2026 Günter P. Wagner: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	93	2076	1881	1130	1006	378	37936

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

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Biology and Biochemistry

2076

1881

1130

1006

378

37936

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index

Citations

37936

World Ranking

2076

National Ranking

1130

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1992 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Günter P. Wagner is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also on Medicine. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Immunology, Genetics, Reproductive Medicine, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The topics central to their research encompass:

Reproductive System and Pregnancy
Endometriosis Research and Treatment
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
Reproductive Physiology in Livestock

Günter P. Wagner has published prolifically in numerous venues, frequently contributing to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preprints.org, Journal of Morphology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and iScience.

Some notable recent papers include:

"Menstruation: science and society", 2020, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
"Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology", 2020, Biology & Philosophy
"Enhanced drug delivery to the reproductive tract using nanomedicine reveals therapeutic options for prevention of preterm birth", 2021, Science Translational Medicine
"Reframing research on evolutionary novelty and co-option: Character identity mechanisms versus deep homology", 2022, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
"Evolution of Embryo Implantation Was Enabled by the Origin of Decidual Stromal Cells in Eutherian Mammals", 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jamie Maziarz, Mihaela Pavličev, Daniel J Stadtmauer, Kshitiz Gupta, and Alan C. Love, reflecting ongoing partnerships in experimental and theoretical investigations.

Their career has been recognized through multiple honors:

Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1992
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1997
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018

Best Publications

PERSPECTIVE: COMPLEX ADAPTATIONS AND THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLVABILITY

Günter P. Wagner;Lee Altenberg

2319
Citations
Complex Adaptations and the Evolution of Evolvability

Gunter P. Wagner;Lee Altenberg

2170
Citations
Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples.

Günter P. Wagner;Koryu Kin;Vincent J. Lynch

1954
Citations
The road to modularity

Günter P. Wagner;Mihaela Pavlicev;James M. Cheverud

1158
Citations
HOMOLOGUES, NATURAL KINDS AND THE EVOLUTION OF MODULARITY

Gunter P. Wagner

924
Citations
Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

796
Citations
The origin and evolution of cell types

Detlev Arendt;Jacob M. Musser;Clare V. H. Baker;Aviv Bergman;Aviv Bergman

787
Citations
The pleiotropic structure of the genotype–phenotype map: the evolvability of complex organisms

Günter P. Wagner;Jianzhi Zhang

726
Citations
A POPULATION GENETIC THEORY OF CANALIZATION.

Günter P. Wagner;Ginger Booth;Homayoun Bagheri‐Chaichian

607
Citations
NOVELTY IN EVOLUTION: RESTRUCTURING THE CONCEPT

Gerd B. Muller;Gunter P. Wagner

517
Citations
The Biological Homology Concept

G. P. Wagner

503
Citations
Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation

Günter P. Wagner

492
Citations
Canalization in evolutionary genetics: a stabilizing theory?

Greg Gibson;Günter Wagner

450
Citations
Transposon-mediated rewiring of gene regulatory networks contributed to the evolution of pregnancy in mammals

Vincent J Lynch;Robert D Leclerc;Gemma May;Günter P Wagner

442
Citations
The topology of the possible: formal spaces underlying patterns of evolutionary change.

Bärbel M.R. Stadler;Peter F. Stadler;Peter F. Stadler;Günter P. Wagner;Walter Fontana;Walter Fontana

435
Citations
Genetic Associations with Gestational Duration and Spontaneous Preterm Birth

Ge Zhang;Bjarke Feenstra;Jonas Bacelis;Xueping Liu

416
Citations
Tissue-Specific Splicing of Disordered Segments that Embed Binding Motifs Rewires Protein Interaction Networks

Marija Buljan;Marija Buljan;Guilhem Chalancon;Sebastian Eustermann;Gunter P. Wagner

408
Citations
The developmental genetics of homology.

Günter P. Wagner

399
Citations
Mutational robustness can facilitate adaptation

Jeremy A. Draghi;Todd L. Parsons;Günter P. Wagner;Joshua B. Plotkin

383
Citations
The character concept in evolutionary biology

Günter P. Wagner

362
Citations