2026 Samuel A. Safran: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	80	2683	2590	17	17	272	24512

Samuel A. Safran publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samuel A. Safran sits on this spectrum.

50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 272 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Samuel A. Safran D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Samuel A. Safran sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the application of statistical physics to the understanding of complex materials such as intercalation compounds and microemulsions

Overview

Samuel A. Safran is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their primary field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions spanning 87 publications. Within this domain, their research emphasizes Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Physiology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, including:

RNA Research and Splicing
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Nuclear Structure and Function
RNA modifications and cancer
Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology

Frequently publishing in specialized venues, Samuel A. Safran has a notable number of papers in these journals and platforms:

Biophysical Journal (14 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (11 publications)
Physical Review Letters (4 publications)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 publications)
The Biophysicist (3 publications)

Key recent papers by the scientist include:

Designer protein assemblies with tunable phase diagrams in living cells, 2020, Nature Chemical Biology
Live imaging of chromatin distribution reveals novel principles of nuclear architecture and chromatin compartmentalization, 2021, Science Advances
Physical theory of biological noise buffering by multicomponent phase separation, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Mesoscale phase separation of chromatin in the nucleus, 2021, eLife
Balance of osmotic pressures determines the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic volume ratio of the cell, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Samuel A. Safran has collaborated extensively with other researchers, including:

Gaurav Bajpai (20 co-authored works)
Dana Lorber (11 co-authored works)
Talila Volk (11 co-authored works)
Dan Deviri (9 co-authored works)
Daria Amiad Pavlov (8 co-authored works)

Among recognitions, Samuel A. Safran was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1989 for contributions to applying statistical physics to complex materials such as intercalation compounds and microemulsions.

Best Publications

Force and focal adhesion assembly: a close relationship studied using elastic micropatterned substrates

Nathalie Q. Balaban;Ulrich S. Schwarz;Daniel Riveline;Polina Goichberg

2631
Citations
Statistical Thermodynamics Of Surfaces, Interfaces, And Membranes

Samuel A. Safran

1866
Citations
Dynamical fluctuations of droplet microemulsions and vesicles

Scott Thomas Milner;S. A. Safran

712
Citations
Metabolic remodeling of the human red blood cell membrane

YongKeun Park;Catherine A. Best;Thorsten Auth;Nir S. Gov

480
Citations
Calculation of Forces at Focal Adhesions from Elastic Substrate Data: The Effect of Localized Force and the Need for Regularization

Ulrich S Schwarz;Ulrich S Schwarz;N Q Balaban;N Q Balaban;D Riveline;D Riveline;Alexander D Bershadsky

462
Citations
Fingering Instabilities of Driven Spreading Films

S. M. Troian;E. Herbolzheimer;S. A. Safran;J. F. Joanny

448
Citations
Molecular theory of curvature elasticity in surfactant films

Igal Szleifer;Diego Kramer;Avinoam Ben‐Shaul;William M. Gelbart

446
Citations
Optimal matrix rigidity for stress fiber polarization in stem cells.

A. Zemel;F. Rehfeldt;F. Rehfeldt;A. E. X. Brown;D. E. Discher

446
Citations
Physics of adherent cells

Ulrich S. Schwarz;Samuel A. Safran

417
Citations
Theory of spontaneous vesicle formation in surfactant mixtures.

S. A. Safran;P. Pincus;David Andelman

417
Citations
Capillary instabilities in thin films. I. Energetics

D. J. Srolovitz;S. A. Safran

412
Citations
Red blood cell membrane fluctuations and shape controlled by ATP-induced cytoskeletal defects.

N.S. Gov;S.A. Safran

373
Citations
Defect-induced phase separation in dipolar fluids.

T. Tlusty;S. A. Safran

357
Citations
Membrane-induced interactions between inclusions

N. Dan;P. Pincus;S. A. Safran

320
Citations
Cell mechanosensitivity controls the anisotropy of focal adhesions

Alice Nicolas;Benjamin Geiger;Samuel A. Safran

315
Citations
Kinetics of ordering in two dimensions. II. Quenched systems

Paramdeep S. Sahni;David J. Srolovitz;Gary S. Grest;Michael P. Anderson

308
Citations
Phase Diagrams for Microemulsions

S. A. Safran;L. A. Turkevich

303
Citations
Capillary instabilities in thin films. II. Kinetics

D. J. Srolovitz;S. A. Safran

289
Citations
Attractive Interactions in Micelles and Microemulsions

J. S. Huang;S. A. Safran;M. W. Kim;G. S. Grest

285
Citations
Stability and Phase Behavior of Mixed Surfactant Vesicles

S. A. Safran;P. A. Pincus;David Andelman;F. C. MacKintosh

283
Citations
Physics of complex and supermolecular fluids

Samuel A. Safran;Noel A. Clark;Supermolecular Fluids

279
Citations