Albert J. Vilella

17.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Albert J. Vilella is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Albert J. Vilella has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Albert J. Vilella's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Albert J. Vilella is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Albert J. Vilella collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Finland. Albert J. Vilella's co-authors include Pjotr Prins, Artem Tarasov, Isaäc J. Nijman, Edwin Cuppen, Richard Durbin, Heng Li, Ewan Birney, Jessica Severin, Stephan Hütter and Julio Rozas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Albert J. Vilella

11 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Sambamba: fast processing... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2015 2008 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sambamba: fast processing of NGS alignment formats
    2015 1.3k citations Artem Tarasov, Albert J. Vilella et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  2. EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebrates
    2008 862 citations Albert J. Vilella, Jessica Severin et al. Genome Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Albert J. Vilella United Kingdom 10 2.1k 886 661 314 190 11 3.1k
P. Julien Switzerland 7 2.7k 1.3× 790 0.9× 422 0.6× 345 1.1× 233 1.2× 8 3.7k
Han Fang United States 18 2.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 870 1.3× 385 1.2× 266 1.4× 56 3.5k
William H. Majoros United States 22 2.5k 1.2× 661 0.7× 724 1.1× 545 1.7× 191 1.0× 36 3.5k
Cathy Riemer United States 15 3.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 757 1.1× 342 1.1× 299 1.6× 25 4.7k
Wojciech Makałowski Germany 33 3.1k 1.5× 701 0.8× 1.3k 2.0× 279 0.9× 168 0.9× 111 4.0k
Răzvan Sultana United States 18 1.9k 0.9× 595 0.7× 813 1.2× 186 0.6× 236 1.2× 23 3.2k
Steffen Schmidt Germany 30 2.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 512 0.8× 216 0.7× 262 1.4× 64 3.7k
Liliana Florea United States 28 2.3k 1.1× 972 1.1× 535 0.8× 469 1.5× 299 1.6× 68 4.0k
Belinda Giardine United States 28 3.2k 1.5× 734 0.8× 484 0.7× 290 0.9× 214 1.1× 61 4.7k
Brian J. Raney United States 19 1.9k 0.9× 830 0.9× 504 0.8× 343 1.1× 94 0.5× 24 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Albert J. Vilella

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Fields of papers citing papers by Albert J. Vilella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Albert J. Vilella

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Albert J. Vilella. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Albert J. Vilella 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 Albert J. Vilella. Albert J. Vilella is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
1.
Herrero, Javier, Matthieu Muffato, Kathryn Beal, et al.. (2016). Ensembl comparative genomics resources. Database. 2016. bav096–bav096. 284 indexed citations
2.
Pignatelli, Miguel, Albert J. Vilella, Matthieu Muffato, et al.. (2016). ncRNA orthologies in the vertebrate lineage. Database. 2016. bav127–bav127. 18 indexed citations
3.
Langdon, William B., Albert J. Vilella, Brian Lam, Justyna Petke, & Mark Harman. (2016). Benchmarking Genetically Improved BarraCUDA on Epigenetic Methylation NGS datasets and nVidia GPUs. 1131–1132. 3 indexed citations
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Tarasov, Artem, Albert J. Vilella, Edwin Cuppen, Isaäc J. Nijman, & Pjotr Prins. (2015). Sambamba: fast processing of NGS alignment formats. Bioinformatics. 31(12). 2032–2034. 1251 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Löytynoja, Ari, Albert J. Vilella, & Nick Goldman. (2012). Accurate extension of multiple sequence alignments using a phylogeny-aware graph algorithm. Bioinformatics. 28(13). 1684–1691. 87 indexed citations
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Severin, Jessica, Kathryn Beal, Albert J. Vilella, et al.. (2010). eHive: An Artificial Intelligence workflow system for genomic analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 240–240. 17 indexed citations
7.
Kersey, Paul, Daniel Lawson, Ewan Birney, et al.. (2009). Ensembl Genomes: Extending Ensembl across the taxonomic space. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D563–D569. 128 indexed citations
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Vilella, Albert J., et al.. (2008). EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebrates. Genome Research. 19(2). 327–335. 862 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ruan, Jue, Heng Li, Zhongzhong Chen, et al.. (2007). TreeFam: 2008 Update. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Database). D735–D740. 237 indexed citations
10.
Hütter, Stephan, Albert J. Vilella, & Julio Rozas. (2006). Genome-wide DNA polymorphism analyses using VariScan. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 409–409. 95 indexed citations
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Vilella, Albert J., et al.. (2005). VariScan: Analysis of evolutionary patterns from large-scale DNA sequence polymorphism data. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(11). 2791–2793. 101 indexed citations

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