David Edwards

40.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
388 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

David Edwards is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Edwards has authored 388 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 268 papers in Plant Science, 155 papers in Molecular Biology and 103 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David Edwards's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (93 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (92 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (70 papers). David Edwards is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (93 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (92 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (70 papers). David Edwards collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. David Edwards's co-authors include Jacqueline Batley, Philipp E. Bayer, Agnieszka A. Golicz, Armin Scheben, Rajeev K. Varshney, Robyn Anderson, Chon‐Kit Kenneth Chan, Michael Imelfort, Chris Duran and Yuxuan Yuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

David Edwards

378 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The susceptibility of small fruits and cherries to the spotted‐wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii

2011 410 citations David Edwards et al. profile →
Climate change and the need for agricultural adaptation

2020 322 citations Robyn Anderson, Philipp E. Bayer et al. Current Opinion in Plant Biology profile →
The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea

2016 309 citations Agnieszka A. Golicz, Philipp E. Bayer et al. Nature Communications profile →
Plant pan-genomes are the new reference

2020 285 citations Philipp E. Bayer, Agnieszka A. Golicz et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Edwards Australia	64	9.5k	5.2k	3.6k	1.0k	784	388	13.7k
Jun Yu China	54	4.7k 0.5×	9.0k 1.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	802 1.0×	340	14.5k
Michael C. Schatz United States	55	5.2k 0.5×	10.3k 2.0×	4.2k 1.2×	1.6k 1.6×	926 1.2×	151	16.5k
Ana Conesa Spain	51	5.0k 0.5×	10.3k 2.0×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	752 1.0×	165	17.5k
Haibao Tang United States	44	9.2k 1.0×	8.6k 1.7×	2.0k 0.6×	486 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	90	13.4k
Ruiqiang Li China	31	4.4k 0.5×	9.6k 1.9×	2.8k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	725 0.9×	81	15.3k
Colin N. Dewey United States	27	4.3k 0.4×	11.0k 2.1×	3.0k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	53	19.2k
Martin Kuiper Norway	36	9.7k 1.0×	7.7k 1.5×	5.3k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	2.4k 3.0×	104	17.8k
İnanç Birol Canada	36	4.9k 0.5×	9.0k 1.7×	2.5k 0.7×	2.2k 2.1×	777 1.0×	148	15.4k
Jacqueline Batley Australia	53	7.6k 0.8×	4.3k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	411 0.4×	441 0.6×	300	9.8k
Keith J. Edwards United Kingdom	53	11.5k 1.2×	5.6k 1.1×	4.1k 1.1×	368 0.4×	859 1.1×	133	14.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Petereit, Jakob, Philipp E. Bayer, Cassandria G. Tay Fernandez, Jacqueline Batley, & David Edwards. (2025). Changes of gene content in four crop species during domestication and breeding. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 3(1). 100077–100077. 1 indexed citations

Amas, Junrey C., Philipp E. Bayer, Wei Tan, et al.. (2025). Genome‐wide identification and evolutionary analysis of disease resistance genes in Brassica carinata. The Plant Genome. 18(3). e70087–e70087. 1 indexed citations

Sanewski, Garth M., et al.. (2025). Relationship between Key Aroma Compounds and Sensory Attributes of Australian Grown Commercial Pineapple Cultivars. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(10). 5839–5849. 6 indexed citations

Lü, Yuan, Shouli Feng, Peng Zheng, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomic and super‐pangenome analyses unveil the genetic landscape of tomato evolution and domestication. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(9). 3783–3797. 1 indexed citations

Danilevicz, Monica F., et al.. (2025). Application of machine learning and genomics for orphan crop improvement. Nature Communications. 16(1). 982–982. 9 indexed citations

Al-Mamun, Hawlader Abdullah, Philipp E. Bayer, Cassandria G. Tay Fernandez, et al.. (2024). Brassica Panache: A multi‐species graph pangenome representing presence absence variation across forty‐one Brassica genomes. The Plant Genome. 18(1). e20535–e20535. 6 indexed citations

Danilevicz, Monica F., Aria Dolatabadian, Ting Xiang Neik, et al.. (2024). Genomics‐based plant disease resistance prediction using machine learning. Plant Pathology. 73(9). 2298–2309. 6 indexed citations

Dwivedi, Sangam L., J. S. Heslop‐Harrison, Junrey C. Amas, Rodomiro Ortíz, & David Edwards. (2024). Epistasis and pleiotropy‐induced variation for plant breeding. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 22(10). 2788–2807. 11 indexed citations

Hu, Haifei, Armin Scheben, Jian Wang, et al.. (2023). Unravelling inversions: Technological advances, challenges, and potential impact on crop breeding. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 22(3). 544–554. 21 indexed citations

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Neik, Ting Xiang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Sean Mayes, et al.. (2023). Diversifying agrifood systems to ensure global food security following the Russia–Ukraine crisis. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. 7. 18 indexed citations

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Thomas, William J. W., Anita A. Severn‐Ellis, Robyn Anderson, et al.. (2023). Identification of candidate genes for LepR1 resistance against Leptosphaeria maculans in Brassica napus. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1051994–1051994. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Jian, Yang Wu, Shaohong Zhang, et al.. (2023). A pangenome analysis pipeline provides insights into functional gene identification in rice. Genome biology. 24(1). 19–19. 54 indexed citations

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Haddadi, Parham, Nicholas J. Larkan, Yueqi Zhang, et al.. (2022). Brassica napus genes Rlm4 and Rlm7 , conferring resistance to Leptosphaeria maculans , are alleles of the Rlm9 wall‐associated kinase‐like resistance locus. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(7). 1229–1231. 30 indexed citations

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Neik, Ting Xiang, et al.. (2022). Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 67. 102220–102220. 24 indexed citations

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Bayer, Philipp E., Jakob Petereit, Cécile Monat, et al.. (2022). Wheat Panache: A pangenome graph database representing presence–absence variation across sixteen bread wheat genomes. The Plant Genome. 15(3). e20221–e20221. 30 indexed citations

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Marsh, Jacob I., et al.. (2021). Crop breeding for a changing climate: integrating phenomics and genomics with bioinformatics. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 134(6). 1677–1690. 52 indexed citations

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Vranken, Sofie, Thomas Wernberg, Armin Scheben, et al.. (2021). Genotype–Environment mismatch of kelp forests under climate change. Molecular Ecology. 30(15). 3730–3746. 54 indexed citations

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Golicz, Agnieszka A., Prem L. Bhalla, David Edwards, & Mohan B. Singh. (2020). Rice 3D chromatin structure correlates with sequence variation and meiotic recombination rate. Communications Biology. 3(1). 235–235. 22 indexed citations

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Edwards, David. (2015). Plant Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press eBooks. 24 indexed citations

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Love, Christopher G., Jacqueline Batley, & David Edwards. (2003). Applied Computational Tools for Crop Genome Research. Journal of Plant Biotechnology. 5(4). 193–195. 2 indexed citations

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