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Klaus Scherrer 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 Klaus Scherrer sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 163 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Klaus Scherrer 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 Klaus Scherrer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% 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

  • 1997 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Klaus Scherrer is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with contributions specifically in Molecular Biology and Plant Science as subfields.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

Recent publications by Klaus Scherrer include the following papers:

  • Is RNA the working genome in eukaryotes? The 60 year evolution of a conceptual challenge, published in 2023 in Experimental Cell Research
  • Sixty years of life with François Gros, published in 2023 in Comptes Rendus Biologies

The scientist has published in the venues Experimental Cell Research and Comptes Rendus Biologies. These two journals represent their frequent publication venues.

Klaus Scherrer was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea in 1997.

Best Publications

  • Sedimentation characteristics of rapidly labelled RNA from HeLa cells

    Klaus Scherrer;J.E. Darnell

  • POLYRIBOSOMES IN NORMAL AND POLIOVIRUS-INFECTED HELA CELLS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MESSENGER-RNA.

    Sheldon Penman;Klaus Scherrer;Yechiel Becker;James E. Darnell

  • Demonstration of an unstable RNA and of a precursor to ribosomal RNA in HeLa cells.

    Klaus Scherrer;Harriet Latham;James E. Darnell

  • The prosome: an ubiquitous morphologically distinct RNP particle associated with repressed mRNPs and containing specific ScRNA and a characteristic set of proteins.

    H.P. Schmid;O. Akhayat;C. Martins De Sa;F. Puvion

  • Patterns of RNA metabolism in a differentiated cell: a rapidly labeled, unstable 60S RNA with messenger properties in duck erythroblasts

    Klaus Scherrer;Lise Marcaud;Francois Zajdela;Irving M. London

  • Replication origins are attached to the nuclear skeleton

    S. V. Razin;M. G. Kekelidze;E. M. Lukanidin;K. Scherrer

  • Messenger RNA in avian erythroblasts at the transcriptional and translational levels and the problem of regulation in animal cells.

    Klaus Scherrer;Lise Marcaud

  • Isolation of preribosomes from HeLa cells and their characterization by electrophoresis on uniform and exponential-gradient-polyacrylamide gels.

    Marc‐Edouard Mirault;Klaus Scherrer;Lis Hansen

  • Demonstration of globin messenger sequences in giant nuclear precursors of messenger RNA of avian erythroblasts.

    Tereza Imaizumi;Heidi Diggelmann;Klaus Scherrer

  • Messenger RNA in HeLa cells: an investigation of free and polyribosome-bound cytoplasmic messenger ribonucleoprotein particles by kinetic labelling and electron microscopy.

    Georges Spohr;Nicole Granboulan;Carlos Morel;Klaus Scherrer

  • Molecular-weight determination of animal-cell RNA by electrophoresis in formamide under fully denaturing conditions on exponential polyacrylamide gels.

    Georges Spohr;Marc-Edouard Mirault;Tereza Imaizumi;Klaus Scherrer

  • Proteins associated with globin messenger RNA in avian erythroblasts: Isolation and comparison with the proteins bound to nuclear messenger-likie RNA.

    Carlos Medicis Morel;Boniface Kayibanda;Klaus Scherrer

  • Mössbauer study of iron bleomycin and its activation intermediates.

    R M Burger;T A Kent;S B Horwitz;E Münck

  • Nuclear and Cytoplasmic Messenger-like RNA and Their Relation to the Active Messenger RNA in Polyribosomes of HeLa Cells

    Klaus Scherrer;Georges Spohr;Nicole Granboulan;Carlos Morel

  • Isolation and Characterization of Ribosome‐Free Cytoplasmic Messenger‐Ribonucleoprotein Complexes from Avian Erythroblasts

    Eugen S. Gander;Andrew G. Stewart;Carlos M. Morel;Klaus Scherrer

  • A + T-rich linkers define functional domains in eukaryotic DNA

    J Moreau;L Marcaud;F Maschat;J Kejzlarova-Lepesant

  • Prosomes. Ubiquity and inter-species structural variation.

    Martins de Sa C;Grossi de Sa Mf;Akhayat O;Broders F

  • The duck-globin messenger-ribonucleoprotein complex. Resistance to high ionic strength, particle gel electrophoresis, composition and visualisation by dark-field electron microscopy.

    Carlos Morel;Eugen S. Gander;Max Herzberg;Jacques Dubochet

  • The poly(A)-binding protein facilitates in vitro translation of poly(A)-rich mRNA.

    Maria‐Fatima Grossi de Sa;Nancy Standart;Cezar Martins de Sa;Omar Akhayat

  • Transcription of the polyoma virus genome: synthesis and cleavage of giant late polyoma-specific RNA.

    Nicholas H. Acheson;Elena Buetti;Klaus Scherrer;Roger Weil

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey V. Razin
Sergey V. Razin Russian Academy of Sciences
Olivier Civelli
Olivier Civelli University of California, Irvine
James E. Darnell
James E. Darnell Rockefeller University
Jürgen Jost
Jürgen Jost Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Ueli Aebi
Ueli Aebi University of Basel
Gérard Keith
Gérard Keith Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Tomohiro Tamura
Tomohiro Tamura National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Edward N. Trifonov
Edward N. Trifonov University of Haifa
Jörg Langowski
Jörg Langowski German Cancer Research Center

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