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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
45068
World Ranking
9425
National Ranking
4154

Sean Davis publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean Davis sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 142 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Sean Davis D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean Davis sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sean Davis is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology as a subfield. Other subfields of study include cancer research, information systems and management, public health, environmental and occupational health, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a variety of research topics, including:

  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bioinformatics and genomic networks
  • Biomedical text mining and ontologies
  • Molecular biology techniques and applications
  • Scientific computing and data management
  • Genetics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research

Sean Davis has contributed to multiple publications in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • F1000Research
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Computational Biology

They have authored and coauthored significant papers, including:

  • "Melanoblast transcriptome analysis reveals pathways promoting melanoma metastasis," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome," published in 2025 in Cell
  • "HGNChelper: identification and correction of invalid gene symbols for human and mouse," published in 2020 in F1000Research
  • "HGNChelper: identification and correction of invalid gene symbols for human and mouse," published in 2022 in F1000Research
  • "BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures," published in 2023 in Nature Biotechnology

Frequent collaborators of Sean Davis include Levi Waldron, Ludwig Geistlinger, Marcel Ramos, Casey S. Greene, and Sehyun Oh.

Best Publications

  • NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update

    Tanya Barrett;Stephen E. Wilhite;Pierre Ledoux;Carlos Evangelista

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor

    Wolfgang Huber;Vincent J Carey;Robert Gentleman;Simon Anders

  • GEOquery: a bridge between the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and BioConductor

    Sean R. Davis;Paul S. Meltzer

  • BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis

    Steffen Durinck;Yves Moreau;Arek Kasprzyk;Sean Davis

  • Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia

    Tom Walsh;Jon M. McClellan;Shane E. McCarthy;Anjené M. Addington

  • High-Resolution Mapping and Characterization of Open Chromatin across the Genome

    Alan P. Boyle;Sean Davis;Hennady P. Shulha;Paul Meltzer

  • Pan-cancer genome and transcriptome analyses of 1,699 paediatric leukaemias and solid tumours

    Xiaotu Ma;Yu Liu;Yanling Liu;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • A single IGF1 allele is a major determinant of small size in dogs.

    Nathan B. Sutter;Carlos D. Bustamante;Kevin Chase;Melissa M. Gray

  • RCircos: an R package for Circos 2D track plots

    Hongen Zhang;Paul S. Meltzer;Sean R. Davis

  • Genome-wide mapping of DNase hypersensitive sites using massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

    Gregory E. Crawford;Ingeborg E. Holt;James Whittle;Bryn D. Webb

  • Exome sequencing identifies GRIN2A as frequently mutated in melanoma

    Xiaomu Wei;Vijay Walia;Jimmy C Lin;Jamie K Teer

  • Gene Expression Profiling of Human Sarcomas: Insights into Sarcoma Biology

    Kristin Baird;Sean Davis;Cristina R. Antonescu;Ursula L. Harper

  • Super-enhancers delineate disease-associated regulatory nodes in T cells

    Golnaz Vahedi;Yuka Kanno;Yasuko Furumoto;Kan Jiang

  • Interaction of the glucocorticoid receptor with the chromatin landscape.

    Sam John;Peter J. Sabo;Thomas A. Johnson;Myong Hee Sung

  • Epigenomic alterations and gene expression profiles in respiratory epithelia exposed to cigarette smoke condensate

    F Liu;J K Killian;M Yang;R L Walker

  • The Exomes of the NCI-60 Panel: a Genomic Resource for Cancer Biology and Systems Pharmacology

    Ogan D. Abaan;Eric C. Polley;Sean R. Davis;Yuelin J. Zhu

  • Interferon-γ links ultraviolet radiation to melanomagenesis in mice

    M. Raza Zaidi;Sean Davis;Frances P. Noonan;Cari Graff-Cherry

  • DNase-chip: A high-resolution method to identify DNase I hypersensitive sites using tiled microarrays

    Gregory E Crawford;Sean Davis;Peter C Scacheri;Gabriel Renaud

  • High prevalence of MAP2K1 mutations in variant and IGHV4-34-expressing hairy-cell leukemias

    Joshua J Waterfall;Evgeny Arons;Robert L Walker;Marbin Pineda

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health
Daniel E. Weeks
Daniel E. Weeks University of Pittsburgh
Martin Morgan
Martin Morgan Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Vincent J. Carey
Vincent J. Carey Harvard Medical School
William C. Reinhold
William C. Reinhold National Institutes of Health
Glenn Merlino
Glenn Merlino National Institutes of Health
Heinz Arnheiter
Heinz Arnheiter National Institutes of Health
Gregory E. Crawford
Gregory E. Crawford Duke University
Yves Pommier
Yves Pommier National Institutes of Health
Electron Kebebew
Electron Kebebew Stanford University

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MIT

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Michael Conlon O'Donovan

Cardiff University

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Mark Gerstein

Mark Gerstein

Yale University

Publications: 53

Michael John Owen

Michael John Owen

Cardiff University

Publications: 53

Bing Ren

Bing Ren

New York Genome Center

Publications: 52

Gordon L. Hager

Gordon L. Hager

National Institutes of Health

Publications: 49

Evan E. Eichler

Evan E. Eichler

University of Washington

Publications: 49

Peter F. Stadler

Peter F. Stadler

Leipzig University

Publications: 46

Piero Carninci

Piero Carninci

RIKEN

Publications: 44

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Stephen L. Lessnick

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Publications: 44

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Eric S. Lander

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Publications: 44

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Mark D. Robinson

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Publications: 44

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John S. Mattick

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Publications: 43

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