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Genetics

D-Index
80
Citations
24799
World Ranking
1579
National Ranking
203

Medicine

D-Index
81
Citations
25008
World Ranking
16603
National Ranking
1515

Graeme C.M. Black 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 Graeme C.M. Black sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 314 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.

Graeme C.M. Black 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 Graeme C.M. Black sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 24 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 52 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 84 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 112 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 141 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 143 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 145 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 179 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 162 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 175 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 191 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 172 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 184 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 164 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 158 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 150 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 136 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 127 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 127 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 111 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 110 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 110 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 102 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 66 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 72 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 70 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 54 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 60 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 55 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 45 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 42 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 28 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 39 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 25 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 31 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 34 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 29 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 27 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 22 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 16 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 11 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 21 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 4 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 9 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 14 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 6 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 10 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 7 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 9 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 8 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 8 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 9 scientists 160+ D-Index: 96 scientists
40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Graeme C.M. Black is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields centered on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a significant focus on ophthalmology and retinal disorders. The scientist has contributed extensively to understanding retinal development, diseases, and treatments, as well as genetic and molecular aspects of eye conditions.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

The subfields within these areas cover:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Ophthalmology
  • Genetics
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Cell Biology

Key research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Retinal Diseases and Treatments
  • Glaucoma and retinal disorders
  • Retinal Imaging and Analysis
  • RNA regulation and disease
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Melanin and skin pigmentation

Graeme C.M. Black has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors over the course of their career. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Panagiotis I. Sergouniotis
  • Jamie M. Ellingford
  • Paul J. Foster
  • Anthony P. Khawaja
  • Andrew Lotery

The scientist has a publication record in several key venues, where they have published multiple articles. Frequent venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Medical Genetics
  • Eye
  • Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
  • Ophthalmology

Selected recent papers by Graeme C.M. Black are:

  • A foundation model for generalizable disease detection from retinal images, 2023, Nature
  • Whole-genome sequencing of patients with rare diseases in a national health system, 2020, Nature
  • Initial results from a first-in-human gene therapy trial on X-linked retinitis pigmentosa caused by mutations in RPGR, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Structural Variants Create New Topological-Associated Domains and Ectopic Retinal Enhancer-Gene Contact in Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa, 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Real-World Clinical Experience With Idebenone in the Treatment of Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, 2020, Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Best Publications

  • LDL Receptor-Related Protein 5 (LRP5) Affects Bone Accrual and Eye Development

    Y. Q. Gong;R. B. Slee;N. Fukai;G. Rawadi

  • Global birth prevalence of congenital heart defects 1970–2017: updated systematic review and meta-analysis of 260 studies

    Yingjuan Liu;Sen Chen;Liesl Zühlke;Graeme C Black;Graeme C Black

  • The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

    Sebastian Köhler;Sandra C. Doelken;Christopher J. Mungall;Sebastian Bauer

  • Retinal gene therapy in patients with choroideremia: initial findings from a phase 1/2 clinical trial

    Robert E MacLaren;Robert E MacLaren;Markus Groppe;Markus Groppe;Alun R Barnard;Charles L Cottriall

  • Mutations in LRP5 or FZD4 underlie the common familial exudative vitreoretinopathy locus on chromosome 11q.

    Carmel Toomes;Helen M. Bottomley;Richard M. Jackson;Katherine V. Towns

  • Missense mutations in COL8A2, the gene encoding the α2 chain of type VIII collagen, cause two forms of corneal endothelial dystrophy

    Susmito Biswas;Francis L. Munier;Jill Yardley;Niki Hart-Holden

  • Cohen Syndrome Is Caused by Mutations in a Novel Gene, COH1, Encoding a Transmembrane Protein with a Presumed Role in Vesicle-Mediated Sorting and Intracellular Protein Transport

    Juha Kolehmainen;Graeme C.M. Black;Graeme C.M. Black;Anne Saarinen;Kate Chandler

  • Mutations in LRP2 , which encodes the multiligand receptor megalin, cause Donnai-Barrow and facio-oculo-acoustico-renal syndromes

    Sibel Kantarci;Lihadh Al-Gazali;R Sean Hill;R Sean Hill;Dian Donnai

  • Oculofaciocardiodental and Lenz microphthalmia syndromes result from distinct classes of mutations in BCOR

    David Ng;Nalin Thakker;Connie M Corcoran;Dian Donnai

  • Biallelic Mutation of BEST1 Causes a Distinct Retinopathy in Humans

    Rosemary Burgess;Rosemary Burgess;Ian D. Millar;Bart P. Leroy;Jill E. Urquhart;Jill E. Urquhart

  • Molecular and Clinical Analyses of Greig Cephalopolysyndactyly and Pallister-Hall Syndromes: Robust Phenotype Prediction from the Type and Position of GLI3 Mutations

    Jennifer J. Johnston;Isabelle Olivos-Glander;Christina Killoran;Emma Elson

  • Domain disruption and mutation of the bZIP transcription factor, MAF, associated with cataract, ocular anterior segment dysgenesis and coloboma

    Robyn V. Jamieson;Rahat Perveen;Bronwyn Kerr;Martin Carette

  • Angelman syndrome phenotype associated with mutations in MECP2 , a gene encoding a methyl CpG binding protein

    Pamela Watson;Graeme Black;Simon Ramsden;Margaret Barrow

  • Mutations in CTC1, encoding conserved telomere maintenance component 1, cause Coats plus

    Beverley H Anderson;Paul R Kasher;Josephine Mayer;Marcin Szynkiewicz

  • 100,000 Genomes Pilot on Rare-Disease Diagnosis in Health Care - Preliminary Report.

    Damian Smedley;Katherine R. Smith;Antonio Martin

  • Initial results from a first-in-human gene therapy trial on X-linked retinitis pigmentosa caused by mutations in RPGR

    Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic;Kanmin Xue;Cristina Martinez-Fernandez de la Camara;Anika Nanda

  • Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase deficiency causes a bone dysplasia with autoimmunity and a type I interferon expression signature.

    Tracy A. Briggs;Gillian I. Rice;Sarah Daly;Jill Urquhart

  • Genotype-phenotype correlation in Costello syndrome: HRAS mutation analysis in 43 cases

    B. Kerr;M. A. Delrue;S. Sigaudy;R. Perveen

  • Mutations of VMD2 Splicing Regulators Cause Nanophthalmos and Autosomal Dominant Vitreoretinochoroidopathy (ADVIRC)

    Jill Yardley;Bart P Leroy;Niki Hart-Holden;Bart A Lafaut

  • Coats' disease of the retina (unilateral retinal telangiectasis) caused by somatic mutation in the NDP gene: A role for norrin in retinal angiogenesis

    Graeme C. M. Black;Graeme C. M. Black;Rahat Perveen;Richard Bonshek;Richard Bonshek;Mark Cahill

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew R. Webster
Andrew R. Webster University College London
Jill Clayton-Smith
Jill Clayton-Smith University of Manchester
William G. Newman
William G. Newman University of Manchester
Anthony T. Moore
Anthony T. Moore University of California, San Francisco
Graham E. Holder
Graham E. Holder University College London
Chris F. Inglehearn
Chris F. Inglehearn University of Leeds
Peter E. Clayton
Peter E. Clayton University of Manchester
Dian Donnai
Dian Donnai University of Manchester
Paul N. Bishop
Paul N. Bishop University of Manchester
Miguel C. Seabra
Miguel C. Seabra Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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