Alexeï Sorokin

13.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Alexeï Sorokin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexeï Sorokin has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Alexeï Sorokin's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (25 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Alexeï Sorokin is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (25 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Alexeï Sorokin collaborates with scholars based in France, Belgium and United States. Alexeï Sorokin's co-authors include Alexander Bolotin, Benoît Quinquis, S. Dusko Ehrlich, S. Dusko Ehrlich, Stéphane Mauger, Patrick Wincker, Olivier Jaillon, J. Weissenbach, A. Bolotin and Nathalie Galleron and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Journal of Bacteriology.

In The Last Decade

Alexeï Sorokin

47 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin

2005 1.2k citations Alexander Bolotin, Benoît Quinquis et al. Microbiology profile →
The Complete Genome Sequence of the Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403

2001 867 citations Alexander Bolotin, Patrick Wincker et al. Genome Research profile →
The Complete Genome Sequence of the Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403

2001 738 citations A. Bolotin, Patrick Wincker et al. Genome Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexeï Sorokin France	27	4.0k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	581	47	5.0k
S. Dusko Ehrlich France	44	4.7k 1.2×	2.9k 2.0×	2.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	543 0.9×	101	6.5k
Pascale Serror France	33	2.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	842 0.7×	432 0.7×	69	4.2k
S. Dusko Ehrlich France	39	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.7×	714 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	236 0.4×	75	4.7k
Alexander Bolotin France	20	2.8k 0.7×	804 0.5×	1.3k 1.0×	539 0.5×	270 0.5×	32	3.5k
Marie‐Pierre Chapot‐Chartier France	40	2.5k 0.6×	627 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	952 0.8×	470 0.8×	107	4.3k
Monique Zagorec France	42	2.8k 0.7×	770 0.5×	2.9k 2.2×	525 0.4×	714 1.2×	100	4.7k
Peter H. Pouwels Netherlands	46	3.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.2×	802 0.7×	994 1.7×	109	6.0k
Thorsten Mascher Germany	37	3.0k 0.8×	2.1k 1.4×	517 0.4×	1.2k 1.0×	328 0.6×	90	4.9k
Michel Débarbouillé France	33	2.6k 0.6×	1.9k 1.3×	420 0.3×	931 0.8×	497 0.9×	44	3.8k
Michael E. Quigley United Kingdom	10	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	480 0.4×	579 0.5×	240 0.4×	12	4.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Dvorkina, Tatiana, Anton Bankevich, Alexeï Sorokin, et al.. (2021). ORFograph: search for novel insecticidal protein genes in genomic and metagenomic assembly graphs. Microbiome. 9(1). 149–149. 3 indexed citations

Valero, Ana, et al.. (2017). Molecular Mechanisms That Contribute to Horizontal Transfer of Plasmids by the Bacteriophage SPP1. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 1816–1816. 14 indexed citations

Bolotin, A., Annika Gillis, Vincent Sanchis, et al.. (2016). Comparative genomics of extrachromosomal elements in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Research in Microbiology. 168(4). 331–344. 27 indexed citations

Gillis, Annika, et al.. (2016). Detection of the cryptic prophage-like molecule pBtic235 in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis. Research in Microbiology. 168(4). 319–330. 18 indexed citations

Bolotin, Alexander, Tomás de Wouters, Pamela Schnupf, et al.. (2014). Genome Sequence of “ Candidatus Arthromitus” sp. Strain SFB-Mouse-NL, a Commensal Bacterium with a Key Role in Postnatal Maturation of Gut Immune Functions. Genome Announcements. 2(4). 43 indexed citations

Quinquis, Benoît, et al.. (2012). Complete Genome Sequence of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris A76. Journal of Bacteriology. 194(5). 1241–1242. 22 indexed citations

Moumen, Bouziane, C. Nguyen‐The, & Alexeï Sorokin. (2012). Sequence Analysis of Inducible Prophage phIS3501 Integrated into the Haemolysin II Gene of Bacillus thuringiensis var israelensis ATCC35646. PubMed. 2012. 1–9. 14 indexed citations

Deghorain, Marie, Laetitia Fontaine, Jean‐Luc Mainardi, et al.. (2010). Functional and Morphological Adaptation to Peptidoglycan Precursor Alteration in Lactococcus lactis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 285(31). 24003–24013. 12 indexed citations

Guinebretière, Marie‐Hélène, Fabiano L. Thompson, Alexeï Sorokin, et al.. (2007). Ecological diversification in the Bacillus cereus Group. Environmental Microbiology. 10(4). 851–865. 351 indexed citations

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Sorokin, Alexeï, et al.. (2006). Multiple-Locus Sequence Typing Analysis of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis Reveals Separate Clustering and a Distinct Population Structure of Psychrotrophic Strains. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 72(2). 1569–1578. 100 indexed citations

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Bolotin, Alexander, Benoît Quinquis, Alexeï Sorokin, & S. Dusko Ehrlich. (2005). Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin. Microbiology. 151(8). 2551–2561. 1194 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bolotin, Alexander, Benoît Quinquis, Alexeï Sorokin, & Dusko S. Ehrlich. (2004). Recent Genetic Transfer between Lactococcus lactis and Enterobacteria. Journal of Bacteriology. 186(19). 6671–6677. 26 indexed citations

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Bolotin, Alexander, Patrick Wincker, Stéphane Mauger, et al.. (2001). The Complete Genome Sequence of the Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis IL1403. Genome Research. 11(5). 731–753. 867 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karoui, Meriem El, et al.. (2000). Orientation specificity of the Lactococcus lactis Chi site. Genes to Cells. 5(6). 453–461. 9 indexed citations

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Antelmann, Haike, Susanne Engelmann, Roland Schmid, et al.. (1997). Expression of a stress- and starvation-induced dps/pexB-homologous gene is controlled by the alternative sigma factor sigmaB in Bacillus subtilis. Journal of Bacteriology. 179(23). 7251–7256. 119 indexed citations

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Parro, Vı́ctor, Inmaculada Galindo, Bénédicte Purnelle, et al.. (1997). A 23 911 bp region of the Bacillus subtilis genome comprising genes located upstream and downstream of the Iev operon. Microbiology. 143(4). 1321–1326. 15 indexed citations

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Sorokin, Alexeï, Vasco Azevedo, Emmanuelle Zumstein, et al.. (1996). Sequence analysis of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome region between the serA and kdg loci cloned in a yeast artificial chromosome. Microbiology. 142(8). 2005–2016. 29 indexed citations

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Capuano, Véronique, Nathalie Galleron, Petar Pujić, Alexeï Sorokin, & S. Dusko Ehrlich. (1996). Organization of the Bacillus subtilis 168 chromosome between kdg and the attachment site of the SP prophage: use of Long Accurate PCR and yeast artificial chromosomes for sequencing. Microbiology. 142(11). 3005–3015. 14 indexed citations

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Bolhuis, Albert, Alexeï Sorokin, Vasco Azevedo, et al.. (1996). Bacillus subtilis can modulate its capacity and specificity for protein secretion through temporally controlled expression of the sipS gene for signal peptidase I. Molecular Microbiology. 22(4). 605–618. 47 indexed citations

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Sorokin, Alexeï, Pascale Serror, Petar Pujić, Vasco Azevedo, & S. Dusko Ehrlich. (1995). The Bacillus subtilis chromosome region encoding homologues of the Escherichia coli mssA and rpsA gene products. Microbiology. 141(2). 311–319. 39 indexed citations

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