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Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology is a research topic within Genetics. Science Explorer counts 55k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to bacterial physiology, genetics, and molecular mechanisms. It includes studies on gene regulation, antibiotic resistance, cellular homeostasis, signal transduction, membrane proteins, RNA regulation, iron metabolism, and microbial persistence.

  • Bacterial Physiology
  • Gene Regulation
  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Cellular Homeostasis
  • Signal Transduction
  • Bacterial Genetics
  • Membrane Proteins
  • RNA Regulation
  • Iron Metabolism
  • Microbial Persistence
Research works
55k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Which countries lead Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.6k works
  2. 2 China 1.1k works
  3. 3 Germany 351 works
  4. 4 India 311 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 307 works
  6. 6 France 306 works
  7. 7 Japan 231 works
  8. 8 Canada 134 works
  9. 9 South Korea 133 works
  10. 10 Russia 133 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 34.7%China: 23.3%Germany: 7.7%India: 6.9%6 others listed: 27.4%35%largest
United States1,574 · 34.7%China1,060 · 23.3%Germany351 · 7.7%India311 · 6.9%6 others listed1,244 · 27.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 120 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 78 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 69 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 49 works
  5. 5 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 47 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 46 works
  7. 7 Max Planck SocietyGermany 39 works
  8. 8 Jiangnan UniversityChina 37 works
  9. 9 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 31 works
  10. 10 Cornell UniversityUnited States 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and Peer Bork.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  4. 4 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  5. 5 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  6. 6 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Matthias Mann Germany 308k citations
  9. 9 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  10. 10 Ulrich K. Laemmli Switzerland 285k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology?

The most cited paper in Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology is "DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors" (Frederick Sanger, S. Nicklen, Alan R. Coulson, 1977), with 69,512 citations. Next come "MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability" (50,020) and "Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation" (20,396).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors Frederick Sanger, S. Nicklen, Alan R. Coulson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Dec 1977 69,512
2 MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability Kazutaka Katoh, Daron M. Standley · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access 16 Jan 2013 50,020
3 Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation Torsten Seemann · Bioinformatics 18 Mar 2014 20,396
4 One-step inactivation of chromosomal genes in Escherichia coli K-12 using PCR products Kirill A. Datsenko, Barry L. Wanner · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 30 May 2000 15,367
5 Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mpl8 and pUC19 vectors Celeste Yanisch-Perron, Jeffrey Vieira, Joachim W. Messing · Gene 1985 15,189
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Where is Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research done?

The largest centres of Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Shanghai (China) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Marburg, Bloomington and Wuxi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 172 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 152 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 83 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 65 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 65 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  8. 8 CambridgeUnited States 60 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 59 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MarburgDE · 38.9 works27×
  2. BloomingtonUS · 20.2 works8.2×
  3. WuxiCN · 43.7 works8.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, Jiangnan University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 16.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityJiangnan UniversityUniversity of Califo…Massachusetts Instit…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 80.319.1%2.9×46 -31.6%
2Jiangnan UniversityChina 76.519.1%12.4×37 +10.5%
3Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 68.415.2%7.1×25 -2.1%
4University of California San DiegoUnited States 66.417.7%5.1×25 +10.1%
5ETH ZurichSwitzerland 63.416.7%4.8×17 +0.4%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 61.015.5%3.7×26 -37.0%
7Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 59.717.3%14.3×10 +18.6%
8Peking UniversityChina 59.518.2%2.0×20 +12.3%
9Cornell UniversityUnited States 57.713.7%4.3×29 -30.6%
10University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 57.414.7%5.7×26 -39.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, country by country

Is Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014.

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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 Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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