2026 Mark Gerstein: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	197	320	301	213	198	829	223590
Molecular Biology	202	19	17	12	11	764	237569

Mark Gerstein 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 Mark Gerstein sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 764 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Mark Gerstein 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 Mark Gerstein sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 202 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark Gerstein is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their work centers primarily around the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Research, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main research topics Mark Gerstein has contributed to include:

Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
RNA Research and Splicing
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Some of their recent scientific papers are:

"GENCODE 2021" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
"Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes" (2020), published in Nature
"High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios" (2022), published in Cell
"Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation" (2021), published in Science
"Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing" (2020), published in Nature Genetics

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Mark Gerstein include:

Jan O. Korbel
Jason Liu
Gamze Gürsoy
Donghoon Lee
Shaoke Lou

The researcher's work has been published extensively in several academic venues, with notable contributions in:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Science
Nature

Mark Gerstein has been recognized with the following distinctions:

Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (2015)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)

Best Publications

A global reference for human genetic variation.

Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

18403
Citations
RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

Zhong Wang;Mark Gerstein;Michael Snyder

15000
Citations
Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

10086
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
Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.

Guri Giaever;Angela M. Chu;Li Ni;Carla Connelly

5250
Citations
GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

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

5232
Citations
Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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

3470
Citations
The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

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

3299
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

3090
Citations
The Transcriptional Landscape of the Yeast Genome Defined by RNA Sequencing

Ugrappa Nagalakshmi;Zhong Wang;Karl Waern;Chong Shou

3048
Citations
The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

2975
Citations
Global analysis of protein activities using proteome chips

Michael Snyder;Heng Zhu;Paul Bertone;Scott M. Bidlingmaier

2967
Citations
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

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

2824
Citations
GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes.

Adam Frankish;Mark Diekhans;Anne-Maud Ferreira;Rory Baldwin Johnson

2656
Citations
Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

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

2519
Citations
ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia

Stephen G. Landt;Georgi K. Marinov;Anshul Kundaje;Pouya Kheradpour

2471
Citations
An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

2353
Citations
A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans

Siming Li;Christopher M. Armstrong;Nicolas Bertin;Hui Ge

2188
Citations
Comparing protein abundance and mRNA expression levels on a genomic scale

Dov Greenbaum;Christopher M. Colangelo;Christopher M. Colangelo;Kenneth Williams;Kenneth Williams;Mark B. Gerstein

2116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Snyder Stanford University

Joel Rozowsky Yale University

Chao Cheng Baylor College of Medicine

Sherman M. Weissman Yale University

Andrea Sboner Cornell University

Kevin Y. Yip Chinese University of Hong Kong

Alexej Abyzov Mayo Clinic

Haiyuan Yu Cornell University

Paul Bertone University of Cambridge

Jan O. Korbel European Molecular Biology Laboratory

External Links

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