Heather Macdonald

29 total papers · 1.2k total citations
25 papers, 944 citations indexed

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Heather Macdonald is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Macdonald has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 944 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 5 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Heather Macdonald's work include Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Heather Macdonald is often cited by papers focused on Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (5 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Heather Macdonald collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and Switzerland. Heather Macdonald's co-authors include Colin M. Lazarus, Paul J. Rushton, Richard Hooley, Alison K. Huttly, R. H. A. Coutts, K. W. Buck, Arnd Sturm, P. J. King, Jeff Cole and S. W. MacDowell and has published in prestigious journals such as The EMBO Journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Heather Macdonald

25 papers receiving 910 citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Heather Macdonald 674 577 71 66 51 25 944
Denise Schichnes 588 0.9× 418 0.7× 75 1.1× 78 1.2× 74 1.5× 16 1.1k
J.W. Lyttleton 301 0.4× 394 0.7× 35 0.5× 14 0.2× 59 1.2× 34 899
Rajtilak Majumdar 986 1.5× 603 1.0× 53 0.7× 19 0.3× 27 0.5× 33 1.2k
Qian Chen 669 1.0× 468 0.8× 41 0.6× 15 0.2× 32 0.6× 36 1.2k
Chhandak Basu 508 0.8× 507 0.9× 40 0.6× 15 0.2× 63 1.2× 36 1.2k
Mi Zhang 728 1.1× 393 0.7× 39 0.5× 25 0.4× 17 0.3× 39 947
Sandrine Lacoste 389 0.6× 381 0.7× 87 1.2× 17 0.3× 91 1.8× 26 998
Michael R. Tansey 544 0.8× 249 0.4× 88 1.2× 13 0.2× 116 2.3× 41 994
Martina Turk 426 0.6× 558 1.0× 67 0.9× 19 0.3× 163 3.2× 24 1.0k
Shanshan Jiang 900 1.3× 488 0.8× 18 0.3× 29 0.4× 34 0.7× 50 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Macdonald

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heather Macdonald

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Heather Macdonald. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Heather Macdonald. The network helps show where Heather Macdonald may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Macdonald

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heather Macdonald. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heather Macdonald 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 Heather Macdonald. Heather Macdonald is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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