Amir Karger

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 963 citations indexed

About

Amir Karger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Karger has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 963 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Amir Karger's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Amir Karger is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (2 papers). Amir Karger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Amir Karger's co-authors include Andrew J. Mitchell, Bogdan Budnik, Joshua Z. Levin, Jiao Ma, Moran N. Cabili, Adam G. Schwaid, Alan Saghatelian, Sarah A. Slavoff, John L. Rinn and Semin Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Amir Karger

9 papers receiving 950 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Peptidomic discovery of short open reading frame–encoded peptides in human cells

2012 484 citations Sarah A. Slavoff, Andrew J. Mitchell et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amir Karger United States	6	819	317	132	103	44	9	963
Lorenzo Calviello Germany	12	1.1k 1.4×	262 0.8×	80 0.6×	94 0.9×	40 0.9×	17	1.2k
Isabel X. Wang United States	11	1.1k 1.3×	165 0.5×	130 1.0×	70 0.7×	58 1.3×	12	1.2k
Alexey A. Soshnev United States	14	1.1k 1.3×	139 0.4×	95 0.7×	135 1.3×	81 1.8×	22	1.2k
Masaaki Furuno Japan	16	1.2k 1.4×	631 2.0×	114 0.9×	56 0.5×	55 1.3×	27	1.3k
Mariano Alló Argentina	12	1.8k 2.2×	299 0.9×	131 1.0×	186 1.8×	73 1.7×	17	2.0k
Yesheng Tang Germany	6	1.2k 1.5×	180 0.6×	101 0.8×	135 1.3×	86 2.0×	6	1.5k
Ian Bell Canada	9	1.2k 1.4×	474 1.5×	135 1.0×	133 1.3×	38 0.9×	12	1.3k
Thomas Conrad Germany	17	1.1k 1.3×	260 0.8×	185 1.4×	147 1.4×	102 2.3×	33	1.3k
Nicolas Simonis Belgium	14	952 1.2×	96 0.3×	203 1.5×	120 1.2×	38 0.9×	18	1.1k
Michael D. Hebert United States	24	1.6k 2.0×	134 0.4×	88 0.7×	68 0.7×	40 0.9×	57	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Amir Karger

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amir Karger

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amir Karger

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Dohmen, Elias, et al.. (2025). DeNoFo: a file format and toolkit for standardized, comparable de novo gene annotation. Bioinformatics. 41(10). 3 indexed citations

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Luria, Victor, et al.. (2025). De Novo Gene Emergence: Summary, Classification, and Challenges of Current Methods. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(11). 3 indexed citations

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Ullrich, Kristian K, et al.. (2024). Expression of Random Sequences and de novo Evolved Genes From the Mouse in Human Cells Reveals Functional Diversity and Specificity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(12). 2 indexed citations

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Gudelj, Ivan, Gabriel Santpere, Mislav Novokmet, et al.. (2023). Human-specific features and developmental dynamics of the brain N-glycome. Science Advances. 9(49). eadg2615–eadg2615. 9 indexed citations

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Weber, Jessica A., Seung Gu Park, Victor Luria, et al.. (2020). The whale shark genome reveals how genomic and physiological properties scale with body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(34). 20662–20671. 28 indexed citations

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Vonica, Alin, Neha Bhat, Keith D. Phan, et al.. (2020). Apcdd1 is a dual BMP/Wnt inhibitor in the developing nervous system and skin. Developmental Biology. 464(1). 71–87. 15 indexed citations

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Lodato, Michael A., Mollie B. Woodworth, Semin Lee, et al.. (2015). Somatic mutation in single human neurons tracks developmental and transcriptional history. Science. 350(6256). 94–98. 359 indexed citations

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Puzey, Joshua R., Amir Karger, Michael J. Axtell, & Elena M. Kramer. (2012). Deep Annotation of Populus trichocarpa microRNAs from Diverse Tissue Sets. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33034–e33034. 60 indexed citations

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Slavoff, Sarah A., Andrew J. Mitchell, Adam G. Schwaid, et al.. (2012). Peptidomic discovery of short open reading frame–encoded peptides in human cells. Nature Chemical Biology. 9(1). 59–64. 484 indexed citations breakdown →

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