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D-Index
71
Citations
18038
World Ranking
5545
National Ranking
1710

Olaf S. Andersen publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olaf S. Andersen sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 295 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Olaf S. Andersen D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Olaf S. Andersen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Olaf S. Andersen is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Their research focuses primarily on Molecular Biology, with additional work in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Pharmacology, and Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics.

Their published works address a variety of scientific topics, including:

  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Health and Medical Research Impacts
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities
  • Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Olaf S. Andersen include:

  • Cannabidiol inhibits the skeletal muscle Nav1.4 by blocking its pore and by altering membrane elasticity (2021), published in The Journal of General Physiology
  • First-generation physician-scientists are under-represented and need better support (2021), published in Nature Medicine
  • Synthesis and evaluation of resveratrol derivatives as fetal hemoglobin inducers (2020), published in Bioorganic Chemistry
  • Mechanisms underlying drug-mediated regulation of membrane protein function (2021), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Atomistic Characterization of Gramicidin Channel Formation (2020), published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Andersen in multiple publications include Radda Rusinova, Helgi I. Ingólfsson, R. Lea Sanford, Luke M. Cowan, and Peter R. Strege.

Olaf S. Andersen's publications have frequently appeared in the following venues:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of General Physiology
  • Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
  • Nature Medicine

Best Publications

  • Bilayer Thickness and Membrane Protein Function: An Energetic Perspective

    Olaf S. Andersen;Roger E. Koeppe

  • Energetics of ion conduction through the gramicidin channel

    Toby W. Allen;Olaf S. Andersen;Benoît Roux

  • The gramicidin a channel: A review of its permeability characteristics with special reference to the single-file aspect of transport

    Alan Finkelstein;Alan Finkelstein;Olaf Sparre Andersen;Olaf Sparre Andersen

  • Energetics of Inclusion-Induced Bilayer Deformations

    Claus Nielsen;Mark Goulian;Olaf S. Andersen

  • Lipid bilayer regulation of membrane protein function: gramicidin channels as molecular force probes

    Jens A. Lundbæk;Shemille A. Collingwood;Helgi I. Ingólfsson;Ruchi Kapoor

  • Bilayer-dependent inhibition of mechanosensitive channels by neuroactive peptide enantiomers.

    Thomas M. Suchyna;Sonya E. Tape;Roger E. Koeppe;Olaf S. Andersen

  • MEMBRANE STIFFNESS AND CHANNEL FUNCTION

    J. A. Lundbæk;P. Birn;J. Girshman;and A. J. Hansen

  • LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS MODULATE CHANNEL FUNCTION BY ALTERING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LIPID BILAYERS

    J A Lundbaek;O S Andersen

  • Effect of phloretin on the permeability of thin lipid membranes.

    Olaf Sparre Andersen;Olaf Sparre Andersen;Alan Finkelstein;Ira Katz;Ira Katz;Albert Cass;Albert Cass

  • Ion movement through gramicidin A channels. Single-channel measurements at very high potentials

    O.S. Andersen

  • Comment on "free energy simulations of single and double ion occupancy in gramicidin A"

    B Roux;O Andersen;T Allen

  • Regulation of sodium channel function by bilayer elasticity: the importance of hydrophobic coupling. Effects of Micelle-forming amphiphiles and cholesterol.

    Jens A. Lundbaek;Jens A. Lundbaek;P. I. A. Birn;Anker J. Hansen;Rikke Søgaard

  • Molecular determinants of channel function

    O. S. Andersen;R. E. Koeppe

  • Phytochemicals Perturb Membranes and Promiscuously Alter Protein Function

    Helgi I. Ingólfsson;Pratima Thakur;Karl F. Herold;E. Ashley Hobart

  • SURFACE CHARGES AND ION CHANNEL FUNCTION

    W N Green;O S Andersen

  • Kinetics of gramicidin channel formation in lipid bilayers: transmembrane monomer association.

    Anne M. O'Connell;Roger E. Koeppe;Olaf S. Andersen

  • Capsaicin Regulates Voltage-Dependent Sodium Channels by Altering Lipid Bilayer Elasticity

    Jens Lundbaek;P. Birn;S. E. Tape;Gilman E. S. Toombes

  • Novel Metallic Hollow Sphere Structures

    Olaf Andersen;Ulf Waag;Lothar Schneider;Günter Stephani

  • Are MD-PhD programs meeting their goals? An analysis of career choices made by graduates of 24 MD-PhD programs.

    Lawrence F. Brass;Myles H. Akabas;Linda D. Burnley;David M. Engman

  • The inhibitory effect of (-)-epigallocatechin gallate on activation of the epidermal growth factor receptor is associated with altered lipid order in HT29 colon cancer cells.

    Seiji Adachi;Tomokazu Nagao;Helgi I Ingolfsson;Frederick R Maxfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger E. Koeppe
Roger E. Koeppe University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Benoît Roux
Benoît Roux University of Chicago
Wonpil Im
Wonpil Im Lehigh University
Richard W. Pastor
Richard W. Pastor National Institutes of Health
William N. Green
William N. Green University of Chicago
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein Cornell University
Douglas B. Sawyer
Douglas B. Sawyer Maine Medical Center
Myles H. Akabas
Myles H. Akabas Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Frédéric Heitz
Frédéric Heitz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lawrence G. Palmer
Lawrence G. Palmer Cornell University

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