Patrick O. McGowan

11.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Patrick O. McGowan is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Social Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick O. McGowan has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 27 papers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Patrick O. McGowan's work include Birth, Development, and Health (31 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (28 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (27 papers). Patrick O. McGowan is often cited by papers focused on Birth, Development, and Health (31 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (28 papers) and Stress Responses and Cortisol (27 papers). Patrick O. McGowan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Patrick O. McGowan's co-authors include Moshe Szyf, Michael J. Meaney, Aya Sasaki, Gustavo Turecki, Sergiy Dymov, Benoît Labonté, Ana C. D’Alessio, Lieping Chen, Karl Erik Hellström and Sophie St-Cyr and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Patrick O. McGowan

86 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse

2009 2.3k citations Patrick O. McGowan, Aya Sasaki et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Costimulation of antitumor immunity by the B7 counterreceptor for the T lymphocyte molecules CD28 and CTLA-4

1992 912 citations Lieping Chen, Patrick O. McGowan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick O. McGowan Canada	39	2.3k	1.9k	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	86	8.1k
Paul Ashwood United States	70	2.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	951 0.5×	493 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	179	13.1k
Firdaus S. Dhabhar United States	64	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	6.0k 4.4×	1.3k 1.0×	107	18.0k
Michael S. Kobor Canada	62	8.6k 3.8×	717 0.4×	2.6k 1.5×	904 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	281	13.6k
Stephen G. Matthews Canada	60	1.2k 0.5×	959 0.5×	5.9k 3.4×	2.7k 2.0×	672 0.5×	263	12.3k
Theo Rein Germany	42	2.8k 1.3×	508 0.3×	587 0.3×	1.9k 1.4×	729 0.6×	122	6.7k
Petra Arck Germany	67	1.2k 0.5×	5.4k 2.8×	1.5k 0.9×	848 0.6×	730 0.6×	275	13.3k
Christopher L. Coe United States	58	1.1k 0.5×	555 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	2.9k 2.2×	1.9k 1.5×	286	10.8k
Antony W. Braithwaite New Zealand	37	3.1k 1.4×	351 0.2×	496 0.3×	1.3k 0.9×	2.3k 1.9×	111	10.0k
Ana C. D’Alessio United States	19	6.7k 3.0×	303 0.2×	2.5k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	25	11.9k
D. Lynn Loriaux United States	62	2.3k 1.0×	713 0.4×	577 0.3×	2.6k 1.9×	667 0.5×	266	12.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick O. McGowan

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Patrick O. McGowan's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Patrick O. McGowan with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Patrick O. McGowan more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick O. McGowan

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Patrick O. McGowan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Patrick O. McGowan. The network helps show where Patrick O. McGowan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick O. McGowan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick O. McGowan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick O. McGowan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick O. McGowan. Patrick O. McGowan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Bang, Jee Yoon, et al.. (2022). Hippocampus-Anterior Hypothalamic Circuit Modulates Stress-Induced Endocrine and Behavioral Response. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 16. 894722–894722. 14 indexed citations

Sasaki, Aya, Kellie E. Murphy, Laurent Briollais, Patrick O. McGowan, & Stephen G. Matthews. (2022). DNA methylation profiles in the blood of newborn term infants born to mothers with obesity. PLoS ONE. 17(5). e0267946–e0267946. 13 indexed citations

Hing, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Sex-specific maternal programming of corticosteroid-binding globulin by predator odour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1964). 20211908–20211908. 2 indexed citations

Wijenayake, Sanoji, et al.. (2021). Maternal effects in mammals: Broadening our understanding of offspring programming. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 62. 100924–100924. 28 indexed citations

McGowan, Patrick O., et al.. (2020). Early life variations in temperature exposure affect the epigenetic regulation of the paraventricular nucleus in female rat pups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1937). 20201991–20201991. 3 indexed citations

Savoy, Calan, Louis A. Schmidt, Patrick O. McGowan, Saroj Saigal, & Ryan J. Van Lieshout. (2020). Extremely low birth weight influences the relationship between stress and telomere length in adulthood. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease. 12(2). 328–334. 3 indexed citations

Mathewson, Karen J., Patrick O. McGowan, Wilfred C. de Vega, et al.. (2020). DNA methylation profiles in adults born at extremely low birth weight. Development and Psychopathology. 34(1). 19–36. 3 indexed citations

Wijenayake, Sanoji, et al.. (2020). Maternal high-fat diet induces sex-specific changes to glucocorticoid and inflammatory signaling in response to corticosterone and lipopolysaccharide challenge in adult rat offspring. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 17(1). 116–116. 20 indexed citations

Ashbrook, David G., Benjamin Hing, Lindsay T. Michalovicz, et al.. (2018). Epigenetic impacts of stress priming of the neuroinflammatory response to sarin surrogate in mice: a model of Gulf War illness. Journal of Neuroinflammation. 15(1). 86–86. 43 indexed citations

10.

St-Cyr, Sophie & Patrick O. McGowan. (2017). Adaptation or pathology? The role of prenatal stressor type and intensity in the developmental programing of adult phenotype. Neurotoxicology and Teratology. 66. 113–124. 13 indexed citations

11.

McGowan, Patrick O., et al.. (2015). Chronic high fat feeding increases anxiety-like behaviour and reduces transcript abundance of glucocorticoid signalling genes in the hippocampus of female rats. Behavioural Brain Research. 286. 265–270. 72 indexed citations

12.

Morgan, Colin, et al.. (2013). Postnatal Head Growth in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Parenteral Nutrition Study. PEDIATRICS. 133(1). e120–e128. 131 indexed citations

13.

Clinchy, Michael, Jay Schulkin, Liana Zanette, et al.. (2011). The Neurological Ecology of Fear: Insights Neuroscientists and Ecologists Have to Offer one Another. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 4. 21–21. 67 indexed citations

14.

Szyf, Moshe, Gustavo Turecki, Chris Power, et al.. (2009). Epigenetic mechanisms mediating the long-term impact on behavior of the social environment in early life. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

15.

McGowan, Patrick O., Aya Sasaki, Ana C. D’Alessio, et al.. (2009). Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse. Nature Neuroscience. 12(3). 342–348. 2302 indexed citations breakdown →

16.

McGowan, Patrick O., Michael J. Meaney, & Moshe Szyf. (2008). Diet and the epigenetic (re)programming of phenotypic differences in behavior. Brain Research. 1237. 12–24. 157 indexed citations

17.

McGowan, Patrick O. & Tadafumi Kato. (2007). Epigenetics in mood disorders. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine. 13(1). 16–24. 55 indexed citations

18.

Szyf, Moshe, Patrick O. McGowan, & Michael J. Meaney. (2007). The social environment and the epigenome. Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis. 49(1). 46–60. 293 indexed citations

19.

Johnston, Janet, Alison R. Malacko, Patrick O. McGowan, et al.. (1996). B7-CD28 costimulation unveils the hierarchy of tumor epitopes recognized by major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted CD8+ cytolytic T lymphocytes.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 183(3). 791–800. 82 indexed citations

20.

Chen, Lieping, Patrick O. McGowan, S Ashe, et al.. (1994). Tumor immunogenicity determines the effect of B7 costimulation on T cell-mediated tumor immunity.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 179(2). 523–532. 409 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact