2026 Patrick F. Sullivan: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	173	759	692	465	415	773	159038
Genetics	166	75	72	40	39	610	160477

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award

Overview

Patrick F. Sullivan is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of genetics, molecular biology, and mental health, as reflected in their extensive publication record and diverse areas of study.

The scientist's recent papers include:

"Reproducible Genetic Risk Loci for Anxiety: Results From ∼200,000 Participants in the Million Veteran Program," 2020, American Journal of Psychiatry
"Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals," 2023, Science
"Robust Hi-C Maps of Enhancer-Promoter Interactions Reveal the Function of Non-coding Genome in Neural Development and Diseases," 2020, Molecular Cell
"Acute COVID-19 severity and mental health morbidity trajectories in patient populations of six nations: an observational study," 2022, The Lancet Public Health
"Cohort Profile: COVIDMENT: COVID-19 cohorts on mental health across six nations," 2021, International Journal of Epidemiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

Yi Lu (44 collaborative works)
Ole A. Andreassen (33 collaborative works)
Fang Fang (28 collaborative works)
Unnur Valdimarsdóttir (27 collaborative works)
Anna K. Kähler (24 collaborative works)

Patrick F. Sullivan has published extensively across a range of venues, with the most frequent being:

UNC Libraries (120 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (35 publications)
European Neuropsychopharmacology (25 publications)
Molecular Psychiatry (14 publications)
Nature Communications (9 publications)

The main fields of study covered by their research are concentrated in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The primary topics of their research involve:

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
COVID-19 and Mental Health
Bipolar Disorder and Treatment

Best Publications

Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

Monkol Lek;Konrad J. Karczewski;Konrad J. Karczewski;Eric V. Minikel;Eric V. Minikel;Kaitlin E. Samocha

10685
Citations
Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Aiden Corvin;James T. R. Walters

7722
Citations
Common polygenic variation contributes to risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

Shaun M. Purcell;Shaun M. Purcell;Naomi R. Wray;Jennifer L. Stone;Jennifer L. Stone;Peter M. Visscher

4724
Citations
Genetic Epidemiology of Major Depression: Review and Meta-Analysis

Patrick F. Sullivan;Michael C. Neale;Kenneth S. Kendler

4478
Citations
Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis

Jordan W. Smoller;Kenneth Kendler;Nicholas John Craddock;Phil Hyoun Lee

4310
Citations
Clonal Hematopoiesis and Blood-Cancer Risk Inferred from Blood DNA Sequence

Giulio Genovese;Anna K. Kähler;Robert E. Handsaker;Johan Lindberg

3340
Citations
Genome-wide association analyses identify 44 risk variants and refine the genetic architecture of major depression

Naomi R. Wray;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Manuel Mattheisen;MacIej Trzaskowski

3191
Citations
Schizophrenia as a complex trait: evidence from a meta-analysis of twin studies.

Patrick F. Sullivan;Kenneth S. Kendler;Michael C. Neale

3003
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

Stephan Ripke;Alan R. Sanders;Kenneth S. Kendler;Douglas F. Levinson

2714
Citations
Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

David M. Howard;Mark J. Adams;Toni Kim Clarke;Jonathan D. Hafferty

2669
Citations
Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs

S. Hong Lee;Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Benjamin M. Neale;Benjamin M. Neale;Stephen V. Faraone

2429
Citations
Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new loci and functional pathways influencing Alzheimer's disease risk.

Iris E. Jansen;Jeanne E. Savage;Kyoko Watanabe;Julien Bryois

2416
Citations
Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies

Tinca J C Polderman;Beben Benyamin;Christiaan A de Leeuw;Patrick F Sullivan

2384
Citations
Discovery of the first genome-wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Ditte Demontis;Ditte Demontis;Raymond K Walters;Raymond K Walters;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Joanna Martin;Manuel Mattheisen

2363
Citations
Common genetic determinants of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in Swedish families: a population-based study.

Paul Lichtenstein;Benjamin H Yip;Camilla Björk;Yudi Pawitan

2360
Citations
Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies.

Alexander Gusev;Alexander Gusev;Arthur Ko;Huwenbo Shi;Gaurav Bhatia;Gaurav Bhatia

1998
Citations
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain

Verneri Anttila;Verneri Anttila;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Hilary K. Finucane;Raymond K. Walters;Raymond K. Walters

1978
Citations
Genome-wide association analysis identifies 13 new risk loci for schizophrenia

Stephan Ripke;Stephan Ripke;Colm T. O'Dushlaine;Kimberly D. Chambert;Jennifer L. Moran

1788
Citations
Mortality in anorexia nervosa.

Patrick F. Sullivan

1561
Citations
Evidence From a Meta-analysis of Twin Studies

Patrick F. Sullivan;Kenneth S. Kendler;Michael C. Neale

12
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephan Ripke Massachusetts General Hospital

Shaun Purcell Harvard Medical School

Christina M. Hultman Karolinska Institute

Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University

Cynthia M. Bulik University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Danielle Posthuma Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Kenneth S. Kendler Virginia Commonwealth University

Gerome Breen King's College London

External Links

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