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D-Index
60
Citations
13941
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3148
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1374

Thomas Blumenthal publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Blumenthal sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 229 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Thomas Blumenthal D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas Blumenthal sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas Blumenthal is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their academic profile indicates a longstanding career in research, recognized through notable fellowships.

Among the awards received, Blumenthal was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. Earlier, they were also honored as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1980.

Their profile does not list recent papers, co-authors, publication venues, main fields or subfields of study, or specific book publications. Additionally, no main topics of work or detailed publication data are available in the record provided.

Best Publications

  • C. Elegans II

    Donald L Riddle;Thomas Blumenthal;Barbara J Meyer;James R Priess

  • The genome sequence of Caenorhabditis briggsae: A platform for comparative genomics

    Lincoln D Stein;Zhirong Bao;Zhirong Bao;Darin Blasiar;Thomas Blumenthal

  • RNA replication: function and structure of Qbeta-replicase.

    Thomas Blumenthal;Gordon G. Carmichael

  • A global analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans operons

    Thomas Blumenthal;Donald Evans;Christopher D. Link;Alessandro Guffanti

  • Operons in C. elegans: Polycistronic mRNA precursors are processed by trans-splicing of SL2 to downstream coding regions

    John Spieth;Glenn Brooke;Scott Kuersten;Kristi Lea

  • Both subunits of U2AF recognize the 3′ splice site in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Diego A. R. Zorio;Thomas Blumenthal

  • Operons as a common form of chromosomal organization in C. elegans

    Diego A. R. Zorio;Niansheng Nick Cheng;Thomas Blumenthal;John Spieth

  • Bacteriophage Qβ Replicase Contains the Protein Biosynthesis Elongation Factors EF Tu and EF Ts

    Thomas Blumenthal;Terry A. Landers;Klaus Weber

  • RNA Processing and Gene Structure

    Thomas Blumenthal;Keith Steward

  • Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease: Common pathways, common goals.

    Dean Hartley;Thomas Blumenthal;Maria Carrillo;Gilbert DiPaolo

  • Trans-splicing and polycistronic transcription in Caenohabditis elegans

    Thomas Blumenthal

  • Gene clusters and polycistronic transcription in eukaryotes.

    Thomas Blumenthal

  • Caenorhabditis elegans operons: form and function

    Thomas Blumenthal;Kathy Seggerson Gleason

  • Coexpression of neighboring genes in Caenorhabditis elegans is mostly due to operons and duplicate genes.

    Martin J. Lercher;Thomas Blumenthal;Laurence D. Hurst

  • Operons in eukaryotes.

    Thomas Blumenthal

  • Functional Characterization of Five eIF4E Isoforms inCaenorhabditis elegans

    Brett D. Keiper;Barry J. Lamphear;Atul M. Deshpande;Marzena Jankowska-Anyszka

  • A global analysis of C. elegans trans-splicing

    Mary Ann Allen;LaDeana W. Hillier;Robert H. Waterston;Thomas Blumenthal

  • Trisomy 21 causes changes in the circulating proteome indicative of chronic autoinflammation.

    Kelly D. Sullivan;Donald Evans;Ahwan Pandey;Thomas H. Hraha

  • The C. elegans Trans-spliced leader RNA is bound to Sm and has a trimethylguanosine cap

    Jeffrey D. Thomas;Richard C. Conrad;Thomas Blumenthal

  • Cis and trans mRNA splicing in C. elegans.

    Thomas Blumenthal;Jeffrey Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald L Riddle
Donald L Riddle University of Missouri
Barbara J Meyer
Barbara J Meyer University of California, Berkeley
Stanley M. Garn
Stanley M. Garn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Katheleen Gardiner
Katheleen Gardiner University of Colorado Denver
LaDeana W. Hillier
LaDeana W. Hillier University of Washington
Peter D'Eustachio
Peter D'Eustachio New York University
Jacqueline E. Schein
Jacqueline E. Schein BC Cancer Agency
James C. Mullikin
James C. Mullikin National Institutes of Health
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia

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