2026 Mihaela Pertea: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	47	4071	3843	1754	1646	83	55836

Mihaela Pertea 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 Mihaela Pertea sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 83 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mihaela Pertea 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 Mihaela Pertea sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Mihaela Pertea is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work spans 117 publications in this main field with notable focus areas including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Surgery, Plant Science, and Infectious Diseases.

Them research interests encompass several core topics such as:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
RNA Modifications and Cancer
RNA Research and Splicing
Cancer-related Molecular Mechanisms Research
Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Mihaela Pertea has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Steven L. Salzberg (32 coauthored works)
Ales Varabyou (16 coauthored works)
Kuan-Hao Chao (13 coauthored works)
Alaina Shumate (10 coauthored works)
Daniela Puiu (9 coauthored works)

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in key venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 20 publications
Genome Biology - 4 publications
Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation - 4 publications
F1000Research - 3 publications
eLife - 3 publications

Recent scholarly papers by Mihaela Pertea include:

"GFF Utilities: GffRead and GffCompare," 2020, F1000Research
"GFF Utilities: GffRead and GffCompare," 2020, F1000Research
"Improved transcriptome assembly using a hybrid of long and short reads with StringTie," 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
"Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings," 2023, mBio
"Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification," 2024, Nature Methods

Best Publications

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

Mihaela Pertea;Geo M. Pertea;Corina M. Antonescu;Tsung Cheng Chang

10141
Citations
Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

Mihaela Pertea;Daehwan Kim;Geo M Pertea;Jeffrey T Leek

6921
Citations
Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Malcolm J. Gardner;Neil Hall;Eula Fung;Owen White

5591
Citations
Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

Brian J Haas;Brian J Haas;Steven L Salzberg;Wei Zhu;Mihaela Pertea

4063
Citations
The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

3299
Citations
Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

1667
Citations
TigrScan and GlimmerHMM: two open source ab initio eukaryotic gene-finders

W. H. Majoros;M. Pertea;S. L. Salzberg

1639
Citations
Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector

Vishvanath Nene;Jennifer R. Wortman;Daniel Lawson;Brian Haas

1353
Citations
Transcriptome assembly from long-read RNA-seq alignments with StringTie2

Sam Kovaka;Aleksey V. Zimin;Geo M. Pertea;Roham Razaghi

1281
Citations
The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

Matthew Berriman;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Philip T. LoVerde;R. Alan Wilson

1262
Citations
Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis

Jane M. Carlton;Robert . Hirt;Joana C. Silva;Arthur L. Delcher

1043
Citations
Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the model rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii

Jane M. Carlton;Samuel V. Angiuoli;Bernard B. Suh;Taco W. Kooij

929
Citations
The Genome of the Basidiomycetous Yeast and Human Pathogen Cryptococcus Neoformans

Brendan J. Loftus;Eula Fung;Paola Roncaglia;Don Rowley

882
Citations
Draft Genome of the Filarial Nematode Parasite Brugia malayi

Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Shiliang Wang;David Spiro;Elisabet Caler

727
Citations
GeneSplicer: a new computational method for splice site prediction

Mihaela Pertea;Xiaoying Lin;Steven L. Salzberg

724
Citations
Chromosome 2 Sequence of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Malcolm J. Gardner;Hervé Tettelin;Daniel J. Carucci;Leda M. Cummings

588
Citations
Broad CTL response is required to clear latent HIV-1 due to dominance of escape mutations

Kai Deng;Mihaela Pertea;Anthony Rongvaux;Leyao Wang

579
Citations
Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms lymphocytes.

Malcolm J. Gardner;Richard Bishop;Trushar Shah;Etienne P. de Villiers

397
Citations
Defective HIV-1 Proviruses Are Expressed and Can Be Recognized by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, which Shape the Proviral Landscape.

Ross A. Pollack;R. Brad Jones;Mihaela Pertea;Katherine M. Bruner

382
Citations
In-depth view of structure, activity, and evolution of rice chromosome 10

Y. Yu;T. Rambo;J. Currie;C. Saski

344
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute

Brian J. Haas Broad Institute

Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore

Owen White University of Maryland, Baltimore

Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University

Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park

Neil Hall Norwich Research Park

Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow

J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute

External Links

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