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Molecular Biology

D-Index
144
Citations
70253
World Ranking
106
National Ranking
69

Scott D. Emr 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 Scott D. Emr sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 279 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott D. Emr 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 Scott D. Emr sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 144 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
  • 2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Scott D. Emr is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has published extensively in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses primarily on Cell Biology, with significant contributions also in Molecular Biology, Physiology, Sensory Systems, and Immunology.

The scientist's main topics of study include:

  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Ion Channels and Receptors

Scott D. Emr has published in several well-known scientific journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Trends in Cell Biology (8 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • eLife (3 publications)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Cell Science (1 publication)

A selection of recent papers includes:

  • "Membrane Protein Quality Control Mechanisms in the Endo-Lysosome System," 2021, Trends in Cell Biology
  • "The Hob proteins are novel and conserved lipid-binding proteins at ER-PM contact sites," 2021, Journal of Cell Science
  • "A PX-BAR protein Mvp1/SNX8 and a dynamin-like GTPase Vps1 drive endosomal recycling," 2021, eLife
  • "ESCRT-III and ER-PM contacts maintain lipid homeostasis," 2020, Molecular Biology of the Cell
  • "Recruitment and organization of ESCRT-0 and ubiquitinated cargo via condensation," 2022, Science Advances

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • S. Suzuki
  • Ilaria Carnevale
  • J. Bakker
  • Patrick Scheffmann
  • Nihal Alton-Bonnet

Scott D. Emr has received recognition through several awards, such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1999)

Best Publications

  • Autophagy as a Regulated Pathway of Cellular Degradation

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Scott D. Emr

  • Ubiquitin-dependent sorting into the multivesicular body pathway requires the function of a conserved endosomal protein sorting complex, ESCRT-I.

    David J. Katzmann;Markus Babst;Scott D. Emr

  • A Unified Nomenclature for Yeast Autophagy-Related Genes

    Daniel J. Klionsky;James M. Cregg;William A Dunn;Scott D. Emr

  • A new vital stain for visualizing vacuolar membrane dynamics and endocytosis in yeast

    T A Vida;S D Emr

  • Receptor downregulation and multivesicular-body sorting

    David J. Katzmann;Greg Odorizzi;Scott D. Emr

  • The ESCRT Pathway

    William M. Henne;Nicholas J. Buchkovich;Scott D. Emr

  • Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase encoded by yeast VPS34 gene essential for protein sorting

    Peter V. Schu;Kaoru Takegawa;Michael J. Fry;Jeffrey H. Stack

  • Protein sorting in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: isolation of mutants defective in the delivery and processing of multiple vacuolar hydrolases

    Jane S. Robinson;Daniel J. Klionsky;Lois M. Banta;Scott D. Emr

  • Escrt-III: an endosome-associated heterooligomeric protein complex required for mvb sorting.

    Markus Babst;David J. Katzmann;Eden J. Estepa-Sabal;Timo Meerloo

  • Coatomer is essential for retrieval of dilysine-tagged proteins to the endoplasmic reticulum

    François Letourneur;Erin C. Gaynor;Silke Hennecke;Corinne Démollière

  • The fungal vacuole: composition, function, and biogenesis.

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Paul K. Herman;Scott D. Emr

  • The Vps4p AAA ATPase regulates membrane association of a Vps protein complex required for normal endosome function

    Markus Babst;Beverly Wendland;Eden J. Estepa;Scott D. Emr

  • Phosphoinositides as Regulators in Membrane Traffic

    Pietro De Camilli;Scott D. Emr;Peter S. McPherson;Peter Novick

  • A Membrane Coat Complex Essential for Endosome-to-Golgi Retrograde Transport in Yeast

    Matthew N.J. Seaman;J. Michael McCaffery;Scott D. Emr

  • Endosome-Associated Complex, ESCRT-II, Recruits Transport Machinery for Protein Sorting at the Multivesicular Body

    Markus Babst;David J. Katzmann;William B. Snyder;Beverly Wendland

  • Fab1p PtdIns(3)P 5-kinase function essential for protein sorting in the multivesicular body

    Greg Odorizzi;Markus Babst;Scott D Emr

  • The ESCRT complexes: structure and mechanism of a membrane-trafficking network.

    James H. Hurley;Scott D. Emr

  • The sorting receptor for yeast vacuolar carboxypeptidase Y is encoded by the VPS10 gene

    Eric G. Marcusson;Bruce F. Horazdovsky;Joan Lin Cereghino;Editte Gharakhanian

  • Phosphatidylinositol(3)-Phosphate Signaling Mediated by Specific Binding to RING FYVE Domains

    Christopher G Burd;Scott D Emr

  • The role of phosphoinositides in membrane transport.

    Anne Simonsen;Andrew E Wurmser;Scott D Emr;Harald Stenmark

Frequent Co-Authors

Anjon Audhya
Anjon Audhya University of Wisconsin–Madison
Thomas J. Silhavy
Thomas J. Silhavy Princeton University
Christopher G. Burd
Christopher G. Burd Yale University
Todd R. Graham
Todd R. Graham Vanderbilt University
Daniel J. Klionsky
Daniel J. Klionsky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dmitry B. Veprintsev
Dmitry B. Veprintsev University of Nottingham
Beverly Wendland
Beverly Wendland Johns Hopkins University
Jeremy Thorner
Jeremy Thorner University of California, Berkeley
Roger L. Williams
Roger L. Williams University of Cambridge
Olga Perisic
Olga Perisic MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

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