Darren Heavens

10.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Darren Heavens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Darren Heavens has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Plant Science and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Darren Heavens's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Darren Heavens is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Darren Heavens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Darren Heavens's co-authors include Margaret A. Knowles, Matthew D. Clark, Mark Alston, David Swarbreck, Alastair Grant, Thomas R. Turner, Anne Osbourn, Philip S. Poole, John Walshaw and Ramakrishnan Karunakaran and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Cancer Cell.

In The Last Decade

Darren Heavens

39 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants

2013 371 citations Thomas R. Turner, Ramakrishnan Karunakaran et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Darren Heavens United Kingdom	23	1.1k	643	310	283	229	41	2.2k
Li Nie China	29	1.2k 1.1×	606 0.9×	198 0.6×	212 0.7×	356 1.6×	86	3.3k
Mathangi Thiagarajan United States	13	2.1k 1.9×	570 0.9×	226 0.7×	569 2.0×	199 0.9×	18	3.4k
François Lefort Switzerland	28	890 0.8×	1.7k 2.6×	175 0.6×	225 0.8×	412 1.8×	123	2.8k
Rodolpho Mattos Albano Brazil	32	1.2k 1.2×	178 0.3×	325 1.0×	378 1.3×	115 0.5×	136	2.8k
Zheng Jin Tu United States	23	1.1k 1.0×	562 0.9×	200 0.6×	96 0.3×	164 0.7×	45	2.2k
Liliana Florea United States	28	2.3k 2.2×	535 0.8×	972 3.1×	299 1.1×	469 2.0×	68	4.0k
Randy Rasmussen United States	10	1.5k 1.4×	278 0.4×	245 0.8×	319 1.1×	107 0.5×	10	2.7k
Erwin L. van Dijk France	11	1.8k 1.6×	438 0.7×	423 1.4×	296 1.0×	412 1.8×	15	2.5k
Francescopaolo Di Cello United States	26	926 0.9×	452 0.7×	144 0.5×	254 0.9×	370 1.6×	40	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Darren Heavens

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Pallen, Mark J., Alise J. Ponsero, Andrea Telatin, et al.. (2025). Faecal metagenomes of great tits and blue tits provide insights into host, diet, pathogens and microbial biodiversity. Access Microbiology. 7(4). 1 indexed citations

Heavens, Darren, et al.. (2025). From air to insight: the evolution of airborne DNA sequencing technologies. Microbiology. 171(5).

Vollheyde, Katharina, Quentin M. Dudley, Ting Yang, et al.. (2023). An improved Nicotiana benthamiana bioproduction chassis provides novel insights into nicotine biosynthesis. New Phytologist. 240(1). 302–317. 17 indexed citations

Schreiber, Miriam, Martin Mascher, Jonathan Wright, et al.. (2020). A Genome Assembly of the Barley ‘Transformation Reference’ Cultivar Golden Promise. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(6). 1823–1827. 53 indexed citations

Etherington, Graham, Darren Heavens, David Baker, et al.. (2020). Sequencing smart: De novo sequencing and assembly approaches for a non-model mammal. GigaScience. 9(5). 16 indexed citations

Giolai, Michael, et al.. (2020). A low‐cost pipeline for soil microbiome profiling. MicrobiologyOpen. 9(12). e1133–e1133. 15 indexed citations

Leggett, Richard M., Cristina Alcon‐Giner, Darren Heavens, et al.. (2019). Rapid MinION profiling of preterm microbiota and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. Nature Microbiology. 5(3). 430–442. 114 indexed citations

Paajanen, Pirita, George Kettleborough, Elena López‐Girona, et al.. (2019). A critical comparison of technologies for a plant genome sequencing project. GigaScience. 8(3). 45 indexed citations

Peel, Ned, Lynn V. Dicks, Matthew D. Clark, et al.. (2019). Semi‐quantitative characterisation of mixed pollen samples using MinION sequencing and Reverse Metagenomics (RevMet). Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(10). 1690–1701. 30 indexed citations

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Rowan, Beth A., Darren Heavens, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, et al.. (2019). An Ultra High-Density Arabidopsis thaliana Crossover Map That Refines the Influences of Structural Variation and Epigenetic Features. Genetics. 213(3). 771–787. 95 indexed citations

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Giolai, Michael, et al.. (2019). Spatially resolved transcriptomics reveals plant host responses to pathogens. Plant Methods. 15(1). 114–114. 20 indexed citations

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Lu, Fu-Hao, Neil McKenzie, George Kettleborough, et al.. (2018). Independent assessment and improvement of wheat genome sequence assemblies using Fosill jumping libraries. GigaScience. 7(5). 9 indexed citations

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Harper, John A., José J. De Vega, Sarat Chandra Swain, et al.. (2018). Integrating a newly developed BAC-based physical mapping resource for Lolium perenne with a genome-wide association study across a L. perenne European ecotype collection identifies genomic contexts associated with agriculturally important traits. Annals of Botany. 123(6). 977–992. 5 indexed citations

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Turner, Thomas R., Ramakrishnan Karunakaran, John Walshaw, et al.. (2013). Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants. The ISME Journal. 7(12). 2248–2258. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Seipke, Ryan F., Lisa Crossman, Nizar Drou, et al.. (2011). Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces Strain S4, a Symbiont of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Acromyrmex octospinosus. Journal of Bacteriology. 193(16). 4270–4271. 22 indexed citations

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Davies, Andrew, Claire Taylor, Andrew Clear, et al.. (2005). A limited role for TP53 mutation in the transformation of follicular lymphoma to diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Leukemia. 19(8). 1459–1465. 50 indexed citations

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Adams, Jacqui, Darren Heavens, Sylvia Bass, & Margaret A. Knowles. (2004). Infrequent mutation of TRAIL receptor 2 (TRAIL-R2/DR5) in transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder with 8p21 loss of heterozygosity. Cancer Letters. 220(2). 137–144. 21 indexed citations

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Rowe, Janice, Radost Vatcheva, Darren Heavens, et al.. (2003). Tumor suppressor p16INK4a determines sensitivity of human cells to transformation by cooperating cellular oncogenes. Cancer Cell. 4(4). 301–310. 81 indexed citations

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Turner, Kevin, John W. Moore, Adam Jones, et al.. (2002). Expression of hypoxia-inducible factors in human renal cancer: relationship to angiogenesis and to the von Hippel-Lindau gene mutation.. PubMed. 62(10). 2957–61. 220 indexed citations

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Sibley, Kathryn, Darren Heavens, & Margaret A. Knowles. (2001). Loss of heterozygosity at 4p16.3 and mutation of FGFR3 in transitional cell carcinoma. Oncogene. 20(6). 686–691. 90 indexed citations

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