Francis S. Collins

42.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Francis S. Collins is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francis S. Collins has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Francis S. Collins's work include Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers). Francis S. Collins is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases (4 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (4 papers) and Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways (3 papers). Francis S. Collins collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Francis S. Collins's co-authors include Harold Varmus, Lawrence A. Tabak, Douglas A. Marchuk, Ann M. Saulino, Mitchell L. Drumm, Margaret Hamburg, Kathy Hudson, John Valdes, Danilo A. Tagle and John Balbus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Francis S. Collins

25 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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 New Initiative on Precision Medicine

2015 3.2k citations Francis S. Collins et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →
Construction of T-vectors, a rapid and general system for direct cloning of unmodified PCR products

1991 1.1k citations Douglas A. Marchuk, Mitchell L. Drumm et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Policy: NIH plans to enhance reproducibility

2014 827 citations Francis S. Collins, Lawrence A. Tabak profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francis S. Collins United States	19	2.4k	1.3k	765	630	480	28	6.8k
Muin J. Khoury United States	39	1.8k 0.7×	2.4k 1.8×	914 1.2×	364 0.6×	271 0.6×	95	7.0k
Judith Miller United States	48	2.3k 0.9×	937 0.7×	668 0.9×	393 0.6×	790 1.6×	208	9.9k
Ulrich Müller Germany	63	2.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	747 1.0×	342 0.5×	777 1.6×	510	16.5k
Martin A. Kennedy New Zealand	41	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	700 0.9×	174 0.3×	438 0.9×	219	6.8k
Perikles Simon Germany	47	2.5k 1.0×	635 0.5×	331 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	301 0.6×	220	7.0k
Caroline Hayward United Kingdom	47	2.7k 1.1×	2.3k 1.8×	444 0.6×	384 0.6×	321 0.7×	220	8.1k
Michael Bergmann Austria	43	2.0k 0.8×	682 0.5×	545 0.7×	374 0.6×	278 0.6×	268	6.8k
Wei Zhu United States	37	1.9k 0.8×	553 0.4×	359 0.5×	456 0.7×	546 1.1×	118	6.3k
Julie Kim United States	51	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	767 1.0×	482 0.8×	180 0.4×	260	8.9k
A. Cecile J.W. Janssens Netherlands	46	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.4×	815 1.1×	240 0.4×	167 0.3×	145	6.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francis S. Collins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francis S. Collins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francis S. Collins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Francis S. Collins. Francis S. Collins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tolunay, Hatice, Francis S. Collins, Sumi Mehta, et al.. (2022). Household air pollution in low- and middle-income countries: health risks and research priorities. UNC Libraries.

Collins, Francis S., Tara A. Schwetz, Lawrence A. Tabak, & Eric S. Lander. (2021). ARPA-H: Accelerating biomedical breakthroughs. Science. 373(6551). 165–167. 22 indexed citations

Pérez‐Stable, Eliseo J. & Francis S. Collins. (2019). Science Visioning in Minority Health and Health Disparities. American Journal of Public Health. 109(S1). S5–S5. 18 indexed citations

Cheever, Thomas R., Anna Taylor, Robert Finkelstein, et al.. (2018). NIH/Kennedy Center Workshop on Music and the Brain: Finding Harmony. Neuron. 97(6). 1214–1218. 44 indexed citations

Collins, Francis S.. (2018). Isten ábécéje. Akadémiai Kiadó eBooks.

Hudson, Kathy & Francis S. Collins. (2014). Sharing and Reporting the Results of Clinical Trials. JAMA. 313(4). 355–355. 82 indexed citations

Martin, William J., Roger I. Glass, Houmam Araj, et al.. (2013). Household Air Pollution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Health Risks and Research Priorities. PLoS Medicine. 10(6). e1001455–e1001455. 55 indexed citations

Collins, Francis S. & Margaret Hamburg. (2013). First FDA Authorization for Next-Generation Sequencer. New England Journal of Medicine. 369(25). 2369–2371. 112 indexed citations

Collins, Francis S.. (2012). How to Fulfill the True Promise of “mHealth”. Scientific American. 307(1). 16–16. 32 indexed citations

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Frieden, Thomas R. & Francis S. Collins. (2010). Intentional Infection of Vulnerable Populations in 1946-1948. Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park). 1 indexed citations

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Collins, Francis S.. (2007). Cancer: A Disease of the Genome. Cancer Research. 67. 1 indexed citations

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Chandrasekharappa, Settara C., Douglas A. Marchuk, & Francis S. Collins. (2003). Analysis of Yeast Artificial Chromosome Clones. Humana Press eBooks. 12. 235–258. 2 indexed citations

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Burke, Wylie, Elizabeth J. Thomson, Muin J. Khoury, et al.. (1998). Hereditary Hemochromatosis. JAMA. 280(2). 172–172. 207 indexed citations

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Merajver, Sofía D., Rosemarie Caduff, Kathleen A. Cooney, et al.. (1995). Somatic mutations in the BRCA1 gene in sporadic ovarian tumours. Nature Genetics. 9(4). 439–443. 308 indexed citations

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Strong, Theresa V., Danilo A. Tagle, John Valdes, et al.. (1993). Widespread expression of the human and rat Huntington's disease gene in brain and nonneural tissues. Nature Genetics. 5(3). 259–265. 310 indexed citations

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Baxendale, Sarah, Marcy E. MacDonald, Richard Mott, et al.. (1993). A cosmid contig and high resolution restriction map of the 2 megabase region containing the Huntington's disease gene. Nature Genetics. 4(2). 181–186. 75 indexed citations

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Valdes, John, Danilo A. Tagle, Lawrence Elmer, & Francis S. Collins. (1993). A simple non-radioactive method for diagnosis of Huntington's disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 2(6). 633–634. 22 indexed citations

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Bates, Gillian P., John Valdes, Holger Hummerich, et al.. (1992). Characterization of a yeast artificial chromosome contig spanning the Huntington's disease gene candidate region. Nature Genetics. 1(3). 180–187. 50 indexed citations

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Marchuk, Douglas A., Mitchell L. Drumm, Ann M. Saulino, & Francis S. Collins. (1991). Construction of T-vectors, a rapid and general system for direct cloning of unmodified PCR products. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(5). 1154–1154. 1070 indexed citations breakdown →

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Collins, Francis S. & George K. Summer. (1978). Determination of glutamine and glutamic acid in biological fluids by gas chromatography. Journal of Chromatography B Biomedical Sciences and Applications. 145(3). 456–463. 17 indexed citations

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