2026 Daniel Falush: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	56	3443	3251	86	84	86	45042

Overview

Daniel Falush is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing extensively to the fields of medicine as well. Within these broader areas, their work engages deeply with subfields such as molecular biology, surgery, endocrinology, ecology, and food science.

The main topics covered by Falush's research include:

Genomics and phylogenetic studies
Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
Vibrio bacteria research studies
Microbial community ecology and physiology
Escherichia coli research studies
Mycobacterium research and diagnosis

Falush has published articles in a range of scientific journals, with frequent publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, mBio, Genome Biology, and Nature Food. Their research output includes the following recent papers:

"Analysis of 1321 Eubacterium rectale genomes from metagenomes uncovers complex phylogeographic population structure and subspecies functional adaptations" (2020, Genome Biology)
"Centralized industrialization of pork in Europe and America contributes to the global spread of Salmonella enterica" (2024, Nature Food)
"Repeated out-of-Africa expansions of Helicobacter pylori driven by replacement of deleterious mutations" (2022, Nature Communications)
"The landscape of coadaptation in Vibrio parahaemolyticus" (2020, eLife)
"An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori" (2024, Nature)

Daniel Falush frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

Sarah L. Svensson
Yoshio Yamaoka
Kaisa Thorell
Koji Yahara
Ben Pascoe

Best Publications

Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data: Linked Loci and Correlated Allele Frequencies

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

9251
Citations
Roary: Rapid large-scale prokaryote pan genome analysis

Andrew J. Page;Carla A. Cummins;Martin Hunt;Vanessa K. Wong

5568
Citations
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs;Tomislav Maricic

4869
Citations
Inferring weak population structure with the assistance of sample group information.

Melissa J. Hubisz;Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

3803
Citations
Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: dominant markers and null alleles

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard

3676
Citations
Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

Thierry Wirth;Daniel Falush;Ruiting Lan;Frances M Colles

2295
Citations
An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori

Bodo Linz;Francois Balloux;Yoshan Moodley;Andrea Manica

1239
Citations
Traces of human migrations in Helicobacter pylori populations

Daniel Falush;Thierry Wirth;Bodo Linz;Jonathan K. Pritchard

1233
Citations
Inference of population structure using dense haplotype data

Daniel John Lawson;Garrett Hellenthal;Simon Myers;Daniel Falush

1203
Citations
A new model for prediction of the age of onset and penetrance for Huntington's disease based on CAG length.

Douglas R. Langbehn;Ryan R. Brinkman;Daniel Falush;Jane S. Paulsen

931
Citations
A genetic atlas of human admixture history.

Garrett Hellenthal;George B. J. Busby;Gavin Band;James F. Wilson

846
Citations
Inference of Bacterial Microevolution Using Multilocus Sequence Data

Xavier Didelot;Daniel Falush

771
Citations
The fine-scale genetic structure of the British population

Stephen Leslie;Stephen Leslie;Bruce Winney;Garrett Hellenthal;Dan Davison

562
Citations
Recombination and mutation during long-term gastric colonization by Helicobacter pylori: Estimates of clock rates, recombination size, and minimal age

Daniel Falush;Christian Kraft;Nancy S. Taylor;Pelayo Correa

493
Citations
Historical variations in mutation rate in an epidemic pathogen, Yersinia pestis

Yujun Cui;Chang Yu;Yanfeng Yan;Dongfang Li

485
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies vitamin B5 biosynthesis as a host specificity factor in Campylobacter

Samuel K. Sheppard;Xavier Didelot;Guillaume Meric;Alicia Torralbo

340
Citations
RADpainter and fineRADstructure: Population Inference from RADseq Data.

Milan Malinsky;Emiliano Trucchi;Daniel John Lawson;Daniel Falush

336
Citations
Helicobacter pylori genome evolution during human infection

Lynn Kennemann;Xavier Didelot;Toni Aebischer;Stefanie Kuhn

305
Citations
Sequence Typing and Comparison of Population Biology of Campylobacter coli and Campylobacter jejuni

Kate E. Dingle;Kate E. Dingle;Frances M. Colles;Daniel Falush;Martin C. J. Maiden

275
Citations
Inference of population structure using multilocus genotype data: linked loci and correlated allele frequencies.

Daniel Falush;Matthew Stephens;Jonathan K. Pritchard;sebnem ozemri sag

8
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Didelot University of Warwick

Mark Achtman University of Warwick

Samuel K. Sheppard University of Bath

Martin C. J. Maiden University of Oxford

Sebastian Suerbaum Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Matthew Stephens University of Chicago

Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University

Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge

Martin J. Blaser Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Yoshio Yamaoka Oita University

External Links

Personal website of Daniel Falush

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