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Michael W. Klymkowsky 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 Michael W. Klymkowsky sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 125 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael W. Klymkowsky 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 Michael W. Klymkowsky sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% 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

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael W. Klymkowsky is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple disciplines, including molecular biology, education, genetics, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology.

Their recent papers cover diverse topics and publication venues. Notable works include:

  • "Let Us Not Squander the Affordances of LLMs for the Sake of Expedience: Using Retrieval Augmented Generative AI Chatbots to Support and Evaluate Student Reasoning," 2024, Journal of Chemical Education
  • "How Do Instructors Explain The Mechanism by which ATP Drives Unfavorable Processes?", 2023, CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • "Rethinking (again) Hardy-Weinberg and genetic drift in undergraduate biology," 2023, Frontiers in Genetics
  • "Components Critical to Successful Adoption and Adaptation of CLUE, a Transformed General Chemistry Curriculum," 2023, Journal of Chemical Education
  • "Comment on 'Should Organic Chemistry Be Taught as Science?'", 2020, Journal of Chemical Education

Klymkowsky frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Melanie M. Cooper, Clark Hendrickson, Ira L. Blitz, Amina Hussein, and Kitt Paraiso.

Publications often appear in venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Chemical Education, Developmental Biology, and CBE-Life Sciences Education.

Their main fields of study cover areas central to molecular biology and education, while subfields extend to genetics, artificial intelligence, and epidemiology. Research topics consistently address themes in science education and pedagogy, nail diseases and treatments, evolution and genetic dynamics, genetics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research, various chemistry research topics, online learning and analytics, and skin and cellular biology.

Recognition for their contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Epithelial-mesenchymal transition: a cancer researcher's conceptual friend and foe.

    Michael W. Klymkowsky;Pierre Savagner

  • A whole-mount immunocytochemical analysis of the expression of the intermediate filament protein vimentin in Xenopus

    J.A. Dent;A.G. Polson;M.W. Klymkowsky

  • Regulation of Wnt Signaling by Sox Proteins: XSox17α/β and XSox3 Physically Interact with β-catenin

    Aaron M Zorn;Grant D Barish;Bart O Williams;Paul Lavender;Paul Lavender

  • Structure and function of an acetylcholine receptor.

    J. Kistler;R. M. Stroud;M. W. Klymkowsky;R. A. Lalancette

  • Whole-mount staining of Xenopus and other vertebrates.

    Michael W. Klymkowsky;James Hanken

  • Understanding Randomness and its Impact on Student Learning: Lessons Learned from Building the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI)

    Kathy Garvin-Doxas;Michael W. Klymkowsky

  • Lost in Lewis Structures: An Investigation of Student Difficulties in Developing Representational Competence

    Melanie M. Cooper;Nathaniel Grove;Sonia M. Underwood;Michael W. Klymkowsky

  • Functions of intermediate filaments.

    Michael W. Klymkowsky;Jeffrey B. Bachant;Alberto Domingo

  • Chemistry, Life, the Universe, and Everything: A New Approach to General Chemistry, and a Model for Curriculum Reform

    Melanie M. Cooper;Michael Klymkowsky

  • Structural studies of a membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo californica

    Michael J. Ross;Michael W. Klymkowsky;David A. Agard;Robert M. Stroud

  • Anterior axis duplication in Xenopus induced by the over-expression of the cadherin-binding protein plakoglobin.

    Alla Karnovsky;Michael W. Klymkowsky

  • Intermediate filaments in 3T3 cells collapse after intracellular injection of a monoclonal anti-intermediate filament antibody.

    Michael W. Klymkowsky

  • Inhibition of poliovirus RNA synthesis by brefeldin A.

    L A Maynell;K Kirkegaard;M W Klymkowsky

  • Immunospecific identification and three-dimensional structure of a membrane-bound acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo californica

    Michael W. Klymkowsky;Robert M. Stroud

  • Inhibition of Neural Crest Migration in Xenopus Using Antisense Slug RNA

    Timothy F Carl;Christopher Dufton;James Hanken;Michael W Klymkowsky

  • Regulation of TCF3 by Wnt-Dependent Phosphorylation during Vertebrate Axis Specification

    Hiroki Hikasa;Jerome Ezan;Keiji Itoh;Xiaotong Li

  • The appearance of acetylated alpha-tubulin during early development and cellular differentiation in Xenopus.

    Dan T.W. Chu;Michael W. Klymkowsky

  • The β-catenin/VegT-regulated early zygotic gene Xnr5 is a direct target of SOX3 regulation

    Chi Zhang;Tamara Basta;Eric D. Jensen;M. W. Klymkowsky

  • Morphology, behavior, and interaction of cultured epithelial cells after the antibody-induced disruption of keratin filament organization.

    M W Klymkowsky;R H Miller;E B Lane

  • The body language of cells: The intimate connection between cell adhesion and behavior

    Michael W. Klymkowsky;Brian Parr;Brian Parr

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie M. Cooper
Melanie M. Cooper Michigan State University
Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus Cornell University
Robert M. Stroud
Robert M. Stroud University of California, San Francisco
Bart O. Williams
Bart O. Williams Van Andel Institute
Mark Winey
Mark Winey University of California, Davis
Ernst Hafen
Ernst Hafen ETH Zurich
E. B. Lane
E. B. Lane Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Thomas Simmet
Thomas Simmet University of Ulm
Karla Kirkegaard
Karla Kirkegaard Stanford University
Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps
Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps University of Melbourne

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