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Aravinda Chakravarti 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 Aravinda Chakravarti sits on this spectrum.

45–54 publications: 6 scientists 55–64 publications: 10 scientists 65–74 publications: 35 scientists 75–84 publications: 84 scientists 85–94 publications: 102 scientists 95–104 publications: 151 scientists 105–114 publications: 175 scientists 115–124 publications: 203 scientists 125–134 publications: 217 scientists 135–144 publications: 205 scientists 145–154 publications: 193 scientists 155–164 publications: 188 scientists 165–174 publications: 170 scientists 175–184 publications: 178 scientists 185–194 publications: 164 scientists 195–204 publications: 173 scientists 205–214 publications: 159 scientists 215–224 publications: 134 scientists 225–234 publications: 143 scientists 235–244 publications: 105 scientists 245–254 publications: 114 scientists 255–264 publications: 92 scientists 265–274 publications: 88 scientists 275–284 publications: 87 scientists 285–294 publications: 80 scientists 295–304 publications: 62 scientists 305–314 publications: 75 scientists 315–324 publications: 67 scientists 325–334 publications: 60 scientists 335–344 publications: 52 scientists 345–354 publications: 40 scientists 355–364 publications: 48 scientists 365–374 publications: 47 scientists 375–384 publications: 46 scientists 385–394 publications: 31 scientists 395–404 publications: 27 scientists 405–414 publications: 40 scientists 415–424 publications: 30 scientists 425–434 publications: 43 scientists 435–444 publications: 29 scientists 445–454 publications: 14 scientists 455–464 publications: 28 scientists 465–474 publications: 21 scientists 475–484 publications: 21 scientists 485–494 publications: 22 scientists 495–504 publications: 17 scientists 505–514 publications: 12 scientists 515–524 publications: 11 scientists 525–534 publications: 8 scientists 535–544 publications: 8 scientists 545–554 publications: 14 scientists 555–564 publications: 4 scientists 565–574 publications: 11 scientists 575–584 publications: 5 scientists 585–594 publications: 11 scientists 595–604 publications: 12 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 6 scientists 625–634 publications: 10 scientists 635–644 publications: 9 scientists 645–654 publications: 10 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 6 scientists 675–684 publications: 6 scientists 685–694 publications: 4 scientists 695–702 publications: 6 scientists 703+ publications: 100 scientists
45 publications 703+

This scientist: 471 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Aravinda Chakravarti 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 Aravinda Chakravarti sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 24 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 52 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 84 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 112 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 141 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 143 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 145 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 179 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 162 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 175 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 191 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 172 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 184 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 164 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 158 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 150 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 136 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 127 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 127 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 111 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 110 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 110 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 102 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 66 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 72 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 70 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 54 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 60 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 55 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 45 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 42 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 28 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 39 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 25 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 31 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 34 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 29 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 27 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 22 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 16 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 11 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 21 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 4 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 9 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 14 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 6 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 10 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 7 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 9 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 8 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 8 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 9 scientists 160+ D-Index: 96 scientists
40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 138 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

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

  • The International HapMap Project

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

  • A haplotype map of the human genome

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

  • Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: genetic analysis.

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

  • A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Association between Microdeletion and Microduplication at 16p11.2 and Autism

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Genome-wide association study of blood pressure and hypertension

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

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

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

  • VARIATIONS ON A THEME : CATALOGING HUMAN DNA SEQUENCE VARIATION

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Mapping copy number variation by population-scale genome sequencing

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg B. Ehret
Georg B. Ehret University of Geneva
Eric Boerwinkle
Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Bruce M. Psaty
Bruce M. Psaty University of Washington
Dan E. Arking
Dan E. Arking Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jaspal S. Kooner
Jaspal S. Kooner Imperial College London
Christopher Newton-Cheh
Christopher Newton-Cheh Harvard University
Jerome I. Rotter
Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center
Nilesh J. Samani
Nilesh J. Samani University of Leicester
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
André G. Uitterlinden
André G. Uitterlinden Erasmus University Rotterdam

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