Joy Bergelson

26.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
156 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Joy Bergelson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joy Bergelson has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 36 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Joy Bergelson's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (46 papers), Plant and animal studies (36 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (30 papers). Joy Bergelson is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (46 papers), Plant and animal studies (36 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (30 papers). Joy Bergelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Joy Bergelson's co-authors include Martin Kreitman, M. Brian Traw, Matthew Horton, Colin B. Purrington, Eli A. Stahl, Fabrice Roux, Magnus Nordborg, Thomas Juenger, Natacha Bodenhausen and Dacheng Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joy Bergelson

154 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana

2003 608 citations Da Tian, M. Brian Traw et al. Nature profile →
Bacterial Communities Associated with the Leaves and the Roots of Arabidopsis thaliana

2013 574 citations Natacha Bodenhausen, Matthew Horton et al. profile →
Root Exudates Regulate Soil Fungal Community Composition and Diversity

2007 569 citations Corey D. Broeckling, Amanda K. Broz et al. Applied and Environmental Microbiology profile →
Surveying Patterns in the Cost of Resistance in Plants

1996 501 citations Joy Bergelson et al. profile →
Adaptation to Climate Across the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome

2011 493 citations Angela M. Hancock, Benjamin Brachi et al. Science profile →
Mechanisms to Mitigate the Trade-Off between Growth and Defense

2017 384 citations Joy Bergelson et al. The Plant Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joy Bergelson United States	65	10.3k	4.2k	3.4k	3.3k	1.9k	156	15.2k
Pieter Vos Netherlands	33	9.1k 0.9×	4.4k 1.0×	4.3k 1.3×	2.3k 0.7×	791 0.4×	52	14.6k
Marc Zabeau Belgium	35	10.0k 1.0×	7.2k 1.7×	4.9k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	566 0.3×	52	16.8k
Jeremy J. Burdon Australia	57	6.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.4×	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	914 0.5×	185	10.0k
Brian C. Husband Canada	50	5.8k 0.6×	3.4k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	6.0k 1.8×	2.5k 1.4×	121	10.2k
René C. J. Hogers Netherlands	6	6.8k 0.7×	3.3k 0.8×	3.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	560 0.3×	7	10.7k
Martin Reijans Netherlands	13	6.8k 0.7×	3.2k 0.7×	3.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.7×	552 0.3×	19	10.9k
Xavier Vekemans France	46	4.3k 0.4×	2.9k 0.7×	6.0k 1.8×	4.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	112	10.3k
Chris Duran Australia	13	3.8k 0.4×	6.6k 1.6×	3.5k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 0.6×	15	15.6k
Barbara A. Schaal United States	51	5.5k 0.5×	2.8k 0.7×	3.9k 1.2×	3.8k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	151	9.6k
David B. Neale United States	60	4.6k 0.4×	4.2k 1.0×	5.3k 1.6×	1.5k 0.4×	2.3k 1.2×	205	11.0k

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Cooper, M D, Kathleen Beilsmith, M George, et al.. (2025). Diet outperforms microbial transplant to drive microbiome recovery in mice. Nature. 642(8068). 747–755. 11 indexed citations

Huang, Feng, et al.. (2023). Microbe-associated molecular pattern recognition receptors have little effect on endophytic Arabidopsis thaliana microbiome assembly in the field. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1276472–1276472. 5 indexed citations

Gloss, Andrew D., et al.. (2022). Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1855). 20200512–20200512. 14 indexed citations

Beilsmith, Kathleen, Matthew Perisin, & Joy Bergelson. (2021). Natural Bacterial Assemblages in Arabidopsis thaliana Tissues Become More Distinguishable and Diverse during Host Development. mBio. 12(1). 21 indexed citations

Huang, Yuan, Jiahui Chen, Chuan Dong, et al.. (2021). Species-specific partial gene duplication in Arabidopsis thaliana evolved novel phenotypic effects on morphological traits under strong positive selection. The Plant Cell. 34(2). 802–817. 17 indexed citations

Cosson, Patrick, et al.. (2018). Genome‐wide association study reveals new loci involved in Arabidopsis thaliana and Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) interactions in the field. New Phytologist. 221(4). 2026–2038. 23 indexed citations

Expósito‐Alonso, Moisés, Claude Becker, Verena J. Schuenemann, et al.. (2018). The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage. PLoS Genetics. 14(2). e1007155–e1007155. 91 indexed citations

Nallu, Sumitha, Jason Hill, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2018). The molecular genetic basis of herbivory between butterflies and their host plants. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(9). 1418–1427. 54 indexed citations

Hancock, Angela M., Benjamin Brachi, Nathalie Faure, et al.. (2011). Adaptation to Climate Across the Arabidopsis thaliana Genome. Science. 334(6052). 83–86. 493 indexed citations breakdown →

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Poroyko, Valeriy, Michael J. Morowitz, Thomas Bell, et al.. (2011). La dieta crea nichos metabólicos en el "intestino inmaduro" que da forma a comunidades microbianas. Nutrición Hospitalaria. 26(6). 1283–1295. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yan, Yu Huang, Joy Bergelson, Magnus Nordborg, & Justin Borevitz. (2010). Association mapping of local climate-sensitive quantitative trait loci in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(49). 21199–21204. 223 indexed citations

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Kniskern, Joel M., et al.. (2009). Continua of specificity and virulence in plant host–pathogen interactions: causes and consequences. New Phytologist. 183(3). 513–529. 159 indexed citations

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Bakker, Erica, M. Brian Traw, Christopher Toomajian, Martin Kreitman, & Joy Bergelson. (2008). Low Levels of Polymorphism in Genes That Control the Activation of Defense Response in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 178(4). 2031–2043. 45 indexed citations

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Broeckling, Corey D., Amanda K. Broz, Joy Bergelson, Daniel K. Manter, & Jorge M. Vivanco. (2007). Root Exudates Regulate Soil Fungal Community Composition and Diversity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74(3). 738–744. 569 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bakker, Erica, Christopher Toomajian, Martin Kreitman, & Joy Bergelson. (2006). A Genome-Wide Survey of R Gene Polymorphisms in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 18(8). 1803–1818. 250 indexed citations

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Araki, Hitoshi, Dacheng Tian, Erica M. Goss, et al.. (2006). Presence/absence polymorphism for alternative pathogenicity islands in Pseudomonas viridiflava , a pathogen of Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(15). 5887–5892. 64 indexed citations

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Tian, Da, M. Brian Traw, Jian‐Qun Chen, Martin Kreitman, & Joy Bergelson. (2003). Fitness costs of R-gene-mediated resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature. 423(6935). 74–77. 608 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tian, Dacheng, Hitoshi Araki, Eli A. Stahl, Joy Bergelson, & Martin Kreitman. (2002). Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(17). 11525–11530. 216 indexed citations

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Stahl, Eli A., Greg Dwyer, Rodney Mauricio, Martin Kreitman, & Joy Bergelson. (1999). Dynamics of disease resistance polymorphism at the Rpm1 locus of Arabidopsis. Nature. 400(6745). 667–671. 470 indexed citations

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Bergelson, Joy. (1996). COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO WEEDS. American Scientist. 84(6). 579–584. 2 indexed citations

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