G. Ledyard Stebbins

26.9k total citations · 12 hit papers
188 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

G. Ledyard Stebbins is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, G. Ledyard Stebbins has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Plant Science, 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 34 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in G. Ledyard Stebbins's work include Plant and animal studies (37 papers), Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics (22 papers) and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (18 papers). G. Ledyard Stebbins is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (37 papers), Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics (22 papers) and Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (18 papers). G. Ledyard Stebbins collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Canada. G. Ledyard Stebbins's co-authors include Arthur Cronquist, Herbert G. Baker, E. Anderson, Sewall Wright, Jack Major, Richard C Lewontin, G. S. Khush, Payel Sarkar, Edgar Anderson and D. H. Valentine and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

G. Ledyard Stebbins

184 papers receiving 13.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Chromosomal evolution in higher plants

1971 2.5k citations G. Ledyard Stebbins Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
Flowering Plants. Evolution above the Species Level

1975 1.2k citations G. Ledyard Stebbins et al. profile →
Flowering Plants

1974 1.1k citations G. Ledyard Stebbins Harvard University Press eBooks profile →
Self Fertilization and Population Variability in the Higher Plants

1957 1.0k citations G. Ledyard Stebbins profile →
Adaptive Radiation of Reproductive Characteristics in Angiosperms, I: Pollination Mechanisms

1970 927 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins profile →
Selection for colonizing abilitty.

1965 458 citations Herbert G. Baker, G. Ledyard Stebbins et al. profile →
HYBRIDIZATION AS AN EVOLUTIONARY STIMULUS

1954 440 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins et al. Evolution profile →
Evolution and the Genetics of Populations. Volume 3. Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions.

1977 380 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins et al. profile →
Endemism and Speciation in the California Flora

1965 335 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins et al. profile →
The Inviability, Weakness, and Sterility of Interspecific Hybrids

1958 316 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins Advances in genetics profile →
CYTOLOGY AND CYTOGENETICS

1957 251 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins profile →
CYTOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION OF THE GRASS FAMILY

1956 203 citations G. Ledyard Stebbins American Journal of Botany profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	THE EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL POLYPLOIDS IN THE FAMILY GRAMINEAE 2010 ·Hereditas ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	12
2	Species concepts: Semantics and actual situations 1987 ·Biology & Philosophy ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	6
3	PERSPECTIVES IN EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1982 ·Evolution ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	22
4	Flowering Plants breakdown → 1974 ·Harvard University Press eBooks ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	1127
5	Morphogenesisc vascularization and phylogeny in angiosperms 1973 ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	3
6	AN ALBINO MUTANT IN PLANTAGO INSULARIS REQUIRING THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE. I: GENETICS 1971 ·Genetics ·(unknown), G. Ledyard Stebbins	6
7	THE MORPHOGENETIC EFFECTS OF THE HOODED GENE IN BARLEY II. CYTOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AFFECTING GENE EXPRESSION 1969 ·Genetics ·Ezra Yagil, G. Ledyard Stebbins	19
8	The basis of progressive evolution 1969 ·Medical Entomology and Zoology ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	90
9	A cytotaxonomic revision of the fleshy-fruited Galium species of the Californias and southern Oregon (Rubiaceae) 1968 ·University of California Press eBooks ·(unknown), G. Ledyard Stebbins	2
10	THE MORPHOGENETIC EFFECTS OF THE HOODED GENE IN BARLEY. I. THE COURSE OF DEVELOPMENT IN HOODED AND AWNED GENOTYPES 1966 ·Genetics ·G. Ledyard Stebbins, Ezra Yagil	42
11	The genetics of colonizing species : proceedings of the First International Union of Biological Sciences Symposia on General Biology 1965 ·Academic Press eBooks ·Herbert G. Baker, G. Ledyard Stebbins	42
12	Colonization in Australia by Trifolium subterraneum L. 1965 ·F. H. W. Morley, (unknown), Herbert G. Baker, G. Ledyard Stebbins	11
13	IDENTIFICATION OF THE ANCESTRY OF AN AMPHIPLOID VIOLA WITH THE AID OF PAPER CHROMATOGRAPHY 1963 ·American Journal of Botany ·G. Ledyard Stebbins, B. L. Harvey, (unknown), J. N. Rutger, (unknown), Ezra Yagil	31
14	Variation in the Organization of the Stomatal Complex in the Leaf Epidermis of Monocotyledons and Its Bearing on Their Phylogeny 1961 ·American Journal of Botany ·G. Ledyard Stebbins, G. S. Khush	63
15	Morphology, distribution, and interrelationships of the diploid subspecies 1959 ·University of California Press eBooks ·G. Ledyard Stebbins, Daniel Zohary	7
16	The Inviability, Weakness, and Sterility of Interspecific Hybrids breakdown → 1958 ·Advances in genetics ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	316
17	ON THE HYBRID ORIGIN OF THE ANGIOSPERMS 1958 ·Evolution ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	19
18	The Major Features of Evolution . George Gaylord Simpson. Columbia Univ. Press, New York, 1953. 434 pp. Illus. $7.50 1954 ·Science ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	1
19	A NEW CLASSIFICATION OF THE TRIBE CICHORIEAE, FAMILY COMPOSITAE 1953 ·Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution) ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	97
20	NATURAL SELECTION AND THE DIFFERENTIATION OF ANGIOSPERM FAMILIES 1951 ·Evolution ·G. Ledyard Stebbins	105

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