44 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John, et al.. (2002). Maternal transmission of diabetes. Diabetic Medicine. 19(2). 89–98. 63 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John. (1998). Genetics of diabetic complications. The Lancet. 351(9098). 230–231. 18 indexed citations
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Sherratt, Emma, Andrew W. Thomas, James Gagg, & John Alcolado. (1996). Nonradioactive Characterization of Low-Level Heteroplasmic Mitochondrial DNA Mutations by SSCP-PCR Enrichment. BioTechniques. 20(3). 430–432. 7 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John & Andrew W. Thomas. (1995). Maternally Inherited Diabetes Mellitus: the Role of Mitochondrial DNA Defects. Diabetic Medicine. 12(2). 102–108. 33 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John, Aneela Majid, Martin Brockington, et al.. (1994). Mitochondrial gene defects in patients with NIDDM. Diabetologia. 37(4). 372–376. 60 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John, P. J. Pacy, M Beevers, & P M Dodson. (1992). Risk Factors for Peripheral Vascular Disease in Hypertensive Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetic Medicine. 9(10). 904–907. 10 indexed citations
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Alcolado, John & Marco Giorgio Baroni. (1992). Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms at the GLUT4 and GLUT1 Gene Loci in Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetic Medicine. 9(1). 58–60. 16 indexed citations
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Thorn, James A., John Chamberlain, John Alcolado, et al.. (1990). Lipoprotein and hepatic lipase gene variants in coronary atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis. 85(1). 55–60. 83 indexed citations

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