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2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
121
Citations
48318
World Ranking
62
National Ranking
7

Sergey Shabala 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 Sergey Shabala sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 600 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Sergey Shabala 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 Sergey Shabala sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 121 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Enzyme

Sergey Shabala focuses on Biochemistry, Salinity, Biophysics, Ion transporter and Botany. The concepts of his Biochemistry study are interwoven with issues in Homeostasis and Potassium channel. His studies in Salinity integrate themes in fields like Hordeum vulgare, Xylem, Agronomy and Plant physiology.

His research integrates issues of Membrane, Calcium, Ion channel and Cytosol in his study of Biophysics. The study incorporates disciplines such as Membrane transport, Osmotic shock, Osmotic concentration, Osmotic pressure and Proton transport in addition to Ion transporter. His research in Botany intersects with topics in Mutant and Abiotic stress.

His most cited work include:

  • Linking stomatal traits and expression of slow anion channel genes HvSLAH1 and HvSLAC1 with grain yield for increasing salinity tolerance in barley (1080 citations)
  • Potassium transport and plant salt tolerance. (745 citations)
  • Learning from halophytes: physiological basis and strategies to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops. (398 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Salinity, Botany, Biophysics, Agronomy and Biochemistry. Sergey Shabala studied Salinity and Horticulture that intersect with Stomatal conductance. He is interested in Plant physiology, which is a branch of Botany.

His Biophysics research incorporates elements of Efflux, Calcium, Ion transporter and Cytosol. Sergey Shabala has included themes like Ion channel and Cell biology in his Cytosol study. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Quantitative trait locus and Nutrient.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Salinity (41.14%)
  • Botany (29.43%)
  • Biophysics (30.98%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Salinity (41.14%)
  • Biophysics (30.98%)
  • Halophyte (15.32%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Sergey Shabala focuses on Salinity, Biophysics, Halophyte, Horticulture and Shoot. His research in Salinity intersects with topics in Abiotic component, Oryza sativa and Xylem, Botany. Sergey Shabala combines subjects such as Apoplast, ATPase, Intracellular and Cytosol with his study of Biophysics.

His Halophyte research includes themes of Adaptation and Chenopodium quinoa. In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Horticulture, Plant physiology and Hypoxia is strongly linked to Photosynthesis. His study on Shoot is mostly dedicated to connecting different topics, such as Biochemistry.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants (93 citations)
  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants (93 citations)
  • Mechanisms of Plant Responses and Adaptation to Soil Salinity (52 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Gene
  • Enzyme
  • Botany

His primary scientific interests are in Salinity, Efflux, Halophyte, Cell biology and Shoot. He has researched Salinity in several fields, including Biophysics, Chenopodium quinoa, Agronomy and Apoplast. His studies deal with areas such as Antiporter, Sodium–hydrogen antiporter, Cytosol, Polyamine and Intracellular as well as Efflux.

His work deals with themes such as Adaptation and Vegetative reproduction, Botany, which intersect with Halophyte. His Cell biology study incorporates themes from Transcriptome, Arabidopsis and Transporter. His work carried out in the field of Shoot brings together such families of science as Biomass, Metabolic energy and Negative correlation.

Best Publications

  • Potassium transport and plant salt tolerance.

    Sergey Shabala;Tracey A. Cuin

  • Mechanisms of Plant Responses and Adaptation to Soil Salinity.

    Chunzhao Zhao;Chunzhao Zhao;Heng Zhang;Chunpeng Song;Jian-Kang Zhu;Jian-Kang Zhu

  • Linking stomatal traits and expression of slow anion channel genes HvSLAH1 and HvSLAC1 with grain yield for increasing salinity tolerance in barley

    Xiaohui Liu;Michelle Mak;Mohammad Babla;Feifei Wang

  • ROS homeostasis in halophytes in the context of salinity stress tolerance

    Jayakumar Bose;Ana Rodrigo-Moreno;Sergey Shabala

  • Learning from halophytes: physiological basis and strategies to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops.

    Sergey Shabala

  • Regulation of potassium transport in plants under hostile conditions: implications for abiotic and biotic stress tolerance.

    Sergey Shabala;Igor Pottosin;Igor Pottosin

  • Root plasma membrane transporters controlling K+/Na+ homeostasis in salt-stressed barley.

    Zhonghua Chen;Igor I. Pottosin;Tracey A. Cuin;Anja T. Fuglsang

  • Arabidopsis root K+-efflux conductance activated by hydroxyl radicals: single-channel properties, genetic basis and involvement in stress-induced cell death

    Vadim Demidchik;Tracey A Cuin;Dimitri A Svistunenko;Susan J Smith

  • Extracellular Ca2+ Ameliorates NaCl-Induced K+ Loss from Arabidopsis Root and Leaf Cells by Controlling Plasma Membrane K+-Permeable Channels

    Sergey Shabala;Vadim Demidchik;Lana Shabala;Tracey A. Cuin

  • Screening plants for salt tolerance by measuring K+ flux: a case study for barley

    Z Chen;IA Newman;M Zhou;NJ Mendham

  • Compatible solute accumulation and stress-mitigating effects in barley genotypes contrasting in their salt tolerance

    Zhonghua Chen;Tracey A. Cuin;Meixue Zhou;Amanda Twomey

  • Phosphorus Plays Key Roles in Regulating Plants’ Physiological Responses to Abiotic Stresses

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  • Arabidopsis Protein Kinase PKS5 Inhibits the Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase by Preventing Interaction with 14-3-3 Protein

    Anja T. Fuglsang;Yan Guo;Tracey A. Cuin;Quansheng Qiu

  • Halophyte agriculture: Success stories

    Suresh Panta;Tim Flowers;Peter Lane;Richard Doyle

  • Going beyond nutrition: regulation of potassium homoeostasis as a common denominator of plant adaptive responses to environment.

    Uta Anschütz;Dirk Becker;Sergey Shabala

  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants

    Rana Munns;Rana Munns;David A Day;Wieland Fricke;Michelle Watt

  • Salt tolerance mechanisms in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)

    Verena Isabelle Adolf;Sven-Erik Jacobsen;Sergey Shabala

  • Ionic and osmotic relations in quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) plants grown at various salinity levels

    Yuda Cahyoargo Hariadi;Karl Marandon;Yu Tian;Sven-Erik Jacobsen

  • GABA signalling modulates plant growth by directly regulating the activity of plant-specific anion transporters

    Sunita A. Ramesh;Stephen D. Tyerman;Bo Xu;Jayakumar Bose;Jayakumar Bose

  • Free oxygen radicals regulate plasma membrane Ca2+- and K+-permeable channels in plant root cells.

    Vadim Demidchik;Sergey N. Shabala;Katherine B. Coutts;Mark A. Tester

  • Calcium transport across plant membranes: mechanisms and functions

    Vadim Demidchik;Vadim Demidchik;Vadim Demidchik;Sergey Shabala;Sergey Shabala;Stanislav Isayenkov;Tracey A. Cuin

  • Ion Transport in Halophytes

    Sergey Shabala;Alex Mackay

  • Plant Salt Tolerance

    Sergey Shabala;Tracey Ann Cuin

Frequent Co-Authors

Lana Shabala
Lana Shabala University of Tasmania
Meixue Zhou
Meixue Zhou University of Tasmania
Tracey Ann Cuin
Tracey Ann Cuin University of Tasmania
Jayakumar Bose
Jayakumar Bose Western Sydney University
Zhong-Hua Chen
Zhong-Hua Chen University of Adelaide
Igor Pottosin
Igor Pottosin University of Colima
Jiayin Pang
Jiayin Pang University of Western Australia
Guoping Zhang
Guoping Zhang Zhejiang University
Julia M. Davies
Julia M. Davies University of Cambridge
Stefano Mancuso
Stefano Mancuso University of Florence

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