John Knox

25.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
244 papers, 19.2k citations indexed

About

John Knox is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Knox has authored 244 papers receiving a total of 19.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 177 papers in Plant Science, 110 papers in Molecular Biology and 54 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in John Knox's work include Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (146 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (66 papers) and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (52 papers). John Knox is often cited by papers focused on Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (146 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (66 papers) and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (52 papers). John Knox collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Denmark. John Knox's co-authors include William G. T. Willats, Lesley McCartney, Susan E. Marcus, William Mackie, Jørn Dalgaard Mikkelsen, Keith Roberts, Harry J. Gilbert, Graham B. Seymour, Yves Verhertbruggen and Alan D. Dodge and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

John Knox

233 papers receiving 18.7k 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.

Pectin: cell biology and prospects for functional analysis

2001 833 citations William G. T. Willats, Lesley McCartney et al. profile →
Pectin: cell biology and prospects for functional analysis

2001 824 citations William G. T. Willats, Lesley McCartney et al. profile →
Pectin: new insights into an old polymer are starting to gel

2005 731 citations William G. T. Willats, John Knox et al. profile →
Pectin esterification is spatially regulated both within cell walls and between developing tissues of root apices

1990 576 citations John Knox, Keith Roberts et al. Planta profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Knox United Kingdom	75	15.7k	8.2k	3.8k	2.2k	1.5k	244	19.2k
Richard G. F. Visser Netherlands	82	21.6k 1.4×	8.1k 1.0×	4.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	2.2k 1.5×	630	26.4k
Chris Somerville United States	95	19.7k 1.3×	16.3k 2.0×	923 0.2×	4.2k 1.9×	858 0.6×	191	28.8k
Paul Dupree United Kingdom	74	8.7k 0.6×	8.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	4.7k 2.2×	1.2k 0.8×	193	17.0k
Gerald A. Tuskan United States	64	8.3k 0.5×	5.9k 0.7×	737 0.2×	5.4k 2.5×	167 0.1×	284	16.5k
A. B. Bennett United States	75	9.8k 0.6×	5.8k 0.7×	877 0.2×	545 0.2×	780 0.5×	408	16.3k
Bruno De Meulenaer Belgium	56	3.7k 0.2×	1.4k 0.2×	4.0k 1.1×	953 0.4×	759 0.5×	293	10.5k
Deborah P. Delmer United States	47	7.3k 0.5×	3.6k 0.4×	590 0.2×	1.4k 0.6×	494 0.3×	99	9.1k
Timothy J. Tschaplinski United States	56	6.6k 0.4×	5.4k 0.7×	746 0.2×	8.6k 3.9×	257 0.2×	206	17.6k
Marc Van Montagu Belgium	122	39.6k 2.5×	33.7k 4.1×	1.2k 0.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	598	53.1k
John Cairney Australia	54	8.8k 0.6×	4.7k 0.6×	406 0.1×	4.0k 1.8×	248 0.2×	180	16.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Chang, Joan, Adam Pickard, Jeremy Herrera, et al.. (2025). Endocytic recycling is central to circadian collagen fibrillogenesis and disrupted in fibrosis. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Tétard‐Jones, Catherine, William G. T. Willats, Susan E. Marcus, et al.. (2024). Structural dissection of two redox proteins from the shipworm symbiont Teredinibacter turnerae. IUCrJ. 11(2). 260–274. 2 indexed citations

Schulz, K.‐D., John Knox, Robert D. Hancock, et al.. (2023). Restraining Quiescence Release-Related Ageing in Plant Cells: A Case Study in Carrot. Cells. 12(20). 2465–2465. 1 indexed citations

Galloway, Andrew, et al.. (2022). Altered properties and structures of root exudate polysaccharides in a root hairless mutant of barley. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 190(2). 1214–1227. 15 indexed citations

Knox, John, et al.. (2022). Experimental investigation of wave and current interactions with immature Spartina alterniflora salt marsh canopies. Proceedings of the 39th IAHR World Congress. 115–122. 1 indexed citations

Venditto, I., Julia Schückel, Pedro Bule, et al.. (2016). Complexity of the Ruminococcus flavefaciens cellulosome reflects an expansion in glycan recognition.. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

Torode, Thomas A., Susan E. Marcus, Murielle Jam, et al.. (2015). Monoclonal Antibodies Directed to Fucoidan Preparations from Brown Algae. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0118366–e0118366. 55 indexed citations

Lee, Kieran J.D. & John Knox. (2013). Resin Embedding, Sectioning, and Immunocytochemical Analyses of Plant Cell Walls in Hard Tissues. Methods in molecular biology. 1080. 41–52. 12 indexed citations

Lee, Kieran J.D., Susan E. Marcus, & John Knox. (2011). Cell Wall Biology: Perspectives from Cell Wall Imaging. Molecular Plant. 4(2). 212–219. 117 indexed citations

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Verhertbruggen, Yves, et al.. (2010). The TOR Pathway Modulates the Structure of Cell Walls in Arabidopsis . The Plant Cell. 22(6). 1898–1908. 81 indexed citations

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Scheller, Henrik Vibe, Yuzuki Manabe, Yves Verhertbruggen, et al.. (2010). Homologs of Cryptococcus Cas1p are required for Glycan Acetylation in Plants and Function Upstream of the Acetyltransferases. Glycobiology. 20(11). 1 indexed citations

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Verhertbruggen, Yves, Susan E. Marcus, Ash Haeger, José Juan Ordaz-Ortíz, & John Knox. (2008). An extended set of monoclonal antibodies to pectic homogalacturonan. Carbohydrate Research. 344(14). 1858–1862. 379 indexed citations

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McCartney, Lesley, Anthony W. Blake, J.E. Flint, et al.. (2006). Differential recognition of plant cell walls by microbial xylan-specific carbohydrate-binding modules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(12). 4765–4770. 111 indexed citations

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Lee, Kieran J.D., Yoichi Sakata, Shaio‐Lim Mau, et al.. (2005). Arabinogalactan Proteins Are Required for Apical Cell Extension in the Moss Physcomitrella patens. The Plant Cell. 17(11). 3051–3065. 159 indexed citations

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Knox, John, et al.. (2005). Physcomitrella patens : A moss system for the study of plant cell walls. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 139(1). 16–19. 10 indexed citations

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Clausen, Mads H., Marie‐Christine Ralet, William G. T. Willats, et al.. (2004). A monoclonal antibody to feruloylated-(1?4)-?-d-galactan. Planta. 219(6). 1036–1041. 41 indexed citations

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Capodicasa, Cristina, Donatella Vairo, Olga A. Zabotina, et al.. (2004). Targeted Modification of Homogalacturonan by Transgenic Expression of a Fungal Polygalacturonase Alters Plant Growth. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 135(3). 1294–1304. 52 indexed citations

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Knox, John. (1997). The use of Antibodies to Study the Architecture and Developmental Regulation of Plant Cell Walls. International review of cytology. 171. 79–120. 186 indexed citations

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Knox, John, et al.. (1991). Developmentally regulated epitopes of cell surface arabinogalactan proteins and their relation to root tissue pattern formation. The Plant Journal. 1(3). 317–326. 359 indexed citations

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Knox, John & P. F. Wareing. (1984). Apical Dominance in Phaseolus vulgaris L.: The Possible Roles of Abscisic and Indole-3-Acetic Acid. Journal of Experimental Botany. 35(151). 239–244. 18 indexed citations

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