Walid Sadok

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Walid Sadok is a scholar working on Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Walid Sadok has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Plant Science, 32 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Walid Sadok's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (21 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (9 papers). Walid Sadok is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers), Plant responses to elevated CO2 (21 papers) and Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (9 papers). Walid Sadok collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and France. Walid Sadok's co-authors include Thomas R. Sinclair, Rémy Schoppach, José R. López, S. V. Krishna Jagadish, Kevin P. Smith, Danielle A. Way, Jacques-Éric Bergez, Bruno Colomb, Thierry Doré and Christian Bockstaller and has published in prestigious journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, New Phytologist and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Walid Sadok

56 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity

2021 160 citations José R. López, Danielle A. Way et al. Global Change Biology profile →
The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems

2024 73 citations Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin et al. Plant Cell & Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walid Sadok United States	27	1.6k	958	351	338	251	56	2.4k
Edmar Teixeira New Zealand	25	1.1k 0.7×	645 0.7×	631 1.8×	678 2.0×	233 0.9×	64	2.1k
Roberto Ferrise Italy	24	1.4k 0.9×	645 0.7×	522 1.5×	866 2.6×	324 1.3×	47	2.3k
Françoise Ruget France	17	1.1k 0.7×	603 0.6×	514 1.5×	831 2.5×	338 1.3×	26	2.0k
Raju Soolanayakanahally Canada	24	1.4k 0.9×	643 0.7×	327 0.9×	255 0.8×	269 1.1×	81	2.5k
Gretchen F. Sassenrath United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	402 0.4×	286 0.8×	319 0.9×	379 1.5×	113	2.0k
Federica Rossi Italy	17	926 0.6×	932 1.0×	233 0.7×	555 1.6×	435 1.7×	58	2.2k
Andy VanLoocke United States	26	899 0.6×	631 0.7×	599 1.7×	173 0.5×	270 1.1×	58	2.1k
Marie Launay France	22	967 0.6×	338 0.4×	553 1.6×	405 1.2×	290 1.2×	53	1.7k
Heidi Webber Germany	30	1.4k 0.8×	708 0.7×	576 1.6×	1.2k 3.5×	340 1.4×	72	2.7k
John J. Read United States	27	1.4k 0.9×	618 0.6×	264 0.8×	258 0.8×	556 2.2×	81	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Walid Sadok

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walid Sadok

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walid Sadok

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Walid Sadok. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Walid Sadok based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Walid Sadok. Walid Sadok is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zhang, Yangyang, et al.. (2025). Leaf sheath stomatal density is a driver of water use in a grass crop: genetic and physiological evidence in barley. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(17). 5025–5036. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Qiansu, et al.. (2025). Photosynthesis‐driven yield gains in global wheat breeding trials. Crop Science. 65(1). 2 indexed citations

Novick, Kimberly A., Darren L. Ficklin, Charlotte Grossiord, et al.. (2024). The impacts of rising vapour pressure deficit in natural and managed ecosystems. Plant Cell & Environment. 47(9). 3561–3589. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

Jungers, Jacob M., et al.. (2023). Is interannual grain yield decline of intermediate wheatgrass influenced by management and climate in the Upper Midwest?. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 362. 108856–108856. 4 indexed citations

Denison, R. Ford, et al.. (2023). Rising vapor‐pressure deficit increases nitrogen fixation in a legume crop. New Phytologist. 239(1). 54–65. 6 indexed citations

Sadok, Walid, et al.. (2023). Transpiration response to soil drying versus increasing vapor pressure deficit in crops: physical and physiological mechanisms and key plant traits. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(16). 4789–4807. 26 indexed citations

López, José R., Danielle A. Way, & Walid Sadok. (2021). Systemic effects of rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit on plant physiology and productivity. Global Change Biology. 27(9). 1704–1720. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

Sadok, Walid & S. V. Krishna Jagadish. (2020). The Hidden Costs of Nighttime Warming on Yields. Trends in Plant Science. 25(7). 644–651. 125 indexed citations

Sadok, Walid, José R. López, & Kevin P. Smith. (2020). Transpiration increases under high‐temperature stress: Potential mechanisms, trade‐offs and prospects for crop resilience in a warming world. Plant Cell & Environment. 44(7). 2102–2116. 161 indexed citations

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Sadok, Walid & Rémy Schoppach. (2019). Potential involvement of root auxins in drought tolerance by modulating nocturnal and daytime water use in wheat. Annals of Botany. 124(6). 969–978. 22 indexed citations

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Tamang, Bishal G., et al.. (2019). Variability in temperature-independent transpiration responses to evaporative demand correlate with nighttime water use and its circadian control across diverse wheat populations. Planta. 250(1). 115–127. 19 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Thomas R., Mura Jyostna Devi, Avat Shekoofa, et al.. (2017). Limited-transpiration response to high vapor pressure deficit in crop species. Plant Science. 260. 109–118. 110 indexed citations

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Sinclair, Thomas R., et al.. (2016). Pot binding as a variable confounding plant phenotype: theoretical derivation and experimental observations. Planta. 245(4). 729–735. 19 indexed citations

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Schoppach, Rémy, Julian Taylor, Ute Baumann, et al.. (2016). High resolution mapping of traits related to whole-plant transpiration under increasing evaporative demand in wheat. Journal of Experimental Botany. 67(9). 2847–2860. 45 indexed citations

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Bergez, Jacques-Éric, Frédérique Angevin, Christian Bockstaller, et al.. (2015). Guidelines to design models assessing agricultural sustainability, based upon feedbacks from the DEXi decision support system. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 35(4). 1431–1447. 39 indexed citations

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Fiscus, Edwin L., Fitzgerald L. Booker, Walid Sadok, & Kent O. Burkey. (2012). Influence of atmospheric vapour pressure deficit on ozone responses of snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(7). 2557–2564. 13 indexed citations

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Schoppach, Rémy & Walid Sadok. (2012). Differential sensitivities of transpiration to evaporative demand and soil water deficit among wheat elite cultivars indicate different strategies for drought tolerance. Environmental and Experimental Botany. 84. 1–10. 93 indexed citations

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Sadok, Walid & Thomas R. Sinclair. (2009). Transpiration response of ‘slow-wilting’ and commercial soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) genotypes to three aquaporin inhibitors. Journal of Experimental Botany. 61(3). 821–829. 90 indexed citations

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Sadok, Walid, et al.. (2006). Leaf growth rate per unit thermal time follows QTL‐dependent daily patterns in hundreds of maize lines under naturally fluctuating conditions. Plant Cell & Environment. 30(2). 135–146. 115 indexed citations

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Tardieu, François, Matthieu Reymond, Bertrand Muller, et al.. (2005). Linking physiological and genetic analyses of the control of leaf growth under changing environmental conditions. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research. 56(9). 937–946. 49 indexed citations

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