William A. MacDonald

2.8k total citations
62 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

William A. MacDonald is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Molecular Biology and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William A. MacDonald has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William A. MacDonald's work include Synthesis and properties of polymers (12 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (11 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (7 papers). William A. MacDonald is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and properties of polymers (12 papers), Polymer crystallization and properties (11 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (7 papers). William A. MacDonald collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. William A. MacDonald's co-authors include Randal W. Richards, Mellissa R.W. Mann, D. MacKerron, R. Eveson, M. Kieran Looney, Mohd Ridhwan Adam, Alan M. Kenwright, D.J. Blundell, Alan Bunn and Michael H. Jameson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Molecular Cell and Nature Immunology.

In The Last Decade

William A. MacDonald

62 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William A. MacDonald United Kingdom 23 688 524 411 377 338 62 2.1k
M. Cynthia Goh Canada 32 300 0.4× 645 1.2× 873 2.1× 568 1.5× 739 2.2× 85 3.3k
Kôji Abe Japan 30 323 0.5× 956 1.8× 510 1.2× 509 1.4× 361 1.1× 201 2.9k
Thomas Weigel Germany 22 761 1.1× 269 0.5× 740 1.8× 414 1.1× 376 1.1× 76 2.0k
Khosrow Rahimi Germany 26 801 1.2× 635 1.2× 670 1.6× 695 1.8× 626 1.9× 60 2.5k
Wan Li China 23 287 0.4× 519 1.0× 801 1.9× 232 0.6× 770 2.3× 72 2.4k
Daniel Hofmann Germany 28 781 1.1× 112 0.2× 358 0.9× 355 0.9× 505 1.5× 84 2.3k
Hsiao‐Ping Hsu Germany 32 382 0.6× 215 0.4× 607 1.5× 231 0.6× 826 2.4× 89 2.6k
Ian Streeter United Kingdom 31 512 0.7× 1.1k 2.1× 313 0.8× 147 0.4× 207 0.6× 58 2.7k
Shigeaki Abe Japan 21 225 0.3× 322 0.6× 541 1.3× 280 0.7× 687 2.0× 134 1.6k
Jun Young Kim South Korea 26 445 0.6× 244 0.5× 499 1.2× 164 0.4× 667 2.0× 96 2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William A. MacDonald

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All Works

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He, Kun, Hanxi Xiao, William A. MacDonald, et al.. (2024). Spatial microniches of IL-2 combine with IL-10 to drive lung migratory TH2 cells in response to inhaled allergen. Nature Immunology. 25(11). 2124–2139. 12 indexed citations
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Xu, Zhongli, Xinjun Wang, William A. MacDonald, et al.. (2024). Innovative super-resolution in spatial transcriptomics: a transformer model exploiting histology images and spatial gene expression. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(2). 16 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A. & Mellissa R.W. Mann. (2020). Long noncoding RNA functionality in imprinted domain regulation. PLoS Genetics. 16(8). e1008930–e1008930. 45 indexed citations
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Zhang, Liyue, et al.. (2018). Nucleoporin 107, 62 and 153 mediate Kcnq1ot1 imprinted domain regulation in extraembryonic endoderm stem cells. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2795–2795. 20 indexed citations
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White, Craig R., William A. MacDonald, & Mellissa R.W. Mann. (2016). Conservation of DNA Methylation Programming Between Mouse and Human Gametes and Preimplantation Embryos. Biology of Reproduction. 95(3). 61–61. 19 indexed citations
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Ishak, Charles A., Aren E. Marshall, Daniel T. Passos, et al.. (2016). An RB-EZH2 Complex Mediates Silencing of Repetitive DNA Sequences. Molecular Cell. 64(6). 1074–1087. 125 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A., et al.. (2015). Mesomorphic behaviour in copoly(ester-imide)s of poly(butylene-2,6-naphthalate) (PBN). Polymer. 69. 66–72. 4 indexed citations
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Denomme, Michelle M., Carolina Gillio‐Meina, William A. MacDonald, et al.. (2012). Compromised fertility disrupts Peg1 but not Snrpn and Peg3 imprinted methylation acquisition in mouse oocytes. Frontiers in Genetics. 3. 129–129. 20 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A., et al.. (2007). P‐50: The Impact of Thermal Stress, Mechanical Stress and Environment on Dimensional Reproducibility of Polyester Film During Flexible Electronics Processing. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 38(1). 373–376. 4 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A.. (2003). Engineered films for display technologies. Journal of Materials Chemistry. 14(1). 4–4. 327 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A., et al.. (2003). P‐17: Plastic Displays ‐ New Developments in Polyester Film for Plastic Electronics. SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers. 34(1). 264–267. 13 indexed citations
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Collins, Stephen F, et al.. (2000). Transesterification in Poly(ethylene terephthalate). Molecular Weight and End Group Effects. Macromolecules. 33(8). 2981–2988. 22 indexed citations
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James, S. G., et al.. (1993). Measurement of the interfacial tension between polyethersulfone and a thermotropic liquid‐crystalline copolyester. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics. 31(2). 221–227. 27 indexed citations
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James, S. G., Athene M. Donald, I.S. Miles, & William A. MacDonald. (1992). Correlation between the Morphology and Permeability of Liquid Crystalline Polymer/Polyethersulphone Blends. High Performance Polymers. 4(1). 3–12. 4 indexed citations
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Bunn, Alan, Brian P. Griffin, William A. MacDonald, & D.G. Rance. (1992). A novel high-temperature non-aqueous dispersion polymerization route to fully aromatic main-chain liquid-crystal polymers. Polymer. 33(14). 3066–3072. 6 indexed citations
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MacDonald, William A., et al.. (1991). A neutron scattering investigation of the transesterification of a main-chain aromatic polyester. Macromolecules. 24(23). 6164–6167. 41 indexed citations
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Spontak, Richard J., Alan H. Windle, & William A. MacDonald. (1991). Microstructure of a thermotropic random copolymer of hydroxybenzoic acid, isophthalic acid and hydroquinone (HBA-IA-HQ). Journal of Materials Science. 26(15). 4234–4240. 10 indexed citations
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Dunn, Stuart, et al.. (1952). Field plot studies with sawdust for soil improvement. Plant and Soil. 4(2). 164–170. 4 indexed citations

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