Barbara Robbertse

15.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Barbara Robbertse is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Robbertse has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Cell Biology and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Barbara Robbertse's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (15 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (8 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (6 papers). Barbara Robbertse is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (15 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (8 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (6 papers). Barbara Robbertse collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Netherlands. Barbara Robbertse's co-authors include Conrad L. Schoch, Stacy Ciufo, John P. Sullivan, Seán Turner, Sivakumar Kannan, Kathleen O’Neill, Ilene Karsch‐Mizrachi, Carol L. Hotton, Richard McVeigh and Lu Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports and BMC Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Robbertse

23 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resour... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 250 500 750 1000
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools
    2020 1.2k citations Conrad L. Schoch, Stacy Ciufo et al. Database profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Barbara Robbertse United States 15 1.2k 914 577 436 199 24 2.2k
Sheng Sun United States 32 1.6k 1.4× 1.0k 1.1× 758 1.3× 493 1.1× 126 0.6× 97 3.1k
Meritxell Riquelme Mexico 30 1.7k 1.5× 1.2k 1.3× 992 1.7× 239 0.5× 177 0.9× 68 2.7k
Konrad Paszkiewicz United Kingdom 32 1.7k 1.5× 1.2k 1.3× 277 0.5× 555 1.3× 100 0.5× 75 3.6k
David A. Baltrus United States 27 1.0k 0.9× 1.4k 1.5× 342 0.6× 561 1.3× 109 0.5× 71 2.7k
Christiaan V. Henkel Netherlands 20 1.4k 1.2× 614 0.7× 211 0.4× 534 1.2× 152 0.8× 39 2.6k
Sarah Entwistle United States 8 1.2k 1.0× 565 0.6× 234 0.4× 548 1.3× 88 0.4× 10 2.1k
Jacob L. Steenwyk United States 25 1.1k 1.0× 823 0.9× 474 0.8× 209 0.5× 259 1.3× 71 2.2k
Georg Hausner Canada 28 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 678 1.2× 647 1.5× 215 1.1× 115 2.5k
Marten Boetzer Netherlands 8 1.8k 1.6× 930 1.0× 223 0.4× 731 1.7× 220 1.1× 8 3.0k
Alan Kuo United States 22 1.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.8× 695 1.2× 478 1.1× 272 1.4× 46 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Barbara Robbertse

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Robbertse

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Barbara Robbertse. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Barbara Robbertse based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Barbara Robbertse. Barbara Robbertse is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Oh, Dong‐Ha, Barbara Robbertse, Nuala A. O’Leary, et al.. (2025). NCBI Orthologs: Public Resource and Scalable Method for Computing High-Precision Orthologs Across Eukaryotic Genomes. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 93(6). 843–859.
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Schäffer, Alejandro A., Richard McVeigh, Barbara Robbertse, et al.. (2021). Ribovore: ribosomal RNA sequence analysis for GenBank submissions and database curation. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1). 400–400. 5 indexed citations
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Schoch, Conrad L., Stacy Ciufo, Carol L. Hotton, et al.. (2020). NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database. 2020. 1179 indexed citations breakdown →
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Inderbitzin, Patrik, Barbara Robbertse, & Conrad L. Schoch. (2020). Species Identification in Plant-Associated Prokaryotes and Fungi Using DNA. Phytobiomes Journal. 4(2). 103–114. 8 indexed citations
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Kemler, Martin, Fahimeh Jami, Jan H. Nagel, et al.. (2016). Botryosphaeria dothidea : a latent pathogen of global importance to woody plant health. Molecular Plant Pathology. 18(4). 477–488. 226 indexed citations
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Grandaubert, Jonathan, Rohan G. T. Lowe, Jessica L. Soyer, et al.. (2014). Transposable element-assisted evolution and adaptation to host plant within the Leptosphaeria maculans-Leptosphaeria biglobosa species complex of fungal pathogens. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 891–891. 117 indexed citations
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Crous, P.W., Alejandra Giraldo, David L. Hawksworth, et al.. (2014). The Genera of Fungi: fixing the application of type species of generic names. IMA Fungus. 5(1). 141–160. 50 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara, et al.. (2011). Hal: an Automated Pipeline for Phylogenetic Analyses of Genomic Data. PLoS Currents. 3. RRN1213–RRN1213. 53 indexed citations
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Thrash, J. Cameron, Alex Boyd, Megan J. Huggett, et al.. (2011). Phylogenomic evidence for a common ancestor of mitochondria and the SAR11 clade. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 13–13. 121 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara & Tatiana Tatusova. (2011). Fungal genome resources at NCBI. Mycology: An International Journal on Fungal Biology. 2(3). 142–160. 9 indexed citations
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Sharanowski, Barbara J., Barbara Robbertse, John Walker, et al.. (2010). Expressed sequence tags reveal Proctotrupomorpha (minus Chalcidoidea) as sister to Aculeata (Hymenoptera: Insecta). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(1). 101–112. 26 indexed citations
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Magnuson, Jon, F. Collart, Barbara Robbertse, et al.. (2009). Fungal glycoside hydrolases for saccharification of lignocellulose: outlook for new discoveries fueled by genomics and functional studies. Cellulose. 16(4). 687–697. 22 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara, et al.. (2006). A phylogenomic analysis of the Ascomycota. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 43(10). 715–725. 84 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara, et al.. (2003). Deletion of all Cochliobolus heterostrophus Monofunctional Catalase-Encoding Genes Reveals a Role for One in Sensitivity to Oxidative Stress but None with a Role in Virulence. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 16(11). 1013–1021. 30 indexed citations
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Lu, Shunwen, Scott Kroken, Barbara Robbertse, et al.. (2003). A novel class of gene controlling virulence in plant pathogenic ascomycete fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(10). 5980–5985. 71 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara, et al.. (2001). DMI sensitivity and cross-resistance patterns of Rhynchosporium secalis isolates from South Africa. Crop Protection. 20(2). 97–102. 26 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara & P.W. Crous. (2000). Genotypic variation in Rhynchosporium secalis pathotypes collected in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 96(7). 391–395. 3 indexed citations
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Robbertse, Barbara, P.W. Crous, & G. Holz. (1994). Tapesia yallundae collected from wheat stubble in South Africa. Mycopathologia. 125(1). 23–28. 7 indexed citations

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