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Huilin Li

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
85
Citations
30748
World Ranking
3108
National Ranking
1572

Huilin Li 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 Huilin Li sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 359 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Huilin Li 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 Huilin Li 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: 85 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Huilin Li is affiliated with the Van Andel Institute in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, plant science, cell biology, and materials chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as DNA repair mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, genomics and chromatin dynamics, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Significant recent papers by Huilin Li include:

  • Ordered three-dimensional nanomaterials using DNA-prescribed and valence-controlled material voxels, 2020, Nature Materials
  • Structure of the ER membrane complex, a transmembrane-domain insertase, 2020, Nature
  • Highly sensitive and specific detection of hepatitis B virus DNA and drug resistance mutations utilizing the PCR-based CRISPR-Cas13a system, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Comparative study of antioxidant activity of grape (Vitis vinifera) seed powder assessed by different methods, 2020, Journal of Food and Drug Analysis
  • Structure and activation mechanism of the hexameric plasma membrane H+-ATPase, 2021, Nature Communications

Huilin Li has published frequently in several scientific journals and preprint archives, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • PubMed

Their research collaborations include multiple coauthors, with some of the most frequent being Mike O'Donnell, Xiang Feng, Lin Bai, Roxana E. Georgescu, and Amanda Kovach. These coauthorships indicate active involvement in collaborative multidisciplinary research.

Best Publications

  • Altering the Intestinal Microbiota during a Critical Developmental Window Has Lasting Metabolic Consequences

    Laura M. Cox;Shingo Yamanishi;Jiho Sohn;Alexander V. Alekseyenko

  • Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity

    Ilseung Cho;Shingo Yamanishi;Laura Cox;Barbara A. Methé

  • Refined structure of alpha beta-tubulin at 3.5 A resolution.

    J Löwe;H Li;K.H Downing;E Nogales;E Nogales

  • Antibiotics, birth mode, and diet shape microbiome maturation during early life

    Nicholas A. Bokulich;Jennifer Chung;Thomas Battaglia;Nora Henderson

  • A double-hexameric MCM2-7 complex is loaded onto origin DNA during licensing of eukaryotic DNA replication

    Cecile Evrin;Pippa Clarke;Juergen Zech;Rudi Lurz

  • Self-assembly in aqueous solution of wheel-shaped Mo154 oxide clusters into vesicles.

    Tianbo Liu;Ekkehard Diemann;Huilin Li;Andreas W. M. Dress

  • The binding mode of epothilone A on alpha,beta-tubulin by electron crystallography

    James H. Nettles;Huilin Li;Ben Cornett;Joseph M. Krahn

  • Microtubule structure at 8 A resolution.

    Huilin Li;David J. DeRosier;William V. Nicholson;Eva Nogales;Eva Nogales

  • Cigarette smoking and the oral microbiome in a large study of American adults.

    Jing Wu;Brandilyn A Peters;Christine Dominianni;Yilong Zhang

  • Strong Electronic Interaction in Dual‐Cation‐Incorporated NiSe2 Nanosheets with Lattice Distortion for Highly Efficient Overall Water Splitting

    Yiqiang Sun;Yiqiang Sun;Kun Xu;Zengxi Wei;Huilin Li;Huilin Li

  • Huntingtin spheroids and protofibrils as precursors in polyglutamine fibrilization.

    Michelle A. Poirier;Huilin Li;Jed Macosko;Shuowei Cai

  • Diamond family of nanoparticle superlattices

    Wenyan Liu;Miho Tagawa;Huolin L. Xin;Tong Wang

  • Metabolic and metagenomic outcomes from early-life pulsed antibiotic treatment

    Yael R. Nobel;Laura M. Cox;Francis F. Kirigin;Nicholas A. Bokulich

  • The postsynaptic density proteins homer and shank form a polymeric network structure

    Mariko Hayashi;Chunyan Tang;Chiara Verpelli;Radhakrishnan Narayanan

  • Antibiotic-mediated gut microbiome perturbation accelerates development of type 1 diabetes in mice

    Alexandra E. Livanos;Thomas U. Greiner;Pajau Vangay;Wimal Pathmasiri

  • ATPase-dependent cooperative binding of ORC and Cdc6 to origin DNA.

    Christian Speck;Zhiqiang Chen;Huilin Li;Bruce Stillman

  • Prescribed nanoparticle cluster architectures and low-dimensional arrays built using octahedral DNA origami frames

    Ye Tian;Tong Wang;Wenyan Liu;Huolin L. Xin

  • Inhibitors of amyloid toxicity based on beta-sheet packing of Abeta40 and Abeta42.

    Takeshi Sato;Pascal Kienlen-Campard;Mahiuddin Ahmed;Wei Liu

  • Structure of the CED-4–CED-9 complex provides insights into programmed cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Nieng Yan;Jijie Chai;Eui Seung Lee;Eui Seung Lee;Lichuan Gu

  • Fiber formation across the bacterial outer membrane by the chaperone/usher pathway.

    Han Remaut;Chunyan Tang;Nadine S. Henderson;Jerome S. Pinkner

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin J. Blaser
Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mike O'Donnell
Mike O'Donnell Rockefeller University
Bruce Stillman
Bruce Stillman Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Ann Marie Schmidt
Ann Marie Schmidt New York University
Zhongqin Li
Zhongqin Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Carl Nathan
Carl Nathan Cornell University
David S. Goldfarb
David S. Goldfarb University of Rochester
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick
Leemor Joshua-Tor
Leemor Joshua-Tor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tao Zhang
Tao Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Best Scientists Citing Huilin Li

Martin J. Blaser

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Publications: 89

Tianbo Liu

Tianbo Liu

University of Akron

Publications: 66

Eva Nogales

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Publications: 63

Rob Knight

Rob Knight

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Publications: 45

Gabriel Waksman

Gabriel Waksman

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Publications: 41

Oleg Gang

Oleg Gang

Columbia University

Publications: 35

Willem M. de Vos

Willem M. de Vos

Wageningen University & Research

Publications: 35

Scott J. Hultgren

Scott J. Hultgren

Washington University in St. Louis

Publications: 34

Catherine Stanton

Catherine Stanton

Teagasc - The Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

Publications: 32

Mike O'Donnell

Mike O'Donnell

Rockefeller University

Publications: 32

Andreas Engel

Andreas Engel

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Publications: 31

Ann Marie Schmidt

Ann Marie Schmidt

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Publications: 30

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Carl Nathan

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Publications: 30

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James M. Berger

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