Ross Overbeek

47.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
116 papers, 18.1k citations indexed

About

Ross Overbeek is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross Overbeek has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 18.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ross Overbeek's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (50 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (20 papers). Ross Overbeek is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (50 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (26 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (20 papers). Ross Overbeek collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Russia. Ross Overbeek's co-authors include Gordon D. Pusch, Gary J. Olsen, Veronika Vonstein, G J Olsen, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Terry Disz, Robert A. Edwards, Fangfang Xia and B. Maidak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ross Overbeek

111 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)

2013 3.5k citations Ross Overbeek, Robert Olson et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes

2015 2.0k citations James J. Davis, Terry Disz et al. profile →
The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

1997 1.8k citations B. Maidak, Ross Overbeek et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Subsystems Approach to Genome Annotation and its Use in the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes

2005 1.5k citations Ross Overbeek Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling

1999 946 citations Ross Overbeek, Gordon D. Pusch et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
fastDNAml: a tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood

1994 927 citations Gary J. Olsen, Ross Overbeek et al. profile →
The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

1998 919 citations Ross Overbeek, Gary J. Olsen et al. profile →
A new version of the RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

1999 840 citations B. Maidak, Ross Overbeek et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The winds of (evolutionary) change: breathing new life into microbiology

1994 728 citations Carl R. Woese, Ross Overbeek et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ross Overbeek United States	42	11.7k	5.9k	2.3k	1.8k	1.4k	116	18.1k
James Ostell United States	28	11.1k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	3.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	36	19.9k
Weizhong Li United States	45	16.8k 1.4×	5.6k 0.9×	3.6k 1.5×	2.3k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	130	25.7k
Alla Lapidus United States	53	7.1k 0.6×	4.0k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	967 0.7×	150	12.9k
Mark Borodovsky United States	42	9.6k 0.8×	3.7k 0.6×	3.8k 1.6×	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	92	16.3k
David W. Ussery Denmark	50	8.8k 0.8×	3.8k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.7×	177	14.3k
Miriam Land United States	43	8.7k 0.7×	6.5k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	802 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	108	15.3k
Tatiana Tatusova United States	31	12.0k 1.0×	3.3k 0.6×	2.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	59	17.7k
Thomas Madden United States	20	16.1k 1.4×	5.9k 1.0×	6.5k 2.8×	3.8k 2.2×	1.4k 1.1×	27	29.5k
H.C. Birnboim Canada	32	11.7k 1.0×	2.8k 0.5×	2.8k 1.2×	4.9k 2.8×	1.2k 0.9×	108	19.0k
Loren Hauser United States	39	8.1k 0.7×	6.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	727 0.4×	932 0.7×	77	14.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross Overbeek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ross Overbeek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ross Overbeek 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 Ross Overbeek. Ross Overbeek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Faria, José P., James J. Davis, Janaka N. Edirisinghe, et al.. (2016). Computing and Applying Atomic Regulons to Understand Gene Expression and Regulation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1819–1819. 5 indexed citations

Faria, José P., Ross Overbeek, Ronald C. Taylor, et al.. (2016). Reconstruction of the Regulatory Network for Bacillus subtilis and Reconciliation with Gene Expression Data. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 275–275. 12 indexed citations

Meyer, Folker, Ross Overbeek, & Álex Rodríguez. (2009). FIGfams: yet another set of protein families. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(20). 6643–6654. 94 indexed citations

Pusch, Gordon D., et al.. (2004). Detection of Lateral Gene Transfer Events in the Prokaryotic tRNA Synthetases by the Ratios of Evolutionary Distances Method. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 58(5). 615–631. 19 indexed citations

Gelfand, Mikhail S., et al.. (2003). Bioinformatics Classification and Functional Analysis of PhoH Homologs. In Silico Biology. 3(1-2). 3–15. 41 indexed citations

Overbeek, Ross. (2003). The ERGOTM genome analysis and discovery system. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(1). 164–171. 181 indexed citations

Jenkins, Cheryl, Ram Samudrala, Iain Anderson, et al.. (2002). Genes for the cytoskeletal protein tubulin in the bacterial genus Prosthecobacter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(26). 17049–17054. 126 indexed citations

Maidak, B., Niels B. Larsen, Michael J. McCaughey, et al.. (1994). The Ribosomal Database project. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(17). 3485–3487. 374 indexed citations

Overbeek, Ross. (1992). Logic Programming and Genetic Sequence Analysis: a Tutorial.. 32–34. 3 indexed citations

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Wos, Larry, et al.. (1992). Automated reasoning (2nd ed.): introduction and applications. McGraw-Hill, Inc. eBooks. 26 indexed citations

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Lusk, Ewing & Ross Overbeek. (1989). Logic Programming Proceedings of the North American Conference, 1989. MIT Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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Butler, Ralph, Terry Disz, Ewing Lusk, et al.. (1988). Scheduling OR-Parallelism: An Argonne Perspective.. International Conference on Lightning Protection. 1590–1605. 21 indexed citations

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Carlsson, Mats, et al.. (1988). A Simplified Approach to the Implementation of AND-Parallelism in an OR-Parallel Environment.. International Conference on Lightning Protection. 1565–1577. 3 indexed citations

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Disz, Terry, Ewing Lusk, & Ross Overbeek. (1987). Experiments with OR-Parallel Logic Programs.. International Conference on Lightning Protection. 576–600. 17 indexed citations

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Lusk, Ewing & Ross Overbeek. (1983). An Approach to Programming Multiprocessing Algorithms on the Denelcor HEP. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 6 indexed citations

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Lusk, Ewing & Ross Overbeek. (1982). Experiments with resolution-based theorem-proving algorithms. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 8(2). 141–152. 8 indexed citations

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Lusk, Ewing, et al.. (1981). Item Tracking Entity-Relationship Models. 213–233. 2 indexed citations

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Lusk, Ewing & Ross Overbeek. (1979). A DML for Entity-Relationship Models. 445–462. 3 indexed citations

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Overbeek, Ross, et al.. (1976). Complexity and related enhancements for automated theorem-proving programs. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 2(1). 1–16. 61 indexed citations

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Overbeek, Ross. (1975). An implementation of hyper-resolution. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 1(2). 201–214. 16 indexed citations

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