2026 Bruce S. Weir: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	95	878	826	440	411	244	69424

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand
1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Bruce S. Weir is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong concentration on Genetics. Subfields of study related to their work include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Hematology, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their research encompass Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Forensic and Genetic Research, Genetic diversity and population structure, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, as well as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for this scientist are:

Forensic Science International Genetics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Heredity
Nature Genetics
PLoS Genetics

Examples of recent published papers include:

Rank-invariant estimation of inbreeding coefficients, 2021, Heredity
The transitivity of the Hardy-Weinberg law, 2022, Forensic Science International Genetics
Analyzing population structure for forensic STR markers in next generation sequencing data, 2020, Forensic Science International Genetics
How Ancestry Influences the Chances of Finding Unrelated Donors: An Investigation in Admixed Brazilians, 2020, Frontiers in Immunology
Elephant genotypes reveal the size and connectivity of transnational ivory traffickers, 2022, Nature Human Behaviour

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Jérôme Goudet (11 publications)
Jan Graffelman (4 publications)
Sanne E. Aalbers (3 publications)
Kelly Nunes (3 publications)
Diogo Meyer (3 publications)

Throughout their career, Bruce S. Weir has received several honors and distinctions such as:

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1999
Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1998
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1997
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983

Best Publications

Estimating F-statistics for the analysis of population structure.

B. S. Weir;C. Clark Cockerham

20991
Citations
Genetic data analysis. Methods for discrete population genetic data.

B. S. Weir

7123
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
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
Genetic Data Analysis II.

B. S. Weir

3176
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 data analysis II : methods for discrete population genetic data

Bruce S. Weir

2293
Citations
ESTIMATION OF THE COANCESTRY COEFFICIENT: BASIS FOR A SHORT-TERM GENETIC DISTANCE

John Reynolds;B. S. Weir;C. Clark Cockerham

2288
Citations
A high-performance computing toolset for relatedness and principal component analysis of SNP data

Xiuwen Zheng;David Levine;Jess Shen;Stephanie M. Gogarten

2278
Citations
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program.

Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

2185
Citations
Genetics in geographically structured populations: defining, estimating and interpreting FST

Kent E. Holsinger;Bruce S. Weir

1771
Citations
Plant Population Genetics, Breeding, and Genetic Resources

A. H. D. Brown;M. T. Clegg;A. L. Kahler;B. S. Weir

1564
Citations
Genome-partitioning of genetic variation for complex traits using common SNPs

Jian Yang;Teri A. Manolio;Louis R. Pasquale;Eric Boerwinkle

1046
Citations
Estimating F-statistics.

B. S. Weir;W. G. Hill

700
Citations
Detectable clonal mosaicism from birth to old age and its relationship to cancer.

Cathy C. Laurie;Cecelia A Laurie;Kenneth Rice;Kimberly F. Doheny

657
Citations
Truncated product method for combining P‐values

D.V. Zaykin;Lev A. Zhivotovsky;P.H. Westfall;Bruce S. Weir

654
Citations
Variances and covariances of squared linkage disequilibria in finite populations.

W.G. Hill;B.S. Weir

629
Citations
Sequencing of 53,831 diverse genomes from the NHLBI TOPMed Program

Daniel Taliun;Daniel N. Harris;Michael D. Kessler;Jedidiah Carlson;Jedidiah Carlson

513
Citations
Genetic Data Analysis: Methods for Discrete Population Genetic Data.

Gary A. Chase;Bruce S. Weir

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathy C. Laurie University of Washington

William G. Hill University of Edinburgh

Stephanie M. Gogarten University of Washington

Eden R. Martin University of Miami

Alexander P. Reiner University of Washington

Jerome I. Rotter UCLA Medical Center

Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University

Lon R. Cardon The Jackson Laboratory

Jian Yang University of Birmingham

Eric Boerwinkle The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

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