2026 Shaun Purcell: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	131	242	236	125	122	328	187090
Medicine	135	2006	1867	1143	1050	362	190106

Overview

Shaun Purcell is affiliated with Harvard Medical School in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience. They have also contributed to the fields of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Physiology, and Molecular Biology.

The researcher's work covers a range of topics related to sleep and neurological function. Key areas include Sleep and Related Disorders, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

Shaun Purcell has coauthored numerous papers with several frequent collaborators. Notable coauthors include Susan Redline with 40 joint works, Nataliia Kozhemiako (26), Pamela Sklar (24), Tamar Sofer (19), and Jen Q. Pan (18).

The researcher's publications appear repeatedly in certain well-known venues. These include UNC Libraries with 28 publications, SLEEP with 27, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 10, Alzheimer's & Dementia with 3, and Nature Human Behaviour with 2.

Several recent and significant papers feature Shaun Purcell's contributions. These include:

Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
Sleep Architecture, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and Cognitive Function in Adults, 2023, JAMA Network Open
Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans, 2020, UNC Libraries
Effects of a patient-derived de novo coding alteration of CACNA1I in mice connect a schizophrenia risk gene with sleep spindle deficits, 2020, Translational Psychiatry
Sources of Variation in the Spectral Slope of the Sleep EEG, 2022, eNeuro

Best Publications

PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

Shaun Purcell;Shaun Purcell;Benjamin Neale;Benjamin Neale;Kathe Todd-Brown;Lori Thomas

33005
Citations
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
Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets

Christopher C. Chang;Carson C. Chow;Laurent C.A.M. Tellier;Shashaank Vattikuti

9980
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
A haplotype map of the human genome

John W. Belmont;Andrew Boudreau;Suzanne M. Leal;Paul Hardenbol

5528
Citations
A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs

Kelly A. Frazer;Dennis G. Ballinger;David R. Cox;David A. Hinds

5383
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
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
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

3540
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
Synaptic, transcriptional and chromatin genes disrupted in autism

Silvia De Rubeis;Xin-Xin He;Arthur P Goldberg;Christopher S. Poultney

3036
Citations
Genome-Wide Association Analysis Identifies Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Triglyceride Levels

Richa Saxena;Benjamin F. Voight;Valeriya Lyssenko;Noël P. Burtt

3019
Citations
Genome-wide association study identifies five new schizophrenia loci

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

2714
Citations
Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study

Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Gina M. Peloso;Gina M. Peloso;Marju Orho-Melander;Ruth Frikke-Schmidt

2514
Citations
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

Pardis C. Sabeti;Pardis C. Sabeti;Patrick Varilly;Patrick Varilly;Ben Fry;Jason Lohmueller

2437
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
Partitioning heritability by functional annotation using genome-wide association summary statistics.

Hilary K Finucane;Hilary K Finucane;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Brendan Bulik-Sullivan;Alexander Gusev;Gosia Trynka

2426
Citations
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

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

2358
Citations
Genetic Power Calculator: design of linkage and association genetic mapping studies of complex traits

Shaun Purcell;Stacey S. Cherny;Pak Chung Sham

2321
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pamela Sklar Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jordan W. Smoller Harvard University

Steven A. McCarroll Harvard University

Menachem Fromer Broad Institute

Michael Conlon O'Donovan Cardiff University

Christina M. Hultman Karolinska Institute

External Links

Personal website of Shaun Purcell

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