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Molecular Biology
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2026

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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 141 115 101 75 66 478 120265

Andrej Sali publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Andrej Sali between 1968 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Andrej Sali published across 58 years, from 1968 to 2025, averaging 10.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 29 publications in 2014. 56 of the 612 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1968 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 29. Peak 29 publications in 2014. 1968: 1 publication 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 2 publications 1987: 1 publication 1988: 0 publications 1989: 4 publications 1990: 10 publications 1991: 3 publications 1992: 4 publications 1993: 3 publications 1994: 4 publications 1995: 7 publications 1996: 7 publications 1997: 9 publications 1998: 9 publications 1999: 9 publications 2000: 14 publications 2001: 16 publications 2002: 10 publications 2003: 12 publications 2004: 13 publications 2005: 23 publications 2006: 19 publications 2007: 18 publications 2008: 23 publications 2009: 27 publications 2010: 19 publications 2011: 17 publications 2012: 27 publications 2013: 28 publications 2014: 29 publications 2015: 18 publications 2016: 22 publications 2017: 23 publications 2018: 19 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 28 publications 2022: 21 publications 2023: 28 publications 2024: 29 publications 2025: 27 publications
1968 2025

612 publications in total across all disciplines

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Andrej Sali: publications per year, 1968 to 2025
Year Publications
1968 1
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 2
1987 1
1988 0
1989 4
1990 10
1991 3
1992 4
1993 3
1994 4
1995 7
1996 7
1997 9
1998 9
1999 9
2000 14
2001 16
2002 10
2003 12
2004 13
2005 23
2006 19
2007 18
2008 23
2009 27
2010 19
2011 17
2012 27
2013 28
2014 29
2015 18
2016 22
2017 23
2018 19
2019 15
2020 14
2021 28
2022 21
2023 28
2024 29
2025 27
Total 612
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Andrej Sali publications per year - data summary

  • Andrej Sali, a Molecular Biology scholar from University of California, San Francisco, has 612 publications recorded across 58 years, from 1968 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1968 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive years are 2014 and 2024, with 29 publications each.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1968 and 1987, with 1 publication each.
  • 18 of the 58 years in the span carry no publications at all (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 and others).
  • The rate of publication averages 10.6 papers per year over the whole span, or 15.3 per year counting only the 40 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 133 publications, 22% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1968-1987: 4 publications (0.2 per year); 1988-2007: 194 publications (9.7 per year); 2008-2025: 414 publications (23.0 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Andrej Sali 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 Andrej Sali 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, 477–486 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: 478 publications — 94th percentile

94% 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
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 14 478
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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Andrej Sali 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.
  • Andrej Sali, a Molecular Biology scholar from University of California, San Francisco, records 478 publications - the 94th percentile of the discipline.
  • 94% of ranked Molecular Biology scientists score the same or lower than Andrej Sali, and about 6% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 177–186 publications range, and Andrej Sali ranks above 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).

Andrej Sali 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 Andrej Sali 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, 140–141 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: 141 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
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
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 16 141
142–143 7
144 7
145+ 100
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Andrej Sali 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.
  • Andrej Sali, a Molecular Biology scholar from University of California, San Francisco, records 141 D-Index - the 96th percentile of the discipline.
  • 96% of ranked Molecular Biology scientists score the same or lower than Andrej Sali, and about 4% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 68–69 D-Index range, and Andrej Sali ranks above 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).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Andrej Sali is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology as a subfield. Other notable subfields of study include Materials Chemistry, Infectious Diseases, Cell Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers several key topics including:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Andrej Sali has co-authored extensively with researchers such as Ignacia Echeverria, Michael P. Rout, Brian T. Chait, Benjamin Webb, and Brinda Vallat. These collaborations reflect sustained research partnerships with key figures in related scientific domains.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Protein Science

Their recent significant publications include:

  • RCSB Protein Data Bank: powerful new tools for exploring 3D structures of biological macromolecules for basic and applied research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, bioengineering and energy sciences (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • RCSB Protein Data Bank (RCSB.org): delivery of experimentally-determined PDB structures alongside one million computed structure models of proteins from artificial intelligence/machine learning (2022, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • A SARS-CoV-2-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Reveals Drug Targets and Potential Drug-Repurposing (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Protein Structure Modeling with MODELLER (2020, Methods in molecular biology)
  • Comprehensive structure and functional adaptations of the yeast nuclear pore complex (2022, Cell)

The scientist has been recognized with memberships and fellowships, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Comparative Protein Modelling by Satisfaction of Spatial Restraints

    Andrej Šali;Tom L. Blundell

  • Comparative Protein Structure Modeling Using MODELLER

    Narayanan Eswar;Ben Webb;Marc A. Marti‐Renom;M.S. Madhusudhan

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

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

  • Comparative protein structure modeling of genes and genomes

    Marc A. Martí-Renom;Ashley C. Stuart;András Fiser;Roberto Sánchez

  • Protein structure modeling with MODELLER.

    Benjamin Webb;Benjamin Webb;Andrej Sali;Andrej Sali

  • Modeling of loops in protein structures.

    András Fiser;Richard Kinh Gian Do;Andrej Šali

  • Statistical potential for assessment and prediction of protein structures

    Min-yi Shen;Andrej Sali

  • Protein Structure Prediction and Structural Genomics

    David Baker;Andrej Sali

  • Modeller: generation and refinement of homology-based protein structure models.

    András Fiser;Andrej Šali

  • RCSB Protein Data Bank: powerful new tools for exploring 3D structures of biological macromolecules for basic and applied research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, bioengineering and energy sciences.

    Stephen K. Burley;Charmi Bhikadiya;Chunxiao Bi;Sebastian Bittrich

  • Evaluation of comparative protein modeling by MODELLER.

    A. Sali;L. Potterton;Feng Yuan;H. Van Vlijmen

  • How does a protein fold

    Andrej Šali;Eugene Shakhnovich;Martin Karplus

  • The molecular architecture of the nuclear pore complex

    Frank Alber;Svetlana Dokudovskaya;Liesbeth M. Veenhoff;Wenzhu Zhang

  • Protein Folding: A Perspective from Theory and Experiment.

    Christopher M. Dobson;Andrej Šali;Martin Karplus

  • Insights into secondary metabolism from a global analysis of prokaryotic biosynthetic gene clusters.

    Peter Cimermancic;Marnix H. Medema;Jan Claesen;Kenji Kurita

  • MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models, and associated resources

    Ursula Pieper;Narayanan Eswar;Ben M. Webb;David Eramian;David Eramian

  • Protein production and purification.

    S Gräslund

  • ModLoop: automated modeling of loops in protein structures

    András Fiser;Andrej Sali

  • 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

  • Comparative protein modeling by satisfaction of spatial restraints

    A. Sali

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Rout
Michael P. Rout Rockefeller University
Marc A. Marti-Renom
Marc A. Marti-Renom Pompeu Fabra University
Stephen K. Burley
Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brian T. Chait
Brian T. Chait Rockefeller University
Tom L. Blundell
Tom L. Blundell University of Cambridge
Nevan J. Krogan
Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen M. Giacomini
Kathleen M. Giacomini University of California, San Francisco
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brian K. Shoichet
Brian K. Shoichet University of California, San Francisco

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