Richard A. Jorgensen

19.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
65 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Jorgensen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Jorgensen has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 46 papers in Plant Science and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Jorgensen's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (17 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (17 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers). Richard A. Jorgensen is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (17 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (17 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers). Richard A. Jorgensen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Venezuela. Richard A. Jorgensen's co-authors include M. A. Saghai Maroof, R. W. Allard, K. M. Soliman, Carolyn A. Napoli, Christine Lemieux, Steven J. Rothstein, Qiudeng Que, Timothy P. Robbins, Hugo K. Dooner and William F. Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Jorgensen

61 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Ribosomal DNA spacer-length polymorphisms in barley: mendelian inheritance, chromosomal location, and population dynamics.

1984 4.4k citations M. A. Saghai Maroof, Richard A. Jorgensen et al. profile →
Introduction of a Chimeric Chalcone Synthase Gene into Petunia Results in Reversible Co-Suppression of Homologous Genes in trans.

1990 1.7k citations Carolyn A. Napoli, Richard A. Jorgensen et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Introduction of a Chimeric Chalcone Synthase Gene into Petunia Results in Reversible Co-Suppression of Homologous Genes in trans

1990 705 citations Carolyn A. Napoli, Richard A. Jorgensen et al. The Plant Cell profile →
A restriction enzyme cleavage map of Tn5 and location of a region encoding neomycin resistance

1979 541 citations Richard A. Jorgensen et al. Molecular and General Genetics MGG profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. Jorgensen United States	34	8.3k	7.0k	2.5k	867	693	65	11.9k
Stephen L. Dellaporta United States	38	9.2k 1.1×	6.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	833 1.2×	68	12.3k
Gary S. Ditta United States	45	10.6k 1.3×	9.2k 1.3×	1.2k 0.5×	569 0.7×	717 1.0×	56	13.5k
Hirohiko Hirochika Japan	76	15.2k 1.8×	9.5k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	676 0.8×	529 0.8×	179	17.7k
William F. Thompson United States	49	13.3k 1.6×	10.3k 1.5×	3.3k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	1.5k 2.1×	169	18.1k
Timothy J. Close United States	64	11.8k 1.4×	5.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	439 0.5×	527 0.8×	171	14.1k
Luca Comai United States	68	14.9k 1.8×	11.2k 1.6×	2.9k 1.2×	789 0.9×	1.3k 1.9×	179	17.6k
Jonathan Wood United Kingdom	15	5.8k 0.7×	3.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	806 0.9×	525 0.8×	36	7.8k
R. B. Flavell United Kingdom	56	6.8k 0.8×	4.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	731 0.8×	461 0.7×	163	8.6k
Richard W. Michelmore United States	66	17.3k 2.1×	6.8k 1.0×	3.3k 1.3×	434 0.5×	1.1k 1.6×	224	20.4k
Ryohei Terauchi Japan	58	10.9k 1.3×	5.3k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	481 0.6×	539 0.8×	193	12.9k

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Jorgensen, Richard A. & Ana E. Dorantes-Acosta. (2012). Conserved Peptide Upstream Open Reading Frames are Associated with Regulatory Genes in Angiosperms. Frontiers in Plant Science. 3. 191–191. 74 indexed citations

Jorgensen, Richard A.. (2011). We're All Computational Biologists Now?Next Stop, the Global Brain?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 68–68. 1 indexed citations

Jorgensen, Richard A.. (2010). Of Genes and Genomes: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century. Frontiers in Plant Science. 1. 1–1. 6 indexed citations

Petsch, Katherine, et al.. (2009). Targeted forward mutagenesis by transitive RNAi. The Plant Journal. 61(5). 873–882. 6 indexed citations

Müller, Andreas, et al.. (2007). Microhomologies between T-DNA ends and target sites often occur in inverted orientation and may be responsible for the high frequency of T-DNA-associated inversions. Plant Cell Reports. 26(5). 617–630. 11 indexed citations

Jorgensen, Richard A.. (2006). Plant Genomes. The Plant Cell. 18(5). 1099–1099. 2 indexed citations

Napoli, Carolyn A., et al.. (2004). Effectiveness of RNA interference in transgenic plants. FEBS Letters. 566(1-3). 223–228. 174 indexed citations

Jorgensen, Richard A., Qiudeng Que, & Carolyn A. Napoli. (2002). Research note : Maternally-controlled ovule abortion results from cosuppression of dihydroflavonol-4-reductase or flavonoid-3′,5′-hydroxylase genes in Petunia hybrida. Functional Plant Biology. 29(12). 1500–1506. 5 indexed citations

Chandler, Vicki L. & Richard A. Jorgensen. (2000). Silencing Morpheus awakens transgenes. Nature Biotechnology. 18(6). 602–603. 2 indexed citations

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Que, Qiudeng & Richard A. Jorgensen. (1998). Homology-based control of gene expression patterns in transgenic petunia flowers. Developmental Genetics. 22(1). 100–109. 43 indexed citations

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Jorgensen, Richard A., Qiudeng Que, James J. English, & Huaiyu Wang. (1996). Sense Cosuppression of Flower Color Genes: Metastable Morphology-based Phenotypes and the Prepattern-threshold Hypothesis. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 32. 393–402. 2 indexed citations

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Matzke, Marjori & Richard A. Jorgensen. (1996). From Plants to Mammals. Science. 271(5254). 1347b–1348b. 1 indexed citations

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Robbins, Timothy P., et al.. (1995). Suppression of recombination in wide hybrids of Petunia hybrida as revealed by genetic mapping of marker transgenes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 90(7-8). 957–968. 23 indexed citations

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Jorgensen, Richard A.. (1993). The germinal inheritance of epigenetic information in plants. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 339(1288). 173–181. 42 indexed citations

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Dooner, Hugo K., Timothy P. Robbins, & Richard A. Jorgensen. (1991). GENETIC AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTROL OF ANTHOCYANIN BIOSYNTHESIS. Annual Review of Genetics. 25(1). 173–199. 474 indexed citations

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Neale, David B., et al.. (1988). Chloroplast DNA diversity in populations of wild and cultivated barley.. Genetics. 120(4). 1105–1110. 83 indexed citations

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Jorgensen, Richard A., et al.. (1987). T-DNA is organized predominantly in inverted repeat structures in plants transformed with Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 derivatives. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 207(2-3). 471–477. 133 indexed citations

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Jorgensen, Richard A., et al.. (1986). Locations and stability of Agrobacterium-mediated T-DNA insertions in the Lycopersicon genome. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 204(1). 64–69. 94 indexed citations

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Thompson, William F., et al.. (1983). Phytochrome control of RNA levels in developing pea and mung-bean leaves. Planta. 158(6). 487–500. 206 indexed citations

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Berg, Douglas E., Carol Egner, Bernard Hirschel, et al.. (1981). Insertion, Excision, and Inversion of Tn5. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 45(0). 115–123. 65 indexed citations

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