Joseph Hirschberg

10.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Joseph Hirschberg is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Hirschberg has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 37 papers in Biochemistry and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Joseph Hirschberg's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (51 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (37 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (25 papers). Joseph Hirschberg is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (51 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (37 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (25 papers). Joseph Hirschberg collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Joseph Hirschberg's co-authors include Dani Zamir, Gil Ronen, Daniel Chamovitz, Iris Pecker, ‎Tal Isaacson, Lee McIntosh, Gerhard Sandmann, Francis X. Cunningham, Navot Galpaz and Merav Cohen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Hirschberg

110 papers receiving 7.1k citations

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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.

Molecular Basis of Herbicide Resistance in Plants in Amaranthus hybridus

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph Hirschberg Israel	43	5.5k	3.4k	2.2k	1.1k	351	112	7.4k
Dean DellaPenna United States	59	7.4k 1.4×	4.4k 1.3×	4.6k 2.1×	1.0k 0.9×	149 0.4×	93	10.4k
Peter Beyer Germany	55	6.9k 1.2×	4.0k 1.2×	4.1k 1.9×	882 0.8×	125 0.4×	117	9.9k
Marcel Kuntz France	43	4.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	2.4k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	357 1.0×	104	5.6k
George Britton United Kingdom	43	3.7k 0.7×	4.1k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	293 0.8×	161	8.0k
Barry J. Pogson Australia	60	9.6k 1.7×	3.2k 0.9×	8.3k 3.8×	1.1k 1.0×	272 0.8×	143	13.6k
Peter Dörmann Germany	54	7.0k 1.3×	1.1k 0.3×	5.3k 2.4×	797 0.7×	179 0.5×	140	10.4k
Gerhard Sandmann Germany	65	9.7k 1.8×	5.9k 1.7×	2.3k 1.1×	4.3k 3.9×	211 0.6×	306	13.1k
Bernhard Grimm Germany	63	8.3k 1.5×	619 0.2×	7.0k 3.2×	1.2k 1.1×	355 1.0×	221	11.3k
Félix Kessler Switzerland	46	6.2k 1.1×	803 0.2×	3.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.0×	651 1.9×	91	7.4k
Jacques Joyard France	49	6.2k 1.1×	455 0.1×	2.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	270 0.8×	114	7.3k

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Tiwari, Vivekanand, Yelena Yeselson, Tania Masci, et al.. (2025). Combined enhancement of ascorbic acid, β‐carotene and zeaxanthin in gene‐edited lettuce. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(6). 1954–1967. 4 indexed citations

Zamir, Dani, et al.. (2024). Tomato Mutants Reveal Root and Shoot Strigolactone Involvement in Branching and Broomrape Resistance. Plants. 13(11). 1554–1554. 2 indexed citations

Alseekh, Saleh, Josef Fisher, Shdema Filler‐Hayut, et al.. (2023). Multi‐year field trials provide a massive repository of trait data on a highly diverse population of tomato and uncover novel determinants of tomato productivity. The Plant Journal. 116(4). 1136–1151. 10 indexed citations

Hirschberg, Joseph, et al.. (2021). The potential of dynamic physiological traits in young tomato plants to predict field-yield performance. Plant Science. 315. 111122–111122. 7 indexed citations

Gupta, Prateek, Varda Mann, & Joseph Hirschberg. (2021). Two roads diverge in the yellow pigments metabolic pathway for ABA synthesis. Molecular Plant. 15(1). 3–5. 2 indexed citations

Zamir, Dani, et al.. (2020). Development of zeaxanthin‐rich tomato fruit through genetic manipulations of carotenoid biosynthesis. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18(11). 2292–2303. 46 indexed citations

Rodrigo, Marı́a J., Joanna Lado, Enriqueta Alós, et al.. (2019). A mutant allele of ζ-carotene isomerase (Z-ISO) is associated with the yellow pigmentation of the “Pinalate” sweet orange mutant and reveals new insights into its role in fruit carotenogenesis. BMC Plant Biology. 19(1). 465–465. 31 indexed citations

Fogelman, Edna, Michal Oren‐Shamir, Joseph Hirschberg, et al.. (2019). Nutritional value of potato (Solanum tuberosum) in hot climates: anthocyanins, carotenoids, and steroidal glycoalkaloids. Planta. 249(4). 1143–1155. 42 indexed citations

Oren, Aharon, Joseph Hirschberg, Varda Mann, & Jan Jehlička. (2018). Effects of nicotine on the biosynthesis of carotenoids in halophilic Archaea (class Halobacteria): an HPLC and Raman spectroscopy study. Extremophiles. 22(3). 359–366. 11 indexed citations

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Galpaz, Navot, Qiang Wang, Naama Menda, Dani Zamir, & Joseph Hirschberg. (2007). Abscisic acid deficiency in the tomato mutant high‐pigment 3 leading to increased plastid number and higher fruit lycopene content. The Plant Journal. 53(5). 717–730. 304 indexed citations

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Ibdah, Mwafaq, Yaniv Azulay, Vitaly Portnoy, et al.. (2006). Functional characterization of CmCCD1, a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase from melon. Phytochemistry. 67(15). 1579–1589. 161 indexed citations

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Sabehi, Gazalah, Alexander Loy, Kwang-Hwan Jung, et al.. (2005). New Insights into Metabolic Properties of Marine Bacteria Encoding Proteorhodopsins. PLoS Biology. 3(8). e273–e273. 191 indexed citations

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Liu, Yongsheng, Amit Gur, Gil Ronen, et al.. (2003). There is more to tomato fruit colour than candidate carotenoid genes. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 1(3). 195–207. 131 indexed citations

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Mann, Varda, Mark Harker, Iris Pecker, & Joseph Hirschberg. (2000). Metabolic engineering of astaxanthin production in tobacco flowers. Nature Biotechnology. 18(8). 888–892. 169 indexed citations

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Tal, Shlomit, Nir Keren, Joseph Hirschberg, & Itzhak Ohad. (1999). Photosystem II activity and turnover of the D1 protein are impaired in the psbA Y112L mutant of Synechocystis PCC6803 sp.. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B Biology. 48(2-3). 120–126. 5 indexed citations

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Dellinger, Marc, Marc Gèze, René Santús, et al.. (1998). Imaging of cells by autofluorescence: a new tool in the probing of biopharmaceutical effects at the intracellular level. Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry. 28(1). 25–32. 38 indexed citations

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Harker, Mark, Joseph Hirschberg, & Aharon Oren. (1998). Paracoccus marcusii sp. nov., an orange Gram-negative coccus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48(2). 543–548. 77 indexed citations

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Mann, Varda, Iris Pecker, & Joseph Hirschberg. (1994). Cloning and characterization of the gene for phytoene desaturase (Pds) from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Plant Molecular Biology. 24(3). 429–434. 33 indexed citations

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Cao, Jiangbei, et al.. (1992). Binding affinity of bicarbonate and formate in herbicide-resistant D1 mutants of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942. Photosynthesis Research. 34(3). 397–408. 15 indexed citations

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Kohen, Elli, Cahide Kohen, Joseph Hirschberg, A. Wouters, & B. Thorell. (1982). The differential effects of the carcinogen dimethylnitrosamine on isocitrate and 6-phosphogluconate metabolism in single intact cells. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research. 720(4). 420–424. 1 indexed citations

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