Jeffrey D. Palmer

43.0k citations

199 papers · 27.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 95

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.02%
- Plant Diversity and Evolution 43
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 103
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 84
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology 23
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions 21
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 16
Plant Science top 0.05%
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 26
Genetics top 0.2%
- Genetic diversity and population structure 21
Horticulture top 1%

Co-authors: Richard G. Olmstead Patrick J. Keeling Robert K. Jansen William F. Thompson Yin‐Long Qiu Keith L. Adams Danny W. Rice Jeffrey P. Mower
Cited by: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Molecular Biology Plant Science
Journals: Nature (13 papers)Science (4 papers)Cell (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Ireland

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey D. Palmer

198 papers receiving 25.6k 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.

2012 PLoS Biology
2008 Nature Reviews Genetics
1999 Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
1997 Science
1992 Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
1988 Journal of Molecular Evolution
1988 Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
1985 Annual Review of Genetics

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1	Characterization of two co-regulated response regulators in Clostridioides difficile Journal of Bacteriology ·Caitlin L. Williams,Anchal Mehra,Emily B. Harrison,Charles Thomas,Jeffrey D. Palmer,D. Kane Cooper,Elizabeth M. Garrett,Rita Tamayo	2025	1
2	A record-setting mitogenome in the holoparasitic plant Balanophora yakushimensis accompanied by exceptional loss of organellar DNA repair and recombination genes BMC Biology ·Runxian Yu,Xueke Zhi,Luis Federico Ceriotti,Elizabeth Skippington,Danny W. Rice,H. J. Su,Todd J. Barkman,Chenyu Sun,Ying Liu,Dongming Fang,Xiaoli Chen,Claude W. dePamphilis,Jeffrey P. Mower,M. Virginia Sanchez‐Puerta,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Renchao Zhou	2025	0
3	Novel genetic code and record-setting AT-richness in the highly reduced plastid genome of the holoparasitic plant Balanophora Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·H. J. Su,Todd J. Barkman,Weilong Hao,Samuel S. Jones,Julia Naumann,Elizabeth Skippington,Eric Wafula,Jer‐Ming Hu,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Claude W. dePamphilis	2018	66
4	Comparative mitogenomics indicates respiratory competence in parasitic Viscum despite loss of complex I and extreme sequence divergence, and reveals horizontal gene transfer and remarkable variation in genome size BMC Plant Biology ·Elizabeth Skippington,Todd J. Barkman,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2017	55
5	Chloroplast phylogeny of Cucurbita: Evolution of the domesticated and wild species Journal of Systematics and Evolution ·Yihong Zheng,Andrew J. Alverson,Qing‐Feng WANG,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2013	22
6	The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate BMC Biology ·Aaron O. Richardson,Danny W. Rice,Gregory J. Young,Andrew J. Alverson,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2013	209
7	Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene Genome Biology and Evolution ·Daniel B. Sloan,Andrew J. Alverson,Martin Wu,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Douglas Taylor	2012	103
8	Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes Genome Research ·Alan M. Magee,Sue Aspinall,Danny W. Rice,Brian Cusack,Marie Sémon,Antoinette S. Perry,Saša Stefanović,Dan Milbourne,Susanne Barth,Jeffrey D. Palmer,John C. Gray,Tony A. Kavanagh,Kenneth H. Wolfe	2010	197
9	Massive horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes from diverse land plant donors to the basal angiosperm Amborella Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ulfar Bergthorsson,Aaron O. Richardson,Gregory J. Young,Leslie R. Goertzen,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2004	177
10	Long branch attraction, taxon sampling, and the earliest angiosperms: Amborella or monocots? BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Saša Stefanović,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2004	121
11	Gene transfer from parasitic to host plants Nature ·Jeffrey P. Mower,Saša Stefanović,Gregory J. Young,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2004	166
12	Genome-scale data, angiosperm relationships, and ‘ending incongruence’: a cautionary tale in phylogenetics Trends in Plant Science ·Pamela S. Soltis,Victor A. Albert,Vincent Savolainen,Khidir W. Hilu,Yin‐Long Qiu,Mark W. Chase,James S. Farris,Saša Stefanović,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2004	167
13	Widespread horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes in flowering plants Nature ·Ulfar Bergthorsson,Keith L. Adams,Brendan Thomason,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2003	371
14	Punctuated evolution of mitochondrial gene content: High and variable rates of mitochondrial gene loss and transfer to the nucleus during angiosperm evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Keith L. Adams,Yin‐Long Qiu,Mark Stoutemyer,Jeffrey D. Palmer	2002	363
15	Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis1breakdown → Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·Seán Turner,Kathleen M. Pryer,Vivian Miao,Jeffrey D. Palmer	1999	1232
16	The highly rearranged chloroplast genome of Trachelium caeruleum (Campanulaceae): multiple inversions, inverted repeat expansion and contraction, transposition, insertions/deletions, and several repeat families Current Genetics ·Mary E. Cosner,Robert K. Jansen,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Stephen R. Downie	1997	119
17	3 Chloroplast and Mitochondrial DNAs of Arabidopsis thaliana: Conventional Genomes in an Unconventional Plant Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Jeffrey D. Palmer,Stephen R. Downie,Jacqueline M. Nugent,Petra Brandt,Michael Unseld,Mathieu Klein,Axel Brennicke,Wolfgang Schuster,Thomas Börner	1994	11
18	1 Systematic Relationships of Arabidopsis: A Molecular and Morphological Perspective Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Robert A. Price,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Ihsan A. Al‐Shehbaz	1994	112
19	Ins and outs of plastid genome evolution Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Kenneth H. Wolfe,Clifford W. Morden,Jeffrey D. Palmer	1991	18
20	Phytochrome control of RNA levels in developing pea and mung-bean leaves Planta ·William F. Thompson,Marylee S. Everett,Neil O. Polans,Richard A. Jorgensen,Jeffrey D. Palmer	1983	206

About Jeffrey D. Palmer

Jeffrey D. Palmer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, having authored 199 papers that have together received 27.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (84 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (43 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (26 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (23 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (21 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (8.9k citations), Molecular Biology (20.1k citations) and Plant Science (10.3k citations). Jeffrey D. Palmer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Richard G. Olmstead, Patrick J. Keeling, Robert K. Jansen, William F. Thompson, Yin‐Long Qiu, Keith L. Adams, Danny W. Rice, Jeffrey P. Mower, Laura A. Herbon and Kathleen M. Pryer. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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