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D-Index
86
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30310
World Ranking
818
National Ranking
25

Alan Bernstein 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 Alan Bernstein sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 205 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alan Bernstein 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 Alan Bernstein sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Alan Bernstein is affiliated with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in Canada. Their research contributions span several topics within the life sciences, with a particular focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience as well as neuropeptides and animal physiology.

Their recent publications include:

  • The US attack on universities endangers future scientific progress, American prosperity, health outcomes, and national security (2025, BMJ)
  • Remembering James Till, 1931-2025 (2025, Experimental Hematology)
  • Remembering a pioneer in biotechnology (2021, Nature)
  • Dorsal Raphe Nucleus Enkephalin Peptide Modulates Behavioral Preference (2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Sonia S. Anand
  • Norman N. Iscove
  • Ron Worton
  • Tzvi Aviv
  • Frank Sicheri

Alan Bernstein's work has been published in journals such as BMJ, Experimental Hematology, Nature, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Their scientific focus centers on:

  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology

Best Publications

  • The proto-oncogene c-kit encoding a transmembrane tyrosine kinase receptor maps to the mouse W locus.

    Benoit Chabot;Dennis A. Stephenson;Verne M. Chapman;Peter Besmer

  • W/kit gene required for interstitial cells of Cajal and for intestinal pacemaker activity

    J D Huizinga;L Thuneberg;M Klüppel;M Klüppel;J Malysz

  • RNA tumor viruses

    Robin Weiss;A. Bernstein

  • A requirement for Flk1 in primitive and definitive hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis.

    Fouad Shalaby;Jacqueline Ho;William L. Stanford;Klaus Dieter Fischer

  • Grand challenges in chronic non-communicable diseases

    Abdallah S. Daar;Peter A. Singer;Deepa Leah Persad;Stig K. Pramming

  • Notch pathway molecules are essential for the maintenance, but not the generation, of mammalian neural stem cells.

    Seiji Hitoshi;Tania Alexson;Vincent Tropepe;Dorit Donoviel

  • p53 Mutations increase resistance to ionizing radiation

    Jonathan M. Lee;Alan Bernstein

  • Introduction of a selectable gene into primitive stem cells capable of long-term reconstitution of the hemopoietic system of W/Wv mice

    John E. Dick;Maria Cristina Magli;Dennis Huszar;Robert A. Phillips

  • THE RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASE TIE IS REQUIRED FOR INTEGRITY AND SURVIVAL OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS

    M C Puri;J Rossant;K Alitalo;A Bernstein

  • Expression of c-kit gene products in known cellular targets of W mutations in normal and W mutant mice--evidence for an impaired c-kit kinase in mutant mice.

    K Nocka;S Majumder;B Chabot;P Ray

  • Mice lacking both presenilin genes exhibit early embryonic patterning defects.

    Dorit B. Donoviel;Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis;Masaki Ikeda;Hui Zheng

  • Presenilins are required for γ -secretase cleavage of β -APP and transmembrane cleavage of Notch-1

    Zhuohua Zhang;Philip Nadeau;Weihong Song;Dorit Donoviel

  • Vav is a regulator of cytoskeletal reorganization mediated by the T-cell receptor.

    K.-D. Fischer;Y.-Y. Kong;H. Nishina;K. Tedford

  • High incidence of lung, bone, and lymphoid tumors in transgenic mice overexpressing mutant alleles of the p53 oncogene.

    A Lavigueur;V Maltby;D Mock;J Rossant

  • Erythroleukemia induction by Friend murine leukemia virus: insertional activation of a new member of the ets gene family, Fli-1, closely linked to c-ets-1.

    Y Ben-David;E B Giddens;K Letwin;A Bernstein

  • Rearrangements of the cellular p53 gene in erythroleukaemic cells transformed by Friend virus

    Michael Mowat;Michael Mowat;Ambrose Cheng;Ambrose Cheng;Nobuhiro Kimura;Nobuhiro Kimura;Alan Bernstein;Alan Bernstein

  • Stress-signalling kinase Sek1 protects thymocytes from apoptosis mediated by CD95 and CD3

    Hiroshi Nishina;Klaus D. Fischer;Klaus D. Fischer;Laszlo Radvanyi;Arda Shahinian

  • Fli-1 Is Required for Murine Vascular and Megakaryocytic Development and Is Hemizygously Deleted in Patients with Thrombocytopenia

    Adam Hart;Fabrice Melet;Paul Grossfeld;Kenneth Chien

  • W mutant mice with mild or severe developmental defects contain distinct point mutations in the kinase domain of the c-kit receptor

    A D Reith;R Rottapel;E Giddens;C Brady

  • The c-kit receptor ligand functions as a mast cell chemoattractant.

    Cynthia J. Meininger;Hiroshi Yano;Robert Rottapel;Alan Bernstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet Rossant
Janet Rossant University of Toronto
Tak W. Mak
Tak W. Mak Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Tony Pawson
Tony Pawson University of Toronto
Dixie L. Mager
Dixie L. Mager University of British Columbia
William L. Stanford
William L. Stanford Ottawa Hospital
John E. Dick
John E. Dick Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Samuel Benchimol
Samuel Benchimol York University
Robert A. Phillips
Robert A. Phillips University of Toronto
Xianhua Piao
Xianhua Piao University of California, San Francisco
Robert Rottapel
Robert Rottapel University of Toronto

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