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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
99
Citations
41133
World Ranking
1573
National Ranking
883

Medicine

D-Index
98
Citations
41093
World Ranking
8842
National Ranking
4556

Alan Wells publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Wells sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 400 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Alan Wells D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan Wells sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 99 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alan Wells is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research contributions predominantly focus on the field of Medicine, with an emphasis on Infectious Diseases, Oncology, Epidemiology, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers various main topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • AI in cancer detection

Wells has published extensively in several frequent venues, contributing multiple papers to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Virology
  • Journal of Clinical Virology Plus
  • PLoS ONE
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Among the recent papers associated with Wells are:

  • Differential Antibody Response to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines in Healthy Subjects, 2021, Microbiology Spectrum
  • SARS-CoV-2 growth, furin-cleavage-site adaptation and neutralization using serum from acutely infected hospitalized COVID-19 patients, 2020, Journal of General Virology
  • Suboptimal Response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 Messenger RNA Vaccines in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies: A Need for Vigilance in the Postmasking Era, 2021, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Suboptimal response to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in hematologic malignancies patients, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Prospective Evaluation of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine Responses Across a Broad Spectrum of Immunocompromising Conditions: the COVID-19 Vaccination in the Immunocompromised Study (COVICS), 2022, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wells include:

  • Melissa McCullough
  • Tung Gia Phan
  • Ghady Haidar
  • Amanda M. Clark
  • Kevin Collins

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Migration of tumor cells in 3D matrices is governed by matrix stiffness along with cell-matrix adhesion and proteolysis.

    Muhammad H. Zaman;Linda M. Trapani;Alisha L. Sieminski;Drew MacKellar

  • Cell adhesion and motility depend on nanoscale RGD clustering.

    G. Maheshwari;G. Brown;D.A. Lauffenburger;A. Wells

  • Localized biphasic changes in phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate at sites of phagocytosis

    Roberto J. Botelho;Mary Teruel;Renee Dierckman;Richard Anderson

  • Ligand-induced transformation by a noninternalizing epidermal growth factor receptor

    A Wells;JB Welsh;CS Lazar;HS Wiley

  • Breast carcinoma cells re-express E-cadherin during mesenchymal to epithelial reverting transition

    Yvonne L Chao;Christopher R Shepard;Alan Wells

  • Cutting to the chase: calpain proteases in cell motility

    Angela Glading;Douglas A. Lauffenburger;Alan Wells

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor-mediated cell motility: phospholipase C activity is required, but mitogen-activated protein kinase activity is not sufficient for induced cell movement.

    P Chen;H Xie;M C Sekar;K Gupta

  • Tumor invasion: role of growth factor-induced cell motility.

    Alan Wells

  • E-cadherin as an indicator of mesenchymal to epithelial reverting transitions during the metastatic seeding of disseminated carcinomas.

    Alan Wells;Clayton Yates;Christopher R. Shepard

  • Mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) as a mechanism for metastatic colonisation in breast cancer

    N. P. A. Devika Gunasinghe;N. P. A. Devika Gunasinghe;Alan Wells;Erik W. Thompson;Honor J. Hugo

  • Epidermal Growth Factor Activates m-Calpain (Calpain II), at Least in Part, by Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase-Mediated Phosphorylation

    A. Glading;R. J. Bodnar;I. J. Reynolds;H. Shiraha

  • Epidermal growth factor receptor activation of calpain is required for fibroblast motility and occurs via an ERK/MAP kinase signaling pathway.

    Angela Glading;Angela Glading;Philip Chang;Philip Chang;Douglas A. Lauffenburger;Alan Wells;Alan Wells

  • Epidermal growth factor as a candidate for ex vivo expansion of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

    Kenichi Tamama;Vivian H. Fan;Vivian H. Fan;Linda G. Griffith;Harry C. Blair

  • Epidermal growth factor (EGF)-like repeats of human tenascin-C as ligands for EGF receptor.

    C. Scott Swindle;Kien T. Tran;Terry D. Johnson;Pallab Banerjee

  • Growth factor regulation of proliferation and survival of multipotential stromal cells

    Melanie Rodrigues;Linda G Griffith;Alan Wells

  • Tethered epidermal growth factor provides a survival advantage to mesenchymal stem cells.

    Vivian H Fan;Kenichi Tamama;Ada Au;Romie Littrell

  • EGF receptor regulation of cell motility: EGF induces disassembly of focal adhesions independently of the motility-associated PLCgamma signaling pathway

    Heng Xie;Manuel A. Pallero;Kiran Gupta;Philip Chang

  • Epidermal growth factor and membrane trafficking. EGF receptor activation of endocytosis requires Rab5a.

    M. Alejandro Barbieri;Richard L. Roberts;Aysel Gumusboga;Hilary Highfield

  • Cell movement elicited by epidermal growth factor receptor requires kinase and autophosphorylation but is separable from mitogenesis

    Philip Chen;Kiran Gupta;Alan Wells

Frequent Co-Authors

Donna B. Stolz
Donna B. Stolz University of Pittsburgh
Harry C. Blair
Harry C. Blair University of Pittsburgh
Raman Venkataramanan
Raman Venkataramanan University of Pittsburgh
George Klein
George Klein Karolinska Institute
Jennifer R. Grandis
Jennifer R. Grandis University of California, San Francisco
Jian-Hua Luo
Jian-Hua Luo University of Pittsburgh

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