2026 Stephen G. Oliver: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	95	880	828	124	118	419	55856
Molecular Biology	95	621	551	52	45	419	55856

Stephen G. Oliver publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Oliver sits on this spectrum.

47 publications 564+

This scientist: 419 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Stephen G. Oliver D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen G. Oliver sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Stephen G. Oliver is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Plant Science, Animal Science and Zoology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main research topics such as Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, and Gene expression and cancer classification.

Stephen G. Oliver has contributed to a number of scholarly articles, with recent papers including:

The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
Fission stories: using PomBase to understand Schizosaccharomyces pombe biology (2022, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))
The Remarkable Evolutionary Plasticity of Coronaviruses by Mutation and Recombination: Insights for the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future Evolutionary Paths of SARS-CoV-2 (2022, Viruses)
Comparative Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern, Including Omicron, Highlights Their Common and Distinctive Amino Acid Substitution Patterns, Especially at the Spike ORF (2022, Viruses)
Fission stories: Using PomBase to understand Schizosaccharomyces pombe biology (2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))

Frequent collaborators include:

Grigoris D. Amoutzias
Marios Nikolaidis
Jorge Júlvez
Andrew Hesketh
Giorgio Jansen

The researcher publishes regularly in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Viruses
IEEE Power Electronics Magazine
Nucleic Acids Research

Stephen G. Oliver has received recognition in the form of the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) award in 2008.

Best Publications

Life with 6000 Genes

André Goffeau;B G Barrell;H Bussey;R W Davis

6116
Citations
The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

5710
Citations
The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

3766
Citations
Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein-protein interactions.

Christian von Mering;Roland Krause;Berend Snel;Michael Cornell

3005
Citations
Systematic functional analysis of the yeast genome

Stephen G. Oliver;Michael K. Winson;Douglas B. Kell;Frank Baganz

1622
Citations
Genome sequencing and analysis of the versatile cell factory Aspergillus niger CBS 513.88

Herman J. Pel;Johannes H. De Winde;Johannes H. De Winde;David B. Archer;Paul S. Dyer

1372
Citations
A functional genomics strategy that uses metabolome data to reveal the phenotype of silent mutations

Léonie M. Raamsdonk;Bas Teusink;David Broadhurst;Nianshu Zhang

1316
Citations
The complete DNA sequence of yeast chromosome III.

S. G. Oliver;Q. J. M. van der Aart;M. L. Agostoni-Carbone;M. Aigle

1055
Citations
A common open representation of mass spectrometry data and its application to proteomics research

Patrick G A Pedrioli;Jimmy K Eng;Robert Hubley;Mathijs Vogelzang

984
Citations
Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist

Ross D. King;Kenneth E. Whelan;Ffion M. Jones;Philip G. K. Reiser

847
Citations
Overview of the yeast genome

H W Mewes;K. Albermann;Manuel Bahr;D Frishman

824
Citations
Mapping Pathways and Phenotypes by Systematic Gene Overexpression

Richelle Sopko;Dongqing Huang;Nicolle Preston;Gordon Chua

800
Citations
The Automation of Science

Ross Donald King;Jeremy John Rowland;Jeremy John Rowland;Stephen G. Oliver;Stephen G. Oliver;Michael Young

779
Citations
Gene ontology annotations and resources

Blake Ja;Dolan M;Drabkin H

749
Citations
A consensus yeast metabolic network reconstruction obtained from a community approach to systems biology

Markus Herrgard;Neil Swainston;Paul Dobson;Warwick B. Dunn

701
Citations
Here is the evidence, now what is the hypothesis? The complementary roles of inductive and hypothesis-driven science in the post-genomic era

Douglas B. Kell;Stephen G. Oliver

699
Citations
High-throughput classification of yeast mutants for functional genomics using metabolic footprinting

Jess Allen;Hazel Marie Davey;David Iain Broadhurst;Jim K. Heald

690
Citations
Guilt-by-association goes global

Stephen Oliver

660
Citations
Estimating the total number of phosphoproteins and phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteomes.

Panayotis Vlastaridis;Pelagia Kyriakidou;Anargyros Chaliotis;Yves Van de Peer;Yves Van de Peer

652
Citations
METABOLIC FOOTPRINTING AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

Douglas B. Kell;Marie Brown;Hazel M. Davey;Warwick B. Dunn

566
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas B. Kell University of Liverpool

Norman W. Paton University of Manchester

Simon J. Hubbard Manchester Academic Health Science Centre

Simon J. Gaskell Plymouth University

Ross D. King University of Manchester

Geoffrey D. Robson University of Manchester

Warwick B. Dunn University of Liverpool

Kathryn S. Lilley University of Cambridge

Magnus Rattray University of Manchester

Balázs Papp Biological Research Centre

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