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Mihai Pop

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
79154
World Ranking
7595
National Ranking
3453

Mihai Pop 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 Mihai Pop sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 180 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mihai Pop 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 Mihai Pop sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% 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

  • 2019 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computational biology, algorithms, and software for DNA sequence analysis and sequence assembly

Overview

Mihai Pop is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research outputs primarily span the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Food Science, Plant Science, and Endocrinology as notable subfields of study.

The research topics covered in their work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mihai Pop include:

  • Seth Commichaux
  • Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan
  • Tu Luan
  • Hugh Rand
  • Kiran Javkar

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • BMC Genomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • PLoS Computational Biology

Selected recent publications by Mihai Pop include:

  • The Capacity to Produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) via Cysteine Degradation Is Ubiquitous in the Human Gut Microbiome, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Benchmarking of computational error-correction methods for next-generation sequencing data, 2020, Genome Biology
  • A critical assessment of gene catalogs for metagenomic analysis, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • TIPP2: metagenomic taxonomic profiling using phylogenetic markers, 2021, Bioinformatics
  • Genomic Drivers of Multidrug-Resistant Shigella Affecting Vulnerable Patient Populations in the United States and Abroad, 2021, mBio

Mihai Pop has been recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2019 for contributions to computational biology, algorithms, and software for DNA sequence analysis and sequence assembly.

Best Publications

  • Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

    Ben Langmead;Cole Trapnell;Mihai Pop;Steven L Salzberg

  • Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

    Curtis Huttenhower;Curtis Huttenhower;Dirk Gevers;Rob Knight;Rob Knight;Sahar Abubucker

  • Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome

    Steven R. Gill;Mihai Pop;Robert T. DeBoy;Paul B. Eckburg;Paul B. Eckburg

  • A framework for human microbiome research

    Barbara A. Methé;Karen E. Nelson;Mihai Pop;Heather H. Creasy

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • Differential abundance analysis for microbial marker-gene surveys

    Joseph N Paulson;O Colin Stine;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Mihai Pop

  • The genome sequence of Trypanosoma cruzi, etiologic agent of Chagas disease

    Najib M. El-Sayed;Peter J. Myler;Peter J. Myler;Daniella C. Bartholomeu;Daniel Nilsson

  • Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440

    K. E. Nelson;C. Weinel;I. T. Paulsen;R. J. Dodson

  • Statistical methods for detecting differentially abundant features in clinical metagenomic samples.

    James Robert White;Niranjan Nagarajan;Mihai Pop

  • ARDB—Antibiotic Resistance Genes Database

    Bo Liu;Mihai Pop

  • Comparative genomics of trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa.

    Najib M. El-Sayed;Peter J. Myler;Peter J. Myler;Gaëlle Blandin;Matthew Berriman

  • The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

    Brendan Loftus;Iain Anderson;Rob Davies;U. Cecilia M. Alsmark

  • The genome sequence of Bacillus anthracis Ames and comparison to closely related bacteria

    Timothy D. Read;Timothy D. Read;Scott N. Peterson;Scott N. Peterson;Nicolas Tourasse;Les W. Baillie;Les W. Baillie

  • 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

  • GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

    Steven L. Salzberg;Adam M. Phillippy;Aleksey Zimin;Daniela Puiu

  • Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation - A benchmark of metagenomics software

    Alexander Sczyrba;Peter Hofmann;Peter Hofmann;Peter Belmann;David Koslicki

  • Draft Genome of the Filarial Nematode Parasite Brugia malayi

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

  • The dog genome: Survey sequencing and comparative analysis

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Vineet Bafna;Aaron L. Halpern;Samuel Levy

  • Searching for SNPs with cloud computing

    Ben Langmead;Ben Langmead;Michael C Schatz;Jimmy Lin;Mihai Pop

  • Bioinformatics challenges of new sequencing technology

    Mihai Pop;Steven L. Salzberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Koren
Sergey Koren National Institutes of Health
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Niranjan Nagarajan
Niranjan Nagarajan Genome Institute of Singapore
Adam M. Phillippy
Adam M. Phillippy National Institutes of Health
Arthur L. Delcher
Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park
Timothy D. Read
Timothy D. Read Emory University
James R. White
James R. White Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Curtis Huttenhower
Curtis Huttenhower Harvard University
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University

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