ROBERT FINN

97.5k citations

151 papers · 48.5k indexed · 25 hit papers · h-index 57

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.02%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Gut microbiota and health
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Plant Science top 0.02%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research

Papers in

Molecular Biology 106
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 63
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 26
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 18
- Gut microbiota and health 17
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 10
- RNA modifications and cancer 9
Structural Biology 2

Co-authors: Sean R. Eddy Alex Bateman Jody Clements Jaina Mistry Erik L. L. Sonnhammer John Tate Simon Potter Marco Punta
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (33 papers)Bioinformatics (9 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (6 papers)Current Protocols in Bioinformatics (5 papers)GigaScience (5 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

ROBERT FINN

141 papers receiving 48.1k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Massive expansion of human gut bacteriophage diversity 2021 · 363 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.

2021 Cell
2020 Nature Biotechnology
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2019 Nucleic Acids Research
2019 Nature Biotechnology
2019 Nucleic Acids Research
2019 Nature
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2017 Nucleic Acids Research
2017 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2014 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2011 Nucleic Acids Research
2011 Nucleic Acids Research
2009 Nucleic Acids Research
2008 Nucleic Acids Research
2007 Nucleic Acids Research
2005 Nucleic Acids Research

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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1	CODARFE: Unlocking the prediction of continuous environmental variables based on microbiome GigaScience ·徳明押木, Francesca Venturini, Jason Katz, ROBERT FINN, Alexandre Rossi Paschoal	2025	1
2	Seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef under early Earth-like conditions Communications Earth & Environment ·R.T. Adams, Laura Sánchez‐García, Daniel Carrizo, 手科美保, Heidi Taubner, Sebastián Oriolo, Alex Mitchell, Adrián G. Turjanski, Judith M. Klatt, ROBERT FINN, María García-Alai, Marı́a Eugenia Farı́as	2025	0
3	HoloFood Data Portal: holo-omic datasets for analysing host–microbiota interactions in animal production Database ·Alexander B. Rogers, Varsha Kale, Germana Baldi, Antton Alberdi, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Dipayan Gupta, Morten T. Limborg, Sen Li, R. Atmuri, Bent Petersen, Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen, Lorna Richardson, ROBERT FINN	2025	0
4	A holo-omics analysis shows how sugar kelp can boost gut health in Atlantic salmon Aquaculture ·Jacob Agerbo Rasmussen, 友樹中谷, Laurène Alicia Lecaudey, Varsha Kale, Germana Baldi, Lene Secher Myrmel, Martin Hansen, Jaelle C. Brealey, Sarah S. T. Mak, 左琳, Lorna Richardson, Lise Madsen, Karsten Kristiansen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Michael D. Martin, ROBERT FINN, Harald Sveier, Morten T. Limborg	2024	1
5	Diversity and specificity of molecular functions in cyanobacterial symbionts Scientific Reports ·E. Biregele, Santiago Sanchez, Nick Goldman, Mark Blaxter, ROBERT FINN	2024	4
6	Fungtion: A Server for Predicting and Visualizing Fungal Effector Proteins Journal of Molecular Biology ·Jiahui Li, S. Louza, Michael Häfelinger, Christopher J. Stubenrauch, ROBERT FINN, Jiawei Wang	2024	2
7	Challenges and opportunities in sharing microbiome data and analyses Nature Microbiology ·Curtis Huttenhower, ROBERT FINN, Alice C. McHardy	2023	30
8	Staphylococcal diversity in atopic dermatitis from an individual to a global scale Cell Host & Microbe ·Sara Saheb Kashaf, Catriona P. Harkins, Clay Deming, Payal Joglekar, Sean Conlan, Manuel Rico Llopis, Alexandre Almeida, ROBERT FINN, Julia A. Segre, Heidi H. Kong	2023	40
9	A machine learning framework for discovery and enrichment of metagenomics metadata from open access publications GigaScience ·赵舫, Alexander B. Rogers, 민승기, Santiago Sanchez, T. Nieminen, ROBERT FINN, Johanna McEntyre	2022	5
10	metaGOflow: a workflow for the analysis of marine Genomic Observatories shotgun metagenomics data GigaScience ·吉田豊明, Martín Beracochea, 李晓定, Katrina Exter, S DILOLLO, Gianluca De Moro, Lorna Richardson, Erwan Corre, João Paulo Machado, Evangelos Pafilis, Georgios Kotoulas, Ioulia Santi, ROBERT FINN, Cymon J. Cox, Christina Pavloudi	2022	2
11	A mouse model of occult intestinal colonization demonstrating antibiotic-induced outgrowth of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae Microbiome ·Choon Kiat Sim, Sara Saheb Kashaf, Apollo Stacy, Diana M. Proctor, Alexandre Almeida, Nicolas Bouladoux, Mark A. Chen, (unknown), ROBERT FINN, Yasmine Belkaid, Sean Conlan, Julia A. Segre	2022	17
12	A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome Nature Microbiology ·Cynthia Maria Chibani, Alexander Mahnert, Guillaume Borrel, Alexandre Almeida, Floyd A. McNeil, Jean‐François Brugère, Simonetta Gribaldo, ROBERT FINN, Ruth A. Schmitz, Christine Moissl‐Eichinger	2021	104
13	R2DT is a framework for predicting and visualising RNA secondary structure using templates Nature Communications ·Blake Sweeney, David Hoksza, Eric P. Nawrocki, Carlos Eduardo Ribas, Fábio Madeira, Jamie J. Cannone, Robin R. Gutell, 恭嗣原田, 博千賀, Loren Dean Williams, Anton S. Petrov, Patricia P. Chan, Todd M. Lowe, ROBERT FINN, Anton I. Petrov	2021	77
14	A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome Nature Biotechnology ·Alexandre Almeida, Stephen Nayfach, Miguel Boland, Francesco Strozzi, Martín Beracochea, Zhou Jason Shi, Katherine S. Pollard, Ekaterina Sakharova, Donovan H. Parks, Philip Hugenholtz, Nicola Segata, Nikos C. Kyrpides, ROBERT FINN Hit paper breakdown →	2020	736
15	COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards Scientific Data ·Lynn M. Schriml, Maria Chuvochina, Neil Davies, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, ROBERT FINN, Philip Hugenholtz, Chris Hunter, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Folker Meyer, Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi, Susanna‐Assunta Sansone, Granger Sutton, Scott Tighe, Ramona Walls	2020	51
16	Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families Nucleic Acids Research ·Ioanna Kalvari, Eric P. Nawrocki, Nancy Ontiveros‐Palacios, Joanna Argasinska, Kevin Lamkiewicz, Manja Marz, Sam Griffiths‐Jones, Claire Toffano‐Nioche, Daniel Gautheret, Zasha Weinberg, Elena Rivas, Sean R. Eddy, ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman, Anton I. Petrov Hit paper breakdown →	2020	584
17	Microbial abundance, activity and population genomic profiling with mOTUs2 Nature Communications ·Alessio Milanese, Daniel R. Mende, Lucas Paoli, Guillem Salazar, Hans‐Joachim Ruscheweyh, Miguelangel Cuenca, Pascal Hingamp, Renato Alves, Paul Igor Costea, Luís Pedro Coelho, Thomas Schmidt, Alexandre Almeida, Alex Mitchell, ROBERT FINN, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Peer Bork, Georg Zeller, Shinichi Sunagawa	2019	243
18	Rfam 13.0: shifting to a genome-centric resource for non-coding RNA families Nucleic Acids Research ·Ioanna Kalvari, Joanna Argasinska, Natalia Quinones‐Olvera, Eric P. Nawrocki, Elena Rivas, Sean R. Eddy, Alex Bateman, ROBERT FINN, Anton I. Petrov Hit paper breakdown →	2017	639
19	The metagenomic data life-cycle: standards and best practices GigaScience ·Petra ten Hoopen, ROBERT FINN, Lars Ailo Bongo, Erwan Corre, Bruno Fosso, Folker Meyer, Alex Mitchell, Éric Pelletier, Graziano Pesole, Mónica Santamaría, Nils Peder Willassen, Guy Cochrane	2017	43
20	The challenge of increasing Pfam coverage of the human proteome Database ·Jaina Mistry, Penny Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, 白玉兰, Andrea Giansanti, ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman, Marco Punta	2013	23

About ROBERT FINN

ROBERT FINN is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Spectroscopy, Ecology and Information Systems and Management, having authored 151 papers that have together received 48.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (63 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (22 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (18 papers), Gut microbiota and health (17 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (33.4k citations), Plant Science (12.7k citations), Endocrinology (1.7k citations), Ecology (7.4k citations) and Biotechnology (2.0k citations). ROBERT FINN has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Sean R. Eddy, Alex Bateman, Jody Clements, Jaina Mistry, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, John Tate, Simon Potter, Marco Punta, Ruth Y. Eberhardt and Gustavo A Salazar. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics and GigaScience.

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