Taavi Riit

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 625 citations indexed

About

Taavi Riit is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Taavi Riit has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 625 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Plant Science, 8 papers in Cell Biology and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Taavi Riit's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (8 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (5 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (4 papers). Taavi Riit is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (8 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (5 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (4 papers). Taavi Riit collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Finland and Norway. Taavi Riit's co-authors include Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan, Mohammad Bahram, Sergei Põlme, Veljo Kisand, R. Henrik Nilsson, Peer Bork, Kessy Abarenkov, Ingrid Liiv and Falk Hildebrand and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Microbiology, Forest Ecology and Management and Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

In The Last Decade

Taavi Riit

12 papers receiving 616 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.

Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi

2015 398 citations Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Taavi Riit Estonia	9	347	259	237	148	136	13	625
Lydia Bousset France	16	515 1.5×	194 0.7×	121 0.5×	79 0.5×	156 1.1×	36	756
Andrew Krohn United States	9	316 0.9×	120 0.5×	116 0.5×	92 0.6×	101 0.7×	13	477
Rakel Blaalid Norway	12	490 1.4×	271 1.0×	308 1.3×	230 1.6×	243 1.8×	23	846
Sophie Manzi France	15	339 1.0×	125 0.5×	122 0.5×	154 1.0×	189 1.4×	41	598
Hanna Kwaśna Poland	16	679 2.0×	417 1.6×	94 0.4×	112 0.8×	135 1.0×	102	831
Ivan Sache France	20	991 2.9×	362 1.4×	159 0.7×	196 1.3×	159 1.2×	42	1.2k
Kirk Broders United States	21	1.1k 3.2×	748 2.9×	265 1.1×	230 1.6×	134 1.0×	64	1.4k
Luisa Ghelardini Italy	18	476 1.4×	304 1.2×	362 1.5×	163 1.1×	105 0.8×	48	870
M.Á. Martín Spain	19	689 2.0×	166 0.6×	104 0.4×	108 0.7×	96 0.7×	69	982
S. P. Dendy United States	5	641 1.8×	125 0.5×	111 0.5×	59 0.4×	149 1.1×	6	819

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Tullus, Hardi, Reimo Lutter, Tiina Randlane, et al.. (2025). Do silver birch (Betula pendula) and hybrid aspen (Populus tremula × P. tremuloides) plantations on former agricultural land differ from the perspective of biodiversity?. New Forests. 56(2).

Rähn, Elisabeth, Reimo Lutter, Taavi Riit, et al.. (2024). Soil mycobiomes in native European aspen forests and hybrid aspen plantations have a similar fungal richness but different compositions, mainly driven by edaphic and floristic factors. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1372938–1372938. 2 indexed citations

Adamson, Kalev, et al.. (2024). An investigation of Inonotus obliquus in Estonia: Its distribution, abundance of conks, rot extent in infected trees, and peculiarities of basidiospore dispersal. Forest Ecology and Management. 562. 121917–121917. 3 indexed citations

Riit, Taavi, Michelle Cleary, Kalev Adamson, et al.. (2023). Oomycete Soil Diversity Associated with Betula and Alnus in Forests and Urban Settings in the Nordic–Baltic Region. Journal of Fungi. 9(9). 926–926. 1 indexed citations

Lutter, Reimo, Taavi Riit, Ahto Agan, et al.. (2023). Soil fungal diversity of birch plantations on former agricultural land resembles naturally regenerated birch stands on agricultural and forest land. Forest Ecology and Management. 542. 121100–121100. 8 indexed citations

Adamson, Kalev, Kathrin Blumenstein, Johanna Bußkamp, et al.. (2021). Highly Clonal Structure and Abundance of One Haplotype Characterise the Diplodia sapinea Populations in Europe and Western Asia. Journal of Fungi. 7(8). 634–634. 16 indexed citations

Nurmoja, Imbi, et al.. (2020). Molecular Characterization of African Swine Fever Virus Isolates in Estonia in 2014–2019. Pathogens. 9(7). 582–582. 30 indexed citations

Aosaar, Jürgen, Tiia Drenkhan, Kalev Adamson, et al.. (2020). The effect of stump harvesting on tree growth and the infection of root rot in young Norway spruce stands in hemiboreal Estonia. Forest Ecology and Management. 475. 118425–118425. 9 indexed citations

Drenkhan, Rein, Halvor Solheim, Taavi Riit, et al.. (2016). Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is a leaf pathogen of local Fraxinus species in the Russian Far East. Plant Pathology. 66(3). 490–500. 53 indexed citations

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Drenkhan, Rein, Taavi Riit, Kalev Adamson, & M. Hanso. (2016). The earliest samples of Hymenoscyphus albidus vs. H. fraxineus in Estonian mycological herbaria. Mycological Progress. 15(8). 835–844. 21 indexed citations

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Riit, Taavi, Leho Tedersoo, Rein Drenkhan, et al.. (2016). Oomycete-specific ITS primers for identification and metabarcoding. MycoKeys. 14. 17–30. 60 indexed citations

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Rosenvald, Raul, Rein Drenkhan, Taavi Riit, & Asko Lõhmus. (2015). Towards silvicultural mitigation of the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) dieback: the importance of acclimated trees in retention forestry. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 45(9). 1206–1214. 24 indexed citations

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Tedersoo, Leho, Sten Anslan, Mohammad Bahram, et al.. (2015). Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi. MycoKeys. 10. 1–43. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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