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Neocles B. Leontis 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 Neocles B. Leontis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 131 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Neocles B. Leontis 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 Neocles B. Leontis sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Neocles B. Leontis is affiliated with Bowling Green State University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work in agricultural and biological sciences.

Their main subfields of study include molecular biology, plant science, and endocrinology, with further contributions in materials chemistry and ecology. The scientist's research topics center around mechanisms of RNA and protein synthesis, plant virus research studies, and plant and fungal interactions. Additional focus areas involve protein structure and dynamics, enzyme structure and function, plant disease resistance and genetics, as well as bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Neocles B. Leontis's recent publications reflect these areas of expertise and include the following papers:

  • An RNA-centric historical narrative around the Protein Data Bank, 2021, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Functional analysis reveals G/U pairs critical for replication and trafficking of an infectious non-coding viroid RNA, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • RNA-Puzzles: A CASP-like evaluation of RNA three-dimensional structure prediction, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Context-sensitivity of isosteric substitutions of non-Watson-Crick basepairs in recurrent RNA 3D motifs, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Sharing and archiving nucleic acid structure mapping data, 2020, UNC Libraries

The venues where Neocles B. Leontis frequently publishes include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • PLoS Pathogens

The scientist collaborates often with the following co-authors:

  • Craig L. Zirbel
  • David M. Bisaro
  • Biao Ding
  • Jian Wu
  • Cuiji Zhou

Best Publications

  • The OBO Foundry : coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration

    Barry Smith;Michael Ashburner;Cornelius Rosse;Jonathan Bard

  • Geometric nomenclature and classification of RNA base pairs.

    Neocles B. Leontis;Eric Westhof

  • The non‐Watson–Crick base pairs and their associated isostericity matrices

    Neocles B. Leontis;Jesse Stombaugh;Eric Westhof

  • The building blocks and motifs of RNA architecture.

    Neocles B Leontis;Aurelie Lescoute;Eric Westhof

  • Analysis of RNA motifs.

    Neocles B Leontis;Eric Westhof

  • Tools for the automatic identification and classification of RNA base pairs

    Huanwang Yang;Fabrice Jossinet;Neocles Leontis;Li Chen

  • FR3D: finding local and composite recurrent structural motifs in RNA 3D structures.

    Michael Sarver;Craig L. Zirbel;Jesse Stombaugh;Ali Mokdad

  • TectoRNA: modular assembly units for the construction of RNA nano-objects

    Luc Jaeger;Eric Westhof;Neocles B. Leontis

  • RNA-Puzzles: A CASP-like evaluation of RNA three-dimensional structure prediction

    José Almeida Cruz;Marc Frédérick Blanchet;Michal Boniecki;Janusz M. Bujnicki;Janusz M. Bujnicki

  • Recurrent Structural RNA Motifs, Isostericity Matrices and Sequence Alignments

    Aurélie Lescoute;Neocles B. Leontis;Christian Massire;Eric Westhof

  • Frequency and isostericity of RNA base pairs

    Jesse Stombaugh;Craig L. Zirbel;Eric Westhof;Neocles B. Leontis

  • A common motif organizes the structure of multi-helix loops in 16 S and 23 S ribosomal RNAs

    Neocles B Leontis;Eric Westhof

  • Tecto‐RNA: One‐Dimensional Self‐Assembly through Tertiary Interactions

    Luc Jaeger;Neocles B. Leontis

  • The Nucleic Acid Database: new features and capabilities

    Buvaneswari Coimbatore Narayanan;John D. Westbrook;Saheli Ghosh;Anton I. Petrov

  • Classification and energetics of the base-phosphate interactions in RNA

    Craig L. Zirbel;Judit E. Šponer;Jiri Šponer;Jesse Stombaugh

  • Molecular modeling of nucleic acids

    Neocles B. Leontis;John SantaLucia

  • Conserved geometrical base-pairing patterns in RNA

    Neocles B. Leontis;Eric Westhof

  • Automated classification of RNA 3D motifs and the RNA 3D Motif Atlas

    Anton I. Petrov;Craig L. Zirbel;Neocles B. Leontis

  • Non-Watson-Crick Basepairing and Hydration in RNA Motifs: Molecular Dynamics of 5S rRNA Loop E

    Kamila Réblová;Nad’a Špačková;Richard Štefl;Kristina Csaszar

  • RNAML: a standard syntax for exchanging RNA information.

    Allison Waugh;Patrick Gendron;Russ Altman;James W. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Westhof
Eric Westhof University of Strasbourg
Jiří Šponer
Jiří Šponer Masaryk University
Jaroslav Koča
Jaroslav Koča Central European Institute of Technology
Biao Ding
Biao Ding The Ohio State University
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
David G. Gorenstein
David G. Gorenstein The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Peter B. Moore
Peter B. Moore Yale University
John D. Westbrook
John D. Westbrook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christopher J. Mungall
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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