2026 Edward M. Rubin: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	125	310	300	163	157	306	84814
Medicine	122	3403	3174	1874	1726	323	82853

Overview

Edward M. Rubin is affiliated with the Joint Genome Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with an emphasis on infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, and animal science and zoology. Rubin's work intersects key areas such as zoonotic diseases, viral gastroenteritis, and epidemiological studies related to COVID-19.

Rubin has contributed extensively to research on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, public health implications of zoonotic infections, and the study of animal virus infections. The scientist's publications span a range of topics including coronavirus surveillance, viral RNA detection in wildlife, and co-evolutionary dynamics of viruses with their hosts.

Recent selected papers include:

Coronavirus surveillance in wildlife from two Congo basin countries detects RNA of multiple species circulating in bats and rodents (2021, PLoS ONE)
Targeted genomic sequencing with probe capture for discovery and surveillance of coronaviruses in bats (2022, eLife)
Coronavirus surveillance of wildlife in the Lao People's Democratic Republic detects viral RNA in rodents (2020, Archives of Virology)
Wildlife in Cameroon harbor diverse coronaviruses, including many closely related to human coronavirus 229E (2022, Virus Evolution)
Evaluation of bat adenoviruses suggests co-evolution and host roosting behaviour as drivers for diversity (2021, Microbial Genomics)

Rubin collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

Amethyst Gillis
Matthew LeBreton
David J. McIver
Christian E. Lange
Damien O. Joly

Frequent publication venues for Rubin's work include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS ONE
eLife
Archives of Virology

In addition to journal articles, Rubin has contributed to book publications, including a 2022 title published by the World Bank titled Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales. This work reflects an engagement with topics related to names, identity, and discrimination research.

The main fields of study for Rubin's body of work are Medicine, with subfields concentrated on Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Animal Science and Zoology, Sociology and Political Science, and Modeling and Simulation.

Their research topics cover the following areas:

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
Zoonotic diseases and public health
Animal Virus Infections Studies
Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Virology and Viral Diseases
Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research

Best Publications

Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

8732
Citations
Severe hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice created by homologous recombination in ES cells

Andrew S. Plump;Jonathan D. Smith;Tony Hayek;Katriina Aalto-Setälä

2858
Citations
Community structure and metabolism through reconstruction of microbial genomes from the environment

Gene W. Tyson;Jarrod Chapman;Jarrod Chapman;Philip Hugenholtz;Eric E. Allen

2834
Citations
Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter

Christian Rinke;Patrick Schwientek;Alexander Sczyrba;Alexander Sczyrba;Natalia N. Ivanova

2571
Citations
Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

2564
Citations
VISTA: computational tools for comparative genomics

Kelly A. Frazer;Lior Pachter;Alexander Poliakov;Edward M. Rubin

2540
Citations
Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities

Susannah Green Tringe;Christian von Mering;Arthur Kobayashi;Asaf A. Salamov

2015
Citations
ChIP-seq accurately predicts tissue-specific activity of enhancers

Axel Visel;Matthew J. Blow;Matthew J. Blow;Zirong Li;Tao Zhang

1929
Citations
Genomics of cellulosic biofuels

Edward M. Rubin;Edward M. Rubin

1572
Citations
Metagenomic discovery of biomass-degrading genes and genomes from cow rumen.

Matthias Hess;Matthias Hess;Alexander Sczyrba;Alexander Sczyrba;Rob Egan;Rob Egan;Tae Wan Kim

1531
Citations
Metagenomic and functional analysis of hindgut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite.

Falk Warnecke;Peter Luginbühl;Natalia Ivanova;Majid Ghassemian

1522
Citations
Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina).

Diego Martinez;Diego Martinez;Randy M Berka;Bernard Henrissat;Markku Saloheimo

1383
Citations
In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences

Len A. Pennacchio;Len A. Pennacchio;Nadav Ahituv;Alan M. Moses;Shyam Prabhakar

1334
Citations
An Apolipoprotein Influencing Triglycerides in Humans and Mice Revealed by Comparative Sequencing

Len A. Pennacchio;Michael Olivier;Jaroslav A. Hubacek;Jonathan C. Cohen

1267
Citations
VISTA : visualizing global DNA sequence alignments of arbitrary length.

Chris Mayor;Michael Brudno;Jody R. Schwartz;Alexander Poliakov

1252
Citations
Inhibition of early atherogenesis in transgenic mice by human apolipoprotein AI.

Edward M. Rubin;Ronald M. Krauss;Elizabeth A. Spangler;Judy G. Verstuyft

1241
Citations
Uncovering Earth’s virome

David Paez-Espino;Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh;Georgios A. Pavlopoulos;Alex D. Thomas

1180
Citations
A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea.

Dongying Wu;Dongying Wu;Philip Hugenholtz;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Rüdiger Pukall

1095
Citations
Identification of a Coordinate Regulator of Interleukins 4, 13, and 5 by Cross-Species Sequence Comparisons

Gabriela G. Loots;Gabriela G. Loots;Richard M. Locksley;Catherine M. Blankespoor;Zhi-En Wang

1019
Citations
A YAC mouse model for Huntington's disease with full-length mutant huntingtin, cytoplasmic toxicity, and selective striatal neurodegeneration.

J.Graeme Hodgson;Nadia Agopyan;Claire-Anne Gutekunst;Blair R Leavitt

1015
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Len A. Pennacchio Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Jan Fang Cheng Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nathan D. Wolfe Global Viral

Inna Dubchak Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

Susannah G. Tringe Joint Genome Institute

Trudy M. Forte UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology

Natalia Ivanova Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

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