Leland McInnes

25.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
9 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Leland McInnes is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology and Structural Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leland McInnes has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Structural Biology. Recurrent topics in Leland McInnes's work include Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (1 paper), Advanced Graph Neural Networks (1 paper) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (1 paper). Leland McInnes is often cited by papers focused on Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (1 paper), Advanced Graph Neural Networks (1 paper) and Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications (1 paper). Leland McInnes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Colombia. Leland McInnes's co-authors include John Healy, Nathaniel Saul, Lukas Großberger, Lai Guan Ng, Evan W. Newell, Étienne Becht, Immanuel Kwok, Charles‐Antoine Dutertre, Florent Ginhoux and Mark P. Oxley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Scientific Reports and Solar Physics.

In The Last Decade

Leland McInnes

8 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection

2018 4.6k citations Leland McInnes, John Healy et al. The Journal of Open Source Software profile →
Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP

2018 2.9k citations Étienne Becht, Leland McInnes et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
hdbscan: Hierarchical density based clustering

2017 1.4k citations Leland McInnes, John Healy et al. The Journal of Open Source Software profile →
Uniform manifold approximation and projection

2024 70 citations John Healy, Leland McInnes Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leland McInnes United States	7	3.8k	1.4k	1.1k	730	726	9	9.0k
John Healy United States	5	3.8k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	730 1.0×	720 1.0×	6	9.0k
Pierre Geurts Belgium	34	4.6k 1.2×	2.5k 1.8×	1.3k 1.1×	879 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	104	13.7k
James Zou United States	54	3.2k 0.8×	3.4k 2.5×	411 0.4×	544 0.7×	633 0.9×	240	12.1k
Píetro Lió United Kingdom	53	5.8k 1.5×	1.5k 1.1×	865 0.8×	347 0.5×	506 0.7×	444	12.8k
Frederick Klauschen Germany	46	2.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	2.5k 2.2×	1.5k 2.0×	656 0.9×	201	10.5k
Marcel Reinders Netherlands	54	5.9k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	633 0.6×	1.0k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	298	11.1k
Hiroaki Kitano Japan	52	8.7k 2.3×	1.6k 1.2×	787 0.7×	531 0.7×	955 1.3×	285	15.6k
Nathaniel Saul United States	5	1.8k 0.5×	837 0.6×	379 0.3×	328 0.4×	517 0.7×	6	4.7k
Lukas Großberger Germany	3	1.8k 0.5×	820 0.6×	379 0.3×	327 0.4×	486 0.7×	4	4.6k
Yvan Saeys Belgium	49	8.5k 2.2×	2.1k 1.5×	4.2k 3.7×	1.1k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	196	16.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leland McInnes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Leland McInnes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Leland McInnes 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 Leland McInnes. Leland McInnes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Gregory, Daniel D., et al.. (2025). Application of UMAP to identify refined gold sources using chemical composition analysis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 43611–43611.

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Healy, John & Leland McInnes. (2024). Uniform manifold approximation and projection. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 4(1). 70 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Sainburg, Tim, Leland McInnes, & Timothy Q. Gentner. (2021). Parametric UMAP: learning embeddings with deep neural networks for representation and semi-supervised learning. 14 indexed citations

4.

Dyck, Ondrej, Mark P. Oxley, Andrew R. Lupini, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Manifold learning of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy. npj Computational Materials. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

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Watt, C. E. J., et al.. (2020). Data-Driven Classification of Coronal Hole and Streamer Belt Solar Wind. Solar Physics. 295(3). 8 indexed citations

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Dyck, Ondrej, Mark P. Oxley, Andrew R. Lupini, et al.. (2018). Manifold learning of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy. npj Computational Materials. 5(1). 45 indexed citations

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Becht, Étienne, Leland McInnes, John Healy, et al.. (2018). Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP. Nature Biotechnology. 37(1). 38–44. 2943 indexed citations breakdown →

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McInnes, Leland, John Healy, Nathaniel Saul, & Lukas Großberger. (2018). UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection. The Journal of Open Source Software. 3(29). 861–861. 4554 indexed citations breakdown →

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McInnes, Leland, et al.. (2017). hdbscan: Hierarchical density based clustering. The Journal of Open Source Software. 2(11). 205–205. 1359 indexed citations breakdown →

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