Steven Higgins

1.2k total citations
27 papers, 890 citations indexed

About

Steven Higgins is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Higgins has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 890 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Ecology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Steven Higgins's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers), Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (5 papers) and Chromium effects and bioremediation (4 papers). Steven Higgins is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers), Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants (5 papers) and Chromium effects and bioremediation (4 papers). Steven Higgins collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Steven Higgins's co-authors include Frank E. Löffler, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Robert A. Sanford, Joanne C. Chee‐Sanford, Luis H. Orellana, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Kirsti M. Ritalahti, E. Erin Mack, Christopher W. Schadt and Stephen P. Diggle and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Environmental Science & Technology and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Steven Higgins

25 papers receiving 888 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven Higgins United States 15 318 314 256 126 104 27 890
Shannon Flynn United States 12 238 0.7× 255 0.8× 233 0.9× 91 0.7× 98 0.9× 15 825
Sophie Courtois France 15 283 0.9× 523 1.7× 592 2.3× 158 1.3× 126 1.2× 25 1.4k
Kelly Shannon Canada 11 193 0.6× 243 0.8× 225 0.9× 83 0.7× 54 0.5× 11 775
Katsuji Tani Japan 17 405 1.3× 620 2.0× 503 2.0× 169 1.3× 106 1.0× 59 1.3k
Shawn R. Starkenburg United States 21 381 1.2× 566 1.8× 658 2.6× 104 0.8× 131 1.3× 57 1.5k
Elisabeth Brothier France 14 271 0.9× 263 0.8× 278 1.1× 68 0.5× 135 1.3× 20 753
Thierry Berthe France 17 443 1.4× 312 1.0× 175 0.7× 183 1.5× 27 0.3× 30 1.1k
Kazuaki Matsui Japan 21 193 0.6× 384 1.2× 587 2.3× 207 1.6× 106 1.0× 57 1.6k
Benoît Vacherie France 15 411 1.3× 642 2.0× 910 3.6× 148 1.2× 222 2.1× 26 1.8k
JAMES B. HERRICK United States 11 353 1.1× 413 1.3× 372 1.5× 108 0.9× 87 0.8× 15 978

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Higgins

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Higgins

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kumar, Piyush, et al.. (2025). Mining peptides for mining solutions: evaluation of calcium-binding peptides for rare earth element separations. Chemical Science. 16(34). 15333–15346. 3 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, et al.. (2024). CRISPR-Cas9-mediated barcode insertion into Bacillus thuringiensis for surrogate tracking. Microbiology Spectrum. 12(8). e0000324–e0000324.
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Petipas, Renee H., Steven Higgins, Chantal Koechli, et al.. (2024). An exploration of how plant and soil characteristics shape the Hypericum perforatum microbiome in three habitats. Plant Ecology. 225(6). 555–568. 1 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, John S. Ramsey, Kevin Howe, et al.. (2021). Proteomic Polyphenism in Color Morphotypes of Diaphorina citri, Insect Vector of Citrus Greening Disease. Journal of Proteome Research. 20(5). 2851–2866. 14 indexed citations
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Agnoli, Kirsty, et al.. (2021). Identification of genes required for gold and silver tolerance in Burkholderia cenocepacia   H111 by transposon sequencing. Environmental Microbiology. 24(2). 737–751. 2 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, Kevin Panke-Buisse, & Daniel H. Buckley. (2020). The biogeography of Streptomyces in New Zealand enabled by high‐throughput sequencing of genus‐specific rpoB amplicons. Environmental Microbiology. 23(3). 1452–1468. 7 indexed citations
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Kleindienst, Sara, Karuna Chourey, Gao Chen, et al.. (2019). Proteogenomics Reveals Novel Reductive Dehalogenases and Methyltransferases Expressed during Anaerobic Dichloromethane Metabolism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 85(6). 22 indexed citations
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Shwab, E. Keats, Xing‐Quan Zhu, Dong‐Hui Zhou, et al.. (2018). Human impact on the diversity and virulence of the ubiquitous zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 6 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, et al.. (2018). Differential Regulation of the Phenazine Biosynthetic Operons by Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1-N. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 252–252. 83 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, Christopher W. Schadt, Patrick Brandon Matheny, & Frank E. Löffler. (2018). Phylogenomics Reveal the Dynamic Evolution of Fungal Nitric Oxide Reductases and Their Relationship to Secondary Metabolism. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(9). 2474–2489. 41 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, et al.. (2018). Draft Genome Sequences of the 1,2-Dichloropropane-Respiring Dehalococcoides mccartyi Strains RC and KS. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 7(10).
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Shwab, E. Keats, Xing‐Quan Zhu, Dong‐Hui Zhou, et al.. (2018). Human impact on the diversity and virulence of the ubiquitous zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(29). E6956–E6963. 94 indexed citations
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Yang, Yi, Steven Higgins, Jun Yan, et al.. (2017). Grape pomace compost harbors organohalide-respiring Dehalogenimonas species with novel reductive dehalogenase genes. The ISME Journal. 11(12). 2767–2780. 113 indexed citations
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Tang, Shuiquan, Po‐Hsiang Wang, Steven Higgins, Frank E. Löffler, & Elizabeth A. Edwards. (2016). Sister Dehalobacter Genomes Reveal Specialization in Organohalide Respiration and Recent Strain Differentiation Likely Driven by Chlorinated Substrates. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 100–100. 23 indexed citations
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Kleindienst, Sara, Steven Higgins, Despina Tsementzi, et al.. (2016). Draft Genome Sequence of a Strictly Anaerobic Dichloromethane-Degrading Bacterium. Genome Announcements. 4(2). 14 indexed citations
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Kleindienst, Sara, Steven Higgins, Despina Tsementzi, et al.. (2016). ‘Candidatus Dichloromethanomonas elyunquensis’ gen. nov., sp. nov., a dichloromethane-degrading anaerobe of the Peptococcaceae family. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 40(3). 150–159. 41 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven, Allana Welsh, Luis H. Orellana, et al.. (2016). Detection and Diversity of Fungal Nitric Oxide Reductase Genes ( p450nor ) in Agricultural Soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 82(10). 2919–2928. 54 indexed citations
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Orellana, Luis H., Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Steven Higgins, et al.. (2014). Detecting Nitrous Oxide Reductase ( nosZ ) Genes in Soil Metagenomes: Method Development and Implications for the Nitrogen Cycle. mBio. 5(3). e01193–14. 158 indexed citations
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Higgins, Steven & David L. Swanson. (2012). Urea is not a universal cryoprotectant among hibernating anurans: Evidence from the freeze-tolerant boreal chorus frog (Pseudacris maculata). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology. 164(2). 344–350. 16 indexed citations

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