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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Medicine 80 16850 15844 8445 7808 207 60370
Genetics 80 1544 1466 718 675 201 60425

Dan L. Nicolae publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Dan L. Nicolae between 1998 and 2023, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Dan L. Nicolae published across 26 years, from 1998 to 2023, averaging 8.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 17 publications in 2018. 17 of the 232 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1998 to 2023. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 17. Peak 17 publications in 2018. 1998: 3 publications 1999: 2 publications 2000: 3 publications 2001: 2 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 8 publications 2004: 6 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 9 publications 2007: 7 publications 2008: 10 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 15 publications 2012: 16 publications 2013: 14 publications 2014: 11 publications 2015: 9 publications 2016: 13 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 17 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 7 publications 2021: 10 publications 2022: 7 publications 2023: 10 publications
1998 2023

232 publications in total across all disciplines

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Dan L. Nicolae: publications per year, 1998 to 2023
Year Publications
1998 3
1999 2
2000 3
2001 2
2002 4
2003 8
2004 6
2005 5
2006 9
2007 7
2008 10
2009 8
2010 12
2011 15
2012 16
2013 14
2014 11
2015 9
2016 13
2017 9
2018 17
2019 15
2020 7
2021 10
2022 7
2023 10
Total 232
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Dan L. Nicolae 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 Dan L. Nicolae 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, 195–204 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: 201 publications — 51st percentile

51% 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
125–134 217
135–144 205
145–154 193
155–164 188
165–174 170
175–184 178
185–194 164
195–204 173 201
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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Dan L. Nicolae 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 Dan L. Nicolae 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, 80–81 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: 80 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% 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
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 80
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

Dan L. Nicolae is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Immunology and Microbiology. Subfields of study commonly associated with their work include Statistics and Probability, Molecular Biology, Physiology, Immunology, and Genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including Asthma and respiratory diseases, Statistical Methods and Inference, IL-33, ST2, and ILC Pathways, Toxoplasma gondii Research Studies, Neonatal Respiratory Health Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, and Pediatric health and respiratory diseases.

Dan L. Nicolae has published research extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Expression quantitative trait locus fine mapping of the 17q12-21 asthma locus in African American children: a genetic association and gene expression study, 2020, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
  • Epigenetic landscape links upper airway microbiota in infancy with allergic rhinitis at 6 years of age, 2020, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Chromosome 17q12-21 Variants Are Associated with Multiple Wheezing Phenotypes in Childhood, 2021, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Multi-omics colocalization with genome-wide association studies reveals a context-specific genetic mechanism at a childhood onset asthma risk locus, 2021, Genome Medicine
  • Longitudinal data reveal strong genetic and weak non-genetic components of ethnicity-dependent blood DNA methylation levels, 2020, Epigenetics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dan L. Nicolae include:

  • Carole Ober
  • James E. Gern
  • Chris McKennan
  • Matthew C. Altman
  • Katherine A. Naughton

Their work appears regularly in notable publication venues such as:

  • Current Pediatrics Reports
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
  • Genome Medicine
  • UNC Libraries

Best Publications

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • A frameshift mutation in NOD2 associated with susceptibility to Crohn's disease

    Yasunori Ogura;Denise K. Bonen;Naohiro Inohara;Dan L. Nicolae

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

    Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies IL23R as an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Gene

    Richard H. Duerr;Kent D. Taylor;Steven R. Brant;Steven R. Brant;John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux

  • Genome-wide association defines more than 30 distinct susceptibility loci for Crohn's disease

    Jeffrey C. Barrett;Sarah Hansoul;Dan L. Nicolae;Judy H. Cho

  • Genome-wide association study identifies new susceptibility loci for Crohn disease and implicates autophagy in disease pathogenesis

    John D. Rioux;John D. Rioux;Ramnik J. Xavier;Kent D. Taylor;Mark S. Silverberg

  • A Gene-Based Association Method for Mapping Traits Using Reference Transcriptome Data

    Eric R Gamazon;Heather E Wheeler;Kaanan P Shah;Sahar V Mozaffari

  • Trait-associated SNPs are more likely to be eQTLs: annotation to enhance discovery from GWAS.

    Dan L. Nicolae;Eric R. Gamazon;Wei Zhang;Shiwei Duan

  • Correction: Corrigendum: Synchronized age-related gene expression changes across multiple tissues in human and the link to complex diseases

    Jialiang Yang;Tao Huang;Francesca Petralia;Quan Long

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations

    Dara G. Torgerson;Dara G. Torgerson;Elizabeth J. Ampleford;Grace Y. Chiu;W. James Gauderman

  • Rhinovirus Wheezing Illness and Genetic Risk of Childhood-Onset Asthma

    Minal Çalışkan;Yury A. Bochkov;Eskil Kreiner-Møller;Klaus Bønnelykke

  • Genetic variants associated with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis susceptibility and mortality: a genome-wide association study

    Imre Noth;Yingze Zhang;Shwu Fan Ma;Carlos Flores

  • Effect of Variation in CHI3L1 on Serum YKL-40 Level, Risk of Asthma, and Lung Function

    Carole Ober;Zheng Tan;Ying Sun;Jennifer D. Possick

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Crohn's disease-associated NOD2 variants share a signaling defect in response to lipopolysaccharide and peptidoglycan.

    Denise K. Bonen;Yasunori Ogura;Dan L. Nicolae;Naohiro Inohara

  • Loci on chromosomes 2 (NIDDM1) and 15 interact to increase susceptibility to diabetes in Mexican Americans.

    Nancy J. Cox;Mike Frigge;Dan L. Nicolae;Dan L. Nicolae;Patrick Concannon

  • Identification of novel susceptibility loci for inflammatory bowel disease on chromosomes 1p, 3q, and 4q: Evidence for epistasis between 1p and IBD1

    Judy H. Cho;Dan L. Nicolae;Leslee H. Gold;Carter T. Fields

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Carole Ober
Carole Ober University of Chicago
Nancy J. Cox
Nancy J. Cox Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Kathleen C. Barnes
Kathleen C. Barnes University of Colorado Denver
Scott T. Weiss
Scott T. Weiss Harvard University
Eugene R. Bleecker
Eugene R. Bleecker University of Arizona
Benjamin A. Raby
Benjamin A. Raby Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eric R. Gamazon
Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Frank D. Gilliland
Frank D. Gilliland University of Southern California
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Esteban G. Burchard
Esteban G. Burchard University of California, San Francisco

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