David A. Collings

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

David A. Collings is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Collings has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Plant Science, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in David A. Collings's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (30 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (26 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (15 papers). David A. Collings is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (30 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (26 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (15 papers). David A. Collings collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. David A. Collings's co-authors include Mohan Srinivasarao, Sanjay Patel, Alan Philips, Geoffrey O. Wasteneys, Nina S. Allen, John Harper, Tetsuhiro Asada, Jan Marc, Richard E. Williamson and Robyn L. Overall and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Plant Cell and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

David A. Collings

94 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

Three-Dimensionally Ordered Array of Air Bubbles in a Polymer Film

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David A. Collings Australia	30	1.5k	1.2k	456	442	321	99	3.0k
Jürgen Schmidt Germany	41	2.2k 1.5×	1.4k 1.1×	538 1.2×	149 0.3×	531 1.7×	153	4.9k
Géza R. Szilvay Finland	22	475 0.3×	839 0.7×	430 0.9×	254 0.6×	805 2.5×	47	2.5k
Arja Paananen Finland	22	621 0.4×	563 0.5×	364 0.8×	167 0.4×	795 2.5×	46	2.2k
John R. Dunlap United States	25	313 0.2×	922 0.7×	386 0.8×	203 0.5×	418 1.3×	62	2.4k
Jérôme Mutterer France	31	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	168 0.4×	277 0.6×	622 1.9×	56	3.9k
Pierrick Labbé France	36	885 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	210 0.5×	139 0.3×	168 0.5×	93	3.4k
Magdalena Bezanilla United States	39	2.1k 1.4×	3.0k 2.4×	132 0.3×	971 2.2×	660 2.1×	73	5.2k
Vincent Duprès France	28	211 0.1×	1.1k 0.9×	168 0.4×	388 0.9×	331 1.0×	64	2.4k
Lin He China	32	182 0.1×	2.2k 1.7×	355 0.8×	505 1.1×	735 2.3×	110	4.0k
Peter J. Lillford United Kingdom	36	566 0.4×	543 0.4×	396 0.9×	113 0.3×	337 1.0×	88	4.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Collings, David A., et al.. (2025). Structural conservation of phi thickenings in diverse plant taxa. Annals of Botany.

Garrill, Ashley, et al.. (2024). Assessing wood grain and twist in a 2-year-old Eucalyptus bosistoana breeding population. Trees. 38(6). 1481–1489.

Collings, David A.. (2023). Toward a Poetics of Disappearance: The Vanishing Commons in John Clare's "The Lament of Swordy Well". Érudit (Université de Montréal). 1–19.

Wei, Xiaoyang, et al.. (2022). Asymmetric wall ingrowth deposition in Arabidopsis phloem parenchyma transfer cells is tightly associated with sieve elements. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(16). 5414–5427. 3 indexed citations

Thomas, Jimmy, et al.. (2022). Induction of compression wood inhibits development of spiral grain in radiata pine. IAWA Journal - KU Leuven/IAWA Journal. 44(1). 36–62. 4 indexed citations

Thomas, Jimmy, et al.. (2017). Pontamine fast scarlet 4B bifluorescence and measurements of cellulose microfibril angles. Journal of Microscopy. 268(1). 13–27. 17 indexed citations

Stainton, Daisy, Darren P. Martin, David A. Collings, & Arvind Varsani. (2016). Comparative analysis of common regions found in babuviruses and alphasatellite molecules. Archives of Virology. 162(3). 849–855. 9 indexed citations

Stainton, Daisy, Darren P. Martin, David A. Collings, John E. Thomas, & Arvind Varsani. (2016). Identification and in silico characterisation of defective molecules associated with isolates of banana bunchy top virus. Archives of Virology. 161(4). 1019–1026. 3 indexed citations

Kraberger, Simona, Gordon W. Harkins, Safaa G. Kumari, et al.. (2013). Evidence that dicot-infecting mastreviruses are particularly prone to inter-species recombination and have likely been circulating in Australia for longer than in Africa and the Middle East. Virology. 444(1-2). 282–291. 33 indexed citations

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Kraberger, Simona, John E. Thomas, Andrew D. W. Geering, et al.. (2012). Australian monocot-infecting mastrevirus diversity rivals that in Africa. Virus Research. 169(1). 127–136. 14 indexed citations

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Barton, Deborah, Louise Cole, David A. Collings, et al.. (2011). Cell‐to‐cell transport via the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. The Plant Journal. 66(5). 806–817. 44 indexed citations

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Howles, Paul A., Rosemary Birch, David A. Collings, et al.. (2006). A mutation in an Arabidopsis ribose 5‐phosphate isomerase reduces cellulose synthesis and is rescued by exogenous uridine. The Plant Journal. 48(4). 606–618. 29 indexed citations

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Collings, David A., et al.. (2003). The distributional changes and role of microtubules in Nod factor-challenged Medicago sativa root hairs. Planta. 218(2). 276–287. 31 indexed citations

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Allen, Nina S., Parna Chattaraj, David A. Collings, & Eva Johannes. (2003). Gravisensing: Ionic responses, cytoskeleton and amyloplast behavior. Advances in Space Research. 32(8). 1631–1637. 10 indexed citations

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Collings, David A., John Harper, & Kevin C. Vaughn. (2003). The association of peroxisomes with the developing cell plate in dividing onion root cells depends on actin microfilaments and myosin. Planta. 218(2). 204–216. 32 indexed citations

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Kovar, David R., Bjørn K. Drøbak, David A. Collings, & Christopher J. Staiger. (2001). The characterization of ligand-specific maize (Zea mays) profilin mutants. Biochemical Journal. 358(1). 49–49. 23 indexed citations

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Collings, David A., et al.. (2001). Identification of a novel plant-specific kinesin-like protein that is highly expressed in interphase tobacco BY-2 cells. PROTOPLASMA. 215(1-4). 105–115. 19 indexed citations

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Collings, David A., Geoffrey O. Wasteneys, Masazumi Miyazaki, & Richard E. Williamson. (1994). Elongation factor 1α is a component of the subcortical actin bundles of characean algae.. Cell Biology International. 18(11). 1019–1024. 32 indexed citations

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Collings, David A.. (1993). A vocation of error: authorship as deviance in the 1799 Prelude. 29(2). 215–235.

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Collings, David A., Rosemary G. White, & Robyn L. Overall. (1992). Ionic Current Changes Associated with the Gravity-Induced Bending Response in Roots of Zea mays L.. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 100(3). 1417–1426. 43 indexed citations

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