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Plant Diversity and Evolution

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

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Rising Stars Researchers

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Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Mohammad Reza Morshedloo
University of Maragheh
99
2
William H. Brightly
University of Sheffield
99
3
Natally Celestino Gama
Unknown
69
4
Saúl Ernesto Hoyos Gómez
Universidad de Antioquia
50
5
Marcus Lehnert
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
45
6
Timothy M. A. Utteridge
National University of Singapore
28

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Enhancing salt tolerance in Mentha × gracilis through foliar applications of titanium and nano-titanium
BMC Plant Biology|2025
3 cit.
2
Automatic Recognition of Commercial Tree Species from the Amazon Flora Using Bark Images and Transfer Learning
Preprints.org|2025
1 cit.
3
A reassessment of the Neotropical Cyathea pungens complex (Cyatheaceae)
European Journal of Taxonomy|2025
0 cit.
4
Taxonomic clarifications, a new combination, and three new species of Neotropical Rinorea (Violaceae)
PhytoKeys|2025
0 cit.
5
Two new species of Tapeinosperma (Primulaceae-Myrsinoideae) from Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Kew Bulletin|2025
0 cit.
6
Cold Origins Limit the Establishment of Northern Temperate Plants in the Southern Hemisphere
Systematic Biology|2026
0 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Dietmar Quandt
University of Bonn
99
2
Erika J. Edwards
Brown University
95
3
Hang Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany
88
4
Li D
Kunming Institute of Botany
81
5
C. Donovan Bailey
New Mexico State University
79
6
Duccio Tampucci
University of Milan
72
7
Ya Yang
First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University
71
8
Jeffrey P. Mower
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
70
9
Kai Müller
University of Münster
67
10
Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn
Institute of Paleontology A A Borisyak
66

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function
Plant Molecular Biology|2011
1.8k cit.
2
TreeGraph 2: Combining and visualizing evidence from different phylogenetic analyses
BMC Bioinformatics|2010
1.6k cit.
3
A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera
Systematic Biology|2012
954 cit.
4
Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants
BMC Evolutionary Biology|2015
666 cit.
5
The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth
Journal of Experimental Botany|2011
647 cit.
6
Evolutionary dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: the effects of expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates
New Phytologist|2015
629 cit.
7
A global method for calculating plant <scp>CSR</scp> ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide
Functional Ecology|2016
573 cit.
8
Evolutionary diversifications of plants on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Frontiers in Genetics|2014
477 cit.
9
Complete chloroplast genome of the genus Cymbidium: lights into the species identification, phylogenetic implications and population genetic analyses
BMC Evolutionary Biology|2013
383 cit.
10
High-Throughput Sequencing of Six Bamboo Chloroplast Genomes: Phylogenetic Implications for Temperate Woody Bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae)
PLoS ONE|2011
302 cit.

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