Heather Maughan

6.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Heather Maughan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Maughan has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Heather Maughan's work include Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (9 papers). Heather Maughan is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (14 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (9 papers). Heather Maughan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Heather Maughan's co-authors include David S. Guttman, Wayne L. Nicholson, James A. Scott, Malcolm R. Sears, Anita L. Kozyrskyj, Meghan B. Azad, Theodore Konya, Allan B. Becker, Catherine J. Field and Joanna Masel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Heather Maughan

49 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Gut microbiota of healthy Canadian infants: profiles by mode of delivery and infant diet at 4 months

2013 687 citations Meghan B. Azad, Theodore Konya et al. profile →
Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

2015 415 citations Courtney J. Murren, Josh R. Auld et al. Heredity profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heather Maughan United States	29	1.6k	841	674	401	334	50	3.4k
Kevin R. Theis United States	27	1.3k 0.8×	616 0.7×	329 0.5×	384 1.0×	127 0.4×	72	3.5k
Klaus Failing Germany	42	1.1k 0.7×	456 0.5×	912 1.4×	155 0.4×	359 1.1×	312	6.7k
John F. Baines Germany	44	3.2k 2.0×	672 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	394 1.0×	145 0.4×	104	6.2k
Elhanan Borenstein United States	43	3.9k 2.5×	668 0.8×	787 1.2×	158 0.4×	387 1.2×	90	5.5k
Jon G. Sanders United States	33	2.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	787 1.2×	543 1.4×	80 0.2×	63	4.9k
Mark D. Schrenzel United States	29	2.7k 1.7×	550 0.7×	580 0.9×	249 0.6×	242 0.7×	59	6.1k
Maria C. Rivera Peru	36	3.2k 2.0×	1.4k 1.6×	2.1k 3.1×	383 1.0×	441 1.3×	94	6.2k
Debra L. Miller United States	47	778 0.5×	666 0.8×	444 0.7×	322 0.8×	298 0.9×	260	7.8k
Nicole M. Davis United States	11	1.5k 1.0×	620 0.7×	246 0.4×	156 0.4×	121 0.4×	17	2.9k
Jessica L. Metcalf United States	34	3.2k 2.1×	920 1.1×	847 1.3×	220 0.5×	97 0.3×	76	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Heather Maughan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather Maughan

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Foerster, Elisabeth G., Susan J. Robertson, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2023). ATG16L1 protects from interferon-γ-induced cell death in the small intestinal crypt. Mucosal Immunology. 16(2). 135–152. 7 indexed citations

Zhong, Zhi-Ping, Dean Vik, Josephine Z. Rapp, et al.. (2023). Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines. Microbiome. 11(1). 174–174. 11 indexed citations

Jha, Aashish R., et al.. (2021). The microbiota of healthy dogs demonstrates individualized responses to synbiotic supplementation in a randomized controlled trial. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 36–36. 11 indexed citations

Shmalberg, Justin, et al.. (2021). Heterogeneity of gut microbial responses in healthy household dogs transitioning from an extruded to a mildly cooked diet. PeerJ. 9. e11648–e11648. 8 indexed citations

Robertson, Susan J., Paul Lemire, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2019). Comparison of Co-housing and Littermate Methods for Microbiota Standardization in Mouse Models. Cell Reports. 27(6). 1910–1919.e2. 120 indexed citations

Quinn, Robert A., Heather Maughan, Louis‐Félix Nothias, et al.. (2018). Before platelets: the production of platelet-activating factor during growth and stress in a basal marine organism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1884). 20181307–20181307. 17 indexed citations

Lemire, Paul, Susan J. Robertson, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2017). The NLR Protein NLRP6 Does Not Impact Gut Microbiota Composition. Cell Reports. 21(13). 3653–3661. 80 indexed citations

Haas, Andreas F., Linda Wegley Kelly, Craig E. Nelson, et al.. (2016). Global microbialization of coral reefs. Nature Microbiology. 1(6). 16042–16042. 201 indexed citations

Murren, Courtney J., Josh R. Auld, H L Callahan, et al.. (2015). Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity. Heredity. 115(4). 293–301. 415 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hisakawa, Nao, Steven D. Quistad, Eric R. Hester, et al.. (2015). Metagenomic and satellite analyses of red snow in the Russian Arctic. PeerJ. 3. e1491–e1491. 32 indexed citations

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Whiteson, Katrine, Barbara Bailey, Megan Bergkessel, et al.. (2014). The Upper Respiratory Tract as a Microbial Source for Pulmonary Infections in Cystic Fibrosis. Parallels from Island Biogeography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 189(11). 1309–1315. 80 indexed citations

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Azad, Meghan B., Theodore Konya, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2014). The Gut Microbiome and the Hygiene Hypothesis of Allergic Disease. Impact of Pets and Siblings on Infant Gut Microbiota. Annals of the American Thoracic Society. 11(Supplement_1). S73–S73. 2 indexed citations

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Whiteson, Katrine, Vladimir Lazarević, Myriam Girard, et al.. (2014). Noma Affected Children from Niger Have Distinct Oral Microbial Communities Based on High-Throughput Sequencing of 16S rRNA Gene Fragments. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 8(12). e3240–e3240. 11 indexed citations

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Konya, Theodore, Brenda Koster, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2014). Associations between bacterial communities of house dust and infant gut. Environmental Research. 131. 25–30. 46 indexed citations

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Azad, Meghan B., Theodore Konya, Heather Maughan, et al.. (2013). Infant gut microbiota and the hygiene hypothesis of allergic disease: impact of household pets and siblings on microbiota composition and diversity. Allergy Asthma and Clinical Immunology. 9(1). 15–15. 213 indexed citations

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Lim, Yan Wei, Robert Schmieder, Matthew Haynes, et al.. (2013). Mechanistic Model of Rothia mucilaginosa Adaptation toward Persistence in the CF Lung, Based on a Genome Reconstructed from Metagenomic Data. PLoS ONE. 8(5). e64285–e64285. 42 indexed citations

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Maughan, Heather & Rosemary J. Redfield. (2009). Tracing the Evolution of Competence in Haemophilus influenzae. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e5854–e5854. 21 indexed citations

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Maughan, Heather & Rosemary J. Redfield. (2009). EXTENSIVE VARIATION IN NATURAL COMPETENCE INHAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE. Evolution. 63(7). 1852–1866. 57 indexed citations

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Callahan, Hilary S., Heather Maughan, & Ulrich K. Steiner. (2008). Phenotypic Plasticity, Costs of Phenotypes, and Costs of Plasticity. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1133(1). 44–66. 101 indexed citations

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Masel, Joanna, Oliver D. King, & Heather Maughan. (2006). The Loss of Adaptive Plasticity during Long Periods of Environmental Stasis. The American Naturalist. 169(1). 38–46. 82 indexed citations

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