Kevin Howe

29.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
21 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Kevin Howe is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Howe has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Kevin Howe's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Kevin Howe is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (4 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Kevin Howe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Kevin Howe's co-authors include Paul Kersey, Matthew Berriman, Richard Durbin, Bruce J. Bolt, Alex Bateman, Simon Tavaré, Vardhman K. Rakyan, Stephan Beck, Paul Flicek and Leonard D. Goldstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Howe

20 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

WormBase ParaSite − a comprehensive resource for helminth genomics

2016 451 citations Kevin Howe, Bruce J. Bolt et al. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology profile →
Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

2022 172 citations Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Howe United Kingdom	17	1.4k	472	443	345	247	21	2.2k
Sujai Kumar United Kingdom	22	1.2k 0.8×	563 1.2×	448 1.0×	531 1.5×	359 1.5×	29	2.4k
Avril Coghlan United Kingdom	18	1.2k 0.9×	550 1.2×	439 1.0×	407 1.2×	314 1.3×	34	1.9k
Günter Raddatz Germany	28	1.9k 1.4×	150 0.3×	497 1.1×	220 0.6×	240 1.0×	50	2.9k
John A. Browne Ireland	31	870 0.6×	289 0.6×	440 1.0×	209 0.6×	129 0.5×	108	2.7k
Marian Thomson United Kingdom	18	640 0.5×	256 0.5×	743 1.7×	235 0.7×	107 0.4×	32	1.7k
Jane L. Macfarlane United States	17	1.4k 1.0×	420 0.9×	427 1.0×	374 1.1×	121 0.5×	20	2.1k
F. Kenneth Nelson United States	16	1.2k 0.8×	199 0.4×	253 0.6×	161 0.5×	286 1.2×	22	1.9k
Michael J. Kimber United States	23	613 0.4×	287 0.6×	82 0.2×	449 1.3×	383 1.6×	51	1.4k
James D. Wasmuth Canada	23	695 0.5×	282 0.6×	206 0.5×	458 1.3×	498 2.0×	50	1.8k
Adrian Streit Germany	22	529 0.4×	254 0.5×	208 0.5×	546 1.6×	477 1.9×	58	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Howe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Howe

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Howe

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

Durham, Jillian, Florent Lassalle, Carol Scott, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking of human read removal strategies for viral and microbial metagenomics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(11). 101218–101218.

Blaxter, Mark, Nova Mieszkowska, Federica Di Palma, et al.. (2022). Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

McClean, Phillip E., Rian Lee, Kevin Howe, et al.. (2022). The Common Bean V Gene Encodes Flavonoid 3′5′ Hydroxylase: A Major Mutational Target for Flavonoid Diversity in Angiosperms. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 869582–869582. 18 indexed citations

Howe, Kevin, et al.. (2019). Autism-associated missense genetic variants impact locomotion and neurodevelopment inCaenorhabditis elegans. Human Molecular Genetics. 28(13). 2271–2281. 30 indexed citations

Grove, Christian A, Scott Cain, Wen J. Chen, et al.. (2018). Using WormBase: A Genome Biology Resource for Caenorhabditis elegans and Related Nematodes. Methods in molecular biology. 1757. 399–470. 21 indexed citations

Bolt, Bruce J., et al.. (2018). Using WormBase ParaSite: An Integrated Platform for Exploring Helminth Genomic Data. Methods in molecular biology. 1757. 471–491. 40 indexed citations

Howe, Kevin, et al.. (2016). WormBase ParaSite − a comprehensive resource for helminth genomics. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 215. 2–10. 451 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhou, Suping, Chih‐Li Yu, Dafeng Hui, et al.. (2016). Drought-Induced Leaf Proteome Changes in Switchgrass Seedlings. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 17(8). 1251–1251. 16 indexed citations

Howe, Kevin, Paul A. Davis, Michael Paulini, et al.. (2012). WormBase. PubMed. 1(1). 15–21. 9 indexed citations

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Batty, Elizabeth M., Jessica C. Pole, Katherine A Blood, et al.. (2012). Structural analysis of the genome of breast cancer cell line ZR-75-30 identifies twelve expressed fusion genes. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 719–719. 35 indexed citations

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Ng, Charlotte K.Y., Susanna L. Cooke, Kevin Howe, et al.. (2011). The role of tandem duplicator phenotype in tumour evolution in high‐grade serous ovarian cancer. The Journal of Pathology. 226(5). 703–712. 44 indexed citations

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Das, Partha Pratim, Leonard D. Goldstein, Nicolas J. Lehrbach, et al.. (2008). Piwi and piRNAs Act Upstream of an Endogenous siRNA Pathway to Suppress Tc3 Transposon Mobility in the Caenorhabditis elegans Germline. Molecular Cell. 31(1). 79–90. 319 indexed citations

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Rakyan, Vardhman K., Thomas A. Down, Natalie Thorne, et al.. (2008). An integrated resource for genome-wide identification and analysis of human tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (tDMRs). Genome Research. 18(9). 1518–1529. 290 indexed citations

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Hart, Elizabeth A., Harminder Sehra, Helen Beasley, et al.. (2006). The genomic sequence and analysis of the swine major histocompatibility complex. Genomics. 88(1). 96–110. 100 indexed citations

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Rakyan, Vardhman K., Thomas Hildmann, Karen Novik, et al.. (2004). DNA Methylation Profiling of the Human Major Histocompatibility Complex: A Pilot Study for the Human Epigenome Project. PLoS Biology. 2(12). e405–e405. 265 indexed citations

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Debenham, S. L., Elizabeth A. Hart, Jennifer Ashurst, et al.. (2004). Genomic sequence of the class II region of the canine MHC: comparison with the MHC of other mammalian species☆. Genomics. 85(1). 48–59. 45 indexed citations

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Howe, Kevin, Tom Chothia, & Richard Durbin. (2002). GAZE: A Generic Framework for the Integration of Gene-Prediction Data by Dynamic Programming. Genome Research. 12(9). 1418–1427. 56 indexed citations

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Howe, Kevin, Alex Bateman, & Richard Durbin. (2002). QuickTree: building huge Neighbour-Joining trees ofprotein sequences. Bioinformatics. 18(11). 1546–1547. 220 indexed citations

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Hampton, Garret M., S Cottrell, Kevin Howe, et al.. (1992). Yeast artificial chromosomes for the molecular analysis of the familial polyposis APC gene region.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(17). 8249–8253. 5 indexed citations

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Adams, M. L., Erik Beckert, Myron L. Bender, et al.. (1983). Chloroform-Methanol Extraction Method for Determination of Fat in Foods: Collaborative Study. Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. 66(4). 927–932. 24 indexed citations

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