Robin Burns

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Robin Burns is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin Burns has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Robin Burns's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (2 papers). Robin Burns is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (2 papers). Robin Burns collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Austria. Robin Burns's co-authors include Margaret C. M. Smith, Michael E. Ford, Graham F. Hatfull, Roger W. Hendrix, Steven E. Wilson, Matthew A. Gregory, Magnus Nordborg, Polina Novikova, Luz Mayela Soto-Jiménez and Martin A. Lysák and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robin Burns

8 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Evolutionary relationships among diverse bacteriophages and prophages: All the world’s a phage

1999 811 citations Roger W. Hendrix, Margaret C. M. Smith et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robin Burns United Kingdom	7	796	634	382	199	170	10	1.1k
Sean Meaden United Kingdom	17	822 1.0×	585 0.9×	278 0.7×	258 1.3×	176 1.0×	29	1.2k
Elina Laanto Finland	15	621 0.8×	286 0.5×	159 0.4×	130 0.7×	222 1.3×	29	875
Padmanabhan Mahadevan United States	13	714 0.9×	485 0.8×	232 0.6×	112 0.6×	227 1.3×	27	883
Dann Turner United Kingdom	14	1.3k 1.6×	713 1.1×	337 0.9×	82 0.4×	327 1.9×	33	1.4k
Jeffrey Lawrence United States	11	1.4k 1.7×	1.0k 1.6×	363 1.0×	307 1.5×	301 1.8×	14	1.8k
Anne Chevallereau France	11	755 0.9×	505 0.8×	170 0.4×	164 0.8×	163 1.0×	12	942
Mickaël Boyer France	14	755 0.9×	339 0.5×	477 1.2×	82 0.4×	54 0.3×	20	1.1k
Geneviève M. Rousseau Canada	18	704 0.9×	725 1.1×	103 0.3×	119 0.6×	191 1.1×	34	1.1k
Jennifer M. Houtz United States	8	1.1k 1.4×	747 1.2×	253 0.7×	198 1.0×	209 1.2×	8	1.2k
Françoise Tétart France	14	1.4k 1.7×	822 1.3×	273 0.7×	353 1.8×	381 2.2×	14	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Robin Burns

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robin Burns

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robin Burns

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

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Scott, Alison Dawn, Magdalena Bohutínská, Robin Burns, et al.. (2025). Multiple Autopolyploid Arabidopsis lyrata Populations Stabilized by Long-Range Adaptive Introgression Across Eurasia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(8). 2 indexed citations

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Binenbaum, Jenia, Hugh J.L. Fryer, Linhao Xu, et al.. (2025). CRISPR targeting of H3K4me3 activates gene expression and unlocks centromere-proximal crossover recombination in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9587–9587.

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Fernandes, Joiselle Blanche, Matthew Naish, Qichao Lian, et al.. (2024). Structural variation and DNA methylation shape the centromere-proximal meiotic crossover landscape in Arabidopsis. Genome biology. 25(1). 30–30. 23 indexed citations

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Jaegle, Benjamin, Rahul Pisupati, Luz Mayela Soto-Jiménez, et al.. (2023). Extensive sequence duplication in Arabidopsis revealed by pseudo-heterozygosity. Genome biology. 24(1). 44–44. 22 indexed citations

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Scott, Alison Dawn, Robin Burns, Andrew Clarke, et al.. (2023). Transition to Self-compatibility Associated With Dominant S-allele in a Diploid Siberian Progenitor of Allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica Revealed by Arabidopsis lyrata Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(7). 14 indexed citations

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Burns, Robin, Terezie Mandáková, Joanna Gunis, et al.. (2021). Gradual evolution of allopolyploidy in Arabidopsis suecica. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(10). 1367–1381. 71 indexed citations

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Novikova, Polina, Takashi Tsuchimatsu, Samson Simon, et al.. (2017). Genome sequencing reveals the origin of the allotetraploid Arabidopsis suecica. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(4). msw299–msw299. 57 indexed citations

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Smith, Margaret C. M., Robin Burns, Steven E. Wilson, & Matthew A. Gregory. (1999). The complete genome sequence of the Streptomyces temperate phage C31: evolutionary relationships to other viruses. Nucleic Acids Research. 27(10). 2145–2155. 86 indexed citations

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Hendrix, Roger W., Margaret C. M. Smith, Robin Burns, Michael E. Ford, & Graham F. Hatfull. (1999). Evolutionary relationships among diverse bacteriophages and prophages: All the world’s a phage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(5). 2192–2197. 811 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burns, Robin. (1998). The Desert Ecological Research Unit of Namibia: Creating Partnerships for Sustainable Development. 20(2). 5–9.

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