2026 Jeffrey W. Roberts: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	57	2150	1935	1068	948	109	11568

Jeffrey W. Roberts publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey W. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 109 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Jeffrey W. Roberts D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey W. Roberts sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jeffrey W. Roberts is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing to a better understanding of molecular processes in bacterial systems.

Their main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with subfields focused on molecular biology and genetics. The primary topics of their work encompass bacterial genetics and biotechnology, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Roberts has collaborated with several coauthors throughout their career. Frequent coauthors include:

Terence R. Strick
Shannon F. Holmes
Thomas J. Santangelo
Candice K. Cunningham
Dorothy A. Erie

Their publications have appeared in diverse venues, notably in UNC Libraries. One of their recent papers is:

"Kinetic Investigation of Escherichia coli RNA Polymerase Mutants That Influence Nucleotide Discrimination and Transcription Fidelity," published in 2021 at UNC Libraries

Jeffrey W. Roberts has been recognized with several awards, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002 and elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.

Best Publications

Termination Factor for RNA Synthesis

Jeffrey W. Roberts

1149
Citations
Nature of the SOS-inducing signal in Escherichia coli. The involvement of DNA replication.

Mandana Sassanfar;Jeffrey W. Roberts

676
Citations
Mechanism of Intrinsic Transcription Termination and Antitermination

W. S. Yarnell;J. W. Roberts

424
Citations
Escherichia coli recA gene product inactivates phage lambda repressor.

Jeffrey W. Roberts;Christine W. Roberts;Nancy L. Craig

416
Citations
Proteolytic cleavage of bacteriophage lambda repressor in induction.

Jeffrey W. Roberts;Christine W. Roberts

413
Citations
E. coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor requires polynucleotide.

Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

413
Citations
E. coli Transcription Repair Coupling Factor (Mfd Protein) Rescues Arrested Complexes by Promoting Forward Translocation

Joo-Seop Park;Michael T. Marr;Jeffrey W. Roberts

341
Citations
Function of nucleoside triphosphate and polynucleotide in Escherichia coli recA protein-directed cleavage of phage lambda repressor.

Nancy L. Craig;Jeffrey W. Roberts

297
Citations
Estimation of permeable pathways and water content using tomographic radar data

S. S. Hubbard;J. E. Peterson;E. L. Majer;P. T. Zawislanski

296
Citations
Function of E. coli RNA Polymerase σ Factor- σ70 in Promoter-Proximal Pausing

Brian Z Ring;William S Yarnell;Jeffrey W Roberts

275
Citations
Single molecule analysis of RNA polymerase elongation reveals uniform kinetic behavior.

Karen Adelman;Arthur La Porta;Thomas J. Santangelo;John T. Lis

238
Citations
Promoter Recognition As Measured by Binding of Polymerase to Nontemplate Strand Oligonucleotide

M. T. Marr;J. W. Roberts

218
Citations
Induction of SOS functions: Regulation of proteolytic activity of E. coil RecA protein by interaction with DNA and nucleoside triphosphate

Eric M. Phizicky;Jeffrey W. Roberts

209
Citations
Phage lambda gene Q antiterminator recognizes RNA polymerase near the promoter and accelerates it through a pause site

Elizabeth J. Grayhack;Xianjie Yang;Lester F. Lau;Jeffrey W. Roberts

206
Citations
Antitermination by bacteriophage lambda Q protein.

J.W. Roberts;W. Yarnell;E. Bartlett;J. Guo

205
Citations
Domain organization of the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase sigma 70 subunit.

Elena Severinova;Konstantin Severinov;David Fenyö;Michael Marr

204
Citations
Activity of the Escherichia coli recA-gene product.

J. W. Roberts;C. W. Roberts;N. L. Craig;E. M. Phizicky

189
Citations
Purification of a RecA protein analogue from Bacillus subtilis.

C M Lovett;J W Roberts

188
Citations
BASE-SPECIFIC RECOGNITION OF THE NONTEMPLATE STRAND OF PROMOTER DNA BY E. COLI RNA POLYMERASE

Jeffrey W Roberts;Christine W Roberts

181
Citations
遺伝子の分子生物学 = Molecular biology of the gene

James Dewey Watson;Nancy Hopkins;Jeffrey W Roberts;Joan Argetsinger Steitz

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lester F. Lau University of Illinois at Chicago

Nancy L. Craig Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Xiang Gao Nanjing University

Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco

Eric M. Phizicky University of Rochester

Ray Wu Cornell University

Ann Hochschild Harvard University

Konstantin Severinov Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Seth A. Darst Rockefeller University

Robert Landick University of Wisconsin–Madison

External Links

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