2026 Tom Walsh: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Medicine	82	15891	14947	7995	7393	236	34609

Tom Walsh publication distribution in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Medicine in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Walsh sits on this spectrum.

101 publications 1,796+

This scientist: 236 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,796 publications or more.

Tom Walsh D-index placement in Medicine in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Medicine scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tom Walsh sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 217+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 217 D-Index or more.

Overview

Tom Walsh is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus also on Medicine.

Their scholarly output includes a substantial number of publications across multiple subfields, notably Genetics, Molecular Biology, Surgery, Cancer Research, and Immunology.

Key research topics addressed by Tom Walsh cover the following areas:

BRCA gene mutations in cancer
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics

The scientist's recent published papers include:

Targeted long-read sequencing identifies missing disease-causing variation, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
Genetics of schizophrenia in the South African Xhosa, 2020, Science
Germline variants drive myelodysplastic syndrome in young adults, 2021, Leukemia
Genomic analysis of inherited hearing loss in the Palestinian population, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Systematic misclassification of missense variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 "coldspots", 2020, Genetics in Medicine

Tom Walsh frequently collaborates with several coauthors, notably:

Mary-Claire King
Süleyman Gülsüner
Jon McClellan
Ming K. Lee
Karen Mulligan

Their work is published in a range of scientific journals, with multiple contributions to:

Biological Psychiatry
Journal of Medical Genetics
International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Genome Research

Tom Walsh has also contributed to the publication of a book titled Implementing Information Security in Healthcare released by HIMSS Publishing eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

Strong Association of De Novo Copy Number Mutations with Autism

Jonathan Sebat;B. Lakshmi;Dheeraj Malhotra;Jennifer Troge

3454
Citations
Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia

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

2098
Citations
Inherited DNA-Repair Gene Mutations in Men with Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Colin C. Pritchard;Joaquin Mateo;Michael F. Walsh;Navonil De Sarkar

1555
Citations
Kirsten ras mutations in patients with colorectal cancer: the ‘RASCAL II’ study

H. J. N. Andreyev;A. R. Norman;D. Cunningham;J. Oates

1075
Citations
Mutations in 12 genes for inherited ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal carcinoma identified by massively parallel sequencing

Tom Walsh;Silvia Casadei;Ming K. Lee;Christopher C. Pennil

1053
Citations
Germline and Somatic Mutations in Homologous Recombination Genes Predict Platinum Response and Survival in Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, and Peritoneal Carcinomas

Kathryn P. Pennington;Tom Walsh;Maria I. Harrell;Ming K. Lee

1029
Citations
Spectrum of mutations in BRCA1, BRCA2, CHEK2, and TP53 in families at high risk of breast cancer.

Tom Walsh;Silvia Casadei;Kathryn Hale Coats;Elizabeth Swisher

868
Citations
Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes

Heather C Mefford;Andrew J Sharp;Carl Baker;Andy Itsara

852
Citations
Microduplications of 16p11.2 are Associated with Schizophrenia

Shane E. McCarthy;Vladimir Makarov;George Kirov;Anjene M. Addington

845
Citations
Tamoxifen and breast cancer incidence among women with inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2: National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP-P1) Breast Cancer Prevention Trial.

Mary Claire King;Sam Wieand;Kathryn Hale;Ming Lee

802
Citations
Inherited Mutations in Women With Ovarian Carcinoma

Barbara M. Norquist;Maria I. Harrell;Mark F. Brady;Tom Walsh

766
Citations
Mutant Adenosine Deaminase 2 in a Polyarteritis Nodosa Vasculopathy

Paulina Navon Elkan;Sarah B. Pierce;Reeval Segel;Reeval Segel;Tom Walsh

720
Citations
A recurrent 16p12.1 microdeletion supports a two-hit model for severe developmental delay

Santhosh Girirajan;Jill A. Rosenfeld;Gregory M. Cooper;Francesca Antonacci

655
Citations
Ten Genes for Inherited Breast Cancer

Tom Walsh;Mary Claire King

640
Citations
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of De Novo Mutations in Schizophrenia to a Fetal Prefrontal Cortical Network

Suleyman Gulsuner;Tom Walsh;Amanda C. Watts;Ming K. Lee

611
Citations
Widespread RNA Editing of Embedded Alu Elements in the Human Transcriptome

Dennis D.Y. Kim;Thomas T.Y. Kim;Thomas Walsh;Yoshifumi Kobayashi

590
Citations
Detection of inherited mutations for breast and ovarian cancer using genomic capture and massively parallel sequencing

Tom Walsh;Ming K. Lee;Silvia Casadei;Anne M. Thornton

548
Citations
Actionable, Pathogenic Incidental Findings in 1,000 Participants’ Exomes

Michael O. Dorschner;Laura M. Amendola;Emily H. Turner;Peggy D. Robertson

415
Citations
Germline ETV6 mutations in familial thrombocytopenia and hematologic malignancy

Michael Y. Zhang;Jane E. Churpek;Siobán B. Keel;Tom Walsh

404
Citations
Actionable exomic incidental findings in 6503 participants: challenges of variant classification

Laura M. Amendola;Michael O. Dorschner;Peggy D. Robertson;Joseph S. Salama

397
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mary Claire King University of Washington

Ming K. Lee University of Washington

Colin C. Pritchard University of Washington

Michael L. Littman Brown University

Elizabeth M. Swisher University of Washington

Robert W. Stackman Florida Atlantic University

Karen B. Avraham Tel Aviv University

Akiko Shimamura Harvard University

Jonathan P. How MIT

Jonathan Sebat University of California, San Diego

External Links

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