Alex W. Hewitt

Also affiliated with University of Tasmania, The University of Melbourne, Royal Hobart Hospital, Menzies School of Health Research, Centre for Eye Research Australia, Stem Cells Australia, Melbourne Clinic, Menzies Institute for Medical Research

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 3 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Papers

Driven by 25 papers. Top paper: “Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression”.

Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression

Nature Genetics(2021)10.1038/s41588-021-00913-z

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11.2DataRank · unranked

2226 citations

Annique Claringbould, Harm-Jan Westra, Marc Jan Bonder, Patrick Deelen, Biao Zeng +89 more

Meta-analysis of 542,934 subjects of European ancestry identifies new genes and mechanisms predisposing to refractive error and myopia

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-020-0599-0

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7.8DataRank · unranked

354 citations

Hélène Choquet, Anthony Khawaja, Robert Wojciechowski, Milly Tedja, Jie Yin +22 more

A multi-ethnic genome-wide association study implicates collagen matrix integrity and cell differentiation pathways in keratoconus

Communications Biology(2021)10.1038/s42003-021-01784-0

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2.0DataRank · unranked

95 citations

Petra Liskova, Yelena Bykhovskaya, Bennet J. McComish, Alice E. Davidson, Chris F. Inglehearn +57 more

Integrating genetic regulation and single-cell expression with GWAS prioritizes causal genes and cell types for glaucoma

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-023-44380-y

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1.0DataRank · unranked

64 citations

Wenjun Yan, John M. Rouhana, Aboozar Monovarfeshani, Xinyi Jiang, Puja A. Mehta +65 more

Specifications of the ACMG/AMP variant curation guidelines for myocilin: Recommendations from the clingen glaucoma expert panel

Human Mutation(2022)10.1002/humu.24482

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0.961DataRank · unranked

29 citations

Patricia Graham, Johanna Hadler, John D. Hulleman, Francesca Pasutto, Erin A. Boese +10 more

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-020-20851-4

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0.933DataRank · unranked

503 citations

Eric Jorgenson, Pirro G. Hysi, Anthony Khawaja, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Xikun Han +93 more

Multitrait analysis of glaucoma identifies new risk loci and enables polygenic prediction of disease susceptibility and progression

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-019-0556-y

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0.886DataRank · unranked

367 citations

Xikun Han, Ayub Qassim, Mark Hassall, Jessica N. Cooke Bailey, Tyler G. Kinzy +54 more

Genome-wide association study of intraocular pressure uncovers new pathways to glaucoma

Nature Genetics(2018)10.1038/s41588-018-0176-y

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0.821DataRank · unranked

238 citations

Jue‐Sheng Ong, Jiyuan An, Xikun Han, Tiger Zhou, Owen M. Siggs +27 more

Large-scale multitrait genome-wide association analyses identify hundreds of glaucoma risk loci

Nature Genetics(2023)10.1038/s41588-023-01428-5

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0.755DataRank · unranked

152 citations

Puya Gharahkhani, Andrew R. Hamel, Jue‐Sheng Ong, Miguel E. Rentería, Puja A. Mehta +24 more

A new polygenic score for refractive error improves detection of children at risk of high myopia but not the prediction of those at risk of myopic macular degeneration

EBioMedicine(2023)10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104551

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0.749DataRank · unranked

33 citations

Samantha Sze‐Yee Lee, Ran Du, Yining Wang, Sander C. M. Kneepkens, Jason Charng +91 more

Genetic variation affects morphological retinal phenotypes extracted from UK Biobank optical coherence tomography images

PLoS Genetics(2021)10.1371/journal.pgen.1009497

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0.729DataRank · unranked

128 citations

Pirro G. Hysi, Tomas Fitzgerald, Puya Gharahkhani, Pieter W. M. Bonnemaijer, Anne Senabouth +29 more

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci for normal tension glaucoma with significant overlap with high tension glaucoma

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-54301-2

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0.704DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Weixiong He, Regina Yu, Xikun Han, Andrew R. Hamel, Terri L. Young +28 more

Characteristics of p.Gln368Ter Myocilin Variant and Influence of Polygenic Risk on Glaucoma Penetrance in the UK Biobank

Ophthalmology(2021)10.1016/j.ophtha.2021.03.007

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0.604DataRank · unranked

55 citations

Sayuri Sekimitsu, Jiali Wang, Tobias Elze, Puya Gharahkhani, Brian Cole +36 more

Disentangling the genetic overlap and causal relationships between primary open-angle glaucoma, brain morphology and four major neurodegenerative disorders

EBioMedicine(2023)10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104615

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0.477DataRank · unranked

23 citations

Weixiong He, Jackson G. Thorp, Sahba Seddighi, Sean Mullany, Chris J. Hammond +13 more

A large cross-ancestry meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies 69 novel risk loci for primary open-angle glaucoma and includes a genetic link with Alzheimer’s disease

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.01.30.927822

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0.416DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Eric Jorgenson, Pirro G. Hysi, Anthony Khawaja, Sarah A. Pendergrass, Xikun Han +73 more

Genetic variation affects morphological retinal phenotypes extracted from UK Biobank Optical Coherence Tomography images

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.07.20.20157180

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0.385DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Pirro G. Hysi, Tomas Fitzgerald, Puya Gharahkhani, Pieter W. M. Bonnemaijer, Denize Atan +25 more

Rare variant analyses across multiethnic cohorts identify novel genes for refractive error

Communications Biology(2023)10.1038/s42003-022-04323-7

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0.373DataRank · unranked

11 citations

Annechien E. G. Haarman, Robert Luben, Jue‐Sheng Ong, Karina Patasova, Rolando Hernández Trapero +89 more

Transcriptomic and proteomic retinal pigment epithelium signatures of age-related macular degeneration

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.08.19.457044

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0.345DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Maciej Daniszewski, Grace E. Lidgerwood, Helena H. Liang, Damián Hernández, Mehdi Mirzaei +25 more

Single-cell analysis of the human immune system reveals sex-specific dynamics of immunosenescence

Nature Aging(2026)10.1038/s43587-026-01099-x

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0.292DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Aida Ripoll-Cladellas, Fatemeh Omidi, Sara Ballouz, Jose Alquicira-Hernandez, Roy Oelen +6 more

Iso-Seq enables discovery of novel isoform variants in human retina at single cell resolution

10.1101/2024.08.08.607267

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0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Daniel Urrutia-Cabrera, Sandy Shen-Chi Hung, Alex W. Hewitt, Samuel W. Lukowski, Careen Foord +4 more

Automated AI labelling of optic nerve head enables new insights into cross-ancestry glaucoma risk and genetic discovery in over 280,000 images from the UK Biobank and Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.03.367623

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0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Kaiah Steven, Ayub Qassim, Henry Marshall, Cameron Bean, Michael Tremeer +8 more

A Multitrait Polygenic Risk Score for Open-Angle Glaucoma Stratifies Risk of Pigmentary Glaucoma in Pigment Dispersion Syndrome

Ophthalmology Glaucoma(2025)10.1016/j.ogla.2025.10.005

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Ayub Qassim, Henry Marshall, Thi Nguyen, Joshua M. Schmidt, Mark Hassall +27 more

Functional genomics in age-related macular degeneration: From genetic associations to understanding disease mechanisms

Experimental Eye Research(2025)10.1016/j.exer.2025.110344

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0DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Felix Grassman, Rui Chen, Alex W. Hewitt, Jianhai Du, Daniel R. Saban +9 more

SPECIFICATIONS OF THE ACMG/AMP VARIANT CURATION GUIDELINES FOR MYOCILIN: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE CLINGEN GLAUCOMA EXPERT PANEL

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.02.16.22271025

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0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Patricia Graham, Johanna Hadler, John D. Hulleman, Francesca Pasutto, Erin A. Boese +10 more

Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/644k-gr54

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0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Brian L. Yaspan, R. Rand Allingham, Alex W. Hewitt, Jie Jin Wang, Chiea Chuen Khor +75 more