Bengt Bengtsson

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Bengt Bengtsson is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bengt Bengtsson has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Genetics, 39 papers in Plant Science and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bengt Bengtsson's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers), Plant and animal studies (12 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (10 papers). Bengt Bengtsson is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers), Plant and animal studies (12 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (10 papers). Bengt Bengtsson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Bengt Bengtsson's co-authors include Nick Barton, Glenys Thomson, Marcy K. Uyenoyama, Laurence D. Hurst, Anne Atlan, Christer Löfstedt, Walter F. Bodmer, Bill S. Hansson, Wendell L. Roelofs and Paul Jensén and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The EMBO Journal.

In The Last Decade

Bengt Bengtsson

91 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

The barrier to genetic exchange between hybridising popul... 1986 2026 1999 2012 1986 100 200 300 400 500
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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. The barrier to genetic exchange between hybridising populations
    1986 515 citations Bengt Bengtsson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bengt Bengtsson Sweden 25 1.7k 1.1k 804 719 421 98 3.2k
M. J. D. White Australia 27 1.6k 0.9× 949 0.9× 934 1.2× 1.6k 2.3× 426 1.0× 69 4.5k
Hidenori Tachida Japan 29 1.6k 0.9× 951 0.9× 555 0.7× 1.1k 1.5× 633 1.5× 102 3.2k
Daven C. Presgraves United States 35 3.2k 1.9× 1.6k 1.5× 1.1k 1.4× 1.5k 2.1× 418 1.0× 58 4.7k
Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos Australia 29 2.5k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 755 0.9× 914 1.3× 530 1.3× 68 3.6k
John H. Willis United States 25 1.3k 0.7× 764 0.7× 532 0.7× 1.4k 2.0× 156 0.4× 39 2.8k
Mauricio Linares Colombia 25 1.6k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 309 0.4× 396 0.6× 301 0.7× 42 2.4k
Takuya Abe Japan 28 1.2k 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 255 0.3× 712 1.0× 219 0.5× 97 2.2k
Virginie Courtier‐Orgogozo France 21 1.5k 0.8× 704 0.7× 554 0.7× 1.4k 2.0× 293 0.7× 52 2.9k
Michael D. Shapiro United States 25 2.1k 1.2× 778 0.7× 545 0.7× 1.4k 1.9× 479 1.1× 63 4.1k
Uzi Motro Israel 32 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 217 0.3× 217 0.3× 653 1.6× 100 2.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bengt Bengtsson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Höglund, Mattias & Bengt Bengtsson. (2014). The origin of the Mendelian Society in Lund and the start ofHereditas. Hereditas. 151(6). 110–114. 4 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt, et al.. (2010). Structure of the Natural Transgene PgiC2 in the Common Grass Festuca ovina. PLoS ONE. 5(10). e13529–e13529. 16 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt. (2009). Redovisning till verkligt värde eller redovisning till anskaffningsutgift? : Ett val mellan relevans och tillförlitlighet. 113–118.
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Levan, Göran, Nils Mandahl, Bengt Bengtsson, & ALBERT LEVAN. (2009). Experimental elimination and recovery of double minute chromosomes in malignant cell populations. Hereditas. 86(1). 75–90. 11 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt, et al.. (2009). Geographic and molecular variation in a natural plant transgene. Genetica. 138(3). 355–362. 8 indexed citations
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Giles, Barbara E. & Bengt Bengtsson. (2008). Variation in anther size in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum). Hereditas. 108(2). 199–205. 2 indexed citations
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Säll, Torbjörn, J. Flink, & Bengt Bengtsson. (2008). Genetic control of recombination in barley: Variation in recombination frequency measured with inversion heterozygotes. Hereditas. 112(2). 157–170. 10 indexed citations
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Simonsen, Vibeke, et al.. (2008). Genetic differentiation in Sorex: Electrophoretic analysis of the karyotypic races of Sorex araneus in Sweden. Hereditas. 99(2). 279–292. 10 indexed citations
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Jaarola, Maarit, et al.. (2005). The introgression of a functional nuclear gene from Poa to Festuca ovina. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 273(1585). 395–399. 24 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt. (1992). Computers in school: the Swedish strategy. T.H.E. Journal Technological Horizons in Education. 19(6). 68–71. 1 indexed citations
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Hult, M., Bengt Bengtsson, Nina Larsson, & Cheng‐Fu Yang. (1992). Particle Induced X-Ray Emission Microanalysis of Root Samples from Beech (Fagus sylvatica). Scanning microscopy. 6(2). 581–590. 6 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt. (1992). Barley genetics — not only here for the beer. Trends in Genetics. 8(1). 3–5. 17 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt. (1991). The genetics of evolution and the evolution of genetics1. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 4(4). 533–539. 1 indexed citations
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Ellis, Nathan A., et al.. (1990). Population structure of the human pseudoautosomal boundary. Nature. 344(6267). 663–665. 62 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt & Marcy K. Uyenoyama. (1990). Evolution of the segregation ratio: Modification of gene conversion and meiotic drive. Theoretical Population Biology. 38(2). 192–218. 9 indexed citations
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Löfstedt, Christer, Bill S. Hansson, Wendell L. Roelofs, & Bengt Bengtsson. (1989). No linkage between genes controlling female pheromone production and male pheromone response in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis Hübner (Lepidoptera; Pyralidae).. Genetics. 123(3). 553–556. 90 indexed citations
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Säll, Torbjörn & Bengt Bengtsson. (1989). Apparent negative interference due to variation in recombination frequencies.. Genetics. 122(4). 935–942. 24 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt & Poul Henning Jensen. (1983). Uptake and distribution of calcium, magnesium and potassium in cucumber of different age. Physiologia Plantarum. 57(4). 428–434. 7 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt. (1978). Avoiding inbreeding: at what cost?. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 73(3). 439–444. 286 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Bengt & Walter F. Bodmer. (1975). The strategy of gene assignment using hybrids: the number of lines needed to exclude chance associations. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 14(3-6). 232–236. 5 indexed citations

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