Question 1

What is BGI Group (China) known for?

Accepted Answer

In research, BGI Group (China) stands highest in Life Sciences (#437 of 6,403 worldwide), Health Sciences (#910 of 9,902 worldwide) and Medicine (#850 of 8,541 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Molecular Biology is 9.1× its share of world research).

Question 2

How does BGI Group (China) rank in research?

Accepted Answer

BGI Group (China) ranks #1,343 of 22,385 institutions worldwide on research quality in 2022-now (#1,364 all time), and #299 of 2,481 in China.

Question 3

Who are the top researchers at BGI Group (China)?

Accepted Answer

Ranked on the quality score, Xun Xu, Jian Wang and Huanming Yang lead among researchers whose main affiliation is BGI Group (China).

Question 4

What are the most cited papers from BGI Group (China)?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper from BGI Group (China) is "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome" (Eric S. Lander et al., 2001), with 24,745 citations. Next come "A global reference for human genetic variation" (20,444) and "Second-generation PLINK: rising to the challenge of larger and richer datasets" (14,446).

Question 5

Which research topics does BGI Group (China) publish most on?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now: Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Gut microbiota and health and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics.

Question 6

Which keywords describe research at BGI Group (China)?

Accepted Answer

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Gene Expression, RNA-Seq, Phylogenetic Analysis, Data Integration, Single-Cell, Transcriptomics, Quality Assessment and genome annotation.

Question 7

Which fields of science does BGI Group (China) work in?

Accepted Answer

In 2022-now, 56% of research at BGI Group (China) is in Life Sciences, 23% in Health Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (41%), Medicine (22%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%). It does 4.1× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Question 8

Is BGI Group (China)'s research output growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021.