Benjamin Cole

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Cole is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Cole has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Plant Science, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Cole's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers), Light effects on plants (7 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers). Benjamin Cole is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers), Light effects on plants (7 papers) and Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (6 papers). Benjamin Cole collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Benjamin Cole's co-authors include Joanne Chory, Joseph R. Ecker, Ullas V. Pedmale, Karin Ljung, Steve A. Kay, Joseph R. Nery, Kazumasa Nito, Priya Sridevi, Jonathan Hetzel and Shao‐shan Carol Huang and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Cole

26 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cryptochromes Interact Directly with PIFs to Control Plant Growth in Limiting Blue Light

2015 455 citations Ullas V. Pedmale, Shao‐shan Carol Huang et al. Cell profile →
Linking photoreceptor excitation to changes in plant architecture

2012 428 citations Karin Ljung, Benjamin Cole et al. profile →
A single-cell Arabidopsis root atlas reveals developmental trajectories in wild-type and cell identity mutants

2022 189 citations Benjamin Cole et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin Cole United States	16	1.7k	1.3k	87	65	57	27	2.1k
Rosangela Sozzani United States	32	2.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	52 0.6×	62 1.0×	121 2.1×	72	3.2k
Joop E. M. Vermeer Switzerland	32	3.4k 2.0×	2.4k 1.8×	50 0.6×	106 1.6×	40 0.7×	47	4.1k
Trevor M. Nolan United States	23	3.2k 1.9×	2.0k 1.5×	39 0.4×	69 1.1×	102 1.8×	34	3.7k
Rumyana Karlova Netherlands	22	2.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.2×	37 0.4×	50 0.8×	39 0.7×	28	2.4k
Cecilia D’Angelo Germany	9	1.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	96 1.1×	28 0.4×	75 1.3×	13	1.9k
Mark D. Burow United States	31	2.4k 1.4×	896 0.7×	56 0.6×	76 1.2×	176 3.1×	88	2.7k
Chun‐Hai Dong China	20	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	27 0.3×	60 0.9×	73 1.3×	37	2.6k
Ute Voß United Kingdom	23	2.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.1×	36 0.4×	73 1.1×	33 0.6×	29	2.3k
Mauro Esposito United Kingdom	12	864 0.5×	1.0k 0.8×	62 0.7×	65 1.0×	38 0.7×	15	1.4k
Elisabeth Truernit Switzerland	25	2.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	21 0.2×	119 1.8×	51 0.9×	37	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Cole

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Cole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Cole

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cole, Benjamin, et al.. (2024). GIGANTEA adjusts the response to shade at dusk by directly impinging on PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR 7 function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(30). e2315778121–e2315778121. 4 indexed citations

Bezrutczyk, Margaret, Danielle Goudeau, Ronan C. O’Malley, et al.. (2024). Spatial co-transcriptomics reveals discrete stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants. 10(4). 673–688. 30 indexed citations

Zhu, Jie, et al.. (2023). Single-cell profiling of Arabidopsis leaves to Pseudomonas syringae infection. Cell Reports. 42(7). 112676–112676. 59 indexed citations

Baker, Christopher R., Dhruv Patel‐Tupper, Benjamin Cole, et al.. (2023). Metabolomic, photoprotective, and photosynthetic acclimatory responses to post‐flowering drought in sorghum. Plant Direct. 7(11). e545–e545. 6 indexed citations

Tuggle, Christopher K., Tony Burdett, Timothy L. Tickle, et al.. (2023). PSII-6 Computational Tools and Resources for Analysis and Exploration of Single-Cell Rnaseq Data in Agriculture. Journal of Animal Science. 101(Supplement_2). 267–268. 1 indexed citations

Rice, Selena L., Christopher Anderton, Kenneth D. Birnbaum, et al.. (2022). First Plant Cell Atlas symposium report. Plant Direct. 6(6). e406–e406. 1 indexed citations

Fahlgren, Noah, Galabina Yordanova, Irene Papatheodorou, et al.. (2022). Toward a data infrastructure for the Plant Cell Atlas. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(1). 35–46. 8 indexed citations

Hawkins, Charles, Kangmei Zhao, Selena L. Rice, et al.. (2021). Plant Metabolic Network 15: A resource of genome‐wide metabolism databases for 126 plants and algae. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 63(11). 1888–1905. 112 indexed citations

Cole, Benjamin, Dominique C. Bergmann, Crysten E. Blaby‐Haas, et al.. (2021). Plant single-cell solutions for energy and the environment. Communications Biology. 4(1). 962–962. 30 indexed citations

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Zhou, Mowei, David Dilworth, Lifeng Liu, et al.. (2021). Isolation of Histone from Sorghum Leaf Tissue for Top Down Mass Spectrometry Profiling of Potential Epigenetic Markers. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin, Nolan T. Hartwick, Tomás Duffy, et al.. (2020). Changes in ambient temperature are the prevailing cue in determining Brachypodium distachyon diurnal gene regulation. New Phytologist. 227(6). 1709–1724. 12 indexed citations

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Wang, Gaoyan, Elizabeth M. Ryan, Meredith McDonald, et al.. (2020). Genome-wide identification of bacterial plant colonization genes. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

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Shulse, Christine N., Benjamin Cole, Doina Ciobanu, et al.. (2019). High-Throughput Single-Cell Transcriptome Profiling of Plant Cell Types. Cell Reports. 27(7). 2241–2247.e4. 267 indexed citations

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Turco, Gina, Joel Rodríguez-Medina, Stefan Siebert, et al.. (2019). Molecular Mechanisms Driving Switch Behavior in Xylem Cell Differentiation. Cell Reports. 28(2). 342–351.e4. 71 indexed citations

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Sasse, Joëlle, Josefine Kant, Benjamin Cole, et al.. (2018). Multilab EcoFAB study shows highly reproducible physiology and depletion of soil metabolites by a model grass. New Phytologist. 222(2). 1149–1160. 56 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin, Meghan E. Feltcher, R. Jordan Waters, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide identification of bacterial plant colonization genes. PLoS Biology. 15(9). e2002860–e2002860. 148 indexed citations

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Pedmale, Ullas V., Shao‐shan Carol Huang, Mark Zander, et al.. (2015). Cryptochromes Interact Directly with PIFs to Control Plant Growth in Limiting Blue Light. Cell. 164(1-2). 233–245. 455 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cole, Benjamin & Joanne Chory. (2012). Image-Based Analysis of Light-Grown Seedling Hypocotyls in Arabidopsis. Methods in molecular biology. 918. 1–7. 2 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin, Steve A. Kay, & Joanne Chory. (2010). Automated analysis of hypocotyl growth dynamics during shade avoidance in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 65(6). 991–1000. 71 indexed citations

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Cole, Benjamin & Christopher Bystroff. (2009). Alpha helical crossovers favor right‐handed supersecondary structures by kinetic trapping: The phone cord effect in protein folding. Protein Science. 18(8). 1602–1608. 16 indexed citations

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