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D-Index
58
Citations
46555
World Ranking
3278
National Ranking
399

Richard Wooster 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 Richard Wooster sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 115 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Wooster 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 Richard Wooster sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer

    Helen Davies;Graham R. Bignell;Charles Cox;Philip Stephens

  • Cancer nanomedicine: progress, challenges and opportunities.

    Jinjun Shi;Philip W. Kantoff;Richard Wooster;Omid C. Farokhzad;Omid C. Farokhzad

  • Identification of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2

    Wooster R;Bignell G;Lancaster J;Swift S

  • A census of human cancer genes

    P. Andrew Futreal;Lachlan Coin;Mhairi Marshall;Thomas Down

  • Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes

    Christopher Greenman;Philip Stephens;Raffaella Smith;Gillian L. Dalgliesh

  • Localization of a breast cancer susceptibility gene, BRCA2, to chromosome 13q12-13

    Richard Wooster;Susan L. Neuhausen;Jonathan Mangion;Yvette Quirk

  • BRAF and RAS mutations in human lung cancer and melanoma

    Marcia S. Brose;Patricia Volpe;Michael Feldman;Madhu Kumar

  • The COSMIC (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) database and website

    S Bamford;E Dawson;S Forbes;J Clements

  • Breast and Ovarian Cancer

    Richard Wooster;Barbara L Weber

  • Lung cancer: intragenic ERBB2 kinase mutations in tumours.

    Philip Stephens;Chris Hunter;Graham Bignell;Sarah Edkins

  • A systematic, large-scale resequencing screen of X-chromosome coding exons in mental retardation.

    Patrick S Tarpey;Raffaella Smith;Erin Pleasance;Annabel Whibley

  • Breast cancer genetics: what we know and what we need

    Katherine N. Nathanson;Richard Wooster;Barbara L. Weber

  • Somatic Mutations of the Protein Kinase Gene Family in Human Lung Cancer

    Helen Davies;Chris Hunter;Raffaella Smith;Philip Stephens

  • Instability of short tandem repeats (microsatellites) in human cancers

    R. Wooster;A.-M. Cleton-Jansen;N. Collins;J. Mangion

  • Similarity of the phenotypic patterns associated with BRAF and KRAS mutations in colorectal neoplasia.

    Siu T. Yuen;Helen Davies;Tsun L. Chan;Judy W. Ho

  • Mutation analysis of 24 known cancer genes in the NCI-60 cell line set.

    Ogechi N. Ikediobi;Helen Davies;Graham Bignell;Sarah Edkins

  • High-resolution analysis of DNA copy number using oligonucleotide microarrays

    Graham R. Bignell;Jing Huang;Joel Greshock;Stephen Watt

  • Cancer risks in two large breast cancer families linked to BRCA2 on chromosome 13q12-13.

    D F Easton;L Steele;P Fields;W Ormiston

  • A Hypermutation Phenotype and Somatic MSH6 Mutations in Recurrent Human Malignant Gliomas after Alkylator Chemotherapy

    Chris Hunter;Raffaella Smith;Daniel P. Cahill;Philip Stephens

  • BRCA2 mutations in primary breast and ovarian cancers

    Johnathan M. Lancaster;Richard Wooster;Jonathon Mangion;Catherine M. Phelan;Catherine M. Phelan;Catherine M. Phelan

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Stratton
Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute
P. Andrew Futreal
P. Andrew Futreal The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sarah Edkins
Sarah Edkins Cardiff University
Jon W. Teague
Jon W. Teague Wellcome Sanger Institute
Graham R. Bignell
Graham R. Bignell Wellcome Sanger Institute
Adam Butler
Adam Butler Wellcome Sanger Institute
Ed Dicks
Ed Dicks University of Cambridge
Helen Davies
Helen Davies University of Cambridge
Andrew Menzies
Andrew Menzies Wellcome Sanger Institute
Keiran Raine
Keiran Raine Wellcome Sanger Institute

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