Heather Youngs

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Heather Youngs is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather Youngs has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Heather Youngs's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (7 papers), Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (6 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (4 papers). Heather Youngs is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (7 papers), Enzyme-mediated dye degradation (6 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (4 papers). Heather Youngs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Heather Youngs's co-authors include Chris Somerville, Stephen P. Long, Sarah C. Davis, Caroline M. Taylor, Thorsten Hamann, Erin Osborne Nishimura, Alexander R. Paredez, Jennifer L. Milne, Michelle Facette and Štefan Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Biochemistry and BioScience.

In The Last Decade

Heather Youngs

21 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels

2010 999 citations Chris Somerville, Heather Youngs et al. Science profile →
Toward a Systems Approach to Understanding Plant Cell Walls

2004 948 citations Chris Somerville, Štefan Bauer et al. Science profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Implementing industrial–academic partnerships to advance bioenergy research: the Energy Biosciences Institute 2017 ·Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·Heather Youngs, Chris Somerville	4
2	The Implications of Lignocellulosic Biomass Chemical Composition for the Production of Advanced Biofuels 2014 ·BioScience ·Nadav Sorek, Trevor H. Yeats, (unknown), Heather Youngs, Chris Somerville	103
3	Best practices for biofuels 2014 ·Science ·Heather Youngs, Chris Somerville	35
4	How big is the bioenergy piece of the energy pie? Who cares—it's pie! 2014 ·Biotechnology and Bioengineering ·Chris Somerville, Heather Youngs	5
5	California's Energy Future: The Potential for Biofuels 2013 ·Heather Youngs, Christopher R. Somerville	3
6	Development of feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels 2012 ·F1000 Biology Reports ·Heather Youngs, Chris Somerville	39
7	Harvesting Carbon from Eastern US Forests: Opportunities and Impacts of an Expanding Bioenergy Industry 2012 ·Forests ·Sarah C. Davis, Michael C. Dietze, Evan H. DeLucia, Chris Field, Steven P. Hamburg, Scott R. Loarie, William J. Parton, Matthew D. Potts, Benjamin S. Ramage, Dan Wang, Heather Youngs, Stephen P. Long	26
8	Energy Biosciences Institute 2011 ·Industrial Biotechnology ·Heather Youngs	13
9	Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels breakdown → 2010 ·Science ·Chris Somerville, Heather Youngs, Caroline M. Taylor, Sarah C. Davis, Stephen P. Long	999
10	High-Resolution Crystal Structure of Manganese Peroxidase: Substrate and Inhibitor Complexes^, 2005 ·Biochemistry ·Munirathinam Sundaramoorthy, Heather Youngs, Michael H. Gold, T.L. Poulos	64
11	Toward a Systems Approach to Understanding Plant Cell Walls breakdown → 2004 ·Science ·Chris Somerville, Štefan Bauer, (unknown), Michelle Facette, Thorsten Hamann, Jennifer L. Milne, Erin Osborne Nishimura, Alexander R. Paredez, Staffan Persson, Theodore K. Raab, Sonja Vorwerk, Heather Youngs	948
12	The PEN1 Syntaxin Defines a Novel Cellular Compartment upon Fungal Attack and Is Required for the Timely Assembly of Papillae 2004 ·Molecular Biology of the Cell ·Farhah F. Assaad, Jin‐Long Qiu, Heather Youngs, David W. Ehrhardt, Laurent Zimmerli, Monika Kalde, (unknown), Scott C. Peck, H. H. Edwards, Katrina M. Ramonell, Chris Somerville, Hans Thordal‐Christensen	303
13	Global expression analysis of CESA and CSL genes in Arabidopsis 2004 ·Cellulose ·Thorsten Hamann, Erin Osborne Nishimura, Heather Youngs, Julie Misson, Laurent Nussaume, Chris Somerville	66
14	The Role of Glu39 in Mn^II Binding and Oxidation by Manganese Peroxidase from Phanerochaete chrysoporium 2001 ·Biochemistry ·Heather Youngs, Maarten D. Sollewijn Gelpke, Dongmei Li, Munirathinam Sundaramoorthy, Michael H. Gold	17
15	Effects of cadmium on manganese peroxidase 2000 ·European Journal of Biochemistry ·Heather Youngs, Munirathinam Sundaramoorthy, Michael H. Gold	38
16	Role of arginine 177 in the Mn^II binding site of manganese peroxidase 2000 ·European Journal of Biochemistry ·Maarten D. Sollewijn Gelpke, Heather Youngs, Michael H. Gold	15
17	Formation of a Bis(histidyl) Heme Iron Complex in Manganese Peroxidase at High pH and Restoration of the Native Enzyme Structure by Calcium 2000 ·Biochemistry ·Heather Youngs, Pierre Moënne‐Loccoz, Thomas M. Loehr, Michael H. Gold	17
18	Comparison of cell wall polysaccharides of marine and freshwater Bangia atropurpurea (Bangiales) and Bostrychia moritziana (Ceramiales) [Rhodophyta] 1998 ·Phycological Research ·Heather Youngs	1
19	Expression and functional studies on lignin and manganese peroxidase 1998 ·Michael H. Gold, Maarten D. Sollewijn Gelpke, Heather Youngs, Katsuyuki Kishi, (unknown), Pierre Moënne‐Loccoz	1
20	The cell wall chemistry of Bangia atropurpurea (Bangiales, Rhodophyta) and Bostrychia moritziana (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta) from marine and freshwater environments 1998 ·Phycological Research ·Heather Youngs, Michael R. Gretz, John A. West, Milton R. Sommerfeld	19

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