2026 Michael D. Bennett: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	75	1889	1797	238	229	179	24804

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

2392
Citations
Nuclear DNA Content and Minimum Generation Time in Herbaceous Plants

Michael David Bennett

1065
Citations
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

Michael D. Bennett;Ilia J. Leitch

942
Citations
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

830
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
In Situ Localization of Parental Genomes in a Wide Hybrid

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

723
Citations
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms and their Modern Uses—807 New Estimates

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

563
Citations
VARIATION IN GENOMIC FORM IN PLANTS AND ITS ECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

Michael D. Bennett

546
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
Nuclear DNA Amounts in Angiosperms

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

451
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
Reference standards for determination of DNA content of plant nuclei

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

373
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
Characterization of the Nicotiana tabacum L. genome by molecular cytogenetics.

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

359
Citations
Evolution of genome size in the angiosperms.

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

349
Citations
Nuclear dna content in the genera zea and sorghum intergeneric interspecific and intraspecific variation

D A Laurie;M D Bennett

343
Citations
First Nuclear DNA Amounts in more than 300 Angiosperms

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

321
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilia J. Leitch Royal Botanic Gardens

J. S. Heslop-Harrison University of Leicester

Andrew R. Leitch Queen Mary University of London

Trude Schwarzacher University of Leicester

Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens

J. Spencer Johnston Texas A&M University

Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida

Edward C. Cocking University of Nottingham

Michael R. Davey University of Nottingham

Trevor R. Hodkinson Trinity College Dublin

External Links

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