John M. Archibald

12.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
143 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

John M. Archibald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John M. Archibald has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Molecular Biology, 79 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in John M. Archibald's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (95 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (71 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (60 papers). John M. Archibald is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (95 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (71 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (60 papers). John M. Archibald collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Germany. John M. Archibald's co-authors include Patrick J. Keeling, Jan de Vries, W. Ford Doolittle, Christopher E. Lane, Bruce A. Curtis, Shannon J. Sibbald, Andrew J. Roger, Julius Lukeš, Claudio H. Slamovits and Michael W. Gray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John M. Archibald

140 papers receiving 6.5k citations

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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.

Endosymbiosis and Eukaryotic Cell Evolution

2015 379 citations John M. Archibald profile →
Plant evolution: landmarks on the path to terrestrial life

2018 225 citations Jan de Vries, John M. Archibald profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John M. Archibald Canada	47	5.0k	2.7k	1.1k	722	557	143	6.6k
Gertraud Burger Canada	47	8.0k 1.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	693 1.0×	343 0.6×	128	9.7k
Sven B. Gould Germany	36	2.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	709 0.6×	606 0.8×	500 0.9×	82	4.5k
Jörg Schultz Germany	34	5.2k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	373 0.5×	223 0.4×	77	8.3k
Fabien Burki Canada	37	3.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	717 0.7×	587 0.8×	190 0.3×	67	4.5k
Tal Dagan Germany	41	3.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	895 0.8×	295 0.4×	255 0.5×	104	5.3k
Thomas A. Richards United Kingdom	41	4.1k 0.8×	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.5×	668 0.9×	91 0.2×	111	6.6k
Sandra L. Baldauf Sweden	33	4.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.9×	372 0.5×	153 0.3×	69	6.4k
B. Franz Lang Canada	59	10.7k 2.1×	3.2k 1.2×	2.6k 2.4×	648 0.9×	358 0.6×	164	13.1k
Charles F. Delwiche United States	43	4.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	2.3k 2.1×	1.5k 2.1×	793 1.4×	95	7.5k
Jeremiah D. Hackett United States	30	3.4k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	475 0.4×	1.2k 1.7×	515 0.9×	41	5.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John M. Archibald

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20 of 20 papers shown

Archibald, John M.. (2025). Mosaic evolution of eukaryotic carbon metabolism. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(4). 537–538. 2 indexed citations

Gallot-Lavallée, Lucie, Eric S. Pringle, Brett A. Duguay, et al.. (2025). Persistent mirusvirus infection in the marine protist Aurantiochytrium. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9922–9922. 1 indexed citations

Rest, Joshua S., et al.. (2023). Horizontal Gene Transfer and Fusion Spread Carotenogenesis Among Diverse Heterotrophic Protists. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(3). 5 indexed citations

Kim, Jong Im, et al.. (2022). Gene loss, pseudogenization, and independent genome reduction in non-photosynthetic species of Cryptomonas (Cryptophyceae) revealed by comparative nucleomorph genomics. BMC Biology. 20(1). 227–227. 2 indexed citations

Salas‐Leiva, Dayana E., Eelco C. Tromer, Bruce A. Curtis, et al.. (2021). Genomic analysis finds no evidence of canonical eukaryotic DNA processing complexes in a free-living protist. Nature Communications. 12(1). 6003–6003. 19 indexed citations

Sibbald, Shannon J., et al.. (2021). Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Pelagophyte Algae. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(3). 18 indexed citations

Fürst‐Jansen, Janine M. R., Sophie de Vries, Maike Lorenz, et al.. (2021). Submergence of the filamentous Zygnematophyceae Mougeotia induces differential gene expression patterns associated with core metabolism and photosynthesis. PROTOPLASMA. 259(5). 1157–1174. 16 indexed citations

Vries, Jan de, Sophie de Vries, Bruce A. Curtis, et al.. (2020). Heat stress response in the closest algal relatives of land plants reveals conserved stress signaling circuits. The Plant Journal. 103(3). 1025–1048. 67 indexed citations

Sibbald, Shannon J. & John M. Archibald. (2020). Genomic Insights into Plastid Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(7). 978–990. 83 indexed citations

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Vries, Sophie de, Jan de Vries, John M. Archibald, & Claudio H. Slamovits. (2020). Comparative analyses of saprotrophy in Salisapilia sapeloensis and diverse plant pathogenic oomycetes reveal lifestyle-specific gene expression. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 96(11). 10 indexed citations

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Tanifuji, Goro, Ryoma Kamikawa, Naoko T. Onodera, et al.. (2020). Comparative Plastid Genomics of Cryptomonas Species Reveals Fine-Scale Genomic Responses to Loss of Photosynthesis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(2). 3926–3937. 14 indexed citations

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Åsman, Anna, Bruce A. Curtis, & John M. Archibald. (2019). Nucleomorph Small RNAs in Cryptophyte and Chlorarachniophyte Algae. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(4). 1117–1134. 1 indexed citations

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Sibbald, Shannon J., et al.. (2019). Ubiquitin fusion proteins in algae: implications for cell biology and the spread of photosynthesis. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 38–38. 10 indexed citations

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Cenci, Ugo, Shannon J. Sibbald, Bruce A. Curtis, et al.. (2018). Nuclear genome sequence of the plastid-lacking cryptomonad Goniomonas avonlea provides insights into the evolution of secondary plastids. BMC Biology. 16(1). 137–137. 36 indexed citations

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Vries, Sophie de, Jan de Vries, Sven B. Gould, et al.. (2018). On plant defense signaling networks and early land plant evolution. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 11(3). 1–14. 57 indexed citations

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Sibbald, Shannon J., et al.. (2017). Diversity and Evolution of Paramoeba spp. and their Kinetoplastid Endosymbionts. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 64(5). 598–607. 15 indexed citations

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Nakayama, Takuro, Ryoma Kamikawa, Goro Tanifuji, et al.. (2014). Complete genome of a nonphotosynthetic cyanobacterium in a diatom reveals recent adaptations to an intracellular lifestyle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(31). 11407–11412. 80 indexed citations

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Kim, Eunsoo, Jamie Harrison, Sebastian Sudek, et al.. (2011). Newly identified and diverse plastid-bearing branch on the eukaryotic tree of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1496–1500. 65 indexed citations

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Lane, Christopher E., et al.. (2007). Nucleomorph genome of Hemiselmis andersenii reveals complete intron loss and compaction as a driver of protein structure and function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(50). 19908–19913. 111 indexed citations

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Archibald, John M., et al.. (2003). Lateral gene transfer and the evolution of plastid-targeted proteins in the secondary plastid-containing alga Bigelowiella natans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(13). 7678–7683. 188 indexed citations

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