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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 46 2776 2517 218 199 90 14286

Thomas A. Milne publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Thomas A. Milne between 1998 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Thomas A. Milne published across 29 years, from 1998 to 2026, averaging 7 papers a year. Output peaked at 58 publications in 2023. 30 of the 203 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40 50
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 58. Peak 58 publications in 2023. 1998: 2 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 0 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 1 publication 2004: 3 publications 2005: 7 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 0 publications 2009: 3 publications 2010: 3 publications 2011: 2 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 4 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 5 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 10 publications 2018: 4 publications 2019: 12 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 10 publications 2023: 58 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 27 publications 2026: 3 publications
1998 2026

203 publications in total across all disciplines

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Thomas A. Milne: publications per year, 1998 to 2026
Year Publications
1998 2
1999 1
2000 0
2001 2
2002 1
2003 1
2004 3
2005 7
2006 2
2007 1
2008 0
2009 3
2010 3
2011 2
2012 4
2013 4
2014 4
2015 5
2016 4
2017 10
2018 4
2019 12
2020 6
2021 10
2022 10
2023 58
2024 14
2025 27
2026 3
Total 203
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Thomas A. Milne 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 Thomas A. Milne 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, 87–96 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: 90 publications — 8th percentile

8% 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
87–96 125 90
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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Thomas A. Milne 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 Thomas A. Milne 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, 46–47 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: 46 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% 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
44–45 115
46–47 121 46
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

Thomas A. Milne is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to medicine. They have published extensively in molecular biology and hematology, along with work related to public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology, and genetics.

Their main topics of research encompass acute myeloid leukemia, protein degradation and inhibitors, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, genomics and chromatin dynamics, histone deacetylase inhibitors, epigenetics and DNA methylation, as well as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

Frequent coauthors include Nicholas T. Crump, Alastair Smith, Anindita Roy, Thomas Jackson, and Irene Roberts, indicating active collaborations within their research community.

Thomas A. Milne has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Defining genome architecture at base-pair resolution (2021, Nature)
  • BET inhibition disrupts transcription but retains enhancer-promoter contact (2021, Nature Communications)
  • H3K79me2/3 controls enhancer-promoter interactions and activation of the pan-cancer stem cell marker PROM1/CD133 in MLL-AF4 leukemia cells (2020, Leukemia)
  • Capture-C: a modular and flexible approach for high-resolution chromosome conformation capture (2022, Nature Protocols)
  • Chromatin accessibility governs the differential response of cancer and T cells to arginine starvation (2021, Cell Reports)

Their work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Blood
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Experimental Hematology
  • Leukemia

Best Publications

  • A PHD finger of NURF couples histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation with chromatin remodelling

    Joanna Wysocka;Tomek Swigut;Hua Xiao;Thomas A. Milne

  • MLL targets SET domain methyltransferase activity to Hox gene promoters.

    Thomas A Milne;Scott D Briggs;Hugh W Brock;Mary Ellen Martin

  • WDR5 Associates with Histone H3 Methylated at K4 and Is Essential for H3 K4 Methylation and Vertebrate Development

    Joanna Wysocka;Tomek Swigut;Thomas A. Milne;Yali Dou

  • Regulation of MLL1 H3K4 methyltransferase activity by its core components

    Yali Dou;Thomas A Milne;Alexander J Ruthenburg;Alexander J Ruthenburg;Seunghee Lee

  • Physical Association and Coordinate Function of the H3 K4 Methyltransferase MLL1 and the H4 K16 Acetyltransferase MOF

    Yali Dou;Thomas A. Milne;Thomas A. Milne;Alan J. Tackett;Edwin R. Smith

  • Menin Associates with a Trithorax Family Histone Methyltransferase Complex and with the Hoxc8 Locus

    Christina M. Hughes;Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen;Thomas A. Milne;Terry D. Copeland

  • RAD6-Mediated transcription-coupled H2B ubiquitylation directly stimulates H3K4 methylation in human cells.

    Jaehoon Kim;Mohamed Guermah;Robert K. McGinty;Jung Shin Lee

  • Menin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors

    Thomas A. Milne;Christina M. Hughes;Ricardo Lloyd;Zhaohai Yang

  • Recognition of a Mononucleosomal Histone Modification Pattern by BPTF via Multivalent Interactions

    Alexander J. Ruthenburg;Haitao Li;Thomas A. Milne;Scott Dewell

  • Base-Pair Resolution DNA Methylation Sequencing Reveals Profoundly Divergent Epigenetic Landscapes in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Altuna Akalin;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Matthias Kormaksson;Jennifer Busuttil

  • Intragenic Enhancers Act as Alternative Promoters

    Monika S. Kowalczyk;Jim R. Hughes;David Garrick;Magnus D. Lynch

  • MLL associates specifically with a subset of transcriptionally active target genes

    Thomas A. Milne;Yali Dou;Mary Ellen Martin;Hugh W. Brock

  • Multiple interactions recruit MLL1 and MLL1 fusion proteins to the HOXA9 locus in leukemogenesis.

    Thomas A. Milne;Jaehoon Kim;Gang G. Wang;Sonja C. Stadler

  • Pro isomerization in MLL1 PHD3-bromo cassette connects H3K4me readout to CyP33 and HDAC-mediated repression.

    Zhanxin Wang;Jikui Song;Thomas A. Milne;Gang G. Wang

  • Leukemogenic MLL Fusion Proteins Bind across a Broad Region of the Hox a9 Locus, Promoting Transcription and Multiple Histone Modifications

    Thomas A. Milne;Mary Ellen Martin;Hugh W. Brock;Robert K. Slany

  • Interaction of MLL Amino Terminal Sequences with Menin Is Required for Transformation

    Corrado Caslini;Zhaohai Yang;Mohamad El-Osta;Thomas A. Milne

  • MLL-AF9 Expression in Hematopoietic Stem Cells Drives a Highly Invasive AML Expressing EMT-Related Genes Linked to Poor Outcome

    Vaia Stavropoulou;Susanne Kaspar;Susanne Kaspar;Laurent Brault;Mathijs A. Sanders

  • Metabolic gatekeeper function of B-lymphoid transcription factors

    Lai N. Chan;Zhengshan Chen;Daniel Braas;Jae Woong Lee

  • Dimerization of MLL fusion proteins immortalizes hematopoietic cells.

    Mary Ellen Martin;Thomas A Milne;Thomas A Milne;Sebastien Bloyer;Karine Galoian

  • Function of leukemogenic mixed lineage leukemia 1 (MLL) fusion proteins through distinct partner protein complexes

    Debabrata Biswas;Thomas A. Milne;Thomas A. Milne;Venkatesha Basrur;Jaehoon Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Müschen
Markus Müschen Yale University
Robert G. Roeder
Robert G. Roeder Rockefeller University
C. David Allis
C. David Allis Rockefeller University
Jay L. Hess
Jay L. Hess Indiana University
Paresh Vyas
Paresh Vyas University of Oxford
Irene Roberts
Irene Roberts University of Oxford
Ari Melnick
Ari Melnick Cornell University
James Hughes
James Hughes Emory University
Yali Dou
Yali Dou University of Southern California
Marina Konopleva
Marina Konopleva The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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