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Plant Science and Agronomy

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64
Citations
14148
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988
National Ranking
89

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Colin P. Osborne publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin P. Osborne sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 177 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Colin P. Osborne D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Colin P. Osborne sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Colin P. Osborne is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of fields primarily situated in Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Within these broad domains, their work is particularly concentrated on subfields such as Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Osborne's research topics cover several areas including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Rangeland and Wildlife Management, and Plant and animal studies.

Their recent papers reflect this interdisciplinary approach, published in diverse and notable venues. Examples include:

  • Developmental and biophysical determinants of grass leaf size worldwide, 2021, Nature
  • Spherical equivalence of cylindrical explosives: Effect of charge shape on deflection of blast-loaded plates, 2021, International Journal of Impact Engineering
  • Astronomically controlled aridity in the Sahara since at least 11 million years ago, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Land degradation in South Africa: Justice and climate change in tension, 2021, People and Nature
  • The global distribution of grass functional traits within grassy biomes, 2020, Journal of Biogeography

Osborne has frequently published in journals such as New Phytologist, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Plant Cell & Environment, Ecology and Evolution, and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

Collaboration is also a notable feature of Osborne's work. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Pascal-Antoine Christin
  • Luke T. Dunning
  • Matheus E. Bianconi
  • David J. Beerling
  • Emma V. Curran

Overall, Colin P. Osborne's body of work contributes to the understanding of plant sciences and environmental changes, integrating various aspects of ecology, physiology, and biogeography to address questions relevant to both biological and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science

    Erika J. Edwards;Colin P. Osborne;Caroline A.E. Strömberg;Stephen A. Smith

  • The origin of the savanna biome

    David J. Beerling;Colin P. Osborne

  • How can we make plants grow faster? A source–sink perspective on growth rate

    Angela C. White;Alistair Rogers;Mark Rees;Colin P. Osborne

  • Nature's green revolution: the remarkable evolutionary rise of C4 plants

    Colin P Osborne;David J Beerling

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Biological and geophysical feedbacks with fire in the Earth system

    Sally Archibald;Sally Archibald;C. E. R. Lehmann;C. E. R. Lehmann;Claire M. Belcher;William J. Bond

  • Ecophysiological traits in C3 and C4 grasses: a phylogenetically controlled screening experiment.

    Samuel H. Taylor;Stephen P. Hulme;Mark Rees;Brad S. Ripley

  • Evolution of leaf-form in land plants linked to atmospheric CO2 decline in the Late Palaeozoic era

    D. J. Beerling;C. P. Osborne;W. G. Chaloner

  • Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4 photosynthesis in grasses

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Colin P. Osborne;David S. Chatelet;J. Travis Columbus

  • Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation

    H. P. Linder;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Caroline E. R. Lehmann;Sally Archibald;Colin P. Osborne

  • Atmosphere, ecology and evolution: what drove the Miocene expansion of C4 grasslands?

    Colin P. Osborne

  • Is stimulation of leaf photosynthesis by elevated carbon dioxide concentration maintained in the long term? A test with Lolium perenne grown for 10 years at two nitrogen fertilization levels under Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE)

    E. A. Ainsworth;P. A. Davey;G. J. Hymus;C. P. Osborne

  • Plant domestication through an ecological lens

    Rubén Milla;Colin P. Osborne;Martin M. Turcotte;Cyrille Violle

  • Olive phenology as a sensitive indicator of future climatic warming in the Mediterranean

    C. P. Osborne;I. Chuine;I. Chuine;D. Viner;F. I. Woodward

  • Evolution of C4 plants: a new hypothesis for an interaction of CO2 and water relations mediated by plant hydraulics

    Colin P. Osborne;Lawren Sack

  • Photosynthetic pathway and ecological adaptation explain stomatal trait diversity amongst grasses

    S. H. Taylor;P. J. Franks;S. P. Hulme;E. Spriggs

  • Ecological selection pressures for C4 photosynthesis in the grasses.

    Colin P. Osborne;Robert P. Freckleton

  • Drought constraints on C4 photosynthesis: stomatal and metabolic limitations in C3 and C4 subspecies of Alloteropsis semialata

    Brad S. Ripley;Matthew E. Gilbert;Douglas G. Ibrahim;Colin P. Osborne

  • Stomatal responses of the ‘living fossil’ Ginkgo biloba L. to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations

    D.J. Beerling;J.C. McElwain;C.P. Osborne

  • Determinants of flammability in savanna grass species

    Kimberley J. Simpson;Brad S. Ripley;Pascal‐Antoine Christin;Claire M. Belcher

  • Molecular Dating, Evolutionary Rates, and the Age of the Grasses

    Pascal-Antoine Christin;Pascal-Antoine Christin;Elizabeth Spriggs;Colin P. Osborne;Caroline A.E. Strömberg

  • Fire and fire‐adapted vegetation promoted C4 expansion in the late Miocene

    Simon Scheiter;Steven I. Higgins;Colin P. Osborne;Catherine Bradshaw

  • Photosynthesis and conductance of spring‐wheat leaves: field response to continuous free‐air atmospheric CO2 enrichment

    R. L. Garcia;S. P. Long;S. P. Long;G. W. Wall;C. P. Osborne

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal-Antoine Christin
Pascal-Antoine Christin University of Sheffield
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
Caroline E. R. Lehmann
Caroline E. R. Lehmann University of Edinburgh
Mark Rees
Mark Rees University of Sheffield
Erika J. Edwards
Erika J. Edwards Yale University
Guillaume Besnard
Guillaume Besnard Paul Sabatier University
Christopher J. Still
Christopher J. Still Oregon State University
William J. Bond
William J. Bond University of Cape Town
Stephen P. Long
Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sally Archibald
Sally Archibald University of the Witwatersrand

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