Leaderboards/genomics and chromatin dynamics

genomics and chromatin dynamics

Last updated June 2, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Dominik Klein
Helmholtz Zentrum München
99
2
Fabian J. Theis
Helmholtz Zentrum München
90
3
Mengyao Li
Peking University
70
4
Benjamin R. Doughty
Stanford University
60
5
William J. Greenleaf
Stanford Medicine
50
6
Qian Yao
National Institutes of Health
40
7
Yan‐Yu Zhu
Stanford University
20
8
Lei S. Qi
Stanford University
10

Rising Stars Papers

1
A versatile CRISPR-Cas13d platform for multiplexed transcriptomic regulation and metabolic engineering in primary human T cells
Cell|2024
108 cit.
2
Virus-derived Synthetic Riboswitches for Real-time Coronaviruses Sensing in Live Cells
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Carmen Bravo González‐Blas
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research
99
2
Maxime M. C. Tortora
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
80
3
Ziyu Lu
Rockefeller University
70
4
Marco Castellani
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
60
5
Zihao Wang
Sun Yat-sen University
50
6
Jose A. Martinez-Sarmiento
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
40
7
Fei Shen
Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences
30
8
Yueyuan Zheng
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
20
9
Charles Limouse
Stanford University
10

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Tracking cell-type-specific temporal dynamics in human and mouse brains
Cell|2023
49 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Bo Huang
QB3
99
2
Bing Ren
University of California San Diego
90
3
S Celniker
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
80
4
Shaorong Gao
Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital
70
5
Stein Aerts
Center for Human Genetics
60
6
David V. Schaffer
University of California, Berkeley
50
7
Kevin P. White
University of Chicago
40
8
Brian D. Strahl
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
30
9
Thoru Pederson
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
20
10
H. Leighton Grimes
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
10

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering
Nature Methods|2017
6.8k cit.
2
A Compendium of Chromatin Contact Maps Reveals Spatially Active Regions in the Human Genome
Cell Reports|2016
979 cit.
3
Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome
Nature|2014
817 cit.
4
Global DNA hypomethylation coupled to repressive chromatin domain formation and gene silencing in breast cancer
Genome Research|2011
620 cit.
5
The transposable elements of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatin: a genomics perspective
Genome biology|2002
617 cit.
6
Decoding the regulatory landscape of melanoma reveals TEADS as regulators of the invasive cell state
Nature Communications|2015
549 cit.
7
Versatile protein tagging in cells with split fluorescent protein
Nature Communications|2016
500 cit.
8
Single-nucleus analysis of accessible chromatin in developing mouse forebrain reveals cell-type-specific transcriptional regulation
Nature Neuroscience|2018
388 cit.
9
A scalable strategy for high-throughput GFP tagging of endogenous human proteins
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2016
271 cit.
10
Nuclear m6A reader YTHDC1 regulates the scaffold function of LINE1 RNA in mouse ESCs and early embryos
Protein & Cell|2021
169 cit.

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