Heather Junkins

15.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
10 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Heather Junkins is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Junkins has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Heather Junkins's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (3 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Heather Junkins is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (6 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (3 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (3 papers). Heather Junkins collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Heather Junkins's co-authors include Lucia A. Hindorff, Teri A. Manolio, Erin M. Ramos, Francis S. Collins, Praveen Sethupathy, Danielle Welter, Paul Flicek, Helen Parkinson, Peggy Hall and Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

In The Last Decade

Heather Junkins

10 papers receiving 6.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits

2009 2.8k citations Lucia A. Hindorff, Praveen Sethupathy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

2013 1.9k citations Danielle Welter, Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog)

2016 1.3k citations Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur, Emily Bowler-Barnett et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather Junkins United States	8	3.6k	3.3k	782	436	355	10	6.2k
Konrad J. Karczewski United States	30	3.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	895 1.1×	482 1.1×	318 0.9×	69	6.5k
Jin Yu United States	12	3.0k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	748 1.0×	379 0.9×	240 0.7×	17	5.9k
Bogdan Paşaniuc United States	39	3.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.3×	502 0.6×	337 0.8×	314 0.9×	108	6.5k
Laurent Gil United Kingdom	7	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.3×	422 1.0×	287 0.8×	7	6.1k
Eric R. Gamazon United States	38	3.7k 1.0×	2.7k 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	369 0.8×	379 1.1×	162	6.6k
Lucas D. Ward United States	19	4.3k 1.2×	1.6k 0.5×	736 0.9×	467 1.1×	286 0.8×	31	5.9k
Alexander Gusev United States	33	2.2k 0.6×	3.6k 1.1×	518 0.7×	315 0.7×	306 0.9×	91	5.9k
Andrew D. Johnson United States	39	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	552 0.7×	456 1.0×	645 1.8×	127	6.6k
Kathryn L. Lunetta United States	44	2.6k 0.7×	2.3k 0.7×	509 0.7×	311 0.7×	818 2.3×	198	7.0k
Lucia A. Hindorff United States	30	4.2k 1.2×	4.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	615 1.4×	533 1.5×	64	8.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Junkins

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10 of 10 papers shown

Sollis, Elliot, Annalisa Buniello, María Cerezo, et al.. (2019). User-focused development of the NHGRI-EBI Genome-Wide Association Studies Catalog. Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd. 8. 1 indexed citations

MacArthur, Jacqueline A. L., Emily Bowler-Barnett, María Cerezo, et al.. (2016). The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog). Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D896–D901. 1346 indexed citations breakdown →

Conway, Kevin P., Genevieve C. Vullo, Ashley Kennedy, et al.. (2014). Data compatibility in the addiction sciences: An examination of measure commonality. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 141. 153–158. 27 indexed citations

McCarty, Catherine A., Wayne Huggins, Allison E. Aiello, et al.. (2014). PhenX RISING: real world implementation and sharing of PhenX measures. BMC Medical Genomics. 7(1). 16–16. 22 indexed citations

Welter, Danielle, Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur, Joannella Morales, et al.. (2013). The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D1001–D1006. 1850 indexed citations breakdown →

Ramos, Erin M., Douglas Hoffman, Heather Junkins, et al.. (2013). Phenotype–Genotype Integrator (PheGenI): synthesizing genome-wide association study (GWAS) data with existing genomic resources. European Journal of Human Genetics. 22(1). 144–147. 148 indexed citations

Whitehead, Nedra, Jane Hammond, Michelle A. Williams, et al.. (2012). The PhenX Toolkit pregnancy and birth collections. Annals of Epidemiology. 22(11). 753–758. 2 indexed citations

Pan, Huaqin, K. A. Tryka, Daniel J. Vreeman, et al.. (2012). Using PhenX measures to identify opportunities for cross-study analysis. Human Mutation. 33(5). 849–857. 24 indexed citations

Hendershot, Tabitha, Huaqin Pan, Jonathan L. Haines, et al.. (2011). Using the PhenX Toolkit to Add Standard Measures to a Study. Current Protocols in Human Genetics. 71(1). Unit1.21–Unit1.21. 9 indexed citations

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Hindorff, Lucia A., Praveen Sethupathy, Heather Junkins, et al.. (2009). Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(23). 9362–9367. 2820 indexed citations breakdown →

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