Paul Medvedev

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Paul Medvedev is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Medvedev has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Plant Science and 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Paul Medvedev's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (41 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (19 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (19 papers). Paul Medvedev is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (41 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (19 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (19 papers). Paul Medvedev collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Paul Medvedev's co-authors include Rayan Chikhi, Michael Brudno, Monica Stanciu, Kristoffer Sahlin, Kateryna D. Makova, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Antoine Limasset, Robert S. Harris, Pavel A. Pevzner and Chen Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Paul Medvedev

68 papers receiving 2.2k 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. Informed and automated k-mer size selection for genome assembly
    2013 497 citations Rayan Chikhi, Paul Medvedev Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Medvedev United States 22 1.6k 787 574 311 249 75 2.3k
Rayan Chikhi France 26 1.8k 1.1× 414 0.5× 661 1.2× 364 1.2× 471 1.9× 63 2.5k
Rasko Leinonen United Kingdom 9 2.4k 1.5× 501 0.6× 475 0.8× 227 0.7× 325 1.3× 11 3.3k
Éric Rivals France 23 1.8k 1.1× 362 0.5× 531 0.9× 394 1.3× 232 0.9× 78 2.3k
Erik Garrison United States 21 1.5k 0.9× 865 1.1× 773 1.3× 169 0.5× 129 0.5× 39 2.2k
Hideo Matsuda Japan 22 1.6k 1.0× 483 0.6× 258 0.4× 150 0.5× 550 2.2× 139 2.8k
Philippe Rigault Canada 22 1.5k 0.9× 544 0.7× 698 1.2× 285 0.9× 63 0.3× 30 2.6k
Takashi Gojobori Japan 30 2.5k 1.6× 1.0k 1.3× 481 0.8× 129 0.4× 479 1.9× 67 3.8k
Johannes Köster Germany 17 1.6k 1.0× 309 0.4× 368 0.6× 75 0.2× 264 1.1× 44 2.5k
Christian Iseli Switzerland 30 2.1k 1.3× 550 0.7× 589 1.0× 42 0.1× 175 0.7× 60 3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Medvedev

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Medvedev

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Medvedev

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Medvedev. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Medvedev 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 Paul Medvedev. Paul Medvedev 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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Tomaszkiewicz, Marta, Kristoffer Sahlin, Paul Medvedev, & Kateryna D. Makova. (2023). Transcript Isoform Diversity of Ampliconic Genes on the Y Chromosome of Great Apes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(11). 3 indexed citations
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Sahlin, Kristoffer, et al.. (2023). Efficient mapping of accurate long reads in minimizer space with mapquik. Genome Research. 33(7). 1188–1197. 8 indexed citations
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Dufresne, Yoann, Pierre Marijon, Pierre Peterlongo, et al.. (2022). The K-mer File Format: a standardized and compact disk representation of sets ofk-mers. Bioinformatics. 38(18). 4423–4425. 5 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Paul, et al.. (2022). kmtricks: efficient and flexible construction of Bloom filters for large sequencing data collections. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac029–vbac029. 14 indexed citations
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Harris, Robert S., et al.. (2022). The Statistics of k -mers from a Sequence Undergoing a Simple Mutation Process Without Spurious Matches. Journal of Computational Biology. 29(2). 155–168. 18 indexed citations
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Akbulut, Gulsum Gudukbay, et al.. (2022). GPU-accelerated and pipelined methylation calling. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac088–vbac088. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Lei, Raunaq Malhotra, Rayan Chikhi, et al.. (2021). Recombination Marks the Evolutionary Dynamics of a Recently Endogenized Retrovirus. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(12). 5423–5436. 5 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Paul & Mihai Pop. (2021). What do Eulerian and Hamiltonian cycles have to do with genome assembly?. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(5). e1008928–e1008928. 3 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Paul, et al.. (2020). Scalable multiple whole-genome alignment and locally collinear block construction with SibeliaZ. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6327–6327. 41 indexed citations
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Marchet, Camille, Christina Boucher, Simon J. Puglisi, et al.. (2020). Data structures based on k -mers for querying large collections of sequencing data sets. Genome Research. 31(1). 1–12. 50 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Paul, et al.. (2020). Scalable Pairwise Whole-Genome Homology Mapping of Long Genomes with BubbZ. iScience. 23(6). 101224–101224. 8 indexed citations
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Čechová, Monika, Rahulsimham Vegesna, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, et al.. (2020). Dynamic evolution of great ape Y chromosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(42). 26273–26280. 25 indexed citations
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Harris, Robert S. & Paul Medvedev. (2019). Improved representation of sequence bloom trees. Bioinformatics. 36(3). 721–727. 25 indexed citations
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Tomaszkiewicz, Marta, et al.. (2019). DiscoverY: a classifier for identifying Y chromosome sequences in male assemblies. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 641–641. 14 indexed citations
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Vegesna, Rahulsimham, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, Paul Medvedev, & Kateryna D. Makova. (2019). Dosage regulation, and variation in gene expression and copy number of human Y chromosome ampliconic genes. PLoS Genetics. 15(9). e1008369–e1008369. 21 indexed citations
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Sun, Chen & Paul Medvedev. (2018). Toward fast and accurate SNP genotyping from whole genome sequencing data for bedside diagnostics. Bioinformatics. 35(3). 415–420. 17 indexed citations
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Harris, Robert S., Monika Čechová, Marta Tomaszkiewicz, et al.. (2017). RecoverY: k -mer-based read classification for Y-chromosome-specific sequencing and assembly. Bioinformatics. 34(7). 1125–1131. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Chen & Paul Medvedev. (2016). VarMatch: robust matching of small variant datasets using flexible scoring schemes. Bioinformatics. 33(9). 1301–1308. 9 indexed citations
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Chikhi, Rayan, Antoine Limasset, Shaun D. Jackman, Jared T. Simpson, & Paul Medvedev. (2015). On the Representation of De Bruijn Graphs. Journal of Computational Biology. 22(5). 336–352. 36 indexed citations
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Medvedev, Paul, Son Pham, Mark Chaisson, Glenn Tesler, & Pavel A. Pevzner. (2011). Paired de Bruijn Graphs: A Novel Approach for Incorporating Mate Pair Information into Genome Assemblers. Journal of Computational Biology. 18(11). 1625–1634. 37 indexed citations

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