Scott Cain

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 309 citations indexed

About

Scott Cain is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Cain has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 309 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Scott Cain's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (2 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (1 paper). Scott Cain is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (2 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (1 paper). Scott Cain collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Scott Cain's co-authors include Linda Sperling, Olivier Arnaiz, John Cohen, Lincoln Stein, Robert Buels, Colin Diesh, Caroline Bridge, Robin Haw, Ian Holmes and Peter Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Scott Cain

8 papers receiving 300 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.

JBrowse 2: a modular genome browser with views of synteny and structural variation

2023 128 citations Colin Diesh, Garrett Stevens et al. Genome biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Cain United States	5	239	101	62	54	22	9	309
Brian D. Aevermann United States	10	297 1.2×	58 0.6×	27 0.4×	48 0.9×	10 0.5×	16	373
Michael Paulini United Kingdom	4	165 0.7×	104 1.0×	56 0.9×	37 0.7×	14 0.6×	5	242
David Moi Switzerland	9	179 0.7×	35 0.3×	63 1.0×	29 0.5×	14 0.6×	10	264
Yannis Nevers Switzerland	8	267 1.1×	54 0.5×	89 1.4×	24 0.4×	20 0.9×	18	345
Pétra Vande Zande United States	5	150 0.6×	63 0.6×	96 1.5×	18 0.3×	18 0.8×	8	245
Johan Hallin France	9	364 1.5×	145 1.4×	132 2.1×	17 0.3×	18 0.8×	12	465
Kazuki Ichikawa Japan	7	211 0.9×	73 0.7×	96 1.5×	20 0.4×	5 0.2×	11	276
Laurent Modolo France	11	309 1.3×	230 2.3×	98 1.6×	36 0.7×	6 0.3×	14	414
Sophie Zaaijer United States	6	209 0.9×	74 0.7×	53 0.9×	19 0.4×	52 2.4×	7	265
Karen Yook United States	10	251 1.1×	84 0.8×	61 1.0×	21 0.4×	71 3.2×	12	417

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Cain

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Cain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Scott Cain. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Scott Cain. The network helps show where Scott Cain may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Cain

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

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Wilkinson, Mark D., Chris Mungall, Scott Cain, et al.. (2024). FAIR Header Reference genome: a TRUSTworthy standard. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 25(3).

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Diesh, Colin, Robert Buels, Garrett Stevens, et al.. (2024). Setting Up the JBrowse 2 Genome Browser. Current Protocols. 4(8). e1120–e1120. 1 indexed citations

3.

Diesh, Colin, Garrett Stevens, Peter Xie, et al.. (2023). JBrowse 2: a modular genome browser with views of synteny and structural variation. Genome biology. 24(1). 74–74. 128 indexed citations breakdown →

4.

Martinez, Teresa De Jesus, Elliot A. Hershberg, Garrett Stevens, et al.. (2023). JBrowse Jupyter: a Python interface to JBrowse 2. Bioinformatics. 39(1). 4 indexed citations

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Cain, Scott, Robin Haw, Caroline Bridge, et al.. (2022). Abstract 6400: JBrowse 2: An extensible open-source platform for modern genome analysis. Cancer Research. 82(12_Supplement). 6400–6400. 1 indexed citations

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Grove, Christian A, Scott Cain, Wen J. Chen, et al.. (2018). Using WormBase: A Genome Biology Resource for Caenorhabditis elegans and Related Nematodes. Methods in molecular biology. 1757. 399–470. 21 indexed citations

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Jung, Sook, Naama Menda, Seth Redmond, et al.. (2011). The Chado Natural Diversity module: a new generic database schema for large-scale phenotyping and genotyping data. Database. 2011(0). bar051–bar051. 32 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Brian D., Allen Day, Scott Cain, et al.. (2008). GMODWeb: a web framework for the generic model organism database. Genome Biology. 9(6). R102–R102. 30 indexed citations

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Arnaiz, Olivier, Scott Cain, John Cohen, & Linda Sperling. (2006). ParameciumDB: a community resource that integrates the Paramecium tetraurelia genome sequence with genetic data. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(Database). D439–D444. 92 indexed citations

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