Mustafa Morsy

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Mustafa Morsy is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mustafa Morsy has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Plant Science, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Endocrinology. Recurrent topics in Mustafa Morsy's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (5 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Mustafa Morsy is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (5 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). Mustafa Morsy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Mustafa Morsy's co-authors include Chinmay Soman, Jeffery L. Dangl, Posy E. Busby, Maren Friesen, James M. Kremer, Alison E. Bennett, Jan E. Leach, Jonathan A. Eisen, Maggie R. Wagner and Ashverya Laxmi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Mustafa Morsy

18 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture
    2017 512 citations Posy E. Busby, Chinmay Soman et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mustafa Morsy United States 12 1.3k 727 164 128 105 18 1.7k
Mayank Anand Gururani United Arab Emirates 22 2.3k 1.7× 938 1.3× 134 0.8× 92 0.7× 127 1.2× 54 2.7k
Changsong Zou China 18 1.7k 1.3× 1.2k 1.6× 114 0.7× 108 0.8× 56 0.5× 30 2.1k
Mohamed A. Farag Egypt 10 2.2k 1.6× 671 0.9× 285 1.7× 116 0.9× 67 0.6× 25 2.6k
Lars M. Voll Germany 31 2.3k 1.7× 1.4k 1.9× 321 2.0× 83 0.6× 100 1.0× 48 2.8k
Fernando L. Pieckenstain Argentina 22 1.2k 0.9× 621 0.9× 140 0.9× 55 0.4× 119 1.1× 37 1.4k
Cândido Pinto Ricardo Portugal 29 1.7k 1.3× 852 1.2× 97 0.6× 56 0.4× 167 1.6× 87 2.2k
Paolo Bagnaresi Italy 24 1.6k 1.2× 503 0.7× 279 1.7× 86 0.7× 89 0.8× 51 1.9k
Jelli Venkatesh South Korea 24 2.3k 1.7× 1.1k 1.4× 88 0.5× 67 0.5× 106 1.0× 52 2.7k
Álvaro Cuadros‐Inostroza Germany 14 1.0k 0.8× 959 1.3× 80 0.5× 104 0.8× 54 0.5× 20 1.8k
Lyndel W. Meinhardt United States 32 1.3k 1.0× 736 1.0× 247 1.5× 186 1.5× 118 1.1× 108 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mustafa Morsy

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mustafa Morsy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mustafa Morsy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mustafa Morsy. The network helps show where Mustafa Morsy may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mustafa Morsy

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mustafa Morsy. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mustafa Morsy 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 Mustafa Morsy. Mustafa Morsy is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Publisher Correction: Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(11). 727–727. 2 indexed citations
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Ludwig, Marcus, Louis‐Félix Nothias, Kai Dührkop, et al.. (2020). Database-independent molecular formula annotation using Gibbs sampling through ZODIAC. Nature Machine Intelligence. 2(10). 629–641. 134 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, et al.. (2020). Fungal Endophytes Promote Tomato Growth and Enhance Drought and Salt Tolerance. Plants. 9(7). 877–877. 58 indexed citations
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Raman, Vidhyavathi, Ajith Anand, Mustafa Morsy, et al.. (2019). Overexpression of VIRE2-INTERACTING PROTEIN2 in Arabidopsis regulates genes involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation and abiotic stresses. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13503–13503. 6 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, et al.. (2018). Development of an Expression Vector to Overexpress or Downregulate Genes in Curvularia protuberata. Journal of Fungi. 4(2). 54–54. 2 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, et al.. (2017). Bioprospecting saline gradient of a Wildlife Sanctuary for bacterial diversity and antimicrobial activities. BMC Research Notes. 10(1). 397–397. 3 indexed citations
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Busby, Posy E., Chinmay Soman, Maggie R. Wagner, et al.. (2017). Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. PLoS Biology. 15(3). e2001793–e2001793. 512 indexed citations breakdown →
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Morsy, Mustafa. (2015). Microbial Symbionts: A Potential Bio-Boom. 2(1). 5 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, et al.. (2015). Influence of Symbiotic Interaction between Fungus, Virus, and Tomato Plant in Combating Drought Stress. American Journal of Plant Sciences. 6(10). 1633–1640. 1 indexed citations
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Vaghchhipawala, Zarir, et al.. (2012). Agrobacterium May Delay Plant Nonhomologous End-Joining DNA Repair via XRCC4 to Favor T-DNA Integration. The Plant Cell. 24(10). 4110–4123. 24 indexed citations
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Feldman, Tracy S., Mustafa Morsy, & Marilyn J. Roossinck. (2012). Are communities of microbial symbionts more diverse than communities of macrobial hosts?. Fungal Biology. 116(4). 465–477. 24 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, et al.. (2010). Teasing apart a three-way symbiosis: Transcriptome analyses of Curvularia protuberata in response to viral infection and heat stress. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 401(2). 225–230. 51 indexed citations
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Laxmi, Ashverya, Jianwei Pan, Mustafa Morsy, & Rujin Chen. (2008). Light Plays an Essential Role in Intracellular Distribution of Auxin Efflux Carrier PIN2 in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS ONE. 3(1). e1510–e1510. 191 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, Satyanarayana Gouthu, Sandra Orchard, et al.. (2008). Charting plant interactomes: possibilities and challenges. Trends in Plant Science. 13(4). 183–191. 57 indexed citations
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Ciftci-Yilmaz, Sultan, Mustafa Morsy, Luhua Song, et al.. (2007). The EAR-motif of the Cys2/His2-type Zinc Finger Protein Zat7 Plays a Key Role in the Defense Response of Arabidopsis to Salinity Stress. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282(12). 9260–9268. 225 indexed citations
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Morsy, Mustafa, Laurent Jouve, Jean-François Hausman, Lucien Hoffmann, & James McD. Stewart. (2006). Alteration of oxidative and carbohydrate metabolism under abiotic stress in two rice (Oryza sativa L.) genotypes contrasting in chilling tolerance. Journal of Plant Physiology. 164(2). 157–167. 222 indexed citations
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Reyes, Benildo G. de los, et al.. (2003). A snapshot of the low temperature stress transcriptome of developing rice seedlings (Oryza sativa L.) via ESTs from subtracted cDNA library. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 107(6). 1071–1082. 35 indexed citations

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