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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 63 1800 1619 899 794 125 15585

Gregory R. Dressler publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Gregory R. Dressler between 1987 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Gregory R. Dressler published across 39 years, from 1987 to 2025, averaging 4 papers a year. Output peaked at 10 publications in 2002. 3 of the 155 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1987 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 10. Peak 10 publications in 2002. 1987: 3 publications 1988: 6 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 3 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 3 publications 1993: 4 publications 1994: 2 publications 1995: 4 publications 1996: 5 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 5 publications 1999: 4 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 10 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 7 publications 2007: 9 publications 2008: 2 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 7 publications 2011: 4 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 3 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 3 publications 2019: 2 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 0 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 2 publications 2025: 1 publication
1987 2025

155 publications in total across all disciplines

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Gregory R. Dressler: publications per year, 1987 to 2025
Year Publications
1987 3
1988 6
1989 3
1990 3
1991 0
1992 3
1993 4
1994 2
1995 4
1996 5
1997 2
1998 5
1999 4
2000 3
2001 1
2002 10
2003 4
2004 2
2005 5
2006 7
2007 9
2008 2
2009 8
2010 7
2011 4
2012 7
2013 6
2014 3
2015 3
2016 4
2017 4
2018 3
2019 2
2020 3
2021 2
2022 0
2023 9
2024 2
2025 1
Total 155
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Gregory R. Dressler 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 Gregory R. Dressler 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, 117–126 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: 125 publications — 25th percentile

25% 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
117–126 177 125
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
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Gregory R. Dressler 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 Gregory R. Dressler 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, 62–63 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: 63 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% 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 63
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
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gregory R. Dressler is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their work spans medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a primary focus on renal and related cancers. The scientist's research also covers acute kidney injury, organ donation and transplantation, renal cell carcinoma treatment, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, retinal development and disorders, as well as developmental biology and gene regulation.

Dressler has published extensively, with 18 works in medicine and 16 in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their subfields include molecular biology, nephrology, public health, environmental and occupational health, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and genetics.

Recent publications include:

  • Pax2 and Pax8 Proteins Regulate Urea Transporters and Aquaporins to Control Urine Concentration in the Adult Kidney, 2020, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Multiple roles for Pax2 in the embryonic mouse eye, 2021, Developmental Biology
  • Regeneration after acute kidney injury requires PTIP-mediated epigenetic modifications, 2020, JCI Insight
  • Identification of Pax protein inhibitors that suppress target gene expression and cancer cell proliferation, 2021, Cell Chemical Biology
  • Renal-specific loss of ferroportin disrupts iron homeostasis and attenuates recovery from acute kidney injury, 2023, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology

Dressler frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology
  • Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
  • Developmental Biology
  • JCI Insight
  • Cell Chemical Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Abdul Soofi
  • Jeffrey A. Beamish
  • Asha C. Telang
  • Madison C. McElliott
  • Anas Al-Suraimi

Among the topics explored in Dressler's publications are renal and related cancers, acute kidney injury research, organ donation and transplantation, renal cell carcinoma treatment, chronic kidney disease and diabetes, retinal development and disorders, and developmental biology and gene regulation.

In 2014, Dressler was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Pax-2 controls multiple steps of urogenital development

    Miguel Torres;Emilia Gómez-Pardo;Gregory R. Dressler;Peter Gruss

  • Oct-4: a germline-specific transcription factor mapping to the mouse t-complex.

    Hans R. Schöler;Gregory R. Dressler;Rudi Balling;Heidi Rohdewohld

  • The Cellular Basis of Kidney Development

    Gregory R. Dressler

  • Pax2, a new murine paired-box-containing gene and its expression in the developing excretory system.

    Gregory R. Dressler;Urban Deutsch;Kamal Chowdhury;Howard O. Nornes

  • PTIP associates with MLL3- and MLL4-containing histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase complex

    Young Wook Cho;Teresa Hong;Sun Hwa Hong;Hong Guo

  • Six2 is required for suppression of nephrogenesis and progenitor renewal in the developing kidney.

    Michelle Self;Oleg V Lagutin;Beth Bowling;Jaime Hendrix

  • Pax-2 is a DNA-binding protein expressed in embryonic kidney and Wilms tumor

    Gregory R. Dressler;Edwin C. Douglass

  • Spatially and temporally restricted expression of Pax2 during murine neurogenesis

    Howard O. Nornes;Gregory R. Dressler;Elzbieta W. Knapik;Urban Deutsch

  • Pax 1, a member of a paired box homologous murine gene family, is expressed in segmented structures during development

    Urban Deutsch;Gregory R. Dressler;Peter Gruss

  • Advances in early kidney specification, development and patterning

    Gregory R. Dressler

  • Pax-2 is required for mesenchyme-to-epithelium conversion during kidney development

    Uwe W. Rothenpieler;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Regulation of ureteric bud outgrowth by Pax2-dependent activation of the glial derived neurotrophic factor gene.

    Patrick D. Brophy;Lance Ostrom;Katherine M. Lang;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Deregulation of Pax-2 expression in transgenic mice generates severe kidney abnormalities

    Gregory R. Dressler;J. Erby Wilkinson;Uwe W. Rothenpieler;Larry T. Patterson

  • Repression of Pax-2 by WT1 during normal kidney development

    G. Ryan;V. Steele-Perkins;J.F. Morris;F.J. Rauscher

  • Nephrogenic Factors Promote Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells into Renal Epithelia

    Doyeob Kim;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor activates the receptor tyrosine kinase RET and promotes kidney morphogenesis

    Quinn C. Vega;Carolyn A. Worby;Mark S. Lechner;Jack E. Dixon

  • Kielin/chordin-like protein, a novel enhancer of BMP signaling, attenuates renal fibrotic disease.

    Jingmei Lin;Sanjeevkumar R Patel;Xu Cheng;Eun Ah Cho

  • Dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila central nervous system: the intermediate neuroblasts defective homeobox gene specifies intermediate column identity

    Joseph B. Weiss;Tonia Von Ohlen;Dervla M. Mellerick;Gregory Dressler

  • The BRCT-domain containing protein PTIP links PAX2 to a histone H3, lysine 4 methyltransferase complex.

    Sanjeevkumar R. Patel;Doyeob Kim;Inna Levitan;Gregory R. Dressler

  • Differential expression and function of cadherin-6 during renal epithelium development

    Eun Ah Cho;Larry T. Patterson;William T. Brookhiser;Steven Mah

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Gruss
Peter Gruss Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Urban Deutsch
Urban Deutsch University of Bern
Kai Ge
Kai Ge National Institutes of Health
Ming Jer Tang
Ming Jer Tang National Cheng Kung University
Rudi Balling
Rudi Balling University of Bonn
Kamal Chowdhury
Kamal Chowdhury Max Planck Society
Chris Q. Doe
Chris Q. Doe Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Chris Kintner
Chris Kintner Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lawrence B. Holzman
Lawrence B. Holzman University of Pennsylvania
Jean-Louis Guénet
Jean-Louis Guénet Institut Pasteur

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