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Yuri I. Wolf

Active 1990–2026

234
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Citations per year for Yuri I. Wolf1951: 1 citations1964: 1 citations1980: 3 citations1987: 1 citations1988: 2 citations1990: 1 citations1991: 2 citations1992: 5 citations1993: 10 citations1994: 4 citations1995: 3 citations1996: 5 citations1997: 5 citations1998: 7 citations1999: 38 citations2000: 97 citations2001: 123 citations2002: 252 citations2003: 282 citations2004: 430 citations2005: 475 citations2006: 478 citations2007: 473 citations2008: 476 citations2009: 523 citations2010: 498 citations2011: 562 citations2012: 584 citations2013: 624 citations2014: 620 citations2015: 538 citations2016: 639 citations2017: 647 citations2018: 553 citations2019: 1,704 citations2020: 1,916 citations2021: 1,927 citations2022: 1,929 citations2023: 1,360 citations2024: 2,144 citations2025: 990 citations2026: 51 citations1952–1963: no citations, so these years are not shown1965–1979: no citations, so these years are not shown1981–1986: no citations, so these years are not shown1989: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 5,933 citing papers, 24.7% of this breakdownChina: 2,842 citing papers, 11.8% of this breakdownGermany: 1,623 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,474 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownFrance: 1,265 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownCanada: 832 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownSpain: 660 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownJapan: 637 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 608 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownNetherlands: 589 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdownIndia: 539 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownItaly: 461 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology61.9%
  • Environmental Science11.9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences9.6%
  • Medicine7.2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology2.5%
  • Engineering1.2%
  • Other5.7%

Topics

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies8.5%
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering7.4%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms5.3%
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions4.8%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology3%
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology2.8%
  • Other68.2%

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  1. Evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Jaime Iranzo, Sergey Shmakov, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Stan J. J. Brouns, Emmanuelle Charpentier, David R. Cheng, Daniel H. Haft, Philippe Horvath, Sylvain Moineau, Francisco J. M. Mojica, David Scott, Shiraz A. Shah, Virginijus Šikšnys, Michael P. Terns, Česlovas Venclovas, Malcolm F. White, Alexander F. Yakunin, Winston X. Yan, Feng Zhang, Roger A. Garrett, Rolf Backofen, John van der Oost, Rodolphe Barrangou, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2019 cited by 2,464

  2. An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Omer S. Alkhnbashi, Fabrizio Costa, Shiraz A. Shah, Sita J. Saunders, Rodolphe Barrangou, Stan J. J. Brouns, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Daniel H. Haft, Philippe Horvath, Sylvain Moineau, Francisco J. M. Mojica, Rebecca M. Terns, Michael P. Terns, Malcolm F. White, Alexander F. Yakunin, Roger A. Garrett, John van der Oost, Rolf Backofen, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2015 cited by 2,570

  3. Diverse enzymatic activities mediate antiviral immunity in prokaryotes

    Authors: Linyi Gao, Han Altae-Tran, Francisca Böhning, Kira S. Makarova, Michael Segel, Jonathan L. Schmid‐Burgk, Jeremy Koob, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, Feng Zhang - Science 2020 cited by 688

  4. Evolution and classification of the CRISPR–Cas systems

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Daniel H. Haft, Rodolphe Barrangou, Stan J. J. Brouns, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Philippe Horvath, Sylvain Moineau, Francisco J. M. Mojica, Yuri I. Wolf, Alexander F. Yakunin, John van der Oost, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2011 cited by 2,496

  5. COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens

    Authors: Michael Y. Galperin, Yuri I. Wolf, Kira S. Makarova, Roberto Vera Alvarez, David Landsman, Eugene V. Koonin - Nucleic Acids Research, Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 cited by 995

  6. Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems

    Authors: Sergey Shmakov, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Ekaterina Semenova, Leonid Minakhin, Julia Joung, Silvana Konermann, Konstantin Severinov, Feng Zhang, Eugene V. Koonin - Molecular Cell 2015 cited by 1,252

  7. Diversity and evolution of class 2 CRISPR–Cas systems

    Authors: Sergey Shmakov, Aaron A. Smargon, David Scott, David Cox, Neena Pyzocha, Winston X. Yan, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Konstantin Severinov, Feng Zhang, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2017 cited by 1,075

  8. Defense Islands in Bacterial and Archaeal Genomes and Prediction of Novel Defense Systems

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Sagi Snir, Eugene V. Koonin - Journal of Bacteriology 2011 cited by 524

  9. Expanded microbial genome coverage and improved protein family annotation in the COG database

    Authors: Michael Y. Galperin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin - Nucleic Acids Research, Nucleic Acids Res. 2014 cited by 1,662

  10. The COG database: an updated version includes eukaryotes

    Authors: Roman L. Tatusov, Natalie D. Fedorova, John D. Jackson, Aviva R. Jacobs, Boris Kiryutin, Eugene V. Koonin, Dmitri M. Krylov, Raja Mazumder, Sergei L. Mekhedov, Anastasia N. Nikolskaya, B. Sridhar Rao, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander V. Sverdlov, Sona Vasudevan, Yuri I. Wolf, Jodie J. Yin, Darren A. Natale - BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinform. 2003 cited by 4,514

  11. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages

    Authors: Uri Neri, Yuri I. Wolf, Simon Roux, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Benjamin Lee, Darius Kazlauskas, I. Min Chen, Natalia Ivanova, Lisa Zeigler Allen, David Páez-Espino, Donald A. Bryant, Devaki Bhaya, Adrienne B. Narrowe, Alexander J. Probst, Alexander Sczyrba, Annegret Kohler, Armand Séguin, Ashley Shade, Barbara J. Campbell, Björn D. Lindahl, Brandi Kiel Reese, Breanna M. Roque, Chris DeRito, Colin Averill, Daniel Cullen, David A. C. Beck, David A. Walsh, David M. Ward, Dongying Wu, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Eoin Brodie, Erica B. Young, Erik A. Lilleskov, Federico Castillo, Francis Martin, Gary R. LeCleir, Graeme T. Attwood, Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz, Holly M. Simon, Ian Hewson, Igor V. Grigoriev, James M. Tiedje, Janet Jansson, Janey Lee, Jean S. VanderGheynst, Jeff Dangl, Jeff S. Bowman, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, Jennifer L. Bowen, Jiangbing Xu, Jillian F. Banfield, Jody W. Deming, Joel E. Kostka, John M. Gladden, Josephine Z. Rapp, Joshua Sharpe, Katherine D. McMahon, Kathleen K. Treseder, Kay D. Bidle, Kelly C. Wrighton, Kimberlee Thamatrakoln, Klaus Nüsslein, Laura K. Meredith, Lucı́a Ramı́rez, Marc Buée, Marcel Huntemann, Marina Kalyuzhnaya, Mark P. Waldrop, Matthew B. Sullivan, Matthew O. Schrenk, Matthias Hess, Michael Vega, Michelle O’Malley, Mónica Medina, Naomi E. Gilbert, Nathalie Delherbe, Olivia U. Mason, Paul Dijkstra, Peter F. Chuckran, Petr Baldrián, Philippe Constant, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Rebecca A. Daly, Regina Lamendella, Robert J. Gruninger, Robert M. McKay, Samuel Hylander, Sarah L. Lebeis, Sarah P. Esser, Silvia G. Acinas, Steven S. Wilhelm, Steven W. Singer, Susannah G. Tringe, Tanja Woyke, T. B. K. Reddy, Terrence H. Bell, Thomas Möck, Tim A. McAllister, Vera Thiel, Vincent J. Denef and 10 more - Cell 2022 cited by 311

  12. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World

    Authors: Eugene V. Koonin, Valerian V. Dolja, Mart Krupovìč, Arvind Varsani, Yuri I. Wolf, Natalya Yutin, F. Murilo Zerbini, Jens H. Kuhn - Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 2020 cited by 632

  13. Expanded diversity of Asgard archaea and their relationships with eukaryotes

    Authors: Yang Liu, Kira S. Makarova, Wen-Cong Huang, Yuri I. Wolf, A. N. NIKOL'SKAYA, Xinxu Zhang, Mingwei Cai, Cui‐Jing Zhang, Wei Xu, Zhu-Hua Luo, Lei Cheng, Eugene V. Koonin, Meng Li - Nature 2021 cited by 344

  14. Origins and Evolution of the Global RNA Virome

    Authors: Yuri I. Wolf, Darius Kazlauskas, Jaime Iranzo, Adriana Lucía-Sanz, Jens H. Kuhn, Mart Krupovìč, Valerian V. Dolja, Eugene V. Koonin - mBio 2018 cited by 529

  15. A putative RNA-interference-based immune system in prokaryotes: computational analysis of the predicted enzymatic machinery, functional analogies with eukaryotic RNAi, and hypothetical mechanisms of action

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Nick V. Grishin, Svetlana A. Shabalina, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin - Biology Direct 2006 cited by 1,178

  16. Evolutionary Genomics of Defense Systems in Archaea and Bacteria

    Authors: Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf - Annual Review of Microbiology 2017 cited by 360

  17. Doubling of the known set of RNA viruses by metagenomic analysis of an aquatic virome

    Authors: Yuri I. Wolf, Sukrit Silas, Yongjie Wang, Shuang Wu, M Bocek, Darius Kazlauskas, Mart Krupovìč, Andrew Fire, Valerian V. Dolja, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Microbiology 2020 cited by 283

  18. Comparative genomics of defense systems in archaea and bacteria

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin - Nucleic Acids Research 2013 cited by 454

  19. Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, John van der Oost, Eugene V. Koonin - Biology Direct 2009 cited by 319

  20. Evolutionary entanglement of mobile genetic elements and host defence systems: guns for hire

    Authors: Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Mart Krupovìč - Nature Reviews Genetics 2019 cited by 258

  21. Analysis of metagenome-assembled viral genomes from the human gut reveals diverse putative CrAss-like phages with unique genomic features

    Authors: Natalya Yutin, Sean Benler, Sergei A. Shmakov, Yuri I. Wolf, Igor Tolstoy, Mikhail Rayko, Dmitry Antipov, Pavel A. Pevzner, Eugene V. Koonin - Nature Communications 2021 cited by 181

  22. Archaeal Clusters of Orthologous Genes (arCOGs): An Update and Application for Analysis of Shared Features between Thermococcales, Methanococcales, and Methanobacteriales

    Authors: Kira S. Makarova, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene Koonin - Life 2015 cited by 287

  23. A comprehensive evolutionary classification of proteins encoded in complete eukaryotic genomes

    Authors: Eugene V. Koonin, Natalie D. Fedorova, John D. Jackson, Aviva R. Jacobs, Dmitri M. Krylov, Kira S. Makarova, Raja Mazumder, Sergei Mekhedov, A. N. NIKOL'SKAYA, B Sridhar Rao, Igor B. Rogozin, Sergei Smirnov, Alexander V. Sorokin, Alexander V. Sverdlov, Sona Vasudevan, Yuri I. Wolf, Jodie J Yin, Darren A. Natale - Genome biology 2004 cited by 1,140

  24. Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning

    Authors: Vitaly Vanchurin, Yuri I. Wolf, M. I. Katsnelson, Eugene V. Koonin - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 cited by 116