Manoj Pillay

5.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
42 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Manoj Pillay is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Manoj Pillay has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Manoj Pillay's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (7 papers). Manoj Pillay is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (7 papers). Manoj Pillay collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Manoj Pillay's co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Marcel Huntemann, Krishna Palaniappan, I-Min A. Chen, Neha Varghese, Anna Ratner, Ken Chu, Jinghua Huang and Blake C. Meyers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Manoj Pillay

42 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Global identification of microRNA–target RNA pairs by parallel analysis of RNA ends

2008 678 citations Marcelo A. German, Manoj Pillay et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
IMG/M v.5.0: an integrated data management and comparative analysis system for microbial genomes and microbiomes

2018 583 citations I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system

2013 431 citations Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
IMG/M: integrated genome and metagenome comparative data analysis system

2016 331 citations I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz et al. 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
Manoj Pillay United States	17	2.2k	1.5k	1.1k	258	188	42	3.5k
Yang Bai China	32	2.2k 1.0×	4.3k 2.9×	1.2k 1.1×	131 0.5×	155 0.8×	87	6.7k
Tae-Kwang Oh South Korea	37	3.7k 1.7×	982 0.7×	2.1k 2.0×	180 0.7×	270 1.4×	141	5.0k
Jinghua Huang China	15	2.2k 1.0×	406 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	260 1.0×	228 1.2×	38	3.3k
Romain Blanc‐Mathieu France	19	1.4k 0.6×	789 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	172 0.7×	51 0.3×	30	2.6k
Bin-Bin Xie China	31	1.8k 0.8×	517 0.4×	938 0.9×	158 0.6×	154 0.8×	86	2.8k
Kyung Sook Bae South Korea	37	2.5k 1.1×	942 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	101 0.4×	315 1.7×	131	3.9k
Fábio O. Pedrosa Brazil	33	1.6k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	501 0.5×	60 0.2×	219 1.2×	162	3.5k
Yu‐Guang Zhou China	33	2.2k 1.0×	722 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	158 0.6×	99 0.5×	172	3.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manoj Pillay

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

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Beatty, Hannah E., Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, et al.. (2018). High-Quality Draft Genome Sequences of Eight Bacteria Isolated from Fungus Gardens Grown by Trachymyrmex septentrionalis Ants. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 7(2). 2 indexed citations

Reeve, Wayne, Peter van Berkum, Julie Ardley, et al.. (2017). High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Bradyrhizobium elkanii type strain USDA 76T, isolated from Glycine max (L.) Merr. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 10 indexed citations

Huntemann, Marcel, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, et al.. (2017). Permanent draft genome of Thiobacillus thioparus DSM 505T, an obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Betaproteobacteria. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 10–10. 34 indexed citations

Müller, Nicolai, Bernhard Schink, William B. Whitman, et al.. (2017). High-quality-draft genome sequence of the fermenting bacterium Anaerobium acetethylicum type strain GluBS11T (DSM 29698). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 24–24. 3 indexed citations

Sorokin, Dimitry Y., Lex Overmars, Alla Lapidus, et al.. (2017). Draft genome sequence of Dethiobacter alkaliphilus strain AHT1T, a gram-positive sulfidogenic polyextremophile. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 57–57. 16 indexed citations

Choi, Dong Han, Alla Lapidus, Alex Copeland, et al.. (2017). Draft genome sequence of Marinobacterium rhizophilum CL-YJ9T (DSM 18822T), isolated from the rhizosphere of the coastal tidal-flat plant Suaeda japonica. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 65–65. 1 indexed citations

Maymon, Maskit, Ethan Humm, Marcel Huntemann, et al.. (2017). Draft genome of Paraburkholderia caballeronis TNe-841T, a free-living, nitrogen-fixing, tomato plant-associated bacterium. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 80–80. 8 indexed citations

Jiao, Jian-Yu, Lorena Carro, Lan Liu, et al.. (2017). Complete genome sequence of Jiangella gansuensis strain YIM 002T (DSM 44835T), the type species of the genus Jiangella and source of new antibiotic compounds. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 21–21. 6 indexed citations

Boden, Rich, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, et al.. (2016). Permanent draft genome of Thermithiobacillus tepidarius DSM 3134T, a moderately thermophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic member of the Acidithiobacillia. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 74–74. 16 indexed citations

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Huntemann, Marcel, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, et al.. (2016). The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Metagenome Annotation Pipeline (MAP v.4). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 93 indexed citations

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Chen, I-Min A., Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan, et al.. (2016). Supporting community annotation and user collaboration in the integrated microbial genomes (IMG) system. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 307–307. 39 indexed citations

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Izhaki, Ido, Alla Lapidus, Alex Copeland, et al.. (2016). High quality permanent draft genome sequence of Phaseolibacter flectens ATCC 12775T, a plant pathogen of French bean pods. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 4–4. 1 indexed citations

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Gehlot, Hukam S., Julie Ardley, Nisha Tak, et al.. (2016). High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. PC2, isolated from a nitrogen-fixing root nodule of the legume tree (Khejri) native to the Thar Desert of India. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 43–43. 7 indexed citations

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Chen, I-Min A., Victor Markowitz, Ken Chu, et al.. (2016). IMG/M: integrated genome and metagenome comparative data analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D507–D516. 331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sorokin, Dimitry Y., Lex Overmars, Olga Chertkov, et al.. (2016). Complete genome sequence of Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus strain AHT2T, a haloalkaliphilic sulfidogen from Egyptian hypersaline alkaline lakes. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 67–67. 26 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Wayne L., Christina Davis, Nicole Shapiro, et al.. (2016). An improved high-quality draft genome sequence of Carnobacterium inhibens subsp. inhibens strain K1T. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 11(1). 65–65. 2 indexed citations

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Huntemann, Marcel, Natalia Ivanova, Konstantinos Mavromatis, et al.. (2015). The standard operating procedure of the DOE-JGI Microbial Genome Annotation Pipeline (MGAP v.4). Standards in Genomic Sciences. 10(1). 17–17. 265 indexed citations

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Markowitz, Victor, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, et al.. (2013). IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D560–D567. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhai, Jixian, Yuanyuan Zhao, Stacey A. Simon, et al.. (2013). Plant MicroRNAs Display Differential 3' Truncation and Tailing Modifications That Are ARGONAUTE1 Dependent and Conserved Across Species. The Plant Cell. 25(7). 2417–2428. 81 indexed citations

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German, Marcelo A., Manoj Pillay, Dong‐Hoon Jeong, et al.. (2008). Global identification of microRNA–target RNA pairs by parallel analysis of RNA ends. Nature Biotechnology. 26(8). 941–946. 678 indexed citations breakdown →

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