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James R. Williamson

James R. Williamson

MIT
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
29299
World Ranking
2695
National Ranking
1398

James R. Williamson 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 James R. Williamson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 292 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

James R. Williamson 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 R. Williamson 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: 88 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% 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

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1995 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James R. Williamson is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Structural Biology.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • A universal trade-off between growth and lag in fluctuating environments, 2020, Nature
  • Global coordination of metabolic pathways in Escherichia coli by active and passive regulation, 2021, Molecular Systems Biology
  • An alternative resource allocation strategy in the chemolithoautotrophic archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Assessment of Speech and Fine Motor Coordination in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2020, IEEE Access
  • Detecting Parkinson's Disease from Wrist-Worn Accelerometry in the U.K. Biobank, 2021, Sensors

Frequent co-authors of James R. Williamson include:

  • Dmitry Lyumkis
  • Kai Sheng
  • Vadim Patsalo
  • Xiyu Dong
  • Thomas F. Quatieri

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The main topics addressed in James R. Williamson's work include:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

James R. Williamson has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and the Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Monovalent cation-induced structure of telomeric DNA: The G-quartet model

    James R. Williamson;M.K. Raghuraman;Thomas R. Cech;Thomas R. Cech

  • Inhibition of telomerase by G-quartet DNA structures.

    Alan M. Zahler;James R. Williamson;James R. Williamson;Thomas R. Cech;David M. Prescott

  • G-Quartet Structures in Telomeric DNA

    J R Williamson

  • Addressing Preferred Specimen Orientation in Single-Particle Cryo-EM through Tilting

    Yong Zi Tan;Philip R Baldwin;Joseph H Davis;James R Williamson

  • α Helix-RNA Major Groove Recognition in an HIV-1 Rev Peptide-RRE RNA Complex

    John L. Battiste;Hongyuan Mao;N. Sambasiva Rao;Ruoying Tan

  • Conformation of the TAR RNA-arginine complex by NMR spectroscopy

    Joseph D. Puglisi;Ruoying Tan;Barbara J. Calnan;Alan D. Frankel

  • Overflow metabolism in Escherichia coli results from efficient proteome allocation

    Markus Basan;Markus Basan;Sheng Hui;Hiroyuki Okano;Zhongge Zhang

  • A new system for naming ribosomal proteins

    Nenad Ban;Roland Beckmann;Jamie H D Cate;Jonathan D Dinman

  • Induced fit in RNA–protein recognition

    James R. Williamson

  • Assembly of Bacterial Ribosomes

    Zahra Shajani;Michael T Sykes;James R Williamson

  • Gaussian ARTMAP: a neural network for fast incremental learning of noisy multidimensional maps

    James R. Williamson

  • The catalytic diversity of RNAs.

    Martha J. Fedor;James R. Williamson

  • Role of calcium in the hormonal regulation of liver metabolism

    John R. Williamson;Ronald H. Cooper;Jan B. Hoek

  • Kinetic intermediates in RNA folding

    Patrick P. Zarrinkar;James R. Williamson

  • Preparation of isotopically labeled ribonucleotides for multidimensional NMR spectroscopy of RNA

    Robert T. Batey;Maki Inada;Elizabeth Kujawinski;Joseph D. Puglisi

  • The Pumilio protein binds RNA through a conserved domain that defines a new class of RNA-binding proteins.

    P D Zamore;J R Williamson;R Lehmann

  • Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals a simple strategy of global resource allocation in bacteria

    Sheng Hui;Josh M Silverman;Stephen S Chen;David W Erickson

  • Dual modes of RNA-silencing suppression by Flock House virus protein B2.

    Jeffrey A Chao;June Hyung Lee;Brian R Chapados;Erik W Debler

  • Ligand-induced conformational changes observed in single RNA molecules.

    Taekjip Ha;Xiaowei Zhuang;Harold D. Kim;Jeffrey W. Orr

  • Mg2+-dependent conformational change of RNA studied by fluorescence correlation and FRET on immobilized single molecules

    Harold D. Kim;G. Ulrich Nienhaus;Taekjip Ha;Jeffrey W. Orr

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Quatieri
Thomas F. Quatieri MIT
David P. Millar
David P. Millar Scripps Research Institute
Joseph D. Puglisi
Joseph D. Puglisi Stanford University
Terence Hwa
Terence Hwa University of California, San Diego
Stephen Grossberg
Stephen Grossberg Boston University
Robert T. Batey
Robert T. Batey University of Colorado Boulder
Alan D. Frankel
Alan D. Frankel University of California, San Francisco
Daniel W. Bliss
Daniel W. Bliss Arizona State University
Larry Gerace
Larry Gerace Scripps Research Institute
Thomas R. Cech
Thomas R. Cech University of Colorado Boulder

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