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D-Index
78
Citations
71218
World Ranking
1657
National Ranking
761

Gary J. Olsen publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary J. Olsen sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 134 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Gary J. Olsen D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gary J. Olsen sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Gary J. Olsen is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular focus on subfields including molecular biology, genetics, endocrinology, and information systems and management.

The scientist's work engages with several key topics, among which are:

  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Genetics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research
  • Scientific computing and data management
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Bacterial genetics and biotechnology
  • Infections and bacterial resistance

Gary J. Olsen has coauthored with a number of colleagues, frequently collaborating with Clark Cucinell, James J. Davis, Donald M. Dempsey, Emily Dietrich, and Ronald W. Kenyon, each with multiple joint publications.

The research has been predominantly published in venues such as:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among their recent papers, three notable contributions include:

  • "Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR," published in 2022 in Nucleic Acids Research.
  • "Multiple clades of regulators contribute to bacterial phosphate homeostasis and pathogenesis," published in 2025 in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
  • "BV-BRC: a unified bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource with expanded functionality and AI integration," published in 2025 in Nucleic Acids Research.

Best Publications

  • The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

    Ramy K. Aziz;Ramy K. Aziz;Daniela Bartels;Aaron A. Best;Matthew DeJongh

  • The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)

    Ross A. Overbeek;Robert Olson;Gordon D. Pusch;Gary J. Olsen

  • Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses

    David J. Lane;Bernadette Pace;Gary J. Olsen;David A. Stahl

  • RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes

    Thomas Brettin;Thomas Brettin;James J. Davis;James J. Davis;Terry Disz;Robert A. Edwards;Robert A. Edwards

  • The Subsystems Approach to Genome Annotation and its Use in the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes

    Ross Overbeek;Tadhg P. Begley;Ralph M. Butler;Jomuna Choudhuri

  • The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues.

    Bonnie L. Maidak;James R. Cole;Timothy G. Lilburn;Charles T. Parker

  • THE RDP (RIBOSOMAL DATABASE PROJECT)

    Bonnie L. Maidak;Gary J. Olsen;Niels Larsen;Ross A. Overbeek

  • Critical Evaluation of Two Primers Commonly Used for Amplification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes

    Jeremy A. Frank;Claudia I. Reich;Shobha Sharma;Jon S. Weisbaum;Jon S. Weisbaum

  • The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Hans-Peter Klenk;Rebecca A. Clayton;Jean-Francois Tomb;Owen White

  • Improvements to PATRIC, the all-bacterial Bioinformatics Database and Analysis Resource Center

    Alice R. Wattam;James J. Davis;James J. Davis;Rida Assaf;Sébastien Boisvert

  • KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase.

    Adam P. Arkin;Adam P. Arkin;Robert W. Cottingham;Christopher S. Henry;Nomi L. Harris

  • The Ribosomal Database project

    Niels Larsen;Gary J. Olsen;Bonnie L. Maidak;Michael J. McCaughey

  • Microbial ecology and evolution: a ribosomal RNA approach.

    G J Olsen;D J Lane;S J Giovannoni;N R Pace

  • The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

    Gerard Deckert;Patrick V. Warren;Terry Gaasterland;William G. Young

  • fastDNAml: a tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood

    Gary J. Olsen;Hideo Matsuda;Ray Hagstrom;Ross A. Overbeek

  • The Analysis of Natural Microbial Populations by Ribosomal RNA Sequences

    Norman R. Pace;David A. Stahl;David J. Lane;Gary J. Olsen

  • The winds of (evolutionary) change: breathing new life into microbiology.

    Gary J Olsen;C. R. Woese;R. Overbeek

  • A new version of the RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

    Bonnie L. Maidak;James R. Cole;Charles T. Parker;George M. Garrity

  • Ribosomal RNA: a key to phylogeny.

    Gary J. Olsen;Carl R. Woese

  • Genomic minimalism in the early diverging intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia.

    Hilary G. Morrison;Andrew G. McArthur;Frances D. Gillin;Stephen B. Aley

Frequent Co-Authors

Norman R. Pace
Norman R. Pace University of Colorado Boulder
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ross Overbeek
Ross Overbeek Argonne National Laboratory
Rick Stevens
Rick Stevens Argonne National Laboratory
Stephen J. Giovannoni
Stephen J. Giovannoni Oregon State University
David A. Stahl
David A. Stahl University of Washington
Thomas Brettin
Thomas Brettin Argonne National Laboratory
Ramy K. Aziz
Ramy K. Aziz Cairo University
David E. Graham
David E. Graham Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Folker Meyer
Folker Meyer Argonne National Laboratory

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