Catherine Kidner

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Catherine Kidner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Catherine Kidner has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 27 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Catherine Kidner's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (24 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (17 papers). Catherine Kidner is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (24 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (17 papers). Catherine Kidner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Catherine Kidner's co-authors include Robert A. Martienssen, Grace Teng, Thomas A. Volpe, Ira M. Hall, Shiv I. S. Grewal, Marja C.P. Timmermans, James A. Nicholls, R. Toby Pennington, Nicola Harrison and Jane A. Langdale and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Catherine Kidner

59 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Regulation of Heterochromatic Silencing and Histone H3 Lysine-9 Methylation by RNAi

2002 1.6k citations Thomas A. Volpe, Catherine Kidner et al. Science profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Catherine Kidner United Kingdom	25	2.9k	2.3k	652	405	271	61	3.9k
R. Keith Slotkin United States	37	4.1k 1.4×	5.3k 2.3×	283 0.4×	523 1.3×	221 0.8×	64	6.4k
Weidong Bao United States	15	2.1k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	246 0.4×	643 1.6×	112 0.4×	25	3.0k
Sarah R. Grant United States	29	1.9k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	352 0.5×	557 1.4×	151 0.6×	46	3.8k
Jean‐Philippe Vielle‐Calzada Mexico	33	3.4k 1.2×	4.1k 1.8×	725 1.1×	519 1.3×	65 0.2×	71	4.9k
Marie Mirouze France	22	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	123 0.2×	330 0.8×	102 0.4×	33	3.1k
Mary Gehring United States	28	3.1k 1.1×	4.0k 1.7×	212 0.3×	1.1k 2.6×	92 0.3×	40	5.2k
Marco Todesco Canada	17	1.8k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	274 0.4×	588 1.5×	584 2.2×	37	3.5k
J. Greilhuber Austria	25	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 2.0×	670 1.7×	96 0.4×	43	3.0k
Damon Lisch United States	36	3.6k 1.2×	5.0k 2.1×	260 0.4×	818 2.0×	63 0.2×	64	5.7k
Jeb Rosen United States	5	1.4k 0.5×	1.1k 0.5×	311 0.5×	579 1.4×	49 0.2×	6	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Catherine Kidner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catherine Kidner

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bocanegra‐González, Kelly T., et al.. (2025). Integrative taxonomy recognises four species within the legume Inga chocoensis (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae). Taxon. 74(5). 1091–1105.

Neves, Danilo M., Catherine Kidner, D. J. N. Hind, et al.. (2025). Plant biogeography of rock outcrops in South American tropical lowlands. Frontiers of Biogeography. 18. 2 indexed citations

Schley, Rowan, Rosalía Piñeiro, James A. Nicholls, et al.. (2025). The frequency and importance of polyploidy in tropical rainforest tree radiations. New Phytologist. 249(4). 2103–2114.

Nicholls, James A., Jens J. Ringelberg, Kyle G. Dexter, et al.. (2025). Continuous colonization of the Atlantic coastal rain forests of South America from Amazônia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2039). 20241559–20241559. 2 indexed citations

Percival‐Alwyn, Lawrence, Ian Barnes, Matthew D. Clark, et al.. (2024). UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Plants People Planet. 7(4). 969–977. 6 indexed citations

Dong, Shi‐Yong, et al.. (2023). Genome-wide data reveal cryptic diversity and hybridization in a group of tree ferns. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 184. 107801–107801. 8 indexed citations

Pezzini, Flávia Fonseca, Giada Ferrari, Laura L. Forrest, et al.. (2023). Target capture and genome skimming for plant diversity studies. Applications in Plant Sciences. 11(4). e11537–e11537. 13 indexed citations

Campos, Lucía, Ai‐Qun Hu, Catherine Kidner, et al.. (2022). INSIGHTS INTO THE EVOLUTION OF THE CHLOROPLAST GENOME AND THE PHYLOGENY OF BEGONIA. Edinburgh Journal of Botany. 79. 1–32. 3 indexed citations

Forrister, Dale L., María‐José Endara, Gordon C. Younkin, et al.. (2022). Diversity and divergence: evolution of secondary metabolism in the tropical tree genus Inga. New Phytologist. 237(2). 631–642. 26 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar A., Robyn F. Powell, Mats Töpel, et al.. (2022). A highly contiguous, scaffold-level nuclear genome assembly for the fever tree (Cinchona pubescens Vahl) as a novel resource for Rubiaceae research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2022. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

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Coley, Phyllis D., María‐José Endara, Catherine Kidner, et al.. (2019). Macroevolutionary patterns in overexpression of tyrosine: An anti‐herbivore defence in a speciose tropical tree genus, Inga (Fabaceae). Journal of Ecology. 107(4). 1620–1632. 25 indexed citations

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Koenen, Erik J. M., Darío I. Ojeda, Royce Steeves, et al.. (2019). Large‐scale genomic sequence data resolve the deepest divergences in the legume phylogeny and support a near‐simultaneous evolutionary origin of all six subfamilies. New Phytologist. 225(3). 1355–1369. 108 indexed citations

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Twyford, Alex D., Richard A. Ennos, & Catherine Kidner. (2013). Development and characterization of microsatellite markers for Central American Begonia sect. Gireoudia (Begoniaceae). Applications in Plant Sciences. 1(5). 10 indexed citations

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Twyford, Alex D., Catherine Kidner, Nicola Harrison, & Richard A. Ennos. (2012). Population history and seed dispersal in widespread Central AmericanBegoniaspecies (Begoniaceae) inferred from plastome-derived microsatellite markers. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 171(1). 260–276. 33 indexed citations

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Kidner, Catherine. (2010). The many roles of small RNAs in leaf development. Journal of genetics and genomics. 37(1). 13–21. 44 indexed citations

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Kidner, Catherine. (2007). Leaf evolution: working with what's to hand. Evolution & Development. 9(4). 321–322. 2 indexed citations

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Kidner, Catherine. (2006). The evolution of diversity in Begonia.. 606–611. 17 indexed citations

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Kidner, Catherine & Mieke Timmermans. (2006). Mixing and matching pathways in leaf polarity. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 10(1). 13–20. 70 indexed citations

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Volpe, Thomas A., Catherine Kidner, Ira M. Hall, et al.. (2002). Regulation of Heterochromatic Silencing and Histone H3 Lysine-9 Methylation by RNAi. Science. 297(5588). 1833–1837. 1560 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dolan, Liam, et al.. (1998). Cell fate in plants. Lessons from the Arabidopsis root.. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 51. 11–7. 6 indexed citations

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