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D-Index
78
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18612
World Ranking
475
National Ranking
42

Jonathan R. Leake 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 Jonathan R. Leake sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 160 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jonathan R. Leake 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 Jonathan R. Leake sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jonathan R. Leake is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on soil and plant interactions in various ecological and agricultural contexts.

Their work involves several subfields of study including Soil Science, Ecology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Agronomy and Crop Science. The main topics addressed in their research encompass Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil erosion and sediment transport, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Clay minerals and soil interactions, Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology.

Jonathan R. Leake has contributed research published in a number of venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Their frequent collaborators include Martin Lappage, David J. Beerling, Duncan D. Cameron, Mark E. Hodson, and Joseph Holden, each having coauthored multiple publications with them.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Leake include:

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering, 2021, Applied Geochemistry
  • The hidden potential of urban horticulture, 2020, Nature Food
  • Legume-microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Estimating food production in an urban landscape, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • The biology of myco‐heterotrophic (‘saprophytic’) plants

    Jonathan R. Leake

  • Networks of power and influence: the role of mycorrhizal mycelium in controlling plant communities and agroecosystem functioning

    Jonathan Leake;David Johnson;Damian Donnelly;Gemma Muckle

  • Mapping an urban ecosystem service: quantifying above‐ground carbon storage at a city‐wide scale

    Zoe G. Davies;Zoe G. Davies;Jill L. Edmondson;Andreas Heinemeyer;Jonathan R. Leake

  • Mycorrhizal fungi as drivers of ecosystem processes in heathland and boreal forest biomes

    David J Read;Jonathan R Leake;Jesus Perez-Moreno

  • Plant communities affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity and community composition in grassland microcosms

    David Johnson;David Johnson;Philippe J. Vandenkoornhuyse;Jonathan R. Leake;Lucy Gilbert

  • Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security.

    David J. Beerling;Jonathan R. Leake;Stephen P. Long;Stephen P. Long;Julie D. Scholes

  • Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition: responses of multiple plant and soil parameters across contrasting ecosystems in long‐term field experiments

    Gareth K. Phoenix;Bridget A. Emmett;Andrea J. Britton;Simon J. M. Caporn

  • In situ13CO2 pulse-labelling of upland grassland demonstrates a rapid pathway of carbon flux from arbuscular mycorrhizal mycelia to the soil

    David Johnson;J. R. Leake;N. Ostle;P. Ineson

  • Mutualistic mycorrhiza in orchids: evidence from plant–fungus carbon and nitrogen transfers in the green‐leaved terrestrial orchid Goodyera repens

    Duncan D. Cameron;Jonathan R. Leake;David J. Read

  • Biological weathering and the long-term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm.

    L. L. Taylor;J. R. Leake;J. Quirk;K. Hardy

  • Epiparasitic plants specialized on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Martin I. Bidartondo;Dirk Redecker;Isabelle Hijri;Andres Wiemken

  • Positive responses to Zn and Cd by roots of the Zn and Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

    Steven N. Whiting;Jonathan R. Leake;Steve P. McGRATH;Alan J. M. Baker

  • Symbiotic germination and development of the myco‐heterotrophic orchid Neottia nidus‐avis in nature and its requirement for locally distributed Sebacina spp.

    S. L. McKendrick;J. R. Leake;D. Lee Taylor;D. J. Read

  • Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

    Claire P. Humphreys;Peter J. Franks;Peter J. Franks;Mark Rees;Martin I. Bidartondo

  • Soil microbial biomass and the fate of phosphorus during long-term ecosystem development

    Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;Hans Lambers;Leo M. Condron;Michael D. Cramer;Michael D. Cramer

  • Symbiotic germination and development of myco-heterotrophic plants in nature: transfer of carbon from ectomycorrhizal Salix repens and Betula pendula to the orchid Corallorhiza trifida through shared hyphal connections.

    SL Mckendrick;JR Leake;David Read

  • Mycorrhizal Specificity and Function in Myco-heterotrophic Plants

    D. L. Taylor;T. D. Bruns;J. R. Leake;D. J. Read

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

    Mike E. Kelland;Peter W. Wade;Amy L. Lewis;Lyla L. Taylor

  • Base cation depletion, eutrophication and acidification of species-rich grasslands in response to long-term simulated nitrogen deposition

    Paul Horswill;Odhran O'Sullivan;Gareth K. Phoenix;John A. Lee

  • Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems

    Jill L. Edmondson;Zoe G. Davies;Nicola McHugh;Kevin J. Gaston

  • Rates and quantities of carbon flux to ectomycorrhizal mycelium following 14C pulse labeling of Pinus sylvestris seedlings: effects of litter patches and interaction with a wood-decomposer fungus.

    J. R. Leake;D. P. Donnelly;E. M. Saunders;L. Boddy

Frequent Co-Authors

David Read
David Read University of Sheffield
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
Steven A. Banwart
Steven A. Banwart University of Leeds
Kevin J. Gaston
Kevin J. Gaston University of Exeter
Duncan D. Cameron
Duncan D. Cameron University of Sheffield
Martin I. Bidartondo
Martin I. Bidartondo Imperial College London
Zoe G. Davies
Zoe G. Davies University of Kent
Gareth K. Phoenix
Gareth K. Phoenix University of Sheffield
Alan J. M. Baker
Alan J. M. Baker University of Queensland
John A. Lee
John A. Lee University of Sheffield

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