Simone Rubinacci

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
22 papers, 512 citations indexed

About

Simone Rubinacci is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Rubinacci has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 512 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Simone Rubinacci's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers). Simone Rubinacci is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (11 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers). Simone Rubinacci collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Simone Rubinacci's co-authors include Olivier Delaneau, Robin J. Hofmeister, Diogo M. Ribeiro, Jonathan Marchini, Bárbara Sousa da Mota, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Anna Ramisch, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos and Jens Lehmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Simone Rubinacci

20 papers receiving 502 citations

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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.

Efficient phasing and imputation of low-coverage sequencing data using large reference panels

2021 178 citations Simone Rubinacci, Diogo M. Ribeiro et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Accurate rare variant phasing of whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing data in the UK Biobank

2023 72 citations Robin J. Hofmeister, Diogo M. Ribeiro et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Rubinacci Switzerland	10	369	180	67	31	30	22	512
Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio Spain	10	229 0.6×	271 1.5×	52 0.8×	35 1.1×	11 0.4×	14	504
Davide Marnetto Italy	11	301 0.8×	157 0.9×	23 0.3×	47 1.5×	26 0.9×	21	481
Robin J. Hofmeister Switzerland	6	256 0.7×	124 0.7×	52 0.8×	20 0.6×	5 0.2×	10	342
Ali Akbari United States	11	230 0.6×	139 0.8×	50 0.7×	14 0.5×	5 0.2×	19	391
Manuel García‐Magariños Spain	12	372 1.0×	283 1.6×	21 0.3×	27 0.9×	12 0.4×	18	497
Ricardo A. Verdugo Chile	15	179 0.5×	219 1.2×	43 0.6×	18 0.6×	7 0.2×	33	516
Haiyi Lou China	14	384 1.0×	217 1.2×	62 0.9×	74 2.4×	5 0.2×	22	565
Fouad Zakharia United States	5	378 1.0×	307 1.7×	53 0.8×	17 0.5×	5 0.2×	6	623
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Spain	10	194 0.5×	183 1.0×	19 0.3×	6 0.2×	18 0.6×	19	425
Arnaldur Gylfason Iceland	7	561 1.5×	407 2.3×	46 0.7×	13 0.4×	14 0.5×	8	867

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Rubinacci

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Handsaker, Robert E., David Tang, Nolan Kamitaki, et al.. (2026). Insights into DNA repeat expansions among 900,000 biobank participants. Nature. 650(8103). 920–929.

Ribeiro, Diogo M., Robin J. Hofmeister, Simone Rubinacci, & Olivier Delaneau. (2025). Noncoding rare variant associations with blood traits in 166,740 UK Biobank genomes. Nature Genetics. 57(9). 2146–2155. 1 indexed citations

Hofmeister, Robin J., Adriaan van der Graaf, Jaanika Kronberg, et al.. (2025). Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals. Nature. 646(8085). 647–656. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Jihye, Zhiyu Yang, Simone Rubinacci, et al.. (2025). Polygenic risk score prediction accuracy convergence. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances. 6(3). 100457–100457. 1 indexed citations

Shi, Sinan, Simone Rubinacci, Sile Hu, et al.. (2024). A Genomics England haplotype reference panel and imputation of UK Biobank. Nature Genetics. 56(9). 1800–1803. 9 indexed citations

Rubinacci, Simone, et al.. (2024). Assessing the impact of post-mortem damage and contamination on imputation performance in ancient DNA. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6227–6227. 2 indexed citations

Rubinacci, Simone, et al.. (2024). A resampling-based approach to share reference panels. Nature Computational Science. 4(5). 360–366. 1 indexed citations

Hofmeister, Robin J., Diogo M. Ribeiro, Simone Rubinacci, & Olivier Delaneau. (2023). Accurate rare variant phasing of whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing data in the UK Biobank. Nature Genetics. 55(7). 1243–1249. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

Rubinacci, Simone, Robin J. Hofmeister, Bárbara Sousa da Mota, & Olivier Delaneau. (2023). Imputation of low-coverage sequencing data from 150,119 UK Biobank genomes. Nature Genetics. 55(7). 1088–1090. 54 indexed citations

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Neuenschwander, Samuel, Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos, Bárbara Sousa da Mota, et al.. (2023). Mapache: a flexible pipeline to map ancient DNA. Bioinformatics. 39(2). 9 indexed citations

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Rossi, Massimiliano, et al.. (2023). μ- PBWT: a lightweight r-indexing of the PBWT for storing and querying UK Biobank data. Bioinformatics. 39(9).

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Mota, Bárbara Sousa da, Simone Rubinacci, Diana Ivette Cruz Dávalos, et al.. (2023). Imputation of ancient human genomes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3660–3660. 31 indexed citations

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Hofmeister, Robin J., Simone Rubinacci, Diogo M. Ribeiro, et al.. (2022). Parent-of-Origin inference for biobanks. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6668–6668. 10 indexed citations

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Rubinacci, Simone, et al.. (2022). XSI—a genotype compression tool for compressive genomics in large biobanks. Bioinformatics. 38(15). 3778–3784. 10 indexed citations

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Rubinacci, Simone, Diogo M. Ribeiro, Robin J. Hofmeister, & Olivier Delaneau. (2021). Publisher Correction: Efficient phasing and imputation of low-coverage sequencing data using large reference panels. Nature Genetics. 53(3). 412–412. 5 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Diogo M., Simone Rubinacci, Anna Ramisch, et al.. (2021). The molecular basis, genetic control and pleiotropic effects of local gene co-expression. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4842–4842. 17 indexed citations

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Rubinacci, Simone, Diogo M. Ribeiro, Robin J. Hofmeister, & Olivier Delaneau. (2021). Efficient phasing and imputation of low-coverage sequencing data using large reference panels. Nature Genetics. 53(1). 120–126. 178 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rubinacci, Simone, Olivier Delaneau, & Jonathan Marchini. (2020). Genotype imputation using the Positional Burrows Wheeler Transform. PLoS Genetics. 16(11). e1009049–e1009049. 90 indexed citations

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Rula, Anisa, Matteo Palmonari, Simone Rubinacci, et al.. (2018). TISCO: Temporal scoping of facts. Journal of Web Semantics. 54. 72–86. 10 indexed citations

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Rubinacci, Simone, Alex Graudenzi, Giulio Caravagna, et al.. (2015). CoGNaC: A Chaste Plugin for the Multiscale Simulation of Gene Regulatory Networks Driving the Spatial Dynamics of Tissues and Cancer. Cancer Informatics. 14s4(Suppl 4). CIN.S19965–CIN.S19965. 7 indexed citations

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