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James E. Ferrell

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
31969
World Ranking
5205
National Ranking
2473

James E. Ferrell publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 162 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James E. Ferrell 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 James E. Ferrell sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

James E. Ferrell is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Plant Science, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics such as:

  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing

James E. Ferrell has contributed to various frequent publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments

Among their notable recent papers are:

  • Ultrafast distant wound response is essential for whole-body regeneration (2023, Cell)
  • Adversarial domain translation networks for integrating large-scale atlas-level single-cell datasets (2022, Nature Computational Science)
  • Bistable, Biphasic Regulation of PP2A-B55 Accounts for the Dynamics of Mitotic Substrate Phosphorylation (2020, Current Biology)
  • The nucleus serves as the pacemaker for the cell cycle (2020, eLife)
  • The Apparent Requirement for Protein Synthesis during G2 Phase Is due to Checkpoint Activation (2020, Cell Reports)

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with James E. Ferrell include:

  • William Y. C. Huang
  • Yuping Chen
  • Xianrui Cheng
  • Julia Kamenz
  • Jo-Hsi Huang

James E. Ferrell has also contributed to book publications, notably the title Systems Biology of Cell Signaling, published by Garland Science eBooks in 2021.

Best Publications

  • STIM Is a Ca2+ Sensor Essential for Ca2+-Store-Depletion-Triggered Ca2+ Influx

    Jen Liou;Man Lyang Kim;Won Do Heo;Joshua T. Jones

  • STIM Is a Ca 2+ Sensor Essential for Ca 2+ -Store-Depletion-Triggered Ca 2+ Influx

    Jen Liou;Won Do Heo;Joshua T. Jones;Jason W. Myers

  • Mechanisms of specificity in protein phosphorylation

    Jeffrey A. Ubersax;James E. Ferrell

  • Ultrasensitivity in the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade

    Chi Ying F. Huang;James E. Ferrell

  • Self-perpetuating states in signal transduction: positive feedback, double-negative feedback and bistability.

    James E Ferrell

  • The Biochemical Basis of an All-or-None Cell Fate Switch in Xenopus Oocytes

    James E. Ferrell;Eric M. Machleder

  • Detection of multistability, bifurcations, and hysteresis in a large class of biological positive-feedback systems

    David Angeli;James E. Ferrell;Eduardo D. Sontag

  • A positive-feedback-based bistable ‘memory module’ that governs a cell fate decision

    Wen Xiong;James E. Ferrell

  • Building a cell cycle oscillator: hysteresis and bistability in the activation of Cdc2

    Joseph R. Pomerening;Eduardo D. Sontag;James E. Ferrell

  • Robust, Tunable Biological Oscillations from Interlinked Positive and Negative Feedback Loops

    Tony Yu-Chen Tsai;Yoon Sup Choi;Yoon Sup Choi;Wenzhe Ma;Wenzhe Ma;Joseph R. Pomerening

  • Tripping the switch fantastic: how a protein kinase cascade can convert graded inputs into switch-like outputs

    James E. Ferrell

  • Interlinked Fast and Slow Positive Feedback Loops Drive Reliable Cell Decisions

    Onn Brandman;James E. Ferrell;Rong Li;Tobias Meyer

  • Concordant regulation of translation and mRNA abundance for hundreds of targets of a human microRNA.

    David G. Hendrickson;Daniel J. Hogan;Heather L. McCullough;Jason W. Myers

  • Untangling the wires: A strategy to trace functional interactions in signaling and gene networks

    Boris N. Kholodenko;Anatoly Kiyatkin;Frank J. Bruggeman;Eduardo Sontag

  • Bistability in cell signaling: How to make continuous processes discontinuous, and reversible processes irreversible.

    James E. Ferrell;Wen Xiong

  • Mechanistic Studies of the Dual Phosphorylation of Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase

    James E. Ferrell;Ramesh R. Bhatt

  • Systems-Level Dissection of the Cell-Cycle Oscillator: Bypassing Positive Feedback Produces Damped Oscillations

    Joseph R. Pomerening;Sun Young Kim;James E. Ferrell

  • Selective Regulation of Neurite Extension and Synapse Formation by the β but not the α Isoform of CaMKII

    Charles C Fink;Karl-Ulrich Bayer;Jason W Myers;James E Ferrell

  • Modeling the cell cycle: why do certain circuits oscillate?

    James E. Ferrell;Tony Yu Chen Tsai;Qiong Yang

  • Erratum: Mechanisms of specificity in protein phosphorylation

    Jeffrey A. Ubersax;James E. Ferrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Tobias Meyer
Tobias Meyer Stanford University
Gilda H. Loew
Gilda H. Loew Stanford University
Chi-Ying F. Huang
Chi-Ying F. Huang National Yang Ming University
Jianbo Yue
Jianbo Yue Duke Kunshan University
Boris Zhivotovsky
Boris Zhivotovsky Karolinska Institute
Tim Stearns
Tim Stearns Rockefeller University
Won Do Heo
Won Do Heo Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Olaf Wolkenhauer
Olaf Wolkenhauer University of Rostock
Charles Auffray
Charles Auffray Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University

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