Frances Robson

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
8 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Frances Robson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Frances Robson has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Frances Robson's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (5 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (3 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (2 papers). Frances Robson is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (5 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (3 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (2 papers). Frances Robson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, New Zealand and Germany. Frances Robson's co-authors include George Coupland, Karen Lee, Rüdiger Simon, Federico Valverde, Paula Suárez‐López, Hitoshi Onouchi, Joanna Putterill, Igor Vizir, Shelley R. Hepworth and Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Frances Robson

8 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

CONSTANS mediates between the circadian clock and the con... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2001 1995 250 500 750 1000
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. CONSTANS mediates between the circadian clock and the control of flowering in Arabidopsis
    2001 1.1k citations Paula Suárez‐López, Frances Robson et al. Nature profile →
  2. The CONSTANS gene of arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors
    1995 1.1k citations Frances Robson, Karen Lee et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Frances Robson United Kingdom 8 3.1k 2.4k 266 138 98 8 3.2k
José M. Jiménez‐Gómez France 27 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 381 1.4× 131 0.9× 90 0.9× 50 2.5k
Klaus Theres Germany 27 3.7k 1.2× 3.0k 1.3× 252 0.9× 242 1.8× 74 0.8× 41 4.1k
Jae Sung Shim South Korea 21 1.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 135 0.5× 102 0.7× 68 0.7× 34 2.0k
Jean‐Michel Davière France 20 3.4k 1.1× 2.2k 0.9× 73 0.3× 156 1.1× 106 1.1× 25 3.6k
Baltazar A. Antonio Japan 20 1.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.4× 773 2.9× 70 0.5× 86 0.9× 29 2.3k
Igor Kardailsky United Kingdom 13 2.4k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 144 0.5× 115 0.8× 18 0.2× 18 2.6k
Dong‐Lei Yang China 28 3.0k 1.0× 1.5k 0.6× 255 1.0× 136 1.0× 425 4.3× 43 3.3k
Jennifer P.C. To United States 14 3.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.0× 78 0.3× 134 1.0× 29 0.3× 18 3.1k
Roderick W. Kumimoto United States 15 2.4k 0.8× 1.8k 0.7× 160 0.6× 49 0.4× 19 0.2× 17 2.6k
Fabio Fornara Italy 30 6.1k 2.0× 4.5k 1.9× 708 2.7× 310 2.2× 34 0.3× 42 6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Frances Robson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Frances Robson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frances Robson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Frances Robson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Frances Robson 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 Frances Robson. Frances Robson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Robson, Frances, Haruko Okamoto, Elaine Patrick, et al.. (2010). Jasmonate and Phytochrome A Signaling in Arabidopsis Wound and Shade Responses Are Integrated through JAZ1 Stability  . The Plant Cell. 22(4). 1143–1160. 197 indexed citations
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Roslan, Hairul Azman, Michael G. Salter, Christopher D. Wood, et al.. (2001). Characterization of the ethanol‐inducible alc gene‐expression system in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 28(2). 225–235. 176 indexed citations
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Robson, Frances, Maria Manuela Ribeiro Costa, Shelley R. Hepworth, et al.. (2001). Functional importance of conserved domains in the flowering‐time gene CONSTANS demonstrated by analysis of mutant alleles and transgenic plants. The Plant Journal. 28(6). 619–631. 414 indexed citations
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Suárez‐López, Paula, et al.. (2001). CONSTANS mediates between the circadian clock and the control of flowering in Arabidopsis. Nature. 410(6832). 1116–1120. 1148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Robert, Laurian S., et al.. (1998). Conserved structure and function of the Arabidopsis flowering time gene CONSTANS in Brassica napus. Plant Molecular Biology. 37(5). 763–772. 90 indexed citations
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Robson, Frances, et al.. (1995). The CONSTANS gene of arabidopsis promotes flowering and encodes a protein showing similarities to zinc finger transcription factors. Cell. 80(6). 847–857. 1148 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schmidt, Renate, Joanna Putterill, Joanne West, et al.. (1994). Analysis of clones carrying repeated DNA sequences in two YAC libraries of Arabidopsis thaliana DNA. The Plant Journal. 5(5). 735–744. 28 indexed citations
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Putterill, Joanna, Frances Robson, Karen Lee, & George Coupland. (1993). Chromosome walking with YAC clones in Arabidopsis: isolation of 1700 kb of contiguous DNA on chromosome 5, including a 300 kb region containing the flowering-time gene CO. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 239(1-2). 145–157. 46 indexed citations

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