Malika Freund

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 882 citations indexed

About

Malika Freund is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Malika Freund has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 882 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Genetics, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Recurrent topics in Malika Freund's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (2 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (2 papers). Malika Freund is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (5 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (2 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (2 papers). Malika Freund collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Finland. Malika Freund's co-authors include Bogdan Paşaniuc, Gleb Kichaev, Kathryn S. Burch, Steven Gazal, Alkes L. Price, Gaurav Bhatia, Po‐Ru Loh, Armin Schoech, Nicholas Mancuso and Huwenbo Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, The American Journal of Human Genetics and Science Translational Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Malika Freund

10 papers receiving 872 citations

Hit Papers

Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWA... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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. Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power
    2018 485 citations Gleb Kichaev, Gaurav Bhatia et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Malika Freund United States 7 527 410 79 73 61 10 882
Kathryn S. Burch United States 10 514 1.0× 309 0.8× 63 0.8× 66 0.9× 60 1.0× 14 826
Jonathon LeFaive United States 8 462 0.9× 283 0.7× 75 0.9× 58 0.8× 94 1.5× 10 793
Brooke N. Wolford United States 7 391 0.7× 251 0.6× 67 0.8× 70 1.0× 79 1.3× 12 759
Annalisa Buniello United Kingdom 14 360 0.7× 374 0.9× 56 0.7× 48 0.7× 63 1.0× 20 920
Rounak Dey United States 8 486 0.9× 279 0.7× 62 0.8× 56 0.8× 97 1.6× 17 822
Tomaz Berisa United States 5 701 1.3× 378 0.9× 76 1.0× 97 1.3× 88 1.4× 5 1.1k
Peter VandeHaar United States 8 526 1.0× 328 0.8× 78 1.0× 71 1.0× 116 1.9× 9 937
Nana Matoba United States 12 514 1.0× 343 0.8× 47 0.6× 69 0.9× 89 1.5× 19 927
Sarah A. Gagliano Taliun Canada 12 530 1.0× 396 1.0× 89 1.1× 142 1.9× 109 1.8× 37 1.2k
Longda Jiang Australia 9 467 0.9× 286 0.7× 52 0.7× 60 0.8× 96 1.6× 15 883

Countries citing papers authored by Malika Freund

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Fields of papers citing papers by Malika Freund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malika Freund

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

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Chakraborty, Meenakshi, Daniel J. Cotter, Malika Freund, et al.. (2024). Increasing equity in science requires better ethics training: A course by trainees, for trainees. Cell Genomics. 4(5). 100554–100554. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, Ruth, Sergey Knyazev, Lisa A. Kohn, et al.. (2024). Electronic health record signatures identify undiagnosed patients with common variable immunodeficiency disease. Science Translational Medicine. 16(745). eade4510–eade4510. 13 indexed citations
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Giambartolomei, Claudia, Ji-Heui Seo, Malika Freund, et al.. (2021). H3K27ac HiChIP in prostate cell lines identifies risk genes for prostate cancer susceptibility. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 108(12). 2284–2300. 25 indexed citations
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Mandric, Igor, Brian L. Hill, Malika Freund, Michael Thompson, & Eran Halperin. (2020). BATMAN: Fast and Accurate Integration of Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets via Minimum-Weight Matching. iScience. 23(6). 101185–101185. 5 indexed citations
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Shi, Huwenbo, Kathryn S. Burch, Ruth Johnson, et al.. (2020). Localizing Components of Shared Transethnic Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits from GWAS Summary Data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 106(6). 805–817. 46 indexed citations
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Mancuso, Nicholas, Malika Freund, Ruth Johnson, et al.. (2019). Probabilistic fine-mapping of transcriptome-wide association studies. Nature Genetics. 51(4). 675–682. 223 indexed citations
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Freund, Malika, Kathryn S. Burch, Nicholas Mancuso, et al.. (2019). Integrative analysis of Dupuytren's disease identifies novel risk locus and reveals a shared genetic etiology with BMI. Genetic Epidemiology. 43(6). 629–645. 13 indexed citations
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Kichaev, Gleb, Gaurav Bhatia, Po‐Ru Loh, et al.. (2018). Leveraging Polygenic Functional Enrichment to Improve GWAS Power. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(1). 65–75. 485 indexed citations breakdown →
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Freund, Malika, Kathryn S. Burch, Huwenbo Shi, et al.. (2018). Phenotype-Specific Enrichment of Mendelian Disorder Genes near GWAS Regions across 62 Complex Traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 103(4). 535–552. 66 indexed citations
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Freund, Malika, et al.. (1974). [A case of a chromsome B4 long arm deletion (B4q-) (author's transl)].. PubMed. 47(1). 16–26. 4 indexed citations

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