Nikos C. Kyrpides

87.3k total citations · 25 hit papers
391 papers, 27.6k citations indexed

About

Nikos C. Kyrpides is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikos C. Kyrpides has authored 391 papers receiving a total of 27.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 320 papers in Molecular Biology, 204 papers in Ecology and 107 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Nikos C. Kyrpides's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (271 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (158 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (57 papers). Nikos C. Kyrpides is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (271 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (158 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (57 papers). Nikos C. Kyrpides collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Nikos C. Kyrpides's co-authors include Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Victor Markowitz, Christos Ouzounis, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Stephen Nayfach, Marcel Huntemann, I-Min A. Chen and David Páez-Espino and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Nikos C. Kyrpides

384 papers receiving 27.2k 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.

  1. IMG: the integrated microbial genomes database and comparative analysis system
    2011 1.0k citations Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. CheckV assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes
    2020 905 citations Stephen Nayfach, Frederik Schulz et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  3. Programmed DNA destruction by miniature CRISPR-Cas14 enzymes
    2018 895 citations David Páez-Espino, Nikos C. Kyrpides et al. Science profile →
  4. Protein interaction maps for complete genomes based on gene fusion events
    1999 844 citations Nikos C. Kyrpides et al. profile →
  5. A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome
    2020 736 citations Alexandre Almeida, Stephen Nayfach et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  6. Uncovering Earth’s virome
    2016 719 citations David Páez-Espino, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh et al. profile →
  7. CRISPR Recognition Tool (CRT): a tool for automatic detection of clustered regularly \ninterspaced palindromic repeats
    2007 715 citations Nikos C. Kyrpides, Philip Hugenholtz et al. profile →
  8. 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 →
  9. Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities
    2006 571 citations Natalia Ivanova, Victor Kunin et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  10. IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation
    2009 546 citations Victor Markowitz, Konstantinos Mavromatis et al. profile →
  11. Toward an Online Repository of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for (Meta)genomic Annotation
    2008 536 citations Samuel V. Angiuoli, William Klimke et al. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology profile →
  12. The Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.4: status of genomic and metagenomic projects and their associated metadata
    2011 532 citations Konstantinos Liolios, Victor Markowitz et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  13. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria
    2018 510 citations Imen Nouioui, Lorena Carro et al. profile →
  14. Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences
    2015 503 citations Neha Varghese, Natalia Ivanova et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  15. Complete genome sequence of DSM 30083T, the type strain (U5/41T) of Escherichia coli, and a proposal for delineating subspecies in microbial taxonomy
    2014 460 citations Jan P. Meier‐Kolthoff, Lynne Goodwin et al. Standards in Genomic Sciences profile →
  16. New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome
    2019 445 citations Stephen Nayfach, Zhou Jason Shi et al. profile →
  17. 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 →
  18. Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data
    2017 350 citations Sergey Ovchinnikov, Hahnbeom Park et al. Science profile →
  19. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria
    2020 332 citations Jan P. Meier‐Kolthoff, Nikos C. Kyrpides et al. profile →
  20. 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 →
  21. Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome
    2021 313 citations Stephen Nayfach, David Páez-Espino et al. profile →
  22. Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad
    2023 301 citations Simon Roux, Frederik Schulz et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  23. The IMG/M data management and analysis system v.6.0: new tools and advanced capabilities
    2020 287 citations I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  24. IMG/VR v3: an integrated ecological and evolutionary framework for interrogating genomes of uncultivated viruses
    2020 221 citations Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  25. IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata
    2022 199 citations Stephen Nayfach, I-Min A. Chen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nikos C. Kyrpides United States 80 18.3k 11.4k 4.9k 2.0k 1.9k 391 27.6k
Robert A. Edwards United States 69 15.7k 0.9× 14.9k 1.3× 4.5k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 1.5k 0.8× 219 30.0k
George M Garrity United States 34 14.4k 0.8× 10.3k 0.9× 4.3k 0.9× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 247 28.8k
Ramon Rosselló‐Móra Spain 57 15.7k 0.9× 11.6k 1.0× 4.0k 0.8× 1.0k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 208 24.2k
Tanja Woyke United States 74 11.6k 0.6× 10.5k 0.9× 4.3k 0.9× 894 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 384 21.3k
Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis United States 58 12.9k 0.7× 10.6k 0.9× 3.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 211 22.7k
Ivica Letunić Germany 37 20.0k 1.1× 6.5k 0.6× 8.7k 1.8× 3.5k 1.8× 905 0.5× 48 34.9k
William B. Whitman United States 68 15.5k 0.8× 12.2k 1.1× 3.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 285 26.1k
Alexey Gurevich Russia 20 15.3k 0.8× 8.1k 0.7× 5.9k 1.2× 2.3k 1.2× 810 0.4× 30 28.4k
Natalia Ivanova United States 61 10.2k 0.6× 7.4k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 247 16.4k
Søren J. Sørensen Denmark 77 11.2k 0.6× 5.9k 0.5× 3.1k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 370 23.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Campanaro, Stefano, et al.. (2025). Unlocking the potential of designed microbial consortia: A breakthrough for sustainable waste management and climate resilience. Environmental Science and Ecotechnology. 25. 100558–100558. 2 indexed citations
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Baltoumas, Fotis A., Evangelos Karatzas, Sirui Liu, et al.. (2023). NMPFamsDB: a database of novel protein families from microbial metagenomes and metatranscriptomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D502–D512. 9 indexed citations
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Almeida, Alexandre, Stephen Nayfach, Miguel Boland, et al.. (2020). A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome. Nature Biotechnology. 39(1). 105–114. 736 indexed citations breakdown →
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Džunková, Mária, Frederik Schulz, Simon Roux, et al.. (2020). Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2527–2541. 47 indexed citations
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Kyrpides, Nikos C., Tanja Woyke, Nicole Shapiro, et al.. (2020). Hymenobacter artigasi sp. nov., isolated from air sampling in maritime Antarctica. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 70(9). 4935–4941. 10 indexed citations
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Carro, Lorena, Imen Nouioui, Vartul Sangal, et al.. (2018). Genome-based classification of micromonosporae with a focus on their biotechnological and ecological potential. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 525–525. 83 indexed citations
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Vigneron, Adrien, Eric Alsop, B. P. Lomans, et al.. (2017). Succession in the petroleum reservoir microbiome through an oil field production lifecycle. The ISME Journal. 11(9). 2141–2154. 133 indexed citations
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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
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Ovchinnikov, Sergey, Hahnbeom Park, Neha Varghese, et al.. (2017). Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data. Science. 355(6322). 294–298. 350 indexed citations breakdown →
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Berkum, Peter van, Milagros León‐Barrios, Encarna Velázquez, et al.. (2017). High-quality draft genome sequence of Ensifer meliloti Mlalz-1, a microsymbiont of Medicago laciniata (L.) miller collected in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 12(1). 58–58. 1 indexed citations
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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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Browne, Patrick Denis, Hideyuki Tamaki, Nikos C. Kyrpides, et al.. (2016). Genomic composition and dynamics among Methanomicrobiales predict adaptation to contrasting environments. The ISME Journal. 11(1). 87–99. 35 indexed citations
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Hadjithomas, Michalis, Ken Chu, Anna Ratner, et al.. (2015). IMG-ABC: A Knowledge Base To Fuel Discovery of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters and Novel Secondary Metabolites. mBio. 6(4). e00932–e00932. 69 indexed citations
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Reeve, Wayne, Matthew A. Parker, Rui Tian, et al.. (2014). Genome sequence of Microvirga lupini strain LUT6T, a novel Lupinus alphaproteobacterial microsymbiont from Texas. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9(3). 1159–1167. 4 indexed citations
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DeMaere, Matthew Z., Timothy J. Williams, Michelle A. Allen, et al.. (2013). High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(42). 16939–16944. 80 indexed citations
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Elkins, James G., Mircea Podar, David E. Graham, et al.. (2008). A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(23). 8102–8107. 199 indexed citations
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Gray, Tanya, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Frank Oliver Glöckner, et al.. (2008). Laying the Foundation for a Genomic Rosetta Stone: Creating Information Hubs through the Use of Consensus Identifiers. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 12(2). 123–127. 10 indexed citations
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Angiuoli, Samuel V., William Klimke, Guy Cochrane, et al.. (2008). Toward an Online Repository of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for (Meta)genomic Annotation. OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology. 12(2). 137–141. 536 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kyrpides, Nikos C., et al.. (2007). CRISPR Recognition Tool (CRT): a tool for automatic detection of clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 209–209. 1 indexed citations

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