Victor Kunin

8.7k citations

36 papers · 5.4k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 23

Impact in

Ecology top 1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Plant Science top 1%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Papers in

Ecology 12
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 9
Molecular Biology 27
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 20
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 9
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 5
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 3
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 3

Co-authors: Philip Hugenholtz Rotem Sorek Christos Ouzounis Sarah L. Lebeis Sur Herrera Paredes Anna Engelbrektson Jase Gehring Derek S. Lundberg
Journals: Bioinformatics (3 papers)Genome Research (3 papers)Computer applications in the biosciences (3 papers)Environmental Microbiology (2 papers)Genome biology (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Victor Kunin

35 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome 2012 · 1.9k 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.

2012 Nature
2007 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2006 Nature Biotechnology

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Assessment of the Risks of Creation and Launching of High-Tech Products in the Framework of Smart-Stage-Gate Technology Shailendra Kumar Shrestha, Victor Kunin	2025	0
2	Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome Nature ·Derek S. Lundberg, Sarah L. Lebeis, Sur Herrera Paredes, Scott Yourstone, Jase Gehring, Stephanie Malfatti, Julien Tremblay, Anna Engelbrektson, Victor Kunin, Tijana Glavina Del Rio, R. C. Edgar, Thilo Eickhorst, Ruth E. Ley, Philip Hugenholtz, Susannah G. Tringe, Jeffery L. Dangl Hit paper breakdown →	2012	1945
3	Genome Analysis of the Anaerobic Thermohalophilic Bacterium Halothermothrix orenii PLoS ONE ·Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Iain Anderson, Athanasios Lykidis, Sean Hooper, Hui Sun, Victor Kunin, Alla Lapidus, Philip Hugenholtz, Bharat Patel, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2009	69
4	A korarchaeal genome reveals insights into the evolution of the Archaea Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James G. Elkins, Mircea Podar, David E. Graham, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Lennart Randau, Brian P. Hedlund, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, Victor Kunin, Iain Anderson, Alla Lapidus, Eugene Goltsman, Kerrie Barry, Eugene V. Koonin, Philip Hugenholtz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Gerhard Wanner, Paul Richardson, Martin Keller, Karl O. Stetter	2008	199
5	A bacterial metapopulation adapts locally to phage predation despite global dispersal Genome Research ·Victor Kunin, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2007	2
6	CRISPR — a widespread system that provides acquired resistance against phages in bacteria and archaea Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Rotem Sorek, Victor Kunin, Philip Hugenholtz Hit paper breakdown →	2007	679
7	Denoising inferred functional association networks obtained by gene fusion analysis BMC Genomics ·Atanas Kamburov, Leon Goldovsky, Shiri Freilich, Aliki Kapazoglou, Victor Kunin, Anton J. Enright, Athanasios Tsaftaris, Christos Ouzounis	2007	15
8	Metagenomic analysis of phosphorus removing sludge communities Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) ·Héctor García Martín, Victor Kunin, Hansjörg Baurecht, Falk Warnecke, S. Brook Peterson, Kerrie Barry, Alice C. McHardy, Christine Yeates, Shaomei He, Asaf Salamov, Ernest Szeto, Eileen Dalin, Nicholas H. Putnam, Isidore Rigoutsos, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Linda L. Blackall, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz, (unknown)	2006	9
9	Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities Nature Biotechnology ·Héctor García Martín, Natalia Ivanova, Victor Kunin, Falk Warnecke, Kerrie Barry, Alice C. McHardy, Christine Yeates, Shaomei He, Asaf Salamov, Ernest Szeto, Eileen Dalin, Nicholas H. Putnam, Harris Shapiro, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Isidore Rigoutsos, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Linda L. Blackall, Katherine D. McMahon, Philip Hugenholtz Hit paper breakdown →	2006	571
10	The net of life: Reconstructing the microbial phylogenetic network Genome Research ·Victor Kunin, Leon Goldovsky, Nikos Darzentas, Christos Ouzounis	2005	180
11	The properties of protein family space depend on experimental design Computer applications in the biosciences ·Victor Kunin, Sarah A. Teichmann, Martijn A. Huynen, Christos Ouzounis	2005	9
12	CoGenT++: an extensive and extensible data environment for computational genomics Computer applications in the biosciences ·Leon Goldovsky, Paul Janssen, Dag Ahrén, Benjamin Audit, Ildefonso Cases, Nikos Darzentas, Anton J. Enright, Núria López-Bigas, José M. Peregrín-Alvarez, Mike L. Smith, Sophia Tsoka, Victor Kunin, Christos Ouzounis	2005	20
13	MagicMatch--cross-referencing sequence identifiers across databases Computer applications in the biosciences ·Michael R. Smith, Victor Kunin, Л.М. Щербак, Anton J. Enright, Christos Ouzounis	2005	18
14	Clustering the annotation space of proteins BMC Bioinformatics ·Victor Kunin, Christos Ouzounis	2005	13
15	Functional Evolution of the Yeast Protein Interaction Network Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Victor Kunin	2004	52
16	Comprehensive analysis of pseudogenes in prokaryotes: widespread gene decay and failure of putative horizontally transferred genes Genome biology ·Yang Liu, Paul M. Harrison, Victor Kunin, Mark Gerstein	2004	136
17	The Balance of Driving Forces During Genome Evolution in Prokaryotes Genome Research ·Victor Kunin, Christos Ouzounis	2003	157
18	Organization and Functional Analysis of the Mouse Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing 2 Promoter The Journal of Immunology ·Evgeny Arons, Victor Kunin, Лариса Васильевна Филиппова, Rachel Ehrlich	2001	18
19	Consistency analysis of similarity between multiple alignments: prediction of protein function and fold structure from analysis of local sequence motifs Journal of Molecular Biology ·Victor Kunin, Bob Chan, Einat Sitbon, Lithwick Gila, Shmuel Pietrokovski	2001	29
20	A System of Two Polymerases – A Model for the Origin of Life Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres ·Victor Kunin	2000	26

About Victor Kunin

Victor Kunin is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Pollution, Genetics and Development, having authored 36 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (5 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (4 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (4 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (1.8k citations), Plant Science (2.0k citations), Pollution (520 citations), Molecular Biology (3.0k citations) and Endocrinology (135 citations). Victor Kunin has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Philip Hugenholtz, Rotem Sorek, Christos Ouzounis, Sarah L. Lebeis, Sur Herrera Paredes, Anna Engelbrektson, Jase Gehring, Derek S. Lundberg, Thilo Eickhorst and Ruth E. Ley. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, Genome Research, Computer applications in the biosciences, Environmental Microbiology and Genome biology.

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