Heng Li: h-index, Total Citations, and Citation Map
Heng Li's h-index is 85 (125 i10-index, 326,011+ total citations across 145+ publications) according to Google Scholar as of August 2026. Heng Li is affiliated with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University.
Heng Li is a researcher affiliated with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University, specializing in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics. Their work has been cited 326,011 times. This profile visualizes their global influence, spanning a global audience.
Heng Li's Citation Metrics
Bibliometric impact based on 145 indexed publications.
- H-Index
- 85
- i10-Index
- 125
- Total Citations
- 326,011
- Citing Countries
- 0
As of August 2026.
Heng Li has an h-index of 85 and 326,011 total citations across 145 publications, with research cited by institutions in 0 countries.
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The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
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About Heng Li's research
Heng Li is a researcher in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University. Their work has been cited 326,011 times across 145 publications (h-index 85), according to Google Scholar.
Their most-cited work, “The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools” (2009), has accumulated 70,263 citations. Other influential works include “Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform” (2009) with 57,537 citations and “A global reference for human genetic variation” (2015) with 20,286 citations.











