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18485
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7724
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597

Alasdair Ivens publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alasdair Ivens sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 169 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Alasdair Ivens D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alasdair Ivens sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alasdair Ivens is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions also in Medicine. Their work is further specialized in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Immunology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Cancer Research.

The main topics of Alasdair Ivens's research focus on Trypanosoma species and their implications, RNA regulation and disease, malaria research and control, immune responses and vaccinations, mosquito-borne diseases and control, the complement system in diseases, as well as CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Keith R. Matthews, Philip J. Spence, Mathieu Cayla, Wiebke Nahrendorf, and Diana Muñoz Sandoval.

Alasdair Ivens has published extensively, with regular appearances in scientific venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nucleic Acids Research, mBio, and eLife.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Population genomics of Escherichia coli in livestock-keeping households across a rapidly developing urban landscape, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Chlorpromazine and Amitriptyline Are Substrates and Inhibitors of the AcrB Multidrug Efflux Pump, 2020, mBio
  • Inducible mechanisms of disease tolerance provide an alternative strategy of acquired immunity to malaria, 2021, eLife
  • The gut microbiome but not the resistome is associated with urogenital schistosomiasis in preschool-aged children, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Whole Blood Profiling of T-cell-Derived microRNA Allows the Development of Prognostic models in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 2020, Journal of Crohn's and Colitis

Best Publications

  • The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei

    Matthew Berriman;Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Christiane Hertz-Fowler;Gaelle Blandin

  • The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major.

    Alasdair C. Ivens;Christopher S. Peacock;Elizabeth A. Worthey;Lee Murphy

  • The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

    Matthew Berriman;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Philip T. LoVerde;R. Alan Wilson

  • Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease

    Christopher S Peacock;Kathy Seeger;David Harris;Lee Murphy

  • Exosomes secreted by nematode parasites transfer small RNAs to mammalian cells and modulate innate immunity

    Amy H. Buck;Gillian Coakley;Fabio Simbari;Henry J. McSorley

  • The genome of the simian and human malaria parasite Plasmodium knowlesi

    A. Pain;U. Böhme;A. E. Berry;K. Mungall

  • LEISHMANIA MAJOR FRIEDLIN CHROMOSOME 1 HAS AN UNUSUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PROTEIN-CODING GENES

    Peter J. Myler;Lindsey Audleman;Theo deVos;Greg Hixson

  • Sir2 paralogues cooperate to regulate virulence genes and antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum.

    Christopher J Tonkin;Céline K Carret;Céline K Carret;Manoj T Duraisingh;Manoj T Duraisingh;Till S Voss

  • Genomic analysis of the causative agents of coccidiosis in domestic chickens

    Adam James Reid;Damer Peter Blake;Hifzur Rahman Ansari;Karen Billington

  • Genome-wide dissection of the quorum sensing signalling pathway in Trypanosoma brucei

    Binny M. Mony;Paula MacGregor;Alasdair Ivens;Federico Rojas

  • A structurally distinct TGF-β mimic from an intestinal helminth parasite potently induces regulatory T cells

    Chris J. C. Johnston;Danielle J. Smyth;Danielle J. Smyth;Ravindra B. Kodali;Madeleine P. J. White

  • The lung environment controls alveolar macrophage metabolism and responsiveness in type 2 inflammation.

    Freya R Svedberg;Freya R Svedberg;Sheila L Brown;Maria Z Krauss;Laura Campbell

  • Combinatorial quorum sensing allows bacteria to resolve their social and physical environment

    Daniel M. Cornforth;Roman Popat;Luke McNally;James Gurney

  • The Eimeria genome projects: a sequence of events

    Martin W. Shirley;Al Ivens;Arthur Gruber;Alda M B N Madeira

  • HpARI Protein Secreted by a Helminth Parasite Suppresses Interleukin-33

    Megan Osbourn;Dinesh C. Soares;Francesco Vacca;E. Suzanne Cohen

  • Parasite-Derived MicroRNAs in Host Serum As Novel Biomarkers of Helminth Infection

    Anna M. Hoy;Rachel J. Lundie;Alasdair C Ivens;Juan F. Quintana

  • A gene expression atlas of the domestic pig

    Tom C Freeman;Alasdair Ivens;J Kenneth Baillie;Dario Beraldi;Dario Beraldi

  • Epigenetic Silencing of Plasmodium falciparum Genes Linked to Erythrocyte Invasion

    Alfred Cortés;Alfred Cortés;Celine Carret;Osamu Kaneko;Brian Y. S. Yim Lim

  • Protein and small non-coding RNA-enriched extracellular vesicles are released by the pathogenic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

    Fanny C. Nowacki;Martin T. Swain;Oleg I. Klychnikov;Umar Niazi

  • The role of prophage-like elements in the diversity of Salmonella enterica serovars

    Nicholas Thomson;Stephen Baker;Derek Pickard;Maria Fookes

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick M. Maizels
Rick M. Maizels University of Glasgow
Keith R. Matthews
Keith R. Matthews University of Edinburgh
Laura J. V. Piddock
Laura J. V. Piddock University of Birmingham
Andrew S. MacDonald
Andrew S. MacDonald University of Manchester
Mark A. Webber
Mark A. Webber University of East Anglia
Simon J. Draper
Simon J. Draper University of Oxford
Roberto M. La Ragione
Roberto M. La Ragione University of Surrey
Mandy Sanders
Mandy Sanders Wellcome Sanger Institute
Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow

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