Michael Fonstein

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Fonstein is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Fonstein has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael Fonstein's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers). Michael Fonstein is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (7 papers). Michael Fonstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Russia. Michael Fonstein's co-authors include Mark D’Souza, Natalia Maltsev, Ross Overbeek, Gordon D. Pusch, Robert Haselkorn, Svetlana Gerdes, Andrei L. Osterman, Michael Kubal, Michael D. Scholle and Oleg V. Kurnasov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The EMBO Journal and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Michael Fonstein

17 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750
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. The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling
    1999 946 citations Ross Overbeek, Michael Fonstein et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Fonstein United States 12 1.4k 300 227 185 122 17 1.7k
Stephanie Kim United States 13 914 0.7× 134 0.4× 191 0.8× 135 0.7× 114 0.9× 29 1.4k
Hannes Link Germany 22 1.0k 0.8× 271 0.9× 204 0.9× 83 0.4× 76 0.6× 57 1.4k
Vamsee Reddy United States 11 1.1k 0.8× 249 0.8× 269 1.2× 393 2.1× 85 0.7× 14 1.8k
Anne Morgat Switzerland 15 1.1k 0.8× 172 0.6× 99 0.4× 156 0.8× 85 0.7× 24 1.4k
Beatrice Cuche Switzerland 2 844 0.6× 121 0.4× 118 0.5× 245 1.3× 42 0.3× 2 1.2k
Peter A. Meacock United Kingdom 22 1.6k 1.1× 474 1.6× 170 0.7× 434 2.3× 86 0.7× 40 2.0k
Mohd Shahir Shamsir Malaysia 19 676 0.5× 74 0.2× 185 0.8× 100 0.5× 84 0.7× 118 1.0k
Kenji Nakahigashi Japan 24 1.8k 1.3× 407 1.4× 174 0.8× 640 3.5× 246 2.0× 47 2.2k
Christina Herrmann Germany 18 971 0.7× 399 1.3× 188 0.8× 191 1.0× 79 0.6× 22 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Fonstein

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Fonstein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Fonstein

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Parrello, Bruce, Olga Vasieva, Philippe Chlenski, et al.. (2023). Engineering of increased L-Threonine production in bacteria by combinatorial cloning and machine learning. Metabolic Engineering Communications. 17. e00225–e00225. 5 indexed citations
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Gerdes, Svetlana, Robert A. Edwards, Michael Kubal, et al.. (2006). Essential genes on metabolic maps. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 17(5). 448–456. 88 indexed citations
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Gerdes, Svetlana, Michael D. Scholle, Mark D’Souza, et al.. (2002). From Genetic Footprinting to Antimicrobial Drug Targets: Examples in Cofactor Biosynthetic Pathways. Journal of Bacteriology. 184(16). 4555–4572. 236 indexed citations
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Selkov, E, Ross Overbeek, Yakov Kogan, et al.. (2000). Functional analysis of gapped microbial genomes: Amino acid metabolism of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 97(7). 3509–3514. 51 indexed citations
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Overbeek, Ross, Michael Fonstein, Mark D’Souza, Gordon D. Pusch, & Natalia Maltsev. (1999). Use of Contiguity on the Chromosome to Predict Functional Coupling. In Silico Biology. 1(2). 93–108. 100 indexed citations
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Overbeek, Ross, Michael Fonstein, Mark D’Souza, Gordon D. Pusch, & Natalia Maltsev. (1999). The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(6). 2896–2901. 946 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fonstein, Michael, Tatiana Nikolskaya, Yakov Kogan, & Robert Haselkorn. (1998). Genome encyclopedias and their use for comparative analysis of Rhodobacter capsulatus strains. Electrophoresis. 19(4). 469–477. 3 indexed citations
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Vlček, Čestmı́r, Václav Pačes, Natalia Maltsev, et al.. (1997). Sequence of a 189-kb segment of the chromosome of Rhodobacter capsulatus  SB1003. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94(17). 9384–9388. 32 indexed citations
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Knäblein, Jörg, et al.. (1996). Isolation, Cloning, Sequence Analysis and Localization of the Operon Encoding Dimethyl Sulfoxide/Trimethylamine N-oxide Reductase fromRhodobacter capsulatus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 263(1). 40–52. 13 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael, Tatiana Nikolskaya, & Robert Haselkorn. (1995). High-resolution alignment of a 1-megabase-long genome region of three strains of Rhodobacter capsulatus. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(9). 2368–2372. 6 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael & Robert Haselkorn. (1995). Physical mapping of bacterial genomes. Journal of Bacteriology. 177(12). 3361–3369. 66 indexed citations
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Nikolskaya, Tatiana, Michael Fonstein, & Robert Haselkorn. (1995). Alignment of a 1.2-Mb chromosomal region from three strains of Rhodobacter capsulatus reveals a significantly mosaic structure.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92(23). 10609–10613. 14 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael, et al.. (1995). Refinement of the high-resolution physical and genetic map of Rhodobacter capsulatus and genome surveys using blots of the cosmid encyclopedia.. The EMBO Journal. 14(8). 1827–1841. 14 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael, et al.. (1994). Tn10-mediated inversions fuse uridine phosphorylase (udp) and rRNA genes of Escherichia coli. Journal of Bacteriology. 176(8). 2265–2271. 8 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael & Robert Haselkorn. (1993). Chromosomal structure of Rhodobacter capsulatus strain SB1003: cosmid encyclopedia and high-resolution physical and genetic map.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 90(6). 2522–2526. 28 indexed citations
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Fonstein, Michael, Shiling Zheng, & Robert Haselkorn. (1992). Physical map of the genome of Rhodobacter capsulatus SB 1003. Journal of Bacteriology. 174(12). 4070–4077. 35 indexed citations
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Yankovsky, N. K., et al.. (1989). Cloning and analysis of structural and regulatory pectate lyase genes of Erwinia chrysanthemi ENA49. Gene. 81(2). 211–218. 7 indexed citations

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