Andrew McPherson

16.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Andrew McPherson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Hematology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew McPherson has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Cancer Research and 4 papers in Hematology. Recurrent topics in Andrew McPherson's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers). Andrew McPherson is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers). Andrew McPherson collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Andrew McPherson's co-authors include A Mortazavi, Pedro Madrigal, Daniel J. Gaffney, Michał Wojciech Szcześniak, Xuegong Zhang, Alejandra Cervera, David Gómez-Cabrero, Laura L. Elo, Ana Conesa and Sonia Tarazona and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Andrew McPherson

26 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis
    2016 1.7k citations Ana Conesa, Pedro Madrigal et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrew McPherson Canada 12 1.8k 836 366 350 319 28 2.8k
Chip Stewart United States 17 1.4k 0.8× 644 0.8× 504 1.4× 249 0.7× 354 1.1× 40 2.3k
Subhajyoti De United States 33 2.6k 1.5× 1.1k 1.3× 712 1.9× 676 1.9× 276 0.9× 89 3.8k
Tobias Rausch Germany 23 1.9k 1.1× 564 0.7× 925 2.5× 376 1.1× 259 0.8× 52 3.1k
Javier Herrero United Kingdom 31 2.8k 1.6× 826 1.0× 757 2.1× 567 1.6× 264 0.8× 81 4.3k
Brock A. Peters China 16 2.0k 1.1× 690 0.8× 535 1.5× 686 2.0× 150 0.5× 37 2.7k
Thomas Zeng Canada 17 2.8k 1.5× 1.2k 1.5× 427 1.2× 313 0.9× 138 0.4× 22 3.7k
Martin Granzow Germany 21 2.2k 1.2× 749 0.9× 518 1.4× 732 2.1× 193 0.6× 42 3.7k
Michał Okoniewski Switzerland 29 2.0k 1.1× 457 0.5× 331 0.9× 402 1.1× 112 0.4× 59 3.3k
Xingzhi Song United States 15 1.2k 0.7× 470 0.6× 388 1.1× 345 1.0× 110 0.3× 44 2.0k
Sara A. Grimm United States 26 2.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.2× 635 1.7× 538 1.5× 203 0.6× 61 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew McPherson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew McPherson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew McPherson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dinh, Khanh N., et al.. (2025). CINner: Modeling and simulation of chromosomal instability in cancer at single-cell resolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(4). e1012902–e1012902. 1 indexed citations
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Gerstberger, Stefanie, Melissa Lumish, Saskia Hartner, et al.. (2025). Abstract 2856: Pks+ E. coli trigger intestinal stem cell plasticity and early onset colorectal cancer. Cancer Research. 85(8_Supplement_1). 2856–2856. 2 indexed citations
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Shi, Hongyu, et al.. (2024). Allele-specific transcriptional effects of subclonal copy number alterations enable genotype-phenotype mapping in cancer cells. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2482–2482. 2 indexed citations
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Williams, Marc, Hongyu Shi, Ignacio Vázquez-Garćıa, et al.. (2024). Inferring replication timing and proliferation dynamics from single-cell DNA sequencing data. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8512–8512. 3 indexed citations
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Ceglia, Nicholas, Jean-Benoît Le Luduec, Andrew McPherson, et al.. (2023). Immune profiling after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Blood Advances. 7(17). 5069–5081. 5 indexed citations
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Ceglia, Nicholas, Zachary Sethna, Samuel S. Freeman, et al.. (2023). Identification of transcriptional programs using dense vector representations defined by mutual information with GeneVector. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4400–4400. 4 indexed citations
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Salehi, Sohrab, Farhia Kabeer, Nicole Rusk, et al.. (2023). Cancer phylogenetic tree inference at scale from 1000s of single cell genomes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 9 indexed citations
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Gawronski, Alexander, Faraz Hach, Sujun Li, et al.. (2017). Computational identification of micro-structural variations and their proteogenomic consequences in cancer. Bioinformatics. 34(10). 1672–1681. 8 indexed citations
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McPherson, Andrew, Andrew Roth, Gavin Ha, et al.. (2017). ReMixT: clone-specific genomic structure estimation in cancer. Genome biology. 18(1). 140–140. 17 indexed citations
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McPherson, Andrew, Fong Chun Chan, & Sohrab P. Shah. (2017). Observing Clonal Dynamics across Spatiotemporal Axes: A Prelude to Quantitative Fitness Models for Cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine. 8(2). a029603–a029603. 8 indexed citations
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Roth, Andrew, Andrew McPherson, Emma Laks, et al.. (2016). Clonal genotype and population structure inference from single-cell tumor sequencing. Nature Methods. 13(7). 573–576. 75 indexed citations
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Conesa, Ana, Pedro Madrigal, Sonia Tarazona, et al.. (2016). A survey of best practices for RNA-seq data analysis. Genome biology. 17(1). 13–13. 1705 indexed citations breakdown →
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McPherson, Andrew, et al.. (2016). Evolving the process of a virtual composer. Natural Computing. 18(1). 47–60. 3 indexed citations
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McPherson, Andrew, et al.. (2015). Corpus-taught Evolutionary Music Composition. 587–594. 2 indexed citations
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Twa, David D. W., Fong Chun Chan, Susana Ben‐Neriah, et al.. (2014). Genomic rearrangements involving programmed death ligands are recurrent in primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma. Blood. 123(13). 2062–2065. 231 indexed citations
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McPherson, Andrew, Chunxiao Wu, Alexander W. Wyatt, et al.. (2012). nFuse: Discovery of complex genomic rearrangements in cancer using high-throughput sequencing. Genome Research. 22(11). 2250–2261. 47 indexed citations
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Wu, Chunxiao, Alexander W. Wyatt, Andrew McPherson, et al.. (2012). Poly‐gene fusion transcripts and chromothripsis in prostate cancer. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer. 51(12). 1144–1153. 40 indexed citations
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Hormozdiari, Fereydoun, Iman Hajirasouliha, Andrew McPherson, Evan E. Eichler, & S. Cenk Şahinalp. (2011). Simultaneous structural variation discovery among multiple paired-end sequenced genomes. Genome Research. 21(12). 2203–2212. 48 indexed citations
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McPherson, Andrew, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Gavin Ha, et al.. (2011). deFuse: An Algorithm for Gene Fusion Discovery in Tumor RNA-Seq Data. PLoS Computational Biology. 7(5). e1001138–e1001138. 325 indexed citations
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Starczynowski, Daniel T., Ryan D. Morin, Andrew McPherson, et al.. (2010). Genome-wide identification of human microRNAs located in leukemia-associated genomic alterations. Blood. 117(2). 595–607. 94 indexed citations

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