Manu Setty

13.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
31 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Manu Setty is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Manu Setty has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Immunology and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Manu Setty's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (15 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Manu Setty is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (15 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (4 papers). Manu Setty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Manu Setty's co-authors include Dana Pe’er, Christina S. Leslie, Linas Mažutis, Vaidotas Kiseliovas, Kristy Choi, Eric C. Holland, Jason T. Huse, Lisa Sevenich, Daniela F. Quail and James Sutton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Manu Setty

31 papers receiving 5.9k 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.

CSF-1R inhibition alters macrophage polarization and blocks glioma progression

2013 1.8k citations Stephanie M. Pyonteck, Leila Akkari et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Single-Cell Map of Diverse Immune Phenotypes in the Breast Tumor Microenvironment

2018 1.3k citations Ambrose Carr, Manu Setty et al. profile →
Wishbone identifies bifurcating developmental trajectories from single-cell data

2016 384 citations Manu Setty, Michelle D. Tadmor et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Characterization of cell fate probabilities in single-cell data with Palantir

2019 351 citations Manu Setty, Jacob Levine et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping

2022 282 citations Marius Lange, Volker Bergen et al. Nature Methods profile →
Regenerative lineages and immune-mediated pruning in lung cancer metastasis

2020 251 citations Ashley M. Laughney, Jing Hu et al. Nature Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Manu Setty United States	21	3.2k	2.7k	1.7k	1.1k	555	31	6.0k
Sara Aibar Belgium	14	4.3k 1.3×	1.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	175 0.3×	17	6.1k
Sören Müller United States	25	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	940 0.8×	461 0.8×	41	3.6k
Gary Kohanbash United States	30	1.4k 0.4×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 0.9×	812 0.7×	1.2k 2.2×	76	3.9k
Florian Rambow Belgium	25	3.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	968 0.9×	132 0.2×	43	4.9k
Yoko Oei United States	12	1.4k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	338 0.3×	541 1.0×	17	3.6k
Shawn Gillespie United States	15	3.3k 1.0×	692 0.3×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	743 1.3×	21	4.7k
Carmen Bravo González‐Blas Belgium	14	3.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	671 0.4×	783 0.7×	125 0.2×	16	4.7k
Caleb A. Lareau United States	34	5.3k 1.6×	1.2k 0.4×	650 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	192 0.3×	71	6.5k
Alberto J. Schuhmacher Spain	17	2.5k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.4×	840 0.8×	792 1.4×	30	5.8k
Elisa Laurenti United Kingdom	28	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 0.8×	959 0.6×	784 0.7×	913 1.6×	54	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Manu Setty

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Manu Setty's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Manu Setty with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Manu Setty more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Manu Setty

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Manu Setty. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Manu Setty. The network helps show where Manu Setty may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manu Setty

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Purice, Maria D., Connor Finkbeiner, Feinan Wu, et al.. (2025). Molecular profiling of adult C. elegans glia across sexes by single-nuclear RNA-seq. Developmental Cell. 60(19). 2659–2678.e10. 1 indexed citations

Jordan, C. Diana, et al.. (2024). Quantifying cell-state densities in single-cell phenotypic landscapes using Mellon. Nature Methods. 21(7). 1185–1195. 11 indexed citations

Huang, Yin, et al.. (2024). Signals that control MAIT cell function in healthy and inflamed human tissues. Immunological Reviews. 323(1). 138–149. 3 indexed citations

Garg, Vidur, Yang Yang, Sonja Nowotschin, et al.. (2024). Single-cell analysis of bidirectional reprogramming between early embryonic states identify mechanisms of differential lineage plasticities in mice. Developmental Cell. 60(6). 901–917.e12. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Andrew A., Sean Bennett, Danielle C. Hamm, et al.. (2023). DUX4 expression in cancer induces a metastable early embryonic totipotent program. Cell Reports. 42(9). 113114–113114. 9 indexed citations

Lange, Marius, Volker Bergen, Michal Klein, et al.. (2022). CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping. Nature Methods. 19(2). 159–170. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

Janssens, Derek H., et al.. (2022). CUT&Tag2for1: a modified method for simultaneous profiling of the accessible and silenced regulome in single cells. Genome biology. 23(1). 81–81. 37 indexed citations

Sikkema, Lisa, Jason Tchieu, Nathalie Saurat, et al.. (2021). Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature Neuroscience. 24(3). 343–354. 145 indexed citations

Laughney, Ashley M., Jing Hu, Nathaniel R. Campbell, et al.. (2020). Regenerative lineages and immune-mediated pruning in lung cancer metastasis. Nature Medicine. 26(2). 259–269. 251 indexed citations breakdown →

10.

Nowotschin, Sonja, Manu Setty, Ying-Yi Kuo, et al.. (2019). The emergent landscape of the mouse gut endoderm at single-cell resolution. Nature. 569(7756). 361–367. 238 indexed citations

11.

Wei, Spencer C., Roshan Sharma, Nana-Ama A.S. Anang, et al.. (2019). Negative Co-stimulation Constrains T Cell Differentiation by Imposing Boundaries on Possible Cell States. Immunity. 50(4). 1084–1098.e10. 68 indexed citations

12.

Bengsch, Bertram, Takuya Ohtani, Omar Khan, et al.. (2018). Epigenomic-Guided Mass Cytometry Profiling Reveals Disease-Specific Features of Exhausted CD8 T Cells. Immunity. 48(5). 1029–1045.e5. 183 indexed citations

13.

Setty, Manu, Michelle D. Tadmor, Shlomit Reich-Zeliger, et al.. (2016). Wishbone identifies bifurcating developmental trajectories from single-cell data. Nature Biotechnology. 34(6). 637–645. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

14.

Setty, Manu & Christina S. Leslie. (2015). SeqGL Identifies Context-Dependent Binding Signals in Genome-Wide Regulatory Element Maps. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(5). e1004271–e1004271. 46 indexed citations

15.

González, Álvaro, Manu Setty, & Christina S. Leslie. (2015). Early enhancer establishment and regulatory locus complexity shape transcriptional programs in hematopoietic differentiation. Nature Genetics. 47(11). 1249–1259. 63 indexed citations

16.

Pyonteck, Stephanie M., Leila Akkari, Alberto J. Schuhmacher, et al.. (2013). CSF-1R inhibition alters macrophage polarization and blocks glioma progression. Nature Medicine. 19(10). 1264–1272. 1799 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Basso, Katia, Christof Schneider, Qiong Shen, et al.. (2012). BCL6 positively regulates AID and germinal center gene expression via repression of miR-155. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 209(13). 2455–2465. 95 indexed citations

18.

Helmy, Karim Y., John J. Halliday, Elena I. Fomchenko, et al.. (2012). Identification of Global Alteration of Translational Regulation in Glioma In Vivo. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e46965–e46965. 20 indexed citations

19.

Setty, Manu, Alexander Gusev, & Itsik Pe’er. (2011). HLA Type Inference via Haplotypes Identical by Descent. Journal of Computational Biology. 18(3). 483–493. 13 indexed citations

20.

Papapetrou, Eirini P., Gabsang Lee, Nirav Malani, et al.. (2010). Genomic safe harbors permit high β-globin transgene expression in thalassemia induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature Biotechnology. 29(1). 73–78. 217 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact