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D-Index
55
Citations
12212
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12028
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3227

Victor Muñoz publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

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

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 143 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Victor Muñoz D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

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

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Victor Muñoz is affiliated with the University of California, Merced in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology as a core subfield. Additional subfields include astronomy and astrophysics, materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and spectroscopy.

Their work covers several main topics, including protein structure and dynamics, diffusion and search dynamics, enzyme structure and function, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, genomics and chromatin dynamics, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and mass spectrometry techniques and applications.

Muñoz has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Recent notable publications are:

  • Eukaryotic transcription factors can track and control their target genes using DNA antennas (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Lessons about Protein Folding and Binding from Archetypal Folds (2020, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • Molecular simulations integrated with experiments for probing the interaction dynamics and binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins (2023, Current Opinion in Structural Biology)
  • A modular approach to map out the conformational landscapes of unbound intrinsically disordered proteins (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Protein Folding Dynamics as Diffusion on a Free Energy Surface: Rate Equation Terms, Transition Paths, and Analysis of Single-Molecule Photon Trajectories (2021, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Methods in Molecular Biology and Biophysical Journal, each with four publications, as well as arXiv (Cornell University) with three publications. Other journals include The Journal of Physical Chemistry B and Biophysica, with two publications each.

Frequent collaborators include Mourad Sadqi, Suhani Nagpal, Benjamin Tanielian, Nivin Mothi, and Nicola D'Amelio. Mourad Sadqi has collaborated on twelve publications with Muñoz, while Suhani Nagpal and Benjamin Tanielian have coauthored five papers each. Nivin Mothi and Nicola D'Amelio have contributed to four joint publications each.

Best Publications

  • Folding dynamics and mechanism of β-hairpin formation

    Victor Muñoz;Peggy A. Thompson;James Hofrichter;William A. Eaton

  • Elucidating the folding problem of helical peptides using empirical parameters

    Victor Muñoz;Luis Serrano

  • A simple model for calculating the kinetics of protein folding from three-dimensional structures

    Victor Muñoz;William A. Eaton

  • FAST KINETICS AND MECHANISMS IN PROTEIN FOLDING

    William A. Eaton;Victor Muñoz;Stephen J. Hagen;Gouri S. Jas

  • Development of the multiple sequence approximation within the AGADIR model of α‐helix formation: Comparison with Zimm‐Bragg and Lifson‐Roig formalisms

    Victor Muñoz;Luis Serrano

  • Elucidating the folding problem of helical peptides using empirical parameters. II. Helix macrodipole effects and rational modification of the helical content of natural peptides.

    Victor Muñoz;Luis Serrano

  • A statistical mechanical model for β-hairpin kinetics

    Victor Muñoz;Eric R. Henry;James Hofrichter;William A. Eaton

  • Intrinsic secondary structure propensities of the amino acids, using statistical ϕ–ψ matrices: Comparison with experimental scales

    Victor Muñoz;Luis Serrano

  • Experimental Identification of Downhill Protein Folding

    Maria M. Garcia-Mira;Mourad Sadqi;Niels Fischer;Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz

  • Elucidating the Folding Problem of Helical Peptides using Empirical Parameters. III>Temperature and pH Dependence

    Victor Muñoz;Luis Serrano

  • Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding.

    Mourad Sadqi;David Fushman;Victor Muñoz

  • How fast is protein hydrophobic collapse

    Mourad Sadqi;Lisa J. Lapidus;Victor Muñoz

  • Submillisecond kinetics of protein folding.

    William A Eaton;Victor Muñoz;Peggy A Thompson;Chi-Kin Chan

  • Kinetics and Dynamics of Loops, α-Helices, β-Hairpins, and Fast-Folding Proteins

    William A. Eaton;Victor Muñoz;Peggy A. Thompson;Eric R. Henry

  • The Helix-Coil Kinetics of a Heteropeptide

    Peggy A. Thompson;Victor Muñoz;Gouri S. Jas;Eric R. Henry

  • Scaling of folding times with protein size.

    Athi N Naganathan;Victor Muñoz

  • Conformational Dynamics and Ensembles in Protein Folding

    Victor Muñoz

  • The hydrophobic-staple motif and a role for loop-residues in alpha-helix stability and protein folding.

    Victor Muñoz;Francisco J. Blanco;Luis Serrano

  • α-Helix structure in Alzheimer's disease aggregates of tau-protein

    Mourad Sadqi;Felix Hernández;UnMei Pan;Mar Pérez

  • Exploring protein-folding ensembles: A variable-barrier model for the analysis of equilibrium unfolding experiments

    Victor Muñoz;Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz

  • A photoprotection strategy for microsecond-resolution single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy

    Luis A Campos;Jianwei Liu;Jianwei Liu;Xiang Wang;Xiang Wang;Ravishankar Ramanathan

Frequent Co-Authors

James Hofrichter
James Hofrichter National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Luis Serrano
Luis Serrano Centre for Genomic Regulation
Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz
Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz University of Granada
Jesús Avila
Jesús Avila Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa
Gabor Tigyi
Gabor Tigyi University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Derek N. Woolfson
Derek N. Woolfson University of Bristol
Robert B. Best
Robert B. Best National Institutes of Health
Manuel Rico
Manuel Rico Spanish National Research Council
José M. Valpuesta
José M. Valpuesta Spanish National Research Council
Christoph Schick
Christoph Schick University of Rostock

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