I-Min A. Chen

9.2k citations

36 papers · 4.4k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Ecology top 0.5%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Molecular Biology top 2%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Papers in

Ecology 26
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 18
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 10
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 3
Endocrinology 3

Co-authors: Nikos C. Kyrpides Natalia Ivanova Ken Chu Victor Markowitz Krishna Palaniappan Konstantinos Mavromatis Anna Ratner Marcel Huntemann
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (18 papers)PLoS ONE (2 papers)Trends in Microbiology (1 paper)BMC Genomics (1 paper)Bioinformatics (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Greece Spain

In The Last Decade

I-Min A. Chen

35 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata 2022 · 199 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2016 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2009 Bioinformatics

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Co-authors

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All Works

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1	Meta-virus resource (MetaVR): expanding the frontiers of viral diversity with 24 million uncultivated virus genomes Nucleic Acids Research ·Felisa S. Lewis, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Uzonyi Pal, Fotis A. Baltoumas, Simon Roux, Artyom A. Egorov, Ruizhao Shao, Éric Olo Ndela, R. Michael Pickering, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, T. B. K. Reddy, Supratim Mukherjee, Natalia Ivanova, Frederik Schulz, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2025	1
2	Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.10: new features and updates Nucleic Acids Research ·Supratim Mukherjee, Dimitri Stamatis, C. Armando Augusto Paneque-Quevedo, Galina Ovchinnikova, 哲夫寺村, Irene S Tsai, 盛兴, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, I-Min A. Chen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, T. B. K. Reddy	2024	9
3	Metatranscriptomes of California grassland soil microbial communities in response to rewetting Microbiology Resource Announcements ·Peter F. Chuckran, Katerina Estera‐Molina, Marcel Huntemann, Brian Foster, Simon Roux, Supratim Mukherjee, Patrick Hajek, T. B. K. Reddy, Chris Daum, I-Min A. Chen, Christa Pennacchio, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Paul Dijkstra, Mary K. Firestone, Steven J. Blazewicz, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge	2024	1
4	Standardized naming of microbiome samples in Genomes OnLine Database Database ·Supratim Mukherjee, Galina Ovchinnikova, Dimitri Stamatis, C. Armando Augusto Paneque-Quevedo, I-Min A. Chen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, T. B. K. Reddy	2023	3
5	NMPFamsDB: a database of novel protein families from microbial metagenomes and metatranscriptomes Nucleic Acids Research ·Fotis A. Baltoumas, Evangelos Karatzas, Sirui Liu, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Eduardo Magdayo, I-Min A. Chen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Georgios A. Pavlopoulos	2023	9
6	Twenty-five years of Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD): data updates and new features in v.9 Nucleic Acids Research ·Supratim Mukherjee, Dimitri Stamatis, C. Armando Augusto Paneque-Quevedo, Galina Ovchinnikova, A. M. NAMYATISHEVA, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, 哲夫寺村, Pennsylvania Dermatology Partners, Krystal, I-Min A. Chen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, T. B. K. Reddy	2022	51
7	Influence of the polar light cycle on seasonal dynamics of an Antarctic lake microbial community Microbiome ·Marsa Hijro Pratiwi, Michelle A. Allen, Timothy J. Williams, Alyce M. Hancock, Fabian Galbarz, Tjerk Hacquebord, Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino, Stephen Nayfach, Maureen Berg, Frederik Schulz, I-Min A. Chen, Marcel Huntemann, Nicole Shapiro, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Ricardo Cavicchioli	2020	46
8	High-quality draft genome sequences of Pseudomonas monteilii DSM 14164T, Pseudomonas mosselii DSM 17497T, Pseudomonas plecoglossicida DSM 15088T, Pseudomonas taiwanensis DSM 21245T and Pseudomonas vranovensis DSM 16006T: taxonomic considerations Access Microbiology ·Arantxa Peña, Antonio Busquets, Margarita Gomila, Magdalena Mulet, Rosa M. Gomila, Elena García‐Valdés, T. B. K. Reddy, Marcel Huntemann, Neha Varghese, Natalia Ivanova, I-Min A. Chen, Markus Göker, Tanja Woyke, Hans‐Peter Klenk, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Jorge Lalucat	2019	4
9	IMG-ABC v.5.0: an update to the IMG/Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Knowledgebase Nucleic Acids Research ·Krishna Palaniappan, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Anna Ratner, R. Seshadri, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Nigel J. Mouncey	2019	78
10	The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Metagenome Annotation Pipeline (MAP v.4) Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, H. James Tripp, David Páez-Espino, Kristin Tennessen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, I-Min A. Chen, Amrita Pati, Torben Nielsen, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2016	93
11	Supporting community annotation and user collaboration in the integrated microbial genomes (IMG) system BMC Genomics ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Ken Chu, Jinghua Huang, Anna Ratner, Manoj Pillay, Michalis Hadjithomas, Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Mikhailova, Galina Ovchinnikova, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2016	39
12	IMG-ABC: new features for bacterial secondary metabolism analysis and targeted biosynthetic gene cluster discovery in thousands of microbial genomes Nucleic Acids Research ·Michalis Hadjithomas, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Jinghua Huang, Anna Ratner, Krishna Palaniappan, Evan Andersen, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova	2016	56
13	IMG/M: integrated genome and metagenome comparative data analysis system Nucleic Acids Research ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Ken Chu, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Evan Andersen, Marcel Huntemann, Neha Varghese, Michalis Hadjithomas, Kristin Tennessen, Torben Nielsen, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2016	331
14	The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Microbial Genome Annotation Pipeline (MGAP v.4) Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, H. James Tripp, David Páez-Espino, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, I-Min A. Chen, Amrita Pati, Torben Nielsen, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2015	265
15	Ten Years of Maintaining and Expanding a Microbial Genome and Metagenome Analysis System Trends in Microbiology ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2015	15
16	The impact of bird-beak configuration on aortic remodeling of distal arch pathology after thoracic endovascular aortic repair with the Zenith Pro-Form TX2 thoracic endograft Journal of Vascular Surgery ·Hung‐Lung Hsu, Chun-Ku Chen, Po‐Lin Chen, I-Min A. Chen, Chiao‐Po Hsu, Swathi Upradrasta, Chun-Che Shih	2013	36
17	IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system Nucleic Acids Research ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Tanja Woyke, Marcel Huntemann, Iain Anderson, Konstantinos Billis, Neha Varghese, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2013	431
18	Improving Microbial Genome Annotations in an Integrated Database Context PLoS ONE ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Ken Chu, Iain Anderson, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova	2013	47
19	IMG/M-HMP: A Metagenome Comparative Analysis System for the Human Microbiome Project PLoS ONE ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Krishna Palaniappan, A Movseysan, Anna Ratner, Konstantinos Liolios, Ioanna Pagani, Marcel Huntemann, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2012	32
20	The integrated microbial genomes system: an expanding comparative analysis resource Nucleic Acids Research ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Yuri Grechkin, Anna Ratner, Iain Anderson, Athanasios Lykidis, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2009	206

About I-Min A. Chen

I-Min A. Chen is a scholar working on Ecology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine and Plant Science, having authored 36 papers that have together received 4.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (3 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (3 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (3 papers), Gut microbiota and health (3 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.2k citations), Molecular Biology (3.1k citations), Endocrinology (184 citations), Environmental Chemistry (332 citations) and Biotechnology (249 citations). I-Min A. Chen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Greece and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Ken Chu, Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Anna Ratner, Marcel Huntemann, Manoj Pillay and Jinghua Huang. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE, Trends in Microbiology, BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics.

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