Young researchers starting their careers will often look for reviews, opinions and research manuscripts from the most influential authors of their chosen field. In science, however, unlike many other topics on the Internet, ranked lists or manuscript repositories of top authors sorted by research topic are hard to come by. For some researchers, the idea of such a task brings the words ‘wasted time’ to their minds; the most critical condemn it as a frivolous pursuit. Maybe so. In my opinion, however, it as an excellent starting point.
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| Home Page of ResearchGate with more than 3 millions of users |
These days, more people than ever are involved in science and research. Just look at ResearchGate’s homepage. There are over 3 million persons there –and we’re only counting ResearchGate users. Once simple undertakings, such as finding the right manuscript to cite, the most authoritative group on a topic, or the best software application for a specific task, have become increasingly difficult for graduate students navigating this ocean of data, despite the availability of services such as Google Scholar or Pubmed. The situation will only worsen in the future, as is easy to see by simply tallying the number of published papers in the fields of Proteomics, Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Proteomics since 1997:
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| Number of published manuscripts in Pubmed per year (1997-2012).
the statistics was done using the Medline Trend Service
http://dan.corlan.net/medline-trend.html |
In 2012 alone, over 6,000 and 17,000 manuscripts were published in the fields of proteomics and bioinformatics, respectively. Our young field, computational proteomics, published more than four hundred papers. Perhaps well-established PI’s or Group Leaders can easily tell apart derivative or me-too contributions from groundbreaking work, but young scientists, who spend most of their time implementing someone else’s ideas, can certainly have a hard time doing so. Although technology has come to the rescue with today’s mixture of search engines and social networking tools (ResearchGate, Google Scholar, twitter and LinkedIn among them), the best way to harness its power is, precisely, by starting from a ranked list of the most authoritative voices within a field of research, whose whereabouts can then be traced in the scientific literature, the blogosphere, and anywhere else.
Be forewarned that I work mainly on proteomics data storage and management and peptide/protein identification algorithms, so it will probably be a bit biased. I recently made a simple study about my PhD References and also the references in my published manuscripts. I developed and used different tools to draw my references network and see the name of my most influential authors in computational proteomics. The analysis gives me a perfect pictures of which authors I follow by topics. For example, Alexey Nesvizhskii was cited in my manuscripts each time that I wrote about proteomics statistics, and peptide/protein validation. The analysis also showed that Professor Aebersold contributed in different sub-networks in computational proteomics (proteomics statistics, proteomics repositories and target Computational Proteomics). Jean-Charles Sanchez connected my electrophoresis networks (Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Point estimation).
Be forewarned that I work mainly on proteomics data storage and management and peptide/protein identification algorithms, so it will probably be a bit biased. I recently made a simple study about my PhD References and also the references in my published manuscripts. I developed and used different tools to draw my references network and see the name of my most influential authors in computational proteomics. The analysis gives me a perfect pictures of which authors I follow by topics. For example, Alexey Nesvizhskii was cited in my manuscripts each time that I wrote about proteomics statistics, and peptide/protein validation. The analysis also showed that Professor Aebersold contributed in different sub-networks in computational proteomics (proteomics statistics, proteomics repositories and target Computational Proteomics). Jean-Charles Sanchez connected my electrophoresis networks (Electrophoresis and Isoelectric Point estimation).
Sub-Networks of my PhD Thesis References and manuscripts.
What follows is a list of the most influential authors in computationalproteomics , from my point of view as a PhD student, put together with the
help of the fine minds behind Google Scholar and tweaked further with
ResearchGate, twitter and LinkedIn. I created the list using an h-index from google scholar and also ISI Web, picking group leaders and, occasionally, some post-docs as well. Here’s hoping that you (the reader) can help me expand it.
Knights of the Round Table
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Albert JR Heck Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Bijvoet Center and Utrecht Institute Cited by 16376 h-index: 66 http://bioms.chem.uu.nl/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_J.R._Heck |
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John R. Yates The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Chemical Physiology Cited by 51877 (ISI Web) h-index: 110 (ISI Web) fields.scripps.edu/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Yates |
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Matthias Mann Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Cited by 121301 h-index: 163 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Mann http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/mann |
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Richard D. Smith Biological Sciences Division Battelle Fellow Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Cited by 62357 (ISI Web) h-index: 112 (ISI Web) http://www.pnl.gov/science/staff/staff_info.asp?staff_num=5832 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_D._Smith |
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Ruedi Aebersold Institute of Molecular Systems Biology Cited by 61868 (ISI Web) h-index: 116 (ISI Web) http://www.imsb.ethz.ch/researchgroup/rudolfa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruedi_Aebersold |
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Alexey Nesvizhskii Associate Professor, University of Michigan Cited by 10501 h-index: 38 http://www.nesvilab.org/ Topics: Peptide/Protein Validation, Protein Inference, PeptideAtlas |
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Amos Bairoch Professor of Bioinformatics, University of Geneva and group leader, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Cited by 44700 h-index: 88 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Bairoch http://www.isb-sib.ch/ twitter:@calipho2 Topics:UNIPROT, Expasy, PROSITE |
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Andrej Shevchenko MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Cited by 33479 h-index: 80 http://www.mpi-cbg.de/research/research-groups/andrej-shevchenko/research-focus.html Topics: Sequence Tag, Homology Identification, Lipidomics |
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Bin Ma Professor of Computer Science, University of Waterloo Cited by 10713 h-index:33 https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~binma/ Topics: Homology Search, De novo Sequencing, Tools: Peaks, PatternHunter |
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David Fenyo Associate Professor, New York University Medical Center Cited by 3164 (ISI Web) h-index: 30 (ISI Web) http://www.fenyolab.org/ Topics:Protein Identification, Proteomics Repositories, Tools: X!Tandem, GPMDB, |
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David L. Tabb Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Cited by 5576 h-index: 32 http://fenchurch.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ Topics:Protein Identification, Sequence Tag, Protein/Peptide Validation, Tools: DirecTag, MyriMatch, IDPicker 3 |
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Eric Deutsch Institute for Systems Biology Cited by 7131 h-index:42 http://db.systemsbiology.net/users/edeutsch/ Topics: Proteomics Databases, Proteomics Standards, Bioinformatics Workflows Tools:PeptideAtlas, TPP |
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Henning Hermjakob Team Leader Proteomics Services Cited by 27431 h-index: 46 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/henning-hermjakob twitter:@pride_ebi, @intact_project Topics: PRIDE, INTACT, REACTOME, Proteomics Standards |
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Jean-Charles Sanchez Biomedical Proteomics Research Group (BPRG), Department of Human Protein Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Cited by * h-index: * Topics: Electrophoresis, 2D, Expasy, |
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Jimmy K. Eng University of Washington, Proteomics Resource Cited by 24208 h-index: 64 http://proteomicsresource.washington.edu/index.php Topics:Protein Identification, MS/MS search, Peptide/Protein validation, Tools:Sequest |
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Juan Antonio Vizcaino PRIDE Group Coordinator, EMBL-EBI Cited by 1451 h-index: 21 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pride/ @juan_vizcaino Topics: PRIDE, Proteomics Repositories, Quality Control Tools: PRIDE |
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Juergen Cox Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry Cited by 6802 h-index: 40 http://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/rd/mann twitter: @maxquant Topics:Protein Identification , Protein Quantitation Tools: Andromeda, MaxQuant |
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Lennart Martens Professor of Systems Biology, Ghent University and VIB, Ghent, Belgium Cited by 5004 h-index: 35 http://compomics.com/ twitter: @compomics Topics: Protein Validation, Repositories, Peptide Centric Databases, Lims, Quality Control, Proteomics Standards |
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Lukas Käll Assistant Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Cited by 2392 h-index: 17 Topics: Protein Validation, Repositories Percolator |
Nuno BandeiraExecutive director, NCRR/NIH Biomedical Technology Research Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry
Cited by 630 (ISI Web)
h-index: 16 (ISI Web)
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~nbandeir/
Topics: Spectral Networks, Spectral Dictionaries
Michael MacCossAssociate Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Cited by 7895
h-index: 46
http://proteome.gs.washington.edu/
twitter:@mjmaccoss
Topics: Target Proteomics, Quantitation, Protein/Peptide Validation
Tools: Skyline, Percolator
Paulo Costa CarvalhoResearch Scientist at Carlos Chagas Institute, Fiocruz - Paraná, Brazil
Cited by 493
h-index: 12
http://pcarvalho.com/patternlab/
Topics: Peptide/Protein Identification, Bioinformatics Workflow
Tools: PatternLabPavel Pevzner
Professor of Computer Science
Cited by 20575
h-index: 65
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_A._Pevzner
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ppevzner/
Topics:De novo Sequencing, PTMs Identification, Fragment Assembly
Robert MoritzAssociate Professor, Institute for Systems Biology
Cited by 11605
h-index: 54
http://www.systemsbiology.org/moritz-group
Topics:PeptideAtlas, Bioinformatics Workflows, Peptide/Protein validation
Ronald BeavisPresident Beavis Informatics Ltd
Cited by 7512 (ISI Web)
h-index: 36 (ISI Web)
http://www.beavisinformatics.ca/
twitter: @GPMDB
Topics:Protein Identification, Proteomics Repositories, Tools: X!Tandem, GPMDB,
Ron D. AppelExecutive Director, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Cited by 1196
h-index: 45
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Appel
http://www.isb-sib.ch/aboutsib/organisation/management.html
Topics: Databases, Proteomic Services, Protein Identification,
Rolf ApweilerAssociate Director and Senior Scientist (EBI)
Cited by 22446
h-index: 62 (ISI Web)
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/people/rolf-apweiler
http://www.uniprot.org/help/apweiler
Topics: Databases, Proteomic Services,
Oliver KohlbacherProfessor for Applied Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen
Cited by 3322
h-index: 31
http://abi.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/
Topics: Visualization Omics Data, Bioinformatics Workflows
Tools: OpenMS
William Stafford Noble
Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington
Cited by 17430
h-index: 59
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/~wnoble/
Topics: Protein Validation, kernel & SVM Methods, Protein-Protein Interactions
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