2026 Christopher A. Walsh: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	143	172	167	90	88	447	75811
Medicine	147	1288	1190	744	677	497	79363

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
2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christopher A. Walsh is affiliated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Neurology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The scientist's work encompasses a variety of main topics including:

Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Congenital heart defects research

Christopher A. Walsh has published extensively, with numerous papers appearing in leading journals. Recent papers include:

"Innovations present in the primate interneuron repertoire," 2020, Nature
"The ILAE consensus classification of focal cortical dysplasia: An update proposed by an ad hoc task force of the ILAE diagnostic methods commission," 2022, Epilepsia
"Somatic genomic changes in single Alzheimer's disease neurons," 2022, Nature
"Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions," 2021, Neuron
"Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features," 2023, Science

The most frequent publication venues for their research include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Neuroscience
Nature
Nature Communications
Science

Christopher A. Walsh often collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

August Yue Huang
Peter J. Park
Zinan Zhou
Eunjung Alice Lee
Yanmei Dou

Recognition for Christopher A. Walsh's contributions includes several awards:

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009

Best Publications

Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

3036
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
Large-Scale Exome Sequencing Study Implicates Both Developmental and Functional Changes in the Neurobiology of Autism

F. Kyle Satterstrom;F. Kyle Satterstrom;Jack A. Kosmicki;Jiebiao Wang;Michael S. Breen

2295
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
Regulation of Cerebral Cortical Size by Control of Cell Cycle Exit in Neural Precursors

Anjen Chenn;Anjen Chenn;Christopher A. Walsh

1678
Citations
Insights into Autism Spectrum Disorder Genomic Architecture and Biology from 71 Risk Loci.

Stephan J. Sanders;Xin He;A. Jeremy Willsey;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek

1582
Citations
Doublecortin is a microtubule-associated protein and is expressed widely by migrating neurons.

Joseph G Gleeson;Joseph G Gleeson;Peter T Lin;Lisa A Flanagan;Christopher A Walsh

1521
Citations
Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

1500
Citations
Directed migration of neural stem cells to sites of CNS injury by the stromal cell-derived factor 1α/CXC chemokine receptor 4 pathway

Jaime Imitola;Khadir Raddassi;Kook In Park;Franz Josef Mueller;Franz Josef Mueller

1321
Citations
doublecortin, a Brain-Specific Gene Mutated in Human X-Linked Lissencephaly and Double Cortex Syndrome, Encodes a Putative Signaling Protein

Joseph G Gleeson;Joseph G Gleeson;Kristina M Allen;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti

1156
Citations
Multipotent neural cell lines can engraft and participate in development of mouse cerebellum.

Evan Y. Snyder;David L. Deitcher;Christopher Walsh;Susan Arnold-Aldea

1059
Citations
Autosomal recessive lissencephaly with cerebellar hypoplasia is associated with human RELN mutations

Susan E. Hong;Yin Yao Shugart;David T. Huang;Saad Al Shahwan

1027
Citations
Association between microdeletion and microduplication at 16p11.2 and autism

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

978
Citations
Mutations in filamin 1 Prevent Migration of Cerebral Cortical Neurons in Human Periventricular Heterotopia

Jeremy W Fox;Jeremy W Fox;Edward D Lamperti;Yaman Z Ekşioğlu;Susan E Hong

965
Citations
Identifying Autism Loci and Genes by Tracing Recent Shared Ancestry

Eric M. Morrow;Seung Yun Yoo;Steven W. Flavell;Tae Kyung Kim

905
Citations
Mutations in the O-Mannosyltransferase Gene POMT1 Give Rise to the Severe Neuronal Migration Disorder Walker-Warburg Syndrome

Daniel Beltrán Valero De Bernabé;Sophie Currier;Alice Steinbrecher;Jacopo Celli

802
Citations
A genome-wide linkage and association scan reveals novel loci for autism

Lauren A. Weiss;Lauren A. Weiss;Dan E. Arking;Mark J. Daly;Mark J. Daly;Aravinda Chakravarti

766
Citations
Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways

Colm O'Dushlaine;Lizzy Rossin;Phil H. Lee;Laramie Duncan;Laramie Duncan

729
Citations
ASPM is a major determinant of cerebral cortical size.

Jacquelyn Bond;Emma Roberts;Ganesh H. Mochida;Ganesh H. Mochida;Daniel J. Hampshire

721
Citations
Reelin Binds α3β1 Integrin and Inhibits Neuronal Migration

Lori Dulabon;Eric C Olson;Mary G Taglienti;Scott Eisenhuth

701
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy W. Yu Boston Children's Hospital

Peter J. Park Harvard University

William B. Dobyns University of Minnesota

Joseph G. Gleeson University of California, San Diego

A. James Barkovich University of California, San Francisco

Eric M. Morrow Brown University

Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

Alan H. Beggs Harvard Medical School

Jill A. Rosenfeld Baylor College of Medicine

Ingrid A. Holm Boston Children's Hospital

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