Simon Griffiths

11.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
134 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Simon Griffiths is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Griffiths has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Plant Science, 48 papers in Genetics and 41 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Griffiths's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (99 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (63 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (46 papers). Simon Griffiths is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (99 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (63 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (46 papers). Simon Griffiths collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Mexico. Simon Griffiths's co-authors include D. A. Laurie, J. W. Snape, J. Foulkes, Gustavo A. Slafer, Simon Orford, Matthew Reynolds, Luzie U. Wingen, Roy P. Dunford, Adrian Turner and James Beales and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simon Griffiths

127 papers receiving 7.4k 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.

A Pseudo-Response Regulator is misexpressed in the photoperiod insensitive Ppd-D1a mutant of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

2007 636 citations Simon Griffiths, J. W. Snape et al. profile →
Raising yield potential of wheat. III. Optimizing partitioning to grain while maintaining lodging resistance

2010 476 citations J. Foulkes, Gustavo A. Slafer et al. Journal of Experimental Botany profile →
Achieving yield gains in wheat

2012 463 citations Matthew Reynolds, J. Foulkes et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Griffiths United Kingdom	44	6.8k	2.5k	2.2k	1.2k	283	134	7.6k
Shawn M. Kaeppler United States	55	8.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	3.6k 3.1×	251 0.9×	162	9.8k
James B. Holland United States	47	9.8k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	7.1k 3.2×	1.7k 1.5×	91 0.3×	159	11.9k
Michaël Baum Syria	45	5.3k 0.8×	686 0.3×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	141 0.5×	143	6.1k
P. K. Singh India	37	5.7k 0.8×	718 0.3×	1.7k 0.8×	846 0.7×	241 0.9×	383	6.6k
Perry B. Cregan United States	63	13.5k 2.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.2×	1.9k 1.6×	68 0.2×	183	14.4k
Muhammad Iqbal Pakistan	33	2.8k 0.4×	683 0.3×	692 0.3×	422 0.4×	166 0.6×	176	3.6k
Juan Burgueño Mexico	39	6.4k 0.9×	748 0.3×	4.8k 2.2×	515 0.4×	93 0.3×	142	7.3k
Jesse Poland United States	59	13.1k 1.9×	1.5k 0.6×	8.7k 4.0×	2.4k 2.0×	138 0.5×	193	16.2k
Jean‐Luc Jannink United States	61	13.4k 2.0×	1.2k 0.5×	10.5k 4.8×	1.2k 1.1×	156 0.6×	210	15.9k
Andreas Graner Germany	60	12.4k 1.8×	904 0.4×	5.0k 2.3×	4.4k 3.7×	67 0.2×	176	14.9k

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Raza, Sajjad, Bipin K. Pandey, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, et al.. (2025). Future crop breeding needs to consider future soils. Nature Plants. 11(5). 939–941. 3 indexed citations

Griffiths, Simon, et al.. (2025). Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci for Grain Quality Traits in a Pamyati Azieva × Paragon Bread Wheat Mapping Population Grown in Kazakhstan. Plants. 14(11). 1728–1728.

Lovegrove, Alison, Paola Tosi, Mervin Poole, et al.. (2024). Genetic analysis of grain protein content and deviation in wheat. Journal of Cereal Science. 121. 104099–104099. 1 indexed citations

Hawkesford, Malcolm J., et al.. (2024). Genetic variation in leaf photosynthesis and associated traits in elite and landrace-derived genotypes in wheat. The Journal of Agricultural Science. 162(6). 573–583. 1 indexed citations

Griffiths, Simon, et al.. (2024). Genome-Wide Association Study of Yield-Related Traits in a Nested Association Mapping Population Grown in Kazakhstan. Agronomy. 14(8). 1848–1848. 2 indexed citations

Shewry, Peter R., A. B. Riche, Luzie U. Wingen, et al.. (2024). Improving wheat grain composition for human health by constructing a QTL atlas for essential minerals. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1001–1001. 7 indexed citations

Sharma, Sandeep, Tarun Kumar, J. Foulkes, et al.. (2023). Nitrogen uptake and remobilization from pre- and post-anthesis stages contribute towards grain yield and grain protein concentration in wheat grown in limited nitrogen conditions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 12–12. 18 indexed citations

Yessimbekova, M., et al.. (2023). Association Mapping of Quantitative Trait Loci for Agronomic Traits in a Winter Wheat Collection Grown in Kazakhstan. Agronomy. 13(8). 2054–2054. 3 indexed citations

Griffiths, Simon, et al.. (2023). Population Structure of Modern Winter Wheat Accessions from Central Asia. Plants. 12(12). 2233–2233. 2 indexed citations

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Addy, John, Mark Wilkinson, Daniel P. Smith, et al.. (2023). Genetic control of grain amino acid composition in a UK soft wheat mapping population. The Plant Genome. 16(4). e20335–e20335. 6 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Matthew, Gustavo A. Slafer, J. Foulkes, et al.. (2022). A wiring diagram to integrate physiological traits of wheat yield potential. Nature Food. 3(5). 318–324. 60 indexed citations

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Murchie, Erik H., Matthew Reynolds, Gustavo A. Slafer, et al.. (2022). A ‘wiring diagram’ for source strength traits impacting wheat yield potential. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(1). 72–90. 25 indexed citations

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Slafer, Gustavo A., J. Foulkes, Matthew Reynolds, et al.. (2022). A ‘wiring diagram’ for sink strength traits impacting wheat yield potential. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(1). 40–71. 63 indexed citations

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Orford, Simon, et al.. (2021). Delaying or delivering: identification of novel NAM-1 alleles that delay senescence to extend wheat grain fill duration. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(22). 7710–7728. 21 indexed citations

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Lister, Clare, et al.. (2021). Resolving a QTL complex for height, heading, and grain yield on chromosome 3A in bread wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(8). 2965–2978. 12 indexed citations

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Goldschmidt, Christina, Simon Griffiths, & Alex Scott. (2020). Moderate deviations of subgraph counts in the Erdős-Rényi random graphs 𝐺(𝑛,𝑚) and 𝐺(𝑛,𝑝). Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 373(8). 5517–5585. 3 indexed citations

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Lyra, Danilo Hottis, Nicolas Virlet, Pouria Sadeghi‐Tehran, et al.. (2020). Functional QTL mapping and genomic prediction of canopy height in wheat measured using a robotic field phenotyping platform. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(6). 1885–1898. 33 indexed citations

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Reynolds, Daniel, et al.. (2019). CropSight: a scalable and open-source information management system for distributed plant phenotyping and IoT-based crop management. GigaScience. 8(3). 60 indexed citations

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Gardiner, Laura‐Jayne, Luzie U. Wingen, Paul Bailey, et al.. (2019). Analysis of the recombination landscape of hexaploid bread wheat reveals genes controlling recombination and gene conversion frequency. Genome biology. 20(1). 69–69. 56 indexed citations

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Gouis, Jacques Le, Oorbessy Gaju, Stella Hubbart, et al.. (2010). Genetic improvement for increased nitrogen use efficiency in wheat.. Aspects of applied biology. 151–158. 9 indexed citations

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