2026 Jean-Luc Jannink: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	74	1950	1857	895	843	215	25058

Overview

Jean-Luc Jannink is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields of their work prominently include plant science, genetics, oceanography, molecular biology, and ecology.

The main topics covered by their research encompass:

Genetics and Plant Breeding
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Cassava Research and Cyanide
Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock
Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies
Marine and Coastal Plant Biology

Jannink has been involved in publishing research papers in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Harvard Dataverse
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Frontiers in Plant Science
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
Crop Science

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Jannink include:

"GrainGenes: a data-rich repository for small grains genetics and genomics", 2022, Database
"Genome-wide association analysis reveals new insights into the genetic architecture of defensive, agro-morphological and quality-related traits in cassava", 2020, Plant Molecular Biology
"Breedbase: a digital ecosystem for modern plant breeding", 2022, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
"Genomic mating in outbred species: predicting cross usefulness with additive and total genetic covariance matrices", 2021, Genetics
"Multi-omics prediction of oat agronomic and seed nutritional traits across environments and in distantly related populations", 2021, Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Frequent collaborators in Jannink's research include:

Jesse Poland
Kauê de Sousa
Jacob van Etten
Carlo Fadda
Basazen Fantahun Lakew

Best Publications

Development of High-Density Genetic Maps for Barley and Wheat Using a Novel Two-Enzyme Genotyping-by-Sequencing Approach

Jesse A. Poland;Jesse A. Poland;Patrick J. Brown;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean Luc Jannink;Jean Luc Jannink

2084
Citations
Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement

Elliot L. Heffner;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean-Luc Jannink

1854
Citations
Genomic selection in plant breeding: from theory to practice.

Jean Luc Jannink;Aaron J. Lorenz;Hiroyoshi Iwata

1364
Citations
Genomic Selection in Wheat Breeding using Genotyping-by-Sequencing

Jesse A. Poland;Jeffrey Endelman;Julie Dawson;Jessica Rutkoski

782
Citations
Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: A Comparison of Models

Nicolas Heslot;Nicolas Heslot;Hsiao-Pei Yang;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean-Luc Jannink

756
Citations
Plant Breeding with Genomic Selection: Gain per Unit Time and Cost

Elliot L. Heffner;Aaron J. Lorenz;Jean Luc Jannink;Mark E. Sorrells

723
Citations
Genomic selection and association mapping in rice (Oryza sativa): effect of trait genetic architecture, training population composition, marker number and statistical model on accuracy of rice genomic selection in elite, tropical rice breeding lines.

Jennifer Spindel;Hasina Begum;Deniz Akdemir;Parminder Virk

702
Citations
Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding. Knowledge and Prospects.

Aaron J. Lorenz;Shiaoman Chao;Franco G. Asoro;Elliot L. Heffner

592
Citations
Factors Affecting Accuracy From Genomic Selection in Populations Derived From Multiple Inbred Lines: A Barley Case Study

Shengqiang Zhong;Jack C.M. Dekkers;Rohan Luigi Fernando;Jean-Luc Jannink

496
Citations
Multiple Trait Genomic Selection Methods Increase Genetic Value Prediction Accuracy

Yi Jia;Jean-Luc Jannink;Jean-Luc Jannink

461
Citations
Shrinkage estimation of the realized relationship matrix.

Jeffrey B Endelman;Jean-Luc Jannink

432
Citations
Genomic Selection Accuracy using Multifamily Prediction Models in a Wheat Breeding Program

Elliot L. Heffner;Jean-Luc Jannink;Mark E. Sorrells

400
Citations
Training set optimization under population structure in genomic selection.

Julio Isidro;Jean‑Luc Jannink;Deniz Akdemir;Jesse Poland

390
Citations
Integrating environmental covariates and crop modeling into the genomic selection framework to predict genotype by environment interactions

Nicolas Heslot;Nicolas Heslot;Deniz Akdemir;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean-Luc Jannink

386
Citations
Perspectives for Genomic Selection Applications and Research in Plants

Nicolas Heslot;Jean-Luc Jannink;Mark E. Sorrells

340
Citations
Increased prediction accuracy in wheat breeding trials using a marker × environment interaction genomic selection model.

Marco Lopez-Cruz;Jose Crossa;David Bonnett;Susanne Dreisigacker

338
Citations
Genomic Selection Accuracy for Grain Quality Traits in Biparental Wheat Populations

Elliot L. Heffner;Jean-Luc Jannink;Hiroyoshi Iwata;Edward Souza

332
Citations
Genome-wide prediction models that incorporate de novo GWAS are a powerful new tool for tropical rice improvement.

Spindel Je;Begum H;Akdemir D;Collard B

320
Citations
Effectiveness of Genomic Prediction of Maize Hybrid Performance in Different Breeding Populations and Environments

Vanessa S. Windhausen;Gary N. Atlin;John M. Hickey;Jose Crossa

300
Citations
Genomic Prediction in Maize Breeding Populations with Genotyping-by-Sequencing

Jose Crossa;Yoseph Beyene;Semagn Kassa;Paulino Pérez

296
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University

Peter Kulakow International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Chiedozie Egesi Cornell University

Jesse Poland King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Hiroyoshi Iwata University of Tokyo

José Crossa International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

Michael A. Gore Cornell University

Kevin P. Smith University of Minnesota

Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service

Edward S. Buckler Cornell University

External Links

Personal website of Jean-Luc Jannink

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