Shahal Abbo

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Shahal Abbo is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shahal Abbo has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Shahal Abbo's work include Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (71 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (45 papers) and Botanical Research and Chemistry (35 papers). Shahal Abbo is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (71 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (45 papers) and Botanical Research and Chemistry (35 papers). Shahal Abbo collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Shahal Abbo's co-authors include Avi Gopher, Simcha Lev‐Yadun, Yehoshua Saranga, Zvi Peleg, Jens Berger, Neil C. Turner, Moshe Feldman, Noemi Tel‐Zur, Juan M. Vega and Tzion Fahima and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Shahal Abbo

134 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shahal Abbo Israel	39	4.3k	1.2k	965	881	454	136	5.2k
C. C. Wilcock United Kingdom	15	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	344 0.4×	649 0.7×	143 0.3×	51	3.4k
J. M. J. de Wet United States	36	3.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.6×	1.3k 1.4×	835 0.9×	887 2.0×	157	5.4k
María Hopf Germany	8	1.5k 0.4×	347 0.3×	415 0.4×	265 0.3×	112 0.2×	28	2.7k
Peter L. Morrell United States	29	2.3k 0.5×	499 0.4×	1.5k 1.5×	832 0.9×	177 0.4×	61	3.2k
Karl Hammer Germany	30	2.5k 0.6×	687 0.6×	633 0.7×	634 0.7×	164 0.4×	175	3.2k
Roberto Baciliéri France	23	1.5k 0.3×	456 0.4×	788 0.8×	601 0.7×	54 0.1×	41	2.5k
Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra United States	47	5.8k 1.4×	673 0.6×	4.2k 4.3×	2.8k 3.2×	415 0.9×	106	8.1k
Khidir W. Hilu United States	41	3.0k 0.7×	3.4k 2.9×	804 0.8×	2.7k 3.0×	148 0.3×	113	5.7k
Benjamin Kilian Germany	39	4.6k 1.1×	324 0.3×	1.8k 1.9×	859 1.0×	586 1.3×	98	5.1k
I. Romagosa Spain	36	2.7k 0.6×	155 0.1×	800 0.8×	432 0.5×	790 1.7×	101	3.3k

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Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2025). Integrating Sentinel-2 imagery and meteorological data to estimate leaf area index and leaf water potential, with a leave-field-out validation strategy in chickpea fields. European Journal of Agronomy. 168. 127632–127632. 2 indexed citations

Peleg, Zvi, et al.. (2024). Optimization of chickpea irrigation in a semi-arid climate based on morpho-physiological parameters. European Journal of Agronomy. 156. 127171–127171. 3 indexed citations

Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2024). Drawing diffusion patterns of Neolithic agriculture in Anatolia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 322. 105057–105057. 1 indexed citations

Roychowdhury, Rajib, K. Chandrasekhar, Shahal Abbo, et al.. (2023). Pre-anthesis spike growth dynamics and its association to yield components among elite bread wheat cultivars (Triticum aestivum L. spp.) under Mediterranean climate. Field Crops Research. 298. 108948–108948. 20 indexed citations

Weeden, N. F., Matt Lavin, Shahal Abbo, Clarice J. Coyne, & Kevin McPhee. (2023). A hypervariable intron of the STAYGREEN locus provides excellent discrimination among Pisum fulvum accessions and reveals evidence for a relatively recent hybridization event with Pisum sativum. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1233280–1233280.

Zhang, Hailin, Martin Mascher, Shahal Abbo, & Murukarthick Jayakodi. (2022). Advancing Grain Legumes Domestication and Evolution Studies with Genomics. Plant and Cell Physiology. 63(11). 1540–1553. 10 indexed citations

Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2021). Drivers of genetic differentiation and recent evolutionary history of an Eurasian wild pea. Journal of Biogeography. 49(5). 794–808. 11 indexed citations

Peleg, Zvi, A. Shabtay, & Shahal Abbo. (2014). Allelic diversity between and within three wild annual Cicer species. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 62(2). 177–188. 2 indexed citations

Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2014). Plant domestication versus crop evolution: a conceptual framework for cereals and grain legumes. Trends in Plant Science. 19(6). 351–360. 222 indexed citations

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Saranga, Yehoshua, et al.. (2013). Threshing efficiency as an incentive for rapid domestication of emmer wheat. Annals of Botany. 112(5). 829–837. 24 indexed citations

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Frenkel, Omer, D. Shtienberg, Shahal Abbo, et al.. (2011). Aggressiveness of eight Didymella rabiei isolates from domesticated and wild chickpea native to Turkey and Israel, a case study. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 131(3). 529–537. 8 indexed citations

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Peleg, Zvi, Tzion Fahima, Abraham B. Korol, Shahal Abbo, & Yehoshua Saranga. (2011). Genetic analysis of wheat domestication and evolution under domestication. Journal of Experimental Botany. 62(14). 5051–5061. 122 indexed citations

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Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2007). Experimental harvesting of wild peas in Israel: implications for the origins of Near East farming. Journal of Archaeological Science. 35(4). 922–929. 38 indexed citations

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Kerem, Zohar, Simcha Lev‐Yadun, Avi Gopher, Pnina Weinberg, & Shahal Abbo. (2006). Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science. 34(8). 1289–1293. 52 indexed citations

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Abbo, Shahal, et al.. (2004). Influence of nitrate and sodium chloride on concentration and internal distribution of mineral elements in broad bean (Vicia faba L.) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.). Landbauforschung Völkenrode : FAL agricultural research. 54(4). 189–197. 5 indexed citations

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Tel‐Zur, Noemi, Shahal Abbo, & Y. Mizrahi. (2004). Cytogenetics of Semi-Fertile Triploid and Aneuploid Intergeneric Vine Cacti Hybrids. Journal of Heredity. 96(2). 124–131. 39 indexed citations

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Abbo, Shahal, Simcha Lev‐Yadun, & N. W. Galwey. (2002). Vernalization response of wild chickpea. New Phytologist. 154(3). 695–701. 45 indexed citations

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Lev‐Yadun, Simcha, Alex Beharav, & Shahal Abbo. (1996). Evidence for Polygenic Control of Fibre Differentiation in Spring Wheat and Its Relationship With the Gibberellin-Insensitivity Locus Rht 1. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology. 23(2). 185–189. 4 indexed citations

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Abbo, Shahal, Roy P. Dunford, Tracie Foote, et al.. (1995). Organization of retro-element and stem-loop repeat families in the genomes and nuclei of cereals. Chromosome Research. 3(1). 5–15. 27 indexed citations

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Cheung, Wing‐Yee, Tracy Money, Shahal Abbo, et al.. (1994). A family of related sequences associated with (TTTAGGG)n repeats are located in the interstitial regions of wheat chromosomes. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 245(3). 349–354. 24 indexed citations

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