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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Molecular Biology 45 2850 2589 1362 1223 146 9491

Ferhat Ay publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Ferhat Ay between 2008 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Ferhat Ay published across 19 years, from 2008 to 2026, averaging 9.5 papers a year. Output peaked at 21 publications in 2023. 22 of the 180 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2008 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 21. Peak 21 publications in 2023. 2008: 1 publication 2009: 3 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 3 publications 2012: 4 publications 2013: 2 publications 2014: 4 publications 2015: 15 publications 2016: 4 publications 2017: 4 publications 2018: 16 publications 2019: 20 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 9 publications 2023: 21 publications 2024: 14 publications 2025: 21 publications 2026: 1 publication
2008 2026

180 publications in total across all disciplines

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Ferhat Ay: publications per year, 2008 to 2026
Year Publications
2008 1
2009 3
2010 6
2011 3
2012 4
2013 2
2014 4
2015 15
2016 4
2017 4
2018 16
2019 20
2020 14
2021 18
2022 9
2023 21
2024 14
2025 21
2026 1
Total 180
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Ferhat Ay publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ferhat Ay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 137–146 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 146 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
47–56 7
57–66 17
67–76 65
77–86 90
87–96 125
97–106 131
107–116 162
117–126 177
127–136 158
137–146 158 146
147–156 146
157–166 159
167–176 131
177–186 110
187–196 112
197–206 100
207–216 89
217–226 98
227–236 74
237–246 72
247–256 63
257–266 53
267–276 54
277–286 49
287–296 52
297–306 43
307–316 46
317–326 41
327–336 42
337–346 31
347–356 28
357–366 29
367–376 26
377–386 24
387–396 24
397–406 14
407–416 13
417–426 20
427–436 12
437–446 20
447–456 11
457–466 10
467–476 14
477–486 14
487–496 10
497–506 13
507–516 13
517–526 2
527–536 4
537–546 6
547–556 8
557–563 6
564+ 100
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Ferhat Ay D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ferhat Ay sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 44–45 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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Number of Molecular Biology scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,076 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 36
42–43 101
44–45 115 45
46–47 121
48–49 118
50–51 130
52–53 106
54–55 116
56–57 113
58–59 129
60–61 120
62–63 105
64–65 131
66–67 95
68–69 97
70–71 106
72–73 83
74–75 89
76–77 77
78–79 70
80–81 73
82–83 60
84–85 48
86–87 45
88–89 50
90–91 31
92–93 51
94–95 43
96–97 38
98–99 39
100–101 41
102–103 29
104–105 33
106–107 35
108–109 20
110–111 38
112–113 19
114–115 28
116–117 13
118–119 23
120–121 16
122–123 15
124–125 11
126–127 21
128–129 7
130–131 13
132–133 14
134–135 17
136–137 9
138–139 8
140–141 16
142–143 7
144 7
145+ 100
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Overview

Ferhat Ay is affiliated with the La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology in the United States. Their research spans significant areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, medicine, and immunology and microbiology. Their publication record includes 117 contributions in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, 60 in Medicine, and 56 in Immunology and Microbiology.

The scientist's work covers numerous subfields such as molecular biology, immunology, cancer research, genetics, and infectious diseases. Their primary topics of investigation include genomics and chromatin dynamics, immune cell function and interaction, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, bioinformatics and genomic networks, T-cell and B-cell immunology, epigenetics and DNA methylation, and RNA research and splicing.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ferhat Ay include Daniela Salgado Figueroa (21 publications), Abhijit Chakraborty (19 publications), Pandurangan Vijayanand (14 publications), Sourya Bhattacharyya (14 publications), and Joaquin Reyna (13 publications).

Most of their work has appeared in several key publication venues, particularly bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 25 papers, The Journal of Immunology (6 papers), Genome Biology (5 papers), Nature Communications (5 papers), and Science Immunology (4 papers).

Selected recent papers by Ferhat Ay include:

  • Imbalance of Regulatory and Cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2-Reactive CD4+ T Cells in COVID-19, 2020, Cell
  • Severely ill patients with COVID-19 display impaired exhaustion features in SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD8 + T cells, 2021, Science Immunology
  • Identifying statistically significant chromatin contacts from Hi-C data with FitHiC2, 2020, Nature Protocols
  • Mustache: multi-scale detection of chromatin loops from Hi-C and Micro-C maps using scale-space representation, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Promoter-interacting expression quantitative trait loci are enriched for functional genetic variants, 2020, Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

    Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Statistical confidence estimation for Hi-C data reveals regulatory chromatin contacts

    Ferhat Ay;Timothy L. Bailey;William Stafford Noble

  • Integrative detection and analysis of structural variation in cancer genomes

    Jesse R. Dixon;Jie Xu;Vishnu Dileep;Ye Zhan

  • Identification of significant chromatin contacts from HiChIP data by FitHiChIP.

    Sourya Bhattacharyya;Vivek Chandra;Pandurangan Vijayanand;Pandurangan Vijayanand;Pandurangan Vijayanand;Ferhat Ay;Ferhat Ay

  • Bipartite structure of the inactive mouse X chromosome.

    Xinxian Deng;Wenxiu Ma;Vijay Ramani;Andrew Hill

  • Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of tissue-resident memory T cells in human lung cancer.

    James Clarke;James Clarke;Bharat Panwar;Ariel Madrigal;Divya Singh

  • Three-dimensional modeling of the P. falciparum genome during the erythrocytic cycle reveals a strong connection between genome architecture and gene expression

    Ferhat Ay;Evelien M. Bunnik;Nelle Varoquaux;Sebastiaan M. Bol

  • Fine-scale chromatin interaction maps reveal the cis-regulatory landscape of human lincRNA genes

    Wenxiu Ma;Ferhat Ay;Choli Lee;Gunhan Gulsoy

  • Topologically-associating domains and their long-range contacts are established during early G1 coincident with the establishment of the replication timing program

    Vishnu Dileep;Ferhat Ay;Jiao Sima;Daniel L. Vera

  • Analysis methods for studying the 3D architecture of the genome

    Ferhat Ay;Ferhat Ay;William S. Noble

  • Identifying cis Elements for Spatiotemporal Control of Mammalian DNA Replication

    Jiao Sima;Abhijit Chakraborty;Vishnu Dileep;Marco Michalski

  • Measuring the reproducibility and quality of Hi-C data

    Galip Gürkan Yardımcı;Hakan Ozadam;Michael E.G. Sauria;Oana Ursu

  • Predictive regulatory models in Drosophila melanogaster by integrative inference of transcriptional networks

    Daniel Marbach;Sushmita Roy;Ferhat Ay;Patrick E. Meyer

  • A predictive modeling approach for cell line-specific long-range regulatory interactions

    Sushmita Roy;Alireza Fotuhi Siahpirani;Deborah Chasman;Sara Knaack

  • 17q21 asthma-risk variants switch CTCF binding and regulate IL-2 production by T cells.

    Benjamin Joachim Schmiedel;Grégory Seumois;Daniela Samaniego-Castruita;Justin Cayford

  • Promoter-interacting expression quantitative trait loci are enriched for functional genetic variants

    Vivek Chandra;Sourya Bhattacharyya;Benjamin J. Schmiedel;Ariel Madrigal

  • Comprehensive identification and analysis of human accelerated regulatory DNA

    Rachel M. Gittelman;Enna Hun;Ferhat Ay;Jennifer Madeoy

  • Changes in genome organization of parasite-specific gene families during the Plasmodium transmission stages.

    Evelien M. Bunnik;Evelien M. Bunnik;Kate B. Cook;Nelle Varoquaux;Gayani Batugedara

  • Scalable Steady State Analysis of Boolean Biological Regulatory Networks

    Ferhat Ay;Fei Xu;Tamer Kahveci

  • Joint annotation of chromatin state and chromatin conformation reveals relationships among domain types and identifies domains of cell-type-specific expression

    Maxwell W. Libbrecht;Ferhat Ay;Michael M. Hoffman;Michael M. Hoffman;David M. Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Pandurangan Vijayanand
Pandurangan Vijayanand La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
William Stafford Noble
William Stafford Noble University of Washington
Christian H. Ottensmeier
Christian H. Ottensmeier University of Southampton
Grégory Seumois
Grégory Seumois La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Jean-Philippe Vert
Jean-Philippe Vert Google (United States)
David M. Gilbert
David M. Gilbert Florida State University
Stefan Mundlos
Stefan Mundlos Max Planck Society
Ji-Fan Hu
Ji-Fan Hu Stanford University
Karine G. Le Roch
Karine G. Le Roch University of California, Riverside
Job Dekker
Job Dekker University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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