Nicole Vasilevsky

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Nicole Vasilevsky is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Vasilevsky has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Information Systems and Management and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nicole Vasilevsky's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (24 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (8 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers). Nicole Vasilevsky is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (24 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (8 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (7 papers). Nicole Vasilevsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Nicole Vasilevsky's co-authors include Melissa Haendel, Matthew Brush, Chris Mungall, Jessica Minnier, Sebastian Köhler, Tudor Groza, Peter N. Robinson, Gareth Baynam, Julie A. McMurry and Holly Paddock and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Cancer Research and The Journal of Comparative Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Vasilevsky

44 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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How many rare diseases are there?

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole Vasilevsky United States	17	650	329	177	166	148	48	1.3k
Laurence Gamé United Kingdom	24	1.4k 2.1×	277 0.8×	99 0.6×	71 0.4×	78 0.5×	57	2.4k
Daniel Himmelstein United States	14	989 1.5×	286 0.9×	70 0.4×	71 0.4×	165 1.1×	49	1.5k
Florian Prinz Germany	10	593 0.9×	122 0.4×	118 0.7×	49 0.3×	48 0.3×	16	1.6k
Erik Schultes Netherlands	16	876 1.3×	220 0.7×	275 1.6×	322 1.9×	115 0.8×	47	1.4k
Tudor Groza Australia	19	861 1.3×	565 1.7×	80 0.5×	183 1.1×	568 3.8×	82	1.7k
Varsha Khodiyar United Kingdom	13	497 0.8×	193 0.6×	134 0.8×	164 1.0×	48 0.3×	21	1.5k
Martin Fenner Germany	25	1.1k 1.7×	249 0.8×	220 1.2×	323 1.9×	85 0.6×	198	2.2k
Thomas Schlange Germany	21	1.4k 2.1×	171 0.5×	120 0.7×	50 0.3×	55 0.4×	32	2.7k
Matthew Brush United States	17	887 1.4×	88 0.3×	60 0.3×	47 0.3×	70 0.5×	29	1.3k
Kei‐Hoi Cheung United States	24	1.6k 2.4×	655 2.0×	146 0.8×	125 0.8×	344 2.3×	77	2.5k

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Tammen, Imke, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Marius Mather, et al.. (2025). The Vertebrate Breed Ontology: Toward Effective Breed Data Standardization. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine. 39(4). e70133–e70133.

Matentzoglu, Nicolas, et al.. (2024). Increased discoverability of rare disease datasets through knowledge graph integration. JAMIA Open. 8(1). ooaf001–ooaf001.

Chan, Lauren, Anne Thessen, William D. Duncan, et al.. (2023). The Environmental Conditions, Treatments, and Exposures Ontology (ECTO): connecting toxicology and exposure to human health and beyond. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 14(1). 3–3. 7 indexed citations

Hosseini, Mohammad, et al.. (2022). Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies. Learned Publishing. 36(2). 275–284. 10 indexed citations

Chan, Lauren, Nicole Vasilevsky, Anne Thessen, Julie A. McMurry, & Melissa Haendel. (2021). The landscape of nutri-informatics: a review of current resources and challenges for integrative nutrition research. Database. 2021. 20 indexed citations

Tibbitts, Deanne, et al.. (2021). Effects of Hydrastis Canadensis, Commiphora Habessinica, Phytolacca Americana, and Echinacea Purpurea on Bacterial Growth.. PubMed. 27(4). 24–27. 3 indexed citations

Vasilevsky, Nicole, Mohammad Hosseini, Ehsan Mohammadi, et al.. (2020). Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Accountability in Research. 28(1). 23–43. 45 indexed citations

Vasilevsky, Nicole, Mohammad Hosseini, Ehsan Mohammadi, et al.. (2020). Major challenges on authorship and concept of authorship - why is something more needed on contributorship?.

Thessen, Anne, Cynthia Grondin, Resham Kulkarni, et al.. (2020). Community Approaches for Integrating Environmental Exposures into Human Models of Disease. Environmental Health Perspectives. 128(12). 125002–125002. 15 indexed citations

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Carmody, Leigh, Hannah Blau, Daniel Daniš, et al.. (2020). Significantly different clinical phenotypes associated with mutations in synthesis and transamidase+remodeling glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor biosynthesis genes. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. 15(1). 40–40. 20 indexed citations

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Adadey, Samuel Mawuli, O. Gabriel, Victoria Nembaware, et al.. (2019). The Hearing Impairment Ontology: A Tool for Unifying Hearing Impairment Knowledge to Enhance Collaborative Research. Genes. 10(12). 960–960. 8 indexed citations

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Vasilevsky, Nicole, et al.. (2017). Reproducible and reusable research: are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark?. PeerJ. 5. e3208–e3208. 92 indexed citations

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Balhoff, James P., Matthew Brush, Sherri de Coronado, et al.. (2017). Tailoring the NCI Thesaurus for Use in The OBO Library.. 1 indexed citations

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Diehl, Alexander D., Terrence F. Meehan, Yvonne M. Bradford, et al.. (2016). The Cell Ontology 2016: enhanced content, modularization, and ontology interoperability. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 7(1). 44–44. 158 indexed citations

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Haendel, Melissa, Nicole Vasilevsky, Matthew Brush, et al.. (2015). Disease insights through cross-species phenotype comparisons. Mammalian Genome. 26(9-10). 548–555. 16 indexed citations

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Groza, Tudor, Sebastian Köhler, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al.. (2015). The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic Unification of Common and Rare Disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 97(1). 111–124. 150 indexed citations

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Vasilevsky, Nicole, et al.. (2015). Curriculum Development of a Research Laboratory Methodology Course for Complementary and Integrative Medicine Students. Medical Science Educator. 25(2). 171–175. 2 indexed citations

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Bandrowski, Anita, Matthew Brush, Jeffrey S. Grethe, et al.. (2015). The Resource Identification Initiative: A Cultural Shift in Publishing. Neuroinformatics. 14(2). 169–182. 23 indexed citations

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Meehan, Terrence F., Nicole Vasilevsky, Chris Mungall, et al.. (2013). Ontology based molecular signatures for immune cell types via gene expression analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 263–263. 9 indexed citations

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Vasilevsky, Nicole, Carl E. Ruby, Peter J. Hurlin, & Andrew D. Weinberg. (2011). OX40 engagement stabilizes Mxd4 and Mnt protein levels in antigen‐stimulated T cells leading to an increase in cell survival. European Journal of Immunology. 41(4). 1024–1034. 14 indexed citations

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