ROBERT FINN

97.5k total citations · 25 hit papers
151 papers, 48.5k citations indexed

About

ROBERT FINN is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, ROBERT FINN has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 48.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Molecular Biology, 31 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in ROBERT FINN's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (63 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers). ROBERT FINN is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (63 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (23 papers). ROBERT FINN collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. ROBERT FINN's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

ROBERT FINN

141 papers receiving 48.1k citations

Hit Papers

Pfam: the protein families database 2005 2026 2012 2019 2013 2011 2015 2020 2018 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Pfam: the protein families database
    2013 4.7k citations ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching
    2011 4.1k citations ROBERT FINN, Jody Clements et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future
    2015 4.1k citations ROBERT FINN, Penelope Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. Pfam: The protein families database in 2021
    2020 3.8k citations Jaina Mistry, Matloob Qureshi et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. The Pfam protein families database in 2019
    2018 3.2k citations Sara El-Gebali, Jaina Mistry et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. The EMBL-EBI search and sequence analysis tools APIs in 2019
    2019 3.1k citations Fábio Madeira, Simon Potter et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. The Pfam protein families database
    2011 3.0k citations Marco Punta, Penny Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. The Pfam protein families database
    2009 2.4k citations ROBERT FINN, Jaina Mistry et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. Pfam: clans, web tools and services
    2005 1.9k citations ROBERT FINN Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  10. The Pfam protein families database
    2007 1.6k citations ROBERT FINN, John Tate et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  11. HMMER web server: 2018 update
    2018 1.6k citations Simon Potter, Aurélien Luciani et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  12. The MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors in 2017 and a comparison with peptidases in the PANTHER database
    2017 1.2k citations Alex Bateman, ROBERT FINN et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  13. Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions
    2013 1.1k citations Jaina Mistry, ROBERT FINN et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  14. A new genomic blueprint of the human gut microbiota
    2019 840 citations Alexandre Almeida, Alex Mitchell et al. profile →
  15. Rfam 12.0: updates to the RNA families database
    2014 805 citations Eric P. Nawrocki, Alex Bateman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  16. 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 →
  17. Rfam: updates to the RNA families database
    2008 733 citations Paul P. Gardner, John Tate et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  18. HMMER web server: 2015 update
    2015 696 citations ROBERT FINN, Jody Clements et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  19. Rfam 13.0: shifting to a genome-centric resource for non-coding RNA families
    2017 639 citations Ioanna Kalvari, Joanna Argasinska et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  20. Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families
    2020 584 citations Ioanna Kalvari, Eric P. Nawrocki et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  21. Twenty years of theMEROPSdatabase of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors
    2015 524 citations ROBERT FINN et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  22. The Dfam database of repetitive DNA families
    2015 449 citations ROBERT FINN, Jody Clements et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  23. Massive expansion of human gut bacteriophage diversity
    2021 363 citations Alexandre Almeida, Guillermo Rangel-Piñeros et al. profile →
  24. MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020
    2019 362 citations Alex Mitchell, Alexandre Almeida et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  25. A human gut bacterial genome and culture collection for improved metagenomic analyses
    2019 347 citations Alexandre Almeida, Alex Mitchell et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
ROBERT FINN United Kingdom 57 33.4k 12.7k 7.4k 5.3k 2.3k 151 48.5k
Alex Bateman United Kingdom 69 40.4k 1.2× 13.7k 1.1× 7.4k 1.0× 6.8k 1.3× 2.0k 0.9× 158 57.2k
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Sweden 51 30.6k 0.9× 10.3k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 5.3k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 153 44.6k
Björn Usadel Germany 62 30.3k 0.9× 21.6k 1.7× 8.6k 1.2× 7.5k 1.4× 3.0k 1.3× 187 58.7k
Hamish McWilliam United Kingdom 15 25.5k 0.8× 10.7k 0.8× 6.7k 0.9× 6.1k 1.2× 3.2k 1.4× 18 46.3k
Andreas Wilm Singapore 21 21.0k 0.6× 8.3k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 5.0k 0.9× 3.0k 1.3× 29 37.5k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom 32 32.5k 1.0× 13.2k 1.0× 7.9k 1.1× 7.3k 1.4× 3.9k 1.7× 68 57.4k
Joel T. Dudley United States 54 16.8k 0.5× 8.4k 0.7× 5.7k 0.8× 5.9k 1.1× 2.9k 1.3× 196 43.0k
Pavel A. Pevzner United States 78 29.3k 0.9× 9.2k 0.7× 9.9k 1.3× 6.1k 1.2× 3.1k 1.4× 255 45.5k
Sean R. Eddy United States 80 54.3k 1.6× 18.3k 1.4× 13.1k 1.8× 9.1k 1.7× 2.6k 1.1× 127 75.9k
Ivica Letunić Germany 37 20.0k 0.6× 8.7k 0.7× 6.5k 0.9× 3.5k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 48 34.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by ROBERT FINN

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of ROBERT FINN

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of ROBERT FINN. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of ROBERT FINN 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 ROBERT FINN. ROBERT FINN 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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Sánchez‐García, Laura, Daniel Carrizo, Heidi Taubner, et al.. (2025). Seasonal biogeochemical variations in a modern microbialite reef under early Earth-like conditions. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1).
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FINN, ROBERT, et al.. (2025). CODARFE: Unlocking the prediction of continuous environmental variables based on microbiome. GigaScience. 14. 1 indexed citations
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Rasmussen, Jacob Agerbo, Laurène Alicia Lecaudey, Varsha Kale, et al.. (2024). A holo-omics analysis shows how sugar kelp can boost gut health in Atlantic salmon. Aquaculture. 597. 741913–741913. 1 indexed citations
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Sanchez, Santiago, et al.. (2024). Diversity and specificity of molecular functions in cyanobacterial symbionts. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 18658–18658. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Jiahui, et al.. (2024). Fungtion: A Server for Predicting and Visualizing Fungal Effector Proteins. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(17). 168613–168613. 2 indexed citations
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Rangel-Piñeros, Guillermo, Alexandre Almeida, Martín Beracochea, et al.. (2023). VIRify: An integrated detection, annotation and taxonomic classification pipeline using virus-specific protein profile hidden Markov models. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(8). e1011422–e1011422. 17 indexed citations
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Gurbich, Tatiana A, Alexandre Almeida, Martín Beracochea, et al.. (2023). MGnify Genomes: A Resource for Biome-specific Microbial Genome Catalogues. Journal of Molecular Biology. 435(14). 168016–168016. 32 indexed citations
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Sim, Choon Kiat, Sara Saheb Kashaf, Apollo Stacy, et al.. (2022). A mouse model of occult intestinal colonization demonstrating antibiotic-induced outgrowth of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Microbiome. 10(1). 43–43. 17 indexed citations
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Rogers, Alexander B., et al.. (2022). A machine learning framework for discovery and enrichment of metagenomics metadata from open access publications. GigaScience. 11. 5 indexed citations
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Chibani, Cynthia Maria, Alexander Mahnert, Guillaume Borrel, et al.. (2021). A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome. Nature Microbiology. 7(1). 48–61. 104 indexed citations
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Sweeney, Blake, David Hoksza, Eric P. Nawrocki, et al.. (2021). R2DT is a framework for predicting and visualising RNA secondary structure using templates. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3494–3494. 77 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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Kalvari, Ioanna, Eric P. Nawrocki, Nancy Ontiveros‐Palacios, et al.. (2020). Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D192–D200. 584 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gardner, Paul P., Xochitl C. Morgan, Jenny Draper, et al.. (2019). Identifying accurate metagenome and amplicon software via a meta-analysis of sequence to taxonomy benchmarking studies. PeerJ. 7. e6160–e6160. 26 indexed citations
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Milanese, Alessio, Daniel R. Mende, Lucas Paoli, et al.. (2019). Microbial abundance, activity and population genomic profiling with mOTUs2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1014–1014. 243 indexed citations
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El-Gebali, Sara, Jaina Mistry, Alex Bateman, et al.. (2018). The Pfam protein families database in 2019. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D427–D432. 3202 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hoopen, Petra ten, ROBERT FINN, Lars Ailo Bongo, et al.. (2017). The metagenomic data life-cycle: standards and best practices. GigaScience. 6(8). 1–11. 43 indexed citations
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FINN, ROBERT, Penelope Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2015). The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D279–D285. 4051 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mistry, Jaina, Penny Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2013). The challenge of increasing Pfam coverage of the human proteome. Database. 2013. bat023–bat023. 23 indexed citations
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FINN, ROBERT, Alex Bateman, Jody Clements, et al.. (2013). Pfam: the protein families database. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D222–D230. 4740 indexed citations breakdown →

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