Ryan McQuillen

996 total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 578 citations indexed

About

Ryan McQuillen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan McQuillen has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 578 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ryan McQuillen's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (5 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Ryan McQuillen is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (5 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (2 papers). Ryan McQuillen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Ryan McQuillen's co-authors include Jie Xiao, Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu, Amanda Miguel, Kerwyn Casey Huang, Joshua W. McCausland, Erin D. Goley, Piet A. J. de Boer, Kristen E. DeMeester and Catherine L. Grimes and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Nature Methods.

In The Last Decade

Ryan McQuillen

9 papers receiving 568 citations

Hit Papers

GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tub... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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. GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis
    2017 338 citations Xinxing Yang, Zhixin Lyu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan McQuillen United States 7 389 344 205 54 52 10 578
Zhixin Lyu China 11 443 1.1× 386 1.1× 243 1.2× 55 1.0× 63 1.2× 14 658
Georgia R. Squyres United States 8 475 1.2× 412 1.2× 274 1.3× 66 1.2× 62 1.2× 10 721
Piotr Szwedziak United Kingdom 11 526 1.4× 381 1.1× 218 1.1× 40 0.7× 59 1.1× 15 722
Estelle Crozat France 15 618 1.6× 410 1.2× 189 0.9× 53 1.0× 44 0.8× 18 838
Jackson Buss United States 12 715 1.8× 553 1.6× 280 1.4× 50 0.9× 48 0.9× 19 1.0k
Sattar Taheri-Araghi United States 11 625 1.6× 339 1.0× 111 0.5× 30 0.6× 38 0.7× 25 853
Sunish Kumar Radhakrishnan Switzerland 11 525 1.3× 451 1.3× 214 1.0× 56 1.0× 109 2.1× 15 674
Bill Söderström Japan 14 320 0.8× 229 0.7× 149 0.7× 20 0.4× 42 0.8× 29 497
Samantha M. Desmarais United States 11 314 0.8× 272 0.8× 152 0.7× 37 0.7× 84 1.6× 15 523
Leon Furchtgott United States 7 401 1.0× 306 0.9× 186 0.9× 34 0.6× 46 0.9× 15 583

Countries citing papers authored by Ryan McQuillen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ryan McQuillen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ryan McQuillen. 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 Ryan McQuillen. The network helps show where Ryan McQuillen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan McQuillen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ryan McQuillen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ryan McQuillen 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 Ryan McQuillen. Ryan McQuillen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Moyer, Allison, et al.. (2024). Effect of thermal processing on the integrity of polyurea microcapsules for underwater adhesives. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. 135. 103838–103838.
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McQuillen, Ryan, Amilcar J. Perez, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2024). Light-dependent modulation of protein localization and function in living bacteria cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10746–10746. 2 indexed citations
3.
Salerno, K. Michael, et al.. (2023). Long-Time Oxygen and Superoxide Localization in Arabidopsis thaliana Cryptochrome. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(21). 6756–6767. 6 indexed citations
4.
Lyu, Zhixin, Atsushi Yahashiri, Xinxing Yang, et al.. (2022). FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5751–5751. 27 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinxing, Ryan McQuillen, Zhixin Lyu, et al.. (2021). A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW. Nature Microbiology. 6(5). 584–593. 56 indexed citations
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Bohrer, Christopher H., Xinxing Yang, Shreyasi Thakur, et al.. (2021). A pairwise distance distribution correction (DDC) algorithm to eliminate blinking-caused artifacts in SMLM. Nature Methods. 18(6). 669–677. 30 indexed citations
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McQuillen, Ryan & Jie Xiao. (2020). Insights into the Structure, Function, and Dynamics of the Bacterial Cytokinetic FtsZ-Ring. Annual Review of Biophysics. 49(1). 309–341. 87 indexed citations
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McQuillen, Ryan, et al.. (2017). A conserved coiled‐coil protein pair focuses the cytokinetic Z‐ring in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology. 105(5). 721–740. 26 indexed citations
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Yang, Xinxing, Zhixin Lyu, Amanda Miguel, et al.. (2017). GTPase activity–coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis. Science. 355(6326). 744–747. 338 indexed citations breakdown →
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Miller, Joshua, Mohan Doss, Ryan McQuillen, et al.. (2012). Impact of expression system on the function of the C6.5 diabody PET radiotracer. Tumor Biology. 33(3). 617–627. 6 indexed citations

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