Maria Anisimova

28.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
75 papers, 20.0k citations indexed

About

Maria Anisimova is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Anisimova has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 20.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Maria Anisimova's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers). Maria Anisimova is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (39 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers). Maria Anisimova collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and France. Maria Anisimova's co-authors include Olivier Gascuel, Jean-François Dufayard, Wim Hordijk, Stéphane Guindon, Vincent Lefort, Ziheng Yang, Joseph P. Bielawski, Manuel Gil, Christophe Dessimoz and Rasmus Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Maria Anisimova

72 papers receiving 19.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

2010 13.7k citations Maria Anisimova et al. profile →
Approximate Likelihood-Ratio Test for Branches: A Fast, Accurate, and Powerful Alternative

2006 2.2k citations Maria Anisimova et al. profile →
Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes

2011 874 citations Maria Anisimova, Christophe Dessimoz et al. profile →
Accuracy and Power of the Likelihood Ratio Test in Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution

2001 583 citations Maria Anisimova, Joseph P. Bielawski et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Maria Anisimova Switzerland	28	8.6k	4.9k	4.3k	4.0k	2.9k	75	20.0k
Jean-François Dufayard France	13	8.5k 1.0×	5.1k 1.0×	4.3k 1.0×	3.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.0×	14	19.6k
Vincent Lefort France	13	9.1k 1.1×	5.4k 1.1×	4.8k 1.1×	3.5k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	23	21.0k
Wim Hordijk United States	28	6.7k 0.8×	3.5k 0.7×	3.8k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	70	16.7k
Olga Chernomor Austria	8	6.4k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	3.8k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	3.6k 1.2×	8	15.6k
Gordon Blackshields Ireland	15	13.1k 1.5×	6.3k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	26	24.6k
Paul McGettigan Ireland	29	13.5k 1.6×	6.3k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.6×	48	26.1k
Iain M. Wallace Canada	16	13.6k 1.6×	6.5k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	23	25.4k
F. Valentin United Kingdom	6	13.8k 1.6×	6.5k 1.3×	3.9k 0.9×	3.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.6×	6	25.7k
Michael Li United States	16	11.2k 1.3×	8.3k 1.7×	5.6k 1.3×	3.8k 1.0×	3.3k 1.2×	30	28.5k
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Switzerland	45	11.0k 1.3×	6.0k 1.2×	3.1k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	94	19.8k

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Sonay, Tugce Bilgin, et al.. (2025). Multicancer analyses of short tandem repeat variations reveal shared gene regulatory mechanisms. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(3).

Grassi, Elena, et al.. (2025). Genotyping short tandem repeats across copy number alterations, aneuploidies, and polyploid organisms. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1437–1437.

Anisimova, Maria, et al.. (2023). A novel hypervariable variable number tandem repeat in the dopamine transporter gene (SLC6A3). Life Science Alliance. 6(4). e202201677–e202201677. 3 indexed citations

Maksimov, Mikhail O., et al.. (2022). Mutation and selection processes regulating short tandem repeats give rise to genetic and phenotypic diversity across species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(2). 321–336. 32 indexed citations

Knyazeva, A. G. & Maria Anisimova. (2022). Diffusion and Stresses Interrelation in Transient Zone between Particle and Matrix during Composite Synthesis. 4(24). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Jitao David, et al.. (2022). Cross-reactive immunity potentially drives global oscillation and opposed alternation patterns of seasonal influenza A viruses. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8883–8883. 7 indexed citations

Farias, Tarcisio Mendes de, Maria Anisimova, M. Gil, et al.. (2019). Enabling semantic queries across federated bioinformatics databases. Database. 2019. 17 indexed citations

Kosiol, Carolin & Maria Anisimova. (2019). Selection Acting on Genomes. Methods in molecular biology. 1910. 373–397. 9 indexed citations

García, Víctor, Stefan Zoller, & Maria Anisimova. (2018). Accounting for Programmed Ribosomal Frameshifting in the Computation of Codon Usage Bias Indices. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(10). 3173–3183. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Keke, Philippe Remigi, Maria Anisimova, et al.. (2015). Functional assignment to positively selected sites in the core type III effector RipG 7 from R alstonia solanacearum. Molecular Plant Pathology. 17(4). 553–564. 24 indexed citations

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Anisimova, Maria, et al.. (2014). Antibody-Specific Model of Amino Acid Substitution for Immunological Inferences from Alignments of Antibody Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(3). 806–819. 15 indexed citations

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Peeters, Nemo, Sébastien Carrère, Maria Anisimova, et al.. (2013). Repertoire, unified nomenclature and evolution of the Type III effector gene set in the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 859–859. 190 indexed citations

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Anisimova, Maria. (2012). Evolutionary Genomics. Methods in molecular biology. 8 indexed citations

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Remigi, Philippe, Maria Anisimova, Alice Guidot, Stéphane Genin, & Nemo Peeters. (2011). Functional diversification of the GALA type III effector family contributes to Ralstonia solanacearum adaptation on different plant hosts. New Phytologist. 192(4). 976–987. 78 indexed citations

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Wang, Mingcong, Maxim V. Kapralov, & Maria Anisimova. (2011). Coevolution of amino acid residues in the key photosynthetic enzyme Rubisco. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 30 indexed citations

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Dalquen, Daniel A., Maria Anisimova, Gastón H. Gonnet, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2011). ALF—A Simulation Framework for Genome Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(4). 1115–1123. 85 indexed citations

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Schirrmeister, Bettina E., Maria Anisimova, Alexandre Antonelli, & Homayoun C. Bagheri. (2011). Evolution of cyanobacterial morphotypes. Communicative & Integrative Biology. 4(4). 424–427. 18 indexed citations

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Anisimova, Maria & Yang Zhou. (2007). Multiple Hypothesis Testing to Detect Lineages under Positive Selection that Affects Only a Few Sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(5). 1219–1228. 161 indexed citations

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Balakirev, Evgeniy S., Maria Anisimova, & Francisco J. Ayala. (2006). Positive and Negative Selection in the β-Esterase Gene Cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 62(4). 496–510. 7 indexed citations

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Anisimova, Maria, Joseph P. Bielawski, & Ziheng Yang. (2002). Accuracy and Power of Bayes Prediction of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19(6). 950–958. 316 indexed citations

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