Helen Spiers

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Helen Spiers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Helen Spiers has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Helen Spiers's work include Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (5 papers). Helen Spiers is often cited by papers focused on Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (5 papers). Helen Spiers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Helen Spiers's co-authors include Jonathan Mill, Eilís Hannon, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, Nicholas J. Bray, Michael O’Donovan, Ruth Pidsley, Joana Viana, Claire Troakes, Gustavo Turecki and Chloe C. Y. Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Helen Spiers

24 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences

2022 211 citations Dilek Fraisl, Gerid Hager et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

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Kevin T. Fitzgerald United States

Robi Tăcutu Israel

Kirsti Kvaløy Norway

A D Carothers United Kingdom

William D. Brown United States

Evan A. Boyle United States

Heather Wood United States

Veronica J. Vieland United States

Arun Venkataraman United States

Elia Stupka Italy

Kevin T. Fitzgerald United States

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Fields of papers citing papers by Helen Spiers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helen Spiers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Helen Spiers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Helen Spiers 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 Spiers. Helen Spiers 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

Smith, Patricia C., Oliver N. F. King, Win Tun, et al.. (2023). Online citizen science with the Zooniverse for analysis of biological volumetric data. Histochemistry and Cell Biology. 160(3). 253–276. 5 indexed citations

Strasser, Bruno J., Élise Tancoigne, Jérôme Baudry, et al.. (2023). Quantifying online citizen science: Dynamics and demographics of public participation in science. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0293289–e0293289. 14 indexed citations

Fraisl, Dilek, Gerid Hager, Baptiste Bedessem, et al.. (2022). Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 2(1). 211 indexed citations breakdown →

Fowler, Philip W., Helen Spiers, Tingting Zhu, et al.. (2022). A crowd of BashTheBug volunteers reproducibly and accurately measure the minimum inhibitory concentrations of 13 antitubercular drugs from photographs of 96-well broth microdilution plates. eLife. 11. 16 indexed citations

Fraisl, Dilek, Gerid Hager, Baptiste Bedessem, et al.. (2022). Citizen science in environmental and ecological sciences. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 2(1). 14 indexed citations

Spiers, Helen, Luke Nightingale, Joost de Folter, et al.. (2021). Deep learning for automatic segmentation of the nuclear envelope in electron microscopy data, trained with volunteer segmentations. Traffic. 22(7). 240–253. 29 indexed citations

Doyle, Andrew, Matthias Hirth, Oana Inel, et al.. (2020). A Survey of Crowdsourcing in Medical Image Analysis. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 7. 1–26. 23 indexed citations

Benhajali, Yassine, AmanPreet Badhwar, Helen Spiers, et al.. (2020). A Standardized Protocol for Efficient and Reliable Quality Control of Brain Registration in Functional MRI Studies. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 14. 7–7. 17 indexed citations

Doyle, Andrew, Matthias Hirth, Oana Inel, et al.. (2020). A Survey of Crowdsourcing in Medical Image Analysis. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 7. 1–26. 27 indexed citations

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Spiers, Helen, Alexandra Swanson, L. Fortson, et al.. (2018). Patterns of Volunteer Behaviour Across Online Citizen Science. 93–94. 5 indexed citations

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Spiers, Helen, Eilís Hannon, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, Nicholas J. Bray, & Jonathan Mill. (2017). 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is highly dynamic across human fetal brain development. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 738–738. 57 indexed citations

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Saunderson, Emily A., Helen Spiers, Karen R. Mifsud, et al.. (2016). Stress-induced gene expression and behavior are controlled by DNA methylation and methyl donor availability in the dentate gyrus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(17). 4830–4835. 93 indexed citations

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Spiers, Helen, Eilís Hannon, Sara Wells, et al.. (2016). Age-associated changes in DNA methylation across multiple tissues in an inbred mouse model. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 154. 20–23. 32 indexed citations

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Viana, Joana, Eilís Hannon, Emma Dempster, et al.. (2016). Schizophrenia-associated methylomic variation: molecular signatures of disease and polygenic risk burden across multiple brain regions. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(1). ddw373–ddw373. 73 indexed citations

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Mifsud, Karen R., Emily A. Saunderson, Helen Spiers, et al.. (2016). Rapid Down-Regulation of Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene Expression in the Dentate Gyrus after Acute Stress in vivo: Role of DNA Methylation and MicroRNA Activity. Neuroendocrinology. 104(2). 157–169. 38 indexed citations

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Hannon, Eilís, Helen Spiers, Joana Viana, et al.. (2015). Methylation QTLs in the developing brain and their enrichment in schizophrenia risk loci. Nature Neuroscience. 19(1). 48–54. 225 indexed citations

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Spiers, Helen, Eilís Hannon, Leonard C. Schalkwyk, et al.. (2015). Methylomic trajectories across human fetal brain development. Genome Research. 25(3). 338–352. 195 indexed citations

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Pidsley, Ruth, Joana Viana, Eilís Hannon, et al.. (2014). Methylomic profiling of human brain tissue supports a neurodevelopmental origin for schizophrenia. Genome biology. 15(10). 483–483. 104 indexed citations

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Viana, Joana, Ruth Pidsley, Claire Troakes, et al.. (2014). Epigenomic and transcriptomic signatures of a Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY) karyotype in the brain. Epigenetics. 9(4). 587–599. 35 indexed citations

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Pidsley, Ruth, Joana Viana, Eilís Hannon, et al.. (2014). Methylomic profiling of human brain tissue supports a neurodevelopmental origin for schizophrenia. Genome Biology. 15(10). 483–483. 5 indexed citations

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