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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 42 3018 2745 206 191 82 7787

Sven B. Gould publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Sven B. Gould between 2006 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Sven B. Gould published across 20 years, from 2006 to 2025, averaging 5.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 10 publications in 2014. 9 of the 110 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
2 4 6 8 10
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2006 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 10. Peak 10 publications in 2014. 2006: 3 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 1 publication 2010: 0 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 7 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 8 publications 2016: 7 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 9 publications 2019: 10 publications 2020: 3 publications 2021: 8 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 3 publications 2024: 6 publications 2025: 3 publications
2006 2025

110 publications in total across all disciplines

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Sven B. Gould: publications per year, 2006 to 2025
Year Publications
2006 3
2007 3
2008 4
2009 1
2010 0
2011 3
2012 7
2013 7
2014 10
2015 8
2016 7
2017 8
2018 9
2019 10
2020 3
2021 8
2022 7
2023 3
2024 6
2025 3
Total 110
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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.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 77–86 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 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.

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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 82
87–96 125
97–106 131
107–116 162
117–126 177
127–136 158
137–146 158
147–156 146
157–166 159
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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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.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 42–43 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 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.

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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 42
44–45 115
46–47 121
48–49 118
50–51 130
52–53 106
54–55 116
56–57 113
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

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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