Bent Petersen

10.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
47 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Bent Petersen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bent Petersen has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Bent Petersen's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers). Bent Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers). Bent Petersen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Malaysia and United Kingdom. Bent Petersen's co-authors include Morten Nielsen, Claus Lundegaard, Thomas Nordahl Petersen, Pernille Andersen, Ole Winther, Paolo Marcatili, Henrik Nielsen, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, Casper Kaae Sønderby and Kamilla Kjærgaard Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Bent Petersen

44 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A generic method for assignment of reliability scores applied to solvent accessibility predictions

2009 507 citations Bent Petersen, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al. profile →
NetSurfP‐2.0: Improved prediction of protein structural features by integrated deep learning

2019 388 citations Henrik Nielsen, Ole Winther et al. profile →
Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing

2017 248 citations Sarah S. T. Mak, Shyam Gopalakrishnan et al. GigaScience profile →
NetSurfP-3.0: accurate and fast prediction of protein structural features by protein language models and deep learning

2022 164 citations Magnus Haraldson Høie, Bent Petersen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bent Petersen Denmark	21	1.4k	438	390	271	265	47	2.4k
Catherine H. Schein United States	34	2.0k 1.4×	479 1.1×	261 0.7×	365 1.3×	186 0.7×	113	3.7k
Silvano Squizzato United Kingdom	8	2.2k 1.6×	472 1.1×	381 1.0×	284 1.0×	565 2.1×	8	3.6k
Renaud Vincentelli France	28	2.3k 1.6×	552 1.3×	257 0.7×	353 1.3×	170 0.6×	75	3.2k
Tamer Gür United Kingdom	5	2.3k 1.6×	419 1.0×	442 1.1×	322 1.2×	743 2.8×	6	3.9k
Timo Glatter Germany	30	2.7k 1.9×	591 1.3×	288 0.7×	200 0.7×	236 0.9×	105	3.8k
Stephanie J. Spielman United States	16	1.1k 0.8×	554 1.3×	223 0.6×	172 0.6×	253 1.0×	30	2.1k
Tobias Bollenbach Germany	26	1.7k 1.2×	510 1.2×	129 0.3×	286 1.1×	132 0.5×	40	2.9k
Aidan Budd Germany	18	1.6k 1.1×	459 1.0×	186 0.5×	636 2.3×	177 0.7×	31	2.8k
Ulrich Omasits Switzerland	21	1.5k 1.1×	310 0.7×	289 0.7×	298 1.1×	334 1.3×	27	2.6k
Nandana Madhusoodanan United Kingdom	5	3.0k 2.1×	583 1.3×	545 1.4×	412 1.5×	898 3.4×	5	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Bent Petersen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bent Petersen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bent Petersen

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All Works

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Perfilyev, Alexander, Panos G. Kalatzis, Rachael C. Wilkinson, et al.. (2025). Large-scale analysis of bacterial genomes reveals thousands of lytic phages. Nature Microbiology. 11(1). 42–52. 1 indexed citations

Rogers, Alexander B., Varsha Kale, Germana Baldi, et al.. (2025). HoloFood Data Portal: holo-omic datasets for analysing host–microbiota interactions in animal production. Database. 2025.

Song, Qingbin, Martha R. J. Clokie, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, et al.. (2025). Design of Lytic Phage Cocktails Targeting Salmonella: Synergistic Effects Based on In Vitro Lysis, In Vivo Protection, and Biofilm Intervention. Viruses. 17(10). 1363–1363.

Reeve, Andrew Hart, Graham Gower, José Martín Pujolar, et al.. (2023). Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations. Evolution Letters. 7(1). 24–36. 4 indexed citations

Reeve, Andrew Hart, Jonathan D. Kennedy, José Martín Pujolar, et al.. (2023). The formation of the Indo-Pacific montane avifauna. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8215–8215. 2 indexed citations

Høie, Magnus Haraldson, Bent Petersen, Morten Nielsen, et al.. (2022). NetSurfP-3.0: accurate and fast prediction of protein structural features by protein language models and deep learning. Nucleic Acids Research. 50(W1). W510–W515. 164 indexed citations breakdown →

Sirén, Kimmo, Andrew Millard, Bent Petersen, et al.. (2021). Rapid discovery of novel prophages using biological feature engineering and machine learning. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 3(1). lqaa109–lqaa109. 34 indexed citations

Jorquera, Rossana, Carolina González, Philip T. L. C. Clausen, Bent Petersen, & David S. Holmes. (2021). SinEx DB 2.0 update 2020: database for eukaryotic single-exon coding sequences. Database. 2021. 2 indexed citations

Sinding, Mikkel‐Holger S., Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, Alberto Carmagnini, et al.. (2021). Kouprey (Bos sauveli) genomes unveil polytomic origin of wild Asian Bos. iScience. 24(11). 103226–103226. 7 indexed citations

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Rangel-Piñeros, Guillermo, Andrew Millard, Slawomir Michniewski, et al.. (2021). From Trees to Clouds: PhageClouds for Fast Comparison of ∼640,000 Phage Genomic Sequences and Host-Centric Visualization Using Genomic Network Graphs. PubMed. 2(4). 194–203. 20 indexed citations

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Bae, Hansol, et al.. (2020). Connecting moss lipid droplets to patchoulol biosynthesis. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0243620–e0243620. 6 indexed citations

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Jørgensen, Tue Sparholt, et al.. (2019). The Whole Genome Sequence and mRNA Transcriptome of the Tropical Cyclopoid Copepod Apocyclops royi. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(5). 1295–1302. 10 indexed citations

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Machado, André M., Ole K. Tørresen, Naoki Kabeya, et al.. (2018). “Out of the Can”: A Draft Genome Assembly, Liver Transcriptome, and Nutrigenomics of the European Sardine, Sardina pilchardus. Genes. 9(10). 485–485. 31 indexed citations

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Sinding, Mikkel‐Holger S., Filipe Garrett Vieira, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, et al.. (2018). Population genomics of grey wolves and wolf-like canids in North America. PLoS Genetics. 14(11). e1007745–e1007745. 38 indexed citations

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Renaud, Gabriel, Bent Petersen, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, et al.. (2018). Improved de novo genomic assembly for the domestic donkey. Science Advances. 4(4). eaaq0392–eaaq0392. 34 indexed citations

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Rey‐Iglesia, Alba, Christian Carøe, David E. Alquezar‐Planas, et al.. (2018). MobiSeq: De novo SNP discovery in model and non‐model species through sequencing the flanking region of transposable elements. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(2). 512–525. 6 indexed citations

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Mak, Sarah S. T., Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Christian Carøe, et al.. (2017). Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing. GigaScience. 6(8). 1–13. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cai, Zexi, Bent Petersen, Goutam Sahana, et al.. (2017). The first draft reference genome of the American mink (Neovison vison). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 14564–14564. 18 indexed citations

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Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding, et al.. (2017). The wolf reference genome sequence (Canis lupus lupus) and its implications for Canis spp. population genomics. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 495–495. 55 indexed citations

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Petersen, Bent, Claus Lundegaard, & Thomas Nordahl Petersen. (2010). NetTurnP – Neural Network Prediction of Beta-turns by Use of Evolutionary Information and Predicted Protein Sequence Features. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e15079–e15079. 70 indexed citations

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