2026 Ramaswamy Govindan: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	111	5226	4902	2821	2612	712	79420

Overview

Ramaswamy Govindan is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Oncology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, and Immunology.

Their work addresses several major research topics, including:

Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Lung Cancer Research Studies
Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
RNA modifications and cancer

Govindan has contributed to numerous papers, some of which include:

Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine (2020) published in The Lancet
KRAS ^G12C Inhibition with Sotorasib in Advanced Solid Tumors (2020) published in New England Journal of Medicine
Sotorasib for Lung Cancers with KRAS p.G12C Mutation (2021) published in New England Journal of Medicine
Proteogenomic Characterization Reveals Therapeutic Vulnerabilities in Lung Adenocarcinoma (2020) published in Cell
A Phase Ib Trial of Personalized Neoantigen Therapy Plus Anti-PD-1 in Patients with Advanced Melanoma, Non-small Cell Lung Cancer, or Bladder Cancer (2020) published in Cell

Their frequent coauthors include:

Daniel Morgensztern
Siddhartha Devarakonda
Saiama N. Waqar
Suresh S. Ramalingam
Li Ding

Ramaswamy Govindan's work is often published in these venues:

Journal of Clinical Oncology
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
Cancer Research
Cancer Genetics
UNC Libraries

Best Publications

Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

5272
Citations
Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

Peter S. Hammerman;Doug Voet;Michael S. Lawrence;Douglas Voet

3665
Citations
Oncogenic Signaling Pathways in The Cancer Genome Atlas

Francisco Sanchez-Vega;Marco Mina;Joshua Armenia;Walid K. Chatila

3193
Citations
Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

3090
Citations
Cell-of-Origin Patterns Dominate the Molecular Classification of 10,000 Tumors from 33 Types of Cancer.

Katherine A. Hoadley;Christina Yau;Christina Yau;Toshinori Hinoue;Denise M. Wolf

2565
Citations
Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

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

2512
Citations
Changing Epidemiology of Small-Cell Lung Cancer in the United States Over the Last 30 Years: Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiologic, and End Results Database

Ramaswamy Govindan;Nathan Page;Daniel Morgensztern;William Read

2176
Citations
The clinical KRAS(G12C) inhibitor AMG 510 drives anti-tumour immunity

Jude Canon;Karen Rex;Anne Y. Saiki;Christopher Mohr

2174
Citations
Sex and gender: modifiers of health, disease, and medicine.

Franck Mauvais-Jarvis;Noel Bairey Merz;Peter J. Barnes;Roberta D. Brinton

1914
Citations
KRASG12C Inhibition with Sotorasib in Advanced Solid Tumors.

David S. Hong;Marwan G. Fakih;John H. Strickler;Jayesh Desai

1300
Citations
Genomic Landscape of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in Smokers and Never-Smokers

Ramaswamy Govindan;Li Ding;Malachi Griffith;Janakiraman Subramanian

1295
Citations
Distinct patterns of somatic genome alterations in lung adenocarcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas

Joshua D Campbell;Anton Alexandrov;Jaegil Kim;Jeremiah Wala

1249
Citations
Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

David S. Ettinger;Wallace Akerley;Gerold Bepler;Andrew Chang

1193
Citations
Non-small cell lung cancer, version 5.2017: Clinical practice guidelines in oncology

David S. Ettinger;Douglas E. Wood;Dara L. Aisner;Wallace Akerley

1168
Citations
Sotorasib for Lung Cancers with KRAS p.G12C Mutation.

Ferdinandos Skoulidis;Bob T. Li;Grace K. Dy;Timothy J. Price

1166
Citations
Genomic and Functional Approaches to Understanding Cancer Aneuploidy

Alison M. Taylor;Alison M. Taylor;Juliann Shih;Gavin Ha;Gavin Ha;Galen F. Gao

1116
Citations
Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

942
Citations
Comprehensive Analysis of Alternative Splicing Across Tumors from 8,705 Patients.

André Kahles;Kjong-Van Lehmann;Nora C Toussaint;Matthias Hüser

907
Citations
Non-small cell lung cancer, version 1.2020: Featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

David S. Ettinger;Douglas E. Wood;Charu Aggarwal;Dara L. Aisner

817
Citations
Lung Cancer in Never Smokers: A Review

Janakiraman Subramanian;Ramaswamy Govindan

806
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Feng Gao Linköping University

feng gao Duke University

Mark A. Socinski University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Li Ding Washington University in St. Louis

David R. Spigel Sarah Cannon Research Institute

Everett E. Vokes University of Chicago

Taofeek K. Owonikoko Emory University

Lucian R. Chirieac Brigham and Women's Hospital

David R. Gandara University of California, Davis

Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Ramaswamy Govindan

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