2026 Oliver Hofmann: 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	40	3065	2787	79	76	117	25357

Oliver Hofmann 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 Oliver Hofmann sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 117 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Oliver Hofmann 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 Oliver Hofmann sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 40 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

Oliver Hofmann is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

Their research spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Genetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. The main topics of their work focus on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research.

Oliver Hofmann has published frequently in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Biotechnology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Nature Communications.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

Sean M. Grimmond
Stephen B. Fox
Joseph H.A. Vissers
Richard W. Tothill
Catherine Mitchell

Among their recent papers are:

GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare (2021, Cell Genomics)
Whole-genome sequencing reveals new Alzheimer's disease-associated rare variants in loci related to synaptic function and neuronal development (2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
A first-in-class pan-lysyl oxidase inhibitor impairs stromal remodeling and enhances gemcitabine response and survival in pancreatic cancer (2023, Nature Cancer)
Scaling national and international improvement in virtual gene panel curation via a collaborative approach to discordance resolution (2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
Australian Genomics: Outcomes of a 5-year national program to accelerate the integration of genomics in healthcare (2023, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Best Publications

Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

Bailey P;Chang Dk;Nones K;Nones K;Johns Al

3672
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

3090
Citations
Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

2182
Citations
A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

2045
Citations
Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer.

Vinod P. Balachandran;Marta Łuksza;Julia N. Zhao;Vladimir Makarov

1213
Citations
Aberrant lipid metabolism disrupts calcium homeostasis causing liver endoplasmic reticulum stress in obesity

Suneng Fu;Ling Yang;Ping Li;Oliver Hofmann

1132
Citations
Integrating human sequence data sets provides a resource of benchmark SNP and indel genotype calls

Justin M Zook;Brad Alan Chapman;Jason Wang;David Mittelman

904
Citations
An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

872
Citations
Integrating sequencing datasets to form highly confident SNP and indel genotype calls for a whole human genome

Justin M. Zook;Brad Chapman;Jason Wang;David Mittelman

864
Citations
Clonal dynamics of native haematopoiesis

Jianlong Sun;Azucena Ramos;Brad Chapman;Jonathan B. Johnnidis

856
Citations
VarDict: a novel and versatile variant caller for next-generation sequencing in cancer research

Zhongwu Lai;Aleksandra Markovets;Miika Ahdesmaki;Brad Chapman

811
Citations
miR-24 Inhibits Cell Proliferation by Targeting E2F2, MYC, and Other Cell-Cycle Genes via Binding to “Seedless” 3′UTR MicroRNA Recognition Elements

Ashish Lal;Francisco Navarro;Christopher A. Maher;Laura E. Maliszewski

704
Citations
Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

591
Citations
Toward interoperable bioscience data

Susanna-Assunta Sansone;Philippe Rocca-Serra;Dawn Field;Eamonn Maguire

504
Citations
The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

497
Citations
Copy number signatures and mutational processes in ovarian carcinoma

Geoff Macintyre;Teodora E. Goranova;Dilrini De Silva;Darren Ennis

429
Citations
Genome-wide analysis of cancer/testis gene expression

Oliver Hofmann;Oliver Hofmann;Otavia L. Caballero;Brian J. Stevenson;Brian J. Stevenson;Yao Tseng Chen

414
Citations
ISA software suite

Philippe Rocca-Serra;Marco Brandizi;Eamonn Maguire;Eamonn Maguire;Nataliya Sklyar

382
Citations
Capture of MicroRNA–Bound mRNAs Identifies the Tumor Suppressor miR-34a as a Regulator of Growth Factor Signaling

Ashish Lal;Marshall P. Thomas;Marshall P. Thomas;Gabriel Altschuler;Francisco Navarro;Francisco Navarro

278
Citations
BRENDA: a resource for enzyme data and metabolic information

Ida Schomburg;Antje Chang;Oliver Hofmann;Christian Ebeling

236
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Winston Hide Harvard Medical School

Sean M. Grimmond University of Melbourne

Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN

Piero Carninci RIKEN

Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh

Jesper Tegnér King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania

Vladimir B. Bajic King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital

Ola Myklebost University of Bergen

External Links

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