Christopher Pockrandt

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 551 citations indexed

About

Christopher Pockrandt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Pockrandt has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 551 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Christopher Pockrandt's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (3 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (2 papers). Christopher Pockrandt is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (3 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (2 papers). Christopher Pockrandt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Korea. Christopher Pockrandt's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Martin Steinegger, Natalia Rincon, Jennifer Lu, Ben Langmead, Derrick E. Wood, Florian P. Breitwieser, Knut Reinert, Mai Alzamel and Costas S. Iliopoulos and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Genetics and Nature Protocols.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Pockrandt

10 papers receiving 547 citations

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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.

Metagenome analysis using the Kraken software suite

2022 309 citations Jennifer Lu, Natalia Rincon et al. Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher Pockrandt United States	7	306	123	80	78	71	10	551
Michaël Dumas France	9	323 1.1×	168 1.4×	88 1.1×	74 0.9×	40 0.6×	16	491
Tsukasa Nakamura Japan	7	435 1.4×	130 1.1×	169 2.1×	137 1.8×	90 1.3×	18	839
Emil A. Sørensen Denmark	3	363 1.2×	134 1.1×	74 0.9×	55 0.7×	31 0.4×	3	490
Mihail Halachev United Kingdom	9	386 1.3×	137 1.1×	71 0.9×	109 1.4×	65 0.9×	15	638
Kerry L. Bartie United Kingdom	16	221 0.7×	108 0.9×	48 0.6×	143 1.8×	69 1.0×	27	827
Matthew G. Durrant United States	11	460 1.5×	75 0.6×	69 0.9×	116 1.5×	24 0.3×	16	674
Claire Hoede France	13	328 1.1×	110 0.9×	191 2.4×	119 1.5×	89 1.3×	19	733
Michael Nute United States	10	400 1.3×	99 0.8×	68 0.8×	69 0.9×	24 0.3×	16	598
Wei-Ren Dong China	18	303 1.0×	116 0.9×	55 0.7×	91 1.2×	81 1.1×	45	1.0k
Stefany Moreno-Gámez Netherlands	8	162 0.5×	58 0.5×	63 0.8×	143 1.8×	52 0.7×	8	427

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Pockrandt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Pockrandt

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Varabyou, Ales, Markus J. Sommer, Jakob Heinz, et al.. (2023). CHESS 3: an improved, comprehensive catalog of human genes and transcripts based on large-scale expression data, phylogenetic analysis, and protein structure. Genome biology. 24(1). 249–249. 16 indexed citations

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Pockrandt, Christopher, Aleksey V. Zimin, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2022). Metagenomic classification with KrakenUniq onlow-memory computers. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(80). 4908–4908. 6 indexed citations

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Lu, Jennifer, Natalia Rincon, Derrick E. Wood, et al.. (2022). Metagenome analysis using the Kraken software suite. Nature Protocols. 17(12). 2815–2839. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pockrandt, Christopher, Martin Steinegger, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2021). PhyloCSF++: a fast and user-friendly implementation of PhyloCSF with annotation tools. Bioinformatics. 38(5). 1440–1442. 5 indexed citations

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Varabyou, Ales, Christopher Pockrandt, Steven L. Salzberg, & Mihaela Pertea. (2021). Rapid detection of inter-clade recombination in SARS-CoV-2 with Bolotie. Genetics. 218(3). 40 indexed citations

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Varabyou, Ales, Geo Pertea, Christopher Pockrandt, & Mihaela Pertea. (2021). TieBrush: an efficient method for aggregating and summarizing mapped reads across large datasets. Bioinformatics. 37(20). 3650–3651. 7 indexed citations

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Pockrandt, Christopher, Mai Alzamel, Costas S. Iliopoulos, & Knut Reinert. (2020). GenMap: ultra-fast computation of genome mappability. Bioinformatics. 36(12). 3687–3692. 102 indexed citations

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Twine, Natalie A., Sara Hetzel, Christopher Pockrandt, Knut Reinert, & Denis C. Bauer. (2019). VARSCOT: variant-aware detection and scoring enables sensitive and personalized off-target detection for CRISPR-Cas9. BMC Biotechnology. 19(1). 40–40. 9 indexed citations

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Pockrandt, Christopher, et al.. (2017). FAMOUS: Fast Approximate string Matching using OptimUm search Schemes.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Reinert, Knut, Temesgen Hailemariam Dadi, Hannes Hauswedell, et al.. (2017). The SeqAn C++ template library for efficient sequence analysis: A resource for programmers. Journal of Biotechnology. 261. 157–168. 56 indexed citations

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