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D-Index
90
Citations
67932
World Ranking
2375
National Ranking
1265

Steven Finkbeiner 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 Steven Finkbeiner sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 246 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven Finkbeiner 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 Steven Finkbeiner sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Steven Finkbeiner is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine. The main fields of study encompass biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and medicine. Subfields include molecular biology, neurology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, and biophysics.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to genetic neurodegenerative diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, neurogenetic and muscular disorders research, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments. Other notable topics include cell image analysis techniques, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and pluripotent stem cells research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Steven Finkbeiner are Julia Kaye, Leslie M. Thompson, Ernest Fraenkel, Dhruv Sareen, and Hemali Phatnani.

Steven Finkbeiner has contributed numerous papers to various respected journals. Recent publications include:

  • TDP-43 loss and ALS-risk SNPs drive mis-splicing and depletion of UNC13A, 2022, Nature
  • Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • Answer ALS, a large-scale resource for sporadic and familial ALS combining clinical and multi-omics data from induced pluripotent cell lines, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Identification of sixteen novel candidate genes for late onset Parkinson's disease, 2021, Molecular Neurodegeneration

The scientist has published frequently in several venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Stem Cell Research.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Amal Kamal Abdel-Aziz;Sara Abdelfatah;Mahmoud Abdellatif

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Glutamate induces calcium waves in cultured astrocytes: long-range glial signaling

    Ann H. Cornell-Bell;Steven M. Finkbeiner;Mark S. Cooper;Stephen J. Smith

  • Inclusion body formation reduces levels of mutant huntingtin and the risk of neuronal death

    Montserrat Arrasate;Siddhartha Mitra;Erik S. Schweitzer;Mark R. Segal

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Huntingtin Acts in the Nucleus to Induce Apoptosis but Death Does Not Correlate with the Formation of Intranuclear Inclusions

    Frédéric Saudou;Steven Finkbeiner;Steven Finkbeiner;Didier Devys;Michael E Greenberg;Michael E Greenberg

  • Aberrant Excitatory Neuronal Activity and Compensatory Remodeling of Inhibitory Hippocampal Circuits in Mouse Models of Alzheimer's Disease

    Jorge J. Palop;Jeannie Chin;Erik D. Roberson;Jun Wang

  • Ca2+ Influx Regulates BDNF Transcription by a CREB Family Transcription Factor-Dependent Mechanism

    Xu Tao;Steven Finkbeiner;Donald B. Arnold;Adam J. Shaywitz

  • CREB: A Major Mediator of Neuronal Neurotrophin Responses

    Steven Finkbeiner;Sohail F Tavazoie;Anna Maloratsky;Kori M Jacobs

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Direct Membrane Association Drives Mitochondrial Fission by the Parkinson Disease-associated Protein α-Synuclein

    Ken Nakamura;Venu M. Nemani;Farnaz Azarbal;Gaia Skibinski

  • Genome-wide Analyses Identify KIF5A as a Novel ALS Gene.

    Aude Nicolas;Kevin P. Kenna;Alan E. Renton;Alan E. Renton;Nicola Ticozzi

  • CREB couples neurotrophin signals to survival messages.

    Steven Finkbeiner

  • Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Patients with Huntington’s Disease : Show CAG Repeat-Expansion-Associated Phenotypes

    Virginia B. Mattis;Soshana P. Svendsen;Allison Ebert;Clive N. Svendsen

  • The IGF-1/Akt Pathway Is Neuroprotective in Huntington's Disease and Involves Huntingtin Phosphorylation by Akt

    Sandrine Humbert;Elzbieta A. Bryson;Fabrice P. Cordelières;Nathan C. Connors

  • Cytoplasmic Mislocalization of TDP-43 Is Toxic to Neurons and Enhanced by a Mutation Associated with Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

    Sami J. Barmada;Gaia Skibinski;Erica Korb;Elizabeth J. Rao

  • Tau Reduction Prevents Aβ-Induced Defects in Axonal Transport

    Keith A. Vossel;Kai Zhang;Jens Brodbeck;Aaron C. Daub

  • In Silico Labeling: Predicting Fluorescent Labels in Unlabeled Images

    Eric M. Christiansen;Samuel J. Yang;D. Michael Ando;Ashkan Javaherian

  • Arc in synaptic plasticity: from gene to behavior

    Erica Korb;Steven Finkbeiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Leslie M. Thompson
Leslie M. Thompson University of California, Irvine
Frédéric Saudou
Frédéric Saudou Grenoble Alpes University
Clive N. Svendsen
Clive N. Svendsen Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Michael E. Greenberg
Michael E. Greenberg Harvard University
Patrick A. Lewis
Patrick A. Lewis University College London
Sergio Lavandero
Sergio Lavandero University of Chile
Paul J. Muchowski
Paul J. Muchowski University of California, San Francisco
Marcy E. MacDonald
Marcy E. MacDonald Harvard University
James F. Gusella
James F. Gusella Harvard University

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