Leaderboards/ATAC-seq

ATAC-seq

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Chen Jin
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
158 cit.
2
Tian Tian
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
150 cit.
3
Jessica E. Rexach
University of California, Los Angeles
117 cit.
4
Huanhuan Cai
Wuhan University
114 cit.
5
Mingyue Guo
Zhejiang University
108 cit.
6
Johain R. Ounadjela
Broad Institute
96 cit.
7
John Pablo Mendieta
University of Georgia
90 cit.
8
Sung‐Hyun Kim
University of Southern California
81 cit.
9
Fei Ye
Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology
78 cit.
10
Mario Ivanković
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
74 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
Molecular and genetic insights into human ovarian aging from single-nuclei multi-omics analyses
Nature Aging|2024
62 cit.
2
Dependency-aware deep generative models for multitasking analysis of spatial omics data
Nature Methods|2024
49 cit.
3
Cross-disorder and disease-specific pathways in dementia revealed by single-cell genomics
Cell|2024
38 cit.
4
Lactate activates trained immunity by fueling the tricarboxylic acid cycle and regulating histone lactylation
Nature Communications|2025
56 cit.
5
Loss of cold tolerance is conferred by absence of the WRKY34 promoter fragment during tomato evolution
Nature Communications|2024
53 cit.
6
Spatial multiomic landscape of the human placenta at molecular resolution
Nature Medicine|2024
31 cit.
7
Investigating the <i>cis-</i> regulatory basis of C <sub>3</sub> and C <sub>4</sub> photosynthesis in grasses at single-cell resolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
29 cit.
8
Comparative single-cell analyses identify shared and divergent features of human and mouse kidney development
Developmental Cell|2024
26 cit.
9
Comprehensive genome annotation of the model ciliate <i>Tetrahymena thermophila</i> by in-depth epigenetic and transcriptomic profiling
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
25 cit.
10
A comparative analysis of planarian genomes reveals regulatory conservation in the face of rapid structural divergence
Nature Communications|2024
36 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Shinya Oki
Kyoto University
261 cit.
2
Benjamin D. Humphreys
Washington University in St. Louis
166 cit.
3
Isidro Cortés‐Ciriano
European Bioinformatics Institute
98 cit.
4
Pengxu Qian
Zhejiang University
98 cit.
5
Guangdun Peng
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
96 cit.
6
Christina S. Leslie
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
96 cit.
7
Alexander Stark
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
88 cit.
8
Stephen T. Smale
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
78 cit.
9
William J. Greenleaf
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)
68 cit.
10
Julien Gagneur
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
62 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
ChIP-Atlas 3.0: a data-mining suite to explore chromosome architecture together with large-scale regulome data
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
174 cit.
2
Transcriptomic, epigenomic, and spatial metabolomic cell profiling redefines regional human kidney anatomy
Cell Metabolism|2024
75 cit.
3
De novo detection of somatic mutations in high-throughput single-cell profiling data sets
Nature Biotechnology|2023
98 cit.
4
Class I HDAC inhibitors enhance antitumor efficacy and persistence of CAR-T cells by activation of the Wnt pathway
Cell Reports|2024
65 cit.
5
Simultaneous profiling of spatial gene expression and chromatin accessibility during mouse brain development
Nature Methods|2023
96 cit.
6
Single-cell multi-ome regression models identify functional and disease-associated enhancers and enable chromatin potential analysis
Nature Genetics|2024
64 cit.
7
Targeted design of synthetic enhancers for selected tissues in the Drosophila embryo
Nature|2023
88 cit.
8
The transcription factor NF-κB orchestrates nucleosome remodeling during the primary response to Toll-like receptor 4 signaling
Immunity|2024
52 cit.
9
Integrated single-cell chromatin and transcriptomic analyses of human scalp identify gene-regulatory programs and critical cell types for hair and skin diseases
Nature Genetics|2023
68 cit.
10
Modeling fragment counts improves single-cell ATAC-seq analysis
Nature Methods|2023
62 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
William J. Greenleaf
Stanford University
38.8k cit.
2
Howard Y. Chang
Stanford University
11.3k cit.
3
X. Shirley Liu
Tongji University
5.2k cit.
4
Jingchun Zhu
Unknown
3.9k cit.
5
Jason D. Buenrostro
Broad Institute
3.6k cit.
6
Bing Ren
Ludwig Cancer Research
3.4k cit.
7
Jay Shendure
University of Washington
2.7k cit.
8
Sarah A. Teichmann
European Bioinformatics Institute
2.6k cit.
9
Qing Nie
University of California, Irvine
2.6k cit.
10
Wei Xie
Center for Life Sciences
2.3k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position
Nature Methods|2013
7k cit.
2
An improved ATAC-seq protocol reduces background and enables interrogation of frozen tissues
Nature Methods|2017
2.7k cit.
3
Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation
Nature|2015
2.5k cit.
4
chromVAR: inferring transcription-factor-associated accessibility from single-cell epigenomic data
Nature Methods|2017
1.8k cit.
5
The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers
Science|2018
1.3k cit.
6
ATAC‐seq: A Method for Assaying Chromatin Accessibility Genome‐Wide
Current Protocols in Molecular Biology|2015
3.6k cit.
7
Chromatin Potential Identified by Shared Single-Cell Profiling of RNA and Chromatin
Cell|2020
1.2k cit.
8
Cistrome Data Browser: expanded datasets and new tools for gene regulatory analysis
Nucleic Acids Research|2018
1.1k cit.
9
Massively parallel single-cell chromatin landscapes of human immune cell development and intratumoral T cell exhaustion
Nature Biotechnology|2019
1k cit.
10
A Single-Cell Atlas of In Vivo Mammalian Chromatin Accessibility
Cell|2018
884 cit.

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