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Best Female Scientists

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115
Citations
58651
World Ranking
707
National Ranking
429

Biology and Biochemistry

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116
Citations
59343
World Ranking
744
National Ranking
471

Melanie H. Cobb 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 Melanie H. Cobb sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 347 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melanie H. Cobb 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 Melanie H. Cobb 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: 116 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Melanie H. Cobb is affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their research encompasses diverse areas in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a focus on molecular biology, genetics, surgery, cell biology, and immunology as key subfields.

The scientist's work touches on several main topics, including pancreatic function and diabetes, ion transport and channel regulation, protein kinase regulation and GTPase signaling, melanoma and MAPK pathways, TGF-β signaling in diseases, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, and endoplasmic reticulum stress and disease.

Selected recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research. These include:

  • "Navigating the ERK1/2 MAPK Cascade" (2023, Biomolecules)
  • "Modulating p38 MAPK signaling by proteostasis mechanisms supports tissue integrity during growth and aging" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "WNK1 Enhances Migration and Invasion in Breast Cancer Models" (2021, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics)
  • "The Pancreatic ß-cell Response to Secretory Demands and Adaption to Stress" (2021, Endocrinology)
  • "WNK1 collaborates with TGF-β in endothelial cell junction turnover and angiogenesis" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Endocrinology

Melanie H. Cobb has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, with the most frequent including Svetlana Earnest, Ankita B. Jaykumar, Derk D. Binns, Chonlarat Wichaidit, and Clinton A. Taylor.

Best Publications

  • Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways: regulation and physiological functions.

    Gray W Pearson;Fred Robinson;Tara Beers Gibson;Bing E. Xu

  • Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways.

    Megan J Robinson;Melanie H Cobb

  • ERKs: A family of protein-serine/threonine kinases that are activated and tyrosine phosphorylated in response to insulin and NGF

    Teri G. Boulton;Steven H. Nye;David J. Robbins;Nancy Y. Ip

  • How MAP kinases are regulated.

    Melanie H. Cobb;Elizabeth J. Goldsmith

  • Differential regulation and properties of MAPKs.

    M Raman;W Chen;M H Cobb

  • MAP kinase pathways.

    Melanie H Cobb

  • Modulation of the dynamic instability of tubulin assembly by the microtubule-associated protein tau.

    D. N. Drechsel;A. A. Hyman;Melanie H Cobb;M. W. Kirschner

  • Activation Mechanism of the MAP Kinase ERK2 by Dual Phosphorylation

    Bertram J. Canagarajah;Andrei Khokhlatchev;Melanie H. Cobb;Elizabeth J. Goldsmith

  • An insulin-stimulated protein kinase similar to yeast kinases involved in cell cycle control

    Teri G. Boulton;George D. Yancopoulos;Jill S. Gregory;Clive A. Slaughter

  • Phosphorylation of the MAP kinase ERK2 promotes its homodimerization and nuclear translocation.

    Andrei V. Khokhlatchev;Bertram Canagarajah;Julie Wilsbacher;Megan Robinson

  • ERK phosphorylation potentiates Elk-1-mediated ternary complex formation and transactivation.

    H. Gille;M. Kortenjann;O. Thomae;C. Moomaw

  • Atomic structure of the MAP kinase ERK2 at 2.3 A resolution.

    Faming Zhang;Arne Strand;David Robbins;Melanie H. Cobb

  • Jun N-terminal kinase/stress-activated protein kinase (JNK/SAPK) is required for lipopolysaccharide stimulation of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) translation: glucocorticoids inhibit TNF-alpha translation by blocking JNK/SAPK.

    Jennifer L. Swantek;Melanie H. Cobb;Thomas D. Geppert

  • Phosphorylation activates the insulin receptor tyrosine protein kinase.

    Ora M. Rosen;Roman Herrera;Yetunde Olowe;Lilli M. Petruzzelli

  • The interaction of SV40 small tumor antigen with protein phosphatase 2A stimulates the map kinase pathway and induces cell proliferation.

    Estelle Sontag;Sergei Fedorov;Craig Kamibayashi;David Robbins

  • Pharmacological inhibitors of MAPK pathways

    Jessie M. English;Melanie H. Cobb

  • Extracellular signal-regulated kinases: ERKs in progress

    Melanie H. Cobb;Teri G. Boulton;David J. Robbins

  • c-Jun N-terminal phosphorylation correlates with activation of the JNK subgroup but not the ERK subgroup of mitogen-activated protein kinases.

    Audrey Minden;Anning Lin;Tod Smeal;Benoit Dérijard

  • Regulation and properties of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinases 1 and 2 in vitro

    David J. Robbins;Erzhen Zhen;Hajime Owaki;Colleen A. Vanderbilt

  • WNK1, a Novel Mammalian Serine/Threonine Protein Kinase Lacking the Catalytic Lysine in Subdomain II

    Bing E. Xu;Jessie M. English;Jessie M. English;Julie L. Wilsbacher;Julie L. Wilsbacher;Steve Stippec

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith
Elizabeth J. Goldsmith The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
John D. Minna
John D. Minna The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Michael A. White
Michael A. White Ideaya Biosciences (United States)
Natalie G. Ahn
Natalie G. Ahn University of Colorado Boulder
Yingming Zhao
Yingming Zhao University of Chicago
Chou Long Huang
Chou Long Huang University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Luc Girard
Luc Girard The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Richard Baer
Richard Baer Columbia University
Ora M. Rosen
Ora M. Rosen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
James S. Trimmer
James S. Trimmer University of California, Davis

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