Robert Cook‐Deegan

9.8k total citations
150 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Robert Cook‐Deegan is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Cook‐Deegan has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 47 papers in Genetics and 42 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert Cook‐Deegan's work include Intellectual Property and Patents (31 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (31 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (29 papers). Robert Cook‐Deegan is often cited by papers focused on Intellectual Property and Patents (31 papers), Ethics in Clinical Research (31 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (29 papers). Robert Cook‐Deegan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Robert Cook‐Deegan's co-authors include Subhashini Chandrasekharan, J. Scott Roberts, Christopher D. Heaney, Judy Illes, Eric R. Kandel, Paul Root Wolpe, Howard Gardner, Barbara J. Sahakian, Patricia A. King and Martha J. Farah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Robert Cook‐Deegan

143 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Cook‐Deegan United States 32 1.0k 977 757 639 457 150 3.6k
Mildred K. Cho United States 45 1.8k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 1.0k 1.3× 764 1.2× 512 1.1× 162 6.0k
Timothy Caulfield Canada 41 2.2k 2.1× 973 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 1.9k 2.9× 541 1.2× 292 5.5k
Neil A. Holtzman United States 41 871 0.9× 1.7k 1.7× 873 1.2× 607 0.9× 307 0.7× 159 5.3k
Henry T. Greely United States 35 793 0.8× 764 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 836 1.3× 127 0.3× 123 4.4k
Paul Martin United Kingdom 28 532 0.5× 399 0.4× 409 0.5× 364 0.6× 258 0.6× 86 2.7k
Bartha Maria Knoppers Canada 44 3.6k 3.6× 2.8k 2.9× 1.2k 1.6× 1.7k 2.6× 564 1.2× 359 7.4k
Ségolène Aymé France 38 683 0.7× 1.9k 2.0× 1.2k 1.6× 459 0.7× 264 0.6× 161 4.7k
Dianne Nicol Australia 28 690 0.7× 337 0.3× 750 1.0× 379 0.6× 200 0.4× 176 2.7k
Pascal Borry Belgium 38 1.9k 1.9× 2.3k 2.3× 582 0.8× 737 1.2× 206 0.5× 251 5.2k
Alberto Cambrosio Canada 28 598 0.6× 368 0.4× 347 0.5× 343 0.5× 212 0.5× 100 2.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Cook‐Deegan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Cook‐Deegan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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LoTempio, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Ethics choices during the Human Genome Project reflected their policy world, not ours. Cell Genomics. 5(5). 100841–100841. 1 indexed citations
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Cook‐Deegan, Robert, et al.. (2024). Sorry you asked? Mayo, Myriad, and the battles over patent-eligibility. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 11(1). lsae010–lsae010. 1 indexed citations
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Pollard, Samantha, Deirdre Weymann, Emanuel Krebs, et al.. (2024). “I Just Assumed This Was Already Being Done”: Canadian Patient Preferences for Enhanced Data Sharing for Precision Oncology. JCO Precision Oncology. 8(8). e2400184–e2400184. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Jill O., Janis Geary, Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, et al.. (2023). Policy options to facilitate cancer genomic variant data sharing: outcomes of a modified policy Delphi. Journal of Law and the Biosciences. 10(2). lsad022–lsad022. 1 indexed citations
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Cartney, Ann M. Mc, Jane Anderson, Libby Liggins, et al.. (2022). Balancing openness with Indigenous data sovereignty: An opportunity to leave no one behind in the journey to sequence all of life. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 37 indexed citations
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Sherkow, Jacob S., Katharine Barker, Irus Braverman, et al.. (2022). Ethical, legal, and social issues in the Earth BioGenome Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 13 indexed citations
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Walters, LeRoy, Robert Cook‐Deegan, & Eli Y. Adashi. (2021). Governing Heritable Human Genome Editing: A Textual History and a Proposal for the Future. The CRISPR Journal. 4(4). 469–476. 4 indexed citations
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Huston, Sara, Peter Claes, Megan Doerr, et al.. (2021). U.S. Adult Perspectives on Facial Images, DNA, and Other Biometrics. PubMed. 3(1). 9–15. 4 indexed citations
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Bollinger, Juli, et al.. (2019). BRCA1/2 Variant Data-Sharing Practices. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 47(1). 88–96. 7 indexed citations
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Huston, Sara, Mollie Minear, Azita Sadeghpour, et al.. (2018). Participant-Partners in Genetic Research: An Exome Study with Families of Children with Unexplained Medical Conditions. PubMed. 10(1). e2–e2. 2 indexed citations
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Cook‐Deegan, Robert. (2015). Has NIH Lost Its Halo. Issues in Science and Technology. 31(2). 36–47. 2 indexed citations
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Cook‐Deegan, Robert & Subhashini Chandrasekharan. (2014). Patents and Genome-Wide DNA Sequence Analysis: Is it Safe to Go into the Human Genome?. The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics. 42(S1). 42–50. 7 indexed citations
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Arti, K. & Robert Cook‐Deegan. (2013). Moving Beyond 'Isolated' Gene Patents. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Mathews, Debra, Robert Cook‐Deegan, & Tania Bubela. (2013). Patents and Misplaced Angst: Lessons for Translational Stem Cell Research from Genomics. Cell stem cell. 12(5). 508–512. 6 indexed citations
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Chandrasekharan, Subhashini, et al.. (2010). Impact of gene patents and licensing practices on access to genetic testing for hereditary hemochromatosis. Genetics in Medicine. 12(4 Suppl). S155–S170. 8 indexed citations
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Kepler, Thomas B., et al.. (2010). Metastasizing patent claims on BRCA1. Genomics. 95(5). 312–314. 11 indexed citations
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So, Anthony D., Bhaven N. Sampat, K. Arti, et al.. (2008). Is Bayh-Dole Good for Developing Countries? Lessons from the US Experience. PLoS Biology. 6(10). e262–e262. 51 indexed citations
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Christensen, Kurt D., J. Scott Roberts, Charmaine Royal, et al.. (2008). Incorporating ethnicity into genetic risk assessment for Alzheimer disease: the REVEAL study experience. Genetics in Medicine. 10(3). 207–214. 32 indexed citations
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Caulfield, Timothy, Robert Cook‐Deegan, F. Scott Kieff, & John P. Walsh. (2006). Evidence and anecdotes: an analysis of human gene patenting controversies. Nature Biotechnology. 24(9). 1091–1094. 67 indexed citations
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Cook‐Deegan, Robert, et al.. (1998). The Human Genome Project after a decade: policy issues. Nature Genetics. 20(4). 333–335. 16 indexed citations

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