2026 Miguel Ramalho-Santos: 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	41	3043	2767	91	83	73	13101

Miguel Ramalho-Santos 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 Miguel Ramalho-Santos sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 73 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Miguel Ramalho-Santos 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 Miguel Ramalho-Santos sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Miguel Ramalho-Santos is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has a research focus spanning multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their body of work encompasses significant contributions to molecular biology, plant science, oncology, genetics, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

The scientist's work addresses topics including CRISPR and genetic engineering, chromosomal and genetic variations, genomics and chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, RNA modifications and cancer, pluripotent stem cells research, and RNA research and splicing.

Frequent coauthors of Miguel Ramalho-Santos include Évelyne Collignon, Brandon Cho, Giacomo Furlan, Kirti Mittal, and Yun-Kyo Kim.

Their research has appeared extensively in several journals, with a notable presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) where seven publications are recorded. Other recurring publication venues include Cell Reports, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, and Cell.

Key recent papers authored by Miguel Ramalho-Santos include:

"Colorectal Cancer Cells Enter a Diapause-like DTP State to Survive Chemotherapy" (2021) published in Cell
"Homotypic clustering of L1 and B1/Alu repeats compartmentalizes the 3D genome" (2021) published in Cell Research
"Genomic Repeats Categorize Genes with Distinct Functions for Orchestrated Regulation" (2020) published in Cell Reports
"Regulation, functions and transmission of bivalent chromatin during mammalian development" (2022) published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
"What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger: Transposons as Dual Players in Chromatin Regulation and Genomic Variation" (2020) published in BioEssays

Best Publications

"Stemness": Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells

Miguel Ramalho-Santos;Soonsang Yoon;Yumi Matsuzaki;Richard C. Mulligan

2069
Citations
Hedgehog signals regulate multiple aspects of gastrointestinal development.

Miguel Ramalho-Santos;Douglas A. Melton;Andrew P. McMahon

946
Citations
Vitamin C induces Tet-dependent DNA demethylation and a blastocyst-like state in ES cells

Kathryn Blaschke;Kevin T. Ebata;Mohammad M. Karimi;Mohammad M. Karimi;Jorge A. Zepeda-Martínez

858
Citations
Smoothened Mutants Reveal Redundant Roles for Shh and Ihh Signaling Including Regulation of L/R Asymmetry by the Mouse Node

Xiaoyan M. Zhang;Miguel Ramalho-Santos;Andrew P. McMahon

713
Citations
Incomplete DNA methylation underlies a transcriptional memory of somatic cells in human iPS cells

Yuki Ohi;Han Qin;Chibo Hong;Laure Blouin

667
Citations
Open chromatin in pluripotency and reprogramming

Alexandre Gaspar-Maia;Adi Alajem;Eran Meshorer;Miguel Ramalho-Santos

647
Citations
Chd1 regulates open chromatin and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells

Alexandre Gaspar-Maia;Adi Alajem;Fanny Polesso;Rupa Sridharan

600
Citations
Response to Comments on " 'Stemness': Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells" and "A Stem Cell Molecular Signature"

Natalia B. Ivanova;John T. Dimos;Christoph Schaniel;Jason A. Hackney

460
Citations
A LINE1-Nucleolin Partnership Regulates Early Development and ESC Identity.

Michelle Percharde;Chih-Jen Lin;Yafei Yin;Juan Guan

447
Citations
On the origin of the term "stem cell"

Miguel Ramalho-Santos;Holger Willenbring

417
Citations
Generation of induced pluripotent stem cells in the absence of drug selection.

Robert Blelloch;Monica Venere;Jonathan Yen;Miguel Ramalho-Santos

365
Citations
Colorectal Cancer Cells Enter a Diapause-like DTP State to Survive Chemotherapy

Sumaiyah K. Rehman;Jennifer Haynes;Evelyne Collignon;Kevin R. Brown

339
Citations
Inhibition of mTOR induces a paused pluripotent state

Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu;Steffen Biechele;Hu Jin;Trisha A. Macrae

244
Citations
YAP Induces Human Naive Pluripotency

Han Qin;Miroslav Hejna;Yanxia Liu;Michelle Percharde

185
Citations
Hira-Mediated H3.3 Incorporation Is Required for DNA Replication and Ribosomal RNA Transcription in the Mouse Zygote

Chih-Jen Lin;Fong Ming Koh;Priscilla Wong;Marco Conti

179
Citations
Bivalent Chromatin Marks Developmental Regulatory Genes in the Mouse Embryonic Germline in Vivo

Michael Sachs;Courtney Onodera;Kathryn Blaschke;Kevin T. Ebata

171
Citations
Somatic cells regulate maternal mRNA translation and developmental competence of mouse oocytes

Jing Chen;Simona Torcia;Fang Xie;Chih-Jen Lin

159
Citations
Homotypic clustering of L1 and B1/Alu repeats compartmentalizes the 3D genome.

J. Yuyang Lu;Lei Chang;Tong Li;Ting Wang

149
Citations
Histone variant H3.3 maintains a decondensed chromatin state essential for mouse preimplantation development

Chih-Jen Lin;Marco Conti;Miguel Ramalho-Santos

144
Citations
Systematic Identification of Barriers to Human iPSC Generation

Han Qin;Aaron Diaz;Laure Blouin;Robert Jan Lebbink

114
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chih-Jen Lin National Taiwan University

Michael T. McManus University of California, San Francisco

Martin Hirst University of British Columbia

Douglas A. Melton Harvard University

Eran Meshorer Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Richard C. Mulligan Harvard University

Alma L. Burlingame University of California, San Francisco

Anjana Rao La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology

Matthias Hebrok University of California, San Francisco

Hong Wu Peking University

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