Ivica Letunić

101.2k total citations · 18 hit papers
48 papers, 34.9k citations indexed

About

Ivica Letunić is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivica Letunić has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 34.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Ecology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ivica Letunić's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (16 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers). Ivica Letunić is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (16 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers). Ivica Letunić collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Denmark. Ivica Letunić's co-authors include Peer Bork, Tobias Doerks, Lars Juhl Jensen, Supriya Khedkar, Michael Kuhn, Christian von Mering, Damian Szklarczyk, Thomas Rattei, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas and Daniel R. Mende and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Ivica Letunić

47 papers receiving 34.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
    2021 6.6k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments
    2019 4.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees
    2016 3.8k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
    2018 2.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
    2006 2.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork profile →
  6. 20 years of the SMART protein domain annotation resource
    2017 1.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource
    2011 1.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2015
    2014 1.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2020
    2020 1.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Supriya Khedkar et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  10. Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy
    2011 1.2k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  11. Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool
    2024 1.1k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  12. The SIDER database of drugs and side effects
    2015 920 citations Michael Kuhn, Ivica Letunić et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  13. SMART 4.0: towards genomic data integration
    2003 840 citations Ivica Letunić Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  14. SMART 6: recent updates and new developments
    2008 815 citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  15. SMART 5: domains in the context of genomes and networks
    2005 797 citations Ivica Letunić Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  16. A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs
    2010 704 citations Michael Kuhn, Mónica Campillos et al. Molecular Systems Biology profile →
  17. Recent improvements to the SMART domain-based sequence annotation resource
    2002 542 citations Ivica Letunić Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  18. eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms
    2022 144 citations Ana Hernández-Plaza, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers

Ivica Letunić
Adam M. Phillippy United States
Thomas Madden United States
Anthony Bolger Germany
ROBERT FINN United Kingdom
Marc Lohse Germany
Glenn Tesler United States
Hiroyuki Ogata Japan
Aaron E. Darling Australia
Andreas Wilm Singapore
Pavel A. Pevzner United States
Adam M. Phillippy United States
Ivica Letunić
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivica Letunić

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fullam, Anthony, Ivica Letunić, Oleksandr M. Maistrenko, et al.. (2025). proGenomes4: providing 2 million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D852–D857.
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2025). SMART v10: three decades of the protein domain annotation resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D499–D503. 2 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2024). Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(W1). W78–W82. 1095 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hernández-Plaza, Ana, Damian Szklarczyk, Jorge Botas, et al.. (2022). eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D389–D394. 144 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kushugulova, Аlmagul, Sofia K. Forslund, Paul Igor Costea, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic analysis of gut microbial communities from a Central Asian population. BMJ Open. 8(7). e021682–e021682. 27 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2016). Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(W1). W242–W245. 3754 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mínguez, Pablo, Ivica Letunić, Luca Parca, et al.. (2014). PTMcode v2: a resource for functional associations of post-translational modifications within and between proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D494–D502. 79 indexed citations
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Mínguez, Pablo, Ivica Letunić, Luca Parca, & Peer Bork. (2012). PTMcode: a database of known and predicted functional associations between post-translational modifications in proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D306–D311. 106 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2011). Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl). W475–W478. 1181 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yamada, Takuji, Ivica Letunić, Shujiro Okuda, Minoru Kanehisa, & Peer Bork. (2011). iPath2.0: interactive pathway explorer. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl_2). W412–W415. 228 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica, Tobias Doerks, & Peer Bork. (2011). SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D302–D305. 1367 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kuhn, Michael, Mónica Campillos, Ivica Letunić, Lars Juhl Jensen, & Peer Bork. (2010). A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs. Molecular Systems Biology. 6(1). 343–343. 704 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gianoulis, Tara A., Jeroen Raes, Robert Bjornson, et al.. (2009). Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(5). 1374–1379. 139 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica, Tobias Doerks, & Peer Bork. (2008). SMART 6: recent updates and new developments. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D229–D232. 815 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rehwinkel, Jan, Ivica Letunić, Jeroen Raes, Peer Bork, & Elisa Izaurralde. (2005). Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay factors act in concert to regulate common mRNA targets. RNA. 11(10). 1530–1544. 211 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Nicole, Sara M. Pilgram, Ivica Letunić, et al.. (2004). Gene expression profiling of the rat superior olivary complex using serial analysis of gene expression. European Journal of Neuroscience. 20(12). 3244–3258. 17 indexed citations
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Scheich, Christoph, Dietmar Leitner, Volker Sievert, et al.. (2004). Fast identification of folded human protein domains expressed in E. coli suitable for structural analysis. BMC Structural Biology. 4(1). 4–4. 26 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica. (2003). SMART 4.0: towards genomic data integration. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(90001). 142D–144. 840 indexed citations breakdown →
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Copley, Richard R., Ivica Letunić, & Peer Bork. (2002). Genome and protein evolution in eukaryotes. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 6(1). 39–45. 22 indexed citations
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Letunić, Ivica. (2002). Common exon duplication in animals and its role in alternative splicing. Human Molecular Genetics. 11(13). 1561–1567. 125 indexed citations

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