2026 Nils G. Walter: Chemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Chemistry	66	7355	6671	2177	1802	241	14343
Biology and Biochemistry	69	7432	6851	3390	3043	285	16191

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nils G. Walter is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of contributions in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics, and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA modifications and cancer
RNA Research and Splicing
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to several scientific venues, notably:

Biophysical Journal
Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Journal of Biological Chemistry

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Nils G. Walter include:

Multivalent Proteins Rapidly and Reversibly Phase-Separate upon Osmotic Cell Volume Change (2020, Molecular Cell)
A translational riboswitch coordinates nascent transcription-translation coupling (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Direct kinetic fingerprinting and digital counting of single protein molecules (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
Transcriptional Riboswitches Integrate Timescales for Bacterial Gene Expression Control (2021, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences)
Direct Kinetic Fingerprinting for High-Accuracy Single-Molecule Counting of Diverse Disease Biomarkers (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)

Nils G. Walter collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

Adrien Chauvier
Alexander Johnson-Buck
Guoming Gao
Muneesh Tewari
Liuhan Dai

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2011.

Best Publications

Molecular robots guided by prescriptive landscapes

Kyle Lund;Anthony J. Manzo;Nadine Dabby;Nicole Michelotti

1078
Citations
Correlating Structural Dynamics and Function in Single Ribozyme Molecules

Xiaowei Zhuang;Harold Kim;Miguel J. B. Pereira;Hazen P. Babcock

639
Citations
RNA Structural Dynamics As Captured by Molecular Simulations: A Comprehensive Overview.

Jiří Šponer;Giovanni Bussi;Miroslav Krepl;Miroslav Krepl;Pavel Banáš

601
Citations
The hammerhead, hairpin and VS ribozymes are catalytically proficient in monovalent cations alone

James B. Murray;Attila A. Seyhan;Nils G. Walter;John M. Burke

540
Citations
Multi-enzyme complexes on DNA scaffolds capable of substrate channelling with an artificial swinging arm

Jinglin Fu;Yuhe Renee Yang;Alexander Johnson-Buck;Minghui Liu

501
Citations
Nanocaged enzymes with enhanced catalytic activity and increased stability against protease digestion.

Zhao Zhao;Jinglin Fu;Soma Dhakal;Alexander Johnson-Buck

435
Citations
Do-it-yourself guide: How to use the modern single molecule toolkit

Nils G. Walter;Cheng Yen Huang;Anthony J. Manzo;Mohamed A. Sobhy

430
Citations
Damage-induced lncRNAs control the DNA damage response through interaction with DDRNAs at individual double-strand breaks

Flavia Michelini;Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya;Valerio Vitelli;Sheetal Sharma

404
Citations
RNA dynamics: It is about time

Hashim M Al-Hashimi;Nils G Walter

397
Citations
Single-molecule transition-state analysis of RNA folding

Gregory Bokinsky;David Rueda;Vinod K. Misra;Maria M. Rhodes

267
Citations
Purification and Functional Reconstitution of Monomeric μ-Opioid Receptors ALLOSTERIC MODULATION OF AGONIST BINDING BY Gi2

Adam J. Kuszak;Sethuramasundaram Pitchiaya;Jessica P. Anand;Henry I. Mosberg

223
Citations
Stability of hairpin ribozyme tertiary structure is governed by the interdomain junction

Nils G. Walter;John M. Burke;David P. Millar

218
Citations
Tertiary structure formation in the hairpin ribozyme monitored by fluorescence resonance energy transfer

Nils G. Walter;Ken J. Hampel;Kirk M. Brown;John M. Burke

214
Citations
Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics of RNA: Conformational and Chemical Change We Can Believe In

Mark A. Ditzler;Michal Otyepka;Michal Otyepka;Jiřì Šponer;Nils G. Walter

200
Citations
ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX SINGLE-MOLECULE FRET TIME TRAJECTORIES

Mario Blanco;Nils G. Walter

193
Citations
Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance.

David Rueda;Gregory Bokinsky;Maria M. Rhodes;Michael J. Rust

191
Citations
Spliceosomal DEAH-Box ATPases Remodel Pre-mRNA to Activate Alternative Splice Sites.

Daniel R. Semlow;Mario R. Blanco;Nils G. Walter;Jonathan P. Staley

180
Citations
The hairpin ribozyme: Structure, assembly and catalysis

Nils G Walter;John M Burke

176
Citations
Quantitative Hybridization Kinetics of DNA Probes to RNA in Solution Followed by Diffusional Fluorescence Correlation Analysis

Petra Schwille;Frank Oehlenschläger;Nils G. Walter

173
Citations
Kinetic fingerprinting to identify and count single nucleic acids

Alexander Johnson-Buck;Xin Su;Maria D Giraldez;Meiping Zhao

170
Citations
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of RNA: An In Silico Single Molecule Approach

S. Elizabeth McDowell;Nad'a Špačková;Jiří Šponer;Nils G. Walter

165
Citations