Nathan Johnson

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 780 citations indexed

About

Nathan Johnson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Johnson has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 780 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Plant Science, 4 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nathan Johnson's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (8 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (4 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). Nathan Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (8 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (4 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers). Nathan Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Germany. Nathan Johnson's co-authors include Michael J. Axtell, Ceyda Çoruh, Jacob Krüger Jensen, Curtis G. Wilkerson, Claude W. dePamphilis, Feng Wang, Saima Shahid, James H. Westwood, Eric Wafula and Vivian Bernal‐Galeano and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Johnson

18 papers receiving 777 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.

MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs

2018 279 citations Saima Shahid, Gunjune Kim et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Johnson United States	9	606	308	63	54	54	20	780
Guojun Lu China	9	889 1.5×	665 2.2×	24 0.4×	40 0.7×	34 0.6×	13	1.1k
Shuang Song China	10	419 0.7×	236 0.8×	37 0.6×	31 0.6×	6 0.1×	38	515
Guoyong Xu China	16	718 1.2×	640 2.1×	48 0.8×	27 0.5×	17 0.3×	42	1.2k
Yongqiang Gu United States	18	1.2k 2.0×	640 2.1×	14 0.2×	30 0.6×	9 0.2×	29	1.5k
Binzhang Shen United States	9	220 0.4×	356 1.2×	75 1.2×	9 0.2×	42 0.8×	11	520
Shib Sankar Basu United States	9	543 0.9×	245 0.8×	15 0.2×	18 0.3×	7 0.1×	12	683
Ruyi Wang China	18	1.3k 2.1×	687 2.2×	41 0.7×	11 0.2×	49 0.9×	50	1.5k
Melanie Yelton United States	8	615 1.0×	835 2.7×	97 1.5×	20 0.4×	5 0.1×	11	1.2k
Nicoletta Romano Italy	7	559 0.9×	751 2.4×	15 0.2×	89 1.6×	31 0.6×	9	1.0k
Valesca Pandolfi Brazil	14	453 0.7×	298 1.0×	23 0.4×	10 0.2×	10 0.2×	39	630

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20 of 20 papers shown

Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2025). Class-agnostic annotation of small RNAs balances sensitivity and specificity in diverse organisms. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 27. 2450–2459.

Santiago, Antonio, Tomás C. Moyano, Javier Canales, et al.. (2025). Organ-level gene-regulatory networks inferred from transcriptomic data reveal context-specific regulation and highlight novel regulators of ripening and ABA-mediated responses in tomato. Plant Communications. 6(11). 101499–101499. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Lihong, et al.. (2025). Fungal Argonaute proteins act in bidirectional cross-kingdom RNA interference during plant infection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(17). e2422756122–e2422756122. 2 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2024). Filling the gaps on root hair development under salt stress and phosphate starvation using current evidence coupled with a meta-analysis approach. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 196(4). 2140–2149. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Lihong, et al.. (2023). A fungal RNA-dependent RNA polymerase is a novel player in plant infection and cross-kingdom RNA interference. PLoS Pathogens. 19(12). e1011885–e1011885. 6 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2023). Happy and sad music acutely modulate different types of attention in older adults. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1029773–1029773. 3 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathan, Luis Larrondo, José M. Álvarez, & Elena A. Vidal. (2022). Comprehensive re-analysis of hairpin small RNAs in fungi reveals loci with conserved links. eLife. 11. 5 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2020). A Microwave-Assisted Direct Heteroarylation of Ketones Using Transition Metal Catalysis. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2020). Integrated annotations and analyses of small RNA–producing loci from 47 diverse plants. Genome Research. 30(3). 497–513. 54 indexed citations

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Steck, Viktoria, Daniela Maria Carminati, Nathan Johnson, & Rudi Fasan. (2020). Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral Amines via Biocatalytic Carbene N–H Insertion. ACS Catalysis. 10(19). 10967–10977. 43 indexed citations

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Johnson, Nathan & Michael J. Axtell. (2019). Small RNA warfare: exploring origins and function of trans-species microRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 50. 76–81. 23 indexed citations

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Johnson, Nathan, Claude W. dePamphilis, & Michael J. Axtell. (2019). Compensatory sequence variation between trans-species small RNAs and their target sites. eLife. 8. 22 indexed citations

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Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2019). Palladium-Catalyzed Direct α-C(sp3) Heteroarylation of Ketones under Microwave Irradiation. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(12). 7652–7663. 8 indexed citations

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Shahid, Saima, Gunjune Kim, Nathan Johnson, et al.. (2018). MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature. 553(7686). 82–85. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cantwell, Brendan & Nathan Johnson. (2017). Philip G.Altbach (2016) Global Perspectives on Higher Education. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 332 pp. ISBN 978‐4214‐1926‐8; £22.99.. Higher Education Quarterly. 71(2). 223–228. 1 indexed citations

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Johnson, Nathan, et al.. (2016). Improved Placement of Multi-mapping Small RNAs. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(7). 2103–2111. 190 indexed citations

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Wang, Feng, Nathan Johnson, Ceyda Çoruh, & Michael J. Axtell. (2016). Genome-wide analysis of single non-templated nucleotides in plant endogenous siRNAs and miRNAs. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(15). 7395–7405. 15 indexed citations

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Do, Thuy, et al.. (2015). A Rapid One-step Synthesis of Isoflavanone Compounds Under Microwave Irradiation. Current Microwave Chemistry. 2(2). 150–158. 1 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jacob Krüger, Nathan Johnson, & Curtis G. Wilkerson. (2014). Arabidopsis thalianaIRX10 and two related proteins from psyllium andPhyscomitrella patensare xylan xylosyltransferases. The Plant Journal. 80(2). 207–215. 90 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jacob Krüger, Nathan Johnson, & Curtis G. Wilkerson. (2013). Discovery of diversity in xylan biosynthetic genes by transcriptional profiling of a heteroxylan containing mucilaginous tissue. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 183–183. 34 indexed citations

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