A decade on from the publication of the human genome, genetics remains the most active field of science — at least as measured by paper citation counts. According to Thomson Reuters’s annual survey of highly-cited articles published in the last two years, eight of the ten ‘hottest’ researchers in the world are geneticists, with the Broad Institute’s Eric Lander topping the list.

The rankings released last week reveal how genome-wide analyses of disease tend to garner the most references. Other genetics gurus earning top marks include NIH director Francis Collins, the Sanger Institute’s Richard Durbin, deCODE genetics’s Kári Stefánsson, Washington University’s Richard Wilson and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Mark Daly. These top scientists variously published genomic studies of obesity, cancer, Crohn’s disease, bipolar disorder, diabetes, schizophrenia and other afflictions.

In the video below — recorded last month at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland — Lander reflects on ten years of research with the full genome sequence in hand and how genomics promises to change the face of modern medicine.