Eric Bertoft

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
128 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Eric Bertoft is a scholar working on Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Bertoft has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics, 56 papers in Food Science and 41 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Eric Bertoft's work include Food composition and properties (120 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (83 papers) and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (44 papers). Eric Bertoft is often cited by papers focused on Food composition and properties (120 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (83 papers) and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (44 papers). Eric Bertoft collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Canada and United States. Eric Bertoft's co-authors include Serge Pérez, Varatharajan Vamadevan, Koushik Seetharaman, George A. Annor, Robin Manelius, Fan Zhu, Kristine Koch, Kuakoon Piyachomkwan, Klanarong Sriroth and Per Åman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, FEBS Letters and International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Eric Bertoft

128 papers receiving 7.1k 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 molecular structures of starch components and their contribution to the architecture of starch granules: A comprehensive review

2010 1.1k citations Eric Bertoft et al. Starch - Stärke profile →
Understanding Starch Structure: Recent Progress

2017 613 citations Eric Bertoft profile →
Structure‐function relationships of starch components

2014 355 citations Varatharajan Vamadevan, Eric Bertoft Starch - Stärke profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Bertoft Finland	47	6.1k	3.8k	2.0k	885	752	128	7.3k
Thava Vasanthan Canada	46	3.8k 0.6×	3.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	368 0.4×	462 0.6×	127	5.8k
Bernadine M. Flanagan Australia	36	3.5k 0.6×	2.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	370 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	97	5.8k
Ya‐Jane Wang United States	35	3.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	287 0.3×	743 1.0×	125	4.5k
Andreas Blennow Denmark	51	5.0k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	601 0.8×	226	7.9k
Shujun Wang China	55	8.1k 1.3×	6.5k 1.7×	2.0k 1.0×	497 0.6×	1.3k 1.7×	189	10.2k
Karin Autio Finland	42	3.1k 0.5×	2.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	495 0.6×	301 0.4×	119	4.9k
Véronique Planchot France	25	3.0k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	865 1.0×	484 0.6×	35	4.1k
Cunxu Wei China	45	4.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.2×	196 0.2×	371 0.5×	144	5.4k
Madhav P. Yadav United States	43	1.9k 0.3×	2.8k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	253 0.3×	776 1.0×	117	5.0k
Bert Lagrain Belgium	37	2.1k 0.3×	1.7k 0.4×	1.0k 0.5×	441 0.5×	594 0.8×	74	5.3k

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Bertoft, Eric, George A. Annor, Varatharajan Vamadevan, & Amy Hui‐Mei Lin. (2024). On the architecture of starch granules revealed by iodine vapor binding and lintnerization. Part 1: Microscopic examinations. Biopolymers. 115(6). e23610–e23610. 1 indexed citations

Bertoft, Eric, Andreas Blennow, & Bruce R. Hamaker. (2024). Perspectives on Starch Structure, Function, and Synthesis in Relation to the Backbone Model of Amylopectin. Biomacromolecules. 25(9). 5389–5401. 13 indexed citations

Bertoft, Eric, et al.. (2022). Temperature of plasma-activated water and its effect on the thermal and chemical surface properties of cereal and tuber starches. Current Research in Food Science. 5. 1668–1675. 16 indexed citations

Román, Laura, et al.. (2020). On the role of the internal chain length distribution of amylopectins during retrogradation: Double helix lateral aggregation and slow digestibility. Carbohydrate Polymers. 246. 116633–116633. 43 indexed citations

Bertoft, Eric, et al.. (2019). Modification of cereal and tuber waxy starches with radio frequency cold plasma and its effects on waxy starch properties. Carbohydrate Polymers. 223. 115075–115075. 82 indexed citations

Annor, George A., Varatharajan Vamadevan, Ian J. Tetlow, et al.. (2017). Influence of diurnal photosynthetic activity on the morphology, structure, and thermal properties of normal and waxy barley starch. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 98. 188–200. 25 indexed citations

Vamadevan, Varatharajan & Eric Bertoft. (2014). Structure‐function relationships of starch components. Starch - Stärke. 67(1-2). 55–68. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

Bertoft, Eric, et al.. (2014). Evolution of amylopectin structure in developing wheat endosperm starch. Carbohydrate Polymers. 112. 316–324. 22 indexed citations

Zhu, Fan, et al.. (2014). Structure of Arabidopsis leaf starch is markedly altered following nocturnal degradation. Carbohydrate Polymers. 117. 1002–1013. 10 indexed citations

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Shen, Xinyu, Eric Bertoft, Genyi Zhang, & Bruce R. Hamaker. (2013). Iodine binding to explore the conformational state of internal chains of amylopectin. Carbohydrate Polymers. 98(1). 778–783. 70 indexed citations

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Seetharaman, Koushik & Eric Bertoft. (2012). Perspectives on the history of research on starch Part V: On the conceptualization of amylopectin structure. Starch - Stärke. 65(1-2). 1–7. 69 indexed citations

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Blennow, Andreas, et al.. (2012). Effect of amylose deposition on potato tuber starch granule architecture and dynamics as studied by lintnerization. Biopolymers. 99(1). 73–83. 16 indexed citations

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Bertoft, Eric, et al.. (2012). On the interconnection of clusters and building blocks in barley amylopectin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 55. 75–82. 11 indexed citations

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Bertoft, Eric, Kristine Koch, & Per Åman. (2012). Structure of building blocks in amylopectins. Carbohydrate Research. 361. 105–113. 42 indexed citations

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Zhu, Fan, Xinsun Yang, Yi‐Zhong Cai, Eric Bertoft, & Harold Corke. (2011). Physicochemical properties of sweetpotato starch. Starch - Stärke. 63(5). 249–259. 85 indexed citations

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Zhu, Fan, Harold Corke, Per Åman, & Eric Bertoft. (2011). Structures of building blocks in clusters of sweetpotato amylopectin. Carbohydrate Research. 346(18). 2913–2925. 18 indexed citations

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Bertoft, Eric, et al.. (2011). The building block structure of barley amylopectin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 49(5). 900–909. 25 indexed citations

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Kong, Xiangli, Harold Corke, & Eric Bertoft. (2009). Fine structure characterization of amylopectins from grain amaranth starch. Carbohydrate Research. 344(13). 1701–1708. 61 indexed citations

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Kiseleva, Valentina I., et al.. (2007). Structural and thermodynamic properties of rice starches with different genetic background. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 41(4). 391–403. 57 indexed citations

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Ayaz, Faik Ahmet, Asim Kadıoğlu, Eric Bertoft, Cengiz Acar, & İbrahim Turna. (2001). Effect of fruit maturation on sugar and organic acid composition in two blueberries ( Vaccinium arctostaphylos and V. myrtillus ) native to Turkey. New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science. 29(2). 137–141. 37 indexed citations

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