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2026

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Darren P. Martin publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Darren P. Martin sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 297 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Darren P. Martin D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Darren P. Martin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 84 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in South Africa Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Darren P. Martin is affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their research broadly focuses on medicine, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. Within these main fields, Darren P. Martin's work is particularly concentrated in the subfields of infectious diseases, molecular biology, plant science, animal science and zoology, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover various areas including SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, plant virus research studies, animal virus infections studies, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, viral infections and outbreaks research, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Recent publications by Darren P. Martin include:

  • Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa, 2022, Nature
  • Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa, 2021, Nature
  • Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Omicron extensively but incompletely escapes Pfizer BNT162b2 neutralization, 2021, Nature
  • Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa, 2022, Nature Medicine

Their frequent co-authors include Túlio de Oliveira, Houriiyah Tegally, Eduan Wilkinson, Arvind Varsani, and Richard Lessells.

Darren P. Martin frequently publishes in several venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Virus Evolution, Nature, Archives of Virology, and Viruses. The highest number of their publications appear in bioRxiv, followed by Virus Evolution and Nature.

Best Publications

  • RDP4: Detection and analysis of recombination patterns in virus genomes.

    Darren P. Martin;Ben Murrell;Michael Golden;Arjun Khoosal

  • RDP3: a flexible and fast computer program for analyzing recombination

    Darren P. Martin;Philippe Lemey;Martin Lott;Vincent Moulton

  • SDT: A Virus Classification Tool Based on Pairwise Sequence Alignment and Identity Calculation

    Brejnev Muhizi Muhire;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Darren Patrick Martin

  • RDP: detection of recombination amongst aligned sequences

    Darren Martin;Ed Rybicki

  • Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa.

    Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  • RDP2: recombination detection and analysis from sequence alignments

    D. P. Martin;C. Williamson;D. Posada

  • A Modified Bootscan Algorithm for Automated Identification of Recombinant Sequences and Recombination Breakpoints

    D.P. Martin;D. Posada;K.A. Crandall;C. Williamson

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Geminiviridae.

    F. Murilo Zerbini;Rob W Briddon;Ali Idris;Darren P Martin

  • Revision of Begomovirus taxonomy based on pairwise sequence comparisons

    Judith K. Brown;F. Murilo Zerbini;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones

  • Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

    Ben Murrell;Steven Weaver;Martin D. Smith;Joel O. Wertheim

  • RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets

    Darren Patrick Martin;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Philippe Roumagnac;Gerrit Botha

  • Plant Virus Metagenomics: Advances in Virus Discovery.

    Marilyn J. Roossinck;Darren Patrick Martin;Philippe Roumagnac

  • The spread of tomato yellow leaf curl virus from the Middle East to the world.

    Pierre Lefeuvre;Darren P. Martin;Gordon W Harkins;Philippe Lemey

  • Sixteen novel lineages of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa.

    Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Richard J. Lessells;Jennifer Giandhari

  • Recombination patterns in aphthoviruses mirror those found in other picornaviruses

    Livio Heath;Eric van der Walt;Arvind Varsani;Darren P. Martin

  • Establishment of three new genera in the family Geminiviridae: Becurtovirus, Eragrovirus and Turncurtovirus

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Jesús Navas-Castillo;Enrique Moriones;Cecilia Hernández-Zepeda

  • A genome-wide pairwise-identity-based proposal for the classification of viruses in the genus Mastrevirus (family Geminiviridae)

    Brejnev Muhire;Darren P. Martin;Judith K. Brown;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • Widely Conserved Recombination Patterns among Single-Stranded DNA Viruses

    Pierre Lefeuvre;Jean-Michel Lett;Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Darren Patrick Martin

  • Capulavirus and Grablovirus: two new genera in the family Geminiviridae

    Arvind Varsani;Arvind Varsani;Philippe Roumagnac;Marc Fuchs;Jesús Navas-Castillo

  • The spread of Tomato yellow leaf curl virus from the Middle East to the world

    Pierre Lefeuvre;Darren P Martin;Gordon Harkins;Philippe Lemey

Frequent Co-Authors

Arvind Varsani
Arvind Varsani Arizona State University
Pierre Lefeuvre
Pierre Lefeuvre University of La Réunion
Edward P. Rybicki
Edward P. Rybicki University of Cape Town
Tulio de Oliveira
Tulio de Oliveira University of KwaZulu-Natal
Carolyn Williamson
Carolyn Williamson University of Cape Town
Rob W. Briddon
Rob W. Briddon National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
Marta Giovanetti
Marta Giovanetti University of Rome Tor Vergata
Ben Murrell
Ben Murrell Karolinska Institute
Jinal N. Bhiman
Jinal N. Bhiman University of the Witwatersrand

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