Malia Gehan

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Malia Gehan is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Malia Gehan has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Plant Science, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Malia Gehan's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (6 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (6 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers). Malia Gehan is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (6 papers), Smart Agriculture and AI (6 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers). Malia Gehan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Egypt and Ethiopia. Malia Gehan's co-authors include Noah Fahlgren, Ivan Baxter, Todd C. Mockler, Kathleen Greenham, C. Robertson McClung, Steven T. Callen, Elizabeth A. Kellogg, Kerrigan B. Gilbert, Michael D. Miller and J. Steen Hoyer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Malia Gehan

27 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Lights, camera, action: high-throughput plant phenotyping is ready for a close-up

2015 481 citations Noah Fahlgren, Malia Gehan et al. Current Opinion in Plant Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Malia Gehan United States	16	1.3k	393	366	242	122	29	1.6k
Michael Gomez Selvaraj Colombia	23	1.5k 1.2×	288 0.7×	295 0.8×	124 0.5×	113 0.9×	60	1.8k
Nathalie Wuyts Belgium	17	1.1k 0.9×	372 0.9×	252 0.7×	91 0.4×	179 1.5×	34	1.4k
Jonathan A. Atkinson United Kingdom	18	1.5k 1.2×	250 0.6×	259 0.7×	158 0.7×	96 0.8×	35	1.8k
Roland Pieruschka Germany	21	1.5k 1.1×	331 0.8×	424 1.2×	149 0.6×	60 0.5×	45	1.9k
Fanghao Wan China	28	867 0.7×	435 1.1×	636 1.7×	237 1.0×	52 0.4×	111	2.1k
Francesco Cellini Italy	24	1.8k 1.5×	191 0.5×	1.0k 2.8×	371 1.5×	112 0.9×	60	2.5k
Jinliang Yang United States	22	1.5k 1.2×	212 0.5×	497 1.4×	584 2.4×	95 0.8×	59	1.9k
Surya Kant Australia	27	2.7k 2.2×	261 0.7×	744 2.0×	292 1.2×	90 0.7×	80	3.1k
Guangcun Li China	21	1.2k 0.9×	316 0.8×	268 0.7×	112 0.5×	104 0.9×	61	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malia Gehan

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Bird, Kevin A., Patrick P. Edger, Todd C. Mockler, et al.. (2025). Homoeolog expression divergence contributes to time of day changes in transcriptomic and glucosinolate responses to prolonged water limitation in Brassica napus. The Plant Journal. 121(4). e70011–e70011.

Murphy, Katherine M., Annika Fischer, Kirk J. Czymmek, et al.. (2025). Excessive leaf oil modulates the plant abiotic stress response via reduced stomatal aperture in tobacco ( Nicotiana tabacum ). The Plant Journal. 121(6). e70067–e70067.

Murphy, Katherine M., et al.. (2024). Maize Abiotic Stress Treatments in Controlled Environments. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2025(6). pdb.prot108620–pdb.prot108620. 1 indexed citations

Lima, Leonardo W., et al.. (2024). Optimized Methods for Applying and Assessing Heat, Drought, and Nutrient Stress of Maize Seedlings in Controlled Environment Experiments. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2025(6). pdb.top108467–pdb.top108467. 2 indexed citations

Murphy, Katherine M., et al.. (2024). Deep Learning in Image-Based Plant Phenotyping. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 75(1). 771–795. 34 indexed citations

Panda, Kaushik, Ayan Chakrabarti, Noah Fahlgren, et al.. (2023). The plant response to highCO₂levels is heritable and orchestrated byDNAmethylation. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2427–2439. 14 indexed citations

Berry, Jeffrey C., et al.. (2023). Natural variation in Brachypodium distachyon responses to combined abiotic stresses. The Plant Journal. 117(6). 1676–1701. 5 indexed citations

Tovar, José C., et al.. (2022). A protocol for Chenopodium quinoa pollen germination. Plant Methods. 18(1). 65–65. 4 indexed citations

Bird, Kevin A., Chad E. Niederhuth, Shujun Ou, et al.. (2020). Replaying the evolutionary tape to investigate subgenome dominance in allopolyploid Brassica napus. New Phytologist. 230(1). 354–371. 63 indexed citations

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Tovar, José C., et al.. (2020). Heating quinoa shoots results in yield loss by inhibiting fruit production and delaying maturity. The Plant Journal. 102(5). 1058–1073. 24 indexed citations

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Enders, Tara A., Steven T. Callen, Malia Gehan, et al.. (2019). Classifying cold‐stress responses of inbred maize seedlings using RGB imaging. Plant Direct. 3(1). e00104–e00104. 40 indexed citations

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Feldman, Max, Patrick Z. Ellsworth, Noah Fahlgren, et al.. (2018). Components of Water Use Efficiency Have Unique Genetic Signatures in the Model C ₄ Grass Setaria. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 178(2). 699–715. 37 indexed citations

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Tovar, José C., J. Steen Hoyer, Andy Lin, et al.. (2018). Raspberry Pi–powered imaging for plant phenotyping. Applications in Plant Sciences. 6(3). e1031–e1031. 71 indexed citations

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Gehan, Malia & Elizabeth A. Kellogg. (2017). High‐throughput phenotyping. American Journal of Botany. 104(4). 505–508. 43 indexed citations

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Huang, He, Malia Gehan, Sophie Alvarez, et al.. (2017). Cross‐species complementation reveals conserved functions for EARLY FLOWERING 3 between monocots and dicots. Plant Direct. 1(4). e00018–e00018. 19 indexed citations

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Gehan, Malia, Kathleen Greenham, Todd C. Mockler, & C. Robertson McClung. (2015). Transcriptional networks — crops, clocks, and abiotic stress. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 24. 39–46. 59 indexed citations

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Fahlgren, Noah, Maximilian J. Feldman, Malia Gehan, et al.. (2015). A Versatile Phenotyping System and Analytics Platform Reveals Diverse Temporal Responses to Water Availability in Setaria. Molecular Plant. 8(10). 1520–1535. 177 indexed citations

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Fahlgren, Noah, Malia Gehan, & Ivan Baxter. (2015). Lights, camera, action: high-throughput plant phenotyping is ready for a close-up. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 24. 93–99. 481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gehan, Malia, Sunchung Park, Sarah J. Gilmour, et al.. (2015). Natural variation in the C‐repeat binding factor cold response pathway correlates with local adaptation of Arabidopsis ecotypes. The Plant Journal. 84(4). 682–693. 86 indexed citations

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Gehan, Malia, et al.. (2011). Cadmium resisting bacteria in Alexandria Eastern Harbor (Egypt) and optimization of cadmium bioaccumulation by Vibrio harveyi. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. 10(17). 3412–3423. 13 indexed citations

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