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Alexander Hüttenhofer

Alexander Hüttenhofer

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 49 2618 2369 14 12 78 10635

Alexander Hüttenhofer publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Alexander Hüttenhofer between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Alexander Hüttenhofer published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 2.2 papers a year. Output peaked at 6 publications in 2002. 2 of the 85 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 6. Peak 6 publications in 2002. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 2 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 0 publications 1992: 2 publications 1993: 1 publication 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 2 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 4 publications 2002: 6 publications 2003: 5 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 4 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 6 publications 2009: 4 publications 2010: 5 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 1 publication 2014: 2 publications 2015: 2 publications 2016: 5 publications 2017: 5 publications 2018: 2 publications 2019: 1 publication 2020: 1 publication 2021: 0 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 0 publications 2024: 0 publications 2025: 2 publications
1988 2025

85 publications in total across all disciplines

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Alexander Hüttenhofer: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 2
1990 1
1991 0
1992 2
1993 1
1994 0
1995 1
1996 2
1997 0
1998 2
1999 0
2000 1
2001 4
2002 6
2003 5
2004 3
2005 5
2006 4
2007 3
2008 6
2009 4
2010 5
2011 2
2012 4
2013 1
2014 2
2015 2
2016 5
2017 5
2018 2
2019 1
2020 1
2021 0
2022 0
2023 0
2024 0
2025 2
Total 85
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Alexander Hüttenhofer publications per year - data summary

  • Alexander Hüttenhofer, a Molecular Biology scholar from Innsbruck Medical University, has 85 publications recorded across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1988 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive years are 2002 and 2008, with 6 publications each.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1988, 1990, 1993, 1995 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 8 of the 38 years in the span carry no publications at all (1991, 1994, 1997, 1999 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 2.2 papers per year over the whole span, or 2.8 per year counting only the 30 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 2 publications, 2% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1988-2000: 13 publications (1.0 per year); 2001-2013: 52 publications (4.0 per year); 2014-2025: 20 publications (1.7 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Alexander Hüttenhofer 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 Alexander Hüttenhofer sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 77–86 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 78 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 7
57–66 17
67–76 65
77–86 90 78
87–96 125
97–106 131
107–116 162
117–126 177
127–136 158
137–146 158
147–156 146
157–166 159
167–176 131
177–186 110
187–196 112
197–206 100
207–216 89
217–226 98
227–236 74
237–246 72
247–256 63
257–266 53
267–276 54
277–286 49
287–296 52
297–306 43
307–316 46
317–326 41
327–336 42
337–346 31
347–356 28
357–366 29
367–376 26
377–386 24
387–396 24
397–406 14
407–416 13
417–426 20
427–436 12
437–446 20
447–456 11
457–466 10
467–476 14
477–486 14
487–496 10
497–506 13
507–516 13
517–526 2
527–536 4
537–546 6
547–556 8
557–563 6
564+ 100
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Alexander Hüttenhofer publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 3,076 Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 53 ranges running from 47–56 to 564+ publications.
  • Alexander Hüttenhofer, a Molecular Biology scholar from Innsbruck Medical University, records 78 publications - the 3rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 3% of ranked Molecular Biology scientists score the same or lower than Alexander Hüttenhofer, and about 97% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 177–186 publications range, and Alexander Hüttenhofer ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 117–126 publications, holding 177 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 53% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 177–186 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 564 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Alexander Hüttenhofer 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 Alexander Hüttenhofer sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 48–49 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 36
42–43 101
44–45 115
46–47 121
48–49 118 49
50–51 130
52–53 106
54–55 116
56–57 113
58–59 129
60–61 120
62–63 105
64–65 131
66–67 95
68–69 97
70–71 106
72–73 83
74–75 89
76–77 77
78–79 70
80–81 73
82–83 60
84–85 48
86–87 45
88–89 50
90–91 31
92–93 51
94–95 43
96–97 38
98–99 39
100–101 41
102–103 29
104–105 33
106–107 35
108–109 20
110–111 38
112–113 19
114–115 28
116–117 13
118–119 23
120–121 16
122–123 15
124–125 11
126–127 21
128–129 7
130–131 13
132–133 14
134–135 17
136–137 9
138–139 8
140–141 16
142–143 7
144 7
145+ 100
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Alexander Hüttenhofer D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 3,076 Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 40–41 to 145+ D-Index.
  • Alexander Hüttenhofer, a Molecular Biology scholar from Innsbruck Medical University, records 49 D-Index - the 16th percentile of the discipline.
  • 16% of ranked Molecular Biology scientists score the same or lower than Alexander Hüttenhofer, and about 84% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 68–69 D-Index range, and Alexander Hüttenhofer ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 64–65 D-Index, holding 131 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 50% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 66–67 D-Index), so the distribution leans towards the lower end of the scale.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Overview

Alexander Hüttenhofer is a researcher affiliated with Innsbruck Medical University in Austria. Their work primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology and cancer research as key subfields.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • RNA research and splicing
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Alexander Hüttenhofer has published across several scientific venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • Molecular Cell
  • Cells
  • Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Notable recent publications include:

  • "SAFB2 Enables the Processing of Suboptimal Stem-Loop Structures in Clustered Primary miRNA Transcripts" (2020, Molecular Cell)
  • "Intragenic MicroRNAs Autoregulate Their Host Genes in Both Direct and Indirect Ways-A Cross-Species Analysis" (2020, Cells)
  • "Differentially expressed ncRNAs as key regulators in infection of human bronchial epithelial cells by the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant" (2025, Molecular Therapy - Nucleic Acids)
  • "tRNA as an assembly chaperone for a macromolecular transcription-processing complex" (2025, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology)

Throughout their career, Hüttenhofer has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Kai K. Kummer
  • Katharina Hutter
  • Michael Lohmüller
  • Almina Jukic
  • Felix Eichin

Best Publications

  • Identification of brain-specific and imprinted small nucleolar RNA genes exhibiting an unusual genomic organization.

    Jérôme Cavaillé;Karin Buiting;Martin Kiefmann;Marc Lalande

  • Non-coding RNAs: hope or hype?

    Alexander Hüttenhofer;Peter Schattner;Norbert Polacek

  • RNomics in Escherichia coli detects new sRNA species and indicates parallel transcriptional output in bacteria

    Jörg Vogel;Verena Bartels;Thean Hock Tang;Gennady Churakov

  • The IC-SNURF–SNRPN transcript serves as a host for multiple small nucleolar RNA species and as an antisense RNA for UBE3A

    Maren Runte;Alexander Hüttenhofer;Stephanie Groß;Martin Kiefmann

  • Mapping of conserved RNA secondary structures predicts thousands of functional noncoding RNAs in the human genome

    Stefan Washietl;Ivo L Hofacker;Melanie Lukasser;Alexander Hüttenhofer

  • Identification of 86 candidates for small non-messenger RNAs from the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Thean-Hock Tang;Jean-Pierre Bachellerie;Timofey Rozhdestvensky;Marie-Line Bortolin

  • RNomics: an experimental approach that identifies 201 candidates for novel, small, non-messenger RNAs in mouse

    Alexander Hüttenhofer;Martin Kiefmann;Sebastian Meier‐Ewert;Sebastian Meier‐Ewert;John O'Brien;John O'Brien

  • ADAR2-mediated editing of RNA substrates in the nucleolus is inhibited by C/D small nucleolar RNAs

    Patrice Vitali;Patrice Vitali;Eugenia Basyuk;Elodie Le Meur;Edouard Bertrand

  • Identification of novel non-coding RNAs as potential antisense regulators in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

    Thean-Hock Tang;Norbert Polacek;Marek Zywicki;Marek Zywicki;Harald Huber

  • Binding of L7Ae protein to the K-turn of archaeal snoRNAs: a shared RNA binding motif for C/D and H/ACA box snoRNAs in Archaea

    Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky;Thean Hock Tang;Inna V. Tchirkova;Jürgen Brosius

  • Experimental approaches to identify non-coding RNAs

    Alexander Hüttenhofer;Jörg Vogel

  • Small ncRNA transcriptome analysis from Aspergillus fumigatus suggests a novel mechanism for regulation of protein synthesis

    Christoph Jöchl;Mathieu Rederstorff;Jana Hertel;Peter F. Stadler

  • The small RNA PhrS stimulates synthesis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa quinolone signal

    Elisabeth Sonnleitner;Nicolas Gonzalez;Theresa Sorger-Domenigg;Stephan Heeb

  • Experimental RNomics: identification of 140 candidates for small non-messenger RNAs in the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Claudia Marker;Anja Zemann;Tanja Terhörst;Martin Kiefmann

  • Poly(A)-binding protein is associated with neuronal BC1 and BC200 ribonucleoprotein particles.

    Ravi Sondekoppa Muddashetty;Tasneem Khanam;Alexander Kondrashov;Marsha Bundman

  • RNomics: identification and function of small, non-messenger RNAs.

    Alexander Hüttenhofer;Jürgen Brosius;Jean Pierre Bachellerie

  • Identification of small non-coding RNAs from mitochondria and chloroplasts

    Birgit Lung;Anja Zemann;Monika J. Madej;Markus Schuelke

  • RNomics in Archaea reveals a further link between splicing of archaeal introns and rRNA processing

    Thean Hock Tang;Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky;Béatrice Clouet d’Orval;Marie-Line Bortolin

  • Anopheles gambiae miRNAs as actors of defence reaction against Plasmodium invasion

    Flore Winter;Sonia Edaye;Alexander Hüttenhofer;Christine Brunel

  • Nucleotide modifications within bacterial messenger RNAs regulate their translation and are able to rewire the genetic code

    Thomas Philipp Hoernes;Nina Clementi;Klaus Faserl;Heidelinde Glasner

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter F. Stadler
Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University
Herbert Lindner
Herbert Lindner Innsbruck Medical University
Ivo L. Hofacker
Ivo L. Hofacker University of Vienna
Florian Kronenberg
Florian Kronenberg Innsbruck Medical University
Timothy W. Bredy
Timothy W. Bredy University of Queensland
Udo Bläsi
Udo Bläsi University of Vienna
Hubertus Haas
Hubertus Haas Innsbruck Medical University
Lukas A. Huber
Lukas A. Huber Innsbruck Medical University
Alexander S. Mankin
Alexander S. Mankin University of Illinois at Chicago
Nicolas Singewald
Nicolas Singewald University of Innsbruck

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