2026 Monte Westerfield: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	94	1961	1771	1072	951	282	48392

Research.com Recognitions

1981 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Monte Westerfield is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Developmental Neuroscience.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms

Monte Westerfield has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

"Zebrafish information network, the knowledgebase for Danio rerio research", 2022, Genetics
"Multiomic atlas with functional stratification and developmental dynamics of zebrafish cis-regulatory elements", 2022, Nature Genetics
"Model organisms contribute to diagnosis and discovery in the undiagnosed diseases network: current state and a future vision", 2021, Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
"Updates to the Alliance of Genome Resources central infrastructure", 2024, Genetics
"BICRA, a SWI/SNF Complex Member, Is Associated with BAF-Disorder Related Phenotypes in Humans and Model Organisms", 2020, The American Journal of Human Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include:

Jennifer B. Phillips
Ceri E. Van Slyke
Jeremy Wegner
Yvonne M. Bradford
Leyla Ruzicka

Monte Westerfield's works have appeared mainly in the following publication venues:

Genetics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
The American Journal of Human Genetics
PLoS Genetics

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1981.

Best Publications

The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

5710
Citations
The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

4943
Citations
The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

3766
Citations
Zebrafish hox Clusters and Vertebrate Genome Evolution

Angel Amores;Allan Force;Yi Lin Yan;Lucille Joly

2060
Citations
Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map.

John H. Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael A. Gates;Sally Horne

1014
Citations
The Human Phenotype Ontology project: linking molecular biology and disease through phenotype data

Sebastian Köhler;Sandra C. Doelken;Christopher J. Mungall;Sebastian Bauer

923
Citations
Combinatorial expression of three zebrafish genes related to distal- less: part of a homeobox gene code for the head

M.-A. Akimenko;M. Ekker;J. Wegner;Wei Lin

898
Citations
Identification of separate slow and fast muscle precursor cells in vivo, prior to somite formation

Stephen H. Devoto;Ellie Melançon;Judith S. Eisen;Monte Westerfield

768
Citations
Gene ontology annotations and resources

Blake Ja;Dolan M;Drabkin H

749
Citations
The Gene Ontology project in 2008

Midori A Harris;Jennifer I. Deegan;Amelia Ireland;Jane Lomax

717
Citations
Development and axonal outgrowth of identified motoneurons in the zebrafish

PZ Myers;JS Eisen;M Westerfield

673
Citations
Replication, integration and stable germ-line transmission of foreign sequences injected into early zebrafish embryos

G.W. Stuart;J.V. McMurray;M. Westerfield

541
Citations
Identified motoneurons and their innervation of axial muscles in the zebrafish

M Westerfield;JV McMurray;JS Eisen

454
Citations
Pathway selection by growth cones of identified motoneurones in live zebra fish embryos

Judith S. Eisen;Paul Z. Myers;Monte Westerfield

425
Citations
Differential induction of four msx homeobox genes during fin development and regeneration in zebrafish

Marie-Andrée Akimenko;Stephen L. Johnson;Monte Westerfield;Marc Ekker

410
Citations
A pair of Sox: distinct and overlapping functions of zebrafish sox9 co-orthologs in craniofacial and pectoral fin development

Yi-Lin Yan;John Willoughby;John Willoughby;Dong Liu;Justin Gage Crump

382
Citations
Sequence and expression pattern of pax-6 are highly conserved between zebrafish and mice.

A. W. Puschel;P. Gruss;M. Westerfield

373
Citations
Coordinate embryonic expression of three zebrafish engrailed genes

M. Ekker;J. Wegner;M.A. Akimenko;M. Westerfield

350
Citations
The Zebrafish Information Network: the zebrafish model organism database

Judy Sprague;Leyla Bayraktaroglu;Dave Clements;Tom Conlin

333
Citations
Correction: Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map

John Postlethwait;Yi-Lin Yan;Michael Gates;Sally Horne

6
Citations