Ádám Kun

1.9k total citations
48 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ádám Kun is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ádám Kun has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ádám Kun's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Ádám Kun is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (12 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Ádám Kun collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, Austria and United States. Ádám Kun's co-authors include Eörs Szathmáry, Beáta Oborny, István Scheuring, Tamás Czárán, András Szilágyi, Mauro Santos, Ulf Dieckmann, Gergely Boza, Josef F. Stuefer and Sijbren Otto and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ádám Kun

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ádám Kun Hungary 20 447 380 357 269 233 48 1.3k
Alan C. Love United States 24 457 1.0× 348 0.9× 141 0.4× 38 0.1× 221 0.9× 81 1.5k
Vera Vasas United Kingdom 13 291 0.7× 114 0.3× 287 0.8× 43 0.2× 120 0.5× 21 701
Darren R. Brooks United Kingdom 19 387 0.9× 172 0.5× 74 0.2× 80 0.3× 133 0.6× 34 1.7k
András Szilágyi Hungary 14 312 0.7× 270 0.7× 277 0.8× 33 0.1× 86 0.4× 40 712
Joshua E. Goldford United States 13 784 1.8× 236 0.6× 165 0.5× 23 0.1× 84 0.4× 21 1.4k
Jack Lester King United States 14 951 2.1× 1.1k 2.8× 68 0.2× 92 0.3× 313 1.3× 22 2.2k
Jean Gayon France 17 174 0.4× 185 0.5× 47 0.1× 119 0.4× 135 0.6× 107 1.1k
Péter Szabó Hungary 12 115 0.3× 226 0.6× 113 0.3× 61 0.2× 86 0.4× 27 594
Peter King United Kingdom 20 106 0.2× 225 0.6× 68 0.2× 57 0.2× 155 0.7× 104 1.5k
Homayoun C. Bagheri Switzerland 23 1.3k 3.0× 1.3k 3.4× 33 0.1× 74 0.3× 478 2.1× 43 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ádám Kun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ádám Kun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ádám Kun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ádám Kun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ádám Kun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ádám Kun. Ádám Kun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2025). Codes across (life)sciences. Biosystems. 254. 105515–105515. 4 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2023). Do pathogens always evolve to be less virulent? The virulence–transmission trade-off in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biologia Futura. 74(1-2). 69–80. 10 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám. (2021). The major evolutionary transitions and codes of life. Biosystems. 210. 104548–104548. 14 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2020). From self-replication to replicator systems en route to de novo life. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 4(8). 386–403. 128 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, Beáta Oborny, & Ulf Dieckmann. (2019). Five main phases of landscape degradation revealed by a dynamic mesoscale model analysing the splitting, shrinking, and disappearing of habitat patches. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 11149–11149. 13 indexed citations
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Zachar, István, et al.. (2018). Moderate sex between protocells can balance between a decrease in assortment load and an increase in parasite spread. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 462. 304–310. 5 indexed citations
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Podani, János, Ádám Kun, & András Szilágyi. (2017). How Fast Does Darwin’s Elephant Population Grow?. Journal of the History of Biology. 51(2). 259–281. 6 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2017). The evolution of the genetic code: Impasses and challenges. Biosystems. 164. 217–225. 36 indexed citations
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Matsumura, Shigeyoshi, Ádám Kun, Michaël Ryckelynck, et al.. (2016). Transient compartmentalization of RNA replicators prevents extinction due to parasites. Science. 354(6317). 1293–1296. 100 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2016). Maximal gene number maintainable by stochastic correction – The second error threshold. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 405. 29–35. 9 indexed citations
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Boza, Gergely, András Szilágyi, Ádám Kun, Mauro Santos, & Eörs Szathmáry. (2014). Evolution of the Division of Labor between Genes and Enzymes in the RNA World. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(12). e1003936–e1003936. 18 indexed citations
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Szilágyi, András, Ádám Kun, & Eörs Szathmáry. (2014). Local Neutral Networks Help Maintain Inaccurately Replicating Ribozymes. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109987–e109987. 10 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, Gergely Boza, & István Scheuring. (2010). Cooperators Unite! Assortative linking promotes cooperation particularly for medium sized associations. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 173–173. 7 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, Balázs Papp, & Eörs Szathmáry. (2008). Computational identification of obligatorily autocatalytic replicators embedded in metabolic networks. Genome biology. 9(3). R51–R51. 49 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám & István Scheuring. (2008). Evolution of cooperation on dynamical graphs. Biosystems. 96(1). 65–68. 24 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (2007). In silico detection of tRNA sequence features characteristic to aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase class membership. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(16). 5593–5609. 19 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, Mauro Santos, & Eörs Szathmáry. (2005). Real ribozymes suggest a relaxed error threshold. Nature Genetics. 37(9). 1008–1011. 100 indexed citations
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Kun, Ádám, et al.. (1999). Rediscovery of Glyphipterix loricatella in Hungary (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae).. 6(2). 75–76. 1 indexed citations

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