Helen Cook

17.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
14 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Helen Cook is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Cook has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Helen Cook's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Helen Cook is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Helen Cook collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and Germany. Helen Cook's co-authors include Lars Juhl Jensen, Christian von Mering, Damian Szklarczyk, Peer Bork, Michael Kuhn, Nadezhda T. Doncheva, Alberto Santos, Alexander Röth, Stefan Wyder and Milan Simonovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Helen Cook

14 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–p... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2016 2018 2015 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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.

  1. The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–protein association networks, made broadly accessible
    2016 5.2k citations Damian Szklarczyk, John H. Morris et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
    2018 2.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences
    2015 1.5k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission
    2011 1.1k citations Ary A. Hoffmann, Brian L. Montgomery et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Helen Cook Denmark 11 6.1k 1.5k 1.4k 1.3k 1.1k 14 10.9k
Shujiro Okuda Japan 35 8.4k 1.4× 2.5k 1.7× 1.5k 1.0× 534 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 184 14.3k
Michael J. MacCoss United States 77 17.4k 2.9× 1.7k 1.1× 838 0.6× 716 0.6× 735 0.7× 288 25.0k
Davide Heller Switzerland 5 7.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 294 0.2× 1.4k 1.3× 6 12.3k
Haider Raza United Arab Emirates 38 6.9k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 478 0.3× 445 0.4× 521 0.5× 114 13.4k
Christian J. Stoeckert United States 44 7.4k 1.2× 2.1k 1.4× 914 0.7× 422 0.3× 686 0.6× 118 11.6k
Lorian Schaeffer United States 5 7.1k 1.2× 2.8k 1.9× 706 0.5× 708 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 6 11.0k
Ana Conesa Spain 51 10.3k 1.7× 5.0k 3.3× 1.3k 0.9× 983 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 165 17.5k
Adam Roberts United States 14 8.7k 1.4× 3.3k 2.2× 609 0.4× 465 0.4× 2.1k 1.9× 20 13.6k
Andreas Heger United Kingdom 34 10.7k 1.8× 3.3k 2.2× 1.7k 1.3× 480 0.4× 1.3k 1.2× 55 15.9k
Maido Remm Estonia 31 6.5k 1.1× 3.2k 2.1× 1.5k 1.1× 691 0.6× 525 0.5× 93 12.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Helen Cook

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Cook

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

All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Cook, Helen & Lars Juhl Jensen. (2019). A Guide to Dictionary-Based Text Mining. Methods in molecular biology. 1939. 73–89. 17 indexed citations
2.
Holding, Andrew N., Helen Cook, & Florian Markowetz. (2019). Data generation and network reconstruction strategies for single cell transcriptomic profiles of CRISPR-mediated gene perturbations. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms. 1863(6). 194441–194441. 3 indexed citations
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Cook, Helen, Nadezhda T. Doncheva, Damian Szklarczyk, Christian von Mering, & Lars Juhl Jensen. (2018). Viruses.STRING: A Virus-Host Protein-Protein Interaction Database. Viruses. 10(10). 519–519. 103 indexed citations
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Huerta‐Cepas, Jaime, Damian Szklarczyk, Davide Heller, et al.. (2018). eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D309–D314. 2815 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cook, Helen & Lars Juhl Jensen. (2018). An Integrative Approach to Virus–Host Protein–Protein Interactions. Methods in molecular biology. 1819. 175–196. 5 indexed citations
6.
Russo, Francesco, Sebastiano Di Bella, Federica Vannini, et al.. (2017). miRandola 2017: a curated knowledge base of non-invasive biomarkers. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D354–D359. 64 indexed citations
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Cook, Helen, et al.. (2017). Creation and evaluation of a dictionary-based tagger for virus species and proteins. 91–98. 3 indexed citations
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Szklarczyk, Damian, John H. Morris, Helen Cook, et al.. (2016). The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–protein association networks, made broadly accessible. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D362–D368. 5222 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cook, Helen, Evangelos Pafilis, & Lars Juhl Jensen. (2016). A dictionary- and rule-based system for identification of bacteria and habitats in text. 50–55. 11 indexed citations
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Huerta‐Cepas, Jaime, Damian Szklarczyk, Sofia K. Forslund, et al.. (2015). eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D286–D293. 1528 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wassenaar, Trudy M., et al.. (2015). Virulence genes in a probioticE. oliproduct with a recorded long history of safe use. European Journal of Microbiology and Immunology. 5(1). 81–93. 31 indexed citations
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Cook, Helen & David W. Ussery. (2013). Sigma factors in a thousand E . coli genomes. Environmental Microbiology. 15(12). 3121–3129. 23 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Ary A., Brian L. Montgomery, Jean Popovici, et al.. (2011). Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission. Nature. 476(7361). 454–457. 1067 indexed citations breakdown →
14.
Cook, Helen. (1966). Morphology and Histology of the Central Nervous System of Succinea Putris (L.). 17(1). 1–72. 14 indexed citations

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