John MacSharry

6.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

John MacSharry is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John MacSharry has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Clinical Psychology and 20 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in John MacSharry's work include Gut microbiota and health (23 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (19 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (18 papers). John MacSharry is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (23 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (19 papers) and Family and Disability Support Research (18 papers). John MacSharry collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and Canada. John MacSharry's co-authors include Fergus Shanahan, Douwe van Sinderen, Liam O’Mahony, Silvia Melgar, Cormac G. M. Gahan, Mary O’Connell Motherway, Mònica Aguilera, Susan A. Joyce, Á Fanning and Patrick G. Casey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

John MacSharry

97 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Regulation of host weight gain and lipid metabolism by bacterial bile acid modification in the gut

2014 462 citations John MacSharry, Fergus Shanahan et al. profile →
Bifidobacterial surface-exopolysaccharide facilitates commensal-host interaction through immune modulation and pathogen protection

2012 427 citations Lindsay J. Hall, Aldert Zomer et al. profile →
The Impact of Western Diet and Nutrients on the Microbiota and Immune Response at Mucosal Interfaces

2017 346 citations Mònica Aguilera, John MacSharry et al. Frontiers in Immunology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John MacSharry Ireland	32	2.2k	1.1k	750	575	559	104	4.4k
Melissa A. Lawson United States	20	2.1k 1.0×	490 0.5×	478 0.6×	814 1.4×	487 0.9×	29	4.5k
Ian M. Carroll United States	40	3.2k 1.5×	598 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	933 1.6×	405 0.7×	113	5.0k
Bernard M. Corfe United Kingdom	31	2.5k 1.1×	456 0.4×	880 1.2×	342 0.6×	434 0.8×	111	4.7k
Gregory P. Donaldson United States	10	4.0k 1.8×	787 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	938 1.6×	431 0.8×	12	5.6k
Cathryn R. Nagler United States	32	3.5k 1.6×	786 0.7×	1.7k 2.2×	714 1.2×	510 0.9×	71	6.4k
Helena Tlaskalová‐Hogenová Czechia	44	2.2k 1.0×	685 0.6×	641 0.9×	723 1.3×	578 1.0×	137	5.7k
Mélanie G. Gareau United States	30	2.3k 1.0×	902 0.8×	838 1.1×	388 0.7×	722 1.3×	64	4.2k
Janet Chow United States	8	2.4k 1.1×	382 0.4×	674 0.9×	524 0.9×	228 0.4×	9	3.7k
Carel Thijs Netherlands	53	3.0k 1.3×	854 0.8×	2.3k 3.1×	831 1.4×	2.0k 3.5×	155	10.3k
Christopher J. Stewart United Kingdom	39	2.1k 1.0×	459 0.4×	528 0.7×	683 1.2×	1.5k 2.8×	130	4.8k

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Ward, Chris, Eoin Hunt, Susan Lapthorne, et al.. (2024). Airway and Systemic Immunoglobulin Profiling and Immune Response in Adult Asthma. Lung. 202(3). 281–289. 1 indexed citations

MacSharry, John, Zsuzsanna Kovács, Yongjing Xie, et al.. (2024). Endometriosis specific vaginal microbiota links to urine and serum N-glycome. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25372–25372. 3 indexed citations

MacSharry, John, et al.. (2024). The healthy habits questionnaire (HHQ): Validation of a measure designed to assess problematic influential behaviours amongst families of children living with obesity or a risk of developing obesity. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 30(1). 157–174. 1 indexed citations

Wilson, Charlotte, et al.. (2023). Parents Plus parenting programme for parents of adolescents with intellectual disabilities: A cluster randomised controlled trial. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities. 36(4). 871–880. 4 indexed citations

Tonda, Alberto, Patrick Tabeling, Jessica Vanhomwegen, et al.. (2023). An Innovative AI-based primer design tool for precise and accurate detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15782–15782. 2 indexed citations

Lunjani, Nonhlanhla, Carina Venter, Matthew Power, et al.. (2022). Environmental influences on childhood asthma—The effect of diet and microbiome on asthma. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. 33(12). e13892–e13892. 17 indexed citations

Hoedt, Emily C., Francesca Bottacini, Roger S. Bongers, et al.. (2021). Broad Purpose Vector for Site-Directed Insertional Mutagenesis in Bifidobacterium breve. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 636822–636822. 10 indexed citations

Hunt, Eoin, Chris Ward, Susan Lapthorne, et al.. (2019). The presence of Aspergillus fumigatus in asthmatic airways is not clearly related to clinical disease severity. Allergy. 75(5). 1146–1154. 17 indexed citations

Alessandri, Giulia, Maria Cristina Ossiprandi, John MacSharry, Douwe van Sinderen, & Marco Ventura. (2019). Bifidobacterial Dialogue With Its Human Host and Consequent Modulation of the Immune System. Frontiers in Immunology. 10. 2348–2348. 92 indexed citations

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Hunt, Eoin, et al.. (2018). Gastric Aspiration and Its Role in Airway Inflammation. The Open Respiratory Medicine Journal. 12(1). 1–10. 31 indexed citations

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Aguilera, Mònica, et al.. (2017). The Impact of Western Diet and Nutrients on the Microbiota and Immune Response at Mucosal Interfaces. Frontiers in Immunology. 8. 838–838. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hunt, Eoin, Chris Ward, Stephen Power, et al.. (2017). The Potential Role of Aspiration in the Asthmatic Airway. CHEST Journal. 151(6). 1272–1278. 16 indexed citations

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MacSharry, John, et al.. (2015). Gamma-secretase-independent role for cadherin-11 in neurotrophin receptor p75 (p75NTR) mediated glioblastoma cell migration. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience. 69. 41–53. 13 indexed citations

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MacSharry, John, Karim H. Shalaby, Susan Lapthorne, et al.. (2014). Concomitant Exposure to Ovalbumin and Endotoxin Augments Airway Inflammation but Not Airway Hyperresponsiveness in a Murine Model of Asthma. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e98648–e98648. 23 indexed citations

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Murphy, C., Lindsay J. Hall, Aoife Quinlan, et al.. (2012). The Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Analogue FTY720 Impairs Mucosal Immunity and Clearance of the Enteric Pathogen Citrobacter rodentium. Infection and Immunity. 80(8). 2712–2723. 23 indexed citations

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Fitzpatrick, Carol, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of the Parenting Plus Programme. The Irish Journal of Psychology. 19 indexed citations

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Guérin, Suzanne, et al.. (2010). A multicentre controlled study of an early intervention parenting programme for young children with behavioural and developmental difficulties. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 40 indexed citations

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Pokusaeva, Karina, Ana Rute Neves, Aldert Zomer, et al.. (2009). Ribose utilization by the human commensal Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003. Microbial Biotechnology. 3(3). 311–323. 48 indexed citations

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O’Mahony, Cáitlín, Paul Scully, David O’Mahony, et al.. (2008). Commensal-Induced Regulatory T Cells Mediate Protection against Pathogen-Stimulated NF-κB Activation. PLoS Pathogens. 4(8). e1000112–e1000112. 303 indexed citations

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MacSharry, John, Liam O’Mahony, Á Fanning, et al.. (2008). Mucosal cytokine imbalance in irritable bowel syndrome. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology. 43(12). 1467–1476. 144 indexed citations

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