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R. C. Edgar

Active 2004–2024

36
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Citations

Citations per year for R. C. Edgar1961: 1 citations1969: 1 citations1973: 1 citations1978: 1 citations1986: 1 citations1990: 1 citations1991: 1 citations1993: 2 citations1999: 1 citations2000: 3 citations2002: 1 citations2004: 14 citations2005: 72 citations2006: 133 citations2007: 223 citations2008: 281 citations2009: 333 citations2010: 426 citations2011: 453 citations2012: 467 citations2013: 500 citations2014: 635 citations2015: 654 citations2016: 732 citations2017: 762 citations2018: 778 citations2019: 2,605 citations2020: 2,716 citations2021: 2,444 citations2022: 1,880 citations2023: 1,142 citations2024: 1,847 citations2025: 719 citations2026: 22 citations1962–1968: no citations, so these years are not shown1970–1972: no citations, so these years are not shown1974–1977: no citations, so these years are not shown1979–1985: no citations, so these years are not shown1987–1989: no citations, so these years are not shown1992: no citations, so this year is not shown1994–1998: no citations, so these years are not shown2001: no citations, so this year is not shown2003: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 6,896 citing papers, 20% of this breakdownChina: 5,732 citing papers, 16.7% of this breakdownGermany: 2,013 citing papers, 5.9% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 2,010 citing papers, 5.8% of this breakdownFrance: 1,455 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownAustralia: 1,147 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownCanada: 1,115 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownSpain: 949 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownNetherlands: 750 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownJapan: 710 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 666 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdownDenmark: 652 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.7%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences20.1%
  • Environmental Science13.4%
  • Medicine12.1%
  • Immunology and Microbiology4.7%
  • Computer Science1%
  • Other6%

Topics

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies7.5%
  • Gut microbiota and health5.8%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology4%
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases1.8%
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity1.7%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms1.5%
  • Other77.7%

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  1. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - Nucleic Acids Research 2004 cited by 46,530

  2. UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - Nature Methods 2013 cited by 17,267

  3. Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - Nature Communications 2022 cited by 1,071

  4. UNOISE2: improved error-correction for Illumina 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - 2016 cited by 1,905

  5. Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome

    Authors: 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 - Nature 2012 cited by 2,971

  6. SINTAX: a simple non-Bayesian taxonomy classifier for 16S and ITS sequences

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - 2016 cited by 1,012

  7. Syncmers are more sensitive than minimizers for selecting conserved k ‑mers in biological sequences

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - PeerJ 2021 cited by 136

  8. Multiple sequence alignment

    Authors: R. C. Edgar, Serafim Batzoglou - Current Opinion in Structural Biology 2006 cited by 528

  9. The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Authors: Christine G. Elsik, Ross L. Tellam, Kim C. Worley, Richard A. Gibbs, Donna M. Muzny, George M. Weinstock, David L. Adelson, Evan E. Eichler, Laura Elnitski, Roderic Guigó, Debora L. Hamernik, S M Kappes, Harris A. Lewin, David J. Lynn, F. W. Nicholas, Alexandre Reymond, Monique Rijnkels, Loren C. Skow, Evgeny M. Zdobnov, Lawrence B. Schook, James E. Womack, Tyler Alioto, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Alex Astashyn, Charles E. Chapple, Hsiu-Chuan Chen, Jacqueline Chrast, Francisco Câmara, Olga Ermolaeva, Charlotte N. Henrichsen, Wratko Hlavina, Yuri Kapustin, Boris Kiryutin, Paul Kitts, Felix Kokocinski, Melissa Landrum, Donna Maglott, Kim D. Pruitt, Victor Sapojnikov, Stephen M. J. Searle, Victor Solovyev, Alexandre Souvorov, Catherine Ucla, Carine Wyss, Juan Manuel Anzola, Daniel Gerlach, Eran Elhaik, Dan Graur, Justin Reese, R. C. Edgar, John C. McEwan, Gemma M. Payne, Joy M Raison, Thomas Junier, Evgenia V. Kriventseva, Eduardo Eyras, Mireya Plass, Ravikiran Donthu, Denis M. Larkin, James M. Reecy, Mary Qu Yang, Lin Chen, Ze Cheng, Carol G. Chitko-McKown, George E. Liu, Lakshmi K. Matukumalli, Jiuzhou Song, Bin Zhu, Daniel G. Bradley, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, Lilian Pek Lian Lau, Matthew D. Whiteside, Angela M. Walker, Thomas T. Wheeler, Theresa Casey, J. Bruce German, Danielle G. Lemay, Nauman J. Maqbool, Adrian Molenaar, Seongwon Seo, Paul Stothard, Cynthia L. Baldwin, R. Baxter, Candice Brinkmeyer‐Langford, Wendy C. Brown, Christopher Childers, Timothy Connelley, Shirley A. Ellis, K. L. Fritz, Elizabeth Glass, Carolyn T.A. Herzig, Antti Iivanainen, Kevin K. Lahmers, Anna K. Bennett, C. Michael Dickens, James Gilbert, Darren E. Hagen, Hanni Salih, Jan Aerts, Alexandre Rodrigues Caetano and 207 more - Science 2009 cited by 1,349

  10. Accuracy of taxonomy prediction for 16S rRNA and fungal ITS sequences

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - PeerJ 2018 cited by 343

  11. Hybrids of RNA viruses and viroid-like elements replicate in fungi

    Authors: Marco Forgia, Beatriz Navarro, Stefania Daghino, Amelia Cervera, Andreas Gisel, Silvia Perotto, Dilzara N. Aghayeva, Mary F. Akinyuwa, Emanuela Gobbi, Ivan N. Zheludev, R. C. Edgar, Rayan Chikhi, Massimo Turina, Artem Babaian, Francesco Di Serio, Marcos de la Peña - Nature Communications 2023 cited by 81

  12. UCHIME2: improved chimera prediction for amplicon sequencing

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - 2016 cited by 366

  13. Massively parallel interrogation and mining of natively paired human TCRαβ repertoires

    Authors: Matthew Spindler, Ayla L. Nelson, Ellen K. Wagner, Natasha Oppermans, John S. Bridgeman, James Heather, Adam S. Adler, Michael A. Asensio, R. C. Edgar, Yoong Wearn Lim, Everett Meyer, Robert E. Hawkins, Mark Cobbold, David S. Johnson - Nature Biotechnology 2020 cited by 60

  14. Logan: Planetary-Scale Genome Assembly Surveys Life’s Diversity

    Authors: Rayan Chikhi, Téo Lemane, Raphaël Loll-Krippleber, Mercè Montoliu-Nerin, Brice Raffestin, Antonio Pedro Camargo, Carson J. Miller, Mateus Bernabe Fiamenghi, Daniel Paiva Agustinho, Sina Majidian, Greg Autric, Maxime Hugues, Junkyoung Lee, Roland Faure, Kristen D. Curry, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, David Koslicki, Paul Medvedev, Purav Gupta, Jessica Shen, Alejandro Morales-Tapia, Kate Sihuta, Peter J. Roy, Grant W. Brown, R. C. Edgar, Anton Korobeynikov, Martin Steinegger, Caleb A. Lareau, Pierre Peterlongo, Artem Babaian - 2024 cited by 67

  15. Genome Sequence, Comparative Analysis, and Population Genetics of the Domestic Horse

    Authors: Claire M. Wade, Elena Giulotto, Snævar Sigurðsson, Matteo Zoli, Sante Gnerre, Freyja Imsland, T.L. Lear, David L. Adelson, Ernest Bailey, Rebecca R. Bellone, Helmut Blöcker, O. Distl, R. C. Edgar, Manuel Garber, Tosso Leeb, Evan Mauceli, James N. MacLeod, M. C. T. Penedo, Joy M Raison, Ted Sharpe, Jan-Hinnerk Vogel, Leif Andersson, Douglas F. Antczak, Tara Biagi, M. M. Binns, B. P. Chowdhary, S.J. Coleman, Giuliano Della Valle, Sarah Fryc, G. Guérin, T. Hasegawa, Emmeline W. Hill, Jerzy Jurka, Anna Kiialainen, Gabriella Lindgren, J. Liu, Elisa Magnani, James R. Mickelson, James D. Murray, Solomon G. Nergadze, Robert C. Onofrio, S. Pedroni, Francesca M. Piras, Terje Raudsepp, Mariano Rocchi, Knut H. Røed, Oliver A. Ryder, S. Searle, Loren C. Skow, June Swinburne, A. C. Syvänen, Teruaki Tozaki, Stephanie J. Valberg, Mark D. Vaudin, Jared White, Michael C. Zody, Eric S. Lander, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh - Science 2009 cited by 852

  16. High-precision measurement of the W boson mass with the CDF II detector

    Authors: T. Aaltonen, S. Amerio, D. Amidei, A. Anastassov, A. Annovi, J. Antos, G. Apollinari, J. A. Appel, T. Arisawa, A. Artikov, J. Asaadi, W. Ashmanskas, B. Auerbach, A. Aurisano, F. Azfar, W. Badgett, T. Bae, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, V. E. Barnes, B. A. Barnett, P. Barria, P. Bartos, M. Bauce, F. Bedeschi, S. Behari, G. Bellettini, J. Bellinger, D. Benjamin, A. Beretvas, A. Bhatti, K. R. Bland, B. Blumenfeld, A. Bocci, A. Bodek, D. Bortoletto, J. Boudreau, A. Boveia, L. Brigliadori, C. Bromberg, E. Brücken, J. Budagov, H. S. Budd, K. Burkett, G. Busetto, P. Bussey, P. Butti, A. Buzatu, A. Calamba, S. Camarda, M. Campanelli, B. Carls, D. Carlsmith, R. Carosi, S. Carrillo, B. Casal, M. Casarsa, A. Castro, P. Catastini, D. Cauz, V. Cavaliere, A. Cerri, A. Cerri, Y. C. Chen, M. Chertok, G. Chiarelli, G. Chlachidze, K. Cho, D. Chokheli, A. Clark, C. Clarke, M. E. Convery, J. Conway, M. Corbo, M. Cordelli, C. A. Cox, D. J. Cox, M. Cremonesi, D. Cruz, J. Cuevas, R. Culbertson, N. d’Ascenzo, M. Datta, P. de Barbaro, L. Demortier, M. Deninno, M. d’Errico, F. Devoto, A. Di Canto, B. Di Ruzza, J. Dittmann, S. Donati, M. D’Onofrio, M. Dorigo, A. Driutti, K. Ebina, R. C. Edgar, A. Elagin, R. Erbacher, S. Errede, B. Esham and 297 more - Science 2022 cited by 511

  17. Taxonomy annotation and guide tree errors in 16S rRNA databases

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - PeerJ 2018 cited by 215

  18. High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - 2021 cited by 162

  19. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

    Authors: Curtis Huttenhower, Dirk Gevers, Rob Knight, Sahar Abubucker, Jonathan H. Badger, Asif Chinwalla, Heather H. Creasy, Ashlee M. Earl, Michael G. FitzGerald, Robert S. Fulton, Michelle Giglio, Kymberlie Hallsworth-Pepin, Elizabeth A. Lobos, Ramana Madupu, Vincent Magrini, John C. Martin, Makedonka Mitreva, Donna M. Muzny, Erica Sodergren, James Versalovic, Aye Wollam, Kim C. Worley, Jennifer R. Wortman, Sarah Young, Qiandong Zeng, Kjersti M. Aagaard, Olukemi O. Abolude, Emma Allen‐Vercoe, Eric J. Alm, Lucia Alvarado, Gary L. Andersen, Scott Anderson, Elizabeth L. Appelbaum, Harindra Arachchi, Gary C. Armitage, Cesar Arze, Tulin Ayvaz, Carl C. Baker, Lisa Begg, Tsegahiwot Belachew, Veena Bhonagiri, Monika Bihan, Martin J. Blaser, Toby Bloom, Vivien Bonazzi, J. Paul Brooks, Gregory A. Buck, Christian Buhay, Dana Busam, Joseph L. Campbell, Shane R. Canon, Brandi L. Cantarel, Patrick Chain, I-Min A. Chen, Lei Chen, Shaila Chhibba, Ken Chu, Dawn Ciulla, José C. Clemente, Sandra W. Clifton, Sean Conlan, Jonathan Crabtree, Mary A. Cutting, Noam J. Davidovics, Catherine Davis, Todd Z. DeSantis, Carolyn Deal, Kimberley D. Delehaunty, Floyd E. Dewhirst, Elena Deych, Yan Ding, David J. Dooling, Shannon Dugan, W. Michael Dunne, A. Scott Durkin, R. C. Edgar, Rachel Erlich, Candace N. Farmer, Ruth M. Farrell, Karoline Faust, Michael Feldgarden, Victor Felix, Sheila Fisher, Anthony A. Fodor, Larry J. Forney, Leslie Foster, Valentina Di Francesco, Jonathan Friedman, Dennis C. Friedrich, Catrina C. Fronick, Lucinda Fulton, Hongyu Gao, M. Nathalia Garcia, Georgia Giannoukos, Christina Giblin, Maria Y. Giovanni, Jonathan M. Goldberg, Johannes B. Goll, Antonio González, Allison Griggs and 148 more - Nature 2012 cited by 12,107

  20. Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

    Authors: R. C. Edgar, Jeff Taylor, Victor S.-Y. Lin, Tomer Altman, Pierre Barbera, Dmitry Meleshko, Dan Lohr, Gherman Novakovsky, Benjamin Buchfink, Basem Al-Shayeb, Jillian F. Banfield, Marcos de la Peña, Anton Korobeynikov, Rayan Chikhi, Artem Babaian - Nature 2020 cited by 529

  21. Accuracy of microbial community diversity estimated by closed- and open-reference OTUs

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - PeerJ 2017 cited by 182

  22. Quality measures for protein alignment benchmarks

    Authors: R. C. Edgar - Nucleic Acids Research 2010 cited by 128

  23. Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes

    Authors: Ivan N. Zheludev, R. C. Edgar, María José López-Galiano, Marcos de la Peña, Artem Babaian, Ami S. Bhatt, Andrew Fire - Cell 2024 cited by 44

  24. Generation of recombinant hyperimmune globulins from diverse B-cell repertoires

    Authors: Sheila M. Keating, Rena A. Mizrahi, Matthew S. Adams, Michael A. Asensio, Emily Benzie, Kyle P. Carter, Yao Chiang, R. C. Edgar, Bishal K. Gautam, Ashley Gras, Jackson Leong, Renee Leong, Yoong Wearn Lim, Vishal A. Manickam, Angélica V. Medina‐Cucurella, Ariel R. Niedecken, Jasmeen Saini, Jan Fredrik Simons, Matthew Spindler, Kacy Stadtmiller, Brendan Tinsley, Ellen K. Wagner, Nicholas Wayham, LaRee Tracy, Carina Vingsbo Lundberg, Dirk Büscher, J. Terencio, Lucy Roalfe, Emma Pearce, Hayley Richardson, David Goldblatt, Anushka T. Ramjag, Christine V. F. Carrington, Graham Simmons, Marcus O. Muench, Steven M. Chamow, Bryan Monroe, Charles V. Olson, Thomas H. Oguin, Heather E. Lynch, Robert Jeanfreau, Rachel Mosher, Matthew J. Walch, Christopher R. Bartley, Carl A. Ross, Everett Meyer, Adam S. Adler, David S. Johnson - Nature Biotechnology 2021 cited by 27