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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. 26.2% 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
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
21k
per year above
Top-10% rate
26.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+17%
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Which countries lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4k and 2.5k works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 4k works
  2. 2 United States 2.5k works
  3. 3 India 645 works
  4. 4 Germany 561 works
  5. 5 Japan 467 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 462 works
  7. 7 South Korea 454 works
  8. 8 France 433 works
  9. 9 Canada 300 works
  10. 10 Australia 293 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: 39.5%United States: 24.5%India: 6.4%Germany: 5.6%6 others listed: 24.0%39%largest
China3,963 · 39.5%United States2,465 · 24.5%India645 · 6.4%Germany561 · 5.6%6 others listed2,410 · 24.0%

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

Which institutions lead Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research, followed by University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Who are the leading researchers in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies include Stacey Gabriel, Richard Durbin and Heng Li.

  1. 1 Stacey Gabriel United States 7.8k citations
  2. 2 Richard Durbin United Kingdom 7.1k citations
  3. 3 Heng Li China 6.8k citations
  4. 4 David Botstein United States 6.7k citations
  5. 5 J. Michael Cherry United States 6.4k citations
  6. 6 Jill P. Mesirov United States 6.3k citations
  7. 7 Michael Ashburner United Kingdom 5.9k citations
  8. 8 Sudhir Kumar United States 5.9k citations
  9. 9 Minoru Kanehisa Japan 5.7k citations
  10. 10 Koichiro Tamura Japan 5.5k citations

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

Where is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research done?

The largest centres of Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Guangzhou (China), Paris (France) and Shanghai (China).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 805 works
  2. 2 Guangzhou China 208 works
  3. 3 Paris France 198 works
  4. 4 Shanghai China 165 works
  5. 5 Nanjing China 160 works
  6. 6 Tokyo Japan 150 works
  7. 7 Seoul South Korea 145 works
  8. 8 Moscow Russia 130 works
  9. 9 Hangzhou China 130 works
  10. 10 Kunming China 127 works
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Where is the best place to study Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Beijing Forestry University and Huazhong Agricultural 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.

0%20%40%mean 26.48%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University: 28, 25.8%Beijing Forestry University: 26, 23.7%Huazhong Agricultural University: 36, 31.6%University of Copenhagen: 42, 33.3%University of Chinese Academy of Sciences: 76, 28.2%Nanjing Forestry University: 33, 18.6%Dali University: 14, 22.8%Nanjing Agricultural University: 38, 25.1%Southwest Forestry University: 16, 12.7%ETH Zurich: 23, 43.0%University of Copenh…Huazhong Agricultura…Fujian Agriculture a…Beijing Forestry Uni…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Fujian Agriculture and Forestry UniversityChina 61.725.8%9.2×28 +183.6%
2 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 52.523.7%6.9×26 +171.6%
3 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 52.331.6%8.1×36 -11.1%
4 University of CopenhagenDenmark 52.233.3%4.8×42 +30.3%
5 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 49.728.2%3.4×76 +92.0%
6 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 49.618.6%5.4×33 +318.9%
7 Dali UniversityChina 48.422.8%16.4×14
8 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 48.325.1%7.5×38 +5.6%
9 Southwest Forestry UniversityChina 47.612.7%10.8×16 +119.0%
10 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 47.343.0%2.6×23 +15.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

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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.

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.