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Genetics

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80
Citations
53965
World Ranking
1547
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18

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National Ranking
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Nuria Lopez-Bigas publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nuria Lopez-Bigas sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 190 publications — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Nuria Lopez-Bigas D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nuria Lopez-Bigas sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Nuria Lopez-Bigas is affiliated with the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in Spain. Their primary research fields encompass Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. Within these domains, the scientist focuses on subfields including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Oncology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research

Several recent papers highlight their research output and collaboration with multiple authors. These publications include:

  • "The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer," 2020, Nature
  • "A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes," 2020, Nature Reviews. Cancer
  • "Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes," 2020, Nature
  • "Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2," 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Single-cell transcriptional changes associated with drug tolerance and response to combination therapies in cancer," 2021, Nature Communications

The frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated extensively include:

  • Abel González-Pérez
  • Ferran Muiños
  • Oriol Pich
  • Claudia Arnedo-Pac
  • Ludmil B. Alexandrov

Publication venues commonly featuring their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Cancer Discovery

Among recognitions, this scientist is noted as a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • 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

  • The Repertoire of Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer

    Ludmil B Alexandrov;Jaegil Kim;Nicholas J Haradhvala;Nicholas J Haradhvala;Mi Ni Huang

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • A Landscape of Pharmacogenomic Interactions in Cancer

    Francesco Iorio;Francesco Iorio;Theo A. Knijnenburg;Theo A. Knijnenburg;Daniel J. Vis;Graham R. Bignell

  • Multiplatform analysis of 12 cancer types reveals molecular classification within and across tissues of origin

    Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Denise M. Wolf;Andrew D. Cherniack

  • Whole-genome landscapes of major melanoma subtypes

    Nicholas K. Hayward;Nicholas K. Hayward;James S. Wilmott;Nicola Waddell;Nicola Waddell;Peter A. Johansson

  • Non-coding recurrent mutations in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

    Xose S. Puente;Silvia Beà;Rafael Valdés-Mas;Neus Villamor

  • Pan-cancer network analysis identifies combinations of rare somatic mutations across pathways and protein complexes

    Mark D.M. Leiserson;Fabio Vandin;Hsin Ta Wu;Jason R. Dobson

  • A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes.

    Francisco Martínez-Jiménez;Ferran Muiños;Inés Sentís;Jordi Deu-Pons

  • Improving the Assessment of the Outcome of Nonsynonymous SNVs with a Consensus Deleteriousness Score, Condel

    Abel González-Pérez;Nuria López-Bigas

  • Expansion of the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases to 160 genomes

    Peter D. Karp;Christos A. Ouzounis;Caroline Moore-Kochlacs;Leon Goldovsky

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • IntOGen-mutations identifies cancer drivers across tumor types

    Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Christian Perez-Llamas;Jordi Deu-Pons;David Tamborero

  • A framework to rank genomic alterations as targets for cancer precision medicine: the ESMO Scale for Clinical Actionability of molecular Targets (ESCAT)

    J. Mateo;D. Chakravarty;R. Dienstmann;S. Jezdic

  • Comprehensive identification of mutational cancer driver genes across 12 tumor types

    David Tamborero;Abel Gonzalez-Perez;Christian Perez-Llamas;Jordi Deu-Pons

  • CIViC is a community knowledgebase for expert crowdsourcing the clinical interpretation of variants in cancer

    Malachi Griffith;Nicholas C. Spies;Kilannin Krysiak;Joshua F. McMichael

  • Are splicing mutations the most frequent cause of hereditary disease

    Núria López-Bigas;Benjamin Audit;Christos Ouzounis;Genís Parra

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

Frequent Co-Authors

Abel Gonzalez-Perez
Abel Gonzalez-Perez Pompeu Fabra University
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Li Ding
Li Ding Washington University in St. Louis
Raquel Rabionet
Raquel Rabionet University of Barcelona
Manel Esteller
Manel Esteller Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Christos A. Ouzounis
Christos A. Ouzounis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
David A. Wheeler
David A. Wheeler Baylor College of Medicine
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Joshua M. Stuart
Joshua M. Stuart University of California, Santa Cruz

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