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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Genetics 67 2504 2377 318 304 164 22435

Thomas D. Otto publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Thomas D. Otto between 1999 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Thomas D. Otto published across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026, averaging 9.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 30 publications in 2023. 18 of the 270 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 30. Peak 30 publications in 2023. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 1 publication 2001: 0 publications 2002: 4 publications 2003: 4 publications 2004: 3 publications 2005: 0 publications 2006: 0 publications 2007: 4 publications 2008: 4 publications 2009: 1 publication 2010: 12 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 11 publications 2013: 12 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 17 publications 2016: 14 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 22 publications 2019: 13 publications 2020: 21 publications 2021: 24 publications 2022: 14 publications 2023: 30 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 17 publications 2026: 1 publication
1999 2026

270 publications in total across all disciplines

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Thomas D. Otto: publications per year, 1999 to 2026
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 1
2001 0
2002 4
2003 4
2004 3
2005 0
2006 0
2007 4
2008 4
2009 1
2010 12
2011 7
2012 11
2013 12
2014 9
2015 17
2016 14
2017 11
2018 22
2019 13
2020 21
2021 24
2022 14
2023 30
2024 13
2025 17
2026 1
Total 270
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Thomas D. Otto publications per year - data summary

  • Thomas D. Otto, a Genetics scholar from University of Glasgow, has 270 publications recorded across 28 years, from 1999 to 2026.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1999 and the most recent to 2026.
  • The most productive year is 2023, with 30 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1999, 2000, 2009 and 2026, with 1 publication each.
  • 3 of the 28 years in the span carry no publications at all (2001, 2005 and 2006).
  • The rate of publication averages 9.6 papers per year over the whole span, or 10.8 per year counting only the 25 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2022-2026) hold 75 publications, 28% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1999-2008: 21 publications (2.1 per year); 2009-2018: 116 publications (11.6 per year); 2019-2026: 133 publications (16.6 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Thomas D. Otto 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 Thomas D. Otto sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200
Bar chart with 67 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 45–54 to 703+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 217. Most scientists, 217, have 125–134 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 155–164 publications, is where this scientist sits. 45–54 publications: 6 scientists 55–64 publications: 10 scientists 65–74 publications: 35 scientists 75–84 publications: 84 scientists 85–94 publications: 102 scientists 95–104 publications: 151 scientists 105–114 publications: 175 scientists 115–124 publications: 203 scientists 125–134 publications: 217 scientists 135–144 publications: 205 scientists 145–154 publications: 193 scientists 155–164 publications: 188 scientists 165–174 publications: 170 scientists 175–184 publications: 178 scientists 185–194 publications: 164 scientists 195–204 publications: 173 scientists 205–214 publications: 159 scientists 215–224 publications: 134 scientists 225–234 publications: 143 scientists 235–244 publications: 105 scientists 245–254 publications: 114 scientists 255–264 publications: 92 scientists 265–274 publications: 88 scientists 275–284 publications: 87 scientists 285–294 publications: 80 scientists 295–304 publications: 62 scientists 305–314 publications: 75 scientists 315–324 publications: 67 scientists 325–334 publications: 60 scientists 335–344 publications: 52 scientists 345–354 publications: 40 scientists 355–364 publications: 48 scientists 365–374 publications: 47 scientists 375–384 publications: 46 scientists 385–394 publications: 31 scientists 395–404 publications: 27 scientists 405–414 publications: 40 scientists 415–424 publications: 30 scientists 425–434 publications: 43 scientists 435–444 publications: 29 scientists 445–454 publications: 14 scientists 455–464 publications: 28 scientists 465–474 publications: 21 scientists 475–484 publications: 21 scientists 485–494 publications: 22 scientists 495–504 publications: 17 scientists 505–514 publications: 12 scientists 515–524 publications: 11 scientists 525–534 publications: 8 scientists 535–544 publications: 8 scientists 545–554 publications: 14 scientists 555–564 publications: 4 scientists 565–574 publications: 11 scientists 575–584 publications: 5 scientists 585–594 publications: 11 scientists 595–604 publications: 12 scientists 605–614 publications: 7 scientists 615–624 publications: 6 scientists 625–634 publications: 10 scientists 635–644 publications: 9 scientists 645–654 publications: 10 scientists 655–664 publications: 6 scientists 665–674 publications: 6 scientists 675–684 publications: 6 scientists 685–694 publications: 4 scientists 695–702 publications: 6 scientists 703+ publications: 100 scientists
45–54 publications 703+

This scientist: 164 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Genetics scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 4,342 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
45–54 6
55–64 10
65–74 35
75–84 84
85–94 102
95–104 151
105–114 175
115–124 203
125–134 217
135–144 205
145–154 193
155–164 188 164
165–174 170
175–184 178
185–194 164
195–204 173
205–214 159
215–224 134
225–234 143
235–244 105
245–254 114
255–264 92
265–274 88
275–284 87
285–294 80
295–304 62
305–314 75
315–324 67
325–334 60
335–344 52
345–354 40
355–364 48
365–374 47
375–384 46
385–394 31
395–404 27
405–414 40
415–424 30
425–434 43
435–444 29
445–454 14
455–464 28
465–474 21
475–484 21
485–494 22
495–504 17
505–514 12
515–524 11
525–534 8
535–544 8
545–554 14
555–564 4
565–574 11
575–584 5
585–594 11
595–604 12
605–614 7
615–624 6
625–634 10
635–644 9
645–654 10
655–664 6
665–674 6
675–684 6
685–694 4
695–702 6
703+ 100
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Thomas D. Otto publication distribution in Genetics in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 4,342 Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 67 ranges running from 45–54 to 703+ publications.
  • Thomas D. Otto, a Genetics scholar from University of Glasgow, records 164 publications - the 36th percentile of the discipline.
  • 36% of ranked Genetics scientists score the same or lower than Thomas D. Otto, and about 64% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 195–204 publications range, and Thomas D. Otto ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 125–134 publications, holding 217 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 56% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 205–214 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 703 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (2% of the field).

Thomas D. Otto 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 Thomas D. Otto sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 61 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 40–41 to 160+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 191. Most scientists, 191, have 62–63 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 66–67 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 40–41 D-Index: 24 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 52 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 84 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 112 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 118 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 141 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 143 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 145 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 179 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 162 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 175 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 191 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 172 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 184 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 164 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 158 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 150 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 136 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 127 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 127 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 111 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 110 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 110 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 84 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 102 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 66 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 72 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 70 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 54 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 60 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 49 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 55 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 45 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 42 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 28 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 39 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 25 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 31 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 29 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 34 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 29 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 29 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 18 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 27 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 22 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 16 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 11 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 17 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 12 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 21 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 4 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 9 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 14 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 6 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 10 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 7 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 9 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 8 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 8 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 9 scientists 160+ D-Index: 96 scientists
40–41 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Genetics scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 4,342 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
40–41 24
42–43 52
44–45 84
46–47 112
48–49 118
50–51 141
52–53 143
54–55 145
56–57 179
58–59 162
60–61 175
62–63 191
64–65 172
66–67 184 67
68–69 164
70–71 158
72–73 150
74–75 136
76–77 127
78–79 127
80–81 111
82–83 110
84–85 110
86–87 84
88–89 102
90–91 66
92–93 72
94–95 70
96–97 54
98–99 60
100–101 49
102–103 55
104–105 45
106–107 42
108–109 28
110–111 39
112–113 25
114–115 31
116–117 29
118–119 34
120–121 29
122–123 29
124–125 18
126–127 27
128–129 22
130–131 16
132–133 11
134–135 17
136–137 12
138–139 21
140–141 4
142–143 9
144–145 14
146–147 6
148–149 10
150–151 7
152–153 9
154–155 8
156–157 8
158–159 9
160+ 96
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Thomas D. Otto D-index placement in Genetics in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 4,342 Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 61 ranges running from 40–41 to 160+ D-Index.
  • Thomas D. Otto, a Genetics scholar from University of Glasgow, records 67 D-Index - the 43rd percentile of the discipline.
  • 43% of ranked Genetics scientists score the same or lower than Thomas D. Otto, and about 57% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 70–71 D-Index range, and Thomas D. Otto ranks below the median.
  • The most crowded range is 62–63 D-Index, holding 191 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 51% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 70–71 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more, 96 scientists in all (2% of the field).

Overview

Thomas D. Otto is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Subfields of their work include Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Oncology.

Their scientific investigations cover a broad range of topics, notably Malaria Research and Control, Mosquito-borne diseases and control, Immune Cell Function and Interaction, Trypanosoma species research and implications, Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms, T-cell and B-cell Immunology, and the Complement system in diseases.

Thomas D. Otto has a record of publishing in several prominent venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Medicine
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • eLife
  • Nature Communications

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Thomas D. Otto include:

  • Distinct synovial tissue macrophage subsets regulate inflammation and remission in rheumatoid arthritis (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Increased circulation time of Plasmodium falciparum underlies persistent asymptomatic infection in the dry season (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Refining the transcriptome of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum using amplification-free RNA-seq (2020, BMC Genomics)
  • Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of bloodstream Trypanosoma brucei reconstructs cell cycle progression and developmental quorum sensing (2021, Nature Communications)
  • COVID-19 and RA share an SPP1 myeloid pathway that drives PD-L1+ neutrophils and CD14+ monocytes (2021, JCI Insight)

Thomas D. Otto frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Matthias Marti
  • Julian C. Rayner
  • Emma M. Briggs
  • Jenna Oberstaller
  • John H. Adams

Best Publications

  • A tale of three next generation sequencing platforms: comparison of Ion Torrent, Pacific Biosciences and Illumina MiSeq sequencers.

    Michael Quail;Miriam E. Smith;Paul Coupland;Thomas D. Otto

  • Circlator: automated circularization of genome assemblies using long sequencing reads

    Martin Hunt;Nishadi De Silva;Thomas D. Otto;Julian Parkhill

  • Uncovering the essential genes of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum by saturation mutagenesis

    Min Zhang;Chengqi Wang;Thomas D. Otto;Jenna Oberstaller

  • Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

    Keith R. Bradnam;Joseph N. Fass;Anton Alexandrov;Paul Baranay

  • Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

    Keith R. Bradnam;Joseph N. Fass;Anton Alexandrov;Paul Baranay

  • Distinct synovial tissue macrophage subsets regulate inflammation and remission in rheumatoid arthritis.

    Stefano Alivernini;Lucy MacDonald;Aziza Elmesmari;Samuel Finlay

  • Optimizing Illumina next-generation sequencing library preparation for extremely AT-biased genomes.

    Samuel O. Oyola;Thomas D. Otto;Yong-ping Gu;Gareth Maslen

  • Chromosome and gene copy number variation allow major structural change between species and strains of Leishmania

    Matthew B. Rogers;James D. Hilley;Nicholas J. Dickens;Jon Wilkes

  • Two Nonrecombining Sympatric Forms of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium ovale Occur Globally

    Colin J. Sutherland;Naowarat Tanomsing;Debbie Nolder;Mary Oguike

  • ABACAS: algorithm-based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences

    Samuel A. Assefa;Thomas M. Keane;Thomas D. Otto;Chris I Newbold

  • A novel multiple-stage antimalarial agent that inhibits protein synthesis

    Beatriz Baragaña;Irene Hallyburton;Marcus C. S. Lee;Marcus C. S. Lee;Neil R. Norcross

  • New insights into the blood-stage transcriptome of Plasmodium falciparum using RNA-Seq

    Thomas D. Otto;Daniel Wilinski;Sammy Assefa;Thomas M. Keane

  • A systematically improved high quality genome and transcriptome of the human blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni.

    Anna V. Protasio;Isheng J. Tsai;Anne Babbage;Sarah Nichol

  • Genomic insights into the origin of parasitism in the emerging plant pathogen Bursaphelenchus xylophilus.

    Taisei Kikuchi;James A. Cotton;Jonathan J. Dalzell;Koichi Hasegawa

  • REAPR: a universal tool for genome assembly evaluation.

    Martin Hunt;Taisei Kikuchi;Taisei Kikuchi;Mandy Sanders;Chris Newbold;Chris Newbold

  • Tumour class prediction and discovery by microarray-based DNA methylation analysis

    Péter Adorján;Jürgen Distler;Evelyne Lipscher;Fabian Model

  • A cascade of DNA-binding proteins for sexual commitment and development in Plasmodium

    Abhinav Sinha;Katie R. Hughes;Katarzyna K. Modrzynska;Thomas D. Otto

  • RATT: Rapid Annotation Transfer Tool

    Thomas D. Otto;Gary P. Dillon;Wim S. Degrave;Matthew Berriman

  • Improving draft assemblies by iterative mapping and assembly of short reads to eliminate gaps.

    Isheng J Tsai;Thomas D Otto;Matthew Berriman

  • A comprehensive evaluation of rodent malaria parasite genomes and gene expression

    Thomas D Otto;Ulrike Böhme;Andrew P Jackson;Martin Hunt

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow
Chris I. Newbold
Chris I. Newbold Wellcome Sanger Institute
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mandy Sanders
Mandy Sanders Wellcome Sanger Institute
Julian C. Rayner
Julian C. Rayner University of Cambridge
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
Miroslav Oborník
Miroslav Oborník Sewanee: The University of the South
David J. Conway
David J. Conway London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ric N. Price
Ric N. Price Charles Darwin University

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