Rate My Professor John Pearson

Pearson's academic interests center on microarrays, genetics, bioinformatics, statistical computing, and survey methods. He is a member of the New Zealand Statistics Association and offers consulting biostatistics services to researchers across the University of Otago. His scholarly contributions have amassed over 13,640 citations according to Google Scholar, underscoring his impact in statistics, genetics, genomics, neuroscience, and epidemiology. He collaborates on major international projects, including those with the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Key publications include 'Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders' in Nature (2026), 'Multi-ancestral genome-wide association study of clinically defined nicotine dependence reveals strong genetic correlations with other substance use disorders and health-related traits' in Psychological Medicine (2025), 'Genome-wide association meta-analysis of childhood ADHD symptoms and diagnosis identifies new loci and potential effector genes' in Nature Genetics (2025), 'Colorectal polyp distribution in relation to age: Meta-analysis' in BJS Open (2025), and 'Improved human skin vitamin C levels and skin function following dietary intake of kiwifruit: A high vitamin C food' in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (2025).