Shawn E. McGlynn

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
74 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Shawn E. McGlynn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Shawn E. McGlynn has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 27 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Shawn E. McGlynn's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (26 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers). Shawn E. McGlynn is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (26 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers). Shawn E. McGlynn collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Germany. Shawn E. McGlynn's co-authors include Victoria J. Orphan, Grayson L. Chadwick, Christopher P. Kempes, John W. Peters, Joan Broderick, Michael J. Russell, Eric M. Shepard, Woodward W. Fischer, Hang Yu and Silvan Scheller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shawn E. McGlynn

72 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Single cell activity reveals direct electron transfer in methanotrophic consortia

2015 474 citations Shawn E. McGlynn, Grayson L. Chadwick et al. Nature profile →
Artificial electron acceptors decouple archaeal methane oxidation from sulfate reduction

2016 325 citations Grayson L. Chadwick, Shawn E. McGlynn et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shawn E. McGlynn United States	29	1.1k	959	894	826	581	74	3.4k
Clara S. Chan United States	36	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	326 0.4×	147 0.3×	74	4.5k
Trinity L. Hamilton United States	33	750 0.7×	553 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	383 0.5×	107 0.2×	95	2.7k
Michael Hügler Germany	24	1.7k 1.5×	710 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	214 0.3×	148 0.3×	37	3.2k
Tori M. Hoehler United States	36	952 0.9×	2.2k 2.3×	2.1k 2.3×	157 0.2×	755 1.3×	88	4.7k
Filipa L. Sousa Portugal	29	2.0k 1.8×	354 0.4×	780 0.9×	235 0.3×	578 1.0×	59	2.9k
Kazem Kashefi United States	20	558 0.5×	496 0.5×	624 0.7×	161 0.2×	128 0.2×	31	2.3k
Pei‐Ling Wang Taiwan	31	500 0.5×	640 0.7×	676 0.8×	97 0.1×	171 0.3×	175	5.4k
Beverly K. Pierson United States	26	1.1k 1.0×	363 0.4×	983 1.1×	325 0.4×	167 0.3×	36	2.4k
Tanja Bosak United States	33	475 0.4×	806 0.8×	721 0.8×	73 0.1×	265 0.5×	77	3.3k
Yehuda Cohen Israel	37	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	2.4k 2.7×	388 0.5×	48 0.1×	51	4.8k

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Wing, Boswell A., et al.. (2025). Chemical Characterization of Organosulfur Compounds in Aerosols from Archean-Analog Photochemistry: Insights from Liquid Chromatography and High-Resolution Tandem Mass Spectrometry. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 9(3). 569–588. 3 indexed citations

Surratt, Jason D., Shawn E. McGlynn, Boswell A. Wing, et al.. (2025). An Archean atmosphere rich in sulfur biomolecules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(49). e2516779122–e2516779122.

Sojo, Víctor, Yamei Li, Greg T. Drozd, et al.. (2025). Carbon Reduction Powered by Natural Electrochemical Gradients under Submarine Hydrothermal Vent Conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(32). 28674–28683.

Lee, Hye‐Eun, Tomoyo Okumura, Hideshi Ooka, et al.. (2024). Osmotic energy conversion in serpentinite-hosted deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8193–8193. 6 indexed citations

Barge, Laura M., Silvana S. S. Cardoso, Shawn E. McGlynn, et al.. (2024). Magnesium silicate chimneys at the Strytan hydrothermal field, Iceland, as analogues for prebiotic chemistry at alkaline submarine hydrothermal vents on the early Earth. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science. 11(1). 5 indexed citations

Jia, Tony Z., Markus Meringer, Chen Chen, et al.. (2023). Alternating co-synthesis of glycol nucleic acid (GNA) monomers with dicarboxylic acids via drying. Chemical Communications. 59(45). 6865–6868. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Po‐Hsiang, et al.. (2023). One-Pot De Novo Synthesis of [4Fe-4S] Proteins Using a Recombinant SUF System under Aerobic Conditions. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12(10). 2887–2896. 7 indexed citations

Hudson, Reuben, Aya Ohno, Nick Lane, et al.. (2020). CO ₂ reduction driven by a pH gradient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(37). 22873–22879. 105 indexed citations

Wang, Po‐Hsiang, Kosuke Fujishima, Samuel Berhanu, et al.. (2019). A Bifunctional Polyphosphate Kinase Driving the Regeneration of Nucleoside Triphosphate and Reconstituted Cell-Free Protein Synthesis. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(1). 36–42. 27 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., Grayson L. Chadwick, Mason Mackey, et al.. (2018). Subgroup characteristics of marine methane-oxidizing ANME-2 archaea and their syntrophic partners revealed by integrated multimodal analytical microscopy. Japan Geoscience Union. 1 indexed citations

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Ward, Lewis M., James Hemp, Patrick M. Shih, Shawn E. McGlynn, & Woodward W. Fischer. (2018). Evolution of Phototrophy in the Chloroflexi Phylum Driven by Horizontal Gene Transfer. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 260–260. 109 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., Grayson L. Chadwick, Christopher P. Kempes, & Victoria J. Orphan. (2015). Single cell activity reveals direct electron transfer in methanotrophic consortia. Nature. 526(7574). 531–535. 474 indexed citations breakdown →

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Russell, Michael J., Laura M. Barge, R. Bhartia, et al.. (2014). The Drive to Life on Wet and Icy Worlds. Astrobiology. 14(4). 308–343. 207 indexed citations

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Nitschke, Wolfgang, Shawn E. McGlynn, E. James Milner‐White, & Michael J. Russell. (2013). On the antiquity of metalloenzymes and their substrates in bioenergetics. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1827(8-9). 871–881. 115 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., I. Kanik, & Michael J. Russell. (2012). Peptide and RNA contributions to iron–sulphur chemical gardens as life's first inorganic compartments, catalysts, capacitors and condensers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370(1969). 3007–3022. 47 indexed citations

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Driesener, Rebecca C., Martin R. Challand, Shawn E. McGlynn, et al.. (2010). [FeFe]‐Hydrogenase Cyanide Ligands Derived From S ‐Adenosylmethionine‐Dependent Cleavage of Tyrosine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(9). 1687–1690. 127 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., et al.. (2010). Speculation on Quantum Mechanics and the Operation of Life Giving Catalysts. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 41(1). 35–50. 7 indexed citations

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Aston, John E., Kristen Brileya, Zackary J. Jay, et al.. (2009). In silico approaches to study mass and energy flows in microbial consortia: a syntrophic case study. BMC Systems Biology. 3(1). 114–114. 91 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., David W. Mulder, Eric M. Shepard, Joan Broderick, & John W. Peters. (2009). Hydrogenase cluster biosynthesis: organometallic chemistry nature's way. Dalton Transactions. 4274–4274. 60 indexed citations

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McGlynn, Shawn E., Shane Ruebush, Anatoli Naumov, et al.. (2007). In vitro activation of [FeFe] hydrogenase: new insights into hydrogenase maturation. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 12(4). 443–447. 96 indexed citations

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