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Genetics and Molecular Biology
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2024

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Genetics 104 633 600 319 299 218 111644
Molecular Biology 104 453 412 253 226 218 111644

John L. Rinn publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by John L. Rinn between 1960 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. John L. Rinn published across 66 years, from 1960 to 2025, averaging 3.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 20 publications in 2015. 7 of the 246 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1960 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 20. Peak 20 publications in 2015. 1960: 1 publication 1961: 4 publications 1962: 1 publication 1963: 1 publication 1964: 0 publications 1965: 1 publication 1966: 1 publication 1967: 0 publications 1968: 0 publications 1969: 0 publications 1970: 0 publications 1971: 0 publications 1972: 0 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 0 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 0 publications 1977: 0 publications 1978: 0 publications 1979: 0 publications 1980: 0 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 0 publications 1983: 0 publications 1984: 0 publications 1985: 0 publications 1986: 0 publications 1987: 0 publications 1988: 0 publications 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 0 publications 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 0 publications 2003: 3 publications 2004: 4 publications 2005: 2 publications 2006: 3 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 17 publications 2011: 11 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 16 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 20 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 16 publications 2020: 16 publications 2021: 18 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 2 publications
1960 2025

246 publications in total across all disciplines

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John L. Rinn: publications per year, 1960 to 2025
Year Publications
1960 1
1961 4
1962 1
1963 1
1964 0
1965 1
1966 1
1967 0
1968 0
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0
1977 0
1978 0
1979 0
1980 0
1981 0
1982 0
1983 0
1984 0
1985 0
1986 0
1987 0
1988 0
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 0
1998 0
1999 0
2000 1
2001 0
2002 0
2003 3
2004 4
2005 2
2006 3
2007 4
2008 4
2009 5
2010 17
2011 11
2012 12
2013 16
2014 16
2015 20
2016 14
2017 11
2018 15
2019 16
2020 16
2021 18
2022 13
2023 9
2024 5
2025 2
Total 246
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John L. Rinn 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 John L. Rinn sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 53 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 47–56 to 564+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 177. Most scientists, 177, have 117–126 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 217–226 publications, is where this scientist sits. 47–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–66 publications: 17 scientists 67–76 publications: 65 scientists 77–86 publications: 90 scientists 87–96 publications: 125 scientists 97–106 publications: 131 scientists 107–116 publications: 162 scientists 117–126 publications: 177 scientists 127–136 publications: 158 scientists 137–146 publications: 158 scientists 147–156 publications: 146 scientists 157–166 publications: 159 scientists 167–176 publications: 131 scientists 177–186 publications: 110 scientists 187–196 publications: 112 scientists 197–206 publications: 100 scientists 207–216 publications: 89 scientists 217–226 publications: 98 scientists 227–236 publications: 74 scientists 237–246 publications: 72 scientists 247–256 publications: 63 scientists 257–266 publications: 53 scientists 267–276 publications: 54 scientists 277–286 publications: 49 scientists 287–296 publications: 52 scientists 297–306 publications: 43 scientists 307–316 publications: 46 scientists 317–326 publications: 41 scientists 327–336 publications: 42 scientists 337–346 publications: 31 scientists 347–356 publications: 28 scientists 357–366 publications: 29 scientists 367–376 publications: 26 scientists 377–386 publications: 24 scientists 387–396 publications: 24 scientists 397–406 publications: 14 scientists 407–416 publications: 13 scientists 417–426 publications: 20 scientists 427–436 publications: 12 scientists 437–446 publications: 20 scientists 447–456 publications: 11 scientists 457–466 publications: 10 scientists 467–476 publications: 14 scientists 477–486 publications: 14 scientists 487–496 publications: 10 scientists 497–506 publications: 13 scientists 507–516 publications: 13 scientists 517–526 publications: 2 scientists 527–536 publications: 4 scientists 537–546 publications: 6 scientists 547–556 publications: 8 scientists 557–563 publications: 6 scientists 564+ publications: 100 scientists
47–56 publications 564+

This scientist: 218 publications — 64th percentile

64% 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
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 98 218
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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John L. Rinn 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 John L. Rinn sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 145+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 131. Most scientists, 131, have 64–65 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 104–105 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 36 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 101 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 115 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 121 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 130 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 106 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 116 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 113 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 129 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 120 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 105 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 131 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 95 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 97 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 106 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 83 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 89 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 77 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 70 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 73 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 60 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 48 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 45 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 50 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 31 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 51 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 43 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 39 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 41 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 29 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 33 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 35 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 20 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 38 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 19 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 28 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 13 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 23 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 16 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 15 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 11 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 21 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 13 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 14 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 9 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 8 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 16 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 7 scientists 144 D-Index: 7 scientists 145+ D-Index: 100 scientists
40–41 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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
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 33 104
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

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award

Overview

John L. Rinn is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research work primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to subfields such as molecular biology, cancer research, infectious diseases, immunology, and modeling and simulation.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA research and splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • CRISPR and genetic engineering
  • Genomics and chromatin dynamics
  • Epigenetics and DNA methylation

John L. Rinn has numerous publications, frequently contributing to venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Genome Biology
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors in their work include Michael J. Smallegan, Marta Melé, Chiara Gerhardinger, Taeyoung Hwang, and Thomas R. Cech, each collaborating on multiple projects.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Long Noncoding RNAs: Molecular Modalities to Organismal Functions, 2020, Annual Review of Biochemistry
  • The Sox2 transcription factor binds RNA, 2020, Nature Communications
  • RNA is essential for PRC2 chromatin occupancy and function in human pluripotent stem cells, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Single-Cell Profiling of Ebola Virus Disease In Vivo Reveals Viral and Host Dynamics, 2020, Cell
  • Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations, 2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Best Publications

  • Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

    Cole Trapnell;Adam Roberts;Loyal Goff;Loyal Goff;Loyal Goff;Geo Pertea

  • Long non-coding RNA HOTAIR reprograms chromatin state to promote cancer metastasis

    Rajnish A. Gupta;Nilay R. Shah;Kevin C. Wang;Jeewon Kim

  • The dynamics and regulators of cell fate decisions are revealed by pseudotemporal ordering of single cells

    Cole Trapnell;Davide Cacchiarelli;Davide Cacchiarelli;Jonna L Grimsby;Prapti Pokharel

  • Functional Demarcation of Active and Silent Chromatin Domains in Human HOX Loci by Noncoding RNAs

    John L. Rinn;Michael Kertesz;Jordon K. Wang;Sharon L. Squazzo

  • Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals

    Mitchell Guttman;Ido Amit;Manuel Garber;Courtney French

  • Genome Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs

    John L. Rinn;Howard Y. Chang

  • Differential analysis of gene regulation at transcript resolution with RNA-seq

    Cole Trapnell;David G Hendrickson;David G Hendrickson;Martin Sauvageau;Martin Sauvageau;Loyal Goff;Loyal Goff

  • Integrative annotation of human large intergenic noncoding RNAs reveals global properties and specific subclasses

    Moran N. Cabili;Cole Trapnell;Cole Trapnell;Loyal Goff;Magdalena J. Koziol;Magdalena J. Koziol

  • The multilayered complexity of ceRNA crosstalk and competition

    Yvonne Tay;John L Rinn;Pier Paolo Pandolfi

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • Many human large intergenic noncoding RNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes and affect gene expression

    Ahmad M. Khalil;Mitchell Guttman;Maite Huarte;Manuel Garber

  • Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

    Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

  • Modular regulatory principles of large non-coding RNAs

    Mitchell Guttman;John L. Rinn;John L. Rinn

  • A Large Intergenic Noncoding RNA Induced by p53 Mediates Global Gene Repression in the p53 Response

    Maite Huarte;Mitchell Guttman;Mitchell Guttman;David Feldser;Manuel Garber

  • lincRNAs act in the circuitry controlling pluripotency and differentiation

    Mitchell Guttman;Julie Donaghey;Bryce W. Carey;Manuel Garber

  • Improving RNA-Seq expression estimates by correcting for fragment bias

    Adam B Roberts;Cole Trapnell;Cole Trapnell;Julie Donaghey;John L Rinn;John L Rinn

  • Ab initio reconstruction of cell type–specific transcriptomes in mouse reveals the conserved multi-exonic structure of lincRNAs

    Mitchell Guttman;Manuel Garber;Joshua Z Levin;Julie Donaghey

  • Global Identification of Human Transcribed Sequences with Genome Tiling Arrays

    Paul Bertone;Viktor Stolc;Viktor Stolc;Thomas E. Royce;Joel S. Rozowsky

  • Basset: learning the regulatory code of the accessible genome with deep convolutional neural networks

    David R. Kelley;Jasper Snoek;John L. Rinn

  • Large intergenic non-coding RNA-RoR modulates reprogramming of human induced pluripotent stem cells

    Sabine Loewer;Moran N Cabili;Moran N Cabili;Mitchell Guttman;Yuin-Han Loh

Frequent Co-Authors

Loyal A. Goff
Loyal A. Goff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Alexander Meissner
Alexander Meissner Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Howard Y. Chang
Howard Y. Chang Amgen (United States)
Aviv Regev
Aviv Regev Genentech
Cole Trapnell
Cole Trapnell University of Washington
Mitchell Guttman
Mitchell Guttman California Institute of Technology
James Lee
James Lee The Francis Crick Institute
Tarjei S. Mikkelsen
Tarjei S. Mikkelsen Arsenal Biosciences (United States)
Manuel Garber
Manuel Garber University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

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