Vetle I. Torvik

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Vetle I. Torvik is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. According to data from OpenAlex, Vetle I. Torvik has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty. Recurrent topics in Vetle I. Torvik's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (25 papers), Topic Modeling (14 papers) and scientometrics and bibliometrics research (11 papers). Vetle I. Torvik is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (25 papers), Topic Modeling (14 papers) and scientometrics and bibliometrics research (11 papers). Vetle I. Torvik collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Vetle I. Torvik's co-authors include Neil R. Smalheiser, Giovanni Lugli, Don R. Swanson, Wei Zhou, John Larson, Yogesh Dwivedi, Hooriyah S. Rizavi, Marc Weeber, Lee Fleming and Amy Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Vetle I. Torvik

61 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vetle I. Torvik United States	26	1.4k	668	639	379	342	66	2.8k
Neil R. Smalheiser United States	44	4.4k 3.1×	1.0k 1.6×	1.7k 2.6×	359 0.9×	341 1.0×	141	7.2k
Robert Cook‐Deegan United States	32	757 0.5×	95 0.1×	161 0.3×	42 0.1×	42 0.1×	150	3.6k
Alberto Cambrosio Canada	28	347 0.2×	61 0.1×	156 0.2×	33 0.1×	162 0.5×	100	2.6k
Donald W. King United States	35	469 0.3×	108 0.2×	83 0.1×	74 0.2×	635 1.9×	155	3.7k
Timothy M. Errington United States	19	706 0.5×	102 0.2×	146 0.2×	66 0.2×	552 1.6×	50	2.2k
James E. Andrews United States	23	288 0.2×	335 0.5×	72 0.1×	128 0.3×	53 0.2×	70	2.1k
Kenneth Johnson United States	21	617 0.4×	196 0.3×	201 0.3×	67 0.2×	6 0.0×	84	2.5k
Bei Yu United States	22	317 0.2×	613 0.9×	226 0.4×	145 0.4×	21 0.1×	84	2.0k
Derek Ruths Canada	24	653 0.5×	582 0.9×	16 0.0×	41 0.1×	69 0.2×	68	2.6k
Douglas E. Hughes United States	31	1.3k 0.9×	70 0.1×	140 0.2×	64 0.2×	5 0.0×	53	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vetle I. Torvik

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Torvik, Vetle I., et al.. (2025). Patterns of diversity in biomedical coauthorships: An analysis across authors’ ethnicity, gender, age, and expertise. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0316890–e0316890.

Li, Lan, et al.. (2025). AutoDCWorkflow: LLM-based Data Cleaning Workflow Auto-Generation and Benchmark. 7766–7780. 1 indexed citations

Torvik, Vetle I., et al.. (2023). OpCitance: Citation contexts identified from the PubMed Central open access articles. Scientific Data. 10(1). 243–243. 5 indexed citations

Smalheiser, Neil R., et al.. (2022). The Citation Cloud of a biomedical article: a free, public, web-based tool enabling citation analysis. Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA. 110(1). 103–108. 4 indexed citations

Mishra, Shubhanshu, et al.. (2018). Self-citation is the hallmark of productive authors, of any gender. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0195773–e0195773. 81 indexed citations

Palmblad, Magnus & Vetle I. Torvik. (2017). Spatiotemporal analysis of tropical disease research combining Europe PMC and affiliation mapping web services. Tropical Medicine and Health. 45(1). 33–33. 5 indexed citations

Mishra, Shubhanshu & Vetle I. Torvik. (2016). Quantifying Conceptual Novelty in the Biomedical Literature. D-Lib Magazine. 22(9/10). 18 indexed citations

Torvik, Vetle I., et al.. (2016). Introducing the Author-ity Exporter, and a case study of geo-temporal movement of authors. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 1 indexed citations

Torvik, Vetle I.. (2015). MapAffil: A Bibliographic Tool for Mapping Author Affiliation Strings to Cities and Their Geocodes Worldwide. D-Lib Magazine. 21(11/12). 22 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R., Giovanni Lugli, Hooriyah S. Rizavi, et al.. (2011). MicroRNA expression in rat brain exposed to repeated inescapable shock: differential alterations in learned helplessness vs. non-learned helplessness. The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 14(10). 1315–1325. 96 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R., Vetle I. Torvik, & Wei Zhou. (2009). Arrowsmith two-node search interface: A tutorial on finding meaningful links between two disparate sets of articles in MEDLINE. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 94(2). 190–197. 46 indexed citations

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Lugli, Giovanni, Vetle I. Torvik, John Larson, & Neil R. Smalheiser. (2008). Expression of microRNAs and their precursors in synaptic fractions of adult mouse forebrain. Journal of Neurochemistry. 106(2). 650–661. 211 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R., Giovanni Lugli, Vetle I. Torvik, et al.. (2008). Natural antisense transcripts are co-expressed with sense mRNAs in synaptoneurosomes of adult mouse forebrain. Neuroscience Research. 62(4). 236–239. 35 indexed citations

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Zhou, Wei, Clement Yu, Vetle I. Torvik, & Neil R. Smalheiser. (2006). A concept-based framework for passage retrieval in genomics. Text REtrieval Conference. 15 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R. & Vetle I. Torvik. (2006). Alu elements within human mRNAs are probable microRNA targets. Trends in Genetics. 22(10). 532–536. 129 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R. & Vetle I. Torvik. (2006). Complications in Mammalian MicroRNA Target Prediction. Humana Press eBooks. 342. 115–128. 29 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R., Vetle I. Torvik, Amanda Bischoff‐Grethe, et al.. (2006). Collaborative development of the Arrowsmith two node search interface designed for laboratory investigators.. PubMed. 1(1). 8–8. 24 indexed citations

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Smalheiser, Neil R. & Vetle I. Torvik. (2005). Mammalian microRNAs derived from genomic repeats. Trends in Genetics. 21(6). 322–326. 234 indexed citations

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Torvik, Vetle I., Marc Weeber, Don R. Swanson, & Neil R. Smalheiser. (2005). A probabilistic similarity metric for Medline records: A model for author name disambiguation: Research Articles. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 56(2). 140–158. 37 indexed citations

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Kovalerchuk, Boris, et al.. (2000). The Reliability Issue of Computer-Aided Breast Cancer Diagnosis. Computers and Biomedical Research. 33(4). 296–313. 11 indexed citations

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