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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
134
Citations
67022
World Ranking
362
National Ranking
242

Thomas Schwarz publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 495 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Thomas Schwarz D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 134 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Thomas Schwarz is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology and cell biology. Other subfields of study include epidemiology, biophysics, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

They have contributed extensively to topics such as mitochondrial function and pathology, cellular transport and secretion, autophagy in disease and therapy, ATP synthase and ATPases research, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, metabolism and genetic disorders, and cell image analysis techniques.

Recent notable publications by Thomas Schwarz include:

  • Neuronal mitochondria transport Pink1 mRNA via synaptojanin 2 to support local mitophagy, 2022, Neuron
  • FHL2 anchors mitochondria to actin and adapts mitochondrial dynamics to glucose supply, 2021, The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Virtual screening for small-molecule pathway regulators by image-profile matching, 2022, Cell Systems
  • Kymolyzer, a Semi-Autonomous Kymography Tool to Analyze Intracellular Motility, 2020, Current Protocols in Cell Biology
  • APP and DYRK1A regulate axonal and synaptic vesicle protein networks and mediate Alzheimer's pathology in trisomy 21 neurons, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Himanish Basu, Amos Gutnick, Whitney S. Gibbs, Angelika B. Harbauer, and Ashley M. Bourke.

Their work has been published in several venues repeatedly, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Cell Biology
  • Current Protocols in Cell Biology
  • Neuron
  • Cell Systems

Thomas Schwarz was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1990, reflecting engagement within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • The pathways of mitophagy for quality control and clearance of mitochondria.

    G Ashrafi;T L Schwarz;T L Schwarz

  • Combined results of searches for the standard model Higgs boson in pp collisions at √s = 7 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • PINK1 and Parkin Target Miro for Phosphorylation and Degradation to Arrest Mitochondrial Motility

    Xinnan Wang;Dominic Winter;Ghazaleh Ashrafi;Ghazaleh Ashrafi;Julia Schlehe

  • The mechanism of Ca2+ -dependent regulation of kinesin-mediated mitochondrial motility.

    Xinnan Wang;Thomas L. Schwarz

  • Human keratinocytes are a source for tumor necrosis factor alpha: evidence for synthesis and release upon stimulation with endotoxin or ultraviolet light.

    A Köck;T Schwarz;R Kirnbauer;A Urbanski

  • Flamingo, a seven-pass transmembrane cadherin, regulates planar cell polarity under the control of Frizzled.

    Tadao Usui;Yasuyuki Shima;Yuko Shimada;Shinji Hirano

  • Cloning of genomic and complementary DNA from Shaker, a putative potassium channel gene from Drosophila.

    Diane M. Papazian;Thomas L. Schwarz;Bruce L. Tempel;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Sequence of a probable potassium channel component encoded at Shaker locus of Drosophila.

    Bruce L. Tempel;Diane M. Papazian;Thomas L. Schwarz;Yuh Nung Jan

  • Axonal transport of mitochondria requires milton to recruit kinesin heavy chain and is light chain independent

    Elizabeth E. Glater;Laura J. Megeath;R. Steven Stowers;Thomas L. Schwarz

  • Distinctive pharmacology and kinetics of cloned neuronal Ca2+ channels and their possible counterparts in mammalian CNS neurons.

    J.-F. Zhang;A.D. Randall;P.T. Ellinor;W.A. Horne

  • Axonal transport of mitochondria to synapses depends on milton, a novel Drosophila protein

    R.Steven Stowers;Laura J. Megeath;Laura J. Megeath;Jolanta Górska-Andrzejak;Ian A. Meinertzhagen

  • Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at root s=7 TeV

    V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan;W. Adam

  • Ultraviolet Light Induces Apoptosis via Direct Activation of CD95 (Fas/APO-1) Independently of Its Ligand CD95L

    Yoshinori Aragane;Dagmar Kulms;Dieter Metze;Gabriele Wilkes

  • Multiple potassium-channel components are produced by alternative splicing at the shaker locus in drosophila

    T. L. Schwarz;B. L. Tempel;D. M. Papazian;Y. N. Jan

  • Immunoregulatory mechanisms involved in elicitation of allergic contact hypersensitivity

    Stephan Grabbe;Thomas Schwarz

  • Study of high-p(T) charged particle suppression in PbPb compared to pp collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Dependence on pseudorapidity and on centrality of charged hadron production in PbPb collisions at root s(NN)=2.76 TeV

    Serguei Chatrchyan;Milan Nikolic;Robin Erbacher;Camilo Andres Carrillo Montoya

  • Mitochondrial Trafficking in Neurons

    Thomas L. Schwarz

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Toback
D. Toback Texas A&M University
Giorgio Apollinari
Giorgio Apollinari Fermilab
Jacobo Konigsberg
Jacobo Konigsberg University of Florida
Bruce A. Barnett
Bruce A. Barnett Johns Hopkins University
R. Erbacher
R. Erbacher University of California, Davis
Kevin Burkett
Kevin Burkett Fermilab
D. Amidei
D. Amidei University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
P. Wittich
P. Wittich Cornell University
D. Glenzinski
D. Glenzinski Fermilab

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