2026 Robert C. Ford: 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	53	16272	14945	1285	1188	183	9051

Overview

Robert C. Ford is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, their work further focuses on specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Oncology, Sociology and Political Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

Drug Transport and Resistance Mechanisms
DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques
Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
Trace Elements in Health
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research

Recent publications by Robert C. Ford include:

Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters, 2020, FEBS Letters
Five Steps to Leading Your Team in the Virtual COVID-19 Workplace, 2020, Organizational Dynamics
Qualitative Research via Focus Groups: Will Going Online Affect the Diversity of Your Findings?, 2020, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
ABCG2 requires a single aromatic amino acid to "clamp" substrates and inhibitors into the binding pocket, 2020, The FASEB Journal
A Guide to Conducting Online Focus Groups via Reddit, 2021, International Journal of Qualitative Methods

The scientist's frequent co-authors include:

Talha Shafi
Tomoka Gose
Yu Fukuda
J.A. Lynch
John D. Schuetz

In terms of publication venues, Robert C. Ford has multiple contributions to:

Organizational Dynamics
Nature Communications
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Academy of Management Proceedings
FEBS Letters

Best Publications

Structure of the Multidrug Resistance P-glycoprotein to 2.5 nm Resolution Determined by Electron Microscopy and Image Analysis

Mark F. Rosenberg;Richard Callaghan;Robert C. Ford;Christopher F. Higgins

519
Citations
Isolation of a photosystem 2 preparation from higher plants with highly enriched oxygen evolution activity

R.C. Ford;M.C.W. Evans

396
Citations
Repacking of the transmembrane domains of P‐glycoprotein during the transport ATPase cycle

Mark F. Rosenberg;Giles Velarde;Robert C. Ford;Catherine Martin

384
Citations
Three-dimensional Structures of the Mammalian Multidrug Resistance P-glycoprotein Demonstrate Major Conformational Changes in the Transmembrane Domains upon Nucleotide Binding *

Mark F. Rosenberg;Alhaji Bukar Kamis;Richard Callaghan;Christopher F. Higgins

302
Citations
Structural and functional diversity calls for a new classification of ABC transporters.

Christoph Thomas;Stephen G. Aller;Konstantinos Beis;Konstantinos Beis;Elisabeth P. Carpenter

264
Citations
Three-dimensional Structure of P-glycoprotein THE TRANSMEMBRANE REGIONS ADOPT AN ASYMMETRIC CONFIGURATION IN THE NUCLEOTIDE-BOUND STATE

Mark F. Rosenberg;Richard Callaghan;Szabolcs Modok;Christopher F. Higgins

259
Citations
Detergent-free purification of ABC (ATP-binding-cassette) transporters

Sonali Gulati;Mohammed Jamshad;Timothy J Knowles;Kerrie A Morrison

246
Citations
3-D structural and functional characterization of the purified KATP channel complex Kir6.2–SUR1

Michael V Mikhailov;Jeff D Campbell;Heidi de Wet;Kenju Shimomura

218
Citations
The structure of the multidrug resistance protein 1 (MRP1/ABCC1). crystallization and single-particle analysis.

Mark F. Rosenberg;Qingcheng Mao;Andreas Holzenburg;Robert C. Ford

207
Citations
Purification and Crystallization of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR)

Mark F. Rosenberg;Alhaji Bukar Kamis;Luba A. Aleksandrov;Robert C. Ford

199
Citations
Structure of the multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein

Christopher F. Higgins;Richard Callaghan;Kenneth J. Linton;Mark F. Rosenberg

185
Citations
Purification and 3D Structural Analysis of Oligomeric Human Multidrug Transporter ABCG2

Christopher A. McDevitt;Richard F. Collins;Michael Conway;Szabolcs Modok

176
Citations
The 3D structure of a periplasm-spanning platform required for assembly of group 1 capsular polysaccharides in Escherichia coli

Richard F. Collins;Konstantinos Beis;Changjiang Dong;Catherine H. Botting

172
Citations
Structure of the Neisseria meningitidis outer membrane PilQ secretin complex at 12 A resolution.

Richard F. Collins;Stephan A. Frye;Ashraf Kitmitto;Robert C. Ford

172
Citations
Regulatory R region of the CFTR chloride channel is a dynamic integrator of phospho-dependent intra- and intermolecular interactions

Zoltan Bozoky;Mickael Krzeminski;Ranjith Muhandiram;James R. Birtley

171
Citations
Analysis of the PilQ Secretin from Neisseria meningitidis by Transmission Electron Microscopy Reveals a Dodecameric Quaternary Structure

Richard F. Collins;Linn Davidsen;Jeremy P. Derrick;Robert C. Ford

168
Citations
The translocation mechanism of P-glycoprotein

Richard Callaghan;Robert C. Ford;Ian D. Kerr

137
Citations
CFTR structure and cystic fibrosis.

Natasha Cant;Naomi Pollock;Robert C Ford

132
Citations
Learning the ABCs one at a time: structure and mechanism of ABC transporters.

Robert C. Ford;Konstantinos Beis;Konstantinos Beis

129
Citations
Three-dimensional structure of photosystem II

Andreas Holzenburg;Maria C. Bewley;Fiona H. Wilson;William V. Nicholson

125
Citations