2026 Veli Mäkinen: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	34	12042	11693	106	101	158	6109

Veli Mäkinen publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Veli Mäkinen sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 158 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Veli Mäkinen D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Veli Mäkinen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Veli Mäkinen is a researcher affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science. Mäkinen's research encompasses various subfields such as molecular biology, artificial intelligence, genetics, hardware and architecture, and plant science.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to algorithms and data compression, genomics and phylogenetic studies, DNA and biological computing, network packet processing and optimization, genome rearrangement algorithms, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and machine learning and algorithms.

Recent publication venues for Mäkinen's work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Bioinformatics
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
ACM Transactions on Algorithms

Some of the recent papers authored by or closely related to Mäkinen's research interests are:

Accurate spliced alignment of long RNA sequencing reads, 2021, Bioinformatics
Bacterial genomic epidemiology with mixed samples, 2021, Microbial Genomics
Chaining for accurate alignment of erroneous long reads to acyclic variation graphs, 2023, Bioinformatics
On the Complexity of String Matching for Graphs, 2023, ACM Transactions on Algorithms
Founder reconstruction enables scalable and seamless pangenomic analysis, 2021, Bioinformatics

Mäkinen's list of frequent co-authors includes:

Nicola Rizzo
Massimo Equi
Manuel Cáceres
Alexandru I. Tomescu
Tuukka Norri

In addition to articles, Mäkinen has contributed to book publications. One notable publication is titled Genome-Scale Algorithm Design, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

Compressed full-text indexes

Gonzalo Navarro;Veli Mäkinen

873
Citations
Compressed representations of sequences and full-text indexes

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

436
Citations
Computational pan-genomics: status, promises and challenges.

Tobias Marschall;Manja Marz;Manja Marz;Thomas Abeel;Louis Dijkstra

419
Citations
Indexing graphs for path queries with applications in genome research

Jouni Siren;Niko Valimaki;Veli Makinen

331
Citations
Succinct suffix arrays based on run-length encoding

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

247
Citations
Storage and Retrieval of Highly Repetitive Sequence Collections

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro;Jouni Sirén;Niko Välimäki

238
Citations
Rank and select revisited and extended

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

186
Citations
Dynamic entropy-compressed sequences and full-text indexes

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

172
Citations
An Alphabet-Friendly FM-Index

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

166
Citations
Genome-Scale Algorithm Design: Biological Sequence Analysis in the Era of High-Throughput Sequencing

Veli Antti Tapani Mäkinen;Djamal Belazzougui;Fabio Cunial;Alexandru Ioan Tomescu

155
Citations
A novel min-cost flow method for estimating transcript expression with RNA-Seq

Alexandru I Tomescu;Anna Kuosmanen;Romeo Rizzi;Veli Mäkinen

111
Citations
Faster entropy-bounded compressed suffix trees

Johannes Fischer;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

110
Citations
Geometric Algorithms for Transposition Invariant Content-Based Music Retrieval

Esko Ukkonen;Kjell Lemström;Veli Mäkinen

102
Citations
Fast scaffolding with small independent mixed integer programs

Leena Salmela;Veli Mäkinen;Niko Välimäki;Johannes Ylinen

100
Citations
Position-restricted substring searching

Veli Makinen;Gonzalo Navarro

95
Citations
Space-Efficient Algorithms for Document Retrieval

Niko Välimäki;Veli Mäkinen

94
Citations
Run-Length Compressed Indexes Are Superior for Highly Repetitive Sequence Collections

Jouni Sirén;Niko Välimäki;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

93
Citations
Implicit compression boosting with applications to self-indexing

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

92
Citations
Approximate matching of run-length compressed strings

Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro;Esko Ukkonen

82
Citations
Detection of Viruses in Sweetpotato from Honduras and Guatemala Augmented by Deep-Sequencing of Small-RNAs

M. Kashif;S. Pietilä;K. Artola;R. A. C. Jones

79
Citations
Compact Suffix Array — A Space-Efficient Full-Text Index

Veli Mäkinen

77
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

gonzalo navarro University of Chile

Esko Ukkonen University of Helsinki

Juha Kärkkäinen University of Helsinki

Tobias Marschall Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Simon J. Puglisi University of Helsinki

Jukka Corander University of Oslo

Sebastian Böcker Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa

Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Evan E. Eichler University of Washington

External Links

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