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Harold Varmus

Active 1969–2025

212
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Citations
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Citations

Citations per year for Harold Varmus1877: 1 citations1967: 2 citations1969: 2 citations1970: 2 citations1971: 11 citations1972: 6 citations1973: 15 citations1974: 28 citations1975: 34 citations1976: 37 citations1977: 89 citations1978: 110 citations1979: 191 citations1980: 201 citations1981: 332 citations1982: 302 citations1983: 427 citations1984: 458 citations1985: 372 citations1986: 414 citations1987: 424 citations1988: 341 citations1989: 343 citations1990: 436 citations1991: 373 citations1992: 391 citations1993: 300 citations1994: 324 citations1995: 290 citations1996: 341 citations1997: 359 citations1998: 315 citations1999: 356 citations2000: 422 citations2001: 363 citations2002: 372 citations2003: 331 citations2004: 415 citations2005: 624 citations2006: 648 citations2007: 642 citations2008: 624 citations2009: 637 citations2010: 595 citations2011: 612 citations2012: 603 citations2013: 555 citations2014: 514 citations2015: 582 citations2016: 641 citations2017: 568 citations2018: 479 citations2019: 1,234 citations2020: 1,228 citations2021: 1,061 citations2022: 791 citations2023: 559 citations2024: 690 citations2025: 360 citations2026: 22 citations1878–1966: no citations, so these years are not shown1968: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 10,501 citing papers, 41.9% of this breakdownChina: 1,657 citing papers, 6.6% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,591 citing papers, 6.4% of this breakdownGermany: 1,287 citing papers, 5.1% of this breakdownJapan: 980 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownCanada: 857 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownFrance: 788 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownItaly: 730 citing papers, 2.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 553 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 537 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSpain: 492 citing papers, 2% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 459 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
0%41.9%Other 18.5%

Institutions

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology44.1%
  • Medicine39%
  • Immunology and Microbiology5.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences2.3%
  • Computer Science2.1%
  • Neuroscience1.5%
  • Other5.1%

Topics

  • Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations3.8%
  • Wnt/β-catenin signaling in development and cancer3.1%
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics2.8%
  • Cancer-related gene regulation2.2%
  • Virus-based gene therapy research1.9%
  • Cancer-related Molecular Pathways1.6%
  • Other84.6%

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  1. A New Initiative on Precision Medicine

    Authors: Francis S. Collins, Harold Varmus - New England Journal of Medicine 2015 cited by 5,179

  2. Toward a Shared Vision for Cancer Genomic Data

    Authors: Robert L. Grossman, Allison P. Heath, Vincent Ferretti, Harold Varmus, Douglas R. Lowy, Warren A. Kibbe, Louis M. Staudt - New England Journal of Medicine 2016 cited by 1,808

  3. Many tumors induced by the mouse mammary tumor virus contain a provirus integrated in the same region of the host genome

    Authors: Roel Nusse, Harold Varmus - Cell 1982 cited by 1,855

  4. Acquired Resistance of Lung Adenocarcinomas to Gefitinib or Erlotinib Is Associated with a Second Mutation in the EGFR Kinase Domain

    Authors: William Pao, Vincent A. Miller, Katerina Politi, Gregory J. Riely, Romel Somwar, Maureen F. Zakowski, Mark G. Kris, Harold Varmus - PLoS Medicine 2005 cited by 3,526

  5. Somatic mutations affect key pathways in lung adenocarcinoma

    Authors: Li Ding, Gad Getz, David A. Wheeler, Elaine R. Mardis, Michael D. McLellan, Kristian Cibulskis, Carrie Sougnez, Heidi Greulich, Donna M. Muzny, Margaret Morgan, Lucinda Fulton, Robert S. Fulton, Qunyuan Zhang, Michael C. Wendl, Michael S. Lawrence, David E. Larson, Ken Chen, David J. Dooling, Aniko Sabo, Alicia Hawes, Hua Shen, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Lora Lewis, Otis Hall, Yiming Zhu, Tittu Mathew, Yanru Ren, Jiqiang Yao, Steven E. Scherer, Kerstin Clerc, Ginger Metcalf, Brian Ng, Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Manuel L. Gonzalez‐Garay, John R. Osborne, Rick Meyer, Xiaoqi Shi, Yuzhu Tang, Daniel C. Koboldt, Ling Lin, Rachel M. Abbott, Tracie L. Miner, Craig Pohl, Ginger Fewell, Carrie A. Haipek, Heather K. Schmidt, Brian H. Dunford-Shore, Aldi T. Kraja, Seth D. Crosby, Christopher S. Sawyer, Tammi L. Vickery, Sacha N Sander, Jody S. Robinson, Wendy Winckler, Jennifer Baldwin, Lucian R. Chirieac, Amit Dutt, Tim Fennell, Megan Hanna, Bruce E. Johnson, Robert C. Onofrio, Roman K. Thomas, Giovanni Tonon, Barbara A. Weir, Xiao‐Jun Zhao, Liuda Ziaugra, Michael C. Zody, Thomas J. Giordano, Mark B. Orringer, Jack A. Roth, Margaret R. Spitz, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Bradley A. Ozenberger, Peter J. Good, Andrew C. Chang, David G. Beer, Mark A. Watson, Marc Ladanyi, Stephen Broderick, Akihiko Yoshizawa, William D. Travis, William Pao, Michael A. Province, George M. Weinstock, Harold Varmus, Stacey Gabriel, Eric S. Lander, Richard A. Gibbs, Matthew Meyerson, Richard K. Wilson - Nature 2008 cited by 2,750

  6. EGF receptor gene mutations are common in lung cancers from “never smokers” and are associated with sensitivity of tumors to gefitinib and erlotinib

    Authors: William Pao, Vincent A. Miller, Maureen F. Zakowski, Jennifer A. Doherty, Katerina Politi, Inderpal S. Sarkaria, Bhuvanesh Singh, Robert T. Heelan, Valerie W. Rusch, Lucinda A. Fulton, Elaine R. Mardis, Doris M. Kupfer, Richard K. Wilson, Mark G. Kris, Harold Varmus - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004 cited by 4,344

  7. Lineage-specific intolerance to oncogenic drivers restricts histological transformation

    Authors: Eric E. Gardner, Ethan M. Earlie, Kate Li, Jerin Thomas, Melissa J. Hubisz, Benjamin D. Stein, Chen Zhang, Lewis C. Cantley, Ashley M. Laughney, Harold Varmus - Science 2024 cited by 91

  8. Amplification of N- myc in Untreated Human Neuroblastomas Correlates with Advanced Disease Stage

    Authors: Garrett M. Brodeur, Robert C. Seeger, Manfred Schwab, Harold Varmus, J. Michael Bishop - Science 1984 cited by 2,288

  9. Epstein-Barr Virus: An Important Vaccine Target for Cancer Prevention

    Authors: Jeffrey I. Cohen, Anthony S. Fauci, Harold Varmus, Gary J. Nabel - Science Translational Medicine 2011 cited by 386

  10. KRAS Mutations and Primary Resistance of Lung Adenocarcinomas to Gefitinib or Erlotinib

    Authors: William Pao, Theresa Y. Wang, Gregory J. Riely, Vincent A. Miller, Qiulu Pan, Marc Ladanyi, Maureen F. Zakowski, Robert T. Heelan, Mark G. Kris, Harold Varmus - PLoS Medicine 2005 cited by 1,525

  11. Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws

    Authors: Bruce Alberts, Marc W. Kirschner, Shirley M. Tilghman, Harold Varmus - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 811

  12. Subtype-specific genomic alterations define new targets for soft-tissue sarcoma therapy

    Authors: Jordi Barretina, Barry S. Taylor, Shantanu Banerji, Alexis Ramos, Mariana Lagos‐Quintana, Penelope DeCarolis, Kinjal Shah, Nicholas D. Socci, Barbara A. Weir, Alan L. Ho, Derek Y. Chiang, Boris Reva, Craig H. Mermel, Gad Getz, Yevgenyi Antipin, Rameen Beroukhim, John E. Major, Charles Hatton, Richard Nicoletti, Megan Hanna, Ted Sharpe, Tim Fennell, Kristian Cibulskis, Robert C. Onofrio, Tsuyoshi Saito, Neerav Shukla, Christopher Lau, Sven Nelander, Serena J. Silver, Carrie Sougnez, Agnès Viale, Wendy Winckler, Robert G. Maki, Levi A. Garraway, Alex Lash, Heidi Greulich, David E. Root, William R. Sellers, Gary K. Schwartz, Cristina R. Antonescu, Eric S. Lander, Harold Varmus, Marc Ladanyi, Chris Sander, Matthew Meyerson, Samuel Singer - Nature Genetics 2010 cited by 726

  13. Evidence that synthetic lethality underlies the mutual exclusivity of oncogenic KRAS and EGFR mutations in lung adenocarcinoma

    Authors: Arun M. Unni, William W. Lockwood, Kreshnik Zejnullahu, Shih-Queen Lee-Lin, Harold Varmus - eLife 2015 cited by 205

  14. Lung adenocarcinomas induced in mice by mutant EGF receptors foundin human lung cancers respondto a tyrosine kinase inhibitor orto down-regulation of the receptors

    Authors: Katerina Politi, Maureen F. Zakowski, Pang‐Dian Fan, Emily Schonfeld, William Pao, Harold Varmus - Genes & Development 2006 cited by 486

  15. Mutational landscape of EGFR- , MYC- , and Kras- driven genetically engineered mouse models of lung adenocarcinoma

    Authors: David G. McFadden, Katerina Politi, Arjun Bhutkar, Frances K. Chen, Xiaoling Song, Mono Pirun, Philip M. Santiago, Caroline Kim-Kiselak, James T. Platt, Emily Lee, Emily Hodges, Adam P. Rosebrock, Roderick T. Bronson, Nicholas D. Socci, Gregory J. Hannon, Tyler Jacks, Harold Varmus - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016 cited by 209

  16. DNA related to the transforming gene(s) of avian sarcoma viruses is present in normal avian DNA

    Authors: D. Stéhelin, Harold Varmus, J. Michael Bishop, Peter K. Vogt - Nature 1976 cited by 1,320

  17. Characterizing the cancer genome in lung adenocarcinoma

    Authors: Barbara A. Weir, Michele Sue‐Ann Woo, Gad Getz, Sven Perner, Li Ding, Rameen Beroukhim, William M. Lin, Michael A. Province, Aldi T. Kraja, Laura A. Johnson, Kinjal Shah, Mitsuo Sato, Roman K. Thomas, Justine A. Barletta, Ingrid B. Borecki, Stephen Broderick, Andrew C. Chang, Derek Y. Chiang, Lucian R. Chirieac, Jeonghee Cho, Yoshitaka Fujii, Adi F. Gazdar, Thomas J. Giordano, Heidi Greulich, Megan Hanna, Bruce E. Johnson, Mark G. Kris, Alex Lash, Ling Lin, Neal I. Lindeman, Elaine R. Mardis, John D. McPherson, John D. Minna, Margaret Morgan, Mark Nadel, Mark B. Orringer, John R. Osborne, Brad Ozenberger, Alex H. Ramos, James Robinson, Jack A. Roth, Valerie W. Rusch, Hidefumi Sasaki, Frances A. Shepherd, Carrie Sougnez, Margaret R. Spitz, Ming‐Sound Tsao, David Twomey, Roel G.W. Verhaak, George M. Weinstock, David A. Wheeler, Wendy Winckler, Akihiko Yoshizawa, Soyoung Yu, Maureen F. Zakowski, Qunyuan Zhang, David G. Beer, Ignacio I. Wistuba, Mark A. Watson, Levi A. Garraway, Marc Ladanyi, William D. Travis, William Pao, Mark A. Rubin, Stacey Gabriel, Richard A. Gibbs, Harold Varmus, Richard K. Wilson, Eric S. Lander, Matthew Meyerson - Nature 2007 cited by 1,125

  18. Superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) is a target for a small molecule identified in a screen for inhibitors of the growth of lung adenocarcinoma cell lines

    Authors: Romel Somwar, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Erik Larsson, David Shum, William W. Lockwood, Guangli Yang, Chris Sander, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Paul Tempst, Hakim Djaballah, Harold Varmus - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011 cited by 159

  19. Hyperactivation of ERK by multiple mechanisms is toxic to RTK-RAS mutation-driven lung adenocarcinoma cells

    Authors: Arun M. Unni, Bryant Harbourne, Min Hee Oh, Sophia A. Wild, John R. Ferrarone, William W. Lockwood, Harold Varmus - eLife 2018 cited by 114

  20. Generation of pulmonary neuroendocrine cells and SCLC-like tumors from human embryonic stem cells

    Authors: Huanhuan Joyce Chen, Asaf Poran, Arun M. Unni, Sarah X.L. Huang, Olivier Elemento, Hans‐Willem Snoeck, Harold Varmus - The Journal of Experimental Medicine 2019 cited by 102

  21. Amplified DNA with limited homology to myc cellular oncogene is shared by human neuroblastoma cell lines and a neuroblastoma tumour

    Authors: Manfred Schwab, Kari Alitalo, Karl-Heinz Klempnauer, Harold Varmus, J. Michael Bishop, Fred Gilbert, Garrett M. Brodeur, Milton N. Goldstein, Jeffrey M. Trent - Nature 1983 cited by 1,427

  22. Characterization of ribosomal frameshifting in HIV-1 gag-pol expression

    Authors: Tyler Jacks, Michael D. Power, Frank R. Masiarz, Paul A. Luciw, Philip J. Barr, Harold Varmus - Nature 1988 cited by 951

  23. Three decades of Wnts: a personal perspective on how a scientific field developed

    Authors: Roel Nusse, Harold Varmus - The EMBO Journal 2012 cited by 409

  24. Wnt signals across the plasma membrane to activate the β-catenin pathway by forming oligomers containing its receptors, Frizzled and LRP

    Authors: Feng Cong, Liang Schweizer, Harold Varmus - Development 2004 cited by 352