2026 Hunter B. Fraser: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	49	2619	2370	1281	1149	117	10497

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.

47 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.

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.

40 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.

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

External Links

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