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Ian C. Anderson 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 Ian C. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 147 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ian C. Anderson 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 Ian C. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ian C. Anderson is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia. Their research spans significant areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with particular emphasis on Plant Science, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Soil Science, Oncology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The primary topics in Anderson's work include:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Fungal Biology and Applications

Ian C. Anderson has published in a variety of journals, with several frequent publication venues such as:

  • Annals of Oncology
  • New Phytologist
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment (2020), published in Nature
  • The ectomycorrhizal fungus Pisolithus microcarpus encodes a microRNA involved in cross-kingdom gene silencing during symbiosis (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Microbial competition for phosphorus limits the CO2 response of a mature forest (2024), published in Nature
  • Open-label, phase II, multicenter study of lasofoxifene plus abemaciclib for treating women with metastatic ER+/HER2− breast cancer and an ESR1 mutation after disease progression on prior therapies: ELAINE 2 (2023), published in Annals of Oncology
  • Trilaciclib prior to chemotherapy reduces the usage of supportive care interventions for chemotherapy-induced myelosuppression in patients with small cell lung cancer: Pooled analysis of three randomized phase 2 trials (2021), published in Cancer Medicine

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Anderson are:

  • Jonathan M. Plett
  • Jeff R. Powell
  • Krista L. Plett
  • Yolima Carrillo
  • Catriona A. Macdonald

Best Publications

  • Diversity and ecology of soil fungal communities: increased understanding through the application of molecular techniques

    Ian C. Anderson;John W. G. Cairney

  • Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene-enzyme relationships.

    Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Chanda Trivedi;Hangwei Hu

  • Microbial modulators of soil carbon storage: integrating genomic and metabolic knowledge for global prediction

    Pankaj Trivedi;Ian C. Anderson;Brajesh K. Singh

  • The fate of carbon in a mature forest under carbon dioxide enrichment

    Mingkai Jiang;Belinda E. Medlyn;John E. Drake;John E. Drake;Remko A. Duursma

  • Field study reveals core plant microbiota and relative importance of their drivers.

    Kelly Hamonts;Pankaj Trivedi;Anshu Garg;Caroline Janitz

  • Potential bias of fungal 18S rDNA and internal transcribed spacer polymerase chain reaction primers for estimating fungal biodiversity in soil.

    Ian C. Anderson;Ian C. Anderson;Colin D. Campbell;James I. Prosser

  • Response of Soil Properties and Microbial Communities to Agriculture: Implications for Primary Productivity and Soil Health Indicators

    Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Ian C. Anderson;Brajesh K. Singh

  • Elevated CO2 does not increase eucalypt forest productivity on a low-phosphorus soil

    David S. Ellsworth;Ian C. Anderson;Kristine Y. Crous;Julia Cooke

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards;Andy F.S. Taylor

  • Soil aggregation and associated microbial communities modify the impact of agricultural management on carbon content.

    Pankaj Trivedi;Pankaj Trivedi;Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Thomas C. Jeffries;Chanda Trivedi

  • Fine‐scale distribution of pine ectomycorrhizas and their extramatrical mycelium

    David R Genney;David R Genney;I. C. Anderson;Ian James Alexander

  • Soil aggregate size mediates the impacts of cropping regimes on soil carbon and microbial communities

    Pankaj Trivedi;Ian J Rochester;Chanda Trivedi;Joy D Van Nostrand

  • Diversity of fungi in organic soils under a moorland--Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) gradient.

    Ian C. Anderson;Ian C. Anderson;Colin D. Campbell;James I. Prosser

  • Use of multiplex terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism for rapid and simultaneous analysis of different components of the soil microbial community

    Brajesh K. Singh;Loic Nazaries;Stacey Munro;Ian C. Anderson

  • The importance of individuals: intraspecific diversity of mycorrhizal plants and fungi in ecosystems

    David Johnson;Francis Martin;John W. G. Cairney;Ian C. Anderson

  • Stable isotope probing analysis of the influence of liming on root exudate utilization by soil microorganisms

    J. Ignacio Rangel-Castro;Ken Killham;Nick J Ostle;Graeme W Nicol

  • Keystone microbial taxa regulate the invasion of a fungal pathogen in agro-ecosystems

    P. Trivedi;P. Trivedi;M. Delgado-Baquerizo;M. Delgado-Baquerizo;C. Trivedi;K. Hamonts

  • Ectomycorrhizal fungi : exploring the mycelial frontier

    Ian C. Anderson;John W.G. Cairney

  • Detection of active soil fungi by RT-PCR amplification of precursor rRNA molecules

    Ian C. Anderson;Pamela I. Parkin

  • Preserving accuracy in GenBank

    M. I. Bidartondo;Thomas D. Bruns;Meredith Blackwell;Ivan Edwards

  • Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology

    Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros;Stefan Hempel;Jeff R. Powell;Ian C. Anderson

  • An Ecological Loop: Host Microbiomes across Multitrophic Interactions.

    Hongwei Liu;Catriona A Macdonald;James M Cook;Ian C Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Brajesh K. Singh
Brajesh K. Singh Western Sydney University
Ian J. Alexander
Ian J. Alexander University of Aberdeen
Jeff R. Powell
Jeff R. Powell Western Sydney University
John Cairney
John Cairney University of Queensland
Jonathan M. Plett
Jonathan M. Plett University of Sydney
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Pankaj Trivedi
Pankaj Trivedi Colorado State University
Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell University of York
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Teresa E. Gimeno
Teresa E. Gimeno Basque Centre for Climate Change

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