Top 5 Articles of The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology in 2019 Based on Altmetric Scores
HAPPY NEW YEAR, PLANT BIOLOGY COMMUNITY! What a year 2019 was! So many wonderful things happened. ASPB hosted another successful Plant Biology meeting in San Jose, CA. We spent the year celebrating The Plant Cell‘s 30th anniversary (check out the hashtag #ThePlantCellebration30 for a year full of fun, and contact me if you don’t have our commemorative T-shirt, dress socks, or athletic socks in your regular wardrobe rotation because I can help you fix that). Plant Physiology published multiple focus issues. Our publications staff had a ball highlighting the important work of our authors via Twitter, Facebook, Plantae, and more. Blake Meyers began his new role as Editor-in-Chief of TPC beginning on January 1, 2020.
We are looking forward to an even better 2020, with our focus, as it always is, on a superior publishing experience for our authors! Please reach out to me at any time with your ideas for improvement. I am here to listen and to enrich your authorship and/or readership experience.
For this blog post, though, I want to focus on the top 5 articles in 2019 for both Plant Physiology and The Plant Cell. You might be wondering what an Altmetric score is. Officially known as the “Altmetric Attention Score,” this tool measures the attention an article is receiving from a variety of sources (including but not limited to Twitter, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, news, post-publication peer reviews, policy documents, etc.). To learn more about Altmetric, please go to www.altmetric.com.
*DRUM ROLL PLEASE*
And the top 5 TPC articles are:
#1 The Plant Cell:
With 207 mentions, our #1 article of 2020 was: CRISPR-TSKO: A Technique for Efficient Mutagenesis in Specific Cell Types, Tissues, or Organs in Arabidopsis by Ward Decaestecker, Rafael Andrade Buono, Marie L. Pfeiffer, Nick Vangheluwe, Joris Jourquin, Mansour Karimi, Gert Van Isterdael, Tom Beeckman, Moritz K. Nowack, and Thomas B. Jacobs. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00454
Date: December 2019 (Open)
Authors:
Ward Decaestecker, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Rafael Andrade Buono, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Marie L. Pfeiffer, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Nick Vangheluwe, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Joris Jourquin, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Mansour Karimi, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Gert Van Isterdael, VIB Flow Core, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Technologiepark 71, B-9052 Ghent, BelgiumDepartment of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Tom Beeckman, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Moritz K. Nowack, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
Thomas B. Jacobs, Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, BelgiumVIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Technologiepark 71, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
#2 The Plant Cell:
The second most attention-getting article of 2019, with 182 mentions, was: Plant Extracellular Vesicles Contain Diverse Small RNA Species and Are Enriched in 10- to 17-Nucleotide “Tiny” RNAs by Patricia Baldrich, Brian D. Rutter, Hana Zand Karimi, Ram Podicheti, Blake C. Meyers, and Roger W. Innes. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00872
Date: February 2019
Authors:
Patricia Baldrich, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132
Brian D. Rutter, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Hana Zand Karimi, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Ram Podicheti, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
Blake C. Meyers, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri 63132University of Missouri-Columbia, Division of Plant Sciences, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Roger W. Innes, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405
#3 The Plant Cell:
Our third article had 169 mentions: Identification of Molecular Integrators Shows that Nitrogen Actively Controls the Phosphate Starvation Response in Plants by Anna Medici, Wojciech Szponarski, Pierre Dangeville, Alaeddine Safi, Indeewari Madhubhashini Dissanayake, Chorpet Saenchai, Amélie Emanuel, Vicente Rubio, Benoît Lacombe, Sandrine Ruffel, Milos Tanurdzic, Hatem Rouached, and Gabriel Krouk. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.18.00656
Date: May 2019 ($)
Authors:
Anna Medici, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Wojciech Szponarski, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Pierre Dangeville, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Alaeddine Safi, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Alaeddine Safi, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Chorpet Saenchai, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Amélie Emanuel, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Vicente Rubio, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Darwin 3, Campus de la Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
Benoît Lacombe, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, FranceInstitut Claude Grignon, Biochime et Physiologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 34060 Montpellier, France
Sandrine Ruffel, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Milos Tanurdzic, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, Queensland, Australia
Hatem Rouached, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, France
Gabriel Krouk, BPMP, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, INRA, SupAgro, Montpellier, FranceInstitut Claude Grignon, Biochime et Physiologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 34060 Montpellier, France
#4 The Plant Cell:
Article #4 for 2019 had 159 mentions: An Improved Recombineering Toolset for Plants by Javier Brumos, Chengsong Zhao, Yan Gong, David Soriano, Arjun P. Patel, Miguel A. Perez-Amador, Anna N. Stepanova, and Jose M. Alonso. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00431
Date: October 2019 ($)
Authors:
Javier Brumos, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Chengsong Zhao, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Yan Gong, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
David Soriano, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Arjun P. Patel, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Miguel A. Perez-Amador, CSIC, Valencia, 46022 Spain
Anna N. Stepanova, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Jose M. Alonso, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
#5 The Plant Cell:
And the fifth most attention-grabbing article of 2019, with 157 mentions, was: Genome-Wide Transcription Factor Binding in Leaves from C3 and C4 Grasses by Steven J. Burgess, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Sean R. Stevenson, Pallavi Singh, Katja Jaeger, and Julian M. Hibberd. https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00078
Date: October 2019 (Open)
Authors:
Steven J. Burgess, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Sean R. Stevenson, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Pallavi Singh, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Katja Jaeger, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1LR, United Kingdom
Julian M. Hibberd, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EA, United Kingdom
Next up, the top 5 PP articles are:
#2 Plant Physiology
Our #1 article for 2019, with 228 mentions, was: Advances in Imaging Plant Cell Dynamics by George Komis, Dominik Novák, Miroslav Ovečka, Olga Šamajová, and Jozef Šamaj. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00962
January 2018 (Open)
Authors:
George Komis, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Miroslav Ovečka, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Olga Šamajová, Centre of the Region Haná for Biotechnological and Agricultural Research, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, 783 71 Olomouc, Czech Republic
#2 Plant Physiology
Our #2 article of 2019, with 225 mentions, is: Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Resolves Molecular Relationships Among Individual Plant Cells by Kook Hui Ryu, Ling Huang, Hyun Min Kang, and John Schiefelbein. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.01482
April 2019 (Open)
Authors:
Kook Hui Ryu, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Ling Huang, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037
Hyun Min Kang, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
John Schiefelbein, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
#3 Plant Physiology
The third most attention-getting articles, with 163 mentions, was: Switching the Direction of Stem Gravitropism by Altering Two Amino Acids in AtLAZY1 by Takeshi Yoshihara and Edgar P. Spalding. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01144
December 2018 (Open)
Authors:
Takeshi Yoshihara, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Edgar P. Spalding, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
#4 Plant Physiology
Our fourth article, with 149 mentions, was: Mucoromycotina Fine Root Endophyte Fungi Form Nutritional Mutualisms with Vascular Plants by Grace A. Hoysted, Alison S. Jacob, Jill Kowal, Philipp Giesemann, Martin I. Bidartondo, Jeffrey G. Duckett, Gerhard Gebauer, William R. Rimington, Sebastian Schornack, Silvia Pressel, and Katie J. Field. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.00729
October 2019 ($)
Authors:
Grace A. Hoysted, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
Alison S. Jacob, Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, United KingdomDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Jill Kowal, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Philipp Giesemann, Laboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
Martin I. Bidartondo, Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, United KingdomDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Jeffrey G. Duckett, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Gerhard Gebauer, Laboratory of Isotope Biogeochemistry, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
William R. Rimington, Comparative Plant & Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3DS, United KingdomDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom; and Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Sebastian Schornack, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1LR, United Kingdom
Silvia Pressel, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom
Katie J. Field, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
#5 Plant Physiology
And the #5 article, with 149 mentions, was: Surface Sensor Systems in Plant Immunity by Isabell Albert, Chenlei Hua, Thorsten Nurnberger, Rory Pruitt, and Lisha Zhang. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.19.01299
December 2019 (Open)
Authors:
Isabell Albert, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Chenlei Hua, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Thorsten Nurnberger, Department of Plant Biochemistry, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Rory Pruitt, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Lisha Zhang, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
Please share your comments and thoughts on YOUR most meaningful articles from 2019. We would love to hear from you!
Our staff works hard to compile these data throughout the year, so keep an eye on Plantae, Twitter, and Facebook to see top articles for 2019. Many thanks to Suzanne Cholwek, Nan Eckardt, Linda Palmer, Katie Rogers, and Mary Williams for scrutinizing these scores so closely on behalf of our authors. This team also works diligently to feature our authors via blog posts, social media, and more.
We appreciate our authors, editors, reviewers, readers, and supporters so much. Cheers to a wonderful 2020 for all! I have a feeling this year is going to be the best one yet!
Best wishes,
Jennifer Regala, Managing Editor, The Plant Cell and Plant Physiology
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