Sean Davis

42.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
94 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Sean Davis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Davis has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Sean Davis's work include Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers). Sean Davis is often cited by papers focused on Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (10 papers). Sean Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Sean Davis's co-authors include Paul S. Meltzer, Naigong Zhang, Kimberly A. Marshall, Hyeseung Lee, Pierre Ledoux, Carlos Evangelista, Katherine Phillippy, Irene F. Kim, Michelle Holko and Tanya Barrett and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sean Davis

90 papers receiving 18.1k 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.

NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update

2012 7.1k citations Sean Davis et al. profile →
GEOquery: a bridge between the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and BioConductor

2007 2.0k citations Sean Davis, Paul S. Meltzer profile →
BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis

2005 1.4k citations Steffen Durinck, Yves Moreau et al. Computer applications in the biosciences profile →
High-Resolution Mapping and Characterization of Open Chromatin across the Genome

2008 1.0k citations Sean Davis, Paul S. Meltzer et al. Cell profile →
RCircos: an R package for Circos 2D track plots

2013 592 citations Paul S. Meltzer, Sean Davis et al. profile →
Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome

2025 24 citations Richard J. Abdill, Vincent Rubinetti et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Davis United States	47	12.2k	3.9k	2.8k	2.4k	2.3k	94	18.3k
Helga Thorvaldsdóttir United States	8	11.2k 0.9×	4.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.2×	2.7k 1.2×	16	18.3k
David Lyon United States	26	11.5k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	51	19.1k
Annika L. Gable Switzerland	8	12.5k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	8	21.0k
Torben F. Ørntoft Denmark	76	15.0k 1.2×	7.0k 1.8×	2.5k 0.9×	3.5k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	261	23.0k
Stefan Wyder Switzerland	18	15.6k 1.3×	4.2k 1.1×	3.3k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	2.8k 1.2×	26	25.5k
Jerry Pelletier Canada	83	23.5k 1.9×	2.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.9×	1.9k 0.8×	318	28.6k
Xia Li China	64	13.7k 1.1×	8.0k 2.1×	2.0k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.0k 0.9×	754	20.1k
Tatsuhiko Tsunoda Japan	74	9.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.8×	277	17.6k
Alberto Santos Denmark	23	10.2k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	30	16.3k
Gideon Rechavi Israel	80	18.6k 1.5×	6.0k 1.5×	1.3k 0.5×	3.7k 1.5×	2.8k 1.2×	405	27.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean Davis

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Abdill, Richard J., Vincent Rubinetti, Daniel McDonald, et al.. (2025). Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome. Cell. 188(4). 1100–1118.e17. 24 indexed citations breakdown →

Drnevich, Jenny, Frederick J. Tan, Fabricio Almeida‐Silva, et al.. (2025). Learning and teaching biological data science in the Bioconductor community. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(4). e1012925–e1012925.

Ma, Xiaotu, Zhaoyu Xue, Hong Wen, et al.. (2024). bamSliceR : a Bioconductor package for rapid, cross-cohort variant and allelic bias analysis. Bioinformatics Advances. 5(1). vbaf098–vbaf098.

Geistlinger, Ludwig, Gergely Csaba, Marcel Ramos, et al.. (2019). Toward a gold standard for benchmarking gene set enrichment analysis. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(1). 545–556. 77 indexed citations

Ramos, Marcel, Lucas Schiffer, Angela Re, et al.. (2017). Software for the Integration of Multiomics Experiments in Bioconductor. Cancer Research. 77(21). e39–e42. 61 indexed citations

Yang, Xiaohong R., J. Keith Killian, Sue Hammond, et al.. (2015). Characterization of Genomic Alterations in Radiation-Associated Breast Cancer among Childhood Cancer Survivors, Using Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) Arrays. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0116078–e0116078. 13 indexed citations

Boufraqech, Myriem, Naris Nilubol, Lisa Zhang, et al.. (2014). miR30a Inhibits LOX Expression and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Progression. Cancer Research. 75(2). 367–377. 65 indexed citations

Abaan, Ogan D., Eric C. Polley, Sean Davis, et al.. (2013). The Exomes of the NCI-60 Panel: A Genomic Resource for Cancer Biology and Systems Pharmacology. Cancer Research. 73(14). 4372–4382. 204 indexed citations

Petrini, Iacopo, Arun Rajan, Trung C. Pham, et al.. (2013). Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing of a B3 Thymoma. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e60572–e60572. 25 indexed citations

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Hirsch, Daniela, Ralf Kemmerling, Sean Davis, et al.. (2012). Chromothripsis and Focal Copy Number Alterations Determine Poor Outcome in Malignant Melanoma. Cancer Research. 73(5). 1454–1460. 76 indexed citations

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Francis, Princy, So Young Moon, Sven Bilke, et al.. (2012). Abstract 1113: Role of the microRNA-23∼27∼24 clusters in osteosarcoma. Cancer Research. 72(8_Supplement). 1113–1113. 1 indexed citations

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Bolton, Kelly L., Montserrat García‐Closas, Ruth M. Pfeiffer, et al.. (2010). Assessment of Automated Image Analysis of Breast Cancer Tissue Microarrays for Epidemiologic Studies. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. 19(4). 992–999. 48 indexed citations

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Killian, Jonathan Keith, Robert L. Walker, Miia Suuriniemi, et al.. (2010). Archival Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytopathology (FNAC) Samples. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 12(6). 739–745. 81 indexed citations

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Killian, Jonathan Keith, Sven Bilke, Sean Davis, et al.. (2009). Large-Scale Profiling of Archival Lymph Nodes Reveals Pervasive Remodeling of the Follicular Lymphoma Methylome. Cancer Research. 69(3). 758–764. 36 indexed citations

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Balleine, Rosemary L., Sean Davis, Elizabeth Salisbury, et al.. (2008). Molecular Grading of Ductal Carcinoma In situ of the Breast. Clinical Cancer Research. 14(24). 8244–8252. 47 indexed citations

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Durinck, Steffen, Yves Moreau, A. Kasprzyk, et al.. (2005). BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(16). 3439–3440. 1376 indexed citations breakdown →

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Baird, Kristin, Sean Davis, Cristina R. Antonescu, et al.. (2005). Gene Expression Profiling of Human Sarcomas: Insights into Sarcoma Biology. Cancer Research. 65(20). 9226–9235. 277 indexed citations

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Son, Chang‐Gue, Sven Bilke, Sean Davis, et al.. (2005). Database of mRNA gene expression profiles of multiple human organs. Genome Research. 15(3). 443–450. 102 indexed citations

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Crawford, Gregory E., Ingeborg Holt, James R. Whittle, et al.. (2005). Genome-wide mapping of DNase hypersensitive sites using massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS). Genome Research. 16(1). 123–131. 368 indexed citations

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Meltzer, Paul S., Sean Davis, Kristin Baird, & Yidong Chen. (2004). Are we there yet? Genomic profiling and mechanism in cancer research. 6. 1 indexed citations

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