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PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute

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Research works
45
▼ 6% vs 2018-21
Citations
1k
22.5 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
8.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
81%
world 40%
International
73%
world 18%
PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute

Not ranked overall: PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute is under the volume floor below which a citation excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute work in?

In all years, 55% of research at PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute is in Life Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (36%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (14%), Medicine (12%). It does 2.8× the world's share of Life Sciences.

Life Sciences: 25 fractional works · 54.5% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 fractional works · 36.2% of its workMolecular Biology: 9 fractional works · 20.8% of its workGenetics: 5 fractional works · 11.2% of its workCancer Research: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workEndocrinology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMolecular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workClinical Biochemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDevelopmental Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 fractional works · 14.5% of its workPlant Science: 3 fractional works · 7.4% of its workAquatic Science: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workFood Science: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSoil Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workInsect Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workForestry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 1 fractional works · 2.4% of its workMicrobiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workParasitology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workImmunology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workCellular and Molecular Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDevelopmental Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical Sciences: 7 fractional works · 16.3% of its workEnvironmental Science: 4 fractional works · 9.2% of its workEcology: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workNature and Landscape Conservation: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPollution: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomedical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workOcean Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workCivil and Structural Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workOrganic Chemistry: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workSpectroscopy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workOceanography: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workBiomaterials: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNuclear Energy and Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSocial Sciences: 7 fractional works · 14.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 4 fractional works · 8.9% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workHealth: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workTransportation: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 2 fractional works · 3.3% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 1.5% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workReligious studies: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychology: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 6 fractional works · 14.3% of its workMedicine: 6 fractional works · 12.2% of its workEpidemiology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workInfectious Diseases: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workRadiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPathology and Forensic Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workNephrology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOncology: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPharmacy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNutrition and Dietetics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDentistry: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workOral Surgery: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKPanAmericanBioinformatics…45fractional works, all years
Life Sciences55%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences15%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1636.2%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences714.5%
    3. Immunology and Microbiology12.4%
    4. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics00.8%
    5. Neuroscience00.6%
    1. Environmental Science49.2%
    2. Engineering12.5%
    3. Chemistry11.8%
    4. Computer Science00.9%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences00.7%
    6. Materials Science00.7%
    7. Energy00.4%
    1. Social Sciences48.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities23.3%
    3. Psychology11.3%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting00.5%
    1. Medicine612.2%
    2. Health Professions11.3%
    3. Nursing00.5%
    4. Dentistry00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 4.57× its world share, 3 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.18× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 1.59× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemistry: 1.79× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.24× its world share, 0 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.49× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.28× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 2.86× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.80× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceDentistry: 2.17× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.95× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.66× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 3.82× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.46× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.29× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.75× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.15× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 1.00× its world share, 2 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Agricultural and Biological Sciences, 4.6×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 18 fields, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.57×3 works
  2. Nursing3.82×0 works
  3. Environmental Science2.86×2 works
  4. Dentistry2.17×0 works
  5. Chemistry1.79×0 works
  6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.75×0 works
  7. Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics1.59×0 works
  8. Earth and Planetary Sciences1.49×0 works
  9. Arts and Humanities1.46×0 works
  10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1.18×1 works
  11. Psychology1.15×0 works
  12. Social Sciences1.00×2 works
  13. Health Professions0.95×0 works
  14. Materials Science0.80×0 works
  15. Medicine0.66×2 works
  16. Business, Management and Accounting0.29×0 works
  17. Engineering0.28×0 works
  18. Computer Science0.24×0 works

What are the most cited papers from PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute?

The most cited paper from PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute is "On the presence and role of human gene-body DNA methylation" (Daudi Jjingo, Andrew B. Conley, Soojin V. Yi et al., 2012), with 552 citations. Next come "Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America" (146) and "MIR retrotransposon sequences provide insulators to the human genome" (133).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On the presence and role of human gene-body DNA methylation Daudi Jjingo, Andrew B. Conley, Soojin V. Yi et al. · Oncotarget Open access 30 Apr 2012 552
2 Genetic ancestry, admixture and health determinants in Latin America Emily T. Norris, Lu Wang, Andrew B. Conley et al. · BMC Genomics Open access Dec 2018 146
3 MIR retrotransposon sequences provide insulators to the human genome Jianrong Wang, Cristina Vicente‐García, Davide Seruggia et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 27 Jul 2015 133
4 Ancestry, admixture and fitness in Colombian genomes Lavanya Rishishwar, Andrew B. Conley, Charles H. Wigington et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 21 Jul 2015 115
5 Diazotroph Community Characterization via a High-Throughput nifH Amplicon Sequencing and Analysis Pipeline John Christian Gaby, Lavanya Rishishwar, Lina C. Valderrama-Aguirre et al. · Applied and Environmental Microbiology Open access 27 Nov 2017 113
All 60 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Genetic Diversity, Epidemiology, Phylogenetic Analysis, Population Genetics, Epigenetic Regulation, Genetic Variation, Epigenetics and Small RNAs.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 36 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 36 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology4▲ 2.4×22 topics
  2. Genetic Diversity3▲ 12×7 topics
  3. Phylogenetic Analysis2▲ 14×6 topics
  4. Population Genetics2▲ 31×5 topics
  5. Epigenetic Regulation2▲ 23×3 topics
  6. Climate Change2▲ 1.63×11 topics
  7. Genetic Variation2▲ 13×4 topics
  8. Biodiversity2▲ 5.2×8 topics
  9. Education2▲ 3.1×8 topics
  10. Epigenetics2▲ 68×2 topics
  11. Small RNAs2▲ 45×2 topics
  12. Gene Expression2▲ 5.6×4 topics
  13. Genome Evolution2▲ 65×1 topic
  14. Polyploidy2▲ 51×1 topic
  15. Genome-Wide Association2▲ 39×2 topics
  16. RNA-Seq1▲ 32×1 topic
  17. sequence alignment1▲ 41×1 topic
  18. Chromatin1▲ 31×2 topics
  19. Environmental Impact1▲ 2.1×6 topics
  20. Gene Regulation1▲ 19×2 topics
  21. Haplotype Mapping1▲ 114×1 topic
  22. Mendelian Randomization1▲ 114×1 topic
  23. Histone Modifications1▲ 65×1 topic
  24. Transcription1▲ 65×1 topic
  25. Vaccine Development1▲ 8.8×2 topics
  26. Big Data1▲ 4.5×4 topics
  27. Diagnosis1▲ 2.4×6 topics
  28. History1▲ 3.1×4 topics
  29. Philosophy1▲ 5.2×4 topics
  30. Arboviral Diseases1▲ 36×1 topic
  31. Cancer1▲ 1.60×6 topics
  32. Genomic Analysis1▲ 7.7×4 topics
  33. Genomics1▲ 6.5×3 topics
  34. RNA methylation1▲ 28×1 topic
  35. Zika Virus1▲ 36×1 topic
  36. m6A-seq1▲ 28×1 topic

Which research topics does PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Plant and soil sciences, Diatoms and Algae Research, Legal and Regulatory Analysis and Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies.

Plant and soil sciences0Plant and soil sciences: 0 fractional worksDiatoms and Algae Research0Diatoms and Algae Research: 0 fractional worksLegal and Regulatory Analysis: 0 fractional worksLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies: 0 fractional worksSoil Science and Environmental Management: 0 fractional worksDate Palm Research Studies: 0 fractional worksMilitary Technology and Strategies: 0 fractional worksOil Palm Production and …0Oil Palm Production and Sustainability: 0 fractional worksForest Insect Ecology and Management: 0 fractional worksGenetic Associations and Epidemiology: 0 fractional works
General Agricultural and Biological SciencesBiomaterialsTransportationSociology and Political Science5 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Plant and soil sciences General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 0 works
  2. 2 Diatoms and Algae Research Biomaterials 0 works
  3. 3 Legal and Regulatory Analysis Transportation 0 works
  4. 4 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  5. 5 Soil Science and Environmental Management Soil Science 0 works
  6. 6 Date Palm Research Studies Plant Science 0 works
  7. 7 Military Technology and Strategies Aerospace Engineering 0 works
  8. 8 Oil Palm Production and Sustainability Ecology 0 works
  9. 9 Forest Insect Ecology and Management Ecology 0 works
  10. 10 Genetic Associations and Epidemiology Genetics 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available81.1%not open18.9%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors73.2%domestic only26.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000080% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute0.000046% in 2025200020102020

Fractional works of PanAmerican Bioinformatics Institute over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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