Bjarni V. Halldórsson

19.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Bjarni V. Halldórsson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bjarni V. Halldórsson has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 30 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bjarni V. Halldórsson's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (12 papers). Bjarni V. Halldórsson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (12 papers). Bjarni V. Halldórsson collaborates with scholars based in Iceland, United States and Germany. Bjarni V. Halldórsson's co-authors include Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Kāri Stefánsson, Augustine Kong, Sorin Istrail, Benjamin Vernot, Dannie Durand, Unnur Styrkársdóttir, Agnar Helgason, Gísli Másson and Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Bjarni V. Halldórsson

56 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes
    2018 519 citations Augustine Kong, Guðmar Þorleifsson et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bjarni V. Halldórsson Iceland 26 1.5k 1.3k 444 262 247 57 2.8k
Reedik Mägi Estonia 33 1.4k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 79 0.2× 143 0.5× 98 0.4× 107 3.9k
Carolina Bonilla United Kingdom 29 1.3k 0.9× 1.9k 1.5× 42 0.1× 221 0.8× 259 1.0× 74 3.9k
Tōnu Esko Estonia 36 1.6k 1.1× 2.1k 1.6× 33 0.1× 111 0.4× 143 0.6× 118 4.4k
Morris A. Swertz Netherlands 39 2.1k 1.4× 1.3k 1.0× 32 0.1× 126 0.5× 126 0.5× 118 4.5k
Eric M. Sobel United States 24 1.9k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 32 0.1× 164 0.6× 237 1.0× 74 4.2k
Christopher S. Carlson United States 38 2.4k 1.6× 2.4k 1.8× 116 0.3× 1.2k 4.6× 244 1.0× 98 7.5k
Shane T. Jensen United States 24 715 0.5× 259 0.2× 105 0.2× 206 0.8× 228 0.9× 76 2.1k
Bryan Howie United States 15 2.6k 1.8× 4.5k 3.5× 46 0.1× 706 2.7× 415 1.7× 17 7.6k
Alexander Gusev United States 33 2.2k 1.5× 3.6k 2.7× 29 0.1× 468 1.8× 116 0.5× 91 5.9k
Christoph Lange United States 43 1.4k 1.0× 2.2k 1.7× 20 0.0× 103 0.4× 212 0.9× 162 5.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hardarson, Marteinn T., Gunnar Pálsson, & Bjarni V. Halldórsson. (2023). NCOurd: modelling length distributions of NCO events and gene conversion tracts. Bioinformatics. 39(8). 3 indexed citations
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Niehus, Sebastian, et al.. (2021). Population-scale detection of non-reference sequence variants using colored de Bruijn graphs. Bioinformatics. 38(3). 604–611. 7 indexed citations
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Holley, Guillaume, Doruk Beyter, Helga Ingimundardóttir, et al.. (2021). Ratatosk: hybrid error correction of long reads enables accurate variant calling and assembly. Genome biology. 22(1). 28–28. 39 indexed citations
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Niehus, Sebastian, Hákon Jónsson, Eyþór Björnsson, et al.. (2021). PopDel identifies medium-size deletions simultaneously in tens of thousands of genomes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 730–730. 9 indexed citations
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Bakhtiari, Mehrdad, Yuan-Chun Ding, Sharona Shleizer-Burko, et al.. (2021). Variable number tandem repeats mediate the expression of proximal genes. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2075–2075. 48 indexed citations
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Eggertsson, Hannes P. & Bjarni V. Halldórsson. (2020). read_haps: using read haplotypes to detect same species contamination in DNA sequences. Bioinformatics. 37(15). 2215–2217.
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Skov, Laurits, Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Fabrizio Mafessoni, et al.. (2020). The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes. Nature. 582(7810). 78–83. 56 indexed citations
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Halldórsson, Bjarni V., Magnús M. Halldórsson, C.A.J. Hurkens, et al.. (2020). Local improvement algorithms for a path packing problem: A performance analysis based on linear programming. Operations Research Letters. 49(1). 62–68. 1 indexed citations
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Eggertsson, Hannes P., Snædís Kristmundsdóttir, Doruk Beyter, et al.. (2019). GraphTyper2 enables population-scale genotyping of structural variation using pangenome graphs. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5402–5402. 83 indexed citations
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Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Michael L. Frigge, et al.. (2018). The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Science. 359(6374). 424–428. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eggertsson, Hannes P., Hákon Jónsson, Snædís Kristmundsdóttir, et al.. (2017). Graphtyper enables population-scale genotyping using pangenome graphs. Nature Genetics. 49(11). 1654–1660. 113 indexed citations
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Kehr, Birte, Anna Helgadóttir, Páll Melsted, et al.. (2017). Diversity in non-repetitive human sequences not found in the reference genome. Nature Genetics. 49(4). 588–593. 38 indexed citations
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Guðbjartsson, Daníel F., Patrick Sulem, Hannes Helgason, et al.. (2015). Sequence variants from whole genome sequencing a large group of Icelanders. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150011–150011. 31 indexed citations
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Melsted, Páll & Bjarni V. Halldórsson. (2014). KmerStream: streaming algorithms for k -mer abundance estimation. Bioinformatics. 30(24). 3541–3547. 36 indexed citations
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Catanzaro, Daniele, Martine Labbé, & Bjarni V. Halldórsson. (2013). An Integer Programming Formulation of the Parsimonious Loss of Heterozygosity Problem. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 10(6). 1391–1402. 2 indexed citations
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Halldórsson, Bjarni V., et al.. (2012). PAIR: polymorphic Alu insertion recognition. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(S6). S7–S7. 4 indexed citations
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Halldórsson, Bjarni V., et al.. (2011). The Clark Phaseable Sample Size Problem: Long-Range Phasing and Loss of Heterozygosity in GWAS. Journal of Computational Biology. 18(3). 323–333. 11 indexed citations
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Gottfreðsson, Magnús, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, S. Jönsson, et al.. (2008). Lessons from the past: Familial aggregation analysis of fatal pandemic influenza (Spanish flu) in Iceland in 1918. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(4). 1303–1308. 50 indexed citations
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Styrkársdóttir, Unnur, Bjarni V. Halldórsson, Sólveig Grétarsdóttir, et al.. (2008). New sequence variants associated with bone mineral density. Nature Genetics. 41(1). 15–17. 255 indexed citations
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Halldórsson, Bjarni V., Sorin Istrail, & Francisco M. De La Vega. (2004). Optimal Selection of SNP Markers for Disease Association Studies. Human Heredity. 58(3-4). 190–202. 50 indexed citations

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