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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Best Scientists 185 504 465 327 296 945 157991
Medicine 192 242 219 162 144 931 169037
Molecular Biology 188 28 25 19 18 830 161525

Arul M. Chinnaiyan publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Arul M. Chinnaiyan between 1993 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Arul M. Chinnaiyan published across 33 years, from 1993 to 2025, averaging 31 papers a year. Output peaked at 64 publications in 2017. 24 of the 1,024 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
20 40 60
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1993 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 64. Peak 64 publications in 2017. 1993: 1 publication 1994: 0 publications 1995: 1 publication 1996: 11 publications 1997: 7 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 3 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 6 publications 2002: 24 publications 2003: 13 publications 2004: 27 publications 2005: 23 publications 2006: 51 publications 2007: 38 publications 2008: 44 publications 2009: 36 publications 2010: 30 publications 2011: 56 publications 2012: 49 publications 2013: 46 publications 2014: 62 publications 2015: 54 publications 2016: 62 publications 2017: 64 publications 2018: 59 publications 2019: 60 publications 2020: 62 publications 2021: 51 publications 2022: 5 publications 2023: 52 publications 2024: 10 publications 2025: 14 publications
1993 2025

1,024 publications in total across all disciplines

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Arul M. Chinnaiyan: publications per year, 1993 to 2025
Year Publications
1993 1
1994 0
1995 1
1996 11
1997 7
1998 2
1999 3
2000 1
2001 6
2002 24
2003 13
2004 27
2005 23
2006 51
2007 38
2008 44
2009 36
2010 30
2011 56
2012 49
2013 46
2014 62
2015 54
2016 62
2017 64
2018 59
2019 60
2020 62
2021 51
2022 5
2023 52
2024 10
2025 14
Total 1,024
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Arul M. Chinnaiyan 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 Arul M. Chinnaiyan 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, 564+ 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: 830 publications — 99th percentile

99% 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
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+ 100 830
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Arul M. Chinnaiyan 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 Arul M. Chinnaiyan 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, 145+ 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: 188 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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
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+ 100 188
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2014 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2009 - Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

Arul M. Chinnaiyan is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions to Molecular Biology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Cancer Research, Oncology, and Surgery.

The scientist's main areas of study include Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways, Cancer-related gene regulation, and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism.

Key recent publications include:

  • Cancer SLC43A2 alters T cell methionine metabolism and histone methylation (2020, Nature)
  • The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer (2020, Nature Genetics)
  • Plasma cells are enriched in localized prostate cancer in Black men and are associated with improved outcomes (2021, Nature Communications)
  • CDK12-Mutated Prostate Cancer: Clinical Outcomes With Standard Therapies and Immune Checkpoint Blockade (2020, JCO Precision Oncology)
  • Integrative multi-omic cancer profiling reveals DNA methylation patterns associated with therapeutic vulnerability and cell-of-origin (2023, Cancer Cell)

Frequent co-authors in their work include Rahul Mannan, Xuhong Cao, Marcin Cieślik, Chandan Kumar-Sinha, and Somnath Mahapatra.

Publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, such as Cancer Research, Nature Communications, Neoplasia, The Journal of Urology, and Cancer Cell.

Awards and honors received by the scientist include membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2020), Fellowship of the National Academy of Inventors (2014), Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), the Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2009), membership in the National Academy of Medicine (2009), and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Recurrent Fusion of TMPRSS2 and ETS Transcription Factor Genes in Prostate Cancer

    S.A. Tomlins;D.R. Rhodes;S. Perner;S.M. Dhanasekaran

  • FLICE, a novel FADD-homologous ICE/CED-3-like protease, is recruited to the CD95 (Fas/APO-1) death--inducing signaling complex.

    Marta Muzio;Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Frank C. Kischkel;Karen O'Rourke

  • ONCOMINE: A Cancer Microarray Database and Integrated Data-Mining Platform

    Daniel R. Rhodes;Jianjun Yu;K. Shanker;Nandan Deshpande

  • Integrative clinical genomics of advanced prostate cancer

    Dan Robinson;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Eliezer M. Van Allen;Yi Mi Wu;Nikolaus Schultz

  • FADD, a novel death domain-containing protein, interacts with the death domain of fas and initiates apoptosis

    Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Karen O'Rourke;Muneesh Tewari;Vishva M. Dixit

  • The polycomb group protein EZH2 is involved in progression of prostate cancer

    Sooryanarayana Varambally;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Ming Zhou;Terrence R. Barrette

  • Inactivation of YAP oncoprotein by the Hippo pathway is involved in cell contact inhibition and tissue growth control

    Bin Zhao;Xiaomu Wei;Weiquan Li;Ryan S. Udan;Ryan S. Udan

  • The mutational landscape of lethal castration-resistant prostate cancer

    Catherine S. Grasso;Yi Mi Wu;Dan R. Robinson;Xuhong Cao

  • The landscape of long noncoding RNAs in the human transcriptome

    Matthew K. Iyer;Yashar S. Niknafs;Rohit Malik;Udit Singhal

  • CD8+ T cells regulate tumour ferroptosis during cancer immunotherapy

    Weimin Wang;Michael Green;Jae Eun Choi;Miguel Gijón

  • TEAD mediates YAP-dependent gene induction and growth control

    Bin Zhao;Xin Ye;Jindan Yu;Li Li;Li Li

  • Metabolomic profiles delineate potential role for sarcosine in prostate cancer progression

    Arun Sreekumar;Laila M. Poisson;Thekkelnaycke M. Rajendiran;Amjad P. Khan

  • The receptor for the cytotoxic ligand TRAIL

    Guohua Pan;Karen O'Rourke;Arul M. Chinnaiyan;Reiner Gentz

  • DNA-Repair Defects and Olaparib in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

    Joaquin Mateo;Suzanne Carreira;Shahneen Sandhu;Susana Miranda

  • Oncomine 3.0: genes, pathways, and networks in a collection of 18,000 cancer gene expression profiles.

    Daniel R. Rhodes;Shanker Kalyana-Sundaram;Vasudeva Mahavisno;Radhika Varambally

  • Delineation of prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer

    Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Terrence R. Barrette;Debashis Ghosh;Rajal Shah

  • EZH2 is a marker of aggressive breast cancer and promotes neoplastic transformation of breast epithelial cells

    Celina G. Kleer;Qi Cao;Sooryanarayana Varambally;Ronglai Shen

  • The emergence of lncRNAs in cancer biology.

    John R. Prensner;Arul M. Chinnaiyan

  • Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    Colin C. Pritchard;Joaquin Mateo;Michael F. Walsh;Navonil De Sarkar

  • Genomic Loss of microRNA-101 Leads to Overexpression of Histone Methyltransferase EZH2 in Cancer

    Sooryanarayana Varambally;Qi Cao;Ram Shankar Mani;Sunita Shankar

Frequent Co-Authors

Xuhong Cao
Xuhong Cao University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Scott A. Tomlins
Scott A. Tomlins University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Rohit Mehra
Rohit Mehra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark A. Rubin
Mark A. Rubin University of Bern
Javed Siddiqui
Javed Siddiqui University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dan R. Robinson
Dan R. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sooryanarayana Varambally
Sooryanarayana Varambally University of Alabama at Birmingham
Saravana M. Dhanasekaran
Saravana M. Dhanasekaran University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nallasivam Palanisamy
Nallasivam Palanisamy Henry Ford Health System
John T. Wei
John T. Wei University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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