OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Plant Science is 62. 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
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster	446
How Plant Hormones Mediate Salt Stress Responses	426
Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone	377
Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance in Plants	345
Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age	247
Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis	195
The CBL–CIPK Calcium Signaling Network: Unified Paradigm from 20 Years of Discoveries	180
Root exudates impact plant performance under abiotic stress	155
Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health	144
Salicylic Acid Steers the Growth–Immunity Tradeoff	136
Plant immune networks	135
Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory	128
Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought	128
Digging Deeper for Agricultural Resources, the Value of Deep Rooting	128
Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges	127
Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2	126
Connecting Chlorophyll Metabolism with Accumulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus	121
Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses	120
Proline metabolism as regulatory hub	108
Vertical Farming: Moving from Genetic to Environmental Modification	106
Coumarin Communication Along the Microbiome–Root–Shoot Axis	106
Phytomelatonin: An Emerging Regulator of Plant Biotic Stress Resistance	102
Tightening the Phosphorus Cycle through Phosphorus-Efficient Crop Genotypes	101
Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates	100
The Many Models of Strigolactone Signaling	95

Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide: an indispensable combination for plant functioning	92
Challenges and Opportunities in Machine-Augmented Plant Stress Phenotyping	92
Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems	90
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra	88
Hide-and-Seek: Chitin-Triggered Plant Immunity and Fungal Counterstrategies	87
Priming crops for the future: rewiring stress memory	87
Small Millets for Enduring Food Security Amidst Pandemics	86
The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts	86
Recent Advances in Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling	86
Gossypium Genomics: Trends, Scope, and Utilization for Cotton Improvement	86
The Hidden Costs of Nighttime Warming on Yields	84
Malate Circulation: Linking Chloroplast Metabolism to Mitochondrial ROS	84
Genetic Control of Glandular Trichome Development	83
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health	82
Endophytes: The Second Layer of Plant Defense	81
Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives	81
Delivering Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM)	81
Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants	76
Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security	76
Fine-Tuning Immunity: Players and Regulators for Plant NLRs	75
Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity	75
Niche Perspectives on Plant–Pollinator Interactions	75
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus: Impact, Challenges, and Management	74
GORK Channel: A Master Switch of Plant Metabolism?	73
PTI and ETI: convergent pathways with diverse elicitors	72
Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography	69
How roots and shoots communicate through stressful times	68
Shade Avoidance: Expanding the Color and Hormone Palette	67
Foliar Water Uptake in Trees: Negligible or Necessary?	67
The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras	67
Roadmap for Accelerated Domestication of an Emerging Perennial Grain Crop	65
ERF Gene Clusters: Working Together to Regulate Metabolism	65
Chloroplast Transition Metal Regulation for Efficient Photosynthesis	65
Counting on Crossovers: Controlled Recombination for Plant Breeding	64
Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects	64
Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance	64
Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges	62
Coordinating Sulfur Pools under Sulfate Deprivation	62