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Eivind Hovig

Eivind Hovig

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
66
Citations
19643
World Ranking
2591
National Ranking
10

Eivind Hovig 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 Eivind Hovig sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 311 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eivind Hovig 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 Eivind Hovig sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Eivind Hovig is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these broad disciplines, their work focuses on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Oncology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Gene expression and cancer classification, Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, RNA modifications and cancer, Immunotherapy and Immune Responses, and BRCA gene mutations in cancer.

Frequent coauthors in Hovig's research include:

  • Sigve Nakken
  • Sveinung Gundersen
  • Pål Møller
  • Mev Dominguez-Valentin
  • Fabian L. M. Bernal

Hovig has a publication record with several venues, highlighting collaboration with different research communities. The main publication outlets include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancers
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Hovig are:

  • "JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Accuracy and efficiency of germline variant calling pipelines for human genome data," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "The Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child cohort study (MoBa) genotyping data resource: MoBaPsychGen pipeline v.1," 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Mortality by age, gene and gender in carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair gene variants receiving surveillance for early cancer diagnosis and treatment: a report from the prospective Lynch syndrome database," 2023, EClinicalMedicine

Best Publications

  • Database of p53 gene somatic mutations in human tumors and cell lines.

    M. Hollstein;K. Rice;M. S. Greenblatt;T. Soussi

  • A literature network of human genes for high-throughput analysis of gene expression

    Tor Kristian Jenssen;Astrid Lægreid;Jan Komorowski;Jan Komorowski;Eivind Hovig

  • Ten simple rules for reproducible computational research.

    Geir Kjetil Sandve;Anton Nekrutenko;R. James Taylor;Eivind Hovig;Eivind Hovig

  • Somatic point mutations in the p53 gene of human tumors and cell lines: updated compilation.

    M. Hollstein;Benny Shomer;M. Greenblatt;Thierry Soussi

  • Cancer risk and survival in path_MMR carriers by gene and gender up to 75 years of age: a report from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Pål Møller;Toni T Seppälä;Inge Bernstein;Inge Bernstein;Elke Holinski-Feder

  • A Uniform System for the Annotation of Vertebrate microRNA Genes and the Evolution of the Human microRNAome

    Bastian Fromm;Tyler Billipp;Liam E. Peck;Morten Johansen

  • Cancer incidence and survival in Lynch syndrome patients receiving colonoscopic and gynaecological surveillance: first report from the prospective Lynch syndrome database

    Pal Moller;Toni Seppala;Inge Bernstein;Inge Bernstein;Elke Holinski-Feder

  • Cancer risks by gene, age, and gender in 6350 carriers of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: findings from the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database

    Mev Dominguez-Valentin;Julian R. Sampson;Toni T. Seppälä;Sanne W. ten Broeke

  • Database of p53 gene somatic mutations in human tumors and cell lines: updated compilation and future prospects

    Pierre Hainaut;Thierry Soussi;Benny Shomer;M. Hollstein

  • Methods that remove batch effects while retaining group differences may lead to exaggerated confidence in downstream analyses

    Vegard Nygaard;Einar Andreas Rødland;Eivind Hovig

  • A comprehensive assessment of somatic mutation detection in cancer using whole-genome sequencing

    Tyler S. Alioto;Ivo Buchhalter;Sophia Derdak;Barbara Hutter

  • Differential expression patterns of S100A2, S100A4 and S100A6 during progression of human malignant melanoma

    Gunhild Mari Maelandsmo;Vivi Ann Flørenes;Turid Mellingsaeter;Eivind Hovig

  • Constant denaturant gel electrophoresis as a rapid screening technique for p53 mutations.

    Anne Lise Børresen;Eivind Hovig;Birgitte Smith-Sørensen;David Malkin

  • Identification of a novel cytokeratin 19 pseudogene that may interfere with reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays used to detect micrometastatic tumor cells

    Paal Ruud;Øystein Fodstad;Eivind Hovig

  • S100A4 Involvement in Metastasis Deregulation of Matrix Metalloproteinases and Tissue Inhibitors of Matrix Metalloproteinases in Osteosarcoma Cells Transfected with an Anti-S100A4 Ribozyme

    Kristin Bjørnland;Jan Olof Winberg;Olav Tobias Ødegaard;Eivind Hovig

  • Screening for germ line TP53 mutations in breast cancer patients.

    Anne Lise Børresen;Tone Ikdahl Andersen;Judy Garber;Noële Barbier-Piraux;Noële Barbier-Piraux

  • MirGeneDB 2.0: the metazoan microRNA complement

    Bastian Fromm;Bastian Fromm;Diana Ewa Domanska;Eirik Høye;Eirik Høye;Vladimir Ovchinnikov;Vladimir Ovchinnikov

  • TP53 mutations and breast cancer prognosis: Particularly poor survival rates for cases with mutations in the zinc‐binding domains

    Anne‐Lise ‐L Børresen;Tone Ikdahl Andersen;Jorunn E. Eyfjörd;Renee S. Cornelis

  • Real-Time Nucleic Acid Sequence-Based Amplification in Nanoliter Volumes

    Anja Gulliksen;Lars Solli;Frank Karlsen;Henrik Rogne

  • Options available for profiling small samples: a review of sample amplification technology when combined with microarray profiling

    Vigdis Nygaard;Eivind Hovig

Frequent Co-Authors

Ola Myklebost
Ola Myklebost University of Bergen
Pål Møller
Pål Møller Oslo University Hospital
Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda
Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda Oslo University Hospital
Øystein Fodstad
Øystein Fodstad Oslo University Hospital
D. Gareth Evans
D. Gareth Evans University of Manchester
Anne Lise Børresen-Dale
Anne Lise Børresen-Dale Oslo University Hospital
Fiona Lalloo
Fiona Lalloo University of Manchester
Gabriel Capellá
Gabriel Capellá Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge
Jukka-Pekka Mecklin
Jukka-Pekka Mecklin University of Jyväskylä
Julian Roy Sampson
Julian Roy Sampson Cardiff University

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