2026 Ilia J. Leitch: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	84	3316	3050	250	233	269	24872

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Biology and Biochemistry

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269

24872

Biology and Biochemistry

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Citations

24872

World Ranking

3316

National Ranking

250

Overview

Ilia J. Leitch is affiliated with the Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of plant science, molecular biology, and ecology, with particular attention to genomics, phylogenetics, and genetic diversity.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The primary subfields covered in their work are:

Plant Science
Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Genetics
Nature and Landscape Conservation

The research themes most often explored encompass:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
Plant Diversity and Evolution
Plant and Animal Studies
Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Among their frequent co-authors are:

Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (32 collaborations)
Jaume Pellicer (31 collaborations)
Andrew R. Leitch (30 collaborations)
William J. Baker (23 collaborations)
Oriane Hidalgo (23 collaborations)

Key publication venues where their research appears include:

Wellcome Open Research (28 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (17 publications)
New Phytologist (7 publications)
Annals of Botany (5 publications)
Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society (5 publications)

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Ilia J. Leitch are:

"A Comprehensive Phylogenomic Platform for Exploring the Angiosperm Tree of Life", 2021, Systematic Biology
"Repeat-sequence turnover shifts fundamentally in species with large genomes", 2020, Nature Plants
"The Application of Flow Cytometry for Estimating Genome Size, Ploidy Level Endopolyploidy, and Reproductive Modes in Plants", 2020, Methods in Molecular Biology
"Genome downsizing after polyploidy: mechanisms, rates and selection pressures", 2021, The Plant Journal
"A taxonomic, genetic and ecological data resource for the vascular plants of Britain and Ireland", 2022, Scientific Data

Best Publications

Genomic Plasticity and the Diversity of Polyploid Plants

A. R. Leitch;I. J. Leitch

943
Citations
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

Michael D. Bennett;Ilia J. Leitch

942
Citations
Genome downsizing in polyploid plants

I. J. Leitch;M. D. Bennett

792
Citations
Polyploidy in angiosperms

Ilia J. Leitch;Michael D. Bennett

745
Citations
Genome size is a strong predictor of cell size and stomatal density in angiosperms

Jeremy M. Beaulieu;Jeremy M. Beaulieu;Ilia J. Leitch;Sunil Patel;Arjun Pendharkar

627
Citations
A Universal Probe Set for Targeted Sequencing of 353 Nuclear Genes from Any Flowering Plant Designed Using k-Medoids Clustering.

Matthew G. Johnson;Lisa Pokorny;Steven Dodsworth;Steven Dodsworth;Laura R. Botigue

599
Citations
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms and their Modern Uses—807 New Estimates

Michael D. Bennett;Parmjit Bhandol;Ilia J. Leitch

563
Citations
Eukaryotic genome size databases

T. Ryan Gregory;James A. Nicol;Heidi Tamm;Bellis Kullman

539
Citations
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms: Progress, Problems and Prospects

M. D. Bennett;I. J. Leitch

499
Citations
The largest eukaryotic genome of them all

Jaume Pellicer;Michael F. Fay;Ilia J. Leitch

461
Citations
Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow

M. D. Bennett;I. J. Leitch

399
Citations
Comparisons with Caenorhabditis (∼100 Mb) and Drosophila (∼175 Mb) Using Flow Cytometry Show Genome Size in Arabidopsis to be ∼157 Mb and thus ∼25 % Larger than the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative Estimate of ∼125 Mb

Michael D. Bennett;Ilia J. Leitch;H. James Price;J. Spencer Johnston

397
Citations
Genome Size Diversity and Its Impact on the Evolution of Land Plants.

Jaume Pellicer;Oriane Hidalgo;Steven Dodsworth;Ilia J Leitch

379
Citations
PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF DNA C-VALUES PROVIDES EVIDENCE FOR A SMALL ANCESTRAL GENOME SIZE IN FLOWERING PLANTS

Ilia J. Leitch;Mark W. Chase;Michael D. Bennett

364
Citations
Ecological and evolutionary significance of genomic GC content diversity in monocots.

Petr Šmarda;Petr Bureš;Lucie Horová;Ilia J. Leitch

362
Citations
Evolution of genome size in the angiosperms.

Douglas E. Soltis;Pamela S. Soltis;Michael D. Bennett;Ilia J. Leitch

349
Citations
The ups and downs of genome size evolution in polyploid species of Nicotiana (Solanaceae).

I. J. Leitch;L. Hanson;K. Y. Lim;A. Kovarik

339
Citations
First Nuclear DNA Amounts in more than 300 Angiosperms

B. J. M. Zonneveld;I. J. Leitch;M. D. Bennett

321
Citations
The use of dna sequencing (ITS and trnL-F), AFLP, and fluorescent in situ hybridization to study allopolyploid Miscanthus (Poaceae).

Trevor R. Hodkinson;Trevor R. Hodkinson;Mark W. Chase;Chigusa Takahashi;Ilia J. Leitch

268
Citations
The Plant DNA C-values database (release 7.1): an updated online repository of plant genome size data for comparative studies

Jaume Pellicer;Ilia J Leitch

266
Citations