Travis Lee

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 679 citations indexed

About

Travis Lee is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis Lee has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 679 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Plant Science, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Travis Lee's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (4 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (4 papers) and Plant responses to water stress (3 papers). Travis Lee is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (4 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (4 papers) and Plant responses to water stress (3 papers). Travis Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. Travis Lee's co-authors include Julia Bailey‐Serres, Jana T. Müller, Angelika Mustroph, Joseph R. Nery, Joseph R. Ecker, Keng Boon Wee, Andrew B. Goryachev, Yinggang Zhu, Stéphane Gennai and Jae Wook Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Travis Lee

20 papers receiving 667 citations

Hit Papers

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A rare PRIMER cell state in plant immunity

2025 30 citations Tatsuya Nobori, Alexander Monell et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Travis Lee United States	11	443	248	63	62	44	20	679
David Lee United States	7	66 0.1×	373 1.5×	54 0.9×	5 0.1×	31 0.7×	15	553
Joel Y. Sun United States	9	511 1.2×	306 1.2×	33 0.5×	4 0.1×	10 0.2×	10	852
Ming-Yuan Chou Taiwan	11	118 0.3×	394 1.6×	51 0.8×	21 0.3×	13 0.3×	15	532
Natalie D. King United States	12	84 0.2×	215 0.9×	44 0.7×	21 0.3×	11 0.3×	12	418
Paul Tchen France	12	97 0.2×	319 1.3×	45 0.7×	8 0.1×	16 0.4×	20	542
Daria Julkowska France	12	71 0.2×	354 1.4×	97 1.5×	6 0.1×	9 0.2×	23	661
Jennifer Farmer United States	11	77 0.2×	217 0.9×	22 0.3×	5 0.1×	23 0.5×	26	782
Shanda R. Birkeland United States	16	105 0.2×	366 1.5×	96 1.5×	6 0.1×	12 0.3×	19	757
William Tang United States	16	400 0.9×	152 0.6×	24 0.4×	5 0.1×	2 0.0×	44	975
Susan Cure France	12	24 0.1×	239 1.0×	30 0.5×	16 0.3×	8 0.2×	13	424

Countries citing papers authored by Travis Lee

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Fields of papers citing papers by Travis Lee

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Travis Lee

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20 of 20 papers shown

Illouz‐Eliaz, Natanella, Jingting Yu, Joseph Swift, et al.. (2025). Drought recovery in plants triggers a cell-state-specific immune activation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8095–8095. 3 indexed citations

Nobori, Tatsuya, Alexander Monell, Travis Lee, et al.. (2025). A rare PRIMER cell state in plant immunity. Nature. 638(8049). 197–205. 30 indexed citations breakdown →

Lee, Travis, et al.. (2025). A single-cell, spatial transcriptomic atlas of the Arabidopsis life cycle. Nature Plants. 11(9). 1960–1975. 5 indexed citations

Swift, Joseph, Leonie H. Luginbuehl, Tina B. Schreier, et al.. (2024). Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C4 photosynthesis. Nature. 636(8041). 143–150. 22 indexed citations

Procko, Carl, Travis Lee, Bastiaan O. R. Bargmann, et al.. (2022). Leaf cell-specific and single-cell transcriptional profiling reveals a role for the palisade layer in UV light protection. The Plant Cell. 34(9). 3261–3279. 52 indexed citations

Lee, Travis & Julia Bailey‐Serres. (2020). Conserved and nuanced hierarchy of gene regulatory response to hypoxia. New Phytologist. 229(1). 71–78. 21 indexed citations

Lee, Travis & Julia Bailey‐Serres. (2019). Integrative analysis from the epigenome to translatome uncovers patterns of dominant nuclear regulation during transient stress. The Plant Cell. 31(11). tpc.00463.2019–tpc.00463.2019. 75 indexed citations

Lee, Travis & Julia Bailey‐Serres. (2017). Lighting the shadows: methods that expose nuclear and cytoplasmic gene regulatory control. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 49. 29–34. 6 indexed citations

Hao, Qi, Yinggang Zhu, Antoine Monsel, et al.. (2015). Study of Bone Marrow and Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment ofEscherichia coliEndotoxin-Induced Acute Lung Injury in Mice. Stem Cells Translational Medicine. 4(7). 832–840. 64 indexed citations

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Müller, Jana T., et al.. (2015). Redundant ERF-VII Transcription Factors Bind to an Evolutionarily Conserved cis-Motif to Regulate Hypoxia-Responsive Gene Expression in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 28(1). 160–180. 248 indexed citations

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Lee, Travis, et al.. (2013). Stromal protein degradation is incomplete in Arabidopsis thaliana autophagy mutants undergoing natural senescence. BMC Research Notes. 6(1). 17–17. 24 indexed citations

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Spizz, Gwendolyn, Rubina Yasmin, Zongyuan Chen, et al.. (2012). Rheonix CARD® Technology. Point of Care The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology. 11(1). 42–51. 15 indexed citations

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Basu, Kaushik, et al.. (2010). Literacy traps: Society‐wide education and individual skill premia. International Journal of Economic Theory. 6(1). 137–148. 2 indexed citations

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Lee, Travis. (2009). Competitive Balance in the National Football League After the 1993 Collective Bargaining Agreement. Journal of Sports Economics. 11(1). 77–88. 21 indexed citations

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Lee, Travis. (2008). Benchmarking the effective literacy rate. Mathematical Social Sciences. 56(2). 233–239. 7 indexed citations

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Basu, Kaushik & Travis Lee. (2008). A new and easy-to-use measure of literacy, its axiomatic properties and an application. Social Choice and Welfare. 32(2). 181–196. 9 indexed citations

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Eshleman, Susan H., Sarah E. Hudelson, R. Douglas Bruce, et al.. (2007). Analysis of HIV Type 1 gp41 Sequences in Diverse HIV Type 1 Strains. AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. 23(12). 1593–1598. 8 indexed citations

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Trost, Landon, et al.. (2007). Rheumatoid arthritis: current pharmacologic treatment and anesthetic considerations.. PubMed. 19(2). 311–33. 7 indexed citations

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Goryachev, Andrew B., et al.. (2005). Transition to Quorum Sensing in an Agrobacterium Population: A Stochastic Model. PLoS Computational Biology. 1(4). e37–e37. 59 indexed citations

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Goryachev, Andrew B., et al.. (2005). Transition to Quorum Sensing in an Agrobacterium Population: A Stochastic Model. PLoS Computational Biology. preprint(2005). e37–e37. 1 indexed citations

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