Steven Kelly

20.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
147 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

Steven Kelly is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Kelly has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Steven Kelly's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (20 papers). Steven Kelly is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (30 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers) and Trypanosoma species research and implications (20 papers). Steven Kelly collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Steven Kelly's co-authors include David Emms, Julian M. Hibberd, Richard Smith-Unna, Chris Boursnell, Peter R. Cook, Rob Patro, Keith Gull, Jane A. Langdale, Argyris Papantonis and Chris Greenman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Steven Kelly

141 papers receiving 11.7k 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.

OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

2019 4.1k citations David Emms, Steven Kelly Genome biology profile →
OrthoFinder: solving fundamental biases in whole genome comparisons dramatically improves orthogroup inference accuracy

2015 2.3k citations David Emms, Steven Kelly Genome biology profile →
TransRate: reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies

2016 547 citations Julian M. Hibberd, Steven Kelly et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Kelly United Kingdom	44	6.9k	4.3k	1.6k	1.6k	1.4k	147	11.8k
Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi United States	37	7.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.0×	946 0.7×	57	12.3k
Mario Stanke Germany	36	7.4k 1.1×	5.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	63	12.9k
Maido Remm Estonia	31	6.5k 0.9×	3.2k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.8×	791 0.6×	93	12.7k
Corina Antonescu United States	12	7.3k 1.1×	4.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	527 0.4×	22	12.6k
Alex Mitchell United Kingdom	21	8.1k 1.2×	3.5k 0.8×	2.4k 1.5×	1.5k 0.9×	650 0.5×	43	12.6k
Jun Yu China	54	9.0k 1.3×	4.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	2.7k 1.7×	802 0.6×	340	14.5k
Songnian Hu China	60	8.7k 1.3×	4.8k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.4×	584 0.4×	360	15.1k
Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez Spain	19	5.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	2.4k 1.5×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	38	9.6k
Jody Clements United States	20	11.0k 1.6×	4.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	481 0.4×	25	16.2k
Subha Kalyaanamoorthy Canada	17	4.9k 0.7×	2.5k 0.6×	2.6k 1.6×	2.3k 1.4×	2.8k 2.0×	40	11.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Kelly

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Kelly

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Kelly

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Luginbuehl, Leonie H., Andrew R.G. Plackett, Susan E. Stanley, et al.. (2025). Increased chloroplast area in the rice bundle sheath through cell-specific perturbation of brassinosteroid signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 197(4). 1 indexed citations

Kelly, Steven, et al.. (2025). A FLOE-related protein regulates the two-dimensional to three-dimensional growth transition in the moss Physcomitrium patens. Development. 152(16).

Kelly, Steven, et al.. (2025). The metabolite transporters of C4 photosynthesis. The Plant Cell. 37(11). 3 indexed citations

Lamb, David C., Jared V. Goldstone, Julien Andréani, et al.. (2025). Cytochrome b5 occurrence in giant and other viruses belonging to the phylum Nucleocytoviricota. PubMed. 3(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Angeli, Andrea, Silvia Selleri, Steven Kelly, et al.. (2025). Design and Synthesis of Ketoconazole Derivatives as Innovative Anti‐Infective Agents. Archiv der Pharmazie. 358(7). e70062–e70062.

Denton, Alisandra K., Jan P. Buchmann, Vanessa Reichel-Deland, et al.. (2024). Transposable elements contribute to the establishment of the glycine shuttle in Brassicaceae species. Plant Biology. 26(2). 270–281. 4 indexed citations

Kelly, Steven, et al.. (2023). The Evolutionary Constraints on Angiosperm Chloroplast Adaptation. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(6). 19 indexed citations

Danila, Florence R., Tom Schreiber, Maria Ermakova, et al.. (2022). A single promoter‐TALE system for tissue‐specific and tuneable expression of multiple genes in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(9). 1786–1806. 14 indexed citations

Emms, David, et al.. (2021). Rubisco Adaptation Is More Limited by Phylogenetic Constraint Than by Catalytic Trade-off. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(7). 2880–2896. 38 indexed citations

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Emms, David & Steven Kelly. (2020). Benchmarking Orthogroup Inference Accuracy: Revisiting Orthobench. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(12). 2258–2266. 19 indexed citations

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Emms, David, et al.. (2019). Gene Duplication Accelerates the Pace of Protein Gain and Loss from Plant Organelles. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(4). 969–981. 5 indexed citations

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Kelly, Steven, et al.. (2019). Subdivision of Light Signaling Networks Contributes to Partitioning of C ₄ Photosynthesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 182(3). 1297–1309. 9 indexed citations

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Vanclová, Anna M. G. Novák, Martin Zoltner, Steven Kelly, et al.. (2019). Metabolic quirks and the colourful history of the Euglena gracilis secondary plastid. New Phytologist. 225(4). 1578–1592. 50 indexed citations

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Bonnot, Clémence, et al.. (2019). Neofunctionalisation of basic helix−loop−helix proteins occurred when embryophytes colonised the land. New Phytologist. 223(2). 993–1008. 18 indexed citations

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Venkatesh, Divya, Cordula Boehm, Lael D. Barlow, et al.. (2017). Evolution of the endomembrane systems of trypanosomatids – conservation and specialisation. Journal of Cell Science. 130(8). 1421–1434. 16 indexed citations

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Grosse‐Holz, Friederike, et al.. (2017). The transcriptome, extracellular proteome and active secretome of agroinfiltrated Nicotiana benthamiana uncover a large, diverse protease repertoire. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 16(5). 1068–1084. 67 indexed citations

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Tanifuji, Goro, Ugo Cenci, Daniel Moog, et al.. (2017). Genome sequencing reveals metabolic and cellular interdependence in an amoeba-kinetoplastid symbiosis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11688–11688. 44 indexed citations

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Emms, David & Steven Kelly. (2015). OrthoFinder: solving fundamental biases in whole genome comparisons dramatically improves orthogroup inference accuracy. Genome biology. 16(1). 157–157. 2271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lamb, David C., Diane Kelly, N. J. Manning, & Steven Kelly. (1998). A sterol biosynthetic pathway in Mycobacterium. FEBS Letters. 437(1-2). 142–144. 50 indexed citations

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Masaphy, Segula, Dan Levanon, Y. Henis, Venkateswarlu Kanamarlapudi, & Steven Kelly. (1996). Evidence for cytochrome P-450 and P-450-mediated benzo(a) pyrene hydroxylation in the white rot fungusPhanerochaete chrysosporium. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 135(1). 51–55. 63 indexed citations

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