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Molecular Biology

D-Index
59
Citations
17798
World Ranking
2001
National Ranking
997

Dean W. Ballard 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 Dean W. Ballard sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 85 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dean W. Ballard 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 Dean W. Ballard sits on this spectrum.

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 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dean W. Ballard is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. The profile reflects a researcher engaged in academic work, although specific details about their research topics, publications, and collaborations are not publicly documented in the available data.

No records of recent papers authored by Dean W. Ballard appear in the provided information, which limits insight into the current areas of investigation and recent academic output.

The data does not list frequent co-authors, suggesting either limited collaboration captured in the dataset or a focus on solo or less frequent partnerships within their scholarly work.

Similarly, there is no information regarding common publication venues for their work. Details about where the researcher typically publishes could not be determined.

There is no record of book publications or contributions to edited volumes from Dean W. Ballard as per the available data.

Information on main fields and subfields of study related to their academic efforts is absent, leaving the specific scientific domains they concentrate on undisclosed.

Topics within their research portfolio are also unspecified, providing no details on thematic concentrations or specialized areas within their scholarly activity.

No awards or recognitions are documented in the information presented, indicating no publicly noted honors or distinctions linked to Dean W. Ballard at this time.

Best Publications

  • Signal-induced site-specific phosphorylation targets I kappa B alpha to the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.

    Zhijian Chen;J. Hagler;V. J. Palombella;F. Melandri

  • NF-κB controls expression of inhibitor IκBα : evidence for an inducible autoregulatory pathway

    Shao Cong Sun;Parham A. Ganchi;Dean W. Ballard;Warner C. Greene

  • Suppression of tumor necrosis factor-induced cell death by inhibitor of apoptosis c-IAP2 is under NF-κB control

    Zhi-Liang Chu;Timothy A. McKinsey;Lily Liu;Jennifer J. Gentry

  • Coupling of a signal response domain in I kappa B alpha to multiple pathways for NF-kappa B activation.

    J. A. Brockman;D. C. Scherer;T. A. Mckinsey;S. M. Hall

  • Cross-coupling of the NF-kappa B p65 and Fos/Jun transcription factors produces potentiated biological function.

    Bernd Stein;Albert S. Baldwin;Dean W. Ballard;Warner C. Greene

  • Signal-induced degradation of I kappa B alpha requires site-specific ubiquitination.

    David C. Scherer;Jeffrey A. Brockman;Zhijian Chen;Tom Maniatis

  • HTLV-I tax induces cellular proteins that activate the kappa B element in the IL-2 receptor alpha gene.

    DW Ballard;E Bohnlein;JW Lowenthal;Y Wano

  • The same inducible nuclear proteins regulates mitogen activation of both the interleukin-2 receptor-alpha gene and type 1 HIV.

    Ernst Böhnlein;John W. Lowenthal;Miriam Siekevitz;Dean W. Ballard

  • Constitutive Activation of NF-κB in Primary Adult T-Cell Leukemia Cells

    Naoki Mori;Masahiro Fujii;Shuichi Ikeda;Yasuaki Yamada

  • Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Is Required for Activation of Iκb Kinase and Nuclear Factor κb in Response to B Cell Receptor Engagement

    James B. Petro;S.M. Jamshedur Rahman;Dean W. Ballard;Wasif N. Khan

  • Kappa B-specific DNA binding proteins: role in the regulation of human interleukin-2 gene expression

    Beatrice Hoyos;Dean W. Ballard;Ernst Böhnlein;Miriam Siekevitz

  • The NEMO adaptor bridges the nuclear factor-kappaB and interferon regulatory factor signaling pathways.

    Tiejun Zhao;Long Yang;Qiang Sun;Meztli Arguello

  • The v-rel oncogene encodes a κB enhancer binding protein that inhibits NF-κB function

    Dean W. Ballard;William H. Walker;Stefan Doerre;Prakash Sista

  • The 65-kDa subunit of human NF-kappa B functions as a potent transcriptional activator and a target for v-Rel-mediated repression.

    Dean W. Ballard;Eric P. Dixon;Nancy J. Peffer;Hal Bogerd

  • NF-kappa B: a family of inducible and differentially expressed enhancer-binding proteins in human T cells.

    Jerry A. Molitor;William H. Walker;Stefan Doerre;Dean W. Ballard

  • I kappa B/MAD-3 masks the nuclear localization signal of NF-kappa B p65 and requires the transactivation domain to inhibit NF-kappa B p65 DNA binding.

    P. A. Ganchi;Shao-Cong Sun;W. C. Greene;D. W. Ballard

  • An autoantibody to single‐stranded DNA: Comparison of the three‐dimensional structures of the unliganded fab and a deoxynucleotide–fab complex

    J. N. Herron;X. M. He;D. W. Ballard;P. R. Blier

  • Perturbation of the T Lymphocyte Lineage In Transgenic Mice Expressing a Constitutive Repressor of Nuclear Factor (NF)-κB

    Mark R. Boothby;Ana L. Mora;David C. Scherer;Jeffrey A. Brockman

  • Tumor necrosis factor alpha induces proteins that bind specifically to kappa B-like enhancer elements and regulate interleukin 2 receptor alpha-chain gene expression in primary human T lymphocytes

    John W. Lowenthal;Dean W. Ballard;Ernst Bohnlein;Warner C. Greene

  • Persistent activation of NF-κB by the Tax transforming protein of HTLV-1: hijacking cellular IκB kinases

    Shao Cong Sun;Dean W. Ballard

Frequent Co-Authors

Warner C. Greene
Warner C. Greene University of California, San Francisco
Timothy A. McKinsey
Timothy A. McKinsey University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Shao Cong Sun
Shao Cong Sun The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hal P. Bogerd
Hal P. Bogerd Duke University
Alfred L. M. Bothwell
Alfred L. M. Bothwell University of Arizona
David M. Kranz
David M. Kranz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Naoki Mori
Naoki Mori University of the Ryukyus
Terence S. Dermody
Terence S. Dermody University of Pittsburgh
James N. Herron
James N. Herron University of Utah
Michael H. Malim
Michael H. Malim King's College London

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