Traver Hart

11.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Traver Hart is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Traver Hart has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Traver Hart's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (30 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (10 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers). Traver Hart is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (30 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (10 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (8 papers). Traver Hart collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Traver Hart's co-authors include Jason Moffat, Edward M. Marcotte, Kevin R. Brown, Arun Ramani, Stéphane Angers, Insuk Lee, Zachary Steinhart, Eiru Kim, Medina Colic and Graham MacLeod and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Traver Hart

61 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

High-Resolution CRISPR Screens Reveal Fitness Genes and Genotype-Specific Cancer Liabilities

2015 1000 citations Traver Hart, Kevin R. Brown et al. Cell profile →
Actin cytoskeleton vulnerability to disulfide stress mediates disulfidptosis

2023 648 citations Xiaoguang Liu, Litong Nie et al. Nature Cell Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Traver Hart United States	28	3.8k	819	671	562	456	61	4.8k
Kevin R. Brown Canada	25	3.7k 1.0×	565 0.7×	660 1.0×	195 0.3×	377 0.8×	59	4.5k
Céline Lefèbvre France	29	2.6k 0.7×	643 0.8×	675 1.0×	548 1.0×	414 0.9×	54	3.8k
Sabrina L. Spencer United States	25	2.6k 0.7×	442 0.5×	855 1.3×	208 0.4×	214 0.5×	45	3.7k
Nadine K. Kolas United States	15	5.1k 1.3×	596 0.7×	813 1.2×	170 0.3×	648 1.4×	18	5.8k
Christine Sers Germany	41	2.6k 0.7×	987 1.2×	1.4k 2.1×	550 1.0×	266 0.6×	114	4.5k
Thomas F. Westbrook United States	28	4.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	1.4k 2.1×	906 1.6×	541 1.2×	41	5.9k
Berend Snijder Switzerland	23	2.4k 0.6×	729 0.9×	508 0.8×	727 1.3×	276 0.6×	56	3.9k
Martin L. Miller United States	21	3.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.5×	914 1.4×	372 0.7×	371 0.8×	32	4.5k
Syed Haider United Kingdom	36	3.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.9×	1.0k 1.5×	597 1.1×	602 1.3×	111	5.0k
Mathieu Lupien Canada	40	5.3k 1.4×	1.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	836 1.5×	1.6k 3.4×	101	6.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Traver Hart

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Traver Hart

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Chen, Junjie, et al.. (2025). Z-scores outperform similar methods for analyzing CRISPR paralog synthetic lethality screens. Genome biology. 26(1). 188–188. 2 indexed citations

Lin, Chenchu, Xingdi Ma, Lori Wilson, et al.. (2024). Efficient gene knockout and genetic interaction screening using the in4mer CRISPR/Cas12a multiplex knockout platform. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3577–3577. 26 indexed citations

Dede, Merve & Traver Hart. (2023). Recovering false negatives in CRISPR fitness screens with JLOE. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(4). 1637–1651. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaoguang, Litong Nie, Yilei Zhang, et al.. (2023). Actin cytoskeleton vulnerability to disulfide stress mediates disulfidptosis. Nature Cell Biology. 25(3). 404–414. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

Patel, Lalit R., Sabrina A. Stratton, Megan M. McLaughlin, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9 screen analyzed by SLIDER identifies network of repressor complexes that regulate TRIM24. iScience. 26(7). 107126–107126. 1 indexed citations

Colic, Medina, et al.. (2022). PICKLES v3: the updated database of pooled in vitro CRISPR knockout library essentiality screens. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D1117–D1121. 6 indexed citations

Feng, Xu, Mengfan Tang, Merve Dede, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide CRISPR screens using isogenic cells reveal vulnerabilities conferred by loss of tumor suppressors. Science Advances. 8(19). eabm6638–eabm6638. 25 indexed citations

Hart, Traver, et al.. (2022). Optimal construction of a functional interaction network from pooled library CRISPR fitness screens. BMC Bioinformatics. 23(1). 510–510. 4 indexed citations

Yoshihama, Yohei, Kyle A. LaBella, Eiru Kim, et al.. (2021). AR-negative prostate cancer is vulnerable to loss of JMJD1C demethylase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 10 indexed citations

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Kim, Eiru & Traver Hart. (2021). Improved analysis of CRISPR fitness screens and reduced off-target effects with the BAGEL2 gene essentiality classifier. Genome Medicine. 13(1). 2–2. 61 indexed citations

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Su, Dan, Xu Feng, Medina Colic, et al.. (2020). CRISPR/CAS9-based DNA damage response screens reveal gene-drug interactions. DNA repair. 87. 102803–102803. 26 indexed citations

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Nixon, Allison M.L., M. A. McLaughlin, Jennifer Haynes, et al.. (2019). A rapid in vitro methodology for simultaneous target discovery and antibody generation against functional cell subpopulations. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 842–842. 10 indexed citations

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Komori, H. Kiyomi, Sarah LaMere, Traver Hart, et al.. (2017). Microdroplet PCR for Highly Multiplexed Targeted Bisulfite Sequencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1708. 333–348. 1 indexed citations

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Hart, Traver & Jason Moffat. (2016). BAGEL: a computational framework for identifying essential genes from pooled library screens. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 164–164. 155 indexed citations

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Vu, Victoria, Adrian J. Verster, Michael R Schertzberg, et al.. (2015). Natural Variation in Gene Expression Modulates the Severity of Mutant Phenotypes. Cell. 162(2). 391–402. 95 indexed citations

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Hart, Traver, Kevin R. Brown, Fabrice Sircoulomb, Robert Rottapel, & Jason Moffat. (2014). Measuring error rates in genomic perturbation screens: gold standards for human functional genomics. Molecular Systems Biology. 10(7). 733–733. 215 indexed citations

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Hart, Traver, H. Kiyomi Komori, Sarah LaMere, Katie Podshivalova, & Daniel R. Salomon. (2013). Finding the active genes in deep RNA-seq gene expression studies. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 778–778. 166 indexed citations

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Hart, Traver, et al.. (2009). Human Cell Chips: Adapting DNA Microarray Spotting Technology to Cell-Based Imaging Assays. PLoS ONE. 4(10). e7088–e7088. 21 indexed citations

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Hart, Traver, Arun Ramani, & Edward M. Marcotte. (2006). How complete are current yeast and human protein-interaction networks?. Genome Biology. 7(11). 120–120. 288 indexed citations

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Narayanaswamy, Rammohan, et al.. (2006). Systematic profiling of cellular phenotypes with spotted cell microarrays reveals mating-pheromone response genes. Genome biology. 7(1). R6–R6. 36 indexed citations

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