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Christopher J. Oldfield

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
25280
World Ranking
15886
National Ranking
6597

Christopher J. Oldfield publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 98 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christopher J. Oldfield 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 Christopher J. Oldfield sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Christopher J. Oldfield is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Genetics.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christopher J. Oldfield include:

  • Lukasz Kurgan
  • Vladimir N. Uversky
  • A. Keith Dunker
  • Rajanish Giri
  • Taniya Bhardwaj

The scientist's recent papers feature research published between 2020 and 2021 in a variety of journals and platforms. Some notable publications include:

  • "Understanding COVID-19 via comparative analysis of dark proteomes of SARS-CoV-2, human SARS and bat SARS-like coronaviruses," 2020, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • "DescribePROT: database of amino acid-level protein structure and function predictions," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Intrinsic Disorder in Human RNA-Binding Proteins," 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • "When Darkness Becomes a Ray of Light in the Dark Times: Understanding the COVID-19 via the Comparative Analysis of the Dark Proteomes of SARS-CoV-2, Human SARS and Bat SARS-Like Coronaviruses," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Identification of Intrinsic Disorder in Complexes from the Protein Data Bank," 2020, ACS Omega

Christopher J. Oldfield publishes frequently in venues such as Methods in Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Best Publications

  • Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins.

    Robin van der Lee;Robin van der Lee;Marija Buljan;Benjamin Lang;Robert J. Weatheritt

  • The unfoldomics decade: an update on intrinsically disordered proteins

    A Keith Dunker;Christopher J Oldfield;Jingwei Meng;Pedro Romero

  • Intrinsically Disordered Proteins in Human Diseases: Introducing the D2 Concept

    Vladimir N. Uversky;Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • Intrinsically disordered proteins and intrinsically disordered protein regions.

    Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • Showing your ID: intrinsic disorder as an ID for recognition, regulation and cell signaling.

    Vladimir N. Uversky;Christopher J. Oldfield;A. Keith Dunker

  • Analysis of molecular recognition features (MoRFs).

    Amrita Mohan;Christopher J. Oldfield;Predrag Radivojac;Vladimir Vacic

  • Intrinsic Disorder and Functional Proteomics

    Predrag Radivojac;Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Christopher J. Oldfield;Zoran Obradovic

  • Intrinsic disorder in transcription factors.

    Jiangang Liu;Narayanan B. Perumal;Christopher J. Oldfield;Eric W. Su

  • Coupled folding and binding with α-helix-forming molecular recognition elements

    Christopher J. Oldfield;Yugong Cheng;Marc S. Cortese;Pedro Romero

  • Intrinsic disorder is a common feature of hub proteins from four eukaryotic interactomes.

    Chad Haynes;Christopher J Oldfield;Fei Ji;Niels Klitgord

  • Functional anthology of intrinsic disorder. 1. Biological processes and functions of proteins with long disordered regions.

    Hongbo Xie;Slobodan Vucetic;Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Christopher J. Oldfield

  • Flexible nets: disorder and induced fit in the associations of p53 and 14-3-3 with their partners.

    Christopher J Oldfield;Jingwei Meng;Jack Y Yang;Mary Qu Yang

  • Comparing and combining predictors of mostly disordered proteins.

    Christopher J Oldfield;Yugong Cheng;Marc S Cortese;Celeste J Brown

  • Characterization of Molecular Recognition Features, MoRFs, and Their Binding Partners

    Vladimir Vacic;Christopher J. Oldfield;Amrita Mohan;Predrag Radivojac

  • Alternative splicing in concert with protein intrinsic disorder enables increased functional diversity in multicellular organisms

    Pedro R. Romero;Saima Zaidi;Ya Yin Fang;Vladimir N. Uversky

  • Evolutionary rate heterogeneity in proteins with long disordered regions.

    Celeste J. Brown;Sachiko Takayama;Andrew M. Campen;Pam Vise

  • Functional Anthology of Intrinsic Disorder. 3. Ligands, Post-Translational Modifications, and Diseases Associated with Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

    Hongbo Xie;Slobodan Vucetic;Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Christopher J. Oldfield

  • MoRFpred, a computational tool for sequence-based prediction and characterization of short disorder-to-order transitioning binding regions in proteins

    Fatemeh Miri Disfani;Wei-Lun Hsu;Marcin J. Mizianty;Christopher J. Oldfield

  • Functional anthology of intrinsic disorder. 2. Cellular components, domains, technical terms, developmental processes, and coding sequence diversities correlated with long disordered regions.

    Slobodan Vucetic;Hongbo Xie;Lilia M. Iakoucheva;Christopher J. Oldfield

  • Mining alpha-helix-forming molecular recognition features with cross species sequence alignments.

    Yugong Cheng;Christopher J. Oldfield;Jingwei Meng;Pedro Romero

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir N. Uversky
Vladimir N. Uversky University of South Florida
A. Keith Dunker
A. Keith Dunker Indiana University
Zoran Obradovic
Zoran Obradovic Temple University
Lukasz Kurgan
Lukasz Kurgan Virginia Commonwealth University
Peter Tompa
Peter Tompa Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Predrag Radivojac
Predrag Radivojac Northeastern University
Monika Fuxreiter
Monika Fuxreiter University of Padua
Wim F. Vranken
Wim F. Vranken Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sonia Longhi
Sonia Longhi Aix-Marseille University
Slobodan Vucetic
Slobodan Vucetic Temple University

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