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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
83
Citations
37301
World Ranking
3431
National Ranking
56

Peter Tompa 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 Peter Tompa sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 319 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Tompa 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 Peter Tompa sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Peter Tompa is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, with significant work also in materials chemistry, neurology, cell biology, and spectroscopy. The scientist's main topics of study revolve around protein structure and dynamics, RNA research and splicing, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, enzyme structure and function, RNA modifications and cancer, bioinformatics and genomic networks, as well as ubiquitin and proteasome pathways.

Their publication record includes several notable papers, such as:

  • Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction, 2021, Nature Methods
  • DisProt in 2022: improved quality and accessibility of protein intrinsic disorder annotation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • PED in 2021: a major update of the protein ensemble database for intrinsically disordered proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • A generic approach to study the kinetics of liquid-liquid phase separation under near-native conditions, 2021, Communications Biology

The frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Protein Science
  • Communications Biology
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Peter Tompa has collaborated with a number of co-authors over their career, frequently working alongside Tamás Lázár, Rita Pancsa, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, Attila Mészáros, and Ágnes Tantos.

In recognition of their contributions, Peter Tompa was named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Peter Tompa

  • Classification of intrinsically disordered regions and proteins.

    Robin van der Lee;Robin van der Lee;Marija Buljan;Benjamin Lang;Robert J. Weatheritt

  • IUPred: web server for the prediction of intrinsically unstructured regions of proteins based on estimated energy content

    Zsuzsanna Dosztányi;Veronika Csizmok;Peter Tompa;István Simon

  • Protein Phase Separation: A New Phase in Cell Biology.

    Steven Boeynaems;Steven Boeynaems;Simon Alberti;Nicolas L. Fawzi;Tanja Mittag

  • Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions

    Clifford P. Brangwynne;Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Rohit V. Pappu

  • Fuzzy complexes: polymorphism and structural disorder in protein-protein interactions.

    Peter Tompa;Monika Fuxreiter

  • The pairwise energy content estimated from amino acid composition discriminates between folded and intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Zsuzsanna Dosztányi;Veronika Csizmók;Péter Tompa;István Simon

  • DisProt: the Database of Disordered Proteins

    Megan Sickmeier;Justin A. Hamilton;Tanguy LeGall;Vladimir Vacic

  • The interplay between structure and function in intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Peter Tompa

  • Introducing Protein Intrinsic Disorder.

    Johnny Habchi;Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Sonia Longhi;Sonia Longhi;Vladimir N. Uversky;Vladimir N. Uversky

  • Intrinsically disordered proteins: a 10-year recap

    Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa

  • The role of structural disorder in the function of RNA and protein chaperones

    Peter Tompa;Peter Csermely

  • Preformed structural elements feature in partner recognition by intrinsically unstructured proteins.

    Monika Fuxreiter;István Simon;Peter Friedrich;Peter Tompa

  • Structural disorder throws new light on moonlighting

    Peter Tompa;Csilla Szász;László Buday

  • Phase Separation of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats Perturbs Stress Granule Dynamics

    Steven Boeynaems;Elke Bogaert;Denes Kovacs;Albert Konijnenberg

  • A Million Peptide Motifs for the Molecular Biologist

    Peter Tompa;Peter Tompa;Norman E. Davey;Toby J. Gibson;M. Madan Babu

  • Local structural disorder imparts plasticity on linear motifs

    Monika Fuxreiter;Peter Tompa;István Simon

  • Chaperone activity of ERD10 and ERD14, two disordered stress-related plant proteins.

    Denes Kovacs;Eva Kalmar;Zsolt Torok;Peter Tompa

  • Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein-RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties.

    Steven Boeynaems;Alex S. Holehouse;Venera Weinhardt;Venera Weinhardt;Denes Kovacs

  • Unstructural biology coming of age.

    Peter Tompa

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir N. Uversky
Vladimir N. Uversky University of South Florida
Wim F. Vranken
Wim F. Vranken Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Monika Fuxreiter
Monika Fuxreiter University of Padua
A. Keith Dunker
A. Keith Dunker Indiana University
István Simon
István Simon Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Silvio C. E. Tosatto University of Padua
Isabella C. Felli
Isabella C. Felli University of Florence
Roberta Pierattelli
Roberta Pierattelli University of Florence
András Perczel
András Perczel Eötvös Loránd University

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