2026 Aravinda Chakravarti: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	138	193	188	101	99	471	136697
Medicine	137	1851	1723	1054	969	479	136615

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Aravinda Chakravarti is affiliated with New York University Langone Medical Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine, with a substantial body of work focused on subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Infectious Diseases.

The main topics of Chakravarti's research encompass congenital gastrointestinal and neural anomalies, genetic associations and epidemiology, intestinal malrotation and obstruction disorders, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, bioinformatics and genomic networks, congenital anomalies and fetal surgery, and digestive system and related health.

Frequent publication venues for Chakravarti include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
Genome Research
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Some of their recent papers are:

The road ahead in genetics and genomics, 2020, Nature Reviews Genetics
Statistical and functional convergence of common and rare genetic influences on autism at chromosome 16p, 2022, Nature Genetics
Pathogenic alleles in microtubule, secretory granule and extracellular matrix-related genes in familial keratoconus, 2021, Human Molecular Genetics
Insights From a Large-Scale Whole-Genome Sequencing Study of Systolic Blood Pressure, Diastolic Blood Pressure, and Hypertension, 2022, Hypertension
Ret deficiency decreases neural crest progenitor proliferation and restricts fate potential during enteric nervous system development, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Chakravarti has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Dongwon Lee
Or Yaacov
Nora Franceschini
Sumantra Chatterjee
Hanna Berk-Rauch

In recognition of their scientific contributions, Chakravarti was appointed as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014 and was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

A global reference for human genetic variation.

Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

18403
Citations
Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

9537
Citations
The International HapMap Project

John W. Belmont;Paul Hardenbol;Thomas D. Willis;Fuli Yu

6219
Citations
A haplotype map of the human genome

John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

5528
Citations
Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: genetic analysis.

Bat Sheva Kerem;Johanna M. Rommens;Janet A. Buchanan;Danuta Markiewicz

5439
Citations
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

5383
Citations
Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels

Cristen J. Willer;Ellen M. Schmidt;Sebanti Sengupta;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso

3259
Citations
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

2437
Citations
Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

2429
Citations
Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk

Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Patricia B. Munroe;Kenneth M. Rice;Murielle Bochud

2279
Citations
Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

2210
Citations
Association between Microdeletion and Microduplication at 16p11.2 and Autism

Lauren A. Weiss;Yiping Shen;Joshua M. Korn;Joshua M. Korn;Dan E. Arking

2014
Citations
Genome-wide association scan shows genetic variants in the FTO gene are associated with obesity-related traits.

Angelo Scuteri;Serena Sanna;Wei-Min Chen;Manuela Uda

2005
Citations
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Adam E. Locke;Bratati Kahali;Sonja I. Berndt;Anne E. Justice

1689
Citations
Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

Daniel Levy;Georg B. Ehret;Georg B. Ehret;Kenneth Rice;Germaine C. Verwoert

1585
Citations
DNA duplication associated with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A

James R. Lupski;Roberto Montes de Oca-Luna;Susan Slaugenhaupt;Liu Pentao

1509
Citations
VARIATIONS ON A THEME : CATALOGING HUMAN DNA SEQUENCE VARIATION

Francis S. Collins;Mark S. Guyer;Aravinda Chakravarti

1498
Citations
Patterns of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in candidate genes for blood-pressure homeostasis

Marc K. Halushka;Jian Bing Fan;Kimberly Bentley;Linda Hsie

1399
Citations
Development of Human Protein Reference Database as an Initial Platform for Approaching Systems Biology in Humans

Suraj Peri;Suraj Peri;J. Daniel Navarro;J. Daniel Navarro;Ramars Amanchy;Troels Z. Kristiansen;Troels Z. Kristiansen

1344
Citations
Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

Ryan E. Mills;Klaudia Walter;Chip Stewart;Robert E. Handsaker

1331
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg B. Ehret University of Geneva

Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington

Dan E. Arking Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London

Christopher Newton-Cheh Harvard University

Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester

Tonu Esko University of Tartu

André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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