Robert VanBuren

8.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Robert VanBuren is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert VanBuren has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Plant Science, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Robert VanBuren's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Robert VanBuren is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (12 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 papers). Robert VanBuren collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Africa. Robert VanBuren's co-authors include Todd P. Michael, Patrick P. Edger, Jeremy Pardo, Ching Man Wai, Todd C. Mockler, Rose A. Marks, Kevin A. Bird, Paul B. Frandsen, Scott Hotaling and Dorothea Bartels and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Robert VanBuren

56 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

  1. Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing
    2021 171 citations Rose A. Marks, Scott Hotaling et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert VanBuren United States 27 1.7k 1.2k 393 393 172 57 2.2k
Nianjun Teng China 27 1.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 388 1.0× 105 0.3× 141 0.8× 103 2.4k
Xin Deng China 31 2.9k 1.7× 2.2k 1.8× 184 0.5× 113 0.3× 176 1.0× 77 3.5k
Anthony Koutoulis Australia 26 824 0.5× 784 0.6× 162 0.4× 249 0.6× 137 0.8× 67 1.8k
Rajib Roychowdhury India 21 2.0k 1.2× 636 0.5× 174 0.4× 168 0.4× 123 0.7× 58 2.5k
Jason Q. D. Goodger Australia 26 1.4k 0.9× 692 0.6× 448 1.1× 119 0.3× 218 1.3× 52 2.1k
Vito S. Polito United States 31 2.5k 1.5× 1.4k 1.1× 666 1.7× 226 0.6× 176 1.0× 96 3.2k
Andreia Carina Turchetto‐Zolet Brazil 22 818 0.5× 750 0.6× 327 0.8× 301 0.8× 70 0.4× 60 1.7k
Wun S. Chao United States 27 2.4k 1.4× 1.4k 1.1× 273 0.7× 113 0.3× 155 0.9× 70 2.8k
Udo Gowik Germany 27 1.5k 0.9× 2.1k 1.7× 366 0.9× 98 0.2× 135 0.8× 38 2.6k
Weibang Sun China 24 898 0.5× 959 0.8× 1.0k 2.6× 479 1.2× 74 0.4× 129 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert VanBuren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert VanBuren

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All Works

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Prado, Karine, Brian McSpadden Gardener, Peter K. Lundquist, et al.. (2025). Building climate-resilient crops: genetic, environmental, and technological strategies for heat and drought stress tolerance. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(16). 4395–4413. 1 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert, Ching Man Wai, Valentino Giarola, et al.. (2023). Core cellular and tissue‐specific mechanisms enable desiccation tolerance in Craterostigma. The Plant Journal. 114(2). 231–245. 12 indexed citations
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Pardo, Jeremy, Ching Man Wai, Annie L. Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Cross-species predictive modeling reveals conserved drought responses between maize and sorghum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(10). e2216894120–e2216894120. 5 indexed citations
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Montes, Ricardo A. Chávez, Jeremy Pardo, Robyn F. Powell, et al.. (2022). A comparative genomics examination of desiccation tolerance and sensitivity in two sister grass species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(5). 12 indexed citations
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Wai, Ching Man, et al.. (2022). Regulatory dynamics distinguishing desiccation tolerance strategies within resurrection grasses. Plant Direct. 6(12). e457–e457. 3 indexed citations
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Pardo, Jeremy & Robert VanBuren. (2021). Evolutionary innovations driving abiotic stress tolerance in C4 grasses and cereals. The Plant Cell. 33(11). 3391–3401. 42 indexed citations
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Marks, Rose A., Scott Hotaling, Paul B. Frandsen, & Robert VanBuren. (2021). Representation and participation across 20 years of plant genome sequencing. Nature Plants. 7(12). 1571–1578. 171 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bird, Kevin A., Chad E. Niederhuth, Shujun Ou, et al.. (2020). Replaying the evolutionary tape to investigate subgenome dominance in allopolyploid Brassica napus. New Phytologist. 230(1). 354–371. 63 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert, Ching Man Wai, Xuewen Wang, et al.. (2020). Exceptional subgenome stability and functional divergence in the allotetraploid Ethiopian cereal teff. Nature Communications. 11(1). 884–884. 119 indexed citations
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Pardo, Jeremy, et al.. (2020). Intertwined signatures of desiccation and drought tolerance in grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(18). 10079–10088. 36 indexed citations
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Lou, Ping, Scott Woody, Kathleen Greenham, et al.. (2020). Genetic and genomic resources to study natural variation in Brassica rapa. Plant Direct. 4(12). e00285–e00285. 13 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert, et al.. (2019). Massive Tandem Proliferation of ELIPs Supports Convergent Evolution of Desiccation Tolerance across Land Plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 179(3). 1040–1049. 50 indexed citations
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Azodi, Christina B., Jeremy Pardo, Robert VanBuren, Gustavo de los Campos, & Shin‐Han Shiu. (2019). Transcriptome-Based Prediction of Complex Traits in Maize. The Plant Cell. 32(1). 139–151. 72 indexed citations
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Bird, Kevin A., Robert VanBuren, Joshua R. Puzey, & Patrick P. Edger. (2018). The causes and consequences of subgenome dominance in hybrids and recent polyploids. New Phytologist. 220(1). 87–93. 149 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert, Ching Man Wai, Jeremy Pardo, et al.. (2018). Desiccation Tolerance Evolved through Gene Duplication and Network Rewiring in Lindernia. The Plant Cell. 30(12). 2943–2958. 49 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert, Ching Man Wai, Shujun Ou, et al.. (2017). Extreme haplotype variation in the desiccation-tolerant clubmoss Selaginella lepidophylla. Nature Communications. 9(1). 13–13. 89 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert. (2015). De novo assembly of a complex panicoid grass genome using ultra-long PacBio reads with P6/C4 chemistry. 1 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert & Ray Ming. (2013). Organelle DNA accumulation in the recently evolved papaya sex chromosomes. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 288(5-6). 277–284. 16 indexed citations
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VanBuren, Robert & Ray Ming. (2013). Dynamic transposable element accumulation in the nascent sex chromosomes of papaya. Mobile Genetic Elements. 3(1). e23462–e23462. 14 indexed citations
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Yang, Mei, Yanni Han, Robert VanBuren, et al.. (2012). Genetic linkage maps for Asian and American lotus constructed using novel SSR markers derived from the genome of sequenced cultivar. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 653–653. 34 indexed citations

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