David Sankoff

23.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
225 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

David Sankoff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sankoff has authored 225 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Molecular Biology, 101 papers in Genetics and 87 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in David Sankoff's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (109 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (84 papers) and Genome Rearrangement Algorithms (77 papers). David Sankoff is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (109 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (84 papers) and Genome Rearrangement Algorithms (77 papers). David Sankoff collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. David Sankoff's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Sankoff

222 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory ... 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 2009 400 800 1.2k
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.

  1. Time Warps, String Edits, and Macromolecules: The Theory and Practice of Sequence Comparison
    1983 1.3k citations David Sankoff et al. profile →
  2. Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification
    2009 938 citations Pamela S. Soltis, Victor A. Albert et al. American Journal of Botany profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Sankoff Canada 48 6.4k 2.9k 2.9k 2.0k 1.4k 225 11.3k
Tandy Warnow United States 46 6.1k 1.0× 4.1k 1.4× 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 196 0.1× 205 9.2k
Remco Bouckaert New Zealand 27 3.1k 0.5× 3.9k 1.4× 1.2k 0.4× 535 0.3× 187 0.1× 59 9.8k
Ricard V. Solé Spain 63 3.8k 0.6× 2.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 64 0.0× 303 15.1k
Erez Lieberman Aiden United States 32 11.7k 1.8× 3.0k 1.0× 4.7k 1.6× 596 0.3× 61 0.0× 76 16.1k
Peter F. Stadler Germany 82 27.9k 4.4× 6.7k 2.3× 3.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 52 0.0× 668 38.4k
Paul Taylor United Kingdom 43 2.1k 0.3× 203 0.1× 299 0.1× 2.1k 1.0× 132 0.1× 143 6.3k
Kenneth J. Koehler United States 31 371 0.1× 735 0.3× 425 0.1× 365 0.2× 285 0.2× 82 3.8k
Aviva Presser Aiden United States 5 1.4k 0.2× 529 0.2× 863 0.3× 513 0.3× 61 0.0× 6 3.6k
Joshua B. Plotkin United States 54 5.3k 0.8× 3.4k 1.2× 771 0.3× 279 0.1× 49 0.0× 146 11.7k
Michael S. Waterman United States 57 13.0k 2.0× 2.5k 0.9× 1.8k 0.6× 4.7k 2.3× 34 0.0× 209 17.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Sankoff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Sankoff

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jin, Lingling, et al.. (2023). From comparative gene content and gene order to ancestral contigs, chromosomes and karyotypes. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6095–6095. 1 indexed citations
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Chanderbali, André S., Lingling Jin, Yue Zhang, et al.. (2022). Buxus and Tetracentron genomes help resolve eudicot genome history. Nature Communications. 13(1). 643–643. 24 indexed citations
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Jin, Lingling, Yue Zhang, Xiaomeng Zhang, et al.. (2021). Ancestral Flowering Plant Chromosomes and Gene Orders Based on Generalized Adjacencies and Chromosomal Gene Co-Occurrences. Journal of Computational Biology. 28(11). 1156–1179. 4 indexed citations
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Lafond, Manuel, et al.. (2018). Accurate prediction of orthologs in the presence of divergence after duplication. Bioinformatics. 34(13). i366–i375. 14 indexed citations
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Lan, Tianying, Tanya Renner, Enrique Ibarra‐Laclette, et al.. (2017). Long-read sequencing uncovers the adaptive topography of a carnivorous plant genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(22). E4435–E4441. 65 indexed citations
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Sankoff, David, et al.. (2012). A model for biased fractionation after whole genome duplication. BMC Genomics. 13(Suppl 1). S8–S8. 18 indexed citations
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Swenson, Krister M., Eric C. Chen, Nicholas D. Pattengale, & David Sankoff. (2012). The Kernel of Maximum Agreement Subtrees. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 9(4). 1023–1031. 1 indexed citations
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Muñoz, Adriana, Chunfang Zheng, Qian Zhu, et al.. (2010). Scaffold filling, contig fusion and comparative gene order inference. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 304–304. 33 indexed citations
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Soltis, Pamela S., Victor A. Albert, Jim Leebens‐Mack, et al.. (2009). Polyploidy and angiosperm diversification. American Journal of Botany. 96(1). 336–348. 938 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zheng, Chunfang, Qian Zhu, & David Sankoff. (2007). Removing Noise and Ambiguities from Comparative Maps in Rearrangement Analysis. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 4(4). 515–522. 23 indexed citations
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Zheng, Chunfang, Aleksander Lenert, & David Sankoff. (2005). Reversal distance for partially ordered genomes. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(Suppl 1). i502–i508. 12 indexed citations
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Sankoff, David, et al.. (2002). Chromosomal Distributions of Breakpoints in Cancer, Infertility, and Evolution. Theoretical Population Biology. 61(4). 497–501. 20 indexed citations
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Sankoff, David & Mathieu Blanchette. (1997). The Median Problem for Breakpoints in Comparative Genomics. 4 indexed citations
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Ferretti, Vincent, Joseph H. Nadeau, & David Sankoff. (1996). Original Synteny. 159–167. 21 indexed citations
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Sankoff, David & Joseph H. Nadeau. (1996). Conserved synteny as a measure of genomic distance. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 71(1-3). 247–257. 30 indexed citations
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Cedergren, Robert, et al.. (1988). The evolutionary relationships among known life forms. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 28(1-2). 98–112. 143 indexed citations
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Cedergren, Henrietta & David Sankoff. (1974). Variable Rules: Performance as a Statistical Reflection of Competence. Language. 50(2). 333–355. 311 indexed citations
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Sankoff, David & Peter H. Sellers. (1973). Shortcuts, diversions, and maximal chainsin partially ordered sets. Discrete Mathematics. 4(3). 287–293. 16 indexed citations
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Dawson, Donald A. & David Sankoff. (1967). An inequality for probabilities. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 18(3). 504–507. 106 indexed citations

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