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Spatial Transcriptomics

Last updated May 19, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Junedh Amrute
Washington University in St. Louis
564 cit.
2
Daniel Dimitrov
Heidelberg University
561 cit.
3
Marie Schott
Max Delbrück Center
558 cit.
4
Michelli F. Oliveira
10X Genomics (United States)
471 cit.
5
Yue You
Unknown
468 cit.
6
Yunhe Liu
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
453 cit.
7
Chia-Kuei Mo
James S. McDonnell Foundation
411 cit.
8
Magda Marečková
Wellcome Sanger Institute
405 cit.
9
Amin Abedini
University of Pennsylvania
396 cit.
10
Shuai Ma
Chinese Academy of Sciences
378 cit.

Rising Stars Papers

1
Targeting immune–fibroblast cell communication in heart failure
Nature|2024
187 cit.
2
LIANA+ provides an all-in-one framework for cell–cell communication inference
Nature Cell Biology|2024
186 cit.
3
Open-ST: High-resolution spatial transcriptomics in 3D
Cell|2024
185 cit.
4
High-definition spatial transcriptomic profiling of immune cell populations in colorectal cancer
Nature Genetics|2025
156 cit.
5
Systematic comparison of sequencing-based spatial transcriptomic methods
Nature Methods|2024
155 cit.
6
Conserved spatial subtypes and cellular neighborhoods of cancer-associated fibroblasts revealed by single-cell spatial multi-omics
Cancer Cell|2025
150 cit.
7
Tumour evolution and microenvironment interactions in 2D and 3D space
Nature|2024
136 cit.
8
An integrated single-cell reference atlas of the human endometrium
Nature Genetics|2024
134 cit.
9
Single-cell multi-omic and spatial profiling of human kidneys implicates the fibrotic microenvironment in kidney disease progression
Nature Genetics|2024
131 cit.
10
Spatial transcriptomic landscape unveils immunoglobin-associated senescence as a hallmark of aging
Cell|2024
125 cit.

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Vivek Swarup
University of California, Irvine
557 cit.
2
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
454 cit.
3
Itay Tirosh
Weizmann Institute of Science
417 cit.
4
Sarah A. Teichmann
University of Cambridge
367 cit.
5
Shyam Prabhakar
Agency for Science, Technology and Research
323 cit.
6
Yu Shi
Army Medical University
270 cit.
7
Yi Zhao
Tencent (China)
261 cit.
8
Mingyao Li
University of Pennsylvania
258 cit.
9
Jean‐Christophe Marine
VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology
254 cit.
10
Sten Linnarsson
Karolinska Institutet
251 cit.

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain
Nature|2023
997 cit.
2
An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney
Nature|2023
624 cit.
3
hdWGCNA identifies co-expression networks in high-dimensional transcriptomics data
Cell Reports Methods|2023
668 cit.
4
Molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain
Nature|2023
454 cit.
5
Integrative spatial analysis reveals a multi-layered organization of glioblastoma
Cell|2024
278 cit.
6
Spatially resolved multiomics of human cardiac niches
Nature|2023
367 cit.
7
BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis
Nature Genetics|2024
215 cit.
8
Identification of hypoxic macrophages in glioblastoma with therapeutic potential for vasculature normalization
Cancer Cell|2024
180 cit.
9
Benchmarking spatial clustering methods with spatially resolved transcriptomics data
Nature Methods|2024
174 cit.
10
Inferring super-resolution tissue architecture by integrating spatial transcriptomics with histology
Nature Biotechnology|2024
172 cit.

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All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Rahul Satija
New York University
49.9k cit.
2
Fredrik Pontén
Uppsala University
47.3k cit.
3
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Broad Institute
30.7k cit.
4
Jonas Frisén
Karolinska Institutet
11.3k cit.
5
Jian Wang
BGI Group (China)
4.9k cit.
6
Cecilia Lindskog
Uppsala University
4.9k cit.
7
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
4.3k cit.
8
Rafael Kramann
Erasmus MC
4.1k cit.
9
Rafael A. Irizarry
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
4.1k cit.
10
Fei Chen
Broad Institute
4k cit.

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data
Cell|2019
16.6k cit.
2
Tissue-based map of the human proteome
Science|2015
15.8k cit.
3
Fast, sensitive and accurate integration of single-cell data with Harmony
Nature Methods|2019
10.2k cit.
4
Visualization and analysis of gene expression in tissue sections by spatial transcriptomics
Science|2016
3.8k cit.
5
Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays
Cell|2022
1.6k cit.
6
Robust decomposition of cell type mixtures in spatial transcriptomics
Nature Biotechnology|2021
1.4k cit.
7
Highly sensitive spatial transcriptomics at near-cellular resolution with Slide-seqV2
Nature Biotechnology|2020
1.3k cit.
8
Analysis of the Human Tissue-specific Expression by Genome-wide Integration of Transcriptomics and Antibody-based Proteomics
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics|2013
3.8k cit.
9
High-definition spatial transcriptomics for in situ tissue profiling
Nature Methods|2019
1.2k cit.
10
Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Nature Neuroscience|2021
1.2k cit.

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