Ivan Kreft

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
117 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Ivan Kreft is a scholar working on Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ivan Kreft has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Food Science, 75 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 38 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Ivan Kreft's work include Seed and Plant Biochemistry (74 papers), Food composition and properties (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (37 papers). Ivan Kreft is often cited by papers focused on Seed and Plant Biochemistry (74 papers), Food composition and properties (38 papers) and Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (37 papers). Ivan Kreft collaborates with scholars based in Slovenia, Sweden and Slovakia. Ivan Kreft's co-authors include Mateja Germ, Giovanni Bonafaccia, Nina Fabjan, Vekoslava Stibilj, Vida Škrabanja, Samo Kreft, Kenji Yasumoto, Zhuanhua Wang, J. Osvald and Iztok Jože Košir and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Food Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Ivan Kreft

111 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global nutritional challenges and opportunities: Buckwheat, a potential bridge between nutrient deficiency and food security

2024 47 citations Rintu Jha, Kaixuan Zhang et al. Trends in Food Science & Technology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ivan Kreft Slovenia	40	3.3k	3.2k	1.7k	596	470	117	5.3k
Amparo Alegrı́a Spain	39	1.1k 0.3×	1.3k 0.4×	593 0.4×	243 0.4×	171 0.4×	140	4.2k
Sun‐Ju Kim South Korea	44	1.3k 0.4×	923 0.3×	2.1k 1.3×	180 0.3×	164 0.3×	243	5.5k
Giovanni Dinelli Italy	39	982 0.3×	792 0.2×	2.0k 1.2×	288 0.5×	141 0.3×	156	4.8k
Roman Przybylski Poland	36	2.0k 0.6×	912 0.3×	1.6k 0.9×	243 0.4×	126 0.3×	201	5.3k
Zohar Kerem Israel	37	791 0.2×	638 0.2×	2.9k 1.7×	154 0.3×	165 0.4×	113	5.8k
Isabel Medina Spain	43	774 0.2×	1.1k 0.3×	284 0.2×	257 0.4×	187 0.4×	166	5.2k
K.R. Price United Kingdom	38	1.2k 0.4×	791 0.2×	1.7k 1.0×	180 0.3×	297 0.6×	106	4.9k
Laura De Gara Italy	44	736 0.2×	949 0.3×	4.8k 2.9×	169 0.3×	74 0.2×	180	7.1k
Barbara P. Klein United States	31	1.1k 0.3×	980 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	106 0.2×	169 0.4×	94	4.7k
Giulia Graziani Italy	39	1.0k 0.3×	483 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	159 0.3×	103 0.2×	144	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ivan Kreft

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ivan Kreft

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Huda, Md. Nurul, Kaixuan Zhang, Yuqi He, et al.. (2025). Plant secondary metabolites against biotic stresses for sustainable crop protection. Biotechnology Advances. 79. 108520–108520. 15 indexed citations

Jha, Rintu, Kaixuan Zhang, Yuqi He, et al.. (2024). Global nutritional challenges and opportunities: Buckwheat, a potential bridge between nutrient deficiency and food security. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 145. 104365–104365. 47 indexed citations breakdown →

Kušar, Anita, et al.. (2023). Consumers’ Preferences towards Bread Characteristics Based on Food-Related Lifestyles: Insights from Slovenia. Foods. 12(20). 3766–3766. 7 indexed citations

Levanič, Tom, Blaž Cigić, Mateja Germ, et al.. (2023). Differences in Ratio of Carbon Stable Isotopes among Barley Grain Milling Fractions with Various Concentrations of Beta-Glucans. Molecules. 28(15). 5738–5738. 1 indexed citations

Kreft, Ivan, Aleksandra Golob, & Mateja Germ. (2023). A Crop of High Nutritional Quality and Health Maintenance Value: The Importance of Tartary Buckwheat Breeding. Agriculture. 13(9). 1783–1783. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Wenwen, Ivan Kreft, Tamara Lah Turnšek, et al.. (2022). Tartary Buckwheat Flavonoids Improve Colon Lesions and Modulate Gut Microbiota Composition in Diabetic Mice. Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2022. 1–14. 8 indexed citations

Vollmannová, Alena, Janette Musilová, Judita Lidiková, et al.. (2021). Concentrations of Phenolic Acids Are Differently Genetically Determined in Leaves, Flowers, and Grain of Common Buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum Moench). Plants. 10(6). 1142–1142. 21 indexed citations

Azad, Md Obyedul Kalam, Md. Adnan, Mateja Germ, et al.. (2020). Silicon biostimulant enhances the growth characteristics and fortifies the bioactive compounds in common and Tartary buckwheat plant. Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology. 24(1). 51–59. 21 indexed citations

Germ, Mateja, Július Árvay, Alena Vollmannová, et al.. (2020). Hydrothermal Treatments Affecting the Concentration of Neochlorogenic Acid in Dough of Tartary Buckwheat. Agriculture. 10(12). 601–601. 8 indexed citations

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Germ, Mateja, Július Árvay, Alena Vollmannová, et al.. (2019). The temperature threshold for the transformation of rutin to quercetin in Tartary buckwheat dough. Food Chemistry. 283. 28–31. 47 indexed citations

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Golob, Aleksandra, et al.. (2017). Impact of UV radiation and selenium on two buckwheat species. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 60(2). 29–39. 1 indexed citations

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Javornik, Branka & Ivan Kreft. (2017). Structure of buckwheat kernel. DiRROS repository (University of Maribor). 1 indexed citations

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Norbäck, Dan, Gui‐Hong Cai, Ivan Kreft, Erik Lampa, & Gunilla Wieslander. (2015). Fungal DNA in dust in Swedish day care centres: associations with respiratory symptoms, fractional exhaled nitrogen oxide (FeNO) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in serum among day care centre staff. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health. 89(2). 331–340. 8 indexed citations

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Germ, Mateja, Ivan Kreft, Vekoslava Stibilj, & J. Osvald. (2014). The effect of selenium on yield and primary terminal electron transport system activity in two cultivars of bean plants Phaseolus vulgaris. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 57(2). 3–12.

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Kreft, Ivan, et al.. (2013). Antigenotoxic Effect of Tartary ( Fagopyrum tataricum ) and Common ( Fagopyrum esculentum ) Buckwheat Flour. Journal of Medicinal Food. 16(10). 944–952. 29 indexed citations

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Wieslander, Gunilla, et al.. (2012). Effects of common and Tartary buckwheat consumption on mucosal symptoms, headache and tiredness : A double-blind crossover intervention study. Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana). 10(2). 107–110. 30 indexed citations

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Regvar, Marjana, Diane Eichert, Burkhard Kaulich, et al.. (2011). New insights into globoids of protein storage vacuoles in wheat aleurone using synchrotron soft X-ray microscopy. Journal of Experimental Botany. 62(11). 3929–3939. 87 indexed citations

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Kreft, Ivan & Mateja Germ. (2008). ORGANICALLY GROWN BUCKWHEAT AS A HEALTHY FOOD AND A SOURCE OF NATURAL ANTIOXIDANTS. University of Zagreb University Computing Centre (SRCE). 70(4). 397–406. 17 indexed citations

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Germ, Mateja, Ivan Kreft, & J. Osvald. (2005). Influence of UV-B exclusion and selenium treatment on photochemical efficiency of photosystem II, yield and respiratory potential in pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo L.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 43(5). 445–448. 145 indexed citations

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Kreft, Ivan & Vida Škrabanja. (2002). Nutritional Properties of Starch in Buckwheat Noodles.. Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology. 48(1). 47–50. 38 indexed citations

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