2026 Jonathan S. Weissman: 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	164	53	45	36	32	486	136637

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Jonathan S. Weissman is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Biophysics, and Immunology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, and Cell Image Analysis Techniques.

Recent publications by Jonathan S. Weissman include:

Enhanced prime editing systems by manipulating cellular determinants of editing outcomes, 2021, Cell
Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing, 2021, Cell
Therapy-Induced Evolution of Human Lung Cancer Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing, 2020, Cell
Pervasive functional translation of noncanonical human open reading frames, 2020, Science
OpenCell: Endogenous tagging for the cartography of human cellular organization, 2022, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Weissman include:

Joseph M. Replogle
Marco Jost
Jeffrey A. Hussmann
Dian Yang
Nir Yosef

Jonathan S. Weissman has published extensively across venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Science, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). The distribution of publications includes 43 papers in bioRxiv, 13 in Cell, 10 in Nature Biotechnology, 7 in Science, and 7 in Zenodo.

Best Publications

Repurposing CRISPR as an RNA-guided platform for sequence-specific control of gene expression.

Lei S. Qi;Matthew H. Larson;Luke A. Gilbert;Jennifer A. Doudna

5826
Citations
Global analysis of protein localization in budding yeast

Won-Ki Huh;James V. Falvo;Luke C. Gerke;Adam S. Carroll

5145
Citations
Global analysis of protein expression in yeast

Sina Ghaemmaghami;Won-Ki Huh;Kiowa Bower;Russell W. Howson

4667
Citations
Mammalian microRNAs predominantly act to decrease target mRNA levels

Huili Guo;Nicholas T. Ingolia;Nicholas T. Ingolia;Jonathan S. Weissman;Jonathan S. Weissman;David P. Bartel

4595
Citations
Genome-Wide Analysis in Vivo of Translation with Nucleotide Resolution Using Ribosome Profiling

Nicholas T. Ingolia;Sina Ghaemmaghami;John R. S. Newman;Jonathan S. Weissman

4077
Citations
CRISPR-Mediated Modular RNA-Guided Regulation of Transcription in Eukaryotes

Luke A. Gilbert;Matthew H. Larson;Leonardo Morsut;Zairan Liu

3985
Citations
Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nevan J. Krogan;Gerard Cagney;Gerard Cagney;Haiyuan Yu;Gouqing Zhong

3470
Citations
Genome-Scale CRISPR-Mediated Control of Gene Repression and Activation

Luke A. Gilbert;Max A. Horlbeck;Britt Adamson;Jacqueline E. Villalta

2981
Citations
Ribosome Profiling of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells Reveals the Complexity and Dynamics of Mammalian Proteomes

Nicholas T. Ingolia;Liana F. Lareau;Jonathan S. Weissman

2356
Citations
Functional and Genomic Analyses Reveal an Essential Coordination between the Unfolded Protein Response and ER-Associated Degradation

Kevin J Travers;Christopher K Patil;Lisa Wodicka;David J Lockhart

2332
Citations
Dynamic Imaging of Genomic Loci in Living Human Cells by an Optimized CRISPR/Cas System

Baohui Chen;Luke A. Gilbert;Beth A. Cimini;Joerg Schnitzbauer

2143
Citations
Molecular Chaperones and Protein Quality Control

Bernd Bukau;Jonathan Weissman;Arthur Horwich;Arthur Horwich

1849
Citations
Perturb-Seq: Dissecting Molecular Circuits with Scalable Single-Cell RNA Profiling of Pooled Genetic Screens

Atray Dixit;Atray Dixit;Oren Parnas;Biyu Li;Jenny Chen;Jenny Chen

1807
Citations
Single-cell proteomic analysis of S. cerevisiae reveals the architecture of biological noise

John R. S. Newman;Sina Ghaemmaghami;Sina Ghaemmaghami;Jan Ihmels;David K. Breslow

1763
Citations
A Protein-Tagging System for Signal Amplification in Gene Expression and Fluorescence Imaging

Marvin E. Tanenbaum;Luke A. Gilbert;Lei S. Qi;Jonathan S. Weissman

1570
Citations
The Human Cell Atlas

Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

1560
Citations
Decay of endoplasmic reticulum-localized mRNAs during the unfolded protein response.

Julie Hollien;Jonathan S. Weissman

1449
Citations
Quantifying Absolute Protein Synthesis Rates Reveals Principles Underlying Allocation of Cellular Resources

Gene Wei Li;David Burkhardt;Carol Gross;Jonathan S. Weissman

1446
Citations
The translational landscape of mTOR signalling steers cancer initiation and metastasis

Andrew C. Hsieh;Yi Liu;Merritt P. Edlind;Nicholas T. Ingolia

1434
Citations
An ER-Mitochondria Tethering Complex Revealed by a Synthetic Biology Screen

Benoît Kornmann;Erin Currie;Sean R. Collins;Maya Schuldiner

1340
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kampmann University of California, San Francisco

Luke A. Gilbert University of California, San Francisco

Nevan J. Krogan University of California, San Francisco

Peter Walter University of California, San Francisco

Aviv Regev Genentech

Nicholas T. Ingolia University of California, Berkeley

Michael C. Bassik Stanford University

Eric S. Lander Broad Institute

Lei S. Qi Stanford University

Carol A. Gross University of California, San Francisco

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