Mark Cooper

18.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
233 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Mark Cooper is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Cooper has authored 233 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Plant Science, 91 papers in Genetics and 62 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Cooper's work include Genetics and Plant Breeding (115 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (75 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (45 papers). Mark Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Genetics and Plant Breeding (115 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (75 papers) and Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (45 papers). Mark Cooper collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Ireland. Mark Cooper's co-authors include Carlos D. Messina, Graeme Hammer, S. Fukai, Dean Podlich, I. H. DeLacy, Scott Chapman, Carla Gho, K. E. Basford, Jeffrey R. Schussler and G. Pantuwan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Mark Cooper

226 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Can Changes in Canopy and/or Root System Architecture Explain Historical Maize Yield Trends in the U.S. Corn Belt?

2009 565 citations Graeme Hammer, Carlos D. Messina et al. Crop Science profile →
Breeding crops for drought-affected environments and improved climate resilience

2022 93 citations Mark Cooper, Carlos D. Messina profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Cooper Australia	61	10.0k	4.0k	3.5k	1.3k	858	233	12.1k
François Tardieu France	71	12.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	4.1k 4.8×	168	14.4k
Jonathan P. Lynch United States	97	25.7k 2.6×	1.2k 0.3×	5.1k 1.4×	856 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	282	28.2k
J. L. Araus Spain	75	15.0k 1.5×	2.6k 0.6×	4.4k 1.3×	911 0.7×	3.3k 3.8×	362	19.4k
Thomas R. Sinclair United States	72	15.9k 1.6×	645 0.2×	5.5k 1.6×	2.3k 1.9×	5.0k 5.8×	430	20.0k
G. J. Rebetzke Australia	60	10.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	3.9k 1.1×	608 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	162	11.3k
R. A. Richards Australia	52	7.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.3×	2.8k 0.8×	626 0.5×	3.3k 3.9×	102	9.8k
Matthew Reynolds Mexico	87	20.8k 2.1×	5.0k 1.2×	8.1k 2.3×	1.7k 1.4×	2.0k 2.4×	305	23.5k
Susan E. Hartley United Kingdom	54	6.1k 0.6×	670 0.2×	393 0.1×	3.4k 2.7×	1.1k 1.3×	196	11.6k
Graeme Hammer Australia	73	13.8k 1.4×	3.0k 0.8×	6.8k 1.9×	4.5k 3.6×	4.2k 4.9×	325	19.1k
J. B. Passioura Australia	52	6.9k 0.7×	302 0.1×	1.8k 0.5×	678 0.5×	2.1k 2.5×	90	9.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Cooper

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Cooper

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Fernández, Javier A., Qiaomin Chen, Carla Gho, et al.. (2025). Integrating yield gap analysis to capture genotype by environment by management interactions for Australian broadacre sorghum cropping systems. Field Crops Research. 326. 109858–109858.

Powell, Owen, et al.. (2025). Ensemble AnalySis with Interpretable Genomic Prediction (EasiGP): Computational tool for interpreting ensembles of genomic prediction models. The Plant Genome. 18(4). e70138–e70138.

Cooper, Mark, et al.. (2025). Improved genomic prediction performance with ensembles of diverse models. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 15(5). 3 indexed citations

Moles, Norman, Mark Cooper, Steven P. Hollis, & Brian McConnell. (2024). Provenance of the Trainor's Rocks microconglomerate, Northern Ireland: a mid-Silurian (Hawick Group) submarine channel fan deposit in the closing Iapetus Ocean. Journal of the Geological Society. 181(6). 1 indexed citations

Coles, Nathan D., Hua Mo, Jeffrey E. Habben, et al.. (2024). Transgene effects vary among maize populations with implications for improving quantitative traits. Crop Science. 65(1). 1 indexed citations

Cooper, Mark, Owen Powell, Carla Gho, Tom Tang, & Carlos D. Messina. (2023). Extending the breeder’s equation to take aim at the target population of environments. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1129591–1129591. 21 indexed citations

Coles, Nathan D., Hua Mo, Jeffrey E. Habben, et al.. (2023). Methods for evaluating effects of transgenes for quantitative traits. Crop Science. 64(1). 141–148. 2 indexed citations

Powell, Owen, François Barbier, Kai P. Voss‐Fels, Christine A. Beveridge, & Mark Cooper. (2022). Investigations into the emergent properties of gene-to-phenotype networks across cycles of selection: a case study of shoot branching in plants. 4(1). 10 indexed citations

Voss‐Fels, Kai P., Xianming Wei, Elizabeth M. Ross, et al.. (2021). Strategies and considerations for implementing genomic selection to improve traits with additive and non-additive genetic architectures in sugarcane breeding. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 134(5). 1493–1511. 21 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Matthew, Owen K. Atkin, Malcolm J. Bennett, et al.. (2021). Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity. Trends in Plant Science. 26(6). 607–630. 90 indexed citations

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Technow, Frank, Dean Podlich, & Mark Cooper. (2021). Back to the future: implications of genetic complexity for the structure of hybrid breeding programs. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(7). 18 indexed citations

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Cooper, Mark, Kai P. Voss‐Fels, Carlos D. Messina, Tom Tang, & Graeme Hammer. (2021). Tackling G × E × M interactions to close on-farm yield-gaps: creating novel pathways for crop improvement by predicting contributions of genetics and management to crop productivity. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 134(6). 1625–1644. 71 indexed citations

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Messina, Carlos D., Hanna Poffenbarger, Randy Clark, et al.. (2021). Reproductive resilience but not root architecture underpins yield improvement under drought in maize. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(14). 5235–5245. 39 indexed citations

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Zhang, Li, Jennifer McKinley, Mark Cooper, et al.. (2020). A regional soil and river sediment geochemical study in Baoshan area, Yunnan province, southwest China. Journal of Geochemical Exploration. 217. 106557–106557. 18 indexed citations

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Cooper, Mark, Owen Powell, Kai P. Voss‐Fels, et al.. (2020). Modelling selection response in plant-breeding programs using crop models as mechanistic gene-to-phenotype (CGM-G2P) multi-trait link functions. 3(1). 37 indexed citations

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Wurtzel, Eleanore T., Claudia E. Vickers, Andrew D. Hanson, et al.. (2019). Revolutionizing agriculture with synthetic biology. Nature Plants. 5(12). 1207–1210. 114 indexed citations

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McDermott, Frank, et al.. (2019). An investigation of waste basalt (quarry dust) as a soil amendment to sequester atmospheric CO2. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 5908. 3 indexed citations

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Langton, Steve, et al.. (2005). Classification of Maize Environments Using Crop Simulation and Geographic Information Systems. Crop Science. 45(5). 1708–1716. 114 indexed citations

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Mathews, Ky L., Scott Chapman, Mark Cooper, et al.. (2002). Inter-annual changes in genotypic and genotype by environment variance components for different stages of the Northern Wheat Improvement Program. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 3 indexed citations

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Poppi, D. P., et al.. (2000). The Digestibility and some Associated Nutritional Parameters of a New Wheat Cultivar (Seri 82-Aus) and Barley (Gilbert) for Sheep. Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences. 13. 219–221. 2 indexed citations

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