Jennifer Spindel

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Jennifer Spindel is a scholar working on Plant Science, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Spindel has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Spindel's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (7 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (5 papers) and International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 papers). Jennifer Spindel is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (7 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (5 papers) and International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 papers). Jennifer Spindel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and Philippines. Jennifer Spindel's co-authors include Susan R. McCouch, P. S. Virk, Hasina Begum, B. C. Y. Collard, G. N. Atlin, Jean‐Luc Jannink, Edilberto D. Redoña, Deniz Akdemir, Joshua N. Cobb and Mark H. Wright and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Plant Cell and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Spindel

20 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Genomic Selection and Association Mapping in Rice (Oryza sativa): Effect of Trait Genetic Architecture, Training Population Composition, Marker Number and Statistical Model on Accuracy of Rice Genomic Selection in Elite, Tropical Rice Breeding Lines

2015 386 citations Jennifer Spindel, Hasina Begum et al. PLoS Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jennifer Spindel United States	12	872	637	177	56	37	22	1.1k
S. Robin India	20	1.6k 1.8×	594 0.9×	176 1.0×	103 1.8×	7 0.2×	84	1.7k
Pierre Montalent France	9	516 0.6×	378 0.6×	136 0.8×	52 0.9×	7 0.2×	10	670
Thomas Odong Uganda	14	599 0.7×	241 0.4×	118 0.7×	70 1.3×	6 0.2×	70	746
Timothy Beissinger United States	16	747 0.9×	650 1.0×	260 1.5×	75 1.3×	3 0.1×	31	1.1k
Xiaoding Ma China	18	910 1.0×	413 0.6×	336 1.9×	23 0.4×	6 0.2×	54	1.1k
Jyoti Kumari India	16	632 0.7×	140 0.2×	111 0.6×	131 2.3×	8 0.2×	115	789
Amit Kumar Singh India	20	1.3k 1.5×	439 0.7×	280 1.6×	118 2.1×	4 0.1×	111	1.6k
Jason Coburn United States	4	1.0k 1.2×	773 1.2×	168 0.9×	25 0.4×	6 0.2×	5	1.1k
Amanda Garris United States	7	1.2k 1.4×	848 1.3×	191 1.1×	23 0.4×	5 0.1×	11	1.3k
M. Otim Uganda	17	627 0.7×	90 0.1×	360 2.0×	67 1.2×	14 0.4×	65	896

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer Spindel

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20 of 20 papers shown

Spindel, Jennifer. (2025). Boom, Bling, Backbone, or Blip? The Signaling Inherent in Arms Transfers. International Security. 49(3). 164–204.

Spindel, Jennifer & Jamés S. Ackerman. (2024). Adapting to the AI Era: ChatGPT in the Classroom. Journal of Political Science Education. 21(2). 310–326.

Spindel, Jennifer. (2023). Arms for influence? The limits of Great Power leverage. European Journal of International Security. 8(3). 395–412. 2 indexed citations

Spindel, Jennifer, et al.. (2022). The Unintended Consequences of Arms Embargoes. Foreign Policy Analysis. 19(1). 4 indexed citations

Spindel, Jennifer, et al.. (2022). Public Attitudes Toward Diversity, Promotion, and Leadership in the U.S. Military. Armed Forces & Society. 51(4). 1387–1412. 1 indexed citations

Li, Nana, Ping Li, Jennifer Spindel, et al.. (2021). Genetic mapping identifies a rice naringenin O‐glucosyltransferase that influences insect resistance. The Plant Journal. 106(5). 1401–1413. 21 indexed citations

Spindel, Jennifer, et al.. (2019). Taking Social Cohesion to Task: Perceptions of Transgender Military Inclusion and Concepts of Cohesion. Journal of Global Security Studies. 4 indexed citations

Krebs, Ronald R. & Jennifer Spindel. (2018). Divided Priorities: Why and When Allies Differ Over Military Intervention. Security Studies. 27(4). 575–606. 8 indexed citations

Spindel, Jennifer, Jeffery Dahlberg, Matthew Colgan, et al.. (2018). Association mapping by aerial drone reveals 213 genetic associations for Sorghum bicolor biomass traits under drought. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 679–679. 43 indexed citations

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Biscarini, Filippo, Paolo Cozzi, Laura Casella, et al.. (2016). Genome-Wide Association Study for Traits Related to Plant and Grain Morphology, and Root Architecture in Temperate Rice Accessions. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155425–e0155425. 64 indexed citations

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Spindel, Jennifer & Susan R. McCouch. (2016). When more is better: how data sharing would accelerate genomic selection of crop plants. New Phytologist. 212(4). 814–826. 55 indexed citations

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Bimber, Benjamin N., John Letaw, Kimberly A. Nevonen, et al.. (2016). Whole-genome characterization in pedigreed non-human primates using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) and imputation. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 676–676. 10 indexed citations

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Yan, Jian, Takako Aboshi, Masayoshi Teraishi, et al.. (2015). The Tyrosine Aminomutase TAM1 Is Required for β-Tyrosine Biosynthesis in Rice. The Plant Cell. 27(4). 1265–1278. 31 indexed citations

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Begum, Hasina, Jennifer Spindel, Antonio G. Lalusin, et al.. (2015). Genome-Wide Association Mapping for Yield and Other Agronomic Traits in an Elite Breeding Population of Tropical Rice (Oryza sativa). PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119873–e0119873. 140 indexed citations

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Spindel, Jennifer. (2015). Logistics of Ballistics: Power and Politics in the Global Missile Network. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Spindel, Jennifer, Hasina Begum, Deniz Akdemir, et al.. (2015). Genomic Selection and Association Mapping in Rice (Oryza sativa): Effect of Trait Genetic Architecture, Training Population Composition, Marker Number and Statistical Model on Accuracy of Rice Genomic Selection in Elite, Tropical Rice Breeding Lines. PLoS Genetics. 11(2). e1004982–e1004982. 386 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tovar, Eduardo, et al.. (2015). A genetic linkage map of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) and QTL for yield, plant height, and bean size. Tree Genetics & Genomes. 12(1). 33 indexed citations

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Spindel, Jennifer, Mark H. Wright, Charles Chen, et al.. (2013). Bridging the genotyping gap: using genotyping by sequencing (GBS) to add high-density SNP markers and new value to traditional bi-parental mapping and breeding populations. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 126(11). 2699–2716. 199 indexed citations

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Choi, Eunsol, Chenhao Tan, Lillian Lee, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, & Jennifer Spindel. (2012). Hedge detection as a lens on framing in the GMO debates: A position paper. arXiv (Cornell University). 70–79. 14 indexed citations

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Kaplinsky, Nicholas J., et al.. (2009). Partitioning the Apical Domain of the Arabidopsis Embryo Requires the BOBBER1 NudC Domain Protein . The Plant Cell. 21(7). 1957–1971. 31 indexed citations

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