Volkan Atalay

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Volkan Atalay is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Volkan Atalay has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Volkan Atalay's work include Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10 papers) and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (9 papers). Volkan Atalay is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Vision and Imaging (13 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10 papers) and Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (9 papers). Volkan Atalay collaborates with scholars based in Türkiye, United States and United Kingdom. Volkan Atalay's co-authors include Rengül Çetin-Atalay, Tunca Doğan, Ahmet Süreyya Rifaioğlu, María Martin, Heval Ataş, Erol Gelenbe, Mehmet Sinan Beksaç, Uğur Halıcı, Kemal Leblebi̇ci̇oğlu and Deniz Kahraman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Volkan Atalay

63 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Recent applications of deep learning and machine intellig... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300
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. Recent applications of deep learning and machine intelligence on in silico drug discovery: methods, tools and databases
    2018 363 citations Ahmet Süreyya Rifaioğlu, Heval Ataş et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Volkan Atalay Türkiye 17 742 548 430 210 174 67 1.6k
Junaid Baber Pakistan 18 425 0.6× 468 0.9× 232 0.5× 305 1.5× 103 0.6× 52 1.3k
Guangyong Chen China 19 444 0.6× 197 0.4× 229 0.5× 171 0.8× 181 1.0× 67 1.2k
Lun Hu China 29 1.4k 1.9× 863 1.6× 206 0.5× 550 2.6× 135 0.8× 105 2.4k
Celine Vens Belgium 17 565 0.8× 253 0.5× 226 0.5× 831 4.0× 60 0.3× 73 1.8k
Tengfei Ma China 21 538 0.7× 472 0.9× 180 0.4× 857 4.1× 158 0.9× 96 1.7k
Jian Yu China 19 276 0.4× 147 0.3× 401 0.9× 591 2.8× 75 0.4× 91 1.6k
Robin Winter Germany 9 316 0.4× 496 0.9× 193 0.4× 575 2.7× 358 2.1× 10 1.3k
Ping Xuan China 29 1.6k 2.2× 464 0.8× 151 0.4× 456 2.2× 92 0.5× 122 2.6k
Daqi Gao China 19 230 0.3× 135 0.2× 314 0.7× 623 3.0× 33 0.2× 97 1.3k
Andreas Mayr Austria 13 1.0k 1.4× 879 1.6× 200 0.5× 262 1.2× 444 2.6× 17 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Volkan Atalay

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Fields of papers citing papers by Volkan Atalay

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Volkan Atalay

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Volkan Atalay. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Volkan Atalay 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 Volkan Atalay. Volkan Atalay 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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Meliton, Angelo Y., Rengül Çetin-Atalay, Volkan Atalay, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial one-carbon metabolism is required for TGF-β-induced glycine synthesis and fibrotic responses. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9250–9250.
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Hamanaka, Robert B., Volkan Atalay, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, et al.. (2025). Arginine promotes the activation of human lung fibroblasts independent of its metabolism. Biochemical Journal. 482(12). 823–838.
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Atalay, Volkan, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, Erin O’Leary, et al.. (2025). mTOR signaling regulates multiple metabolic pathways in human lung fibroblasts after TGF-β and in pulmonary fibrosis. American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 328(2). L215–L228. 5 indexed citations
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Yazıcı, Adnan, et al.. (2024). Hybrid deep learning models with data fusion approach for electricity load forecasting. Expert Systems. 42(2).
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Rifaioğlu, Ahmet Süreyya, et al.. (2024). Drug Repurposing Approach to Identify Candidate Drug Molecules for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25(17). 9392–9392. 1 indexed citations
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Rifaioğlu, Ahmet Süreyya, María Martin, Rengül Çetin-Atalay, et al.. (2023). Transfer learning for drug–target interaction prediction. Bioinformatics. 39(Supplement_1). i103–i110. 35 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan, et al.. (2022). Online embedding and clustering of evolving data streams. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal. 16(1). 29–44. 3 indexed citations
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Doğan, Tunca, Heval Ataş, Vishal Joshi, et al.. (2021). CROssBAR: comprehensive resource of biomedical relations with knowledge graph representations. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). e96–e96. 26 indexed citations
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Çetin-Atalay, Rengül, Deniz Kahraman, Ahmet Süreyya Rifaioğlu, et al.. (2021). Data Centric Molecular Analysis and Evaluation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Therapeutics Using Machine Intelligence-Based Tools. Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer. 52(4). 1266–1276. 2 indexed citations
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Erşahin, Tülin, et al.. (2014). Identification of Novel Reference Genes Based on MeSH Categories. PLoS ONE. 9(3). e93341–e93341. 10 indexed citations
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Işık, Zerrin, Tülin Erşahin, Volkan Atalay, Cevdet Aykanat, & Rengül Çetin-Atalay. (2012). A signal transduction score flow algorithm for cyclic cellular pathway analysis, which combines transcriptome and ChIP-seq data. Molecular BioSystems. 8(12). 3224–3231. 6 indexed citations
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Çetin-Atalay, Rengül, et al.. (2010). Bi-k-bi clustering: mining large scale gene expression data using two-level biclustering. International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics. 4(6). 701–701. 3 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan, et al.. (2010). GOPred: GO Molecular Function Prediction by Combined Classifiers. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e12382–e12382. 15 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan & Rengül Çetin-Atalay. (2004). Implicit motif distribution based hybrid computational kernel for sequence classification. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(8). 1429–1436. 16 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan, et al.. (2003). Silhouette-based 3-D model reconstruction from multiple images. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics). 33(4). 582–591. 69 indexed citations
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Erdem, Erkut, Aykut Erdem, & Volkan Atalay. (2003). Image-based Extraction of Material Reflectance Properties of a 3D Rigid Object.. 1 indexed citations
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Hassanpour, Reza & Volkan Atalay. (2002). Head Modeling with Camera Autocalibration and Deformation.. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 3–11. 3 indexed citations
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Otlu, Burçak, et al.. (2002). CONSISTENCY OF PROJECTIVE RECONSTRUCTIONS OBTAINED FROM THE SAME IMAGE PAIR. 376–381. 3 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan, et al.. (2002). Projection based method for segmentation of human face and its evaluation. Pattern Recognition Letters. 23(14). 1623–1629. 70 indexed citations
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Atalay, Volkan, et al.. (2000). On the Silhouette Based 3D Reconstruction and Initial Bounding Cube Estimation.. Vision Modeling and Visualization. 3(2). 11–18. 8 indexed citations

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