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Daniel Hess 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 Daniel Hess sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 127 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel Hess 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 Daniel Hess sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Daniel Hess is affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers various subfields including Plant Science, Oncology, Cancer Research, and Hematology. The main topics examined by Hess involve RNA Research and Splicing, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA modifications and cancer, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hess include Jan Seebacher, Vytautas Iešmantavičius, Marc Bühler, Charlotte Soneson, and Helge Großhans.

Hess's scholarly output appears predominantly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Cell
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
  • Physiologia Plantarum
  • Nature

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Hess include:

  • "Mammalian RNA Decay Pathways Are Highly Specialized and Widely Linked to Translation," 2020, Molecular Cell
  • "BANP opens chromatin and activates CpG-island-regulated genes," 2021, Nature
  • "Ferric carboxymaltose infusion versus oral iron supplementation for preoperative iron deficiency anaemia in patients with colorectal cancer (FIT): a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled trial," 2023, The Lancet Haematology
  • "Protease-mediated processing of Argonaute proteins controls small RNA association," 2021, Molecular Cell
  • "SETDB1-like MET-2 promotes transcriptional silencing and development independently of its H3K9me-associated catalytic activity," 2022, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • HDAC-6 interacts with and deacetylates tubulin and microtubules in vivo

    Yu Zhang;Na Li;Cécile Caron;Gabriele Matthias

  • Histone Methylation by PRC2 Is Inhibited by Active Chromatin Marks

    Frank W. Schmitges;Archana B. Prusty;Mahamadou Faty;Alexandra Stützer

  • Identification of a PKB/Akt Hydrophobic Motif Ser-473 Kinase as DNA-dependent Protein Kinase

    Jianhua Feng;Jongsun Park;Peter Cron;Daniel Hess

  • Molecular Mechanism for the Regulation of Protein Kinase B/Akt by Hydrophobic Motif Phosphorylation

    Jing Yang;Peter Cron;Vivienne Thompson;Valerie M. Good

  • Zc3h13/Flacc is required for adenosine methylation by bridging the mRNA-binding factor Rbm15/Spenito to the m6A machinery component Wtap/Fl(2)d.

    Philip Knuckles;Tina Lence;Irmgard U. Haussmann;Dominik Jacob

  • Stabilization of Mdm2 via Decreased Ubiquitination Is Mediated by Protein Kinase B/Akt-dependent Phosphorylation

    Jianhua Feng;Rastislav Tamaskovic;Zhongzhou Yang;Derek P. Brazil

  • Early allelic selection in maize as revealed by ancient DNA

    Viviane Jaenicke-Després;Ed S. Buckler;Bruce D. Smith;M. Thomas P. Gilbert

  • Structural Insights Into Hdac6 Tubulin Deacetylation and its Selective Inhibition

    Yasuyuki Miyake;Jeremy J Keusch;Longlong Wang;Makoto Saito

  • C-mannosylation and O-fucosylation of the thrombospondin type 1 module.

    Jan Hofsteenge;Kristin G. Huwiler;Boris Macek;Daniel Hess

  • Directed proteomics identifies a plant-specific protein rapidly phosphorylated in response to bacterial and fungal elicitors

    Scott C. Peck;Thomas S. Nühse;Daniel Hess;Alejandro Iglesias

  • Acetylation of intrinsically disordered regions regulates phase separation.

    Makoto Saito;Makoto Saito;Daniel Hess;Jan Eglinger;Anatol W Fritsch

  • Crystal structure of the human COP9 signalosome

    Gondichatnahalli M. Lingaraju;Gondichatnahalli M. Lingaraju;Richard D. Bunker;Richard D. Bunker;Simone Cavadini;Simone Cavadini;Daniel Hess

  • Akt/PKB-Mediated Phosphorylation of Twist1 Promotes Tumor Metastasis via Mediating Cross-Talk between PI3K/Akt and TGF-β Signaling Axes

    Gongda Xue;David F. Restuccia;Qiang Lan;Debby Hynx

  • The phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein is the prototype of a novel family of serine protease inhibitors.

    Ulrich Hengst;Hugo Albrecht;Daniel Hess;Denis Monard

  • Control of nutrient-sensitive transcription programs by the unconventional prefoldin URI.

    Matthias Gstaiger;Brian Luke;Daniel Hess;Edward J. Oakeley

  • Extracellular Regulated Kinase Phosphorylates Mitofusin 1 to Control Mitochondrial Morphology and Apoptosis

    Aswin Pyakurel;Claudia Savoia;Daniel Hess;Luca Scorrano

  • Deficiency of Dol-P-Man synthase subunit DPM3 bridges the congenital disorders of glycosylation with the dystroglycanopathies.

    Dirk J Lefeber;Johannes Schönberger;Eva Morava;Mailys Guillard

  • Facilitation of mRNA Deadenylation and Decay by the Exosome-Bound, DExH Protein RHAU

    Hoanh Tran;Marcel Schilling;Christiane Wirbelauer;Daniel Hess

  • The HRPT2 Tumor Suppressor Gene Product Parafibromin Associates with Human PAF1 and RNA Polymerase II

    Armelle Yart;Matthias Gstaiger;Christiane Wirbelauer;Maria Pecnik

  • Protein C-Mannosylation Is Enzyme-catalysed and Uses Dolichyl-Phosphate-Mannose as a Precursor

    Marie-Agnès Doucey;Daniel Hess;René Cacan;Jan Hofsteenge

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Hofsteenge
Jan Hofsteenge Friedrich Miescher Institute
Brian A. Hemmings
Brian A. Hemmings Friedrich Miescher Institute
Michael B. Stadler
Michael B. Stadler Friedrich Miescher Institute
Stefano Ferrari
Stefano Ferrari Veneto Eye Bank Foundation
Patrick Matthias
Patrick Matthias Friedrich Miescher Institute
Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann
Ruth Chiquet-Ehrismann Friedrich Miescher Institute
Wilhelm Krek
Wilhelm Krek ETH Zurich
Moritz Gerstung
Moritz Gerstung German Cancer Research Center
Nancy E. Hynes
Nancy E. Hynes Friedrich Miescher Institute

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