David Sankoff

23.8k citations
225 papers · 11.3k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 48

David Sankoff

222 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Polyploidy and angiosperm diversi...93819832026199720114008001.2k

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David Sankoff
Comparison fields: 5 of 200
  • Linguistics and Language 1.4k
  • Language and Linguistics 1.2k
  • Genetics 2.9k
  • Molecular Biology 6.4k
  • Plant Science 2.9k
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Sankoff, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20231
2 202224
3 20214
4 201814
5 201765
6 201218
7 20121
8 201033
9
Polyploidy and angiosperm diversificationbreakdown →
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10 200723
11 200512
12 200220
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The Median Problem for Breakpoints in Comparative Genomics
19974
14
Original Synteny
199621
15 199630
16 1988143
17 198413
18 1974311
19 197316
20 1967106

About David Sankoff

David Sankoff is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Genetics, Horticulture, Plant Science and Molecular Biology, having authored 225 papers that have together received 11.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (109 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (84 papers), Genome Rearrangement Algorithms (77 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (35 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (24 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Linguistics and Language (1.4k citations), Language and Linguistics (1.2k citations), Genetics (2.9k citations), Molecular Biology (6.4k citations) and Plant Science (2.9k citations). David Sankoff has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include Joseph B. Kruskal, Robert Cedergren, Shana Poplack, Chunfang Zheng, Michael W. Gray, Joseph H. Nadeau, Henrietta Cedergren, Evan E. Eichler, Chunfang Zheng and Victor A. Albert. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, Bioinformatics and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

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