Heidi J. Sofia

101.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Heidi J. Sofia is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heidi J. Sofia has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Heidi J. Sofia's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Heidi J. Sofia is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (5 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). Heidi J. Sofia collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Heidi J. Sofia's co-authors include Guy Plunkett, Valerie Burland, Donna L. Daniels, Walter G. Zumft, Heinz Körner, Frederick R. Blattner, Heiko Liesegang, Sascha Dietrich, Luke E. Ulrich and Anna Staroń and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Heidi J. Sofia

23 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Radical SAM, a novel protein superfamily linking unresolved steps in familiar biosynthetic pathways with radical mechanisms: functional characterization using new analysis and information visualization methods

2001 807 citations Heidi J. Sofia Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heidi J. Sofia United States	13	1.5k	629	581	340	242	24	2.5k
Diana M. Downs United States	36	2.3k 1.5×	466 0.7×	508 0.9×	181 0.5×	974 4.0×	137	3.5k
Allan Matte Canada	31	1.9k 1.2×	286 0.5×	247 0.4×	195 0.6×	679 2.8×	64	2.6k
Matthew S. Kimber Canada	27	1.5k 1.0×	261 0.4×	191 0.3×	260 0.8×	364 1.5×	61	2.0k
Fredric S. Jacobson United States	11	1.6k 1.0×	321 0.5×	98 0.2×	117 0.3×	161 0.7×	13	2.4k
Clement T. Y. Chan United States	19	2.3k 1.5×	289 0.5×	109 0.2×	146 0.4×	75 0.3×	30	2.9k
Victoria Shingler Sweden	40	3.1k 2.0×	2.0k 3.2×	73 0.1×	811 2.4×	259 1.1×	75	4.3k
Enrique Morett Mexico	25	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 2.0×	122 0.2×	481 1.4×	238 1.0×	64	3.1k
Lars I. Leichert Germany	25	1.7k 1.1×	259 0.4×	69 0.1×	158 0.5×	217 0.9×	59	2.7k
John E. Dueber United States	32	5.6k 3.7×	707 1.1×	124 0.2×	215 0.6×	204 0.8×	44	6.4k
Lars Rutberg Sweden	30	1.7k 1.1×	993 1.6×	96 0.2×	709 2.1×	398 1.6×	74	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heidi J. Sofia

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Cabili, Moran N., Knox Carey, Stephanie O. M. Dyke, et al.. (2018). Simplifying research access to genomics and health data with Library Cards. Scientific Data. 5(1). 180039–180039. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Shuang, Xiaoqian Jiang, Haixu Tang, et al.. (2017). A community effort to protect genomic data sharing, collaboration and outsourcing. npj Genomic Medicine. 2(1). 33–33. 28 indexed citations

Tang, Haixu, Xiaoqian Jiang, XiaoFeng Wang, et al.. (2016). Protecting genomic data analytics in the cloud: state of the art and opportunities. BMC Medical Genomics. 9(1). 63–63. 37 indexed citations

Raisaro, Jean Louis, Florian Tramèr, Zhanglong Ji, et al.. (2016). Addressing Beacon re-identification attacks: quantification and mitigation of privacy risks. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 24(4). 799–805. 61 indexed citations

Staroń, Anna, Heidi J. Sofia, Sascha Dietrich, et al.. (2009). The third pillar of bacterial signal transduction: classification of the extracytoplasmic function (ECF) σ factor protein family. Molecular Microbiology. 74(3). 557–581. 313 indexed citations

Chin, George, et al.. (2008). BioGraphE: high-performance bionetwork analysis using the Biological Graph Environment. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(S6). S6–S6. 13 indexed citations

Wong, Pak Chung, et al.. (2008). A Dynamic Multiscale Magnifying Tool for Exploring Large Sparse Graphs. Information Visualization. 7(2). 105–117. 7 indexed citations

Buchko, Garry W. & Heidi J. Sofia. (2007). Backbone 1H, 13C, and 15N NMR assignments for the Cyanothece 51142 protein cce_0567: a protein associated with nitrogen fixation in the DUF683 family. Biomolecular NMR Assignments. 2(1). 25–28. 2 indexed citations

Campbell, Elizabeth A., Jennifer R. Anthony, Sheng Wang, et al.. (2007). A Conserved Structural Module Regulates Transcriptional Responses to Diverse Stress Signals in Bacteria. Molecular Cell. 27(5). 793–805. 122 indexed citations

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Chin, George, et al.. (2007). A High-Performance Computational Framework for BionetworkAnalysis. 51. 100–107. 3 indexed citations

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Stephan, Eric, et al.. (2006). Problem Solving Environment Approach to Integrating Diverse Biological Data Sources. 47–50. 1 indexed citations

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Stephan, Eric, et al.. (2005). Supporting Computational Visual Theories in Biology. 180. 69–71. 2 indexed citations

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Stephan, Eric, et al.. (2004). Synchronized Biological Knowledge and Data Management: A Hybrid Approach. 105–112.

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Stephan, Eric, et al.. (2004). A symbolic logic strategy for mapping biological concepts in the HERBE prototype. 419–420. 1 indexed citations

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Körner, Heinz, Heidi J. Sofia, & Walter G. Zumft. (2003). Phylogeny of the bacterial superfamily of Crp-Fnr transcription regulators: exploiting the metabolic spectrum by controlling alternative gene programs. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 27(5). 559–592. 354 indexed citations

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Sofia, Heidi J.. (2001). Radical SAM, a novel protein superfamily linking unresolved steps in familiar biosynthetic pathways with radical mechanisms: functional characterization using new analysis and information visualization methods. Nucleic Acids Research. 29(5). 1097–1106. 807 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ning, Xiaoping, Stephen Walker, Heidi J. Sofia, et al.. (2001). μ-Amyloid Peptide-induced Apoptosis Regulated by a Novel Protein Containing a G Protein Activation Module. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 276(22). 18748–18756. 48 indexed citations

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Burland, Valerie, Guy Plunkett, Heidi J. Sofia, Donna L. Daniels, & F. R. Blattner. (1995). Analysis of theEscherichia coligenome VI: DNA sequence of the region from 92.8 through 100 minutes. Nucleic Acids Research. 23(12). 2105–2119. 134 indexed citations

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Rudd, Kenneth E., et al.. (1995). A new family of peptidyl-prolyl isomerases. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 20(1). 12–14. 78 indexed citations

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Sofia, Heidi J., Valerie Burland, Donna L. Daniels, Guy Plunkett, & Frederick R. Blattner. (1994). Analysis of theEscherichia coligenome. V. DNA sequence of the region from 76.0 to 81.5 minutes. Nucleic Acids Research. 22(13). 2576–2586. 352 indexed citations

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