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D-Index
100
Citations
32771
World Ranking
537
National Ranking
294

Thomas B. Shows 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 B. Shows sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 467 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas B. Shows 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 B. Shows sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Thomas B. Shows is affiliated with Roswell Park Cancer Institute in the United States. Their research career is marked by recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor received in 1985.

Throughout their scientific pursuits, Shows has contributed to the academic community without any recorded collaborations or co-authorship networks available from the current dataset.

Their publication record does not list specific recent papers or frequent venues of publication. Similarly, there is no detailed information on books published under their name or particular fields or subfields of study to which they have contributed extensively.

Shows's known scientific activity is based on available metadata highlighting their primary institutional association and distinguished fellowship, reflecting an established presence within their academic domain.

Best Publications

  • cDNA sequence and chromosomal localization of human platelet-derived growth factor A-chain and its expression in tumour cell lines

    Christer Betsholtz;Ann Johnsson;Carl-Henrik Heldin;Bengt Westermark

  • Molecular genetics of inherited variation in human color vision.

    Jeremy Nathans;Thomas P. Piantanida;Roger L. Eddy;Thomas B. Shows

  • Evidence for a family of human glucose transporter-like proteins. Sequence and gene localization of a protein expressed in fetal skeletal muscle and other tissues.

    T. Kayano;H. Fukumoto;R. L. Eddy;Yao-Shan Fan

  • Sequence, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization of mRNA encoding a human glucose transporter-like protein.

    Hirofumi Fukumoto;Susumu Seino;Hiroo Imura;Yutaka Seino

  • A maternally methylated CpG island in KvLQT1 is associated with an antisense paternal transcript and loss of imprinting in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

    Nancy J. Smilinich;Colleen D. Day;Galina V. Fitzpatrick;Germaine M. Caldwell

  • Human facilitative glucose transporters. Isolation, functional characterization, and gene localization of cDNAs encoding an isoform (GLUT5) expressed in small intestine, kidney, muscle, and adipose tissue and an unusual glucose transporter pseudogene-like sequence (GLUT6).

    Toshiaki Kayano;Charles F. Burant;Hirofumi Fukumoto;Gwyn W. Gould

  • The Brn-3 family of POU-domain factors: Primary structure, binding specificity, and expression in subsets of retinal ganglion cells and somatosensory neurons

    Mengqing Xiang;Lijuan Zhou;Jennifer P. Macke;Takashi Yoshioka

  • Molecular cloning and chromosomal mapping of DNA rearranged with the parathyroid hormone gene in a parathyroid adenoma.

    A. Arnold;Hyung Goo Kim;R. D. Gaz;R. L. Eddy

  • Evolution of the functional human beta-actin gene and its multi-pseudogene family: conservation of noncoding regions and chromosomal dispersion of pseudogenes.

    Sun-Yu Ng;P. Gunning;R. Eddy;P. Ponte

  • Enhanced Levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor Messenger RNA in Human Colon Carcinomas and Liposarcomas

    James V. Tricoli;Leslie B. Rall;Constantine P. Karakousis;Lemuel Herrera

  • Nonspecific integration of the HTLV provirus genome into adult T-cell leukaemia cells.

    Motoharu Seiki;Roger Eddy;Thomas B. Shows;Mitsuaki Yoshida

  • High-resolution chromosomal localization of human genes for amylase, proopiomelanocortin, somatostatin, and a DNA fragment (D3S1) by in situ hybridization

    Bernhard U. Zabel;Susan L. Naylor;Alan Y. Sakaguchi;Graeme I. Bell

  • Molecular cloning, sequencing, and mapping of EGR2, a human early growth response gene encoding a protein with "zinc-binding finger" structure

    L J Joseph;M M Le Beau;G A Jamieson;S Acharya

  • Brn-3b: a POU domain gene expressed in a subset of retinal ganglion cells.

    Mengqing Xiang;Lijuan Zhou;Y.-W. Peng;Roger L. Eddy

  • Rearrangement and overexpression of D11S287E, a candidate oncogene on chromosome 11q13 in benign parathyroid tumors.

    C L Rosenberg;H G Kim;T B Shows;H M Kronenberg

  • Gene structure, chromosomal location, and basis for alternative mRNA splicing of the human VCAM1 gene

    Myron I. Cybulsky;Jochen W. U. Fries;Amy J. Williams;Parvez Sultan

  • Human gamma-chain genes are rearranged in leukaemic T cells and map to the short arm of chromosome 7.

    Cornelis Murre;Richard A. Waldmann;Cynthia C. Morton;Kathleen F. Bongiovanni

  • Positional Cloning of a Gene Involved in Hereditary Multiple Exostoses

    W. Wuyts;W. Van Hul;J. Wauters;M. Nemtsova

  • EGR3, a novel member of the Egr family of genes encoding immediate-early transcription factors.

    Patwardhan S;Gashler A;Siegel Mg;Chang Lc

  • Mapping, genomic organization and promoter analysis of the human prostate-specific membrane antigen gene

    Denise S. O’Keefe;Sai L. Su;Dean J. Bacich;Yutaka Horiguchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger L. Eddy
Roger L. Eddy Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Norma J. Nowak
Norma J. Nowak University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Newton E. Morton
Newton E. Morton University of Southampton
Mark H. Skolnick
Mark H. Skolnick Myriad Genetics (Germany)
Roland Berger
Roland Berger Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital
David R. Cox
David R. Cox Stanford University
Peter L. Pearson
Peter L. Pearson Universidade de São Paulo
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Frank H. Ruddle
Frank H. Ruddle Yale University
Graeme I. Bell
Graeme I. Bell University of Chicago

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