2026 Jennifer Harrow: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	63	2819	2671	356	340	113	70859

Overview

Jennifer Harrow is affiliated with AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management, Genetics, Information Systems, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their work covers a variety of topics, including:

Scientific Computing and Data Management
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Research Data Management Practices
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Jennifer Harrow has published in multiple peer-reviewed venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Bioinformatics
Nature Methods
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Jennifer Harrow include:

"Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software," 2022, Scientific Data
"DOME: recommendations for supervised machine learning validation in biology," 2021, Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano)
"The status of the human gene catalogue," 2023, Nature
"Rare variant associations with plasma protein levels in the UK Biobank," 2023, Nature
"Expert curation of the human and mouse olfactory receptor gene repertoires identifies conserved coding regions split across two exons," 2020, BMC Genomics

Jennifer Harrow frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Regular coauthors include:

Fotis Psomopoulos
Adam Frankish
Salvador Capella-Gutierrez
Leyla Jael Castro
Paula Andrea Martinez

Best Publications

An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

13558
Citations
Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

6099
Citations
Landscape of transcription in human cells

Sarah Djebali;Carrie A. Davis;Angelika Merkel;Alex Dobin

5524
Citations
The GENCODE v7 catalog of human long noncoding RNAs: analysis of their gene structure, evolution, and expression.

Thomas Derrien;Rory Johnson;Giovanni Bussotti;Andrea Tanzer

5291
Citations
GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Jose M. Gonzalez;Electra Tapanari

5232
Citations
The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

4943
Citations
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

2824
Citations
A conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function.

William C. Skarnes;Barry Rosen;Anthony P. West;Manousos Koutsourakis

1802
Citations
Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution

Martien A. M. Groenen;Alan L. Archibald;Hirohide Uenishi;Christopher K. Tuggle

1625
Citations
A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

1560
Citations
A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

1455
Citations
The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

1451
Citations
Multiple evidence strands suggest that there may be as few as 19 000 human protein-coding genes

Iakes Ezkurdia;David Juan;Jose Manuel Rodriguez;Adam Frankish

758
Citations
Assessment of transcript reconstruction methods for RNA-seq

Tamara Steijger;Josep F Abril;Pär G. Engström;Pär G. Engström;Felix Kokocinski

738
Citations
GENCODE: producing a reference annotation for ENCODE

Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Alexandre Reymond;Alexandre Reymond

737
Citations
The consensus coding sequence (CCDS) project: Identifying a common protein-coding gene set for the human and mouse genomes

Kim D. Pruitt;Jennifer Harrow;Rachel A. Harte;Craig Wallin

624
Citations
Systematic evaluation of spliced alignment programs for RNA-seq data

Pär G Engström;Tamara Steijger;Botond Sipos;Gregory R Grant

622
Citations
The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1

S. G. Gregory;S. G. Gregory;K. F. Barlow;K. E. McLay;R. Kaul

445
Citations
Variation analysis and gene annotation of eight MHC haplotypes: The MHC Haplotype Project

Roger Horton;Richard Gibson;Penny Coggill;Marcos Mateo Miretti

376
Citations
The GENCODE pseudogene resource

Baikang Pei;Cristina Sisu;Adam Frankish;Cédric Howald

373
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam Frankish European Bioinformatics Institute

Tim Hubbard King's College London

Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University

Alexandre Reymond University of Lausanne

Mark Gerstein Yale University

Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Mark Diekhans University of California, Santa Cruz

Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva

Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory

Jane Rogers Earlham Institute

External Links

Personal website of Jennifer Harrow

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