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Legume Science
H-index 17

Legume Science

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 144 32 41 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 55
Documents by Best Scientists*: 64
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 29
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.928
Impact Factor: 5

Top Publications

  • Dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) as a vital component of sustainable agriculture and food security—A review

    Unknown

    (2022)
    205 Citations
  • Potential and limits of exploitation of crop wild relatives for pea, lentil, and chickpea improvement

    Clarice J. Coyne;Shiv Kumar;Eric J.B. von Wettberg;Edward Marques

    (2020)
    125 Citations
  • Recent advances in faba bean genetic and genomic tools for crop improvement

    Hamid Khazaei;Donal M. O'Sullivan;Frederick L. Stoddard;Kedar N. Adhikari

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in legume crops: Opportunities and challenges

    Pankaj Bhowmik;David Konkin;Patricia Polowick;Connor Lorne Hodgins

    (2021)
    67 Citations
  • The UCR Minicore: a resource for cowpea research and breeding

    María Muñoz-Amatriaín;María Muñoz-Amatriaín;Sassoum Lo;Sassoum Lo;Ira A. Herniter;Ira A. Herniter;Ousmane Boukar

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Profiling the varietal antioxidative contents and macrochemical composition in Australian faba beans (Vicia faba L.)

    Joel B. Johnson;Tania Collins;Daniel Skylas;Ken Quail

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • The UCR Minicore: a valuable resource for cowpea research and breeding

    María Muñoz-Amatriaín;María Muñoz-Amatriaín;Sassoum Lo;Sassoum Lo;Ira A. Herniter;Ira A. Herniter;Ousmane Boukar

    (2021)
    30 Citations
  • Genomics-assisted lentil breeding: Current status and future strategies

    Jitendra Kumar;Debjyoti Sen Gupta;Michael Baum;Rajeev K. Varshney

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Antioxidative properties and macrochemical composition of five commercial mungbean varieties in Australia

    Joel Johnson;Tania Collins;Aoife Power;Shaneel Chandra

    (2020)
    28 Citations
  • Evaluation of yield, yield stability, and yield–protein relationship in 17 commercial faba bean cultivars

    Cathrine Kiel Skovbjerg;Jens Nørgaard Knudsen;Winnie Füchtbauer;Jens Stougaard

    (2020)
    25 Citations

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