2026 Colin M. Orians: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	46	2753	2557	676	600	123	6382

Overview

Colin M. Orians is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States and focuses their research on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, insect science, general ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their research topics cover a breadth of areas such as plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, insect-plant interactions and control, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tea polyphenols and their effects, animal ecology and behavior studies, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Orians has published extensively in several venues. Most frequently, their work appears in:

Frontiers in Plant Science
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
Oecologia
Research Square (Research Square)
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent collaborators include Elizabeth E. Crone, Gabriela M. Garcia, Eric R. Scott, Selena Ahmed, and Timothy S. Griffin.

Some notable recent papers by Orians and their coauthors include:

"Changes in Tea Plant Secondary Metabolite Profiles as a Function of Leafhopper Density and Damage," 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
"By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems," 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
"Nutrient enrichment and rainfall affect plant phenology and floral resource availability for pollinators," 2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
"Editorial: Responses of Tea Plants to Climate Change: From Molecules to Ecosystems," 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
"Reproductive tradeoffs in a perennial crop: Exploring the mechanisms of coffee alternate bearing in relation to farm management," 2022, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Best Publications

The effects of hybridization in plants on secondary chemistry: implications for the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions.

Colin M. Orians

241
Citations
Jasmonic acid induces rapid changes in carbon transport and partitioning in Populus.

Benjamin A. Babst;Richard A. Ferrieri;Dennis W. Gray;Dennis W. Gray;Manuel Lerdau

240
Citations
Sedum cools soil and can improve neighboring plant performance during water deficit on a green roof

Colleen Butler;Colin M. Orians

230
Citations
Morphological and molecular evidence for hybridization and introgression in a willow (Salix) hybrid zone.

T. M. Hardig;S. J. Brunsfeld;R. S. Fritz;M. Morgan

220
Citations
Plants as resource mosaics: a functional model for predicting patterns of within‐plant resource heterogeneity to consumers based on vascular architecture and local environmental variability

Colin M. Orians;Clive G. Jones

194
Citations
Environmental Factors Variably Impact Tea Secondary Metabolites in the Context of Climate Change.

Selena Ahmed;Timothy S Griffin;Debra Kraner;M Katherine Schaffner

189
Citations
Effects of extreme climate events on tea (Camellia sinensis) functional quality validate indigenous farmer knowledge and sensory preferences in tropical China.

Selena Ahmed;Selena Ahmed;Selena Ahmed;John Richard Stepp;Colin M. Orians;Timothy S. Griffin

189
Citations
Herbivores, Vascular Pathways, and Systemic Induction: Facts and Artifacts

Colin Orians

171
Citations
Methyl jasmonate elicits rapid changes in carbon and nitrogen dynamics in tomato.

Sara Gómez;Sara Gómez;Richard A. Ferrieri;Michael Schueller;Colin M. Orians

162
Citations
Native plant enthusiasm reaches new heights: Perceptions, evidence, and the future of green roofs

Colleen Butler;Erin Butler;Colin M. Orians

154
Citations
Herbivore-induced resource sequestration in plants: why bother?

Colin M. Orians;Alexandra Thorn;Sara Gómez;Sara Gómez

152
Citations
Testing the growth–differentiation balance hypothesis: dynamic responses of willows to nutrient availability

Carolyn Glynn;Daniel A. Herms;Colin M. Orians;Robert C. Hansen

151
Citations
Seedling herbivory by slugs in a willow hybrid system: developmental changes in damage, chemical defense, and plant performance.

Robert S. Fritz;Cris G. Hochwender;Debra A. Lewkiewicz;Sara Bothwell

149
Citations
Evolution of Plant Defenses in Nonindigenous Environments

Colin M. Orians;David Ward

143
Citations
Vascular Architecture Generates Fine Scale Variation in Systemic Induction of Proteinase Inhibitors in Tomato

Colin M. Orians;Jason Pomerleau;Rafael Ricco

140
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Patterns and consequences of differential vascular sectoriality in 18 temperate tree and shrub species

A. E. Zanne;K. Sweeney;M. Sharma;C. M. Orians

138
Citations
Dynamic changes in root hydraulic properties in response to nitrate availability

Vit Gloser;Vit Gloser;Maciej A. Zwieniecki;Colin M. Orians;N. Michele Holbrook

109
Citations
Willow hybridization differentially affects preference and performance of herbivorous beetles

Colin M. Orians;Cynthia H. Huang;Alexander Wild;Katherine A. Dorfman

106
Citations
Interspecific and temporal variation in herbivore responses to hybrid willows

Robert S. Fritz;Bernadette M. Roche;Steven J. Brunsfeld;Colin M. Orians

102
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Herbivore-Induced Changes in Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) Primary Metabolism: A Whole Plant Perspective

Adam D. Steinbrenner;Adam D. Steinbrenner;Sara Gómez;Sara Gómez;Sonia Osorio;Alisdair R. Fernie

99
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Secondary chemistry of hybrid and parental willows: Phenolic glycosides and condensed tannins in Salix sericea, S. eriocephala , and their hybrids

Colin M. Orians;Robert S. Fritz

98
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Genetic and soil-nutrient effects on the abundance of herbivores on willow

Colin M. Orians;Robert S. Fritz

98
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