2026 Ozlem Keskin: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	57	13650	12550	10	10	219	14540

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Turkey Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Turkey Leader Award
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Computational Biology
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Computational Biology
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Computational Biology

Overview

Ozlem Keskin is affiliated with Koç University in Turkey and has a research focus that spans several interconnected fields within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work contributes to understanding structural and computational aspects of biological systems, especially related to protein dynamics and interactions.

Their main fields of study include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine

Within these, they have concentrated on subfields such as:

Molecular Biology
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Materials Chemistry
Neurology
Cell Biology

The primary topics addressed in Keskin's research encompass:

Protein Structure and Dynamics
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Protein Kinase Regulation and GTPase Signaling
Reproductive tract infections research
Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease

They have contributed extensively to scientific literature with notable recent papers including:

Androgen receptor-binding sites are highly mutated in prostate cancer, 2020, published in Nature Communications
Neuropsychiatric Symptoms of COVID-19 Explained by SARS-CoV-2 Proteins' Mimicry of Human Protein Interactions, 2021, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Beyond the heterodimer model for mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptor interactions in nuclei and at DNA, 2020, PLoS ONE
HMI-PRED: A Web Server for Structural Prediction of Host-Microbe Interactions Based on Interface Mimicry, 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology
Artificial intelligence based methods for hot spot prediction, 2021, Current Opinion in Structural Biology

The frequent coauthors working with Keskin include:

Attila Gürsoy
Simge Senyuz
Ruth Nussinov
Hyunbum Jang
Melisa Ece Zeylan

Keskin's work has appeared often in respected research venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Molecular Biology
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Biophysical Journal

Recognition for their contributions includes receiving an award from The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi for Computational Biology.

Best Publications

Anisotropy of Fluctuation Dynamics of Proteins with an Elastic Network Model

A.R. Atilgan;S.R. Durell;R.L. Jernigan;M.C. Demirel

1936
Citations
Principles of Protein−Protein Interactions: What are the Preferred Ways For Proteins To Interact?

Ozlem Keskin;Attila Gursoy;Buyong Ma;Ruth Nussinov

848
Citations
Hot Regions in Protein-Protein Interactions: The Organization and Contribution of Structurally Conserved Hot Spot Residues

Ozlem Keskin;Buyong Ma;Ruth Nussinov;Ruth Nussinov

658
Citations
Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions from the Molecular to the Proteome Level

Ozlem Keskin;Nurcan Tuncbag;Attila Gursoy

399
Citations
Identification of computational hot spots in protein interfaces

Nurcan Tuncbag;Attila Gursoy;Ozlem Keskin

357
Citations
Transient protein-protein interactions

Saliha Ece Acuner Ozbabacan;Hatice Billur Engin;Attila Gursoy;Ozlem Keskin

345
Citations
Ras Conformational Ensembles, Allostery, and Signaling.

Shaoyong Lu;Shaoyong Lu;Hyunbum Jang;Serena Muratcioglu;Attila Gursoy

336
Citations
Predicting protein-protein interactions on a proteome scale by matching evolutionary and structural similarities at interfaces using PRISM

Nurcan Tuncbag;Attila Gursoy;Ruth Nussinov;Ruth Nussinov;Ozlem Keskin

316
Citations
Human Cancer Protein-Protein Interaction Network: A Structural Perspective

Gozde Kar;Attila Gursoy;Ozlem Keskin

288
Citations
A new, structurally nonredundant, diverse data set of protein–protein interfaces and its implications

Ozlem Keskin;Ozlem Keskin;Chung-Jung Tsai;Haim Wolfson;Ruth Nussinov;Ruth Nussinov

274
Citations
PRISM: protein interactions by structural matching.

Utkan Ogmen;Ozlem Keskin;A. Selim Aytuna;Ruth Nussinov

260
Citations
Protein-protein interactions: hot spots and structurally conserved residues often locate in complemented pockets that pre-organized in the unbound states: implications for docking.

Xiang Li;Ozlem Keskin;Ozlem Keskin;Buyong Ma;Ruth Nussinov;Ruth Nussinov

259
Citations
Prediction of protein–protein interactions by combining structure and sequence conservation in protein interfaces

A. Selim Aytuna;Attila Gursoy;Ozlem Keskin

248
Citations
HotPoint: hot spot prediction server for protein interfaces

Nurcan Tuncbag;Ozlem Keskin;Attila Gursoy

243
Citations
GTP-Dependent K-Ras Dimerization

Serena Muratcioglu;Tanmay S. Chavan;Benjamin C. Freed;Hyunbum Jang

224
Citations
Oxidative stress and genetic and epidemiologic determinants of oxidant injury in childhood asthma

Hulya Ercan;Esra Birben;Evrim A. Dizdar;Ozlem Keskin

221
Citations
PRISM: a web server and repository for prediction of protein–protein interactions and modeling their 3D complexes

Alper Baspinar;Engin Cukuroglu;Ruth Nussinov;Ozlem Keskin

218
Citations
Allostery and population shift in drug discovery

Gozde Kar;Ozlem Keskin;Attila Gursoy;Ruth Nussinov;Ruth Nussinov

210
Citations
A survey of available tools and web servers for analysis of protein–protein interactions and interfaces

Nurcan Tuncbag;Gozde Kar;Ozlem Keskin;Attila Gursoy

205
Citations
Proteins with Similar Architecture Exhibit Similar Large-Scale Dynamic Behavior

O. Keskin;R.L. Jernigan;I. Bahar;I. Bahar

203
Citations