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D-Index
91
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31102
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1034
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29

Ian Small publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Small sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 193 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ian Small D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Small sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ian Small is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a specific focus on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Ian Small's work concentrates on several core topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology

Their recent published papers include:

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding, 2020, Nature
  • Chromosome-scale genome assembly provides insights into rye biology, evolution and agronomic potential, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Large scale genome skimming from herbarium material for accurate plant identification and phylogenomics, 2020, Plant Methods
  • The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Deepred-Mt: Deep representation learning for predicting C-to-U RNA editing in plant mitochondria, 2021, Computers in Biology and Medicine

Ian Small frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Catherine Colas des Francs-Small, Charles S. Bond, Joanna Melonek, Suvi Honkanen, and Jason W. Schmidberger.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), New Phytologist, Nucleic Acids Research, and EDIS.

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • Genome-Wide Analysis of Arabidopsis Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins Reveals Their Essential Role in Organelle Biogenesis

    Claire Lurin;Charles Andrés;Sébastien Aubourg;Mohammed Bellaoui

  • Predotar: A tool for rapidly screening proteomes for N-terminal targeting sequences

    Ian Small;Nemo Peeters;Fabrice Legeai;Claire Lurin

  • The PPR motif - a TPR-related motif prevalent in plant organellar proteins.

    Ian D Small;Nemo Peeters

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.

    Sean Walkowiak;Sean Walkowiak;Liangliang Gao;Cecile Monat;Georg Haberer

  • Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins in plants

    Alice Barkan;Ian Small

  • Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins: a socket set for organelle gene expression.

    Christian Schmitz-Linneweber;Ian Small

  • A Combinatorial Amino Acid Code for RNA Recognition by Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins

    Alice Barkan;Margarita Rojas;Sota Fujii;Aaron Yap

  • SUBA: the Arabidopsis Subcellular Database

    Joshua L. Heazlewood;Robert E. Verboom;Julian Tonti-Filippini;Ian Small

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • Plastid signalling to the nucleus and beyond

    Barry J. Pogson;Nick S. Woo;Britta Förster;Ian D. Small

  • On the expansion of the pentatricopeptide repeat gene family in plants

    Nicholas O'Toole;Mitsuru Hattori;Charles Andres;Charles Andres;Kei Iida

  • Genome-Wide Analysis of mRNA Decay Rates and Their Determinants in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Reena Narsai;Katharine A. Howell;A. Harvey Millar;Nicholas O'Toole

  • Identification of the fertility restoration locus, Rfo, in radish, as a member of the pentatricopeptide-repeat protein family

    Sophie Desloire;Hassen Gherbi;Wassila Laloui;Sylvie Marhadour

  • Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications

    Pierre Hilson;Joke Allemeersch;Thomas Altmann;Sébastien Aubourg

  • The evolution of RNA editing and pentatricopeptide repeat genes.

    Sota Fujii;Ian Small

  • SUBA3: a database for integrating experimentation and prediction to define the SUBcellular location of proteins in Arabidopsis

    Sandra K. Tanz;Ian R. Castleden;Cornelia M. Hooper;Michael A. Vacher

  • The Pentatricopeptide Repeat Gene OTP43 Is Required for trans-Splicing of the Mitochondrial nad1 Intron 1 in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Andéol Falcon de Longevialle;Andéol Falcon de Longevialle;Etienne H. Meyer;Charles Andrés;Nicolas L. Taylor

  • Remodeled Respiration in ndufs4 with Low Phosphorylation Efficiency Suppresses Arabidopsis Germination and Growth and Alters Control of Metabolism at Night

    Etienne H. Meyer;Tiago Tomaz;Adam J. Carroll;Gonzalo Estavillo

  • GeneFarm, structural and functional annotation of Arabidopsis gene and protein families by a network of experts

    Sébastien Aubourg;Véronique Brunaud;Clémence Bruyère;J. Mark Cock

Frequent Co-Authors

Laurence Maréchal-Drouard
Laurence Maréchal-Drouard University of Strasbourg
A. Harvey Millar
A. Harvey Millar University of Western Australia
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Charles S. Bond
Charles S. Bond University of Western Australia
James Whelan
James Whelan La Trobe University
Toshiharu Shikanai
Toshiharu Shikanai Kyoto University
Barry J. Pogson
Barry J. Pogson Australian National University
Georges Pelletier
Georges Pelletier INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Pierre Hilson
Pierre Hilson INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Beat Keller
Beat Keller University of Zurich

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