David Jespersen

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 853 citations indexed

About

David Jespersen is a scholar working on Plant Science, Environmental Chemistry and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Jespersen has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 853 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Plant Science, 30 papers in Environmental Chemistry and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David Jespersen's work include Turfgrass Adaptation and Management (30 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (10 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (9 papers). David Jespersen is often cited by papers focused on Turfgrass Adaptation and Management (30 papers), Rangeland and Wildlife Management (10 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (9 papers). David Jespersen collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Poland. David Jespersen's co-authors include Bingru Huang, Jingjin Yu, Jing Zhang, Bo Xiao, Stephanie Rossi, Patrick Burgess, Saptarshi Mondal, Uday Chand Jha, Sudip Bhattacharya and Subhasis Mondal and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Plant Science and Physiologia Plantarum.

In The Last Decade

David Jespersen

44 papers receiving 841 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.

  1. Impacts of salinity stress on crop plants: improving salt tolerance through genetic and molecular dissection
    2023 175 citations Kousik Atta, Saptarshi Mondal et al. Frontiers in Plant Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Jespersen United States 14 700 188 182 88 74 47 853
Herminda Reinoso Argentina 21 1.0k 1.5× 101 0.5× 233 1.3× 80 0.9× 67 0.9× 46 1.2k
Zhengrong Hu China 19 961 1.4× 136 0.7× 409 2.2× 43 0.5× 49 0.7× 40 1.2k
Lilian Vincis Pereira Sanglard Brazil 15 825 1.2× 111 0.6× 226 1.2× 33 0.4× 108 1.5× 23 1.1k
Peizhi Yang China 20 741 1.1× 35 0.2× 279 1.5× 92 1.0× 65 0.9× 68 944
Liebao Han China 13 392 0.6× 99 0.5× 167 0.9× 39 0.4× 21 0.3× 41 515
Barbara Jurczyk Poland 18 730 1.0× 67 0.4× 224 1.2× 30 0.3× 110 1.5× 37 844
Edita Tylová Czechia 14 494 0.7× 50 0.3× 90 0.5× 126 1.4× 20 0.3× 23 698
Wojciech Bąba Poland 12 673 1.0× 28 0.1× 233 1.3× 69 0.8× 74 1.0× 32 862
Izabela Łukasik Poland 4 928 1.3× 31 0.2× 298 1.6× 83 0.9× 96 1.3× 5 1.1k
Limin Gao China 17 974 1.4× 35 0.2× 142 0.8× 90 1.0× 74 1.0× 23 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by David Jespersen

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Jespersen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Jespersen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Jespersen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Jespersen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Jespersen. David Jespersen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2025). Proteases and the ubiquitin-proteasome system: Understanding protein degradation under heat stress in plants. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 237. 106174–106174. 3 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2025). Chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of turfgrasses grown under shade trees. International Turfgrass Society research journal. 15(1). 784–795.
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2025). Proteolysis activities in creeping bentgrass leaves subjected to heat stress. Plant Science. 359. 112682–112682. 1 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2025). Understanding salinity tolerance mechanisms in finger millet through metabolomics. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 222. 109742–109742. 1 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of oxygenated and ozonated nanobubble water treatments for dollar spot suppression in seashore paspalum. Agronomy Journal. 117(1). 1 indexed citations
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Raymer, Paul L., et al.. (2024). Dose-dependent physiological effects of UV-C radiation on seashore paspalum. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 208. 108514–108514. 2 indexed citations
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Atta, Kousik, Saptarshi Mondal, Aditya Pratap Singh, et al.. (2023). Impacts of salinity stress on crop plants: improving salt tolerance through genetic and molecular dissection. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1241736–1241736. 175 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jespersen, David, Ambika Chandra, Kevin E. Kenworthy, et al.. (2022). Multilocational screening identifies new drought‐tolerant, warm‐season turfgrasses. Crop Science. 62(4). 1614–1630. 11 indexed citations
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Xiao, Bo, et al.. (2020). Physiological responses and tolerance mechanisms of seashore paspalum and centipedegrass exposed to osmotic and iso-osmotic salt stresses. Journal of Plant Physiology. 248. 153154–153154. 32 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2018). Drought Avoidance Traits in a Collection of Zoysiagrasses. HortScience. 53(11). 1579–1585. 13 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, et al.. (2017). Effects of trinexapac-ethyl and Daconil Action (acibenzolar-S-methyl and chlorothalonil) on heat and drought tolerance of creeping bentgrass.. The Plant Genome. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Rossi, Stephanie, et al.. (2017). Heat-induced leaf senescence associated with chlorophyll metabolism in bentgrass lines differing in heat tolerance.. The Plant Genome. 10. 2 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, Faith C. Belanger, & Bingru Huang. (2017). Candidate genes and molecular markers associated with heat tolerance in colonial Bentgrass. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0171183–e0171183. 16 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, Jingjin Yu, & Bingru Huang. (2017). Metabolic Effects of Acibenzolar-S-Methyl for Improving Heat or Drought Stress in Creeping Bentgrass. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 1224–1224. 37 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, Jing Zhang, & Bingru Huang. (2016). Chlorophyll loss associated with heat-induced senescence in bentgrass. Plant Science. 249. 1–12. 102 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, Jingjin Yu, & Bingru Huang. (2015). Metabolite Responses to Exogenous Application of Nitrogen, Cytokinin, and Ethylene Inhibitors in Relation to Heat-Induced Senescence in Creeping Bentgrass. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0123744–e0123744. 45 indexed citations
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Jespersen, David, Chenping Xu, & Bingru Huang. (2015). Membrane Proteins Associated with Heat‐Induced Leaf Senescence in a Cool‐Season Grass Species. Crop Science. 55(2). 837–850. 13 indexed citations

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