Tomislav Cernava

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
151 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Tomislav Cernava is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomislav Cernava has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Plant Science, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Tomislav Cernava's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (57 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (34 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (27 papers). Tomislav Cernava is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (57 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (34 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (27 papers). Tomislav Cernava collaborates with scholars based in Austria, China and Germany. Tomislav Cernava's co-authors include Gabriele Berg, Martín Grube, Ines Aschenbrenner, Peter Kusstatscher, Armin Erlacher, Wisnu Adi Wicaksono, Christoph W. Sensen, Henry Müller, Jung Soh and Ahmed Abdelfattah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Tomislav Cernava

139 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Bacterial seed endophyte shapes disease resistance in rice

2021 302 citations Haruna Matsumoto, Xiaoyan Fan et al. Nature Plants profile →
Microbiome homeostasis on rice leaves is regulated by a precursor molecule of lignin biosynthesis

2024 69 citations Pin Su, Wisnu Adi Wicaksono et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomislav Cernava Austria	38	2.9k	925	766	725	667	151	4.2k
Birgit Mitter Austria	31	3.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	807 1.1×	371 0.5×	643 1.0×	52	4.9k
Henry Müller Austria	34	2.2k 0.8×	897 1.0×	647 0.8×	483 0.7×	677 1.0×	66	3.4k
Pablo R. Hardoim Netherlands	13	3.2k 1.1×	988 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	391 0.5×	558 0.8×	15	3.9k
Sharon Doty United States	33	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	697 0.9×	471 0.6×	438 0.7×	70	4.0k
Gustavo Santoyo Mexico	39	5.5k 1.9×	1.7k 1.8×	939 1.2×	359 0.5×	709 1.1×	168	6.8k
Antonio de Vicente Spain	44	5.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.9×	1.7k 2.3×	626 0.9×	526 0.8×	165	6.8k
Rubén Garrido‐Oter Germany	25	4.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	683 0.9×	284 0.4×	1.0k 1.5×	33	5.7k
Abdullah M. Al‐Sadi Oman	35	3.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 2.3×	498 0.7×	396 0.6×	302	5.0k
Stéphane Hacquard Germany	32	4.7k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.5×	392 0.5×	852 1.3×	45	5.9k
Davide Bulgarelli United Kingdom	20	5.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.4×	803 1.0×	332 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	27	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomislav Cernava

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomislav Cernava

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Ghani, Muhammad Imran, et al.. (2025). First Report of Fusarium foetens Causing Tobacco Root and Stem Rots in Guizhou, China. Journal of Phytopathology. 173(4).

Siddiqui, Junaid Ali, Ruidong Fan, Yanjiang Liu, et al.. (2025). The larval gut of Spodoptera frugiperda harbours culturable bacteria with metabolic versatility after insecticide exposure. Insect Molecular Biology. 34(3). 452–469.

Chen, Silu, Liming Gao, Xian Liu, et al.. (2025). The effect of developmental stages on microbiome assembly in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of rice grown in urban area soil. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 86–86.

Wicaksono, Wisnu Adi, et al.. (2025). Indigenous Nigerian Vegetables Harbour Plant Species‐Specific Seed Microbial Signatures for Bacteria and Fungi. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4).

Lin, Jianwu, Xiaoyulong Chen, Tomislav Cernava, et al.. (2025). DIEC-ViT: Discriminative information enhanced contrastive vision transformer for the identification of plant diseases in complex environments. Expert Systems with Applications. 281. 127730–127730. 1 indexed citations

Ouyang, Hao, Xuefeng Chen, Wenlong Zhang, et al.. (2024). Complete genome resource of Cedecea neteri A2, the causal agent of Pleurotus pulmonarius yellow rot disease in Guangxi, China. Journal of Plant Pathology. 106(3). 1381–1383. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yanjiang, Tomislav Cernava, La Qiong, et al.. (2024). Invasive alien plants in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (China): Current state and future predictions. Ecological Indicators. 166. 112488–112488. 5 indexed citations

Lin, Jianwu, et al.. (2024). FG‐UNet: fine‐grained feature‐guided UNet for segmentation of weeds and crops in UAV images. Pest Management Science. 81(2). 856–866. 1 indexed citations

Berg, Gabriele, et al.. (2024). Wild again: recovery of a beneficial Cannabis seed endophyte from low domestication genotypes. Microbiome. 12(1). 239–239. 7 indexed citations

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Wang, Yunsheng, et al.. (2024). Co-exposure to microplastics and soil pollutants significantly exacerbates toxicity to crops: Insights from a global meta and machine-learning analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 954. 176490–176490. 8 indexed citations

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Fernández‐González, Antonio J., Antonio Valverde‐Corredor, Pablo J. Villadas, et al.. (2024). Pitting the olive seed microbiome. Environmental Microbiome. 19(1). 17–17. 8 indexed citations

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Zheng, Tao, et al.. (2023). Impact of pyroxasulfone on sugarcane rhizosphere microbiome and functioning during field degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 455. 131608–131608. 22 indexed citations

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Kong, Xiao, et al.. (2023). Native fungal community remains resilient during bioremediation of DBP pollution by exogenous Gordonia phthalatica QH-11T. The Science of The Total Environment. 892. 164532–164532. 5 indexed citations

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Jin, Tuo, et al.. (2023). Biodegradable mulch films significantly affected rhizosphere microbial communities and increased peanut yield. The Science of The Total Environment. 871. 162034–162034. 26 indexed citations

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Wang, Junrong, Ruidong Fan, Qiang Peng, et al.. (2023). Plant Growth Promotion and Biocontrol of Leaf Blight Caused by Nigrospora sphaerica on Passion Fruit by Endophytic Bacillus subtilis Strain GUCC4. Journal of Fungi. 9(2). 132–132. 23 indexed citations

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Berg, Gabriele, et al.. (2023). The microbiome of cereal plants: The current state of knowledge and the potential for future applications. Environmental Microbiome. 18(1). 28–28. 18 indexed citations

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Lin, Jianwu, Xiaoyulong Chen, Jitong Cai, et al.. (2022). GrapeNet: A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Identification of Grape Leaf Diseases. Agriculture. 12(6). 887–887. 54 indexed citations

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Wicaksono, Wisnu Adi, Peter Kusstatscher, Tomislav Cernava, et al.. (2022). Impact of Cultivation and Origin on the Fruit Microbiome of Apples and Blueberries and Implications for the Exposome. Microbial Ecology. 86(2). 973–984. 21 indexed citations

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Matsumoto, Haruna, Xiaoyan Fan, Yue Wang, et al.. (2021). Bacterial seed endophyte shapes disease resistance in rice. Nature Plants. 7(1). 60–72. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cernava, Tomislav, Armin Erlacher, Jung Soh, et al.. (2019). Enterobacteriaceae dominate the core microbiome and contribute to the resistome of arugula (Eruca sativa Mill.). Microbiome. 7(1). 13–13. 91 indexed citations

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