Eugene V. Koonin

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

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Eugene V. Koonin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugene V. Koonin has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Eugene V. Koonin's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Eugene V. Koonin is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Eugene V. Koonin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Eugene V. Koonin's co-authors include Arcady Mushegian, Yuri I. Wolf, L. Aravind, Alexander E. Gorbalenya, Roman L. Tatusov, Stephen F. Altschul, Vladimir M. Blinov, Alexei P. Donchenko, Jeanmarie Verchot and James C. Carrington and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Eugene V. Koonin

24 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

A minimal gene set for cellular life derived by comparison of complete bacterial genomes.

1996 673 citations Arcady Mushegian, Eugene V. Koonin Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world

2008 502 citations Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eugene V. Koonin United States	17	2.2k	962	678	678	345	24	3.5k
Eugene V. Koonin United States	11	2.4k 1.1×	949 1.0×	373 0.6×	752 1.1×	254 0.7×	11	3.6k
Eugene V. Koonin United States	32	3.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.1×	910 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	528 1.5×	42	4.9k
William Saurin France	28	1.8k 0.8×	520 0.5×	421 0.6×	765 1.1×	369 1.1×	47	3.3k
Anne‐Lise Haenni France	34	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 2.1×	585 0.9×	282 0.4×	460 1.3×	91	4.4k
Saı̈d Azza France	24	955 0.4×	620 0.6×	946 1.4×	233 0.3×	282 0.8×	45	2.2k
J. G. Coote United Kingdom	25	1.0k 0.5×	308 0.3×	663 1.0×	886 1.3×	206 0.6×	83	2.4k
W. Donachie United Kingdom	42	3.2k 1.4×	406 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	2.7k 3.9×	189 0.5×	95	5.3k
Leonard Mindich United States	40	2.6k 1.2×	757 0.8×	2.9k 4.3×	1.4k 2.1×	575 1.7×	95	3.7k
Cornelis W.A. Pleij Netherlands	34	2.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	743 1.1×	259 0.4×	292 0.8×	77	3.3k
Shlomo Rottem Israel	37	2.0k 0.9×	724 0.8×	761 1.1×	392 0.6×	133 0.4×	210	5.2k

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Koonin, Eugene V.. (2009). Intron-Dominated Genomes of Early Ancestors of Eukaryotes. Journal of Heredity. 100(5). 618–623. 55 indexed citations

Koonin, Eugene V. & Yuri I. Wolf. (2008). Genomics of bacteria and archaea: the emerging dynamic view of the prokaryotic world. Nucleic Acids Research. 36(21). 6688–6719. 502 indexed citations breakdown →

Jordan, I. King, Fyodor A. Kondrashov, Ivan Adzhubei, et al.. (2006). Causes of trends in amino-acid gain and loss (Reply). Nature. 442(7105). E12–E12. 3 indexed citations

Guigó, Roderic, Thomas Wiehe, Michael Y. Galperin, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2003). Gene prediction accuracy in large DNA sequences.. 1–33. 6 indexed citations

Wolf, Yuri I. & Eugene V. Koonin. (2001). Origin of an animal mitochondrial DNA polymerase subunit via lineage-specific acquisition of a glycyl-tRNA synthetase from bacteria of the Thermus–Deinococcus group. Trends in Genetics. 17(8). 431–433. 25 indexed citations

Makarova, Kira S., et al.. (2001). The Structure and Evolution of Penelope in the virilis Species Group of Drosophila: An Ancient Lineage of Retroelements. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 52(5). 445–456. 39 indexed citations

Koonin, Eugene V.. (2000). Bridging the gap between sequence and function. Trends in Genetics. 16(1). 16–16. 13 indexed citations

Aravind, L. & Eugene V. Koonin. (1999). Gleaning non-trivial structural, functional and evolutionary information about proteins by iterative database searches. Journal of Molecular Biology. 287(5). 1023–1040. 373 indexed citations

Koonin, Eugene V.. (1996). A duplicated catalytic motif in a new superfamily of phosphohydrolases and phospholipid synthases that includes poxvirus envelope proteins. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 21(7). 242–243. 130 indexed citations

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Klaassen, Vicki, et al.. (1995). Genome Structure and Phylogenetic Analysis of Lettuce Infectious Yellows Virus, a Whitefly-Transmitted, Bipartite Closterovirus. Virology. 208(1). 99–110. 117 indexed citations

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Mushegian, Arcady & Eugene V. Koonin. (1994). Unexpected sequence similarity between nucleosidases and phosphoribosyltransferases of different specificity. Protein Science. 3(7). 1081–1088. 30 indexed citations

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Tatusov, Roman L., Stephen F. Altschul, & Eugene V. Koonin. (1994). Detection of conserved segments in proteins: iterative scanning of sequence databases with alignment blocks.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(25). 12091–12095. 237 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V.. (1993). Computer-assisted identification of a putative methyltransferase domain in NS5 protein of flaviviruses and 2 protein of reovirus. Journal of General Virology. 74(4). 733–740. 203 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (1993). Computer-assisted dissection of rolling circle DNA replication. Biosystems. 30(1-3). 241–268. 148 indexed citations

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Koonin, Eugene V., et al.. (1992). Evolution of thymidine and thymidylate kinases: The possibility of independent capture of TK genes by different groups of viruses. Virus Genes. 6(2). 187–196. 16 indexed citations

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Verchot, Jeanmarie, Eugene V. Koonin, & James C. Carrington. (1991). The 35-kDa protein from the N-terminus of the potyviral polyprotein functions as a third virus-encoded proteinase. Virology. 185(2). 527–535. 180 indexed citations

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Gorbalenya, Alexander E., Eugene V. Koonin, & Yuri I. Wolf. (1990). A new superfamily of putative NTP‐binding domains encoded by genomes of small DNA and RNA viruses. FEBS Letters. 262(1). 145–148. 307 indexed citations

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Blinov, Vladimir M., et al.. (1989). Two early genes of bacteriophage T5 encode proteins containing an NTP‐binding sequence motif and probably involved in DNA replication, recombination and repair. FEBS Letters. 252(1-2). 47–52. 13 indexed citations

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Gorbalenya, Alexander E., Eugene V. Koonin, Alexei P. Donchenko, & Vladimir M. Blinov. (1988). A novel superfamily of nucleoside triphosphate‐binding motif containing proteins which are probably involved in duplex unwinding in DNA and RNA replication and recombination. FEBS Letters. 235(1-2). 16–24. 246 indexed citations

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Vartapetian, Andrey B., Eugene V. Koonin, Konstantin Chumakov, Alexey Bogdanov, & Vadim I. Agol. (1982). INITIATION OF THE ENCEPHALOMYOCARDITIS VIRAL-RNA SYNTHESIS IN CELL-FREE SYSTEM AND THE PROBABLE PARTICIPATION OF VPG PROTEIN IN THIS PROCESS. Proceedings of the USSR Academy of Sciences. 267(4). 1 indexed citations

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