Sinéad Collins

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Sinéad Collins is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sinéad Collins has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, 30 papers in Oceanography and 28 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Sinéad Collins's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (27 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (17 papers). Sinéad Collins is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (27 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (18 papers) and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses (17 papers). Sinéad Collins collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Sinéad Collins's co-authors include Graham Bell, Björn Rost, C‐Elisa Schaum, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Ilkka Kronholm, Georgina Brennan, Johannes Berg, Filippos Klironomos, Luis‐Miguel Chevin and François Lefèvre and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sinéad Collins

60 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology an... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 20 40 60
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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.

  1. Space‐for‐time substitutions in climate change ecology and evolution
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sinéad Collins United Kingdom 32 1.3k 1.2k 723 573 474 62 3.0k
Ursula Gaedke Germany 37 2.1k 1.7× 2.5k 2.1× 619 0.9× 396 0.7× 672 1.4× 129 4.8k
Kyle F. Edwards United States 26 1.4k 1.1× 1.3k 1.1× 255 0.4× 309 0.5× 382 0.8× 45 2.6k
Jason G. Bragg Australia 30 568 0.5× 957 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 956 1.7× 526 1.1× 81 3.6k
Piet Spaak Switzerland 35 594 0.5× 2.4k 2.0× 953 1.3× 252 0.4× 318 0.7× 124 3.9k
Matthijs Vos Netherlands 27 442 0.4× 735 0.6× 466 0.6× 133 0.2× 233 0.5× 61 2.4k
África Gómez United Kingdom 29 576 0.5× 2.0k 1.7× 1.0k 1.4× 466 0.8× 239 0.5× 53 3.3k
Andrew Whitehead United States 35 371 0.3× 1.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 792 1.4× 576 1.2× 77 4.2k
Lars Tomanek United States 26 2.4k 1.9× 3.3k 2.7× 308 0.4× 823 1.4× 2.2k 4.5× 51 5.4k
Naiara Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta Spain 30 434 0.3× 1.9k 1.6× 491 0.7× 2.4k 4.3× 524 1.1× 70 3.7k
Luisa Orsini United Kingdom 28 513 0.4× 1.0k 0.8× 783 1.1× 563 1.0× 204 0.4× 68 2.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sinéad Collins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sinéad Collins

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Levine, Naomi M., Martina A. Doblin, & Sinéad Collins. (2024). Reframing trait trade-offs in marine microbes. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1).
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Rasmussen, Marianne H., et al.. (2023). Habitat preference of common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) in Skjálfandi Bay, Iceland. ˜The œjournal of cetacean research and management. Special issue. 24(1). 29–46. 5 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad, et al.. (2022). The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 68. 102151–102151. 32 indexed citations
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Larsson, Michaela E., Anna R. Bramucci, Sinéad Collins, et al.. (2022). Mucospheres produced by a mixotrophic protist impact ocean carbon cycling. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1301–1301. 32 indexed citations
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Menden‐Deuer, Susanne, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits. PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0254799–e0254799. 7 indexed citations
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Samuels, Toby, Tatiana A. Rynearson, & Sinéad Collins. (2021). Surviving Heatwaves: Thermal Experience Predicts Life and Death in a Southern Ocean Diatom. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. 28 indexed citations
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Walworth, Nathan G., et al.. (2021). A High-Throughput Assay for Quantifying Phenotypic Traits of Microalgae. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 706235–706235. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Yong, Sinéad Collins, & Kunshan Gao. (2020). Reduced growth with increased quotas of particulate organic and inorganic carbon in the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi under future ocean climate change conditions. Biogeosciences. 17(24). 6357–6375. 13 indexed citations
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Ward, Ben A., Sinéad Collins, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, et al.. (2019). Considering the Role of Adaptive Evolution in Models of the Ocean and Climate System. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. 11(11). 3343–3361. 27 indexed citations
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Kronholm, Ilkka, Andrew Bassett, David C. Baulcombe, & Sinéad Collins. (2017). Epigenetic and Genetic Contributions to Adaptation in Chlamydomonas: Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1 indexed citations
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Kronholm, Ilkka, Andrew Bassett, David C. Baulcombe, & Sinéad Collins. (2017). Epigenetic and Genetic Contributions to Adaptation in Chlamydomonas. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(9). 2285–2306. 73 indexed citations
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Klironomos, Filippos, Johannes Berg, & Sinéad Collins. (2013). How epigenetic mutations can affect genetic evolution: Model and mechanism. BioEssays. 35(6). 571–578. 169 indexed citations
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Bull, James J. & Sinéad Collins. (2012). ALGAE FOR BIOFUEL: WILL THE EVOLUTION OF WEEDS LIMIT THE ENTERPRISE?. Evolution. 66(9). 2983–2987. 13 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad. (2010). Competition limits adaptation and productivity in a photosynthetic alga at elevated CO 2. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1703). 247–255. 75 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad. (2010). Comment on ''Effects of long-term high CO 2 exposure on two species of coccolithophore'' by Müller et al. (2010). Biogeosciences. 7(7). 2199–2202. 4 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad & Andy Gardner. (2009). Integrating physiological, ecological and evolutionary change: a Price equation approach. Ecology Letters. 12(8). 744–757. 55 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad & Juliette de Meaux. (2009). ADAPTATION TO DIFFERENT RATES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE INCHLAMYDOMONAS. Evolution. 63(11). 2952–2965. 64 indexed citations
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Colegrave, Nick & Sinéad Collins. (2008). Experimental evolution: experimental evolution and evolvability. Heredity. 100(5). 464–470. 51 indexed citations
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Collins, Sinéad & Graham Bell. (2004). Phenotypic consequences of 1,000 generations of selection at elevated CO2 in a green alga. Nature. 431(7008). 566–569. 299 indexed citations
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Powell, Frank C. & Sinéad Collins. (2000). Pyoderma gangrenosum. Clinics in Dermatology. 18(3). 283–293. 58 indexed citations

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