2026 James R. Williamson: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	88	2695	2476	1398	1258	292	29299

Discipline name

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Biology and Biochemistry

2695

2476

1398

1258

292

29299

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index

Citations

29299

World Ranking

2695

National Ranking

1398

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

1520
Citations
Inhibition of telomerase by G-quartet DNA structures.

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

1449
Citations
G-Quartet Structures in Telomeric DNA

J R Williamson

897
Citations
Addressing Preferred Specimen Orientation in Single-Particle Cryo-EM through Tilting

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

844
Citations
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

813
Citations
Conformation of the TAR RNA-arginine complex by NMR spectroscopy

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

787
Citations
Overflow metabolism in Escherichia coli results from efficient proteome allocation

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

682
Citations
A new system for naming ribosomal proteins

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

615
Citations
Induced fit in RNA–protein recognition

James R. Williamson

567
Citations
Assembly of Bacterial Ribosomes

Zahra Shajani;Michael T Sykes;James R Williamson

566
Citations
Gaussian ARTMAP: a neural network for fast incremental learning of noisy multidimensional maps

James R. Williamson

445
Citations
The catalytic diversity of RNAs.

Martha J. Fedor;James R. Williamson

444
Citations
Role of calcium in the hormonal regulation of liver metabolism

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

444
Citations
Kinetic intermediates in RNA folding

Patrick P. Zarrinkar;James R. Williamson

422
Citations
Preparation of isotopically labeled ribonucleotides for multidimensional NMR spectroscopy of RNA

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

419
Citations
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

413
Citations
Quantitative proteomic analysis reveals a simple strategy of global resource allocation in bacteria

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

377
Citations
Dual modes of RNA-silencing suppression by Flock House virus protein B2.

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

366
Citations
Ligand-induced conformational changes observed in single RNA molecules.

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

343
Citations
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

321
Citations