Robert Riley

16.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Robert Riley is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Riley has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Plant Science, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert Riley's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (27 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (21 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (16 papers). Robert Riley is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (27 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (21 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (16 papers). Robert Riley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. Robert Riley's co-authors include Nelson B. Powell, Igor V. Grigoriev, Robin A. Ohm, Robert J. Troell, Asaf Salamov, Alan Kuo, Christian Guilleminault, Henrik Nordberg, Tatyana I. Smirnova and Inna Dubchak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Riley

83 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes

2013 982 citations Igor V. Grigoriev, Sajeet Haridas et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Riley United States	36	1.9k	1.7k	862	856	856	89	5.0k
Hao Zhang China	39	660 0.3×	3.2k 1.9×	818 0.9×	202 0.2×	239 0.3×	387	6.6k
Liu Z China	43	582 0.3×	4.9k 2.9×	443 0.5×	182 0.2×	376 0.4×	519	8.0k
Tong Zhang China	43	2.9k 1.5×	5.5k 3.3×	280 0.3×	152 0.2×	631 0.7×	234	9.2k
Matthew D. Young United States	26	2.1k 1.1×	4.6k 2.7×	236 0.3×	150 0.2×	283 0.3×	57	8.8k
Chengshu Wang China	54	3.1k 1.6×	4.5k 2.7×	206 0.2×	1.7k 2.0×	660 0.8×	189	9.7k
Chuan‐Yun Li China	22	1.3k 0.7×	3.1k 1.8×	239 0.3×	290 0.3×	201 0.2×	49	5.4k
Christopher Bennett United States	3	2.6k 1.3×	4.7k 2.8×	258 0.3×	167 0.2×	373 0.4×	3	8.1k
Scott J. Bultman United States	37	253 0.1×	6.2k 3.7×	1.6k 1.9×	105 0.1×	934 1.1×	66	9.3k
Benjamin A. Taylor United States	54	449 0.2×	3.6k 2.1×	415 0.5×	357 0.4×	309 0.4×	203	8.1k
Jian Ye China	15	1.0k 0.5×	3.3k 2.0×	217 0.3×	141 0.2×	355 0.4×	37	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Robert Riley

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Riley

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bowers, Robert M., et al.. (2025). Host species and geographic location shape microbial diversity and functional potential in the conifer needle microbiome. Microbiome. 13(1). 222–222.

Reyes, Carolina, Steven Ahrendt, Robert Riley, et al.. (2025). Siderophores and secondary metabolites produced by Ganoderma adspersum. Microbiology. 171(11).

Methven, Andrew S., Andrew N. Miller, Sundy Maurice, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomic insights into the taxonomy, ecology, and mating systems of the lorchel family Discinaceae (Pezizales, Ascomycota). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 205. 108286–108286. 1 indexed citations

Czajka, Jeffrey J., Yichao Han, Joonhoon Kim, et al.. (2024). Genome-scale model development and genomic sequencing of the oleaginous clade Lipomyces. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 12. 1356551–1356551. 5 indexed citations

Singh, Kanwar, W. Berkeley Kauffman, Erin Nuccio, et al.. (2023). A standardized quantitative analysis strategy for stable isotope probing metagenomics. mSystems. 8(4). e0128022–e0128022. 8 indexed citations

Haridas, Sajeet, Robert Riley, Maxim Koriabine, et al.. (2023). T-Toxin Virulence Genes: Unconnected Dots in a Sea of Repeats. mBio. 14(2). e0026123–e0026123. 7 indexed citations

Si, Jing, Emmanuelle Morin, Shingo Miyauchi, et al.. (2022). Phylogenomics and Comparative Genomics Highlight Specific Genetic Features in Ganoderma Species. Journal of Fungi. 8(3). 311–311. 20 indexed citations

Koch, Rachel A., Gyeong Mee Yoon, Uma K. Aryal, et al.. (2021). Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the reproductive structures of a basidiomycete fungus. Current Biology. 31(17). 3905–3914.e6. 12 indexed citations

Lofgren, Lotus, Nhu Nguyen, Rytas Vilgalys, et al.. (2020). Comparative genomics reveals dynamic genome evolution in host specialist ectomycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist. 230(2). 774–792. 52 indexed citations

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Miettinen, Otto, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, et al.. (2016). Draft Genome Sequence of the White-Rot Fungus Obba rivulosa 3A-2. Genome Announcements. 4(5). 13 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Hai D. T., David McMullin, Robert Riley, et al.. (2016). Ochratoxin A production by Penicillium thymicola. Fungal Biology. 120(8). 1041–1049. 20 indexed citations

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Miyauchi, Shingo, David Navarro, Igor V. Grigoriev, et al.. (2016). Visual Comparative Omics of Fungi for Plant Biomass Deconstruction. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1335–1335. 29 indexed citations

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Nagy, László G., Robin A. Ohm, Gábor M. Kovács, et al.. (2014). Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4471–4471. 96 indexed citations

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Grigoriev, Igor V., Sajeet Haridas, Alan Kuo, et al.. (2013). MycoCosm portal: gearing up for 1000 fungal genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D699–D704. 982 indexed citations breakdown →

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Riley, Robert, Matteo Pellegrini, & David Eisenberg. (2008). Identifying Cognate Binding Pairs among a Large Set of Paralogs: The Case of PE/PPE Proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(9). e1000174–e1000174. 33 indexed citations

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Powell, Nelson B., et al.. (2007). Sleepy Driver Near-Misses May Predict Accident Risks. SLEEP. 30(3). 331–342. 120 indexed citations

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Riley, Robert, et al.. (2002). Probing the Energy Landscape of Protein Folding/Unfolding Transition States. Journal of Molecular Biology. 319(1). 229–242. 27 indexed citations

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Li, Kasey K., Nelson B. Powell, Robert Riley, & Christian Guilleminault. (2002). Distraction osteogenesis in adult obstructive sleep apnea surgery: A preliminary report. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 60(1). 6–10. 43 indexed citations

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Nishimura, Chiaki, Robert Riley, Peter Eastman, & Anthony L. Fink. (2000). Fluorescence energy transfer indicates similar transient and equilibrium intermediates in staphylococcal nuclease folding 1 1Edited by C. R. Matthews. Journal of Molecular Biology. 299(4). 1133–1146. 26 indexed citations

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Powell, Nelson B., et al.. (1998). Radiofrequency Volumetric Tissue Reduction of the Palate in Subjects With Sleep-Disordered Breathing. CHEST Journal. 113(5). 1163–1174. 247 indexed citations

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