David Hodson

6.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
58 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

David Hodson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Hodson has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Plant Science, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in David Hodson's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (35 papers), Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (14 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers). David Hodson is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (35 papers), Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (14 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers). David Hodson collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, Ethiopia and United Kingdom. David Hodson's co-authors include Julio Huerta‐Espino, Ravi P. Singh, Mogens S. Hovmøller, P. K. Singh, Sridhar Bhavani, Yue Jin, P. Njau, Marianne Bänziger, P.S. Setimela and B. Vivek and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

David Hodson

52 papers receiving 3.6k 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 Emergence of Ug99 Races of the Stem Rust Fungus is a Threat to World Wheat Production

2011 514 citations David Hodson, Julio Huerta‐Espino et al. Annual Review of Phytopathology profile →
Climate change: Can wheat beat the heat?

2008 494 citations Bram Govaerts, David Hodson et al. profile →
Disease Impact on Wheat Yield Potential and Prospects of Genetic Control

2016 326 citations P. K. Singh, David Hodson et al. Annual Review of Phytopathology profile →
Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control

2015 315 citations David Hodson, Evans Lagudah 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 Hodson Mexico	29	3.2k	750	705	598	438	58	3.8k
E. Duveiller Mexico	33	3.6k 1.1×	356 0.5×	724 1.0×	406 0.7×	259 0.6×	116	4.1k
Michaël Baum Syria	45	5.3k 1.7×	1.0k 1.4×	686 1.0×	1.5k 2.5×	558 1.3×	143	6.1k
Xavier Reboud France	30	2.8k 0.9×	934 1.2×	499 0.7×	655 1.1×	1.2k 2.6×	76	4.1k
Arun Kumar Joshi India	46	5.8k 1.8×	451 0.6×	1.3k 1.8×	996 1.7×	365 0.8×	198	6.3k
Christopher C. Mundt United States	40	5.4k 1.7×	755 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	1.3k 2.3×	722 1.6×	140	6.5k
M. van Ginkel Mexico	43	4.7k 1.5×	346 0.5×	1.3k 1.9×	1.2k 1.9×	293 0.7×	121	5.2k
Monika Messmer Switzerland	34	3.4k 1.1×	424 0.6×	658 0.9×	1.1k 1.8×	153 0.3×	95	3.8k
W. Erskine Syria	37	3.6k 1.1×	381 0.5×	788 1.1×	232 0.4×	811 1.9×	216	4.2k
Jérôme Enjalbert France	26	1.6k 0.5×	591 0.8×	418 0.6×	461 0.8×	216 0.5×	32	2.0k
Muhammad Iqbal Pakistan	33	2.8k 0.9×	422 0.6×	683 1.0×	692 1.2×	176 0.4×	176	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Singh, Ravi Pratap, David Hodson, P. K. Singh, et al.. (2025). Challenges to Wheat Disease Resistance and Current Global Strategies. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 63(1). 201–224.

Bryan, Anthony C., et al.. (2025). MARPLE: Mobile and Real-Time Plant Disease Diagnostics for Enhancing Wheat Rust Surveillance. Methods in molecular biology. 2898. 93–111.

Hodson, David, et al.. (2024). Advancing crop disease early warning in South Asia by complementing expert surveys with internet media scraping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 3 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Catherine P., Deborah Hemming, William P. Thurston, et al.. (2024). Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114097–114097.

Mottaleb, Khondoker Abdul, David Hodson, Timothy J. Krupnik, & Kai Sonder. (2023). Quantifying Wheat Blast Disease Induced Yield and Production Losses of Wheat: A Quasi-Natural Experiment. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. 55(1). 34–56. 4 indexed citations

Meyer, Marcel, William P. Thurston, Sarah Millington, et al.. (2023). Three-Dimensional Visualization of Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests. Atmosphere. 14(6). 910–910. 3 indexed citations

Blasch, Gerald, et al.. (2023). The potential of UAV and very high-resolution satellite imagery for yellow and stem rust detection and phenotyping in Ethiopia. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16768–16768. 13 indexed citations

Bentley, Alison R., Jason Donovan, Kai Sonder, et al.. (2022). Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security. Nature Food. 3(7). 483–486. 97 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Catherine P., William P. Thurston, David Hodson, et al.. (2022). Irrigation can create new green bridges that promote rapid intercontinental spread of the wheat stem rust pathogen. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 114025–114025. 7 indexed citations

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Meyer, Marcel, Yoseph Alemayehu, Bekele Hundie, et al.. (2021). Wheat rust epidemics damage Ethiopian wheat production: A decade of field disease surveillance reveals national-scale trends in past outbreaks. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0245697–e0245697. 24 indexed citations

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Шаманин, Владимир, Е. А. Салина, Е. С. Сколотнева, et al.. (2020). Stem rust in Western Siberia – race composition and effective resistance genes. Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding. 24(2). 131–138. 26 indexed citations

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Hodson, David, Moti Jaleta, Kindie Tesfaye, et al.. (2020). Ethiopia’s transforming wheat landscape: tracking variety use through DNA fingerprinting. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18532–18532. 42 indexed citations

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Thurston, William P., Marcel Meyer, Yoseph Alemayehu, et al.. (2019). An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia. Environmental Research Letters. 14(11). 115004–115004. 53 indexed citations

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Nazari, K., et al.. (2018). Outbreak of Wheat Yellow Rust disease under Moroccan conditions during 2016-2017 cropping season. 1 indexed citations

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Bueno-Sancho, Vanessa, Antoine Persoons, Amelia Hubbard, et al.. (2017). Pathogenomic Analysis of Wheat Yellow Rust Lineages Detects Seasonal Variation and Host Specificity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(12). 3282–3296. 33 indexed citations

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Ali, Sajid, Julián Rodríguez-Algaba, Tine Thach, et al.. (2017). Yellow Rust Epidemics Worldwide Were Caused by Pathogen Races from Divergent Genetic Lineages. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 1057–1057. 151 indexed citations

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Meyer, Marcel, James A. Cox, Matthew D. Hitchings, et al.. (2017). Quantifying airborne dispersal routes of pathogens over continents to safeguard global wheat supply. Nature Plants. 3(10). 780–786. 78 indexed citations

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Hansen, Jens Grønbech, Poul Lassen, Mogens S. Hovmøller, & David Hodson. (2012). ICT framework for global wheat rust surveillance and monitoring.

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Cressman, Keith & David Hodson. (2009). Surveillance, information sharing and early warning systems for transboundary plant pests diseases: the FAO experience.. Arab Journal Of Plant Protection. 27(2). 226–232. 11 indexed citations

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Singh, Rajender, David Hodson, Yue Jin, et al.. (2007). Current status, likely migration and strategies to mitigate the threat to wheat production from rzace Ug99 (TTKS) of stem rust pathogen.. CABI Reviews. 253 indexed citations

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