Hunter B. Fraser publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Hunter B. Fraser between 2001 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Hunter B. Fraser published across 26 years, from 2001 to 2026, averaging 5.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2022. 7 of the 147 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15

2001 2026

147 publications in total across all disciplines

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Hunter B. Fraser: publications per year, 2001 to 2026
Year	Publications
2001	3
2002	1
2003	3
2004	6
2005	6
2006	3
2007	3
2008	1
2009	8
2010	5
2011	6
2012	6
2013	7
2014	5
2015	5
2016	5
2017	4
2018	9
2019	5
2020	6
2021	12
2022	16
2023	7
2024	8
2025	4
2026	3
Total	147

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Hunter B. Fraser 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 Hunter B. Fraser sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

50 100 150

47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 117 publications — 20th percentile

20% 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	117
127–136	158
137–146	158
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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Hunter B. Fraser 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 Hunter B. Fraser sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

25 50 75 100 125

40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% 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
46–47	121
48–49	118	49
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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Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Hunter B. Fraser is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics. Additional subfields include Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Rehabilitation. The scientist's work encompasses a broad range of topics related to genomics and molecular mechanisms.

Key research areas covered by Fraser include:

Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA Research and Splicing
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Fraser has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

"Primate cell fusion disentangles gene regulatory divergence in neurodevelopment," 2021, published in Nature
"Human-chimpanzee fused cells reveal cis-regulatory divergence underlying skeletal evolution," 2021, published in Nature Genetics
"The cis-regulatory effects of modern human-specific variants," 2021, published in eLife
"Bacterial Retrons Enable Precise Gene Editing in Human Cells," 2022, published in The CRISPR Journal
"Molecular mechanisms of coronary disease revealed using quantitative trait loci for TCF21 binding, chromatin accessibility, and chromosomal looping," 2020, published in Genome Biology

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Fraser include:

Alexander L. Starr
David Gokhman
Shi-An A. Chen
Roy Moh Lik Ang
Katya L. Mack

The scientist has published in a variety of venues, notably:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
eLife
Genome Biology

Within their career, Fraser was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

Evolutionary Rate in the Protein Interaction Network

Hunter B. Fraser;Aaron E. Hirsh;Lars M. Steinmetz;Curt Scharfe

1057
Citations
Factors underlying variable DNA methylation in a human community cohort

Lucia L. Lam;Eldon Emberly;Hunter B. Fraser;Sarah M. Neumann

543
Citations
Protein dispensability and rate of evolution

Aaron E. Hirsh;Hunter B. Fraser

500
Citations
Noise minimization in eukaryotic gene expression.

Hunter B Fraser;Aaron E Hirsh;Guri Giaever;Jochen Kumm

495
Citations
N-WASP deficiency reveals distinct pathways for cell surface projections and microbial actin-based motility.

Scott B. Snapper;Scott B. Snapper;Fuminao Takeshima;Inés Antón;Inés Antón;Ching-Hui Liu;Ching-Hui Liu

411
Citations
Detecting putative orthologs.

D. P. Wall;H. B. Fraser;A. E. Hirsh

365
Citations
Functional genomic analysis of the rates of protein evolution

Dennis P. Wall;Aaron E. Hirsh;Hunter B. Fraser;Jochen Kumm

327
Citations
Population-specificity of human DNA methylation.

Hunter B Fraser;Lucia L Lam;Lucia L Lam;Sarah M Neumann;Sarah M Neumann;Michael S Kobor;Michael S Kobor

316
Citations
Coevolution of gene expression among interacting proteins

Hunter B. Fraser;Aaron E. Hirsh;Dennis P. Wall;Michael B. Eisen

284
Citations
Conservation and evolution of cis-regulatory systems in ascomycete fungi.

Audrey P Gasch;Alan M Moses;Derek Y Chiang;Hunter B Fraser

280
Citations
Gene expression drives local adaptation in humans

Hunter B. Fraser

268
Citations
Ab initio construction of a eukaryotic transcriptome by massively parallel mRNA sequencing

Moran Yassour;Tommy Kaplan;Hunter B. Fraser;Joshua Z. Levin

267
Citations
Genetic conflict reflected in tissue-specific maps of genomic imprinting in human and mouse.

Tomas Babak;Brian DeVeale;Emily K Tsang;Yiqi Zhou

230
Citations
Modularity and evolutionary constraint on proteins

Hunter B Fraser

229
Citations
A simple dependence between protein evolution rate and the number of protein-protein interactions

Hunter B Fraser;Dennis P Wall;Aaron E Hirsh

218
Citations
Aging and gene expression in the primate brain

Hunter B Fraser;Philipp Khaitovich;Joshua B Plotkin;Svante Pääbo

203
Citations
Functional Genetic Variants Revealed by Massively Parallel Precise Genome Editing

Eilon Sharon;Eilon Sharon;Shi-An A. Chen;Neil M. Khosla;Justin D. Smith

203
Citations
Evidence for widespread adaptive evolution of gene expression in budding yeast

Hunter B. Fraser;Alan M. Moses;Eric E. Schadt

180
Citations
Accounting for biases in riboprofiling data indicates a major role for proline in stalling translation.

Carlo G. Artieri;Hunter B. Fraser

171
Citations
Genetic variation in MHC proteins is associated with T cell receptor expression biases

Eilon Sharon;Leah V Sibener;Alexis Battle;Hunter B Fraser

156
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael S. Kobor University of British Columbia

Dmitri A. Petrov Stanford University

Joshua B. Plotkin University of Pennsylvania

Eric E. Schadt Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jonathan Dushoff McMaster University

Dennis P. Wall Stanford University

Nadav Ahituv University of California, San Francisco

Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley

Manuel Irimia Pompeu Fabra University

Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University

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