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 L. Aravind sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 426 publications — 90th percentile
90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where L. Aravind sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 157 D-Index — 98th percentile
98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.
L. Aravind is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, genetics, ecology, plant science, and infectious diseases.
The scientist's work covers a range of topics, particularly focusing on bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA modifications and cancer, CRISPR and genetic engineering, Vibrio bacteria research studies, and bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing.
Among L. Aravind's frequent coauthors are A. Maxwell Burroughs, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, Vivek Anantharaman, Kumaran S. Ramamurthi, and Otto Berninghausen. These collaborations have led to numerous joint publications across multiple venues.
Notable recent papers include:
L. Aravind frequently publishes in a range of scientific journals, with the highest numbers of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Nucleic Acids Research, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature.
Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum
Mamta V. Tahiliani;Kian Peng Koh;Yinghua Shen;William Abraham Pastor
Andrew F. Neuwald;L. Aravind;John L. Spouge;Eugene V. Koonin
Ingrid E. Wertz;Karen M. O'Rourke;Honglin Zhou;Michael Eby
Richard S. Stephens;Sue Kalman;Claudia Lammel;Jun Fan
Oded Béjà;L. Aravind;Eugene V. Koonin;Marcelino T. Suzuki
Alejandro A. Schäffer;L. Aravind;Thomas L. Madden;Sergei Shavirin
Myunggon Ko;Yun Huang;Yun Huang;Anna M. Jankowska;Utz J. Pape;Utz J. Pape
Eugene V. Koonin;Kira S. Makarova;L. Aravind
Detlef D Leipe;Yuri I Wolf;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind
Rati Verma;L. Aravind;Robert Oania;W. Hayes McDonald
Mitchell S. Abrahamsen;Thomas J. Templeton;Shinichiro Enomoto;Juan E. Abrahante
O. White;J. A. Eisen;J. F. Heidelberg;E. K. Hickey
M Madan Babu;Nicholas M Luscombe;L Aravind;Mark Gerstein
Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Detlef D Leipe;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind
William A. Pastor;L. Aravind;Anjana Rao
Kira S. Makarova;Kira S. Makarova;L. Aravind;Yuri I. Wolf;Roman L. Tatusov
Gregory A. Cope;Greg S. B. Suh;L. Aravind;Sylvia E. Schwarz
L. Aravind;Vivek Anantharaman;Santhanam Balaji;M. Mohan Babu
L Aravind;Eugene V Koonin
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