Leaderboards/Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Kory J. Lavine
Washington University in St. Louis
99
2
Luyi Tian
Guangzhou Chemistry (China)
93
3
Peng Zhang
Tongji University
80
4
Fabian J. Theis
Helmholtz Zentrum München
74
5
Grégoire Courtine
University Hospital of Lausanne
66
6
David Gate
Northwestern University
65
7
Muzlifah Haniffa
Wellcome Sanger Institute
62
8
Drew M. Pardoll
Bloomberg (United States)
60
9
Rong Fan
Yale Cancer Center
59
10
Chenghua Gu
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
54

Rising Stars Papers

1
Hypoxia sensing in resident cardiac macrophages regulates monocyte fate specification following ischemic heart injury
Nature Cardiovascular Research|2024
13 cit.
2
Integration of Imaging-based and Sequencing-based Spatial Omics Mapping on the Same Tissue Section via DBiTplus
Research Square|2024
4 cit.
3
Yale University Co_Profile Spatial-ATAC andRNA Sequencing via Deterministic Barcoding in Fresh Frozen Human Lymph Node Tissue v1
Unknown Journal|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Michelli F. Oliveira
10X Genomics (United States)
99
2
Weiqing Chen
Houston Methodist
88
3
Minmin Chen
Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
86
4
Alejandro Tejada-Lapuerta
Helmholtz Zentrum München
75
5
Ahyeon Hwang
University of California, Irvine
73
6
Reuben A. Saunders
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
73
7
Qiang Shi
Center for Life Sciences
72
8
Janna Heide
University of Chicago
69
9
Travis Lee
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
69
10
Yu Zhao
BGI Group (China)
69

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Sodium-glucose exchanger 2 inhibitor canagliflozin promotes mitochondrial metabolism and alleviates salt-induced cardiac hypertrophy via preserving SIRT3 expression
Journal of Advanced Research|2024
26 cit.
2
rs66651343 and rs12909095 confer lung cancer risk by regulating CCNDBP1 expression
PLoS ONE|2023
1 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Rahul Satija
New York Genome Center
99
2
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Broad Institute
98
3
Fredrik Pontén
Uppsala University
88
4
Jian Wang
BGI Group (China)
75
5
Itai Yanai
NYU Langone Health
74
6
Rafael Kramann
Erasmus MC
71
7
Cecilia Lindskog
Uppsala University
70
8
Omer Ali Bayraktar
Wellcome Sanger Institute
68
9
Rafael A. Irizarry
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
67
10
Sten Linnarsson
Science for Life Laboratory
65

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Spatial reconstruction of single-cell gene expression data
Nature Biotechnology|2015
7.6k cit.
2
A framework for oligonucleotide microarray preprocessing
Bioinformatics|2010
1.6k cit.
3
Genome-wide midrange transcription profiles reveal expression level relationships in human tissue specification
Bioinformatics|2004
1.4k cit.
4
Accounting for cellular heterogeneity is critical in epigenome-wide association studies
Genome biology|2014
1.2k cit.
5
Fast, sensitive, and accurate integration of single cell data with Harmony
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2018
827 cit.
6
Decoding myofibroblast origins in human kidney fibrosis
Nature|2020
728 cit.
7
Spatial multi-omic map of human myocardial infarction
Nature|2022
660 cit.
8
Comparison of Affymetrix GeneChip expression measures
Bioinformatics|2006
313 cit.
9
Pharmacological GLI2 inhibition prevents myofibroblast cell-cycle progression and reduces kidney fibrosis
Journal of Clinical Investigation|2015
165 cit.
10
The human cardiac and skeletal muscle proteomes defined by transcriptomics and antibody-based profiling
BMC Genomics|2015
104 cit.

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