Elfar Torarinsson

1.4k total citations
14 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Elfar Torarinsson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Elfar Torarinsson has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Cancer Research and 1 paper in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Elfar Torarinsson's work include RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Elfar Torarinsson is often cited by papers focused on RNA modifications and cancer (11 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers). Elfar Torarinsson collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Austria. Elfar Torarinsson's co-authors include Jan Gorodkin, Jakob H. Havgaard, Hans‐Peter Klenk, Roger A. Garrett, Kim Brügger, Peter Redder, Milena Sawera, Walter L. Ruzzo, Merete Fredholm and Zizhen Yao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Journal of Bacteriology.

In The Last Decade

Elfar Torarinsson

14 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Elfar Torarinsson Denmark 13 943 192 150 142 88 14 1.1k
Britta Tjaden Germany 15 795 0.8× 40 0.2× 246 1.6× 222 1.6× 279 3.2× 16 1.0k
Gerhard Steinborn Germany 12 597 0.6× 83 0.4× 238 1.6× 64 0.5× 24 0.3× 16 754
Igor Brikun United States 11 337 0.4× 34 0.2× 98 0.7× 39 0.3× 23 0.3× 12 461
Weimin Tian China 15 697 0.7× 83 0.4× 31 0.2× 47 0.3× 28 0.3× 49 891
Kumari Sonal Choudhary United States 12 476 0.5× 50 0.3× 179 1.2× 74 0.5× 7 0.1× 16 573
Hasna Boubakri France 12 517 0.5× 25 0.1× 304 2.0× 86 0.6× 21 0.2× 27 741
Zhe Zhao China 11 299 0.3× 49 0.3× 75 0.5× 35 0.2× 29 0.3× 17 469
Chaoyou Xue United States 19 906 1.0× 35 0.2× 167 1.1× 51 0.4× 8 0.1× 30 1.0k
Morigen Morigen China 14 480 0.5× 19 0.1× 368 2.5× 58 0.4× 41 0.5× 40 671

Countries citing papers authored by Elfar Torarinsson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elfar Torarinsson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elfar Torarinsson

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Seemann, Stefan E., Aashiq H. Mirza, Claus Hansen, et al.. (2017). The identification and functional annotation of RNA structures conserved in vertebrates. Genome Research. 27(8). 1371–1383. 62 indexed citations
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Gorodkin, Jan, Ivo L. Hofacker, Elfar Torarinsson, et al.. (2009). De novo prediction of structured RNAs from genomic sequences. Trends in biotechnology. 28(1). 9–19. 53 indexed citations
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Torarinsson, Elfar, et al.. (2009). Multiperm: shuffling multiple sequence alignments while approximately preserving dinucleotide frequencies. Bioinformatics. 25(5). 668–669. 20 indexed citations
4.
Torarinsson, Elfar & Stinus Lindgreen. (2008). WAR: Webserver for aligning structural RNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(Web Server). W79–W84. 42 indexed citations
5.
Kaczkowski, Bogumił, Elfar Torarinsson, Kristin Reiche, et al.. (2008). Structural profiles of human miRNA families from pairwise clustering. Bioinformatics. 25(3). 291–294. 53 indexed citations
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Torarinsson, Elfar, Zizhen Yao, Jesper B. Bramsen, et al.. (2007). Comparative genomics beyond sequence-based alignments: RNA structures in the ENCODE regions. Genome Research. 18(2). 242–251. 73 indexed citations
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Andersen, Ebbe Sloth, Allan Lind-Thomsen, Bjarne Knudsen, et al.. (2007). Semiautomated improvement of RNA alignments. RNA. 13(11). 1850–1859. 30 indexed citations
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Havgaard, Jakob H., Elfar Torarinsson, & Jan Gorodkin. (2007). Fast Pairwise Structural RNA Alignments by Pruning of the Dynamical Programming Matrix. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(10). e193–e193. 94 indexed citations
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Torarinsson, Elfar, Jakob H. Havgaard, & Jan Gorodkin. (2007). Multiple structural alignment and clustering of RNA sequences. Bioinformatics. 23(8). 926–932. 113 indexed citations
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Torarinsson, Elfar, Milena Sawera, Jakob H. Havgaard, Merete Fredholm, & Jan Gorodkin. (2006). Thousands of corresponding human and mouse genomic regions unalignable in primary sequence contain common RNA structure. Genome Research. 16(7). 885–889. 138 indexed citations
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Havgaard, Jakob H., Elfar Torarinsson, & Jan Gorodkin. (2005). Fast Pairwise Structural RNA Alignments by Pruning of the Dynamical Programming Matrix. PLoS Computational Biology. preprint(2007). e193–e193. 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Lanming, Kim Brügger, Marie Skovgaard, et al.. (2005). The Genome ofSulfolobus acidocaldarius, a Model Organism of theCrenarchaeota. Journal of Bacteriology. 187(14). 4992–4999. 223 indexed citations
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Torarinsson, Elfar, Hans‐Peter Klenk, & Roger A. Garrett. (2004). Divergent transcriptional and translational signals in Archaea. Environmental Microbiology. 7(1). 47–54. 102 indexed citations
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Brügger, Kim, et al.. (2004). Shuffling of Sulfolobus genomes by autonomous and non-autonomous mobile elements. Biochemical Society Transactions. 32(2). 179–183. 47 indexed citations

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