R. C. Edgar

146.7k citations

50 papers · 89.7k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Ecology top 0.01%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
Molecular Biology top 0.01%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health

Papers in

Molecular Biology 39
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 35
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 11
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 8
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 7
Ecology 11
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 8

Co-authors: Rob Knight Christopher Quince Brian J. Haas José C. Clemente Henrik Flyvbjerg Eugene W. Myers Serafim Batzoglou Sur Herrera Paredes
Journals: Bioinformatics (8 papers)PeerJ (6 papers)mAbs (4 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (4 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Spain

In The Last Decade

R. C. Edgar

49 papers receiving 88.7k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny 2022 · 402 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Communications
2022 Nature
2018 Bioinformatics
2015 Bioinformatics
2013 Nature Methods
2012 Nature
2011 Bioinformatics
2010 Bioinformatics
2004 Nucleic Acids Research
2004 BMC Bioinformatics

Peers

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Noah Fierer United States

Rob Knight United States

Frank Oliver Glöckner Germany

J. Gregory Caporaso United States

Mark A. Bradford United States

Philip Hugenholtz Australia

Stephen F. Altschul United States

Susan Holmes United States

Erko Stackebrandt Germany

James M. Tiedje United States

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. C. Edgar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside R. C. Edgar, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with R. C. Edgar Line = papers co-authored together R. C. Edgar links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi Nature Communications ·Marco Forgia, Beatriz Navarro, Stefania Daghino, Amelia Cervera, Andreas Gisel, Silvia Perotto, Dilzara N. Aghayeva, Ella Segal, Emanuela Gobbi, Ivan N. Zheludev, R. C. Edgar, Rayan Chikhi, Massimo Turina, Artem Babaian, Francesco Di Serio, Marcos de la Peña	2023	50
2	Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery Nature ·R. C. Edgar, Thị Hồng Đinh, Victor S.-Y. Lin, Tomer Altman, Pierre Barbera, Dmitry Meleshko, P. Delpet, Florian Lichtin, Benjamin Buchfink, Basem Al-Shayeb, Jillian F. Banfield, Marcos de la Peña, Anton Korobeynikov, Rayan Chikhi, Artem Babaian Hit paper breakdown →	2022	264
3	Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny Nature Communications ·R. C. Edgar Hit paper breakdown →	2022	402
4	Massively parallel interrogation and mining of natively paired human TCRαβ repertoires Nature Biotechnology ·Matthew Spindler, Mahmood R. Mehran, Christopher Melm, М Ю Смирнов, John S. Bridgeman, James Heather, Adam S. Adler, Michael A. Asensio, R. C. Edgar, Yoong Wearn Lim, Everett Meyer, Robert E. Hawkins, Mark Cobbold, David S. Johnson	2020	37
5	Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs Bioinformatics ·R. C. Edgar Hit paper breakdown →	2018	467
6	Accuracy of taxonomy prediction for 16S rRNA and fungal ITS sequences PeerJ ·R. C. Edgar	2018	224
7	Accuracy of microbial community diversity estimated by closed- and open-reference OTUs PeerJ ·R. C. Edgar	2017	115
8	Stability of operational taxonomic units: an important but neglected property for analyzing microbial diversity Microbiome ·Yan He, J. Gregory Caporaso, Xiaotao Jiang, Hua-Fang Sheng, Susan M. Huse, Jai Ram Rideout, R. C. Edgar, Evguenia Kopylova, William A. Walters, Rob Knight, Hongwei Zhou	2015	106
9	Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome Nature ·Derek S. Lundberg, Sarah L. Lebeis, Sur Herrera Paredes, Scott Yourstone, Jase Gehring, Stephanie Malfatti, Julien Tremblay, Anna Engelbrektson, Victor Kunin, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, R. C. Edgar, Thilo Eickhorst, Ruth E. Ley, Philip Hugenholtz, Susannah G. Tringe, Jeffery L. Dangl Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1945
10	UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection Bioinformatics ·R. C. Edgar, Brian J. Haas, José C. Clemente, Christopher Quince, Rob Knight Hit paper breakdown →	2011	12264
11	Interspersed repeats in the horse (Equus caballus); spatial correlations highlight conserved chromosomal domains Animal Genetics ·David L. Adelson, Joy M Raison, Manuel Garber, R. C. Edgar	2010	14
12	Quality measures for protein alignment benchmarks Nucleic Acids Research ·R. C. Edgar	2010	87
13	PILER-CR: Fast and accurate identification of CRISPR repeats BMC Bioinformatics ·R. C. Edgar	2007	256
14	Improved repeat identification and masking in Dipterans Gene ·Christopher D. Smith, R. C. Edgar, Mark Yandell, Douglas R. Smith, S Celniker, Eugene W. Myers, Gary H. Karpen	2006	56
15	PILER: identification and classification of genomic repeats Computer applications in the biosciences ·R. C. Edgar, Eugene W. Myers	2005	430
16	MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with improved accuracy and speed R. C. Edgar	2004	45
17	MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput Nucleic Acids Research ·R. C. Edgar Hit paper breakdown →	2004	34268
18	COACH: profile–profile alignment of protein families using hidden Markov models Bioinformatics ·R. C. Edgar, Kimmen Sjölander	2004	67
19	Local homology recognition and distance measures in linear time using compressed amino acid alphabets Nucleic Acids Research ·R. C. Edgar	2004	103
20	MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity BMC Bioinformatics ·R. C. Edgar Hit paper breakdown →	2004	6845

About R. C. Edgar

R. C. Edgar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Immunology, Plant Science and Condensed Matter Physics, having authored 50 papers that have together received 89.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (35 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (8 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers), T-cell and B-cell Immunology (6 papers) and Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (25.3k citations), Molecular Biology (41.7k citations), Plant Science (21.7k citations), Insect Science (6.5k citations) and Pollution (5.4k citations). R. C. Edgar has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Rob Knight, Christopher Quince, Brian J. Haas, José C. Clemente, Henrik Flyvbjerg, Eugene W. Myers, Serafim Batzoglou, Sur Herrera Paredes, Sarah L. Lebeis and Victor Kunin. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, PeerJ, mAbs, Nucleic Acids Research and BMC Bioinformatics.

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