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A. Keith Dunker publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Keith Dunker sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 287 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

A. Keith Dunker D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where A. Keith Dunker sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 105 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

A. Keith Dunker is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable work in medicine. The scientist's subfields of study include molecular biology, infectious diseases, cell biology, animal science and zoology, and ecology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics with a strong emphasis on protein science and viral research. Key areas of study include protein structure and dynamics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, machine learning in bioinformatics, animal virus infection studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Publications by the scientist have appeared frequently in journals such as Biomolecules, Cell Communication and Signaling, Microbial Pathogenesis, Nature Methods, and Nucleic Acids Research. The number of publications in these venues reflects their engagement with specific research communities:

  • Biomolecules (4 publications)
  • Cell Communication and Signaling (2 publications)
  • Microbial Pathogenesis (2 publications)
  • Nature Methods (1 publication)
  • Nucleic Acids Research (1 publication)

Among the recent papers associated with A. Keith Dunker are the following:

  • Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Intrinsically disordered proteins play diverse roles in cell signaling, 2022, Cell Communication and Signaling
  • On the roles of intrinsically disordered proteins and regions in cell communication and signaling, 2021, Cell Communication and Signaling
  • Shell disorder analysis predicts greater resilience of the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outside the body and in body fluids, 2020, Microbial Pathogenesis
  • DescribePROT: database of amino acid-level protein structure and function predictions, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Collaborative efforts have been a part of their research profile, with frequent co-authors including Vladimir N. Uversky, Gerard Kian-Meng Goh, James A. Foster, Lukasz Kurgan, and Christopher J. Oldfield. The counts of joint publications indicate repeated partnerships across different projects and fields of study.

Best Publications

  • Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins.

    Robin van der Lee;Robin van der Lee;Marija Buljan;Benjamin Lang;Robert J. Weatheritt

  • Sequence complexity of disordered protein.

    Pedro Romero;Zoran Obradovic;Xiaohong Li;Ethan C. Garner

  • Intrinsic Disorder and Protein Function

    A Keith Dunker;Celeste J Brown;J David Lawson;Lilia M Iakoucheva

  • The unfoldomics decade: an update on intrinsically disordered proteins

    A Keith Dunker;Christopher J Oldfield;Jingwei Meng;Pedro Romero

  • The importance of intrinsic disorder for protein phosphorylation

    Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Predrag Radivojac;Celeste J. Brown;Celeste J. Brown;Timothy R. O’Connor

  • Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Human Diseases: Introducing the D2 Concept

    Vladimir N. Uversky;Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • Intrinsic disorder in cell-signaling and cancer-associated proteins.

    Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Celeste J. Brown;J.David Lawson;Zoran Obradović

  • Understanding protein non-folding.

    Vladimir N. Uversky;A. Keith Dunker

  • Flexible nets. The roles of intrinsic disorder in protein interaction networks.

    A. Keith Dunker;Marc S. Cortese;Pedro Romero;Pedro Romero;Lilia M. Iakoucheva

  • PONDR-FIT: a meta-predictor of intrinsically disordered amino acids.

    Bin Xue;Roland L. Dunbrack;Robert W. Williams;A. Keith Dunker

  • Function and structure of inherently disordered proteins

    A Keith Dunker;Israel Silman;Vladimir N Uversky;Vladimir N Uversky;Joel L Sussman

  • Length-dependent prediction of protein intrinsic disorder

    Kang Peng;Predrag Radivojac;Slobodan Vucetic;A Keith Dunker

  • Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions.

    Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • DisProt: the Database of Disordered Proteins

    Megan Sickmeier;Justin A. Hamilton;Tanguy LeGall;Vladimir Vacic

  • Showing your ID: intrinsic disorder as an ID for recognition, regulation and cell signaling.

    Vladimir N. Uversky;Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • Analysis of molecular recognition features (MoRFs).

    Amrita Mohan;Christopher J. Oldfield;Predrag Radivojac;Vladimir Vacic

  • Intrinsic Disorder and Functional Proteomics

    Predrag Radivojac;Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Christopher J. Oldfield;Zoran Obradovic

  • Intrinsic disorder in transcription factors.

    Jiangang Liu;Narayanan B. Perumal;Christopher J. Oldfield;Eric W. Su

  • Coupled folding and binding with α-helix-forming molecular recognition elements

    Christopher J. Oldfield;Yugong Cheng;Marc S. Cortese;Pedro Romero

  • The protein trinity--linking function and disorder.

    A. Keith Dunker;Zoran Obradovic

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir N. Uversky
Vladimir N. Uversky University of South Florida
Christopher J. Oldfield
Christopher J. Oldfield Virginia Commonwealth University
Zoran Obradovic
Zoran Obradovic Temple University
Peter Tompa
Peter Tompa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Predrag Radivojac
Predrag Radivojac Northeastern University
Celeste J. Brown
Celeste J. Brown University of Idaho
Slobodan Vucetic
Slobodan Vucetic Temple University
Lukasz Kurgan
Lukasz Kurgan Virginia Commonwealth University
Monika Fuxreiter
Monika Fuxreiter University of Padua
Russ B. Altman
Russ B. Altman Stanford University

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