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You can find here any research or news article I have published. It is provided full citation statistics for any research publication according to many different research databases. You can also find my Doctoral thesis, patents, and News and Views papers on my research. I am Review Editor in genetic systems and circuit design of Frontiers in Synthetic Biology and also Guest Editor of Special Issue "New Approaches in Antimicrobial Drug Discovery and Design" of the journal Antibiotics with impact factor 4.8.

Our recent paper is an editors' choice of the American Chemical Society!

Our recent paper is among the most popular in the ACS Synthetic Biology!

The research in the Robert Penchovsky laboratory was supported by a grant DN13/14/20.12.2017, completed with 20 publications with IF of 84 points and Q1-4 of 274 points entitled "Design and experimental validation of chimeric antisense oligonucleotides as antibacterial agents" and is currently supported by a grant KP-06-H31/18/13.12.2019 entitled "Engineering functional nucleic acids for synthetic control of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes" awarded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF). You can see a presentation of the results of the first half of the project DN13/14/20.12.2017 (in Bulgarian only). Our research was noticed and commented in high impact factor journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, ACS Synthetic Biology, and RSC Chemistry World.

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Citation statistics of my scientific publications: over 1700 citations;

Impact Factor: 264 points; H-index: 22 points; I10-index: 30

A list of 1735 citations of my publications without self-citations till 22.02.2026 can be seen here. I am a leading author (the first or the last author) of 97% of my publications and the corresponding author(*) of 94% of them! Moreover, 87% of all publications have not more than 3 co-authors and 11.4% of them have 4 or 5 co-authors. Only one publication has more than 5 co-authors (1.6%), namely 7. Since my assistant professorship position in 2010, I have published 14 papers of various types as a solid author (including patents) and 48 papers only with my current or former master or doctoral students as co-authors. I have anImpact Factor (IF) of 264 points (see the slide show below).

My current citations according to GoogleScholar are 1688 indexing 73 publications and can be seen here. Since 2021, my scientific publications have been cited 949 times. The citations include research, reviews, and news and views articles, book chapters, patents, and Ph.D. theses. Currently, my H-index is equal to 22 points while my I10-index has 30 points according to ScholarGoogle. Since 2020, my H-index has 18 points and my I10-index has also 25 points.

My current citations according to ResearchGate   are 1416 with H-index of 20 points indexing 78 publications. According to Scopus my citations are 1195 cited by 840 documents with H-index of 18 points indexing 51 publications. My research has 28 highly influential citations and overall 1192 citations with a H-index of 18 points on SemanticScholar indexing 58 publications.

You can also follow my research on PubMed includes 31 publications, WoS indexes 41 publications with H-index of 17 and 941 citations by 673 articles, NACID includes 111 publications, Mendeley includes 69 publications, Frontiers , Academia, and ORCID including 74 publications.

Robert's research keywords: ribozymes, riboswitches, bioinformatics, biosensors, microfluidics, DNA/RNA computing, RNA synthetic biology, ASOs, rational drug design and new antibiotics.

My publications and 3 News and Views papers'!' on my research;
'*' corresponding author is Prof. Penchovsky:

                                  

                                  

                                  

                                  

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