Davide Heller

18.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
6 papers, 12.3k citations indexed

About

Davide Heller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Heller has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 12.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Davide Heller's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (2 papers). Davide Heller is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (2 papers) and Cellular Mechanics and Interactions (2 papers). Davide Heller collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Denmark. Davide Heller's co-authors include Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen, Sofia K. Forslund, Peer Bork, Damian Szklarczyk, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Michael Kuhn, Andrea Franceschini, Alexander Röth and Kalliopi P. Tsafou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Physics and Developmental Cell.

In The Last Decade

Davide Heller

6 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integra... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2018 2015 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life
    2014 7.8k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
    2018 2.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences
    2015 1.5k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Davide Heller Switzerland 5 7.7k 1.6k 1.5k 1.4k 1.2k 6 12.3k
Helen Cook Denmark 11 6.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 985 0.9× 14 10.9k
Shujiro Okuda Japan 35 8.4k 1.1× 2.5k 1.5× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 184 14.3k
Tania Nolan United Kingdom 21 9.8k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 1.7k 1.5× 35 17.6k
Beifang Niu China 18 9.4k 1.2× 1.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.7× 2.2k 1.6× 1.4k 1.2× 55 14.7k
Mao Tanabe Japan 13 12.9k 1.7× 1.9k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 2.5k 1.8× 1.7k 1.5× 31 19.7k
Tobias Doerks Germany 35 10.5k 1.4× 2.3k 1.4× 1.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 48 14.2k
Gregory L. Shipley United States 24 7.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 50 15.1k
Reinhold Mueller United States 16 7.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 1.5k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 26 14.1k
Paul Theodor Pyl Sweden 7 8.4k 1.1× 2.7k 1.6× 723 0.5× 1.9k 1.4× 1.9k 1.7× 13 14.5k
Juan Antonio Vizcaíno United Kingdom 42 9.8k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 635 0.4× 758 0.5× 928 0.8× 127 14.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Davide Heller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Davide Heller

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Davide Heller. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Davide Heller based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Davide Heller. Davide Heller is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Tetley, Robert J., Michael F. Staddon, Davide Heller, et al.. (2019). Tissue fluidity promotes epithelial wound healing. Nature Physics. 15(11). 1195–1203. 145 indexed citations
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Heller, Davide, Damian Szklarczyk, & Christian von Mering. (2019). Tree reconciliation combined with subsampling improves large scale inference of orthologous group hierarchies. BMC Bioinformatics. 20(1). 1 indexed citations
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Huerta‐Cepas, Jaime, Damian Szklarczyk, Davide Heller, et al.. (2018). eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D309–D314. 2815 indexed citations breakdown →
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Heller, Davide, Andreas Hoppe, Simon Restrepo, et al.. (2016). EpiTools: An Open-Source Image Analysis Toolkit for Quantifying Epithelial Growth Dynamics. Developmental Cell. 36(1). 103–116. 67 indexed citations
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Huerta‐Cepas, Jaime, Damian Szklarczyk, Sofia K. Forslund, et al.. (2015). eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D286–D293. 1528 indexed citations breakdown →
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Szklarczyk, Damian, Andrea Franceschini, Stefan Wyder, et al.. (2014). STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D447–D452. 7783 indexed citations breakdown →

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