OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annals of Botany is 26. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Intraspecific trait variation in plants: a renewed focus on its role in ecological processes	144
Significance of root hairs for plant performance under contrasting field conditions and water deficit	64
Orchid conservation: from theory to practice	62
Two decades of functional–structural plant modelling: now addressing fundamental questions in systems biology and predictive ecology	55
The Waiting Room Hypothesis revisited by orchids: were orchid mycorrhizal fungi recruited among root endophytes?	51
Functional dissection of HGGT and HPT in barley vitamin E biosynthesis via CRISPR/Cas9-enabled genome editing	48
Root hairs are the most important root trait for rhizosheath formation of barley (Hordeum vulgare), maize (Zea mays) and Lotus japonicus (Gifu)	48
Insights into phylogeny, age and evolution of Allium (Amaryllidaceae) based on the whole plastome sequences	46
Arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization outcompetes root hairs in maize under low phosphorus availability	45
Estimation of maize plant height and leaf area index dynamics using an unmanned aerial vehicle with oblique and nadir photography	43
Leaf size estimation based on leaf length, width and shape	41
Mechanisms for improving phosphorus utilization efficiency in plants	37
Stomatal closure during water deficit is controlled by below-ground hydraulics	37
Root secondary growth: an unexplored component of soil resource acquisition	36
Stomatal development in the context of epidermal tissues	36
Plant science’s next top models	34
Characterization, costs, cues and future perspectives of phenotypic plasticity	33
Patterns of intraspecific trait variation along an aridity gradient suggest both drought escape and drought tolerance strategies in an invasive herb	32
Genome-wide genotyping elucidates the geographical diversification and dispersal of the polyploid and clonally propagated yam (Dioscorea alata)	30
Above-ground biomass references for urban trees from terrestrial laser scanning data	29
A functional–structural model of upland rice root systems reveals the importance of laterals and growing root tips for phosphate uptake from wet and dry soils	28
Two decades of research with the GreenLab model in agronomy	28
Does masting scale with plant size? High reproductive variability and low synchrony in small and unproductive individuals	27
Three founding ancestral genomes involved in the origin of sugarcane	26
V-Mango: a functional–structural model of mango tree growth, development and fruit production	26

Unravelling the complex story of intergenomic recombination in ABB allotriploid bananas