Eric S. Lander

124.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
18 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Eric S. Lander is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric S. Lander has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Eric S. Lander's work include Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Eric S. Lander is often cited by papers focused on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (2 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (2 papers). Eric S. Lander collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Eric S. Lander's co-authors include Todd R. Golub, Ken N. Ross, Sridhar Ramaswamy, David Reich, Michael S. Waterman, Jane Staunton, Lewis B. Silverman, Mark D. Minden, Scott A. Armstrong and Monique L. den Boer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eric S. Lander

18 papers receiving 7.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A molecular signature of metastasis in primary solid tumors

2002 1.9k citations Sridhar Ramaswamy, Ken N. Ross et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations

2007 1.4k citations Pardis C. Sabeti, Patrick Varilly et al. Nature profile →
MLL translocations specify a distinct gene expression profile that distinguishes a unique leukemia

2001 1.3k citations Scott A. Armstrong, Jane Staunton et al. Nature Genetics profile →
On the allelic spectrum of human disease

2001 799 citations David Reich, Eric S. Lander Trends in Genetics profile →
Genomic mapping by fingerprinting random clones: A mathematical analysis

1988 627 citations Eric S. Lander, Michael S. Waterman Genomics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric S. Lander United States	13	4.0k	2.6k	976	815	561	18	7.2k
Kenneth H. Buetow United States	58	7.1k 1.8×	3.5k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	501 0.9×	185	11.5k
Donna Maglott United States	26	7.6k 1.9×	3.8k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	599 0.7×	362 0.6×	48	11.5k
Sarah Hunt United Kingdom	28	3.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	557 0.7×	231 0.4×	55	8.2k
Fiona Cunningham United Kingdom	32	4.4k 1.1×	3.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	717 0.9×	260 0.5×	132	9.5k
Andrew Collins United Kingdom	46	2.5k 0.6×	3.6k 1.4×	707 0.7×	503 0.6×	360 0.6×	204	7.2k
David A. Wheeler United States	50	4.9k 1.2×	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.7×	974 1.2×	354 0.6×	179	9.8k
Pauline C. Ng United States	19	7.3k 1.8×	5.2k 2.0×	1.4k 1.4×	873 1.1×	367 0.7×	23	12.5k
Kristin Ardlie United States	37	4.4k 1.1×	4.1k 1.6×	906 0.9×	761 0.9×	277 0.5×	71	9.7k
Paul Scheet United States	29	2.6k 0.6×	3.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	219 0.4×	82	7.1k
Bing Huey United States	17	2.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	150 0.3×	27	4.6k

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Medford, Arielle J., et al.. (2024). A standing platform for cancer drug development using ctDNA-based evidence of recurrence. Nature reviews. Cancer. 24(11). 810–821. 4 indexed citations

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Helman, Elena & Eric S. Lander. (2013). Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer genes. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations

3.

Gupta, Piyush B., Christine M. Fillmore, Guozhi Jiang, et al.. (2011). Stochastic State Transitions Give Rise to Phenotypic Equilibrium in Populations of Cancer Cells. Cell. 147(5). 1197–1197. 48 indexed citations

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Gupta, Piyush B., Christine M. Fillmore, Guozhi Jiang, et al.. (2011). Stochastic State Transitions Give Rise to Phenotypic Equilibrium in Populations of Cancer Cells. Cell. 146(6). 1042–1042. 1 indexed citations

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Sabeti, Pardis C., Patrick Varilly, Ben Fry, et al.. (2007). Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations. Nature. 449(7164). 913–918. 1403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ramaswamy, Sridhar, Ken N. Ross, Eric S. Lander, & Todd R. Golub. (2002). A molecular signature of metastasis in primary solid tumors. Nature Genetics. 33(1). 49–54. 1858 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reich, David & Eric S. Lander. (2001). On the allelic spectrum of human disease. Trends in Genetics. 17(9). 502–510. 799 indexed citations breakdown →

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Armstrong, Scott A., Jane Staunton, Lewis B. Silverman, et al.. (2001). MLL translocations specify a distinct gene expression profile that distinguishes a unique leukemia. Nature Genetics. 30(1). 41–47. 1283 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cormier, Robert T., Andrea Bilger, Richard B. Halberg, et al.. (2000). The Mom1AKR intestinal tumor resistance region consists of Pla2g2a and a locus distal to D4Mit64. Oncogene. 19(28). 3182–3192. 81 indexed citations

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Hacia, Joseph G., Jian‐Bing Fan, Oliver A. Ryder, et al.. (1999). Determination of ancestral alleles for human single-nucleotide polymorphisms using high-density oligonucleotide arrays. Nature Genetics. 22(2). 164–167. 288 indexed citations

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Pardes, Herbert, et al.. (1999). Effects of Medical Research on Health Care and the Economy. Science. 283(5398). 36–37. 37 indexed citations

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Yi, Tau‐Mu & Eric S. Lander. (1996). [19] Iterative template refinement: Protein-fold prediction using iterative search and hybrid sequence/structure templates. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 322–339. 4 indexed citations

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Лисицын, Н. А., Julia A. Segre, Kenro Kusumi, et al.. (1994). Direct isolation of polymorphic markers linked to a trait by genetically directed representational difference analysis. Nature Genetics. 6(1). 57–63. 90 indexed citations

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Yi, Tau‐Mu & Eric S. Lander. (1994). Recognition of related proteins by iterative template refinement (ITR). Protein Science. 3(8). 1315–1328. 38 indexed citations

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Hästbacka, Johanna, Albert de la Chapelle, Ilkka Kaitila, et al.. (1992). Linkage disequilibrium mapping in isolated founder populations: diastrophic dysplasia in Finland. Nature Genetics. 2(3). 204–211. 450 indexed citations

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Weaver, Alix, et al.. (1991). An automated method for DNA preparation from thousands of YAC clones. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(2). 385–390. 5 indexed citations

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Lander, Eric S.. (1989). DNA fingerprinting on trial. Nature. 339(6225). 501–505. 197 indexed citations

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Lander, Eric S. & Michael S. Waterman. (1988). Genomic mapping by fingerprinting random clones: A mathematical analysis. Genomics. 2(3). 231–239. 627 indexed citations breakdown →

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