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Molecular Biology

D-Index
152
Citations
87217
World Ranking
80
National Ranking
6

Anthony A. Hyman 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 Anthony A. Hyman sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 376 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Anthony A. Hyman 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 Anthony A. Hyman sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 152 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Anthony A. Hyman is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable concentration in molecular biology. Additional areas of study include cell biology, genetics, ecology, and materials chemistry.

Their work extensively covers topics related to RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and RNA modifications and cancer. Other topics frequently addressed in their research are nuclear structure and function, heat shock proteins, cellular mechanics and interactions, and DNA repair mechanisms.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Hyman include:

  • "Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing" (2021) published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "RNA-Induced Conformational Switching and Clustering of G3BP Drive Stress Granule Assembly by Condensation" (2020) published in Cell
  • "Partitioning of cancer therapeutics in nuclear condensates" (2020) published in Science
  • "Phase separation provides a mechanism to reduce noise in cells" (2020) published in Science
  • "Phase-separating RNA-binding proteins form heterogeneous distributions of clusters in subsaturated solutions" (2022) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hyman include:

  • Simon Alberti
  • Ina Poser
  • Titus M. Franzmann
  • Rohit V. Pappu
  • Martine Ruer

Their research has appeared in several key publication venues, with the highest number of works appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other regular venues include Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biophysical Journal, and Science.

Over their career, Hyman has received several recognitions, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2020, membership in Academia Europaea since 2014, and fellowship of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom awarded in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Biomolecular condensates: organizers of cellular biochemistry

    Salman F Banani;Hyun-Ok Kate Lee;Anthony Hyman;Michael K Rosen

  • Germline P Granules Are Liquid Droplets That Localize by Controlled Dissolution/Condensation

    Clifford P. Brangwynne;Christian R. Eckmann;David S. Courson;Agata Rybarska

  • Liquid-liquid phase separation in biology.

    Anthony A. Hyman;Christoph A. Weber;Frank Jülicher

  • A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation

    Avinash Patel;Hyun O. Lee;Louise Jawerth;Shovamayee Maharana

  • A Molecular Grammar Governing the Driving Forces for Phase Separation of Prion-like RNA Binding Proteins

    Jie Wang;Jeong-Mo Choi;Alex S Holehouse;Hyun O. Lee

  • A Human Interactome in Three Quantitative Dimensions Organized by Stoichiometries and Abundances

    Marco Y. Hein;Nina C. Hubner;Ina Poser;Juergen Cox

  • Modulation of the dynamic instability of tubulin assembly by the microtubule-associated protein tau.

    D. N. Drechsel;A. A. Hyman;Melanie H Cobb;M. W. Kirschner

  • Active liquid-like behavior of nucleoli determines their size and shape in Xenopus laevis oocytes.

    Clifford P. Brangwynne;Timothy J. Mitchison;Anthony A. Hyman

  • Self-organization of microtubules into bipolar spindles around artificial chromosomes in Xenopus egg extracts

    Rebecca Heald;Régis Tournebize;Thiemo Blank;Raphael Sandaltzopoulos

  • Functional genomic analysis of cell division in C. elegans using RNAi of genes on chromosome III

    Pierre Gönczy;Pierre Gönczy;Christophe Echeverri;Christophe Echeverri;Karen Oegema;Karen Oegema;Alan Coulson

  • RNA buffers the phase separation behavior of prion-like RNA binding proteins

    Shovamayee Maharana;Jie Wang;Dimitrios K. Papadopoulos;Dimitrios K. Papadopoulos;Doris Richter

  • Full-genome RNAi profiling of early embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans

    B. Sönnichsen;L. B. Koski;A. Walsh;P. Marschall

  • Dynamics and mechanics of the microtubule plus end

    Joe Howard;Anthony A. Hyman

  • Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes

    Beate Neumann;Thomas Walter;Jean Karim Hériché;Jutta Bulkescher

  • Quantitative Interaction Proteomics and Genome-wide Profiling of Epigenetic Histone Marks and Their Readers

    Michiel Vermeulen;H. Christian Eberl;Filomena Matarese;Hendrik Marks

  • Tau protein liquid–liquid phase separation can initiate tau aggregation

    Susanne Wegmann;Bahareh Eftekharzadeh;Katharina Tepper;Katarzyna M Zoltowska

  • ATP as a biological hydrotrope

    Avinash Patel;Liliana Malinovska;Shambaditya Saha;Jie Wang

  • Preparation of modified tubulins

    Anthony Hyman;David Drechsel;Doug Kellogg;Steve Salser

  • Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing.

    Simon Alberti;Anthony A Hyman

  • Full-genome RNAi profiling of early embryogenesis in Caenorhabditis

    M. Hewitson;S. Lazik;C. Martin;J. Stamford

Frequent Co-Authors

Ina Poser
Ina Poser Max Planck Society
Frank Jülicher
Frank Jülicher Max Planck Society
Karen Oegema
Karen Oegema University of California, San Diego
Simon Alberti
Simon Alberti TU Dresden
Jonathon Howard
Jonathon Howard Yale University
Stephan W. Grill
Stephan W. Grill Max Planck Society
Pierre Gönczy
Pierre Gönczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Laurence Pelletier
Laurence Pelletier Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

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