Gavin Burns

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Gavin Burns is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Gavin Burns has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Gavin Burns's work include Physiological and biochemical adaptations (10 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (4 papers). Gavin Burns is often cited by papers focused on Physiological and biochemical adaptations (10 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (6 papers) and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies (4 papers). Gavin Burns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Gavin Burns's co-authors include Jürg Bähler, Juan Mata, Rachel Lyne, Katja Kivinen, Alvis Brāzma, Dongrong Chen, Melody S. Clark, Nic Jones, W. Mark Toone and Gabriella Rustici and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, PLoS ONE and Molecular and Cellular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Gavin Burns

21 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Global Transcriptional Responses of Fission Yeast to Envi... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Global Transcriptional Responses of Fission Yeast to Environmental Stress
    2003 653 citations Dongrong Chen, W. Mark Toone et al. Molecular Biology of the Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gavin Burns United Kingdom 17 1.8k 380 349 267 187 21 2.3k
Olivier Lespinet France 19 1.1k 0.6× 178 0.5× 594 1.7× 234 0.9× 200 1.1× 33 1.7k
Rémi Dumollard France 26 1.2k 0.7× 102 0.3× 106 0.3× 257 1.0× 181 1.0× 53 2.6k
Wolf F. Brandt South Africa 30 1.6k 0.9× 124 0.3× 838 2.4× 111 0.4× 287 1.5× 60 2.7k
Erik Hom United States 20 963 0.5× 318 0.8× 218 0.6× 290 1.1× 160 0.9× 30 1.8k
Michael A. Menze United States 25 731 0.4× 369 1.0× 374 1.1× 164 0.6× 92 0.5× 72 1.8k
Pièrre Guerrier France 31 936 0.5× 265 0.7× 203 0.6× 367 1.4× 200 1.1× 83 2.8k
Simon Prochnik United States 17 904 0.5× 159 0.4× 609 1.7× 64 0.2× 124 0.7× 20 1.5k
Kalliopi Trachana United States 11 1.2k 0.7× 271 0.7× 241 0.7× 48 0.2× 217 1.2× 14 1.7k
Hisao Kamiya Japan 36 1.5k 0.8× 391 1.0× 115 0.3× 59 0.2× 129 0.7× 154 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Gavin Burns

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gavin Burns

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gavin Burns

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ávila-Jiménez, María Luisa, Gavin Burns, Zhili He, et al.. (2020). Functional Associations and Resilience in Microbial Communities. Microorganisms. 8(6). 951–951. 20 indexed citations
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Clark, Melody S., Michael A. S. Thorne, Gavin Burns, & Lloyd S. Peck. (2015). Age-related thermal response: the cellular resilience of juveniles. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 21(1). 75–85. 8 indexed citations
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Clark, Melody S., Michael A. S. Thorne, Gavin Burns, et al.. (2013). Hypoxia impacts large adults first: consequences in a warming world. Global Change Biology. 19(7). 2251–2263. 71 indexed citations
4.
Pearce, David A., Dominic A. Hodgson, Michael A. S. Thorne, Gavin Burns, & Charles S. Cockell. (2013). Preliminary Analysis of Life within a Former Subglacial Lake Sediment in Antarctica. Diversity. 5(3). 680–702. 14 indexed citations
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Burns, Gavin, Michael C. Thorndyke, Lloyd S. Peck, & Melody S. Clark. (2012). Transcriptome pyrosequencing of the Antarctic brittle star Ophionotus victoriae. Marine Genomics. 9. 9–15. 18 indexed citations
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Burns, Gavin, et al.. (2011). Intrinsic gene expression during regeneration in arm explants of Amphiura filiformis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 413. 106–112. 14 indexed citations
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Burns, Gavin, et al.. (2011). Dynamic gene expression profiles during arm regeneration in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 407(2). 315–322. 26 indexed citations
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Seear, Paul J., Geraint A. Tarling, Gavin Burns, et al.. (2010). Differential gene expression during the moult cycle of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba). BMC Genomics. 11(1). 582–582. 39 indexed citations
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Thorne, Michael A. S., et al.. (2010). Transcription profiling of acute temperature stress in the Antarctic plunderfish Harpagifer antarcticus. Marine Genomics. 3(1). 35–44. 60 indexed citations
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Truebano, Manuela, Gavin Burns, Michael A. S. Thorne, et al.. (2010). Transcriptional response to heat stress in the Antarctic bivalve Laternula elliptica. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 391(1-2). 65–72. 46 indexed citations
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Burns, Gavin, et al.. (2009). Gene expression associated with changes in cold tolerance levels of the Antarctic springtail, Cryptopygus antarcticus. Insect Molecular Biology. 19(1). 113–120. 17 indexed citations
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Clark, Melody S., Michael A. S. Thorne, Jelena Purać, et al.. (2009). Surviving the cold: molecular analyses of insect cryoprotective dehydration in the Arctic springtail Megaphorura arctica (Tullberg). BMC Genomics. 10(1). 328–328. 81 indexed citations
13.
Clark, Melody S. & Gavin Burns. (2008). Characterisation of the warm acclimated protein gene (wap65) in the Antarctic plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus). DNA sequence. 19(1). 50–55. 10 indexed citations
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Purać, Jelena, Gavin Burns, Michael A. S. Thorne, et al.. (2008). Cold hardening processes in the Antarctic springtail, Cryptopygus antarcticus: Clues from a microarray. Journal of Insect Physiology. 54(9). 1356–1362. 36 indexed citations
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Watt, Stephen, Juan Mata, Luis López‐Maury, et al.. (2008). urg1: A Uracil-Regulatable Promoter System for Fission Yeast with Short Induction and Repression Times. PLoS ONE. 3(1). e1428–e1428. 49 indexed citations
16.
Hansen, Klavs, Gavin Burns, Juan Mata, et al.. (2005). Global Effects on Gene Expression in Fission Yeast by Silencing and RNA Interference Machineries. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(2). 590–601. 110 indexed citations
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Rustici, Gabriella, Juan Mata, Katja Kivinen, et al.. (2004). Periodic gene expression program of the fission yeast cell cycle. Nature Genetics. 36(8). 809–817. 392 indexed citations
18.
Lyne, Rachel, Gavin Burns, Juan Mata, et al.. (2003). Whole-genome microarrays of fission yeast: characteristics, accuracy, reproducibility, and processing of array data. BMC Genomics. 4(1). 27–27. 186 indexed citations
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Chen, Dongrong, W. Mark Toone, Juan Mata, et al.. (2003). Global Transcriptional Responses of Fission Yeast to Environmental Stress. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 14(1). 214–229. 653 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mata, Juan, Rachel Lyne, Gavin Burns, & Jürg Bähler. (2002). The transcriptional program of meiosis and sporulation in fission yeast. Nature Genetics. 32(1). 143–147. 393 indexed citations

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