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Sven B. Gould 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 Sven B. Gould sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 82 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sven B. Gould 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 Sven B. Gould sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sven B. Gould is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany. Their research focuses primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular emphasis on Molecular Biology. Related subfields of study also include Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, and Plant Science.

The scientist's main topics of work cover various aspects of protist diversity and phylogeny, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and genomics and phylogenetic studies. Additional areas include microbial community ecology and physiology, bryophyte studies and records, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and marine and coastal plant biology.

The following recent papers exemplify the scope of their research:

  • Anomalous Phylogenetic Behavior of Ribosomal Proteins in Metagenome-Assembled Asgard Archaea (2020, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • Endosymbiotic Selective Pressure at the Origin of Eukaryotic Cell Biology (2022, eLife)
  • Gene Duplications Trace Mitochondria to the Onset of Eukaryote Complexity (2021, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • Evidence for a Syncytial Origin of Eukaryotes from Ancestral State Reconstruction (2021, Genome Biology and Evolution)
  • Major Changes in Plastid Protein Import and the Origin of the Chloroplastida (2020, iScience)

Sven B. Gould frequently collaborates with several coauthors in their research. These include:

  • Michael Knopp
  • Parth K. Raval
  • Sriram G. Garg
  • Stefan A. Rensing
  • Alexander I. MacLeod

Their publications are most commonly found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genome Biology and Evolution, Journal of Experimental Botany, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and eLife.

Best Publications

  • Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

    Miklós Müller;Marek Mentel;Jaap J. van Hellemond;Katrin Henze

  • The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization.

    Tomoaki Nishiyama;Hidetoshi Sakayama;Jan de Vries;Jan de Vries;Henrik Buschmann

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • Endosymbiotic theory for organelle origins

    Verena Zimorski;Chuan Ku;William F Martin;Sven B Gould

  • Genomes of Stigonematalean cyanobacteria (subsection V) and the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis from prokaryotes to plastids.

    Tal Dagan;Mayo Roettger;Karina Stucken;Giddy Landan

  • Alveolins, a New Family of Cortical Proteins that Define the Protist Infrakingdom Alveolata

    Sven B Gould;Wai-Hong Tham;Alan F Cowman;Geoffrey I McFadden

  • Transcriptomic Evidence That Longevity of Acquired Plastids in the Photosynthetic Slugs Elysia timida and Plakobranchus ocellatus Does Not Entail Lateral Transfer of Algal Nuclear Genes

    Heike Wägele;Oliver Deusch;Katharina Händeler;Rainer Martin

  • Der1-mediated Preprotein Import into the Periplastid Compartment of Chromalveolates?

    Maik Sascha Sommer;Sven B. Gould;Petra Lehmann;Ansgar Gruber

  • Bacterial Vesicle Secretion and the Evolutionary Origin of the Eukaryotic Endomembrane System.

    Sven B. Gould;Sriram G. Garg;William F. Martin

  • Embryophyte stress signaling evolved in the algal progenitors of land plants.

    Jan de Vries;Bruce A Curtis;Sven B Gould;John M Archibald;John M Archibald

  • The Physiology of Phagocytosis in the Context of Mitochondrial Origin

    William F. Martin;Aloysius G. M. Tielens;Aloysius G. M. Tielens;Marek Mentel;Sriram G. Garg

  • A Novel Family of Apicomplexan Glideosome-associated Proteins with an Inner Membrane-anchoring Role

    Hayley E Bullen;Christopher J. Tonkin;Rebecca A O'Donnell;Wai Hong Tham

  • A Malaria Parasite Formin Regulates Actin Polymerization and Localizes to the Parasite-Erythrocyte Moving Junction during Invasion

    Jake Baum;Christopher J. Tonkin;Aditya S. Paul;Melanie Rug

  • Streptophyte Terrestrialization in Light of Plastid Evolution.

    Jan de Vries;Amanda Stanton;John M. Archibald;Sven B. Gould

  • YCF1: A Green TIC?

    Jan de Vries;Filipa L. Sousa;Bettina Bölter;Jürgen Soll

  • Nucleus-to-Nucleus Gene Transfer and Protein Retargeting into a Remnant Cytoplasm of Cryptophytes and Diatoms

    Sven B. Gould;Maik S. Sommer;Peter G. Kroth;Gillian H. Gile

  • Deep sequencing of Trichomonas vaginalis during the early infection of vaginal epithelial cells and amoeboid transition.

    Sven B. Gould;Christian Woehle;Gary Kusdian;Giddy Landan

  • Protein import and the origin of red complex plastids.

    Sven B. Gould;Uwe-G. Maier;William F. Martin

  • Red and problematic green phylogenetic signals among thousands of nuclear genes from the photosynthetic and apicomplexa-related Chromera velia.

    Christian Woehle;Tal Dagan;William F. Martin;Sven B. Gould

  • Is ftsH the key to plastid longevity in sacoglossan slugs

    Jan de Vries;Jörn Habicht;Christian Woehle;Changjie Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Aloysius G.M. Tielens
Aloysius G.M. Tielens Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tal Dagan
Tal Dagan Kiel University
Uwe G. Maier
Uwe G. Maier Philipp University of Marburg
Stefan A. Rensing
Stefan A. Rensing University of Freiburg
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
Peter Jahns
Peter Jahns Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Yves Van de Peer
Yves Van de Peer Ghent University
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University

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