Arvind Varsani

29.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
381 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Arvind Varsani is a scholar working on Plant Science, Animal Science and Zoology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Arvind Varsani has authored 381 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 274 papers in Plant Science, 126 papers in Animal Science and Zoology and 114 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Arvind Varsani's work include Plant Virus Research Studies (267 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (126 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (113 papers). Arvind Varsani is often cited by papers focused on Plant Virus Research Studies (267 papers), Animal Virus Infections Studies (126 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (113 papers). Arvind Varsani collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and New Zealand. Arvind Varsani's co-authors include Darren P. Martin, Brejnev Muhire, F. Murilo Zerbini, Mart Krupovìč, Simona Kraberger, Philippe Roumagnac, Pierre Lefeuvre, Andrew M. Kropinski, Jesús Navas‐Castillo and Edward P. Rybicki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Arvind Varsani

363 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

SDT: A Virus Classification Tool Based on Pairwise Sequence Alignment and Identity Calculation

2014 1.2k citations Arvind Varsani, Darren P. Martin et al. profile →
VirSorter2: a multi-classifier, expert-guided approach to detect diverse DNA and RNA viruses

2021 682 citations Arvind Varsani, Matthew B. Sullivan et al. profile →
Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

2015 504 citations Judith K. Brown, F. Murilo Zerbini et al. Archives of Virology profile →
Changes to taxonomy and the International Code of Virus Classification and Nomenclature ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2017)

2017 496 citations Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Balázs Harrach et al. Archives of Virology profile →
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae

2017 488 citations F. Murilo Zerbini, R. W. Briddon et al. profile →
VIRIDIC—A Novel Tool to Calculate the Intergenomic Similarities of Prokaryote-Infecting Viruses

2020 479 citations Arvind Varsani, Andrew M. Kropinski et al. Viruses profile →
Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

2020 381 citations Mart Krupovìč, Arvind Varsani et al. profile →
RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets

2020 338 citations Darren P. Martin, Arvind Varsani et al. Virus Evolution profile →
Revisiting the taxonomy of the family Circoviridae: establishment of the genus Cyclovirus and removal of the genus Gyrovirus

2017 300 citations Mya Breitbart, Balázs Harrach et al. Archives of Virology profile →

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Arvind Varsani

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Characterization, phylogeny and prevalence of the coding-complete genomes of aviadenoviruses and siadenovirus in young racing pigeons 2025 ·Virology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Simona Kraberger, Arvind Varsani, Tomasz Stenzel	2
2	Movement of the A-strain maize streak virus in and out of Madagascar 2024 ·Virology ·(unknown), (unknown), Jean‐Michel Lett, (unknown), (unknown), Arvind Varsani	2
3	Two Lineages of Papillomaviruses Identified from Caracals (Caracal caracal) in South Africa 2024 ·Viruses ·Simona Kraberger, Laurel E. K. Serieys, (unknown), (unknown), John S. Munday, Jacqueline M. Bishop, Arvind Varsani	1
4	Sex‐specific recruitment rates contribute to male‐biased sex ratio in Adélie penguins 2024 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Virginia Morandini, Katie M. Dugger, Annie E. Schmidt, Arvind Varsani, Amélie Lescroël, Grant Ballard, (unknown), Kerry J. Barton, David G. Ainley	3
5	Surveillance of rhinovirus diversity among a university community identifies multiple types from all three species including an unassigned rhinovirus A genotype 2022 ·Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses ·Temitope O. C. Faleye, (unknown), (unknown), Sangeet Adhikari, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Rolf U. Halden, Arvind Varsani, Matthew Scotch	2
6	Viral Aggregation: The Knowns and Unknowns 2022 ·Viruses ·(unknown), Arvind Varsani, (unknown), (unknown), Rizal F. Hariadi	24
7	Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-2 2021 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Ilya R. Fischhoff, Adrian A. Castellanos, João Rodrigues, Arvind Varsani, Barbara A. Han	47
8	Perspective on taxonomic classification of uncultivated viruses 2021 ·Current Opinion in Virology ·Bas E. Dutilh, Arvind Varsani, Yigang Tong, Peter Simmonds, Sead Sabanadzovic, Luisa Rubino, Simon Roux, Alejandro Reyes, Cédric Lood, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Jens H. Kuhn, Mart Krupovìč, Robert A. Edwards, J. Rodney Brister, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Matthew B. Sullivan	35
9	Circular DNA viruses identified in short-finned pilot whale and orca tissue samples 2021 ·Virology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kara Schmidlin, Rafaela S. Fontenele, Simona Kraberger, Arvind Varsani	6
10	Immune protection is dependent on the gut microbiome in a lethal mouse gammaherpesviral infection 2020 ·Scientific Reports ·Jordan R. Yaron, Sriram Ambadapadi, (unknown), (unknown), Scott A. Tibbetts, Shahar Keinan, Arvind Varsani, Juan Maldonado, Simona Kraberger, (unknown), (unknown), Jacquelyn Kilbourne, (unknown), Rosa Krajmalnik‐Brown, Barbara H. Munk, Erling O. Koppang, Efrem S. Lim, Alexandra Lucas	18
11	RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets breakdown → 2020 ·Virus Evolution ·Darren P. Martin, Arvind Varsani, Philippe Roumagnac, Gerrit Botha, Suresh Maslamoney, (unknown), (unknown), Venkatesh Kumar, Ben Murrell	338
12	First report of barley yellow dwarf virus in maize in Tunisia 2019 ·Journal of Plant Pathology ·Imen Hamdi Nasr, (unknown), (unknown), Arvind Varsani, (unknown)	3
13	Kombucha: a novel model system for cooperation and conflict in a complex multi-species microbial ecosystem 2019 ·PeerJ ·(unknown), (unknown), Joe Alcock, Arvind Varsani, Carlo C. Maley, Athena Aktipis	122
14	Binomial nomenclature for virus species: a consultation 2019 ·Archives of Virology ·Stuart G. Siddell, Peter J. Walker, Elliot J. Lefkowitz, Arcady Mushegian, Bas E. Dutilh, Balázs Harrach, Robert L. Harrison, Sandra Junglen, Nick J. Knowles, Andrew M. Kropinski, Mart Krupovìč, Jens H. Kuhn, Max L. Nibert, Luisa Rubino, Sead Sabanadzovic, Peter Simmonds, Arvind Varsani, F. Murilo Zerbini, Andrew J. Davison	45
15	Identification of a Novel Adélie Penguin Circovirus at Cape Crozier (Ross Island, Antarctica) 2019 ·Viruses ·Virginia Morandini, Katie M. Dugger, Grant Ballard, (unknown), Annie E. Schmidt, Valéria Ruoppolo, Amélie Lescroël, Dennis Jongsomjit, Melanie Massaro, (unknown), Gerald L. Kooyman, Kara Schmidlin, Simona Kraberger, David G. Ainley, Arvind Varsani	17
16	CITRUS VIROIDS IN TUNISIA: PREVALENCE AND MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION 2017 ·Journal of Plant Pathology ·(unknown), Imen Hamdi Nasr, Arvind Varsani, N. Durán-Vila	7
17	Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons breakdown → 2015 ·Archives of Virology ·Judith K. Brown, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jesús Navas‐Castillo, Enrique Moriones, Roberto Ramos‐Sobrinho, José Cleydson F. Silva, Elvira Fiallo‐Olivé, R. W. Briddon, Cecilia Hernández‐Zepeda, A. M. Idris, V. G. Malathi, Darren P. Martin, Rafael F. Rivera-Bustamante, Shigenori Ueda, Arvind Varsani	504
18	Report on maize streak virus in the South African sugar industry 2014 ·International sugar journal ·(unknown), S. A. McFarlane, Patrick Govender, (unknown), M. J. Way, B. C. Flett, (unknown), Arvind Varsani, Dionne N. Shepherd, Michael Stiller, Darren P. Martin, Theodore M. Webster	1
19	Metagenomic identification of a nodavirus and a circular ssDNA virus in semi-purified viral nucleic acids from the hepatopancreas of healthy Farfantepenaeus duorarum shrimp 2013 ·Diseases of Aquatic Organisms ·Terry Fei Fan Ng, S.V. Alavandi, Arvind Varsani, (unknown), Mya Breitbart	23
20	Recombination hotspots and host susceptibility modulate the adaptive value of recombination during maize streak virus evolution 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Adérito L. Monjane, Eric van der Walt, Arvind Varsani, Edward P. Rybicki, Darren P. Martin	13

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