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Alexander Leitner

Alexander Leitner

ETH Zurich
Switzerland

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
13154
World Ranking
13709
National Ranking
247

Alexander Leitner 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 Alexander Leitner sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 181 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alexander Leitner 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 Alexander Leitner sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 316 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 899 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,025 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,149 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,235 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,162 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,130 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,031 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 714 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: 71 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: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

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

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

Overview

Alexander Leitner is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology as evidenced by their extensive publication record.

Their work covers several key topics in the life sciences, including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA research and splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Protein structure and dynamics
  • Heat shock proteins research
  • Enzyme structure and function
  • Advanced proteomics techniques and applications

Alexander Leitner has contributed to a number of recent scientific papers. Notable publications include:

  • Toward Increased Reliability, Transparency, and Accessibility in Cross-linking Mass Spectrometry, 2020, Structure
  • Structural visualization of the tubulin folding pathway directed by human chaperonin TRiC/CCT, 2022, Cell
  • Towards a structurally resolved human protein interaction network, 2023, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • A precisely positioned MED12 activation helix stimulates CDK8 kinase activity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • INTS10-INTS13-INTS14 form a functional module of Integrator that binds nucleic acids and the cleavage module, 2020, Nature Communications

Their frequent coauthors reflect ongoing collaborations in related domains and include:

  • Frédéric H.-T. Allain
  • Chris P. Sarnowski
  • Ruedi Aebersold
  • Tebbe de Vries
  • Michael Götze

Alexander Leitner has published repeatedly in several prominent venues, which outline the primary dissemination outlets for their research:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The minimum information about a proteomics experiment (MIAPE)

    Chris F. Taylor;Chris F. Taylor;Norman W. Paton;Norman W. Paton;Kathryn S. Lilley;Kathryn S. Lilley;Pierre Alain Binz;Pierre Alain Binz

  • Probing Native Protein Structures by Chemical Cross-linking, Mass Spectrometry, and Bioinformatics

    Alexander Leitner;Thomas Walzthoeni;Thomas Walzthoeni;Abdullah Kahraman;Franz Herzog

  • Crosslinking and Mass Spectrometry: An Integrated Technology to Understand the Structure and Function of Molecular Machines.

    Alexander Leitner;Marco Faini;Florian Stengel;Ruedi Aebersold;Ruedi Aebersold

  • Structural Probing of a Protein Phosphatase 2A Network by Chemical Cross-Linking and Mass Spectrometry

    Franz Herzog;Abdullah Kahraman;Daniel Boehringer;Raymond Mak

  • The Complete Structure of the 55S Mammalian Mitochondrial Ribosome

    Basil J. Greber;Philipp Bieri;Marc Leibundgut;Alexander Leitner

  • Lysine-specific chemical cross-linking of protein complexes and identification of cross-linking sites using LC-MS/MS and the xQuest/xProphet software pipeline

    Alexander Leitner;Thomas Walzthoeni;Ruedi Aebersold

  • Mass Spectrometry Applied to Bottom-Up Proteomics: Entering the High-Throughput Era for Hypothesis Testing.

    Ludovic C. Gillet;Alexander Leitner;Ruedi Aebersold

  • Architecture and conformational switch mechanism of the ryanodine receptor

    Rouslan G. Efremov;Alexander Leitner;Ruedi Aebersold;Stefan Raunser

  • false discovery rate estimation for cross- linked peptides identified by mass spectrometry

    Thomas Walzthoeni;Thomas Walzthoeni;Manfred Claassen;Alexander Leitner;Franz Herzog

  • The Molecular Architecture of the Eukaryotic Chaperonin TRiC/CCT

    Alexander Leitner;Lukasz A. Joachimiak;Andreas Bracher;Leonie Mönkemeyer

  • Expanding the chemical cross-linking toolbox by the use of multiple proteases and enrichment by size exclusion chromatography

    Alexander Leitner;Roland Reischl;Thomas Walzthoeni;Franz Herzog

  • Determination of the metabolites of nitrofuran antibiotics in animal tissue by high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Alexander Leitner;Peter Zöllner;Wolfgang Lindner

  • The complete structure of the large subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome

    Basil J. Greber;Daniel Boehringer;Marc Leibundgut;Philipp Bieri

  • Chemical cross-linking/mass spectrometry targeting acidic residues in proteins and protein complexes

    Alexander Leitner;Lukasz A. Joachimiak;Pia Unverdorben;Thomas Walzthoeni

  • Architecture of the large subunit of the mammalian mitochondrial ribosome

    Basil J. Greber;Daniel Boehringer;Alexander Leitner;Philipp Bieri

  • Epoxycyclopentenone-Containing Oxidized Phospholipids Restore Endothelial Barrier Function via Cdc42 and Rac

    Konstantin G. Birukov;Valery N. Bochkov;Anna A. Birukova;Kamon Kawkitinarong

  • Phosphopeptide enrichment using metal oxide affinity chromatography

    Alexander Leitner;Alexander Leitner

  • An Unbiased Screen for Human Cytomegalovirus Identifies Neuropilin-2 as a Central Viral Receptor.

    Nadia Martinez-Martin;Jessica Marcandalli;Christine S. Huang;Christopher P. Arthur

  • Mass spectrometry supported determination of protein complex structure

    Thomas Walzthoeni;Alexander Leitner;Florian Stengel;Ruedi Aebersold;Ruedi Aebersold

  • A mass spectrometry–based hybrid method for structural modeling of protein complexes

    Anargyros Politis;Florian Stengel;Zoe Hall;Helena Hernández

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruedi Aebersold
Ruedi Aebersold ETH Zurich
Wolfgang Lindner
Wolfgang Lindner University of Vienna
Juri Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber Technical University of Berlin
Franz Herzog
Franz Herzog Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Frank Sobott
Frank Sobott University of Leeds
Nenad Ban
Nenad Ban ETH Zurich
Karl Mechtler
Karl Mechtler Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Judith Frydman
Judith Frydman Stanford University
Wah Chiu
Wah Chiu Stanford University
Andrej Sali
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco

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Henning Urlaub

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Henning Hermjakob

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Publications: 35

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Eric W. Deutsch

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Andrew R. Jones

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Lan Huang

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