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Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Bacteriophages and microbial interactions is a research topic within Ecology. Science Explorer counts 73k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ecology, evolution, and applications of viruses in various ecosystems, with a focus on bacteriophages, marine viruses, viromes, and their potential therapeutic and nanotechnological implications.

  • Virus
  • Ecology
  • Bacteriophage
  • Metagenomics
  • Marine
  • Evolution
  • Therapy
  • Genomics
  • Microbiome
  • Nanoparticles
Research works
73k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Which countries lead Bacteriophages and microbial interactions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.5k and 2.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.5k works
  2. 2 United States 2.3k works
  3. 3 India 637 works
  4. 4 Germany 426 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 404 works
  6. 6 France 394 works
  7. 7 Russia 336 works
  8. 8 Japan 333 works
  9. 9 South Korea 281 works
  10. 10 Spain 254 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.

China: 32.2%United States: 28.8%India: 8.1%Germany: 5.4%6 others listed: 25.4%32%largest
China2,534 · 32.2%United States2,269 · 28.8%India637 · 8.1%Germany426 · 5.4%6 others listed2,002 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Bacteriophages and microbial interactions research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 156 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 132 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 128 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 103 works
  5. 5 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 60 works
  6. 6 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 57 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 52 works
  8. 8 Zhejiang UniversityChina 52 works
  9. 9 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 45 works
  10. 10 University of California San DiegoUnited States 43 works

Who are the leading researchers in Bacteriophages and microbial interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions include Christopher J L Murray, Eric S. Lander and Rob Knight.

  1. 1 Christopher J L Murray United States 583k citations
  2. 2 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  3. 3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  4. 4 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  5. 5 Guido Kroemer France 386k citations
  6. 6 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  7. 7 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  8. 8 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  9. 9 Gad A. Getz United States 364k citations
  10. 10 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k 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 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions?

The most cited paper in Bacteriophages and microbial interactions is "Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4" (Ulrich K. Laemmli, 1970), with 252,153 citations. Next come "DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors" (69,512) and "Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega" (16,563).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4 Ulrich K. Laemmli · Nature Open access Aug 1970 252,153
2 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
3 Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega Fabian Sievers, Andreas Wilm, David Dineen et al. · Molecular Systems Biology Open access 11 Oct 2011 16,563
4 FLASH: fast length adjustment of short reads to improve genome assemblies Tanja Magoč, Steven L. Salzberg · Bioinformatics Open access 7 Sep 2011 16,123
5 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
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Where is Bacteriophages and microbial interactions research done?

The largest centres of Bacteriophages and microbial interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Norwich and Yangzhou.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 421 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 180 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 161 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 152 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 152 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 135 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 114 works
  8. 8 SeoulSouth Korea 106 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 101 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 99 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NorwichGB · 22.2 works7.2×
  2. YangzhouCN · 45.9 works6.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Bacteriophages and microbial interactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Bacteriophages and microbial interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California San Diego and Zhejiang University 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.

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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 79.524.8%1.7×52 +2.3%
2University of California San DiegoUnited States 66.414.2%4.6×43 +11.6%
3Zhejiang UniversityChina 66.217.9%2.0×52 +78.4%
4Rockefeller UniversityUnited States 65.832.2%17.7×10 +36.1%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 64.115.5%2.1×30 +16.8%
6Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 63.612.2%14.1×45 +83.0%
7University of CopenhagenDenmark 63.29.8%4.5×41 +6.1%
8Sichuan UniversityChina 62.619.7%1.8×38 +33.1%
9Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 62.327.6%9.6×13 +9.2%
10University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 62.217.6%3.1×27 +26.7%

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 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, country by country

Is Bacteriophages and microbial interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

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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 Bacteriophages and microbial interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.046% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 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.

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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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