W. Evan Johnson

26.4k citations

126 papers · 14.6k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Cancer Research top 0.5%
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Papers in

Aging 2
Molecular Biology 69
- Gene expression and cancer classification 19
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 14
- RNA modifications and cancer 12
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics 12
- Gut microbiota and health 10
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications 9
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 9

Co-authors: Cheng Li Jeffrey T. Leek Andrew E. Jaffe John D. Storey Hilary S. Parker Giovanni Parmigiani Héctor Corrada Bravo Ben Langmead
Journals: Film Quarterly (11 papers)Bioinformatics (7 papers)Genome Medicine (4 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (4 papers)RNA (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States India Canada

In The Last Decade

W. Evan Johnson

112 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

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ComBat-seq: batch effect adjustment for RNA-seq count data 2020 · 693 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
2012 Bioinformatics
2010 Nature Reviews Genetics
2006 Biostatistics

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside W. Evan Johnson, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	The new microbiome on the block: challenges and opportunities of using human tumor sequencing data to study microbes Nature Methods ·Yingjie Li, Anjun Ma, W. Evan Johnson, Charis Eng, Subhajyoti De, Sizun Jiang, Zihai Li, Daniel Spakowicz, Qin Ma	2025	0
2	Comparison of gene set scoring methods for reproducible evaluation of tuberculosis gene signatures BMC Infectious Diseases ·Xutao Wang, Mamta Kshipra Misra, A. S. Usanin, Jerrold J. Ellner, Natasha S. Hochberg, Padmini Salgame, Prasad Patil, W. Evan Johnson	2024	0
3	G-quadruplex stabilizer CX-5461 effectively combines with radiotherapy to target α-thalassemia/mental retardation X-linked-deficient malignant glioma Neuro-Oncology ·Mu’jizah Mu'jizah, Prit Benny Malgulwar, W. Evan Johnson, 和夫石川, Ammar Hilali, I. Haji-Bakar, José Fabián Ríos Obando, F. P. Gisius Nanning, Ahsan Farooqi, Jason T. Huse	2024	7
4	Psychosocial stressors and breast cancer gene expression in the Black Women’s Health Study Breast Cancer Research and Treatment ·Mollie E. Barnard, Xutao Wang, Jessica L. Petrick, Gary Zirpoli, Dennis Jones, W. Evan Johnson, Julie R. Palmer	2023	2
5	Sirtuin 2 inhibition modulates chromatin landscapes genome-wide to induce senescence in ATRX-deficient malignant glioma Neuro-Oncology ·Prit Benny Malgulwar, Carla Danussi, Mu’jizah Mu'jizah, W. Evan Johnson, Anand K. Singh, Kunal Rai, Arvind Rao, Jason T. Huse	2023	10
6	Celda: a Bayesian model to perform co-clustering of genes into modules and cells into subpopulations using single-cell RNA-seq data NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics ·Zhe Wang, Shiyi Yang, Yusuke Koga, Sean Corbett, Conor Shea, W. Evan Johnson, Masanao Yajima, Joshua D. Campbell	2022	16
7	Effect of treatment adherence on the association between sex and unfavourable treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in Puducherry, India: a mediation analysis Journal of Public Health ·Jessica María Piedrahita Ramírez, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Pranay Sinha, C. Robert Horsburgh, Natasha S. Hochberg, W. Evan Johnson, Padmini Salgame, G. Le Moullac, Defi Septiyani, Chukwujekwu Onwuka, Gautam Roy, Jerrold J. Ellner, Sonali Sarkar	2022	3
8	Development of prognostic scoring system for predicting 1-year mortality among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in South India Journal of Public Health ·Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Balikis Omotola Rabiu, Stephen H. Kolomyjec, Sathish Rajaa, Marie Gilbert Majella, Sonali Sarkar, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Noyal Mariya Joseph, G. Le Moullac, Senbagavalli Prakash Babu, C. Robert Horsburgh, Natasha S. Hochberg, W. Evan Johnson, Selby Knudsen, Darren Carroll, Padmini Salgame, Gautam Roy, Jerrold J. Ellner	2022	1
9	Overcoming the impacts of two-step batch effect correction on gene expression estimation and inference Biostatistics ·Naima Arji, Yuqing Zhang, Prasad Patil, W. Evan Johnson	2021	15
10	Sex Differences in Behavioral and Brainstem Transcriptomic Neuroadaptations following Neonatal Opioid Exposure in Outbred Mice eNeuro ·T. Engels, Jaekwon Shim, William Yen, A.G. Papageorge, Anthony Taok, 諸岡哲, Ralph Crowe, فرود صالحی, Martin Copping, R.K. Babbs, 叶钦耀, Ryan W. Logan, W. Evan Johnson, Elisha M. Wachman, Alberto Cruz‐Martín, Camron D. Bryant	2021	20
11	The oral microbiome in relation to pancreatic cancer risk in African Americans British Journal of Cancer ·Jessica L. Petrick, Jeremy E. Wilkinson, Dominique S. Michaud, Qiuyin Cai, Hanna Gerlovin, Lisa B. Signorello, Brian M. Wolpin, Edward Ruiz-Narváez, Jirong Long, Yaohua Yang, W. Evan Johnson, Xiao‐Ou Shu, Curtis Huttenhower, Julie R. Palmer	2021	21
12	A quantitative trait variant in Gabra2 underlies increased methamphetamine stimulant sensitivity Genes Brain & Behavior ·Lisa R. Goldberg, Jaekwon Shim, Ralph Crowe, Eric Reed, 雑賀誠, Janaina da Silva Flôr, 加藤喜峰, 叶钦耀, 諸岡哲, W. Evan Johnson, Gregg E. Homanics, Robert W. Williams, Camron D. Bryant, Megan K. Mulligan	2021	3
13	Respiratory syncytial virus M2-1 protein associates non-specifically with viral messenger RNA and with specific cellular messenger RNA transcripts PLoS Pathogens ·Molly R. Braun, Sarah L. Noton, Emmeline L. Blanchard, Laura Nania, Philip J. Santangelo, W. Evan Johnson, Rachel Fearns	2021	11
14	animalcules: interactive microbiome analytics and visualization in R Microbiome ·Eray Demirdis, Anthony Federico, Tyler Faits, Solaiappan Manimaran, Daniel Segrè, Stefano Monti, W. Evan Johnson	2021	24
15	ComBat-seq: batch effect adjustment for RNA-seq count data NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics ·İhsan Nuri DEMİREL, Giovanni Parmigiani, W. Evan Johnson Hit paper breakdown →	2020	693
16	Robustifying genomic classifiers to batch effects via ensemble learning Bioinformatics ·Yuqing Zhang, Prasad Patil, W. Evan Johnson, Giovanni Parmigiani	2020	10
17	C57BL/6 substrain differences in inflammatory and neuropathic nociception and genetic mapping of a major quantitative trait locus underlying acute thermal nociception Molecular Pain ·Camron D. Bryant, Deniz Bağdaş, Lisa R. Goldberg, Neha Israni, Eric Reed, 加藤喜峰, Ralph Crowe, 諸岡哲, W. Evan Johnson, Megan K. Mulligan, M. Imad Damaj	2019	24
18	BatchQC: interactive software for evaluating sample and batch effects in genomic data Bioinformatics ·Solaiappan Manimaran, Nikolai Weidt, Kwame Okrah, Julia Velkovska, Jeffrey T. Leek, John Quackenbush, Benjamin Haibe‐Kains, Héctor Corrada Bravo, W. Evan Johnson	2016	45
19	Nascent peptides that block protein synthesis in bacteria Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christopher J. Woolstenhulme, Shankar P. Parajuli, David Healey, Matan Rapaport, Erling N. Petersen, Agata L. Starosta, Nicholas R. Guydosh, W. Evan Johnson, Daniel N. Wilson, Allen R. Buskirk	2013	123
20	Photographs : George Eastman House, Rochester, NY John D. Ortega, Sai-Wing Tsang, Qiuge Zhao, W. Evan Johnson, Mark Rice, Carla Williams	1999	1

About W. Evan Johnson

W. Evan Johnson is a scholar working on Aging, Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Infectious Diseases and Cancer Research, having authored 126 papers that have together received 14.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gene expression and cancer classification (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (13 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (12 papers), Gut microbiota and health (10 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (9 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cancer Research (2.5k citations), Molecular Biology (8.9k citations), Aging (131 citations), Immunology (1.6k citations) and Genetics (1.8k citations). W. Evan Johnson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Cheng Li, Jeffrey T. Leek, Andrew E. Jaffe, John D. Storey, Hilary S. Parker, Giovanni Parmigiani, Héctor Corrada Bravo, Ben Langmead, Donald Geman and Rafael A. Irizarry. Their work appears in journals such as Film Quarterly, Bioinformatics, Genome Medicine, BMC Bioinformatics and RNA.

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