2026 Alistair R. R. Forrest: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	71	2147	2040	75	73	192	34585

Alistair R. R. Forrest publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alistair R. R. Forrest sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 192 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Alistair R. R. Forrest D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alistair R. R. Forrest sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alistair R. R. Forrest is affiliated with the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Australia. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist has contributed extensively to fields including molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, immunology, and genetics.

Their primary topics of research focus on single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, immune cells in cancer, and RNA research and splicing.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Cell
Nature

Key recent papers from Alistair R. R. Forrest comprise:

Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows, 2020, Genome Biology
Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer, 2020, The EMBO Journal
Predicting cell-to-cell communication networks using NATMI, 2020, Nature Communications
Human prefrontal cortex gene regulatory dynamics from gestation to adulthood at single-cell resolution, 2022, Cell
Spatial transcriptomics reveals discrete tumour microenvironments and autocrine loops within ovarian cancer subclones, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent collaborators in research include:

Rui Hou
Elena Denisenko
Timo Lassmann
Matthew Jones
Janina E. E. Tirnitz-Parker

Best Publications

The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

4200
Citations
An atlas of active enhancers across human cell types and tissues

Robin Andersson;Claudia Gebhard;Irene Miguel-Escalada;Ilka Hoof

2635
Citations
Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

2121
Citations
A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

2045
Citations
Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

1612
Citations
Stem cell transcriptome profiling via massive-scale mRNA sequencing.

Nicole Cloonan;Alistair R R Forrest;Alistair R R Forrest;Gabriel Kolle;Brooke B A Gardiner

1331
Citations
Long non-coding antisense RNA controls Uchl1 translation through an embedded SINEB2 repeat

Claudia Carrieri;Laura Cimatti;Marta Biagioli;Marta Biagioli;Anne Beugnet

1061
Citations
An atlas of human long non-coding RNAs with accurate 5′ ends

Chung Chau Hon;Jordan A. Ramilowski;Jayson Harshbarger;Nicolas Bertin;Nicolas Bertin

987
Citations
The regulated retrotransposon transcriptome of mammalian cells.

Geoffrey J Faulkner;Yasumasa Kimura;Carsten O Daub;Shivangi Wani

879
Citations
An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

872
Citations
Gateways to the FANTOM5 promoter level mammalian expression atlas

Marina Lizio;Jayson Harshbarger;Hisashi Shimoji;Jessica Severin

845
Citations
A draft network of ligand–receptor-mediated multicellular signalling in human

Jordan A. Ramilowski;Tatyana Goldberg;Jayson Harshbarger;Edda Kloppmann

756
Citations
Transcribed enhancers lead waves of coordinated transcription in transitioning mammalian cells

Erik Arner;Carsten O. Daub;Kristoffer Vitting-Seerup;Robin Andersson

647
Citations
An integrated expression atlas of miRNAs and their promoters in human and mouse.

Derek De Rie;Imad Abugessaisa;Tanvir Alam;Erik Arner

615
Citations
The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

497
Citations
Systematic assessment of tissue dissociation and storage biases in single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-seq workflows

Elena Denisenko;Belinda B. Guo;Matthew Jones;Rui Hou

469
Citations
Tiny RNAs associated with transcription start sites in animals.

Ryan J Taft;Evgeny A Glazov;Nicole Cloonan;Cas Simons

430
Citations
Hierarchical folding and reorganization of chromosomes are linked to transcriptional changes in cellular differentiation

James Fraser;Carmelo Ferrai;Carmelo Ferrai;Andrea M Chiariello;Markus Schueler

368
Citations
The miR-17-5p microRNA is a key regulator of the G1/S phase cell cycle transition

Nicole Cloonan;Mellissa K Brown;Anita L Steptoe;Shivangi Wani

353
Citations
Stromal cell diversity associated with immune evasion in human triple-negative breast cancer.

Sunny Z. Wu;Sunny Z. Wu;Daniel L. Roden;Daniel L. Roden;Chenfei Wang;Holly Holliday;Holly Holliday

326
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Piero Carninci RIKEN

Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN

Hideya Kawaji RIKEN

Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute

Masayoshi Itoh RIKEN

Harukazu Suzuki RIKEN

David A. Hume University of Queensland

Carsten O. Daub Karolinska Institute

Sean M. Grimmond University of Melbourne

Christine A. Wells University of Melbourne

External Links

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