Christine Heitsch

506 total citations
24 papers, 265 citations indexed

About

Christine Heitsch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Heitsch has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 265 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christine Heitsch's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). Christine Heitsch is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (12 papers). Christine Heitsch collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. Christine Heitsch's co-authors include M. Shel Swenson, Stephen C. Harvey, Jørgen Kjems, David A. Bader, Yingying Zeng, Yuri Bakhtin, Alexander McPherson, Steven B. Larson, Joshua Cooper and Chih-Pin Hsiao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Christine Heitsch

20 papers receiving 252 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine Heitsch United States	9	227	37	25	13	13	24	265
Mathias Möhl Germany	8	222 1.0×	12 0.3×	18 0.7×	21 1.6×	17 1.3×	12	244
Julien Marquevielle France	10	269 1.2×	25 0.7×	14 0.6×	12 0.9×	7 0.5×	12	304
Oommen K. Mathew India	10	162 0.7×	16 0.4×	85 3.4×	7 0.5×	31 2.4×	22	280
Daniel Kotlar Israel	6	302 1.3×	12 0.3×	11 0.4×	8 0.6×	28 2.2×	25	392
Lulu Zheng China	10	180 0.8×	18 0.5×	6 0.2×	7 0.5×	11 0.8×	15	224
Manato Akiyama Japan	6	298 1.3×	13 0.4×	10 0.4×	11 0.8×	13 1.0×	11	362
Josef Pánek Czechia	10	321 1.4×	35 0.9×	13 0.5×	2 0.2×	33 2.5×	21	367
Filip Buric Sweden	4	199 0.9×	21 0.6×	27 1.1×	11 0.8×	25 1.9×	7	230
Anastasiya Belyaeva United States	6	211 0.9×	15 0.4×	30 1.2×	21 1.6×	31 2.4×	11	308
Mary Ann Tuli United Kingdom	6	163 0.7×	19 0.5×	17 0.7×	16 1.2×	23 1.8×	10	205

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baños, Hector, et al.. (2026). How Does Transcription-Associated Mutagenesis Shape tRNA Microevolution?. Genome Biology and Evolution.

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2025). Can geometric combinatorics improve RNA branching predictions?. BMC Bioinformatics. 26(1). 237–237.

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2021). RNAStructViz: graphical base pairing analysis. Bioinformatics. 37(20). 3660–3661. 1 indexed citations

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2021). Improving RNA Branching Predictions: Advances and Limitations. Genes. 12(4). 469–469. 2 indexed citations

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2020). On the Problem of Reconstructing a Mixture of rna Structures. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 82(10). 133–133. 2 indexed citations

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2020). The challenge of RNA branching prediction: a parametric analysis of multiloop initiation under thermodynamic optimization. Journal of Structural Biology. 210(1). 107475–107475. 5 indexed citations

Murrugarra, David, et al.. (2017). Conditioning and Robustness of RNA Boltzmann Sampling under Thermodynamic Parameter Perturbations. Biophysical Journal. 113(2). 321–329. 5 indexed citations

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2016). New insights from cluster analysis methods for RNA secondary structure prediction. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews - RNA. 7(3). 278–294. 10 indexed citations

Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2014). Profiling small RNA reveals multimodal substructural signals in a Boltzmann ensemble. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(22). e171–e171. 21 indexed citations

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Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2014). Asymptotic distribution of motifs in a stochastic context-free grammar model of RNA folding. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 69(6-7). 1743–1772. 5 indexed citations

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Cooper, Joshua & Christine Heitsch. (2013). Generalized Fibonacci recurrences and the lex-least de Bruijn sequence. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 50(4). 465–473. 1 indexed citations

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Harvey, Stephen C., Yingying Zeng, & Christine Heitsch. (2013). The icosahedral RNA virus as a grotto: organizing the genome into stalagmites and stalactites. Journal of Biological Physics. 39(2). 163–172. 10 indexed citations

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Swenson, M. Shel, Joshua C. Anderson, Andrew Ash, et al.. (2012). GTfold: Enabling parallel RNA secondary structure prediction on multi-core desktops. BMC Research Notes. 5(1). 341–341. 32 indexed citations

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Zeng, Yingying, Steven B. Larson, Christine Heitsch, Alexander McPherson, & Stephen C. Harvey. (2012). A model for the structure of satellite tobacco mosaic virus. Journal of Structural Biology. 180(1). 110–116. 31 indexed citations

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Heitsch, Christine, et al.. (2011). Parametric Analysis of RNA Branching Configurations. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 73(4). 754–776. 3 indexed citations

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Cooper, Joshua & Christine Heitsch. (2009). The discrepancy of the lex-least de Bruijn sequence. Discrete Mathematics. 310(6-7). 1152–1159. 8 indexed citations

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Bakhtin, Yuri & Christine Heitsch. (2008). Large Deviations for Random Trees. Journal of Statistical Physics. 132(3). 551–560. 5 indexed citations

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Apostolico, Alberto, Giovanni Ciriello, Célia Fonseca Guerra, et al.. (2008). Finding 3D motifs in ribosomal RNA structures. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(4). e29–e29. 25 indexed citations

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Bakhtin, Yuri & Christine Heitsch. (2008). Large Deviations for Random Trees and the Branching of RNA Secondary Structures. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 71(1). 84–106. 9 indexed citations

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Heitsch, Christine. (2001). Exact distribution of deletion sizes for unavoidable strings. 119. 76–83.

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