2026 Alan D. Frankel: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	66	1598	1427	808	708	137	27184

Alan D. Frankel 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 D. Frankel sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 137 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alan D. Frankel 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 D. Frankel sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Alan D. Frankel is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans across fields primarily focused on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Immunology and Microbiology.

Their scientific output includes work in several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Virology, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Their research topics have addressed areas including HIV Research and Treatment, RNA Research and Splicing, interferon and immune responses, Nuclear Structure and Function, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Alan D. Frankel has published in a range of journals, with frequent contributions to:

Molecular Cell
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
eLife
Science Advances
Cell Reports

Some recent publications include:

Phosphoregulation of Phase Separation by the SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Suggests a Biophysical Basis for its Dual Functions (2020, Molecular Cell)
A Quantitative Genetic Interaction Map of HIV Infection (2020, Molecular Cell)
Global post-translational modification profiling of HIV-1-infected cells reveals mechanisms of host cellular pathway remodeling (2022, Cell Reports)
Enhanced NF-κB activation via HIV-1 Tat-TRAF6 cross-talk (2024, Science Advances)
Functional and structural segregation of overlapping helices in HIV-1 (2022, eLife)

Frequent coauthors in their research are:

Maliheh Safari
Erik Verschueren
Michael Shales
David C. Crosby
Alexander Marson

Best Publications

A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing.

David E. Gordon;Gwendolyn M. Jang;Mehdi Bouhaddou;Jiewei Xu

5396
Citations
Cellular uptake of the tat protein from human immunodeficiency virus

Alan D. Frankel;Carl O. Pabo

4131
Citations
HIV-1: fifteen proteins and an RNA.

Alan D. Frankel;John A. T. Young

1265
Citations
Arginine-mediated RNA recognition: the arginine fork.

Barbara J. Calnan;Bruce Tidor;Sara Biancalana;Derek Hudson

877
Citations
Global landscape of HIV-human protein complexes

Stefanie Jäger;Peter Cimermancic;Peter Cimermancic;Natali Gulbahce;Natali Gulbahce;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson;Jeffrey R. Johnson

836
Citations
α Helix-RNA Major Groove Recognition in an HIV-1 Rev Peptide-RRE RNA Complex

John L. Battiste;Hongyuan Mao;N. Sambasiva Rao;Ruoying Tan

813
Citations
Conformation of the TAR RNA-arginine complex by NMR spectroscopy

Joseph D. Puglisi;Ruoying Tan;Barbara J. Calnan;Alan D. Frankel

787
Citations
Tat protein from human immunodeficiency virus forms a metal-linked dimer

Alan D. Frankel;David S. Bredt;Carl O. Pabo

700
Citations
Endocytosis and targeting of exogenous HIV-1 Tat protein.

D.A. Mann;A.D. Frankel

622
Citations
Host Cell Factors in HIV Replication: Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Studies

Frederic D. Bushman;Nirav Malani;Jason Fernandes;Jason Fernandes;Iván D'Orso;Iván D'Orso

524
Citations
The role of Tat in the human immunodeficiency virus life cycle indicates a primary effect on transcriptional elongation.

Mark B. Feinberg;David Baltimore;Alan D. Frankel

497
Citations
Solution Structure of a Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus Tat-TAR Peptide-RNA Complex

Joseph D. Puglisi;Lily Chen;Scott Blanchard;Alan D. Frankel

463
Citations
Analysis of arginine-rich peptides from the HIV Tat protein reveals unusual features of RNA-protein recognition.

Barbara J. Calnan;Sara Biancalana;Derek Hudson;Alan D. Frankel

459
Citations
Metal-dependent folding of a single zinc finger from transcription factor IIIA

Alan D. Frankel;Jeremy M. Berg;Carl O. Pabo

435
Citations
Inhibition of antigen-induced lymphocyte proliferation by Tat protein from HIV-1

Raphael P. Viscidi;Kumudini Mayur;Howard M. Lederman;Alan D. Frankel

428
Citations
HIV-1 Tat protein trans-activates transcription in vitro

Robert A. Marciniak;Barbara J. Calnan;Alan D. Frankel;Phillip A. Sharp

378
Citations
RNA recognition by an isolated α helix

Ruoying Tan;Lily Chen;Joseph A. Buettner;Derek Hudson

374
Citations
Modular structure of transcription factors: Implications for gene regulation

Alan D. Frankel;Peter S. Kim

329
Citations
Phosphoregulation of Phase Separation by the SARS-CoV-2 N Protein Suggests a Biophysical Basis for its Dual Functions.

Christopher R. Carlson;Jonathan B. Asfaha;Chloe M. Ghent;Conor J. Howard

315
Citations
Structural variety of arginine-rich RNA-binding peptides.

Ruoying Tan;Alan D. Frankel

281
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco

Carl O. Pabo MIT

Jeffrey R. Johnson Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Alexander Marson University of California, San Francisco

Gerard Cagney University College Dublin

James R. Williamson MIT

Charles S. Craik University of California, San Francisco

Ryan D. Hernandez McGill University

Sumit K. Chanda Discovery Institute

Pedro Beltrao European Bioinformatics Institute

External Links

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