Tom Bennett

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Tom Bennett is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Bennett has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Plant Science, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Tom Bennett's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (46 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (25 papers) and Plant and animal studies (24 papers). Tom Bennett is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (46 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (25 papers) and Plant and animal studies (24 papers). Tom Bennett collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden. Tom Bennett's co-authors include Ottoline Leyser, David C. Nelson, Caroline Gutjahr, Ben Scheres, Mark T. Waters, Yueyang Liang, Karin Ljung, Tobias Sieberer, Christian Luschnig and Viola Willemsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Tom Bennett

56 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Strigolactone Signaling and Evolution

2017 441 citations Caroline Gutjahr, Tom Bennett et al. profile →
SMAX1-LIKE/D53 Family Members Enable Distinct MAX2-Dependent Responses to Strigolactones and Karrikins in Arabidopsis

2015 309 citations Tom Bennett, Yueyang Liang et al. The Plant Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Bennett United Kingdom	27	3.6k	1.6k	1.5k	109	71	58	3.8k
J. M. Bonga Canada	22	1.6k 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	318 0.2×	100 0.9×	28 0.4×	61	2.1k
Inger Hakman Sweden	21	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.9×	201 0.1×	80 0.7×	23 0.3×	39	1.6k
Stephanie McInnis United Kingdom	15	939 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	249 0.2×	30 0.3×	41 0.6×	22	1.3k
Imtiyaz Khanday United States	11	755 0.2×	487 0.3×	180 0.1×	47 0.4×	118 1.7×	14	942
J. Hugo Cota‐Sánchez Canada	19	645 0.2×	336 0.2×	697 0.5×	26 0.2×	123 1.7×	53	1.2k
Bryn T. M. Dentinger United States	21	1.2k 0.3×	369 0.2×	561 0.4×	63 0.6×	84 1.2×	64	1.6k
Revel Drummond New Zealand	13	1.3k 0.4×	410 0.3×	626 0.4×	19 0.2×	44 0.6×	17	1.4k
Raphael A. Stern Israel	26	1.4k 0.4×	815 0.5×	561 0.4×	9 0.1×	80 1.1×	103	1.7k
Yongpeng Ma China	22	768 0.2×	932 0.6×	584 0.4×	15 0.1×	436 6.1×	109	1.7k
Barbara D. Webster United States	18	707 0.2×	331 0.2×	241 0.2×	30 0.3×	42 0.6×	59	864

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Bennett

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Bennett

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Bennett

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Zhao, Jiao, Dongbo Shi, Changzheng Song, et al.. (2025). Strigolactones optimise plant water usage by modulating vessel formation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3854–3854. 2 indexed citations

Walker, Catriona, et al.. (2024). FLOWERING LOCUS T-mediated thermal signalling regulates age-dependent inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(14). 4400–4414. 4 indexed citations

Walker, Catriona & Tom Bennett. (2024). Cytokinin and reproductive shoot architecture: bigger and better?. Biochemical Society Transactions. 52(4). 1885–1893. 5 indexed citations

Bennett, Tom, Peter Büchner, Stephen G. Thomas, et al.. (2024). At the crossroads: strigolactones mediate changes in cytokinin synthesis and signalling in response to nitrogen limitation. The Plant Journal. 120(1). 139–158. 4 indexed citations

Bennett, Tom. (2023). Cognition is not evidence of sentience. Animal Sentience. 8(33). 5 indexed citations

Sadka, Avi, et al.. (2023). Just enough fruit: understanding feedback mechanisms during sexual reproductive development. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(8). 2448–2461. 6 indexed citations

Hamon‐Josse, Maxime, et al.. (2022). Environmental strigolactone drives early growth responses to neighboring plants and soil volume in pea. Current Biology. 32(16). 3593–3600.e3. 25 indexed citations

Walker, Catriona, et al.. (2022). Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(1). 479–495. 16 indexed citations

Hamon‐Josse, Maxime, José Antonio Villaécija‐Aguilar, Karin Ljung, et al.. (2022). KAI2 regulates seedling development by mediating light‐induced remodelling of auxin transport. New Phytologist. 235(1). 126–140. 17 indexed citations

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Villaécija‐Aguilar, José Antonio, et al.. (2021). KAI2 promotes Arabidopsis root hair elongation at low external phosphate by controlling local accumulation of AUX1 and PIN2. Current Biology. 32(1). 228–236.e3. 45 indexed citations

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Walker, Catriona, Jan Šimura, Karin Ljung, et al.. (2020). Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences. Nature Plants. 6(6). 699–707. 39 indexed citations

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Walker, Catriona, et al.. (2020). Bloom and bust: understanding the nature and regulation of the end of flowering. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 57. 24–30. 24 indexed citations

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Villaécija‐Aguilar, José Antonio, Maxime Hamon‐Josse, Samy Carbonnel, et al.. (2019). SMAX1/SMXL2 regulate root and root hair development downstream of KAI2-mediated signalling in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics. 15(8). e1008327–e1008327. 116 indexed citations

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Bennett, Tom, et al.. (2019). Connective auxin transport contributes to strigolactone-mediated shoot branching control independent of the transcription factor BRC1. PLoS Genetics. 15(3). e1008023–e1008023. 51 indexed citations

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Walker, Catriona & Tom Bennett. (2019). A distributive ‘50% rule’ determines floral initiation rates in the Brassicaceae. Nature Plants. 5(9). 940–943. 5 indexed citations

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Lenser, Teresa, Danuše Tarkowská, Ondřej Novák, et al.. (2018). When the BRANCHED network bears fruit: how carpic dominance causes fruit dimorphism in Aethionema. The Plant Journal. 94(2). 352–371. 20 indexed citations

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Bennett, Tom, Yueyang Liang, Madeleine Seale, et al.. (2016). Strigolactone regulates shoot development through a core signalling pathway. Biology Open. 5(12). 1806–1820. 123 indexed citations

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Bennett, Tom, et al.. (2013). Canalization: what the flux?. Trends in Genetics. 30(2). 41–48. 81 indexed citations

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Bennett, Tom, A. van den Toorn, Gabino Sanchez‐Perez, et al.. (2010). SOMBRERO, BEARSKIN1, and BEARSKIN2 Regulate Root Cap Maturation in Arabidopsis . The Plant Cell. 22(3). 640–654. 153 indexed citations

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Willemsen, Viola, Marion Bauch, Tom Bennett, et al.. (2008). The NAC Domain Transcription Factors FEZ and SOMBRERO Control the Orientation of Cell Division Plane in Arabidopsis Root Stem Cells. Developmental Cell. 15(6). 913–922. 186 indexed citations

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