2026 Maja Bucan: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	57	3364	3177	1456	1365	122	20204

Overview

Maja Bucan is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of medicine and technology, with a specialization in areas such as experimental and cognitive psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and rheumatology.

Their work spans multiple specific topics, including:

Sleep and related disorders
Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
Sleep and Wakefulness Research

Maja Bucan's recent papers reflect a focus on digital medicine and wearable sensor data analysis. Notable publications include:

"Self-supervised learning for human activity recognition using 700,000 person-days of wearable data" (2024, npj Digital Medicine)
"Resource-Constrained Neural Architecture Search on Edge Devices" (2021, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering)
"Digital health technologies and machine learning augment patient reported outcomes to remotely characterise rheumatoid arthritis" (2024, npj Digital Medicine)
"Angelica sinensis polysaccharide improves mitochondrial metabolism of osteoarthritis chondrocytes through PPARγ/SOD2/ROS pathways" (2023, Phytotherapy Research)
"CAPTURE-24: A large dataset of wrist-worn activity tracker data collected in the wild for human activity recognition" (2024, Scientific Data)

The publications have appeared repeatedly in several venues, including:

npj Digital Medicine
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Infection
Research Square (Research Square)

Maja Bucan collaborates frequently with a group of coauthors, notably including Aiden Doherty, Simon D. Kyle, David Ray, Tatiana Plekhanova, and Kathleen J. Maddison. These collaborations have contributed to a wide range of research outputs across medical and technological disciplines.

Best Publications

PennCNV: An integrated hidden Markov model designed for high-resolution copy number variation detection in whole-genome SNP genotyping data

Kai Wang;Mingyao Li;Dexter Hadley;Rui Liu

1998
Citations
Autism genome-wide copy number variation reveals ubiquitin and neuronal genes

Joseph T. Glessner;Kai Wang;Guiqing Cai;Olena Korvatska

1637
Citations
Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements

Peter Szatmari;Andrew D. Paterson;Lonnie Zwaigenbaum;Wendy Roberts

1609
Citations
High-throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes

Mary E. Dickinson;Ann M. Flenniken;Xiao Ji;Lydia Teboul

1232
Citations
A Role for AMP-Activated Protein Kinase in Contraction- and Hypoxia-Regulated Glucose Transport in Skeletal Muscle

James Mu;Joseph T Brozinick;Otto Valladares;Maja Bucan

1124
Citations
Common genetic variants on 5p14.1 associate with autism spectrum disorders

Kai Wang;Haitao Zhang;Deqiong Ma;Maja Bucan

1122
Citations
Pathway-Based Approaches for Analysis of Genomewide Association Studies

Kai Wang;Mingyao Li;Maja Bucan

1041
Citations
Genotype, haplotype and copy-number variation in worldwide human populations

Mattias Jakobsson;Sonja W. Scholz;Sonja W. Scholz;Paul A Scheet;J. Raphael Gibbs;J. Raphael Gibbs

1002
Citations
The knockout mouse project

Christopher P. Austin;James F. Battey;Allan Bradley;Maja Bucan

764
Citations
Estimating sleep parameters using an accelerometer without sleep diary

Vincent Theodoor van Hees;S. Sabia;S. Sabia;S. E. Jones;A. R. Wood

570
Citations
Sleep Behaviors and Sleep Quality in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Margaret C. Souders;Thorton B. A. Mason;Otto Valladares;Maja Bucan

529
Citations
Promoter features related to tissue specificity as measured by Shannon entropy

Jonathan Schug;Winfried-Paul Schuller;Claudia Kappen;J Michael Salbaum

505
Citations
Genome-wide analyses of exonic copy number variants in a family-based study point to novel autism susceptibility genes

Maja Bucan;Brett S. Abrahams;Kai Wang;Joseph T. Glessner

497
Citations
Nuclear receptor corepressor and histone deacetylase 3 govern circadian metabolic physiology

Theresa Alenghat;Katherine Meyers;Shannon E. Mullican;Kirstin Leitner

352
Citations
From mouse to human: evolutionary genomics analysis of human orthologs of essential genes.

Benjamin Georgi;Benjamin F. Voight;Maja Bućan

261
Citations
The mouse: genetics meets behaviour.

Maja Bućan;Ted Abel

239
Citations
Behavior and mutagenesis screens: the importance of baseline analysis of inbred strains.

Lisa M. Tarantino;Thomas J. Gould;Jonathan P. Druhan;Maja Bucan

201
Citations
Mouse transferrin receptor 1 is the cell entry receptor for mouse mammary tumor virus

Susan R. Ross;Jason J. Schofield;Christine J. Farr;Maja Bucan

195
Citations
Sequence interpretation. Functional annotation of mouse genome sequences.

J. H. Nadeau;R. Balling;G. Barsh;D. Beier

191
Citations
Dissection of behavior and psychiatric disorders using the mouse as a model

Lisa M. Tarantino;Maja Bucan

167
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hakon Hakonarson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Daniel J. Rader University of Pennsylvania

Gerard D. Schellenberg University of Pennsylvania

Struan F.A. Grant University of Pennsylvania

Christopher D. Brown University of Pennsylvania

John I. Nurnberger Indiana University

Cecilia W. Lo University of Pittsburgh

Kai Wang Hebei University

Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Margaret A. Pericak-Vance University of Miami

External Links

Personal website of Maja Bucan

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