Robert B. Russell

17.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
93 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

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Robert B. Russell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert B. Russell has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Materials Chemistry and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert B. Russell's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (41 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (28 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (20 papers). Robert B. Russell is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (41 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (28 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (20 papers). Robert B. Russell collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Robert B. Russell's co-authors include Alexander Stark, Stephen M. Cohen, Julius Brennecke, Patrick Aloy, Geoffrey J. Barton, David R. Hipfner, Evangelia Petsalaki, Victor Neduva, Natascha Bushati and Chris P. Ponting and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Robert B. Russell

93 papers receiving 9.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

bantam Encodes a Developmentally Regulated microRNA that Controls Cell Proliferation and Regulates the Proapoptotic Gene hid in Drosophila

2003 1.7k citations Alexander Stark, Robert B. Russell et al. profile →
Animal MicroRNAs Confer Robustness to Gene Expression and Have a Significant Impact on 3′UTR Evolution

2005 845 citations Alexander Stark, Robert B. Russell et al. profile →
Identification of Drosophila MicroRNA Targets

2003 622 citations Alexander Stark, Robert B. Russell et al. profile →
Multiple protein sequence alignment from tertiary structure comparison: Assignment of global and residue confidence levels

1992 563 citations Robert B. Russell, Geoffrey J. Barton profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert B. Russell Germany	43	8.1k	2.3k	1.4k	659	658	93	9.8k
Robert B. Russell Germany	37	6.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.7×	823 0.6×	868 1.3×	361 0.5×	68	7.7k
Michael J. Thompson United States	33	6.8k 0.8×	444 0.2×	627 0.4×	417 0.6×	682 1.0×	82	8.4k
Julian Gough United Kingdom	37	7.3k 0.9×	549 0.2×	945 0.7×	235 0.4×	1.5k 2.3×	73	9.4k
Titia K. Sixma Netherlands	61	13.1k 1.6×	718 0.3×	555 0.4×	258 0.4×	1.4k 2.1×	126	15.0k
M. Madan Babu United Kingdom	57	11.9k 1.5×	379 0.2×	1.2k 0.8×	587 0.9×	1.4k 2.1×	133	14.0k
Philip M. Kim Canada	40	6.3k 0.8×	321 0.1×	687 0.5×	641 1.0×	872 1.3×	94	7.6k
John F. McDonald United States	53	4.9k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	424 0.3×	140 0.2×	843 1.3×	190	9.2k
James Cuff United States	9	6.5k 0.8×	484 0.2×	463 0.3×	209 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	12	7.8k
Ashley M. Buckle Australia	43	4.1k 0.5×	497 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	160 0.2×	773 1.2×	156	7.2k
Manuela Helmer‐Citterich Italy	34	3.9k 0.5×	691 0.3×	489 0.3×	476 0.7×	382 0.6×	118	4.8k

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Beyer, Tina, Gaurav D. Diwan, Franziska Klose, et al.. (2025). Ciliopathy-Associated Missense Mutations in IFT140 are Tolerated by the Inherent Resilience of the IFT Machinery. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 24(3). 100916–100916. 1 indexed citations

Marchi, Fabiola De, Jasna Križ, Jean‐Pierre Julien, et al.. (2023). Emerging Trends in the Field of Inflammation and Proteinopathy in ALS/FTD Spectrum Disorder. Biomedicines. 11(6). 1599–1599. 17 indexed citations

Beyer, Tina, Emma Peskett, Georg Otto, et al.. (2023). De-Suppression of Mesenchymal Cell Identities and Variable Phenotypic Outcomes Associated with Knockout of Bbs1. Cells. 12(22). 2662–2662. 1 indexed citations

Petriman, Narcis-Adrian, Marta Loureiro, Michael Täschner, et al.. (2022). Biochemically validated structural model of the 15‐subunit intraflagellar transport complex IFT‐B. The EMBO Journal. 41(24). e112440–e112440. 32 indexed citations

Betts, Matthew J., et al.. (2020). The Interaction of Munc18-1 Helix 11 and 12 with the Central Region of the VAMP2 SNARE Motif Is Essential for SNARE Templating and Synaptic Transmission. eNeuro. 7(6). ENEURO.0278–20.2020. 22 indexed citations

Kishore, Asha, Ashwin Ashok Kumar Sreelatha, Marc Sturm, et al.. (2018). Understanding the role of genetic variability in LRRK2 in Indian population. Movement Disorders. 34(4). 496–505. 8 indexed citations

Mazin, Pavel, Mikhail S. Gelfand, Andrey A. Mironov, et al.. (2010). An automated stochastic approach to the identification of the protein specificity determinants and functional subfamilies. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 5(1). 29–29. 49 indexed citations

Kalinina, Olga V., Robert B. Russell, A. B. Rakhmaninova, & Mikhail S. Gelfand. (2007). Computational method for predicting protein functional sites with the use of specificity determinants. Molecular Biology. 41(1). 137–147. 7 indexed citations

Shah, Parantu K., Patrick Aloy, Peer Bork, & Robert B. Russell. (2005). Structural similarity to bridge sequence space: Finding new families on the bridges. Protein Science. 14(5). 1305–1314. 10 indexed citations

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Linding, Rune, Alexander Stark, Federico De Masi, et al.. (2005). Systematic Discovery of New Recognition Peptides Mediating Protein Interaction. 13 indexed citations

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Copley, Richard R., Patrick Aloy, Robert B. Russell, & Maximilian J. Telford. (2004). Systematic searches for molecular synapomorphies in model metazoan genomes give some support for Ecdysozoa after accounting for the idiosyncrasies of Caenorhabditis elegans. Evolution & Development. 6(3). 164–169. 45 indexed citations

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Aloy, Patrick & Robert B. Russell. (2003). Understanding and predicting protein assemblies with 3D structures. Comparative and Functional Genomics. 4(4). 410–415. 7 indexed citations

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Aloy, Patrick, Francesca D. Ciccarelli, Christina Leutwein, et al.. (2002). A complex prediction: three‐dimensional model of the yeast exosome. EMBO Reports. 3(7). 628–635. 80 indexed citations

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Katso, Roy, Robert B. Russell, & Trivadi S. Ganesan. (1999). Functional Analysis of H-Ryk, an Atypical Member of the Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Family. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19(9). 6427–6440. 64 indexed citations

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Russell, Robert B. & Michael J.E. Sternberg. (1997). Two new examples of protein structural similarities within the structure-function twilight zone. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 10(4). 333–338. 23 indexed citations

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Russell, Robert B., Richard R. Copley, & Geoffrey J. Barton. (1996). Protein Fold Recognition by Mapping Predicted Secondary Structures. Journal of Molecular Biology. 259(3). 349–365. 99 indexed citations

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Russell, Robert B. & Michael J.E. Sternberg. (1995). Structure Prediction: How good are we?. Current Biology. 5(5). 488–490. 17 indexed citations

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Russell, Robert B.. (1994). Domain insertion. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 7(12). 1407–1410. 42 indexed citations

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Russell, Robert B., J. Breed, & Geoffrey J. Barton. (1992). Conservation analysis and structure prediction of the SH2 family of phosphotyrosine binding domains. FEBS Letters. 304(1). 15–20. 82 indexed citations

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Barton, Geoffrey J., et al.. (1992). Generation and interpretation of protein sequence and structural multiple alignments. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 11(4). 389–389. 1 indexed citations

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