Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Universiteit Leiden

H-index: 99

Europe-Netherlands

About Alexander E. Gorbalenya

Alexander E. Gorbalenya, With an exceptional h-index of 99 and a recent h-index of 51 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universiteit Leiden, specializes in the field of Virus-Host interactions, Comparative genomics, RNA viruses, Virus Evolution, Virus Taxonomy.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Deep mining of the Sequence Read Archive reveals major genetic innovations in coronaviruses and other nidoviruses of aquatic vertebrates

N7-Methylation of the coronavirus RNA cap is required for maximal virulence by preventing innate immune recognition

Editorial overview: Virus bioinformatics-empowering genomics of pathogens, viromes, and the virosphere across divergence scales

Bioinformatics of virus taxonomy: foundations and tools for developing sequence-based hierarchical classification

Translating genomic exploration of the family Polyomaviridae into confident human polyomavirus detection

Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal

Recognizing species as a new focus of virus research

Deep mining of the sequence read archive reveals bipartite coronavirus genomes and inter-family spike glycoprotein recombination

Alexander E. Gorbalenya Information

University

Position

Leiden University Medical Center; Lomonosov Moscow State University

Citations(all)

45845

Citations(since 2020)

21934

Cited By

33496

hIndex(all)

99

hIndex(since 2020)

51

i10Index(all)

193

i10Index(since 2020)

135

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Alexander E. Gorbalenya Skills & Research Interests

Virus-Host interactions

Comparative genomics

RNA viruses

Virus Evolution

Virus Taxonomy

Top articles of Alexander E. Gorbalenya

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Deep mining of the Sequence Read Archive reveals major genetic innovations in coronaviruses and other nidoviruses of aquatic vertebrates

PLoS pathogens

Chris Lauber

Xiaoyu Zhang

Josef Vaas

Franziska Klingler

Pascal Mutz

...

2024/4/22

N7-Methylation of the coronavirus RNA cap is required for maximal virulence by preventing innate immune recognition

MBio

Ruangang Pan

Eveline Kindler

Liu Cao

Yu Zhou

Zhen Zhang

...

2022/2/22

Editorial overview: Virus bioinformatics-empowering genomics of pathogens, viromes, and the virosphere across divergence scales

Alexander E Gorbalenya

Maria Anisimova

2022/2

Bioinformatics of virus taxonomy: foundations and tools for developing sequence-based hierarchical classification

Alexander E Gorbalenya

Chris Lauber

2022/2/1

Translating genomic exploration of the family Polyomaviridae into confident human polyomavirus detection

Iscience

Sergio Kamminga

Igor A Sidorov

Michaël Tadesse

Els van der Meijden

Caroline de Brouwer

...

2022/1/21

Genome-wide diversity of Zika virus: Exploring spatio-temporal dynamics to guide a new nomenclature proposal

Virus evolution

Sofia G Seabra

Pieter JK Libin

Kristof Theys

Anna Zhukova

Barney I Potter

...

2022/1/1

Recognizing species as a new focus of virus research

PLoS pathogens

Alexander E Gorbalenya

Stuart G Siddell

2021/3/4

Deep mining of the sequence read archive reveals bipartite coronavirus genomes and inter-family spike glycoprotein recombination

bioRxiv

Chris Lauber

Josef Vaas

Franziska Klingler

Pascal Mutz

Alexander E Gorbalenya

...

2021/10/20

Coronavirus replication–transcription complex: Vital and selective NMPylation of a conserved site in nsp9 by the NiRAN-RdRp subunit

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Heiko Slanina

Ramakanth Madhugiri

Ganesh Bylapudi

Karin Schultheiß

Nadja Karl

...

2021/2/9

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Arteriviridae 2021

Margo A Brinton

Anastasia A Gulyaeva

Udeni BR Balasuriya

Magda Dunowska

Kay S Faaberg

...

2021/8/6

A nidovirus perspective on SARS-CoV-2

Anastasia A Gulyaeva

Alexander E Gorbalenya

2021/1/29

Science, not speculation, is essential to determine how SARS-CoV-2 reached humans

The Lancet

Charles H Calisher

Dennis Carroll

Rita Colwell

Ronald B Corley

Peter Daszak

...

2021/7/17

SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Interest and Concern naming scheme conducive for global discourse

Nature microbiology

Frank Konings

Mark D Perkins

Jens H Kuhn

Mark J Pallen

Erik J Alm

...

2021/7

Conflicting and ambiguous names of overlapping ORFs in the SARS-CoV-2 genome: A homology-based resolution

Virology

Irwin Jungreis

Chase W Nelson

Zachary Ardern

Yaara Finkel

Nevan J Krogan

...

2021/6/1

The species Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus: classifying 2019-nCoV and naming it SARS-CoV-2

Nature Microbiology

A.E. Gorbalenya

S.C. Baker

R.S. Baric

R.J. de Groot

C. Drosten

...

2020/3/1

How to recognise and deal with dubious virus sequences?

Infection, genetics and evolution

Roland Zell

Alexander E Gorbalenya

Nick J Knowles

Peter Simmonds

Tim Skern

2020/2/13

The new scope of virus taxonomy: partitioning the virosphere into 15 hierarchical ranks

2020/5

LAMPA, LArge Multidomain Protein Annotator, and its application to RNA virus polyproteins

Bioinformatics

Anastasia A Gulyaeva

Andrey I Sigorskih

Elena S Ocheredko

Dmitry V Samborskiy

Alexander E Gorbalenya

2020/5/1

Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-19

The lancet

Charles Calisher

Dennis Carroll

Rita Colwell

Ronald B Corley

Peter Daszak

...

2020/3/7

See List of Professors in Alexander E. Gorbalenya University(Universiteit Leiden)

Co-Authors

H-index: 141
Christian Drosten

Christian Drosten

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

H-index: 137
Peter Simmonds

Peter Simmonds

University of Oxford

H-index: 108
Stanley Perlman

Stanley Perlman

University of Iowa

H-index: 101
Bart L. Haagmans

Bart L. Haagmans

Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

H-index: 76
Susan C. Baker

Susan C. Baker

Loyola University Chicago

H-index: 74
Elliot J. Lefkowitz

Elliot J. Lefkowitz

University of Alabama at Birmingham

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