Megan Kennedy

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 644 citations indexed

About

Megan Kennedy is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Kennedy has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 644 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Plant Science, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Megan Kennedy's work include Biofuel production and bioconversion (2 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (2 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (2 papers). Megan Kennedy is often cited by papers focused on Biofuel production and bioconversion (2 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (2 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (2 papers). Megan Kennedy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Megan Kennedy's co-authors include Jeremy Schmutz, Avinash Sreedasyam, Jerry Jenkins, Sandra K. Truong, John E. Mullet, David Sims, Brian McKinley, Daryl T. Morishige, Brock Weers and Jane Grimwood and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, New Phytologist and The Plant Journal.

In The Last Decade

Megan Kennedy

10 papers receiving 641 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.

The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization

2017 375 citations Ryan F. McCormick, Sandra K. Truong et al. The Plant Journal profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Megan Kennedy United States	9	457	226	199	171	87	11	644
David Macaya‐Sanz United States	16	334 0.7×	235 1.0×	282 1.4×	126 0.7×	85 1.0×	31	701
Bochra A. Bahri United States	16	711 1.6×	267 1.2×	212 1.1×	117 0.7×	121 1.4×	56	831
Patricia Faivre‐Rampant France	18	679 1.5×	299 1.3×	330 1.7×	157 0.9×	54 0.6×	28	922
Xiaoke Zhang China	12	554 1.2×	212 0.9×	83 0.4×	89 0.5×	94 1.1×	38	672
Gabriel Rodrigues Alves Margarido Brazil	17	767 1.7×	178 0.8×	323 1.6×	103 0.6×	45 0.5×	41	948
Marijke Steenackers Belgium	12	645 1.4×	333 1.5×	86 0.4×	101 0.6×	186 2.1×	21	948
Gavin F. Moran Australia	12	380 0.8×	347 1.5×	189 0.9×	47 0.3×	116 1.3×	15	720
Derek Drost United States	7	371 0.8×	343 1.5×	169 0.8×	82 0.5×	30 0.3×	7	652
Sébastien Caron Canada	13	428 0.9×	517 2.3×	131 0.7×	36 0.2×	46 0.5×	25	778
Sara Pinosio Italy	12	420 0.9×	298 1.3×	267 1.3×	41 0.2×	50 0.6×	20	669

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Kennedy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Megan Kennedy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Kennedy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Megan Kennedy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Megan Kennedy based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Megan Kennedy. Megan Kennedy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Meherali, Salima, Yared Asmare Aynalem, Megan Kennedy, et al.. (2024). Impact of Climate Change on Adolescents' Health Outcomes: An Evidence Gap Map Review. Journal of Adolescence. 97(3). 609–619.

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Liber, Julian, Alessandro Desirò, Hyunsoo Na, et al.. (2020). Resolving the Mortierellaceae phylogeny through synthesis of multi-gene phylogenetics and phylogenomics. Fungal Diversity. 104(1). 267–289. 67 indexed citations

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Veneault‐Fourrey, Claire, Frédéric Guinet, Emmanuelle Morin, et al.. (2018). Secretome Analysis from the Ectomycorrhizal Ascomycete Cenococcum geophilum. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 141–141. 21 indexed citations

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Xiong, Yi, Vincent W. Wu, Andrea Lubbe, et al.. (2017). A fungal transcription factor essential for starch degradation affects integration of carbon and nitrogen metabolism. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006737–e1006737. 45 indexed citations

5.

McCormick, Ryan F., Sandra K. Truong, Avinash Sreedasyam, et al.. (2017). The Sorghum bicolor reference genome: improved assembly, gene annotations, a transcriptome atlas, and signatures of genome organization. The Plant Journal. 93(2). 338–354. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennedy, Megan, et al.. (2017). Roundtable Topic: What has the job-seeking process been like for you?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

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Evans, Joseph, Millicent D. Alexandrov Sanciangco, Kin H. Lau, et al.. (2017). Extensive Genetic Diversity is Present within North American Switchgrass Germplasm. The Plant Genome. 11(1). 22 indexed citations

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Walker, Allison K., Keith A. Seifert, J. David Miller, et al.. (2016). Full Genome of Phialocephala scopiformis DAOMC 229536, a Fungal Endophyte of Spruce Producing the Potent Anti-Insectan Compound Rugulosin. Genome Announcements. 4(1). 20 indexed citations

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Yang, Yongil, Jessy Labbé, Wellington Muchero, et al.. (2016). Genome-wide analysis of lectin receptor-like kinases in Populus. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 699–699. 42 indexed citations

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Grabowski, Paul, Joseph Evans, Chris Daum, et al.. (2016). Genome‐wide associations with flowering time in switchgrass using exome‐capture sequencing data. New Phytologist. 213(1). 154–169. 38 indexed citations

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Mares, Maryam Chaib De, Jaqueline Hess, Dimitrios Floudas, et al.. (2014). Horizontal transfer of carbohydrate metabolism genes into ectomycorrhizal Amanita. New Phytologist. 205(4). 1552–1564. 13 indexed citations

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