 He authored roughly 40 research publications, book chapters, and presentations.John McGinness materially contributed to the modern field of organic electronics.In 1972, while working at the Metallurgy department at Youngstown State University, McGinness suggested that electronic conduction in melanins (polyacetylene, polypyrrole, and polyaniline "blacks" and their copolymers) is analogous to conduction in amorphous solids such as the chalcogenide glasses.