2026 Eleazar Eskin: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	87	1189	1124	571	534	322	44215
Computer Science	75	1377	1334	719	693	278	35261

Eleazar Eskin 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 Eleazar Eskin sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 322 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eleazar Eskin 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 Eleazar Eskin sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 87 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Eleazar Eskin is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a portfolio of 131 publications categorized under these disciplines.

Their work delves into various subfields, including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Physiology, and Ecology. The main topics covered by their research span across:

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Eleazar Eskin has contributed to several academic publications, including recent notable papers such as:

The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues, 2020, Science
The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science
Cell type-specific genetic regulation of gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science
Determinants of telomere length across human tissues, 2020, Science
A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body, 2020, Cell

The scientist commonly publishes in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Science
UNC Libraries
Nature Communications
Genome biology

Frequent co-authors working alongside Eleazar Eskin include:

Serghei Mangul
Nathan LaPierre
François Aguet
Kristin Ardlie
Brunilda Balliu

Eleazar Eskin has been recognized with awards including Fellowships from the International Society for Computational Biology in 2019 and from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

4280
Citations
Variance component model to account for sample structure in genome-wide association studies

Hyun Min Kang;Jae Hoon Sul;Noah A. Zaitlen

2815
Citations
Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping

Hyun Min Kang;Noah A. Zaitlen;Claire M. Wade;Claire M. Wade;Andrew Kirby;Andrew Kirby

2063
Citations
Mouse genomic variation and its effect on phenotypes and gene regulation

T M Keane;L Goodstadt;P Danecek;M A White

1851
Citations
Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites.

Martin Tompa;Nan Li;Timothy L. Bailey;George M. Church

1617
Citations
Data mining methods for detection of new malicious executables

M.G. Schultz;E. Eskin;F. Zadok;S.J. Stolfo

1555
Citations
A Geometric Framework for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

Eleazar Eskin;Andrew Arnold;Michael J. Prerau;Leonid Portnoy

1522
Citations
The spectrum kernel: a string kernel for SVM protein classification.

Christina S. Leslie;Eleazar Eskin;William Stafford Noble

1473
Citations
Whole-Genome Patterns of Common DNA Variation in Three Human Populations

David A. Hinds;David A. Hinds;Laura L. Stuve;Laura L. Stuve;Geoffrey B. Nilsen;Geoffrey B. Nilsen;Eran Halperin;Eran Halperin

1457
Citations
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

1200
Citations
A GEOMETRIC FRAMEWORK FOR UNSUPERVISED ANOMALY DETECTION: DETECTING INTRUSIONS IN UNLABELED DATA

E Eskin;A Arnold;M Prerau

1031
Citations
Mismatch string kernels for discriminative protein classification

Christina S. Leslie;Eleazar Eskin;Adiel Cohen;Jason Weston

976
Citations
Colocalization of GWAS and eQTL Signals Detects Target Genes

Farhad Hormozdiari;Martijn van de Bunt;Martijn van de Bunt;Ayellet V. Segrè;Xiao Li

795
Citations
Anomaly Detection over Noisy Data using Learned Probability Distributions

Eleazar Eskin

771
Citations
Random-effects model aimed at discovering associations in meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies.

Buhm Han;Eleazar Eskin

768
Citations
Comparative Analysis of Proteome and Transcriptome Variation in Mouse

Anatole Ghazalpour;Brian Bennett;Vladislav A. Petyuk;Luz Orozco

746
Citations
The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues

Meritxell Oliva;Manuel Muñoz-Aguirre;Sarah Kim-Hellmuth;Sarah Kim-Hellmuth;Valentin Wucher

703
Citations
Chromosome conformation elucidates regulatory relationships in developing human brain

Hyejung Won;Luis de la Torre-Ubieta;Jason L. Stein;Neelroop N. Parikshak

637
Citations
Genetic Control of Obesity and Gut Microbiota Composition in Response to High-Fat, High-Sucrose Diet in Mice

Brian W. Parks;Elizabeth Nam;Elin Org;Emrah Kostem

618
Citations
Integrating Functional Data to Prioritize Causal Variants in Statistical Fine-Mapping Studies

Gleb Kichaev;Wen-Yun Yang;Sara Lindstrom;Farhad Hormozdiari

597
Citations
A sequence-based variation map of 8.27 million SNPs in inbred mouse strains

Kelly A. Frazer;Eleazar Eskin;Hyun Min Kang;Molly A. Bogue

550
Citations
The spectrum kernel

Christina Leslie;Eleazar Eskin;William Stafford Noble

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Aldons J. Lusis University of California, Los Angeles

Eran Halperin University of California, Los Angeles

Noah Zaitlen University of California, Los Angeles

Hyun Min Kang University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Alexander Zelikovsky Georgia State University

Bogdan Pasaniuc University of California, Los Angeles

Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University

Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nicholas C. Wu Scripps Research Institute

Ren Sun University of California, Los Angeles

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