Vasileios Fotopoulos

13.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
155 papers, 9.3k citations indexed

About

Vasileios Fotopoulos is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasileios Fotopoulos has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 9.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Plant Science, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Vasileios Fotopoulos's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (68 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (18 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (16 papers). Vasileios Fotopoulos is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (68 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (18 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (16 papers). Vasileios Fotopoulos collaborates with scholars based in Cyprus, Greece and Italy. Vasileios Fotopoulos's co-authors include Anastasis Christou, Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Panagiota S. Filippou, Chrystalla Antoniou, Ali Raza, Jubayer Al Mahmud, Sayed Mohammad Mohsin, Faisal Zulfiqar, Masayuki Fujita and M. H. M. Borhannuddin Bhuyan 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

Vasileios Fotopoulos

148 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defense in Plants under Abiotic Stress: Revisiting the Crucial Role of a Universal Defense Regulator

2020 1.8k citations Vasileios Fotopoulos et al. profile →
Chemical Priming of Plants Against Multiple Abiotic Stresses: Mission Possible?

2015 443 citations Vasileios Fotopoulos et al. Trends in Plant Science profile →
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) promote growth and ameliorate salinity stress effects on essential oil profile and biochemical attributes of Dracocephalum moldavica

2020 351 citations Gholamreza Gohari, Asghar Mohammadi et al. profile →
Smart reprograming of plants against salinity stress using modern biotechnological tools

2022 176 citations Vasileios Fotopoulos et al. profile →
Biostimulants for the Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism in Plants under Abiotic Stress

2021 155 citations Vasileios Fotopoulos et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vasileios Fotopoulos Cyprus	47	6.9k	2.3k	1.0k	831	460	155	9.3k
Shamsul Hayat India	58	12.2k 1.8×	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	894 1.1×	615 1.3×	206	14.8k
Golam Jalal Ahammed China	62	9.3k 1.3×	3.0k 1.3×	957 0.9×	754 0.9×	459 1.0×	215	11.5k
Manzer H. Siddiqui Saudi Arabia	53	7.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	966 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	451 1.0×	320	9.7k
Naser A. Anjum India	46	6.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	658 0.8×	226 0.5×	124	7.9k
Pallavi Sharma India	19	5.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	501 0.6×	278 0.6×	46	7.3k
Kamrun Nahar Bangladesh	59	9.8k 1.4×	2.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	404 0.5×	438 1.0×	134	12.0k
Mohammad Pessarakli United States	37	7.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	506 0.5×	442 0.5×	551 1.2×	251	10.2k
Conceição Santos Portugal	45	4.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	859 0.8×	623 0.7×	500 1.1×	253	7.6k
Sarvajeet Singh Gill India	47	12.0k 1.7×	4.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.7×	1.1k 1.3×	501 1.1×	135	16.1k
Hamada AbdElgawad Belgium	50	4.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	703 0.7×	829 1.0×	735 1.6×	323	8.6k

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Georgiadou, Egli C., Gholamreza Gohari, Rubén Alcázar, et al.. (2025). Pre-harvest application of sodium alginate functionalized with melatonin enhances secondary metabolism in strawberry fruit. Current Plant Biology. 43. 100515–100515. 1 indexed citations

Athanasiou, Kyriacos, Andreas Ioannou, Egli C. Georgiadou, et al.. (2025). Seed Coatings with Melatonin-Embedded Hydrogel Biopolymers as Green Tools to Mitigate Salinity Stress in Tomato Plants. ACS Applied Polymer Materials. 7(16). 10451–10464.

Giovannini, Luca, et al.. (2025). Seeds of Change: exploring the transformative effects of seed priming in sustainable agriculture. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(3). e70226–e70226. 1 indexed citations

Fotopoulos, Vasileios, et al.. (2025). Strategies for Enhancing Resilience in Horticultural Crops Against Combined Abiotic Stresses. Physiologia Plantarum. 177(5). e70502–e70502.

Karami, Omid, Pawan Kumar, David Honys, et al.. (2025). Priming thermotolerance: unlocking heat resilience for climate-smart crops. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1927). 20240234–20240234. 2 indexed citations

Gohari, Gholamreza, Muhittin Kulak, Egli C. Georgiadou, et al.. (2024). Enhancing salinity stress tolerance in corn salad (Valerianella locusta L.) through melatonin or salicylic acid-functionalized chitosan seed priming: A smart delivery approach. Plant Stress. 14. 100600–100600. 7 indexed citations

Gohari, Gholamreza, Meng Jiang, George Α. Manganaris, Jie Zhou, & Vasileios Fotopoulos. (2024). Next generation chemical priming: with a little help from our nanocarrier friends. Trends in Plant Science. 29(2). 150–166. 40 indexed citations

Aliferis, Konstantinos A., Costas J. Saitanis, Vasileios Fotopoulos, et al.. (2024). Plant Biostimulants Enhance Tomato Resilience to Salinity Stress: Insights from Two Greek Landraces. Plants. 13(10). 1404–1404. 9 indexed citations

Mohammadi, Asghar, Sima Panahirad, Muhittin Kulak, et al.. (2024). Cerium Oxide Nanoparticles (CeO2 NPs) Enhance Salt Tolerance in Spearmint (Mentha spicata L.) by Boosting the Antioxidant System and Increasing Essential Oil Composition. Plants. 13(20). 2934–2934. 3 indexed citations

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Sheikhalipour, Morteza, Seyed Abolghasem Mohammadi, Behrooz Esmaielpour, et al.. (2023). Seedling nanopriming with selenium-chitosan nanoparticles mitigates the adverse effects of salt stress by inducing multiple defence pathways in bitter melon plants. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 242(Pt 3). 124923–124923. 24 indexed citations

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Georgiadou, Egli C., et al.. (2021). The efficacy of acetylsalicylic acid, spermidine and calcium preharvest foliar spray applications on yield efficiency, incidence of physiological disorders and shelf-life performance of loquat fruit. Scientia Horticulturae. 289. 110439–110439. 11 indexed citations

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Antoniou, Chrystalla, Xavier Zarza, Gholamreza Gohari, et al.. (2021). Involvement of Polyamine Metabolism in the Response of Medicago truncatula Genotypes to Salt Stress. Plants. 10(2). 269–269. 22 indexed citations

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Georgiadou, Egli C., Chrystalla Antoniou, Vlasios Goulas, et al.. (2021). Tissue-specific elucidation of lycopene metabolism in commercial tomato fruit cultivars during ripening. Scientia Horticulturae. 284. 110144–110144. 7 indexed citations

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Kulbat-Warycha, Kamila, et al.. (2020). Response to stress and allergen production caused by metal ions (Ni, Cu and Zn) in oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) plants. Journal of Biotechnology. 324. 171–182. 18 indexed citations

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Brizzolara, Stefano, George Α. Manganaris, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Christopher B. Watkins, & Pietro Tonutti. (2020). Primary Metabolism in Fresh Fruits During Storage. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 80–80. 188 indexed citations

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Langensiepen, Matthias, Marcel A. K. Jansen, Astrid Wingler, et al.. (2020). Linking integrative plant physiology with agronomy to sustain future plant production. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 178. 104125–104125. 9 indexed citations

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Georgiadou, Egli C., Georgios Koubouris, Vlasios Goulas, et al.. (2018). Genotype‐dependent regulation of vitamin E biosynthesis in olive fruits as revealed through metabolic and transcriptional profiles. Plant Biology. 21(4). 604–614. 12 indexed citations

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Ziogas, Vasileios, Athanassios Molassiotis, Vasileios Fotopoulos, & Γεωργία Τάνου. (2018). Hydrogen Sulfide: A Potent Tool in Postharvest Fruit Biology and Possible Mechanism of Action. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 1375–1375. 66 indexed citations

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Molassiotis, Athanassios & Vasileios Fotopoulos. (2011). Oxidative and nitrosative signaling in plants. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 6(2). 210–214. 100 indexed citations

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Fotopoulos, Vasileios, Chrysostomos Ι. Dovas, & Nikolaos I. Katis. (2011). INCIDENCE OF VIRUSES INFECTING SPINACH IN GREECE, HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF WEEDS AS RESERVOIR HOSTS. Journal of Plant Pathology. 93(2). 389–395. 2 indexed citations

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