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Peter M. Visscher 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 Peter M. Visscher sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 747 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter M. Visscher 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 Peter M. Visscher sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 178 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Australia Leader Award
  • 2018 - Australian Laureate Fellowship
  • 2018 - Australian Laureate Fellow
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
  • 1999 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Peter M. Visscher is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia and has made substantial contributions to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research output includes 230 publications, with a strong focus on genetics, evidenced by 167 publications in this subfield. Other areas of work include molecular biology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research spans key topics such as genetic associations and epidemiology, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock. Additional areas of study encompass epigenetics and DNA methylation, bioinformatics and genomic networks, gene expression and cancer classification, as well as autism spectrum disorder research.

Their recent scholarly contributions include:

  • 15 years of GWAS discovery: Realizing the promise, 2023, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Genome-wide association study identifies 143 loci associated with 25 hydroxyvitamin D concentration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • From Basic Science to Clinical Application of Polygenic Risk Scores, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • Autism-related dietary preferences mediate autism-gut microbiome associations, 2021, Cell
  • Risk prediction of late-onset Alzheimer's disease implies an oligogenic architecture, 2020, Nature Communications

Peter M. Visscher frequently publishes in a selection of scientific venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, UNC Libraries, The American Journal of Human Genetics, and Nature Genetics.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Naomi R. Wray
  • Jian Yang
  • Loïc Yengo
  • Allan F. McRae
  • Michael E. Goddard

Throughout their career, Visscher has received several distinctions, including the Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2018, Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom in 2018, Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science in 2010, and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Best Publications

  • Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases

    Teri A. Manolio;Francis S. Collins;Nancy J. Cox;David B. Goldstein

  • GCTA: a tool for genome-wide complex trait analysis.

    Jian Yang;S. Hong Lee;Michael E. Goddard;Peter M. Visscher

  • Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci

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

  • Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

    Jian Yang;Beben Benyamin;Brian P. McEvoy;Scott Gordon

  • 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

  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

    Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Elizabeth K. Speliotes;Cristen J. Willer;Sonja I. Berndt;Keri L. Monda

  • 10 Years of GWAS Discovery: Biology, Function, and Translation

    Peter M. Visscher;Naomi R. Wray;Qian Zhang;Pamela Sklar

  • Integration of summary data from GWAS and eQTL studies predicts complex trait gene targets

    Zhihong Zhu;Futao Zhang;Han Hu;Andrew Bakshi

  • 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

  • Five years of GWAS discovery

    Peter M. Visscher;Peter M. Visscher;Matthew A. Brown;Mark I. McCarthy;Mark I. McCarthy;Jian Yang

  • Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals

    James J. Lee;Robbee Wedow;Aysu Okbay;Edward Kong

  • Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

  • Genetics of rheumatoid arthritis contributes to biology and drug discovery

    Yukinori Okada;Yukinori Okada;Di Wu;Di Wu;Di Wu;Gosia Trynka;Gosia Trynka;Towfique Raj;Towfique Raj

  • 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

  • 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

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    Hana Lango Allen;Karol Estrada;Guillaume Lettre;Sonja I. Berndt

  • Heritability in the genomics era — concepts and misconceptions

    Peter M. Visscher;William G. Hill;Naomi R. Wray

  • Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

    Andrew R. Wood;Tonu Esko;Jian Yang;Sailaja Vedantam

  • Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700000 individuals of European ancestry

    Loic Yengo;Julia Sidorenko;Julia Sidorenko;Kathryn E Kemper;Zhili Zheng

  • Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

    H. Lango Allen;K. Estrada;G. Lettre;S. I. Berndt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jian Yang
Jian Yang University of Birmingham
Naomi R. Wray
Naomi R. Wray University of Queensland
Grant W. Montgomery
Grant W. Montgomery University of Queensland
Nicholas G. Martin
Nicholas G. Martin QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Tonu Esko
Tonu Esko University of Tartu
Allan F. McRae
Allan F. McRae University of Queensland
Ian J. Deary
Ian J. Deary University of Edinburgh
Michael E. Goddard
Michael E. Goddard University of Melbourne
Andres Metspalu
Andres Metspalu University of Tartu
Riccardo E. Marioni
Riccardo E. Marioni University of Edinburgh

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