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Gunnar von Heijne

Gunnar von Heijne

Stockholm University
Sweden

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Biology and Biochemistry
Sweden
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
125
Citations
143981
World Ranking
497
National Ranking
12

Gunnar von Heijne publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gunnar von Heijne sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 421 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gunnar von Heijne 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 Gunnar von Heijne sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 125 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award
  • 1998 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gunnar von Heijne is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden, where their research is focused within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans 68 publications primarily in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Materials Chemistry, Immunology, and Cell Biology.

The scientist's research includes topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, protein structure and dynamics, enzyme structure and function, toxin mechanisms and immunotoxins, lipid membrane structure and behavior, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Frequent co-authors in their scientific collaborations include Stephen H. White and Donald M. Engelman, each with 18 joint publications. Other common collaborators are Felix Nicolaus, Renuka Kudva, and Ane Metola.

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 14 publications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 4, FEBS Letters with 2, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) with 1, and Methods in molecular biology with 1.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Gunnar von Heijne include:

  • SignalP 6.0 predicts all five types of signal peptides using protein language models, 2022, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
  • SignalP: The Evolution of a Web Server, 2024, Methods in molecular biology
  • The ribosome modulates folding inside the ribosomal exit tunnel, 2021, Communications Biology
  • Residue-by-residue analysis of cotranslational membrane protein integration in vivo, 2021, eLife
  • Cotranslational folding cooperativity of contiguous domains of α-spectrin, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Gunnar von Heijne has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Garland Science eBooks titled Cell Boundaries, released in 2021.

The scientist has been recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea since 1998.

Best Publications

  • Tissue-based map of the human proteome

    Mathias Uhlén;Mathias Uhlén;Linn Fagerberg;Björn M Hallström;Cecilia Lindskog

  • Predicting transmembrane protein topology with a hidden Markov model: application to complete genomes

    A Krogh;B Larsson;G von Heijne;E L Sonnhammer

  • SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

    Thomas Nordahl Petersen;Søren Brunak;Søren Brunak;Gunnar von Heijne;Gunnar von Heijne;Henrik Nielsen

  • Improved Prediction of Signal Peptides: SignalP 3.0

    Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen;Henrik Nielsen;Gunnar von Heijne;Søren Brunak

  • Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites.

    H Nielsen;J Engelbrecht;S Brunak;G von Heijne

  • Predicting subcellular localization of proteins based on their N-terminal amino acid sequence.

    Olof Emanuelsson;Henrik Nielsen;Søren Brunak;Gunnar von Heijne

  • SignalP 5.0 improves signal peptide predictions using deep neural networks

    Jose Juan Almagro Armenteros;Konstantinos D. Tsirigos;Casper Kaae Sønderby;Thomas Nordahl Petersen

  • Locating proteins in the cell using TargetP, SignalP and related tools

    Olof Emanuelsson;Søren Brunak;Gunnar von Heijne;Henrik Nielsen

  • A Hidden Markov Model for Predicting Transmembrane Helices in Protein Sequences

    Erik L. L. Sonnhammer;Gunnar von Heijne;Anders Krogh

  • Patterns of Amino Acids near Signal‐Sequence Cleavage Sites

    Gunnar Von Heijne

  • ChloroP, a neural network-based method for predicting chloroplast transit peptides and their cleavage sites.

    Olof Emanuelsson;Henrik Nielsen;Henrik Nielsen;Gunnar Von Heijne

  • Membrane protein structure prediction: Hydrophobicity analysis and the positive-inside rule

    Gunnar von Heijne

  • Domain structure of mitochondrial and chloroplast targeting peptides.

    Gunnar von Heijne;Johannes Steppuhn;Reinhold G. Herrmann

  • Prediction of transmembrane alpha-helices in prokaryotic membrane proteins: the dense alignment surface method.

    M Cserzö;E Wallin;I Simon;G von Heijne

  • Feature-based prediction of non-classical and leaderless protein secretion.

    Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen;Lars Juhl Jensen;Nikolaj Blom;Gunnar von Heijne

  • Prediction of lipoprotein signal peptides in Gram-negative bacteria

    Agnieszka S. Juncker;Hanni Willenbrock;Gunnar von Heijne;Søren Brunak

  • The distribution of positively charged residues in bacterial inner membrane proteins correlates with the trans-membrane topology.

    Gunnar von Heijne

  • Recognition of transmembrane helices by the endoplasmic reticulum translocon

    Tara Hessa;Hyun Kim;Karl Bihlmaier;Karl Bihlmaier;Carolina Lundin

  • Sequence differences between glycosylated and non-glycosylated Asn-X-Thr/Ser acceptor sites : implications for protein engineering

    Ylva Gavel;Gunnar von Heijne

  • How signal sequences maintain cleavage specificity.

    Gunnar von Heijne

Frequent Co-Authors

IngMarie Nilsson
IngMarie Nilsson Stockholm University
Arne Elofsson
Arne Elofsson Science for Life Laboratory
Stephen H. White
Stephen H. White University of California, Irvine
Jan-Willem de Gier
Jan-Willem de Gier Stockholm University
Arthur E. Johnson
Arthur E. Johnson Texas A&M University
Søren Brunak
Søren Brunak University of Copenhagen
Roland Beckmann
Roland Beckmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Joen Luirink
Joen Luirink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Robert B. Best
Robert B. Best National Institutes of Health
Bengt Persson
Bengt Persson Science for Life Laboratory

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