Robert Edgar
Impact in
- Ecology top 0.01%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Molecular Biology top 0.02%
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Papers in
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- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 26
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 4
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- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 31
- Gut microbiota and health 3
- Co-authors
- Rob Knight (2 shared papers)José C. Clemente (1 shared paper)Brian J. Haas (1 shared paper)Christopher Quince (1 shared paper)Henrik Flyvbjerg (1 shared paper)Eugene Wimberly Myers (2 shared papers)Serafim Batzoglou (2 shared papers)Sur Herrera Paredes (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Journal of High Energy Physics (9 papers)Bioinformatics (8 papers)The European Physical Journal C (7 papers)Physical review. D (6 papers)PeerJ (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesFranceAustralia
In The Last Decade
Robert Edgar
84 papers receiving 108.8k citations
Robert Edgar's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 201
- Ecology 17.3k
- Molecular Biology 35.5k
- Plant Science 18.9k
- Pollution 4.7k
- Soil Science 5.4k
Countries citing papers authored by Robert Edgar
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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert Edgar
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Robert Edgar, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 85 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 36462 |
| 2 | Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST Hit paper breakdown → | 2010 | 17315 |
| 3 | UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 13796 |
| 4 | UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection Hit paper breakdown → | 2011 | 12775 |
| 5 | Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 9323 |
| 6 | MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity Hit paper breakdown → | 2004 | 7366 |
| 7 | Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 2258 |
| 8 | A framework for human microbiome research Hit paper breakdown → | 2012 | 2110 |
| 9 | Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction for next-generation sequencing reads Hit paper breakdown → | 2015 | 995 |
| 10 | The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 975 |
| 11 | Genome Sequence, Comparative Analysis, and Population Genetics of the Domestic Horse Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 636 |
| 12 | Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 636 |
| 13 | Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs Hit paper breakdown → | 2018 | 536 |
| 14 | 2005 | 515 | |
| 15 | 2006 | 377 | |
| 16 | Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery Hit paper breakdown → | 2022 | 324 |
| 17 | 2007 | 282 | |
| 18 | 2018 | 238 | |
| 19 | 2015 | 210 | |
| 20 | 2012 | 188 |
About Robert Edgar
Robert Edgar is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Ecology and Plant Science, having authored 85 papers that have together received 110.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (26 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (8 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (4 papers), Gut microbiota and health (3 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (17.3k citations), Molecular Biology (35.5k citations), Plant Science (18.9k citations), Pollution (4.7k citations) and Soil Science (5.4k citations). Robert Edgar has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Rob Knight, José C. Clemente, Brian J. Haas, Christopher Quince, Henrik Flyvbjerg, Eugene Wimberly Myers, Serafim Batzoglou, Sur Herrera Paredes, Jase Gehring and Julien Tremblay. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of High Energy Physics, Bioinformatics, The European Physical Journal C, Physical review. D and PeerJ.
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