B Bernstein

134.3k total citations · 24 hit papers
146 papers, 59.5k citations indexed

About

B Bernstein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, B Bernstein has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 59.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Cancer Research and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in B Bernstein's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (67 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (57 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (25 papers). B Bernstein is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (67 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (57 papers) and Cancer-related gene regulation (25 papers). B Bernstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. B Bernstein's co-authors include Eric S. Lander, Alexander Meissner, Chad Nusbaum, Stuart L. Schreiber, Wei Li, Tao Liu, X. Shirley Liu, Jérôme Eeckhoute, Myles Brown and David S. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

B Bernstein

144 papers receiving 58.9k citations

Hit Papers

Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS) 2002 2026 2010 2018 2008 2009 2006 2009 2009 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
    2008 11.4k citations Yong Zhang, Tao Liu et al. Genome biology profile →
  2. Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome
    2009 5.7k citations Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Nynke L. van Berkum et al. Science profile →
  3. A Bivalent Chromatin Structure Marks Key Developmental Genes in Embryonic Stem Cells
    2006 4.0k citations B Bernstein, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen et al. profile →
  4. Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals
    2009 3.3k citations Mitchell Guttman, Ido Amit et al. Nature profile →
  5. Many human large intergenic noncoding RNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes and affect gene expression
    2009 2.3k citations Ahmad M. Khalil, Mitchell Guttman et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types
    2011 2.0k citations Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Noam Shoresh et al. Nature profile →
  7. In vitro reprogramming of fibroblasts into a pluripotent ES-cell-like state
    2007 1.9k citations Manching Ku, B Bernstein et al. Nature profile →
  8. Genome-scale DNA methylation maps of pluripotent and differentiated cells
    2008 1.9k citations Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Xiaolan Zhang et al. Nature profile →
  9. Active genes are tri-methylated at K4 of histone H3
    2002 1.7k citations B Bernstein et al. Nature profile →
  10. Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analysis of Primary and Metastatic Tumor Ecosystems in Head and Neck Cancer
    2017 1.5k citations Itay Tirosh, Anoop P. Patel et al. profile →
  11. The Mammalian Epigenome
    2007 1.5k citations B Bernstein, Eric S. Lander et al. profile →
  12. The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium
    2010 1.2k citations B Bernstein, J Stamatoyannopoulos et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  13. Genomic Maps and Comparative Analysis of Histone Modifications in Human and Mouse
    2005 1.2k citations B Bernstein, Eric S. Lander et al. profile →
  14. Dissecting direct reprogramming through integrative genomic analysis
    2008 1.1k citations Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Xiaolan Zhang et al. Nature profile →
  15. Charting a dynamic DNA methylation landscape of the human genome
    2013 939 citations B Bernstein, Andreas Gnirke et al. Nature profile →
  16. Epigenetic plasticity and the hallmarks of cancer
    2017 874 citations William Flavahan, Elizabeth Gaskell et al. Science profile →
  17. Insulator dysfunction and oncogene activation in IDH mutant gliomas
    2015 867 citations William Flavahan, Yotam Drier et al. Nature profile →
  18. Charting histone modifications and the functional organization of mammalian genomes
    2010 846 citations B Bernstein et al. profile →
  19. Genomewide Analysis of PRC1 and PRC2 Occupancy Identifies Two Classes of Bivalent Domains
    2008 787 citations Manching Ku, Richard P. Koche et al. profile →
  20. Single-cell ChIP-seq reveals cell subpopulations defined by chromatin state
    2015 648 citations Oren Ram, Noam Shoresh et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  21. Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals AML Hierarchies Relevant to Disease Progression and Immunity
    2019 613 citations Peter van Galen, Gabriel K. Griffin et al. profile →
  22. Methylation of histone H3 Lys 4 in coding regions of active genes
    2002 595 citations B Bernstein et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  23. Epigenetic Reprogramming in Cancer
    2013 516 citations Mario L. Suvà, B Bernstein et al. Science profile →
  24. Genome-wide programmable transcriptional memory by CRISPR-based epigenome editing
    2021 433 citations B Bernstein et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B Bernstein United States 72 51.6k 11.3k 8.0k 5.7k 4.2k 146 59.5k
Richard A. Young United States 134 59.3k 1.2× 7.2k 0.6× 7.6k 1.0× 4.8k 0.8× 6.1k 1.4× 287 70.5k
T Gingeras United States 65 33.3k 0.6× 8.4k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 5.1k 0.9× 4.0k 1.0× 134 51.6k
Jay Shendure United States 115 36.0k 0.7× 8.2k 0.7× 17.1k 2.1× 4.4k 0.8× 2.9k 0.7× 297 52.4k
Andrew P. Feinberg United States 92 45.0k 0.9× 6.8k 0.6× 15.5k 1.9× 5.0k 0.9× 5.9k 1.4× 235 62.2k
C. David Allis United States 143 77.5k 1.5× 5.1k 0.5× 9.7k 1.2× 8.8k 1.5× 5.7k 1.3× 344 87.9k
Wei Li China 78 29.5k 0.6× 8.1k 0.7× 4.0k 0.5× 3.7k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 538 38.5k
Tony Kouzarides United Kingdom 94 44.9k 0.9× 5.5k 0.5× 6.5k 0.8× 3.9k 0.7× 7.0k 1.6× 176 53.9k
Aviv Regev United States 129 61.9k 1.2× 20.4k 1.8× 6.4k 0.8× 3.6k 0.6× 7.3k 1.7× 319 80.8k
Nahum Sonenberg Canada 160 77.5k 1.5× 12.8k 1.1× 8.7k 1.1× 4.3k 0.7× 7.1k 1.7× 673 97.8k
R Myers United States 95 32.6k 0.6× 4.3k 0.4× 12.7k 1.6× 4.8k 0.8× 3.0k 0.7× 299 50.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by B Bernstein

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B Bernstein

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Javed, Nauman, et al.. (2025). A multi-modal transformer for cell type-agnostic regulatory predictions. Cell Genomics. 5(2). 100762–100762. 1 indexed citations
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Miller, Tyler E., Chadi A. El Farran, Charles Couturier, et al.. (2025). Programs, origins and immunomodulatory functions of myeloid cells in glioma. Nature. 640(8060). 1072–1082. 17 indexed citations
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Jung, Youngsook L., Wenping Zhao, Dhawal Jain, et al.. (2024). Epigenetic profiling reveals key genes and cis-regulatory networks specific to human parathyroids. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2106–2106. 2 indexed citations
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Sumida, Tomokazu S., Matthew R. Lincoln, Liang He, et al.. (2024). An autoimmune transcriptional circuit drives FOXP3 + regulatory T cell dysfunction. Science Translational Medicine. 16(762). eadp1720–eadp1720. 8 indexed citations
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Chen, Zeyu, Nauman Javed, Jingyi Wu, et al.. (2023). Integrative dissection of gene regulatory elements at base resolution. Cell Genomics. 3(6). 100318–100318. 8 indexed citations
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Najm, Fadi J., Peter C. DeWeirdt, Samantha M. Bevill, et al.. (2023). Chromatin complex dependencies reveal targeting opportunities in leukemia. Nature Communications. 14(1). 448–448. 7 indexed citations
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Miller, Tyler E., Caleb A. Lareau, Julia A. Verga, et al.. (2022). Mitochondrial variant enrichment from high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing resolves clonal populations. Nature Biotechnology. 40(7). 1030–1034. 74 indexed citations
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Wu, Jingyi, Gilbert J. Rahme, Sofia Battaglia, et al.. (2020). Parallel Single-Cell RNA-Seq and Genetic Recording Reveals Lineage Decisions in Developing Embryoid Bodies. Cell Reports. 33(1). 108222–108222. 18 indexed citations
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Cabal‐Hierro, Lucía, Peter van Galen, Miguel A. Prado, et al.. (2020). Chromatin accessibility promotes hematopoietic and leukemia stem cell activity. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1406–1406. 39 indexed citations
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Flavahan, William, Elizabeth Gaskell, & B Bernstein. (2017). Epigenetic plasticity and the hallmarks of cancer. Science. 357(6348). 874 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grossman, Sharon R., Xiaolan Zhang, Li Wang, et al.. (2017). Systematic dissection of genomic features determining transcription factor binding and enhancer function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(7). E1291–E1300. 116 indexed citations
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Shema, Efrat, Daniel Jones, Noam Shoresh, et al.. (2016). Single-molecule decoding of combinatorially modified nucleosomes. Science. 352(6286). 717–721. 101 indexed citations
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Ryan, Russell J.H., Yotam Drier, Holly Whitton, et al.. (2015). Detection of Enhancer-Associated Rearrangements Reveals Mechanisms of Oncogene Dysregulation in B-cell Lymphoma. Cancer Discovery. 5(10). 1058–1071. 86 indexed citations
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Patel, Anoop P., Itay Tirosh, John J. Trombetta, et al.. (2014). Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intratumoral heterogeneity in primary glioblastoma. Science. 344(6190). 1396–1401. 186 indexed citations
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Yashiro–Ohtani, Yumi, Hongfang Wang, Chongzhi Zang, et al.. (2014). Long-range enhancer activity determines Myc sensitivity to Notch inhibitors in T cell leukemia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(46). E4946–53. 133 indexed citations
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Ku, Manching, Jacob D. Jaffe, Richard P. Koche, et al.. (2012). H2A.Z landscapes and dual modifications in pluripotent and multipotent stem cells underlie complex genome regulatory functions. Genome biology. 13(10). R85–R85. 144 indexed citations
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Lieberman-Aiden, Erez, Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams, et al.. (2009). Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome. Science. 326(5950). 289–293. 5700 indexed citations breakdown →
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Khalil, Ahmad M., Mitchell Guttman, Maite Huarte, et al.. (2009). Many human large intergenic noncoding RNAs associate with chromatin-modifying complexes and affect gene expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(28). 11667–11672. 2331 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yu, Ming, Laura Riva, Huafeng Xie, et al.. (2009). Insights into GATA-1-Mediated Gene Activation versus Repression via Genome-wide Chromatin Occupancy Analysis. Molecular Cell. 36(4). 682–695. 250 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yong, Tao Liu, Clifford A. Meyer, et al.. (2008). Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS). Genome biology. 9(9). R137–R137. 11435 indexed citations breakdown →

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