2026 Sergey Koren: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	82	3598	3315	1799	1619	177	73072

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Biology and Biochemistry

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1799

1619

177

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Biology and Biochemistry

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73072

World Ranking

3598

National Ranking

1799

Overview

Sergey Koren is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research output spans across multiple domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable interdisciplinary connection to agricultural and biological sciences.

The research fields they predominantly contribute to include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

More specific subfields of study represented in their work are:

Molecular Biology
Plant Science
Genetics
Insect Science
Immunology

Their primary research topics encompass:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Genetic diversity and population structure
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Sergey Koren has published extensively, with frequent contributions in these scientific venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Science
Genome biology

Among their recent papers are:

The complete sequence of a human genome, 2022, Science
Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies, 2020, Genome biology
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, 2021, Nature
A draft human pangenome reference, 2023, Nature
De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing, 2020, GigaScience

Collaborative research is an important aspect of Sergey Koren's work. Their most frequent coauthors include:

Adam M. Phillippy
Arang Rhie
Evan E. Eichler
David Porubskỳ
Glennis A. Logsdon

Best Publications

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

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

10953
Citations
Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation.

Sergey Koren;Brian P. Walenz;Konstantin Berlin;Jason R. Miller

6233
Citations
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

2870
Citations
A framework for human microbiome research

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

2698
Citations
Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash.

Brian D. Ondov;Todd J. Treangen;Páll Melsted;Adam B. Mallonee

2536
Citations
Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads

Miten Jain;Sergey Koren;Karen H Miga;Josh Quick

2064
Citations
Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome.

Aaron M. Wenger;Paul Peluso;William J. Rowell;Pi-Chuan Chang

1807
Citations
Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

Arang Rhie;Brian P. Walenz;Sergey Koren;Adam M. Phillippy

1733
Citations
The Harvest suite for rapid core-genome alignment and visualization of thousands of intraspecific microbial genomes.

Todd J Treangen;Brian D Ondov;Sergey Koren;Adam M Phillippy

1538
Citations
Assembly algorithms for next-generation sequencing data.

Jason R. Miller;Sergey Koren;Granger Sutton

1523
Citations
Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads

Sergey Koren;Michael C Schatz;Brian P Walenz;Jeffrey Martin

1197
Citations
Assembling large genomes with single-molecule sequencing and locality-sensitive hashing

Konstantin Berlin;Sergey Koren;Chen-Shan Chin;James P Drake

999
Citations
Evaluation of GRCh38 and de novo haploid genome assemblies demonstrates the enduring quality of the reference assembly

Valerie A. Schneider;Tina Graves-Lindsay;Kerstin Howe;Nathan Bouk

973
Citations
GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

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

892
Citations
Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

Keith R. Bradnam;Joseph N. Fass;Anton Alexandrov;Paul Baranay

824
Citations
Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

Keith R. Bradnam;Joseph N. Fass;Anton Alexandrov;Paul Baranay

697
Citations
The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

Kay Prüfer;Kasper Munch;Ines Hellmann;Keiko Akagi

671
Citations
Aggressive assembly of pyrosequencing reads with mates

Jason R. Miller;Arthur L. Delcher;Sergey Koren;Eli Venter

668
Citations
Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

173
Citations
Merqury: reference-free quality and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

Arang Rhie;Brian P. Walenz;Sergey Koren;Adam M. Phillippy

44
Citations