2026 John Novembre: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	63	2830	2682	1239	1163	127	30101

John Novembre publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Novembre sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 127 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

John Novembre D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John Novembre sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John Novembre is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their work primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Genetics.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Archeology. Their scholarly output addresses a variety of topics such as:

Genetic diversity and population structure
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Forensic and Genetic Research
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Race, Genetics, and Society
Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

John Novembre has contributed to multiple highly cited papers, including:

"Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA" (2021) in Nature Communications
"Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society" (2022) in Science
"Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia" (2020) in Nature Communications
"Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors" (2022) in Nature Communications
"Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries" (2023) in Nature

Frequent co-authors working with John Novembre include Arjun Biddanda, Mashaal Sohail, Daniel P. Rice, Harald Ringbauer, and Matthias Steinrücken.

The body of work has been published across several venues, notably including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genetics
Nature Communications
eLife
PLoS Genetics

John Novembre has received recognition as a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2015 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals

David H. Alexander;John Novembre;Kenneth Lange

8161
Citations
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

Joseph K. Pickrell;Graham Coop;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

2129
Citations
Genes mirror geography within Europe.

John Novembre;Toby Johnson;Toby Johnson;Katarzyna Bryc;Zoltán Kutalik

1802
Citations
Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication

Bridgett M. Vonholdt;John P. Pollinger;Kirk E. Lohmueller;Eunjung Han

968
Citations
An Abundance of Rare Functional Variants in 202 Drug Target Genes Sequenced in 14,002 People

Matthew R. Nelson;Daniel Wegmann;Margaret G. Ehm;Darren Kessner

787
Citations
Interpreting principal component analyses of spatial population genetic variation.

John Novembre;Matthew Stephens

735
Citations
Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs

Adam H. Freedman;Ilan Gronau;Rena Schweizer;Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

730
Citations
A Simple Genetic Architecture Underlies Morphological Variation in Dogs

Adam R. Boyko;Pascale Quignon;Lin Li;Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck

576
Citations
Visualizing spatial population structure with estimated effective migration surfaces.

Desislava Petkova;John Novembre;Matthew Stephens

559
Citations
The role of geography in human adaptation.

Graham Coop;Joseph K. Pickrell;John Novembre;Sridhar Kudaravalli

481
Citations
The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

Peter de Barros Damgaard;Rui Martiniano;Rui Martiniano;Jack Kamm;J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar

438
Citations
Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

Inigo Olalde;Morten Erik Allentoft;Federico Sanchez-Quinto;Gabriel Santpere

431
Citations
A genome-wide perspective on the evolutionary history of enigmatic wolf-like canids

Bridgett M. vonHoldt;John P. Pollinger;Dent A. Earl;James C. Knowles

405
Citations
Circuit-theory applications to connectivity science and conservation.

Brett G. Dickson;Christine M. Albano;Ranjan Anantharaman;Paul Beier

404
Citations
Overexpression of the Cytokine BAFF and Autoimmunity Risk

Maristella Steri;Valeria Orrù;M. Laura Idda;Maristella Pitzalis

400
Citations
Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos

Marc de Manuel;Martin Kuhlwilm;Peter Frandsen;Peter Frandsen;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

360
Citations
The Geographic Spread of the CCR5 Δ32 HIV-Resistance Allele

John Novembre;Alison P Galvani;Montgomery Slatkin

346
Citations
Accounting for Background Nucleotide Composition When Measuring Codon Usage Bias

John A. Novembre

344
Citations
Genome sequencing elucidates Sardinian genetic architecture and augments association analyses for lipid and blood inflammatory markers

Carlo Sidore;Fabio Busonero;Andrea Maschio;Eleonora Porcu

322
Citations
The Population Reference Sample, POPRES: a resource for population, disease, and pharmacological genetics research.

Matthew R. Nelson;Katarzyna Bryc;Karen S. King;Amit Indap

308
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Stephens University of Chicago

Carlos Bustamante Stanford University

Robert K. Wayne University of California, Los Angeles

Francesco Cucca University of Sassari

Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University

David Schlessinger National Institutes of Health

Matthew R. Nelson GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom)

Anna Di Rienzo University of Chicago

Gonçalo R. Abecasis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Elaine A. Ostrander National Institutes of Health

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