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Angela Kearns

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
11773
World Ranking
17498
National Ranking
1379

Angela Kearns 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 Angela Kearns sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 175 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Angela Kearns 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 Angela Kearns sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Angela Kearns is affiliated with Public Health England in the United Kingdom and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine. Their work spans several subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, and Surgery.

Their research covers a range of scientific topics such as:

  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing

Angela Kearns has published papers in several scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroendocrinology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
  • Nature Microbiology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Angela Kearns include:

  • "Niche specialization and spread of Staphylococcus capitis involved in neonatal sepsis" (2020) published in Nature Microbiology
  • "Global Epidemiology and Evolutionary History of Staphylococcus aureus ST45" (2020) published in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • "Behavioral and accumbens synaptic plasticity induced by cues associated with restraint stress" (2021) published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "The role of the anterior insula during targeted helping behavior in male rats" (2022) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Long-term impact of acute restraint stress on heroin self-administration, reinstatement, and stress reactivity" (2020) published in Psychopharmacology

Kearns has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Carmela M. Reichel
  • Jordan S. Carter
  • Jordan L. Hopkins
  • Constanza García-Keller
  • Peter W. Kalivas

Best Publications

  • Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): global epidemiology and harmonisation of typing methods

    Stefania Stefani;Doo Ryeon Chung;Jodi A. Lindsay;Alex W. Friedrich

  • Classification of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) : guidelines for reporting novel SCCmec elements.

    T. Ito;K. Hiramatsu;D. Oliviera;H. de Lencastre

  • Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying panton-valentine leucocidin genes in England and Wales : Frequency, characterization, and association with clinical disease

    A. Holmes;M. Ganner;S. McGuane;T. L. Pitt

  • A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

    Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

  • Rapid detection, differentiation and typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus harbouring either mecA or the new mecA homologue mecALGA251

    M. Stegger;P.S. Andersen;A. Kearns;B. Pichon

  • Prediction of Staphylococcus aureus Antimicrobial Resistance by Whole-Genome Sequencing

    N C Gordon;J R Price;K Cole;Richard G Everitt

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice.

    Catriona P. Harkins;Catriona P. Harkins;Bruno Pichon;Michel Doumith;Julian Parkhill

  • A pilot study of rapid benchtop sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile for outbreak detection and surveillance

    D W Eyre;T Golubchik;N C Gordon;R Bowden

  • Global spread of three multidrug-resistant lineages of Staphylococcus epidermidis

    Jean J.Y.H. Lee;Ian I.R. Monk;Anders Gonçalves da Silva;Torsten Seemann

  • Livestock Origin for a Human Pandemic Clone of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Laura E. Spoor;Paul R. McAdam;Lucy A. Weinert;Andrew Rambaut

  • Molecular tracing of the emergence, adaptation, and transmission of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Paul R. McAdam;Kate E. Templeton;Giles F. Edwards;Matthew T. G. Holden

  • Guidelines for Reporting Novel mecA Gene Homologues

    Teruyo Ito;Keiichi Hiramatsu;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • High diversity of Panton–Valentine leukocidin‐positive, methicillin‐susceptible isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and implications for the evolution of community‐associated methicillin‐resistant S. aureus

    S. Monecke;P. Slickers;M.J. Ellington;A.M. Kearns

  • Decline of EMRSA-16 amongst methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing bacteraemias in the UK between 2001 and 2007.

    Matthew J. Ellington;Russell Hope;David M. Livermore;Angela M. Kearns

  • Development of a real-time quadruplex PCR assay for simultaneous detection of nuc, Panton–Valentine leucocidin (PVL), mecA and homologue mecALGA251

    Bruno Pichon;Robert Hill;Frederic Laurent;Anders Rhod Larsen

  • Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

    Eike J. Steinig;Sebastian Duchene;D. Ashley Robinson;Stefan Monecke;Stefan Monecke

  • Novel multiresistance cfr plasmids in linezolid-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) from a hospital outbreak: co-location of cfr and optrA in VRE.

    Alexandros Lazaris;David C Coleman;Angela M Kearns;Bruno Pichon

  • Distinct bacteriophages encoding panton-valentine leukocidin (PVL) among international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones harboring PVL

    Eve Boakes;A M Kearns;M Ganner;C Perry

  • Polyclonal multiply antibiotic-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with Panton–Valentine leucocidin in England

    Matthew J. Ellington;Mark Ganner;Marina Warner;Barry D. Cookson

  • A novel hybrid SCCmec-mecC region in Staphylococcus sciuri.

    Ewan M. Harrison;Gavin K. Paterson;Matthew T. G. Holden;Xiaoliang Ba

Frequent Co-Authors

Hermínia de Lencastre
Hermínia de Lencastre Rockefeller University
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Henrik Westh
Henrik Westh University of Copenhagen
Geoffrey W. Coombs
Geoffrey W. Coombs Fiona Stanley Hospital
Anders Rhod Larsen
Anders Rhod Larsen Statens Serum Institut
Frédéric Laurent
Frédéric Laurent Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge
Matthew T. G. Holden
Matthew T. G. Holden University of St Andrews
Michel Doumith
Michel Doumith King Abdullah International Medical Research Center

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