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24804
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1889
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Michael D. Bennett 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 Michael D. Bennett sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 179 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael D. Bennett 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 Michael D. Bennett sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 57th percentile

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

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

Overview

Michael D. Bennett is affiliated with the Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom. Their research intersects multiple disciplines within the social sciences and natural sciences, notably anthropology, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, and plant science.

Their body of work includes a variety of publications across different academic venues. Recent papers include:

  • "The Plant DNA C-Values Database: A One-Stop Shop for Plant Genome Size Data" (2023), published in Methods in Molecular Biology
  • "Caribbean plantation economies as colonial models: The case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the late seventeenth century" (2022), published in Atlantic Studies
  • "The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46" (2025), published in Enterprise & Society
  • "David Veevers. The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600-1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 293. $99.99 (cloth)." (2021), published in Journal of British Studies
  • "Go Nomadism, Evolutionary Computation and Natural Selection: A Reply to Jay Lampert" (2024), published in Deleuze and Guattari Studies

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Marie Henniges
  • Emmeline Johnston
  • Jaume Pellicer
  • Oriane Hidalgo
  • Ilia J. Leitch

The venues where they have published most frequently are:

  • Methods in Molecular Biology
  • Atlantic Studies
  • Enterprise & Society
  • Journal of British Studies
  • Deleuze and Guattari Studies

Bennett's main fields of study are within the social sciences, with a significant focus also on plant sciences and artificial intelligence. The scientist works in several subfields, including:

  • Anthropology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Key research topics addressed in their publications cover a wide array of historical and scientific themes, such as:

  • Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • Australian history and society
  • Chromosomal and genetic variations
  • Plant diversity and evolution
  • Plant and fungal species descriptions
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics
  • Historical economic and social studies

Best Publications

  • Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

    Michael David Bennett;J. B. Smith

  • Nuclear DNA Content and Minimum Generation Time in Herbaceous Plants

    Michael David Bennett

  • Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

    Michael D. Bennett;Ilia J. Leitch

  • The origin, evolution and proposed stabilization of the terms 'genome size' and 'C-value' to describe nuclear DNA contents

    Johann Greilhuber;Jaroslav Doležel;Martin A. Lysák;Michael D. Bennett

  • Genome downsizing in polyploid plants

    I. J. Leitch;M. D. Bennett

  • Polyploidy in angiosperms

    Ilia J. Leitch;Michael D. Bennett

  • In Situ Localization of Parental Genomes in a Wide Hybrid

    T. Schwarzacher;A. R. Leitch;M. D. Bennett;J. S. Heslop-Harrison

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

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

  • VARIATION IN GENOMIC FORM IN PLANTS AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

    Michael D. Bennett

  • Eukaryotic genome size databases

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

  • Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms: Progress, Problems and Prospects

    M. D. Bennett;I. J. Leitch

  • Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

    Michael David Bennett;J. B Smith;J. S Heslop-Harrison

  • Nuclear DNA amounts in angiosperms: targets, trends and tomorrow

    M. D. Bennett;I. J. Leitch

  • 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

  • Reference standards for determination of DNA content of plant nuclei

    J. Spencer Johnston;Michael D. Bennett;A. Lane Rayburn;David W. Galbraith

  • 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

  • Characterization of the Nicotiana tabacum L. genome by molecular cytogenetics.

    Ann Kenton;Alex S. Parokonny;Alex S. Parokonny;Yuri Y. Gleba;Michael D. Bennett

  • Evolution of genome size in the angiosperms.

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

  • Nuclear dna content in the genera zea and sorghum intergeneric interspecific and intraspecific variation

    D A Laurie;M D Bennett

  • First Nuclear DNA Amounts in more than 300 Angiosperms

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilia J. Leitch
Ilia J. Leitch Royal Botanic Gardens
J. S. Heslop-Harrison
J. S. Heslop-Harrison University of Leicester
Andrew R. Leitch
Andrew R. Leitch Queen Mary University of London
Trude Schwarzacher
Trude Schwarzacher University of Leicester
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
J. Spencer Johnston
J. Spencer Johnston Texas A&M University
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Edward C. Cocking
Edward C. Cocking University of Nottingham
Michael R. Davey
Michael R. Davey University of Nottingham
Trevor R. Hodkinson
Trevor R. Hodkinson Trinity College Dublin

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