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44
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2901
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Douglass J. Forbes 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 Douglass J. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 63 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglass J. Forbes 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 Douglass J. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 6th percentile

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

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

Overview

Douglass J. Forbes is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a subfield concentration in Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Nuclear Structure and Function
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Douglass J. Forbes has contributed to scholarly literature with research published in venues such as Nucleus. One of the recent papers authored includes:

  • Exportins can inhibit major mitotic assembly events in vitro: membrane fusion, nuclear pore formation, and spindle assembly (2020, Nucleus)

Their work often involves collaboration, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Matthew Nord
  • Cyril Bernis
  • Sarah Carmona
  • Dennis C. Garland
  • Anna Travesa

Their publications largely address fundamental processes of nuclear structure and function, focusing on molecular mechanisms involved in mitotic assembly events and RNA processing within the nucleus. The research also ties into chromatin dynamics and genomics, indicating an interest in the regulation and structural organization of the genome.

Best Publications

  • Nuclear import can be separated into distinct steps in vitro: nuclear pore binding and translocation.

    Donald D. Newmeyer;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Inhibition of in vitro nuclear transport by a lectin that binds to nuclear pores.

    D R Finlay;D D Newmeyer;T M Price;D J Forbes

  • Mitotic repression of the transcriptional machinery

    Joel M. Gottesfeld;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Importin Beta: Conducting a Much Larger Cellular Symphony

    Amnon Harel;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Nuclear Export Receptors: From Importin to Exportin

    Katharine S. Ullman;Maureen A. Powers;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Spontaneous formation of nucleus-like structures around bacteriophage DNA microinjected into Xenopus eggs.

    Douglass J. Forbes;Marc W. Kirschner;John W. Newport

  • Nuclear pores and nuclear assembly

    Sanjay K Vasu;Douglass J Forbes

  • THE VERTEBRATE GLFG NUCLEOPORIN, NUP98, IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF MULTIPLE RNA EXPORT PATHWAYS

    Maureen A. Powers;Douglass J. Forbes;James E. Dahlberg;Elsebet Lund

  • Removal of a Single Pore Subcomplex Results in Vertebrate Nuclei Devoid of Nuclear Pores

    Amnon Harel;Arturo V Orjalo;Thomas Vincent;Thomas Vincent;Aurelie Lachish-Zalait

  • Structure and Function of the Nuclear Pore Complex

    Douglass J. Forbes

  • Reconstitution of biochemically altered nuclear pores: Transport can be eliminated and restored

    Deborah R. Finlay;Douglass J. Forbes

  • A complex of nuclear pore proteins required for pore function.

    D R Finlay;E Meier;P Bradley;J Horecka

  • ELYS is a dual nucleoporin/kinetochore protein required for nuclear pore assembly and proper cell division

    Beth A. Rasala;Arturo V. Orjalo;Zhouxin Shen;Steven Briggs

  • In vitro transport of a fluorescent nuclear protein and exclusion of non-nuclear proteins.

    Donald D. Newmeyer;Deborah R. Finlay;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Differential Mitotic Phosphorylation of Proteins of the Nuclear Pore Complex

    Colin Macaulay;Eva Meier;Douglass J. Forbes

  • Major Binding Sites for the Nuclear Import Receptor Are the Internal Nucleoporin Nup153 and the Adjacent Nuclear Filament Protein Tpr

    Sundeep Shah;Stuart Tugendreich;Douglass Forbes

  • Assembly of the nuclear pore: biochemically distinct steps revealed with NEM, GTP gamma S, and BAPTA.

    C Macaulay;D J Forbes

  • Novel vertebrate nucleoporins Nup133 and Nup160 play a role in mRNA export

    Sanjay Vasu;Sundeep Shah;Arturo Orjalo;Minkyu Park

  • Nup93, a vertebrate homologue of yeast Nic96p, forms a complex with a novel 205-kDa protein and is required for correct nuclear pore assembly.

    Paola Grandi;Paola Grandi;Tam Dang;Nelly Pané;Andrej Shevchenko

  • Global histone acetylation induces functional genomic reorganization at mammalian nuclear pore complexes

    Christopher R. Brown;Caleb J. Kennedy;Valerie A. Delmar;Douglass J. Forbes

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel M. Gottesfeld
Joel M. Gottesfeld Scripps Research Institute
Elsebet Lund
Elsebet Lund University of Wisconsin–Madison
James E. Dahlberg
James E. Dahlberg University of Wisconsin–Madison
Donald D. Newmeyer
Donald D. Newmeyer La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Mary Dasso
Mary Dasso National Institutes of Health
Wolfgang H. Fischer
Wolfgang H. Fischer Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Zhouxin Shen
Zhouxin Shen University of California, San Diego
Steven P. Briggs
Steven P. Briggs University of California, San Diego
Pamela A. Silver
Pamela A. Silver Harvard University
Alexander D. Johnson
Alexander D. Johnson University of California, San Francisco

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