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D-Index
74
Citations
16526
World Ranking
4812
National Ranking
280

Anthony Watts publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Watts sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 384 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Anthony Watts D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anthony Watts sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 776 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 647 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 74 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anthony Watts is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Neuroscience. Within these fields, Watts has contributed to subfields including Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, Spectroscopy, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientific topics covered in Watts's work focus mainly on Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling, Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Environmental Monitoring and Data Management, Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research, and Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology.

Watts has published extensively, contributing notably to several journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biophysical Reviews
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • European Biophysics Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances

Some of Watts's recent papers are:

  • "Conformational dynamics of a G protein-coupled receptor helix 8 in lipid membranes," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Detergent-free Lipodisq Nanoparticles Facilitate High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry of Folded Integral Membrane Proteins," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Lipid nanoparticle technologies for the study of G protein-coupled receptors in lipid environments," 2020, Biophysical Reviews
  • "Structures of the archaerhodopsin-3 transporter reveal that disordering of internal water networks underpins receptor sensitization," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Conformational flexibility of GRASPs and their constituent PDZ subdomains reveals structural basis of their promiscuous interactome," 2020, FEBS Journal

Watts has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Peter J. Judge
  • Juan F. Bada Juarez
  • Antonio J. Costa-Filho
  • Xiaoyan Ding
  • Steven Lavington

Best Publications

  • Microscale thermophoresis quantifies biomolecular interactions under previously challenging conditions

    Susanne A.I. Seidel;Patricia M. Dijkman;Wendy A. Lea;Geert van den Bogaart

  • Two Types of Alzheimer’s β-Amyloid (1–40) Peptide Membrane Interactions : Aggregation Preventing Transmembrane Anchoring Versus Accelerated Surface Fibril Formation

    Marcus Bokvist;Fredrick Lindström;Anthony Watts;Gerhard Gröbner

  • A Glycophospholipid Tail at the Carboxyl Terminus of the Thy-1 Glycoprotein of Neurons and Thymocytes

    A. G. D. Tse;A. N. Barclay;A. Watts;A. F. Williams

  • Interfacial Anchor Properties of Tryptophan Residues in Transmembrane Peptides Can Dominate over Hydrophobic Matching Effects in Peptide−Lipid Interactions†

    M.R.R. de Planque;B.B. Bonev;J.A.A. Demmers;D.V. Greathouse

  • Titration of the phase transition of phosphatidylserine bilayer membranes. Effects of pH, surface electrostatics, ion binding, and head-group hydration.

    Gregor Cevc;Anthony Watts;Derek Marsh

  • Incorporation of fatty acids by concanavalin A-stimulated lymphocytes and the effect on fatty acid composition and membrane fluidity

    Philip Calder;Parveen Yaqoob;David Harvey;Anthony Watts

  • Evidence for phase boundary lipid. Permeability of Tempo-choline into dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles at the phase transition.

    Derek Marsh;Anthony Watts;Peter F. Knowles

  • Uncovering the intimate relationship between lipids, cholesterol and GPCR activation

    Joanne Oates;Anthony Watts

  • A spectrometer designed for 6.7 and 14.1 T DNP-enhanced solid-state MAS NMR using quasi-optical microwave transmission

    Kevin J. Pike;Thomas F. Kemp;Hiroki Takahashi;Robert Day

  • Control of the structure and fluidity of phosphatidylglycerol bilayers by pH titration.

    Anthony Watts;Karl Harlos;Wilfried Maschke;Derek Marsh

  • Detergent-Free Incorporation of a Seven-Transmembrane Receptor Protein into Nanosized Bilayer Lipodisq Particles for Functional and Biophysical Studies

    Marcella Orwick-Rydmark;Janet E. Lovett;Andrea Graziadei;Ljubica Lindholm

  • Detergent‐Free Formation and Physicochemical Characterization of Nanosized Lipid–Polymer Complexes: Lipodisq

    Marcella C. Orwick;Peter J. Judge;Jan Procek;Ljubica Lindholm

  • Cooperativity of the phase transition in single- and multibilayer lipid vesicles.

    D. Marsh;A. Watts;P.F. Knowles

  • Hydration of DOPC bilayers by differential scanning calorimetry

    Anne S. Ulrich;Malkit Sami;Anthony Watts

  • Rhodopsin-lipid associations in bovine rod outer segment membranes. Identification of immobilized lipid by spin-labels.

    Anthony Watts;Igor D. Volotovski;Derek Marsh

  • Spin-label studies of lipid immobilization in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine-substituted cytochrome oxidase.

    Peter F. Knowles;Anthony Watts;Derek Marsh

  • ESR spin-label studies of lipid-protein interactions in membranes.

    D. Marsh;A. Watts;R.D. Pates;R. Uhl

  • Observations of light-induced structural changes of retinal within rhodopsin

    Gerhard Gröbner;Gerhard Gröbner;Ian J. Burnett;Clemens Glaubitz;Gregory Choi;Gregory Choi

  • Molecular response of the lipid headgroup to bilayer hydration monitored by 2H-NMR

    A.S. Ulrich;A. Watts

  • A Detergent-free Strategy for the Reconstitution of Active Enzyme Complexes from Native Biological Membranes into Nanoscale Discs

    Ashley R Long;Catherine C O’Brien;Ketan Malhotra;Christine T Schwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Marsh
Derek Marsh Max Planck Society
Clemens Glaubitz
Clemens Glaubitz Goethe University Frankfurt
Anne S. Ulrich
Anne S. Ulrich Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Peter F. Knowles
Peter F. Knowles University of Leeds
Keith W. Miller
Keith W. Miller Harvard University
Frances Separovic
Frances Separovic University of Melbourne
Boris Martinac
Boris Martinac Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Beat H. Meier
Beat H. Meier ETH Zurich
Andrew M. Taylor
Andrew M. Taylor University College London
Robert J. C. Gilbert
Robert J. C. Gilbert University of Oxford

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