Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 81k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the statistical analysis, alignment, and annotation of RNA sequencing data, including methods for transcript quantification, phylogenetic analysis, genome assembly, and quality assessment in functional genomics. It also covers tools for sequence variation analysis and metagenomics assembly.

RNA-seq
sequence alignment
phylogenetic analysis
genome annotation
transcript quantification
metagenomics assembly
sequence variation
phylogenetic tree
functional genomics
quality assessment

Research works: 81k
In the world top 10%: 7.9k
Top-10% rate: 9.7%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -4%
Largest producer: China

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Which countries lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.6k and 2.8k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 China 4.6k works
2 United States 2.8k works
3 India 722 works
4 Germany 646 works
5 United Kingdom 586 works
6 Japan 531 works
7 South Korea 507 works
8 France 501 works
9 Canada 351 works
10 Australia 333 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.

China4,575 · 39.4%United States2,849 · 24.6%India722 · 6.2%Germany646 · 5.6%6 others listed2,809 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 428 works
2 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 244 works
3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 176 works
4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 173 works
5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 84 works
6 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 79 works
7 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 79 works
8 Max Planck SocietyGermany 67 works
9 Harvard UniversityUnited States 66 works
10 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 58 works

Who are the leading researchers in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies include Eric S. Lander, Yoshua Bengio and Rob Knight.

1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
3 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
4 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
5 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
6 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
7 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
8 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
9 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
10 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k 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 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

The most cited paper in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies is "Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4" (Ulrich K. Laemmli, 1970), with 252,153 citations. Next come "Basic local alignment search tool" (95,803) and "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs" (75,032).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
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	Basic local alignment search tool Stephen F. Altschul, Warren R. Gish, Webb Miller et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology	Oct 1990	95,803
3	Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs Stephen F. Altschul · Nucleic Acids Research Open access	Sep 1997	75,032
4	Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis Johannes Schindelin, Ignacio Arganda‐Carreras, Erwin Frise et al. · Nature Methods Open access	28 Jun 2012	73,171
5	Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data Anthony Bolger, Marc Lohse, Björn Usadel · Bioinformatics Open access	Apr 2014	71,819

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Where is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research done?

The largest centres of Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Paris (France) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 898 works
2 GuangzhouChina 236 works
3 ParisFrance 233 works
4 ShanghaiChina 181 works
5 NanjingChina 179 works
6 TokyoJapan 169 works
7 SeoulSouth Korea 160 works
8 KunmingChina 157 works
9 HangzhouChina 146 works
10 MoscowRussia 145 works

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Where is the best place to study Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Copenhagen and ETH Zurich score highest, combining citation 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.

Citation 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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	70.7	23.4%	1.5×	66	-25.7%
2	University of CopenhagenDenmark	68.8	15.8%	4.0×	51	+42.0%
3	ETH ZurichSwitzerland	64.1	18.8%	3.0×	28	+17.9%
4	University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina	62.9	13.6%	3.8×	84	+4.8%
5	University of California, Santa CruzUnited States	61.6	15.7%	8.3×	20	+12.5%
6	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	60.7	19.6%	1.7×	35	+1.8%
7	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	60.5	18.6%	2.8×	37	-9.0%
8	City University of Hong KongChina	60.1	23.1%	2.0×	15	+53.1%
9	University of California San DiegoUnited States	59.8	13.9%	3.9×	52	-15.0%
10	University of British ColumbiaCanada	59.3	14.9%	2.4×	38	+6.9%
11	The University of MelbourneAustralia	59.3	15.5%	2.2×	34	+17.6%
12	Zhejiang UniversityChina	59.2	17.1%	1.5×	55	+17.5%
13	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	58.1	18.9%	2.2×	27	+13.3%
14	Peking UniversityChina	58.0	16.9%	1.3×	37	+34.0%
15	Stanford UniversityUnited States	58.0	18.3%	1.8×	36	-12.6%
16	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	57.8	16.1%	2.5×	32	+12.3%
17	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	57.8	20.9%	1.0×	22	+2.7%
18	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	57.2	11.2%	2.0×	39	-5.2%
19	Aalborg UniversityDenmark	57.1	29.9%	1.2×	9	+8.8%
20	Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina	56.3	12.3%	8.3×	43	+16.7%
21	Technical University of DenmarkDenmark	56.0	12.2%	3.3×	23	+24.6%
22	University of Hong KongChina	55.8	16.5%	1.6×	20	+16.8%
23	Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany	54.9	17.7%	5.3×	23	+7.6%
24	University of ViennaAustria	54.8	17.5%	3.2×	22	+1.9%
25	Stockholm UniversitySweden	54.6	16.7%	3.0×	14	+48.6%
26	The University of QueenslandAustralia	54.2	17.9%	2.1×	28	-1.1%
27	Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina	53.5	15.9%	8.8×	40	-9.0%
28	University of ZurichSwitzerland	52.4	18.4%	2.0×	19	+2.3%
29	Ghent UniversityBelgium	52.3	13.7%	3.0×	31	-29.6%
30	University of MichiganUnited States	52.1	16.6%	1.6×	32	-18.1%
31	Fudan UniversityChina	51.9	17.4%	1.4×	31	+10.6%
32	University of WashingtonUnited States	51.7	14.1%	2.1×	33	-14.1%
33	University of PittsburghUnited States	51.5	15.1%	1.8×	19	+24.2%
34	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	51.2	22.6%	1.4×	23	-22.1%
35	China Agricultural UniversityChina	51.0	12.7%	4.3×	32	+17.2%
36	Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain	51.0	21.7%	4.8×	13	-39.4%
37	Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical CollegeChina	50.7	12.7%	2.9×	42	+0.4%
38	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	50.4	6.8%	2.0×	30	+17.9%
39	Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany	50.1	17.0%	2.7×	13	+12.1%
40	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands	50.0	18.3%	4.3×	21	-21.8%
41	Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina	50.0	18.6%	1.5×	11	+144.2%
42	Université Paris CitéFrance	49.9	16.9%	1.8×	18	+163.7%
43	University of TorontoCanada	49.4	11.3%	1.0×	28	+42.1%
44	South China Agricultural UniversityChina	49.3	7.5%	8.3×	39	+21.1%
45	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	47.9	12.9%	1.7×	49	-10.2%
46	Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden	47.7	11.5%	5.6×	12	+36.6%
47	Baylor College of MedicineUnited States	45.2	21.6%	1.9×	13	-5.0%
48	Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina	45.0	12.2%	11.0×	34	-34.7%
49	University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina	44.6	24.7%	0.8×	12	-38.9%
50	The University of TokyoJapan	43.9	4.3%	2.6×	45	+5.1%
51	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	42.1	10.9%	1.4×	14	+18.4%
52	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	41.4	19.4%	1.1×	10	-4.6%
53	Sichuan UniversityChina	40.4	12.7%	1.4×	42	-43.4%
54	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	40.3	12.9%	1.2×	9	+12.2%
55	National University of SingaporeSingapore	40.1	10.0%	1.3×	22	-3.5%
56	Shandong UniversityChina	39.6	8.2%	2.8×	49	-20.4%
57	Yunnan Agricultural UniversityChina	38.7	12.0%	10.2×	15	+10.3%
58	King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologySaudi Arabia	37.4	13.9%	3.0×	11	-22.4%
59	Jiangxi Agricultural UniversityChina	35.6	8.6%	10.6×	17	+2.4%
60	Guizhou Normal UniversityChina	33.3	1.6%	13.1×	18	+35.3%
61	Dali UniversityChina	29.6	3.2%	19.2×	16	+0.9%
62	Southwest Forestry UniversityChina	29.3	6.6%	13.0×	20	-20.2%
63	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	28.6	17.9%	0.8×	8	-46.8%
64	Zhejiang Ocean UniversityChina	28.2	2.4%	11.3×	25	-28.7%
65	Qujing Normal UniversityChina	26.7	2.2%	19.8×	9	+118.5%
66	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	26.4	6.8%	1.1×	14	-20.1%
67	Nanyang Normal UniversityChina	25.4	0.0%	20.5×	12	+72.6%
68	Hannam UniversitySouth Korea	22.9	0.3%	35.9×	9	+136.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, country by country

Is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.060% in 2024.

Fractional works of Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 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.

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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Which countries lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

Where is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

Is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion