Sameer Velankar publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Sameer Velankar between 1994 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Sameer Velankar published across 32 years, from 1994 to 2025, averaging 6.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2023. 33 of the 201 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20 25

1994 2025

201 publications in total across all disciplines

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Sameer Velankar: publications per year, 1994 to 2025
Year	Publications
1994	1
1995	0
1996	0
1997	0
1998	0
1999	5
2000	0
2001	0
2002	2
2003	1
2004	3
2005	2
2006	0
2007	2
2008	0
2009	0
2010	3
2011	5
2012	4
2013	6
2014	2
2015	6
2016	8
2017	18
2018	15
2019	12
2020	11
2021	22
2022	14
2023	26
2024	14
2025	19
Total	201

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Sameer Velankar publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sameer Velankar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

50 100 150

47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 162 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
47–56	7
57–66	17
67–76	65
77–86	90
87–96	125
97–106	131
107–116	162
117–126	177
127–136	158
137–146	158
147–156	146
157–166	159	162
167–176	131
177–186	110
187–196	112
197–206	100
207–216	89
217–226	98
227–236	74
237–246	72
247–256	63
257–266	53
267–276	54
277–286	49
287–296	52
297–306	43
307–316	46
317–326	41
327–336	42
337–346	31
347–356	28
357–366	29
367–376	26
377–386	24
387–396	24
397–406	14
407–416	13
417–426	20
427–436	12
437–446	20
447–456	11
457–466	10
467–476	14
477–486	14
487–496	10
497–506	13
507–516	13
517–526	2
527–536	4
537–546	6
547–556	8
557–563	6
564+	100

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Sameer Velankar D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sameer Velankar sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

25 50 75 100 125

40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
40–41	36
42–43	101
44–45	115
46–47	121
48–49	118
50–51	130
52–53	106
54–55	116
56–57	113	57
58–59	129
60–61	120
62–63	105
64–65	131
66–67	95
68–69	97
70–71	106
72–73	83
74–75	89
76–77	77
78–79	70
80–81	73
82–83	60
84–85	48
86–87	45
88–89	50
90–91	31
92–93	51
94–95	43
96–97	38
98–99	39
100–101	41
102–103	29
104–105	33
106–107	35
108–109	20
110–111	38
112–113	19
114–115	28
116–117	13
118–119	23
120–121	16
122–123	15
124–125	11
126–127	21
128–129	7
130–131	13
132–133	14
134–135	17
136–137	9
138–139	8
140–141	16
142–143	7
144	7
145+	100

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Overview

Sameer Velankar is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

Their work spans several key topics including:

Protein Structure and Dynamics
Enzyme Structure and Function
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Some of the frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

Mihály Váradi
Sreenath Nair
S.K. Burley
Stephen Anyango
Genji Kurisu

They publish regularly in a range of scientific journals, with significant contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nucleic Acids Research
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
Journal of Molecular Biology
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome, 2021, Nature
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2024: providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
Mol* Viewer: modern web app for 3D visualization and analysis of large biomolecular structures, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

In addition to articles, Sameer Velankar has contributed to book publications, including works published by Frontiers Media such as the proceedings for the 11th international meeting on visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2021) released in 2022.

Best Publications

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models.

Mihaly Varadi;Stephen Anyango;Mandar Deshpande;Sreenath Nair

7802
Citations
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool;Jonas Adler;Zachary Wu;Tim Green

2993
Citations
Protein Data Bank (PDB): The Single Global Macromolecular Structure Archive.

Stephen K. Burley;Stephen K. Burley;Helen M. Berman;Gerard J. Kleywegt;John L. Markley

1151
Citations
Crystal structures of complexes of PcrA DNA helicase with a DNA substrate indicate an inchworm mechanism.

Sameer S Velankar;Panos Soultanas;Mark S Dillingham;Hosahalli S Subramanya

920
Citations
SIFTS: Structure Integration with Function, Taxonomy and Sequences resource

Sameer Velankar;Jose M. Dana;Julius O. B. Jacobsen;Glen van Ginkel

394
Citations
PSICQUIC and PSISCORE: accessing and scoring molecular interactions

Bruno Aranda;Hagen Blankenburg;Samuel Kerrien;Fiona S L Brinkman

328
Citations
PDBe: Protein Data Bank in Europe

S. Velankar;C. Best;B. Beuth;C. H. Boutselakis

323
Citations
EMDataBank.org: unified data resource for CryoEM

Catherine L. Lawson;Matthew L. Baker;Christoph Best;Chunxiao Bi

295
Citations
Validation of Structures in the Protein Data Bank

Swanand Gore;Eduardo Sanz García;Pieter M.S. Hendrickx;Aleksandras Gutmanas

264
Citations
Modeling protein-protein and protein-peptide complexes: CAPRI 6th edition.

Marc F. Lensink;Sameer Velankar;Shoshana J. Wodak

227
Citations
SIFTS: updated Structure Integration with Function, Taxonomy and Sequences resource allows 40-fold increase in coverage of structure-based annotations for proteins.

Jose M. Dana;Aleksandras Gutmanas;Nidhi Tyagi;Guoying Qi

221
Citations
Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop

Andrej Sali;Helen M. Berman;Torsten Schwede;Jill Trewhella

199
Citations
Remediation of the protein data bank archive

Kim Henrick;Zukang Feng;Wolfgang Bluhm;Dimitris Dimitropoulos

171
Citations
Prediction of homoprotein and heteroprotein complexes by protein docking and template-based modeling: A CASP-CAPRI experiment.

Marc F. Lensink;Sameer Velankar;Andriy Kryshtafovych;Shen You Huang

168
Citations
The chemical component dictionary: complete descriptions of constituent molecules in experimentally determined 3D macromolecules in the Protein Data Bank

John D. Westbrook;Chenghua Shao;Zukang Feng;Marina Zhuravleva

160
Citations
PDBe: improved accessibility of macromolecular structure data from PDB and EMDB

Sameer Velankar;Glen van Ginkel;Younes Alhroub;Gary M. Battle

142
Citations
Modeling protein‐protein, protein‐peptide, and protein‐oligosaccharide complexes: CAPRI 7th edition

Marc F. Lensink;Nurul Nadzirin;Sameer Velankar;Shoshana J. Wodak

141
Citations
DNA binding mediates conformational changes and metal ion coordination in the active site of PcrA helicase

Panos Soultanas;Mark S Dillingham;Sameer S Velankar;Dale B Wigley

139
Citations
Implementing an X-ray validation pipeline for the Protein Data Bank.

Swanand Gore;Sameer Velankar;Gerard J. Kleywegt

126
Citations
The complex portal - an encyclopaedia of macromolecular complexes

Birgit H.M. Meldal;Oscar Forner-Martinez;Maria C. Costanzo;Jose Dana

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gerard J. Kleywegt European Bioinformatics Institute

John L. Markley University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jaroslav Koča Central European Institute of Technology

John D. Westbrook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Haruki Nakamura Osaka University

Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Shoshana J. Wodak Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Christine A. Orengo University College London

Janet M. Thornton European Bioinformatics Institute

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