Todd J. Ward

33.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
112 papers, 20.5k citations indexed

About

Todd J. Ward is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Todd J. Ward has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 20.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Plant Science, 64 papers in Cell Biology and 25 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Todd J. Ward's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (64 papers), Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (60 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (26 papers). Todd J. Ward is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (64 papers), Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (60 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (26 papers). Todd J. Ward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Todd J. Ward's co-authors include Salim Roukos, Kishore Papineni, Wei-Jing Zhu, Kerry O’Donnell, Harold Kistler, David M. Geiser, Takayuki Aoki, Seogchan Kang, Alejandro P. Rooney and Liane Rosewich Gale and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Todd J. Ward

110 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Hit Papers

BLEU 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2004 2004 2013 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. BLEU
    2001 11.9k citations Salim Roukos, Todd J. Ward et al. profile →
  2. FUSARIUM-ID v. 1.0: A DNA Sequence Database for Identifying Fusarium
    2004 850 citations David M. Geiser, Todd J. Ward et al. profile →
  3. Genealogical concordance between the mating type locus and seven other nuclear genes supports formal recognition of nine phylogenetically distinct species within the Fusarium graminearum clade
    2004 619 citations Kerry O’Donnell, Todd J. Ward et al. Fungal Genetics and Biology profile →
  4. Phylogenetic analyses of RPB1 and RPB2 support a middle Cretaceous origin for a clade comprising all agriculturally and medically important fusaria
    2013 348 citations Kerry O’Donnell, Robert H. Proctor et al. Fungal Genetics and Biology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Todd J. Ward United States 49 10.1k 6.7k 6.0k 4.0k 1.6k 112 20.5k
Sergey Nikolenko Russia 23 903 0.1× 3.7k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 244 0.1× 10.3k 6.4× 123 21.2k
Diane Kelly United Kingdom 54 1000 0.1× 1.2k 0.2× 624 0.1× 297 0.1× 2.3k 1.4× 241 9.2k
Richard F. Helm United States 39 7.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.2× 106 0.0× 884 0.2× 2.0k 1.3× 173 17.9k
Michael C. Schatz United States 55 1.1k 0.1× 5.2k 0.8× 548 0.1× 157 0.0× 10.3k 6.4× 151 16.5k
George Coulouris United Kingdom 18 331 0.0× 4.8k 0.7× 987 0.2× 264 0.1× 10.8k 6.7× 48 21.7k
Dong Xu United States 72 821 0.1× 5.0k 0.8× 341 0.1× 408 0.1× 9.7k 6.0× 454 16.2k
Stefan Kurtz Germany 31 1.2k 0.1× 3.4k 0.5× 580 0.1× 129 0.0× 7.1k 4.4× 67 10.2k
Michael Lewis United States 47 1.1k 0.1× 325 0.0× 1.5k 0.3× 812 0.2× 3.3k 2.0× 343 8.9k
Siu‐Ming Yiu Hong Kong 32 1.6k 0.2× 1.7k 0.2× 129 0.0× 327 0.1× 5.0k 3.1× 191 9.3k
Justin Zobel Australia 47 5.0k 0.5× 560 0.1× 103 0.0× 1.4k 0.4× 2.3k 1.4× 241 10.9k

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All Works

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Ward, Todd J., Emerson M. Del Ponte, Gláucia M. Moreira, et al.. (2020). Five‐year survey uncovers extensive diversity and temporal fluctuations among fusarium head blight pathogens of wheat and barley in Brazil. Plant Pathology. 70(2). 426–435. 20 indexed citations
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Moreira, Gláucia M., et al.. (2019). First Report of the Fusarium tricinctum Species Complex Causing Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat in Brazil. Plant Disease. 104(2). 586–586. 12 indexed citations
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Ward, Todd J., Dauri José Tessmann, Emerson M. Del Ponte, et al.. (2018). Fusarium subtropicale, sp. nov., a novel nivalenol mycotoxin–producing species isolated from barley (Hordeum vulgare) in Brazil and sister to F. praegraminearum. Mycologia. 110(5). 860–871. 6 indexed citations
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O’Donnell, Kerry, Susan P. McCormick, Mark Busman, et al.. (2018). Marasas et al. 1984 “ToxigenicFusariumSpecies: Identity and Mycotoxicology” revisited. Mycologia. 110(6). 1058–1080. 91 indexed citations
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Bakker, Matthew G., Daren W. Brown, Amy C. Kelly, et al.. (2018). Fusariummycotoxins: a trans-disciplinary overview. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. 40(2). 161–171. 49 indexed citations
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Gräfenhan, Tom, Peter R. Johnston, Martha Vaughan, et al.. (2018). Fusarium praegraminearum sp. nov., a novel nivalenol mycotoxin-producing pathogen from New Zealand can induce head blight on wheat.. PubMed. 108(6). 1229–1239. 14 indexed citations
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Laraba, Imane, Houda Boureghda, F. Obanor, et al.. (2017). Population genetic structure and mycotoxin potential of the wheat crown rot and head blight pathogen Fusarium culmorum in Algeria. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 103. 34–41. 43 indexed citations
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Kuhnem, Paulo, et al.. (2015). Composition and toxigenic potential of the Fusarium graminearum species complex from maize ears, stalks and stubble in Brazil. Plant Pathology. 65(7). 1185–1191. 34 indexed citations
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Aoki, Takayuki, Martha Vaughan, Susan P. McCormick, et al.. (2015). Fusarium dactylidis sp. nov., a novel nivalenol toxin-producing species sister to F. pseudograminearum isolated from orchard grass ( Dactylis glomerata ) in Oregon and New Zealand. Mycologia. 107(2). 409–418. 25 indexed citations
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Villani, Alessandra, Robert H. Proctor, Daren W. Brown, et al.. (2015). Fusarium incarnatum-equiseti species complex from cereals: phylogeny and variability of trichothecene biosynthetic gene cluster. Journal of Plant Pathology. 1 indexed citations
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Gomes, Larissa Bitencourt, Todd J. Ward, Eliana Badiale–Furlong, & Emerson M. Del Ponte. (2014). Species composition, toxigenic potential and pathogenicity of F usarium graminearum species complex isolates from southern B razilian rice. Plant Pathology. 64(4). 980–987. 60 indexed citations
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Suga, Haruhisa, Todd J. Ward, Liane Rosewich Gale, et al.. (2008). Molecular Characterization of the Fusarium graminearum Species Complex in Japan. Phytopathology. 98(2). 159–166. 146 indexed citations
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Clear, R. M., Susan K. Patrick, Don Gaba, et al.. (2006). Trichothecene and zearalenone production, in culture, by isolates of Fusarium pseudograminearum from western Canada. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. 28(1). 131–136. 15 indexed citations
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Rep, Martijn, Liane Rosewich Gale, Thomas Usgaard, et al.. (2006). The presence of GC-AG introns in Neurospora crassa and other euascomycetes determined from analyses of complete genomes: implications for automated gene prediction. Genomics. 87(3). 338–347. 27 indexed citations
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Pietra, S. Della, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, & Todd J. Ward. (1997). Fertility models for statistical natural language understanding. 168–173. 14 indexed citations
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Pietra, S. Della, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, & Todd J. Ward. (1997). Fertility models for statistical natural language understanding. 168–173. 1 indexed citations

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