2026 Jan Steyaert: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	76	4965	4584	77	74	382	26544

Jan Steyaert 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 Jan Steyaert sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 382 publications — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Steyaert 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 Jan Steyaert sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jan Steyaert is affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with an emphasis on molecular biology and related subfields including radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cell biology, and physiology.

Their main areas of scientific inquiry incorporate topics such as monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, receptor mechanisms and signaling, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, enzyme structure and function, lipid membrane structure and behavior, as well as protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling.

Jan Steyaert has contributed extensively to the scientific literature, with key recent publications including:

"Megabodies expand the nanobody toolkit for protein structure determination by single-particle cryo-EM," 2021, Nature Methods
"Nanobody-enabled monitoring of kappa opioid receptor states," 2020, Nature Communications
"Structure, substrate recognition and initiation of hyaluronan synthase," 2022, Nature
"Nanobodies to study protein conformational states," 2020, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
"Development of a universal nanobody-binding Fab module for fiducial-assisted cryo-EM studies of membrane proteins," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Els Pardon, Alexandre Wohlkönig, Tomasz Uchański, Thomas Zögg, and Wim Versées, reflecting a collaborative research network.

Jan Steyaert's work is regularly published in several scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication sources are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Biophysical Journal
EMPIAR dataset
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Crystal structure of the β2 adrenergic receptor-Gs protein complex.

Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Brian T. DeVree;Yaozhong Zou;Andrew C. Kruse

3614
Citations
Structure of a nanobody-stabilized active state of the β2 adrenoceptor

Søren G F Rasmussen;Hee Jung Choi;Juan Jose Fung;Els Pardon

2050
Citations
Activation and allosteric modulation of a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor

Andrew C. Kruse;Aaron M. Ring;Aashish Manglik;Jianxin Hu

1015
Citations
Structural insights into µ-opioid receptor activation

Weijiao Huang;Aashish Manglik;A. J. Venkatakrishnan;Toon Laeremans

972
Citations
A general protocol for the generation of Nanobodies for structural biology

Els Pardon;Toon Laeremans;Sarah Triest;Søren G F Rasmussen

868
Citations
Conformational biosensors reveal GPCR signalling from endosomes

Roshanak Irannejad;Jin C. Tomshine;Jon R. Tomshine;Michael Chevalier

838
Citations
GABAAreceptor signalling mechanisms revealed by structural pharmacology.

S. Masiulis;R. Desai;T. Uchanski;I. Serna Martin

401
Citations
Structure of the Nanobody-Stabilized Active State of the Kappa Opioid Receptor

Tao Che;Susruta Majumdar;Saheem A. Zaidi;Pauline Ondachi

374
Citations
Distinct conformations of GPCR–β-arrestin complexes mediate desensitization, signaling, and endocytosis

Thomas J. Cahill;Alex R.B. Thomsen;Jeffrey T. Tarrasch;Bianca Plouffe

359
Citations
Cryo-EM structure of the human α1β3γ2 GABA A receptor in a lipid bilayer.

Laverty D;Desai R;Uchański T;Masiulis S

342
Citations
The F plasmid CcdB protein induces efficient ATP-dependent DNA cleavage by gyrase.

Philippe Bernard;Katherine E. Kézdy;Laurence Van Melderen;Jan Steyaert

328
Citations
Allosteric nanobodies reveal the dynamic range and diverse mechanisms of G-protein-coupled receptor activation

Dean P Staus;Ryan T Strachan;Aashish Manglik;Biswaranjan Pani

323
Citations
A Genetically Encoded Biosensor Reveals Location Bias of Opioid Drug Action

Miriam Carolin Stoeber;Damien Jullié;Braden T Lobingier;Toon Laeremans

311
Citations
Influence of the π–π interaction on the hydrogen bonding capacity of stacked DNA/RNA bases

Pierre Mignon;Stefan Loverix;Jan Steyaert;Paul Geerlings

291
Citations
Nanobodies to Study G Protein-Coupled Receptor Structure and Function.

Aashish Manglik;Brian K Kobilka;Jan Steyaert

288
Citations
Allosteric coupling from G protein to the agonist-binding pocket in GPCRs

Brian T. Devree;Jacob P. Mahoney;Gisselle A. Vélez-Ruiz;Soren G.F. Rasmussen

283
Citations
Structural insights into the activation of metabotropic glutamate receptors.

Antoine Koehl;Hongli Hu;Dan Feng;Bingfa Sun

283
Citations
Structural flexibility of the Gαs α-helical domain in the β 2-adrenoceptor Gs complex

Gerwin H. Westfield;Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Søren G. F. Rasmussen;Min Su;Somnath Dutta

283
Citations
Structures of P-glycoprotein reveal its conformational flexibility and an epitope on the nucleotide-binding domain.

Andrew A.B. Ward;Paul Szewczyk;Vinciane Grimard;Chang-Wook Lee

274
Citations
Propagation of conformational changes during μ-opioid receptor activation

Rémy Sounier;Camille Mas;Jan Steyaert;Toon Laeremans

265
Citations