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Protist diversity and phylogeny

Protist diversity and phylogeny is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 27k 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 explores the global diversity and evolutionary origins of microbial eukaryotes, with a focus on plastid evolution, protist taxonomy, and genomic diversity. It delves into the phylogenetic analysis of marine eukaryotes, endosymbiotic associations, and environmental DNA sequencing to uncover the complexity of eukaryotic microbial communities in various environments.

  • Eukaryotic Microbes
  • Microbial Diversity
  • Evolutionary Origins
  • Plastid Evolution
  • Protist Taxonomy
  • Genomic Diversity
  • Marine Eukaryotes
  • Phylogenetic Analysis
  • Endosymbiotic Associations
  • Environmental DNA Sequencing
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Protist diversity and phylogeny

Which countries lead Protist diversity and phylogeny research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (796 and 646 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 796 works
  2. 2 United States 646 works
  3. 3 Germany 225 works
  4. 4 Japan 215 works
  5. 5 France 197 works
  6. 6 Russia 161 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 149 works
  8. 8 India 121 works
  9. 9 Spain 119 works
  10. 10 Canada 100 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: 29.2%United States: 23.7%Germany: 8.3%Japan: 7.9%6 others listed: 31.0%29%largest
China796 · 29.2%United States646 · 23.7%Germany225 · 8.3%Japan215 · 7.9%6 others listed847 · 31.0%

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

Which institutions lead Protist diversity and phylogeny research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 111 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 107 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 91 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 40 works
  5. 5 Ocean University of ChinaChina 30 works
  6. 6 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 24 works
  7. 7 Leibniz AssociationGermany 22 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 20 works
  9. 9 Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia 20 works
  10. 10 Max Planck SocietyGermany 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Protist diversity and phylogeny?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Protist diversity and phylogeny include Rob Knight, Richard M. Durbin and Peer Bork.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  3. 3 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  4. 4 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  5. 5 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  6. 6 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  7. 7 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations
  8. 8 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k 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 Protist diversity and phylogeny?

The most cited paper in Protist diversity and phylogeny is "MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets" (Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura, 2016), with 46,273 citations. Next come "SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing" (27,967) and "Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation" (8,374).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Koichiro Tamura · Molecular Biology and Evolution Open access 22 Mar 2016 46,273
2 SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing Anton Bankevich, Sergey Nurk, Dmitry Antipov et al. · Journal of Computational Biology Open access 16 Apr 2012 27,967
3 Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation Rudolf Amann, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl‐Heinz Schleifer · Microbiological Reviews Open access Mar 1995 8,374
4 Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya. C R Woese, O. Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Jun 1990 6,136
5 The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes Roman L. Tatusov, Natalie D. Fedorova, John D. Jackson et al. · BMC Bioinformatics Open access 11 Sep 2003 4,563
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Where is Protist diversity and phylogeny research done?

The largest centres of Protist diversity and phylogeny research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Qingdao (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 162 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 90 works
  3. 3 QingdaoChina 76 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 66 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 48 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 42 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 39 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 38 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 34 works
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Where is the best place to study Protist diversity and phylogeny?

Among universities, judged by research, Utrecht University, University of Vienna and Ocean University of China 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
1Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 61.623.7%4.2×10 +5.9%
2University of ViennaAustria 58.920.5%7.0×12 +47.7%
3Ocean University of ChinaChina 58.411.7%18.2×30 +6.4%
4University of British ColumbiaCanada 56.710.1%3.9×15 +22.9%
5University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 56.413.5%4.4×24 +5.8%
6Charles UniversityCzechia 55.08.8%11.5×17 +33.3%
7Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 53.18.3%5.8×13 +25.2%
8Stanford UniversityUnited States 48.415.1%1.9×9 +24.1%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 48.126.0%0.8×8 -22.4%
10Xiamen UniversityChina 47.88.9%6.3×18 +23.2%

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 Protist diversity and phylogeny, country by country

Is Protist diversity and phylogeny research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Protist diversity and phylogeny.

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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 Protist diversity and phylogeny as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Protist diversity and phylogeny 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%15%Protist diversity and phylogeny9.6% 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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