2026 Daniel L. Hartl: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	128	276	266	145	139	472	62725

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Daniel L. Hartl is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. The researcher's work spans multiple fields including Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these main fields, Hartl has contributed notably to subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Genetics, and Parasitology.

Hartl's research topics focus primarily on:

Malaria Research and Control
Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
Trypanosoma species research and implications
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Parasites and Host Interactions

The researcher has published in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Malaria Journal
Research Square (Research Square)
Nature Communications
PNAS Nexus

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hartl include:

Dyann F. Wirth
Sarah K. Volkman
S. F. Schaffner
Daouda Ndiaye
Rachel F. Daniels

Recent papers by Daniel L. Hartl include:

Malaria surveillance reveals parasite relatedness, signatures of selection, and correlates of transmission across Senegal (2023, Nature Communications)
Plasmodium falciparum genomic surveillance reveals spatial and temporal trends, association of genetic and physical distance, and household clustering (2022, Scientific Reports)
Genetic surveillance for monitoring the impact of drug use on Plasmodium falciparum populations (2021, International Journal for Parasitology Drugs and Drug Resistance)
Genetic background and PfKelch13 affect artemisinin susceptibility of PfCoronin mutants in Plasmodium falciparum (2020, PLoS Genetics)
RH: a genetic metric for measuring intrahost Plasmodium falciparum relatedness and distinguishing cotransmission from superinfection (2022, PNAS Nexus)

Hartl has also authored a book titled Essential genetics and genomics, published in 2020 by Jones & Bartlett Learning eBooks.

Recognition for Hartl's work is reflected in awards such as:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2005)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998)

Best Publications

Principles of population genetics

Daniel L. Hartl;Andrew G. Clark

9899
Citations
Genetic Applications of an Inverse Polymerase Chain Reaction

H Ochman;A S Gerber;D L Hartl

2538
Citations
Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins.

Daniel M. Weinreich;Nigel F. Delaney;Mark A. DePristo;Daniel L. Hartl

1541
Citations
Mitochondrial pseudogenes: evolution's misplaced witnesses

Douda Bensasson;De Xing Zhang;Daniel L. Hartl;Godfrey M. Hewitt

1416
Citations
A primer of population genetics

Daniel L. Hartl

1217
Citations
Evolutionary paths to antibiotic resistance under dynamically sustained drug selection

Erdal Toprak;Adrian Veres;Jean Baptiste Michel;Remy Chait

863
Citations
A genome-wide view of the spectrum of spontaneous mutations in yeast

Michael Lynch;Way Sung;Krystalynne Morris;Nicole Coffey

801
Citations
A Primer of Ecological Genetics

Jeffrey K Conner;Daniel L Hartl

728
Citations
Missense meanderings in sequence space: a biophysical view of protein evolution

Mark A. DePristo;Daniel M. Weinreich;Daniel L. Hartl

727
Citations
Sex-Dependent Gene Expression and Evolution of the Drosophila Transcriptome

José M. Ranz;Cristian I. Castillo-Davis;Colin D. Meiklejohn;Daniel L. Hartl

714
Citations
Population genetics of polymorphism and divergence.

S A Sawyer;D L Hartl

633
Citations
Selection for short introns in highly expressed genes.

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis;Sergei L. Mekhedov;Daniel L. Hartl;Eugene V. Koonin

615
Citations
RADseq underestimates diversity and introduces genealogical biases due to nonrandom haplotype sampling

Brian John Arnold;Russ Brendan Corbett-Detig;Daniel L. Hartl;Kirsten Bomblies

526
Citations
Selection in chemostats.

D E Dykhuizen;D L Hartl

494
Citations
Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes

Daniel L. Hartl;Elizabeth W. Jones

473
Citations
High intrinsic rate of DNA loss in Drosophila

Dmitri A. Petrov;Elena R. Lozovskaya;Daniel L. Hartl

421
Citations
GeneMerge—post-genomic analysis, data mining, and hypothesis testing

Cristian I. Castillo-Davis;Daniel L. Hartl

395
Citations
A genome-wide map of diversity in Plasmodium falciparum.

Sarah K Volkman;Pardis C Sabeti;David DeCaprio;Daniel E Neafsey

394
Citations
Molecular structure of a somatically unstable transposable element in Drosophila.

James W. Jacobson;Meetha M. Medhora;Daniel L. Hartl

382
Citations
Principles of Population Genetics.

R. M. Cormack;D. L. Hartl;A. G. Clark

90
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah K. Volkman Harvard University

Dyann F. Wirth Harvard University

Daniel E. Dykhuizen Stony Brook University

Daniel E. Neafsey Broad Institute

Pardis C. Sabeti Harvard University

Dmitri A. Petrov Stanford University

Stephen F. Schaffner Broad Institute

Christian R. Landry Université Laval

Howard Ochman The University of Texas at Austin

Jeffrey P. Townsend Yale University

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