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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking National Ranking Publications Citations
Genetics 58 3294 1436 120 23050

Christopher D. Brown publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Christopher D. Brown between 2004 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Christopher D. Brown published across 22 years, from 2004 to 2025, averaging 7.4 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2019. 10 of the 162 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2004 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2019. 2004: 2 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 1 publication 2008: 1 publication 2009: 2 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 5 publications 2013: 8 publications 2014: 6 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 8 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 10 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 15 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 8 publications 2025: 2 publications
2004 2025

162 publications in total across all disciplines

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Christopher D. Brown: publications per year, 2004 to 2025
Year Publications
2004 2
2005 0
2006 2
2007 1
2008 1
2009 2
2010 6
2011 3
2012 5
2013 8
2014 6
2015 9
2016 8
2017 9
2018 10
2019 20
2020 15
2021 18
2022 15
2023 12
2024 8
2025 2
Total 162
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Christopher D. Brown 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 Christopher D. Brown sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200
Bar chart with 67 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 45–54 to 703+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 217. Most scientists, 217, have 125–134 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 115–124 publications, is where this scientist sits. 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
45–54 publications 703+

This scientist: 120 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Genetics scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 4,342 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
45–54 6
55–64 10
65–74 35
75–84 84
85–94 102
95–104 151
105–114 175
115–124 203 120
125–134 217
135–144 205
145–154 193
155–164 188
165–174 170
175–184 178
185–194 164
195–204 173
205–214 159
215–224 134
225–234 143
235–244 105
245–254 114
255–264 92
265–274 88
275–284 87
285–294 80
295–304 62
305–314 75
315–324 67
325–334 60
335–344 52
345–354 40
355–364 48
365–374 47
375–384 46
385–394 31
395–404 27
405–414 40
415–424 30
425–434 43
435–444 29
445–454 14
455–464 28
465–474 21
475–484 21
485–494 22
495–504 17
505–514 12
515–524 11
525–534 8
535–544 8
545–554 14
555–564 4
565–574 11
575–584 5
585–594 11
595–604 12
605–614 7
615–624 6
625–634 10
635–644 9
645–654 10
655–664 6
665–674 6
675–684 6
685–694 4
695–702 6
703+ 100
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Christopher D. Brown 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 Christopher D. Brown sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 160+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 191. Most scientists, 191, have 62–63 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 58–59 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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
40–41 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Genetics scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 4,342 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 24
42–43 52
44–45 84
46–47 112
48–49 118
50–51 141
52–53 143
54–55 145
56–57 179
58–59 162 58
60–61 175
62–63 191
64–65 172
66–67 184
68–69 164
70–71 158
72–73 150
74–75 136
76–77 127
78–79 127
80–81 111
82–83 110
84–85 110
86–87 84
88–89 102
90–91 66
92–93 72
94–95 70
96–97 54
98–99 60
100–101 49
102–103 55
104–105 45
106–107 42
108–109 28
110–111 39
112–113 25
114–115 31
116–117 29
118–119 34
120–121 29
122–123 29
124–125 18
126–127 27
128–129 22
130–131 16
132–133 11
134–135 17
136–137 12
138–139 21
140–141 4
142–143 9
144–145 14
146–147 6
148–149 10
150–151 7
152–153 9
154–155 8
156–157 8
158–159 9
160+ 96
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Overview

Christopher D. Brown was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spanned fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 66 publications, and Medicine with 31 works. Within these domains, their subfields of study included Genetics, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, and Insect Science.

The main topics explored in their research encompassed Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, RNA Research and Splicing, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, and RNA modifications and cancer.

Christopher D. Brown contributed research to various scientific venues, notably publishing multiple papers in Alzheimer's & Dementia (11 publications), Genome Biology (6), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6), Nature Genetics (3), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2).

Their notable recent papers included:

  • Exploiting the GTEx resources to decipher the mechanisms at GWAS loci, 2021, Genome Biology
  • Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Population-scale tissue transcriptomics maps long non-coding RNAs to complex disease, 2021, Cell
  • A multiancestry genome-wide association study of unexplained chronic ALT elevation as a proxy for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease with histological and radiological validation, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Mapping the genetic architecture of human traits to cell types in the kidney identifies mechanisms of disease and potential treatments, 2021, Nature Genetics

Coauthorship was frequent with several researchers across these studies, including Struan F.A. Grant (10 publications), François Aguet (9), Kristin Ardlie (8), Benjamin F. Voight (8), and Alvaro Barbeira (7).

Best Publications

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

    Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • Integrative and comparative genomic analysis of HPV-positive and HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Tanguy Y Seiwert;Zhixiang Zuo;Michaela K Keck;Arun Khattri

  • A Cis-Regulatory Map of the Drosophila Genome

    Nicolas Nègre;Christopher D. Brown;Lijia Ma;Christopher Aaron Bristow

  • A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body.

    Lihua Jiang;Meng Wang;Shin Lin;Ruiqi Jian

  • Integrative Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer Identifies Two Biologically Distinct HPV and Three Non-HPV Subtypes

    Michaela K. Keck;Michaela K. Keck;Zhixiang Zuo;Arun Khattri;Thomas P. Stricker

  • A Comprehensive Map of Insulator Elements for the Drosophila Genome

    Nicolas Nègre;Christopher D. Brown;Parantu K. Shah;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Identification, Replication, and Functional Fine-Mapping of Expression Quantitative Trait Loci in Primary Human Liver Tissue

    Federico Innocenti;Gregory M. Cooper;Ian B. Stanaway;Eric R. Gamazon

  • A statin-dependent QTL for GATM expression is associated with statin-induced myopathy

    Lara M. Mangravite;Barbara E. Engelhardt;Barbara E. Engelhardt;Marisa W. Medina;Joshua D. Smith

  • Exploiting the GTEx resources to decipher the mechanisms at GWAS loci.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Eric R. Gamazon;Yanyu Liang

  • Transposable elements are the primary source of novelty in primate gene regulation.

    Marco Trizzino;Yo Son Park;Marcia Holsbach-Beltrame;Katherine Aracena

  • Novel loci for childhood body mass index and shared heritability with adult cardiometabolic traits.

    Suzanne Vogelezang;Suzanne Vogelezang;Jonathan P Bradfield;Tarunveer S Ahluwalia;John A Curtin

  • Renal compartment–specific genetic variation analyses identify new pathways in chronic kidney disease

    Chengxiang Qiu;Shizheng Huang;Jihwan Park;Yo Son Park

  • Integrative modeling of eQTLs and cis-regulatory elements suggests mechanisms underlying cell type specificity of eQTLs.

    Christopher D. Brown;Lara M. Mangravite;Barbara E. Engelhardt

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    François Aguet;Alvaro N Barbeira;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Andrew Brown

  • CUX1 is a haploinsufficient tumor suppressor gene on chromosome 7 frequently inactivated in acute myeloid leukemia.

    Megan E. McNerney;Christopher D. Brown;Xiaoyue Wang;Elizabeth T. Bartom

  • Rapid growth of a hepatocellular carcinoma and the driving mutations revealed by cell-population genetic analysis of whole-genome data

    Yong Tao;Jue Ruan;Shiou-Hwei Yeh;Xuemei Lu

  • A Comprehensive Map of Insulator Elements for the Drosophila Genome

    Kevin P. White;Steven Henikoff;Lincoln Stein;Robert A. H. White

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin P. White
Kevin P. White National University of Singapore
Xiaoquan Wen
Xiaoquan Wen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Stephen B. Montgomery
Stephen B. Montgomery Stanford University
Kristin Ardlie
Kristin Ardlie Broad Institute
Struan F.A. Grant
Struan F.A. Grant University of Pennsylvania
Tuuli Lappalainen
Tuuli Lappalainen Royal Institute of Technology
Daniel J. Rader
Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania
Eric R. Gamazon
Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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