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Digital PCR

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Annika Wahlström
University of Gothenburg
112 cit.
2
Gabriele Campanella
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
105 cit.
3
Gen Li
Guangzhou Women and Children Medical Center
60 cit.
4
Manuel Rodrigues
Inserm
56 cit.
5
Enriqueta Felip
Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari
54 cit.
6
Jianxia Niu
Sanya University
48 cit.
7
Jiahui Zhang
Jiangsu University
47 cit.
8
Eleni M. Rettig
Brigham and Women's Hospital
46 cit.
9
Michael Bryan
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
46 cit.
10
Claudia Campani
Inserm
45 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
Production of deoxycholic acid by low-abundant microbial species is associated with impaired glucose metabolism
Nature Communications|2024
55 cit.
2
Real-world deployment of a fine-tuned pathology foundation model for lung cancer biomarker detection
Nature Medicine|2025
34 cit.
3
Transformer-based AI technology improves early ovarian cancer diagnosis using cfDNA methylation markers
Cell Reports Medicine|2024
23 cit.
4
Prospective assessment of circulating tumor DNA in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma treated with tebentafusp
Nature Communications|2024
27 cit.
5
Amivantamab plus lazertinib vs osimertinib in first-line <i>EGFR</i>-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with biomarkers of high-risk disease: A secondary analysis from the phase 3 MARIPOSA study.
Journal of Clinical Oncology|2024
17 cit.
6
Tagging large CNV blocks in wheat boosts digitalization of germplasm resources by ultra-low-coverage sequencing
Genome biology|2024
15 cit.
7
Exosomal miR-4745-5p/3911 from N2-polarized tumor-associated neutrophils promotes gastric cancer metastasis by regulating SLIT2
Molecular Cancer|2024
46 cit.
8
A Prospective Trial of Biomarker-Guided Surveillance for HPV-Positive Oropharynx Cancer Using Plasma Tumor Tissue–Modified Viral HPV DNA
Clinical Cancer Research|2024
22 cit.
9
Direct Comparison of Alternative Blood-Based Approaches for Early Detection and Diagnosis of HPV-Associated Head and Neck Cancers
Clinical Cancer Research|2025
22 cit.
10
How does digital technology innovation drive synergies for reducing pollution and carbon emissions?
Sustainable Cities and Society|2024
44 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Bin Cao
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
83 cit.
2
Miriam Sansó
Hebron University
56 cit.
3
Claus L. Andersen
Aarhus University
47 cit.
4
Yuri Persidsky
Temple University
44 cit.
5
Ramgopal Kashyap
Unknown
42 cit.
6
Isabella De Meo
Difa Cooper (Italy)
42 cit.
7
Suresh S. Ramalingam
Emory University
38 cit.
8
Nicola Valeri
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
32 cit.
9
Weihua Guan
Pennsylvania State University
28 cit.
10
Feng Li
Sichuan University
27 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in tissues and its association with long COVID symptoms: a cross-sectional cohort study in China
The Lancet Infectious Diseases|2024
166 cit.
2
Early-Stage Breast Cancer Detection in Breast Milk
Cancer Discovery|2023
56 cit.
3
Unraveling the potential clinical utility of circulating tumor DNA detection in colorectal cancer—evaluation in a nationwide Danish cohort
Annals of Oncology|2023
71 cit.
4
Alcohol and e-cigarette damage alveolar-epithelial barrier by activation of P2X7r and provoke brain endothelial injury via extracellular vesicles
Cell Communication and Signaling|2024
35 cit.
5
Fine_Denseiganet: Automatic Medical Image Classification in Chest CT Scan Using Hybrid Deep Learning Framework
International Journal of Image and Graphics|2023
127 cit.
6
Ascomycota and Basidiomycota fungal phyla as indicators of land use efficiency for soil organic carbon accrual with woody plantations
Ecological Indicators|2024
83 cit.
7
Early Clearance of Plasma <i>Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor</i> Mutations as a Predictor of Outcome on Osimertinib in Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer; Exploratory Analysis from AURA3 and FLAURA
Clinical Cancer Research|2023
57 cit.
8
Circulating microRNA Analysis in a Prospective Co-clinical Trial Identifies MIR652–3p as a Response Biomarker and Driver of Regorafenib Resistance Mechanisms in Colorectal Cancer
Clinical Cancer Research|2024
32 cit.
9
STAMP-Based Digital CRISPR-Cas13a for Amplification-Free Quantification of HIV-1 Plasma Viral Loads
ACS Nano|2023
42 cit.
10
Mismatch-Guided Deoxyribonucleic Acid Assembly Enables Ultrasensitive and Multiplex Detection of Low-Allele-Fraction Variants in Clinical Samples
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2023
41 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Krassen Dimitrov
University of Queensland
6.3k cit.
2
Kenneth W. Kinzler
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
5.2k cit.
3
Geoffrey R. Oxnard
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
5.2k cit.
4
Terje Johansen
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
4.5k cit.
5
Muneesh Tewari
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
4.5k cit.
6
Elżbieta Senkus
Gdańsk Medical University
4.4k cit.
7
Dirk Arnold
University Medical Center Freiburg
3.6k cit.
8
Yuk Ming Dennis Lo
Research Institute of Health Sciences
2.8k cit.
9
Bill W. Colston
Bio-Rad (United States)
2.8k cit.
10
Johan T. den Dunnen
Leiden University Medical Center
2.3k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Direct multiplexed measurement of gene expression with color-coded probe pairs
Nature Biotechnology|2008
2.1k cit.
2
Digital PCR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|1999
1.7k cit.
3
Acquired EGFR C797S mutation mediates resistance to AZD9291 in non–small cell lung cancer harboring EGFR T790M
Nature Medicine|2015
1.5k cit.
4
p62/SQSTM1 Binds Directly to Atg8/LC3 to Facilitate Degradation of Ubiquitinated Protein Aggregates by Autophagy
Journal of Biological Chemistry|2007
4.5k cit.
5
Absolute quantification by droplet digital PCR versus analog real-time PCR
Nature Methods|2013
1.5k cit.
6
Early breast cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up
Annals of Oncology|2019
2.2k cit.
7
Rectal cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up
Annals of Oncology|2013
1.8k cit.
8
Proposed Revised Criteria for the Classification of Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Annals of Internal Medicine|1985
3k cit.
9
Noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of fetal chromosomal aneuploidy by massively parallel genomic sequencing of DNA in maternal plasma
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2008
944 cit.
10
High-Throughput Droplet Digital PCR System for Absolute Quantitation of DNA Copy Number
Analytical Chemistry|2011
2.8k cit.

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