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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy 63 1061 976 284 249 173 12133
Genetics 63 2913 2762 1273 1196 160 11965

Timothy L. Friesen publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Timothy L. Friesen between 1988 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Timothy L. Friesen published across 38 years, from 1988 to 2025, averaging 6 papers a year. Output peaked at 18 publications in 2008. 24 of the 227 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1988 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 18. Peak 18 publications in 2008. 1988: 1 publication 1989: 0 publications 1990: 0 publications 1991: 0 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 0 publications 1994: 0 publications 1995: 0 publications 1996: 0 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 0 publications 2000: 0 publications 2001: 3 publications 2002: 1 publication 2003: 4 publications 2004: 7 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 12 publications 2007: 6 publications 2008: 18 publications 2009: 8 publications 2010: 12 publications 2011: 9 publications 2012: 17 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 10 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 9 publications 2017: 9 publications 2018: 6 publications 2019: 4 publications 2020: 6 publications 2021: 13 publications 2022: 8 publications 2023: 17 publications 2024: 12 publications 2025: 12 publications
1988 2025

227 publications in total across all disciplines

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Timothy L. Friesen: publications per year, 1988 to 2025
Year Publications
1988 1
1989 0
1990 0
1991 0
1992 0
1993 0
1994 0
1995 0
1996 0
1997 1
1998 0
1999 0
2000 0
2001 3
2002 1
2003 4
2004 7
2005 5
2006 12
2007 6
2008 18
2009 8
2010 12
2011 9
2012 17
2013 6
2014 10
2015 11
2016 9
2017 9
2018 6
2019 4
2020 6
2021 13
2022 8
2023 17
2024 12
2025 12
Total 227
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Timothy L. Friesen 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 Timothy L. Friesen sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 467+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 255. Most scientists, 255, have 111–115 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 171–175 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 2 scientists 41–45 publications: 7 scientists 46–50 publications: 40 scientists 51–55 publications: 58 scientists 56–60 publications: 60 scientists 61–65 publications: 107 scientists 66–70 publications: 130 scientists 71–75 publications: 153 scientists 76–80 publications: 191 scientists 81–85 publications: 199 scientists 86–90 publications: 206 scientists 91–95 publications: 218 scientists 96–100 publications: 226 scientists 101–105 publications: 227 scientists 106–110 publications: 247 scientists 111–115 publications: 255 scientists 116–120 publications: 253 scientists 121–125 publications: 233 scientists 126–130 publications: 219 scientists 131–135 publications: 201 scientists 136–140 publications: 194 scientists 141–145 publications: 176 scientists 146–150 publications: 157 scientists 151–155 publications: 147 scientists 156–160 publications: 151 scientists 161–165 publications: 159 scientists 166–170 publications: 137 scientists 171–175 publications: 128 scientists 176–180 publications: 126 scientists 181–185 publications: 98 scientists 186–190 publications: 114 scientists 191–195 publications: 100 scientists 196–200 publications: 90 scientists 201–205 publications: 71 scientists 206–210 publications: 98 scientists 211–215 publications: 70 scientists 216–220 publications: 86 scientists 221–225 publications: 61 scientists 226–230 publications: 58 scientists 231–235 publications: 53 scientists 236–240 publications: 64 scientists 241–245 publications: 39 scientists 246–250 publications: 46 scientists 251–255 publications: 51 scientists 256–260 publications: 36 scientists 261–265 publications: 44 scientists 266–270 publications: 35 scientists 271–275 publications: 30 scientists 276–280 publications: 33 scientists 281–285 publications: 35 scientists 286–290 publications: 36 scientists 291–295 publications: 26 scientists 296–300 publications: 26 scientists 301–305 publications: 31 scientists 306–310 publications: 30 scientists 311–315 publications: 21 scientists 316–320 publications: 29 scientists 321–325 publications: 14 scientists 326–330 publications: 15 scientists 331–335 publications: 15 scientists 336–340 publications: 17 scientists 341–345 publications: 15 scientists 346–350 publications: 12 scientists 351–355 publications: 17 scientists 356–360 publications: 18 scientists 361–365 publications: 12 scientists 366–370 publications: 11 scientists 371–375 publications: 6 scientists 376–380 publications: 6 scientists 381–385 publications: 11 scientists 386–390 publications: 9 scientists 391–395 publications: 10 scientists 396–400 publications: 8 scientists 401–405 publications: 4 scientists 406–410 publications: 9 scientists 411–415 publications: 11 scientists 416–420 publications: 4 scientists 421–425 publications: 7 scientists 426–430 publications: 4 scientists 431–435 publications: 3 scientists 436–440 publications: 5 scientists 441–445 publications: 8 scientists 446–450 publications: 6 scientists 451–455 publications: 7 scientists 456–460 publications: 5 scientists 461–465 publications: 6 scientists 466 publications: 2 scientists 467+ publications: 99 scientists
36–40 publications 467+

This scientist: 173 publications — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 2
41–45 7
46–50 40
51–55 58
56–60 60
61–65 107
66–70 130
71–75 153
76–80 191
81–85 199
86–90 206
91–95 218
96–100 226
101–105 227
106–110 247
111–115 255
116–120 253
121–125 233
126–130 219
131–135 201
136–140 194
141–145 176
146–150 157
151–155 147
156–160 151
161–165 159
166–170 137
171–175 128 173
176–180 126
181–185 98
186–190 114
191–195 100
196–200 90
201–205 71
206–210 98
211–215 70
216–220 86
221–225 61
226–230 58
231–235 53
236–240 64
241–245 39
246–250 46
251–255 51
256–260 36
261–265 44
266–270 35
271–275 30
276–280 33
281–285 35
286–290 36
291–295 26
296–300 26
301–305 31
306–310 30
311–315 21
316–320 29
321–325 14
326–330 15
331–335 15
336–340 17
341–345 15
346–350 12
351–355 17
356–360 18
361–365 12
366–370 11
371–375 6
376–380 6
381–385 11
386–390 9
391–395 10
396–400 8
401–405 4
406–410 9
411–415 11
416–420 4
421–425 7
426–430 4
431–435 3
436–440 5
441–445 8
446–450 6
451–455 7
456–460 5
461–465 6
466 2
467+ 99
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Timothy L. Friesen 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 Timothy L. Friesen sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
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Bar chart with 80 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 109+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 63 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 200
31 236
32 253
33 283
34 288
35 240
36 246
37 243
38 247
39 229
40 232
41 230
42 228
43 219
44 193
45 164
46 158
47 143
48 131
49 127
50 122
51 122
52 110
53 102
54 98
55 79
56 85
57 88
58 91
59 62
60 61
61 59
62 54
63 61 63
64 59
65 58
66 41
67 49
68 39
69 32
70 40
71 47
72 38
73 28
74 29
75 28
76 22
77 21
78 25
79 26
80 19
81 16
82 12
83 16
84 14
85 11
86 17
87 13
88 10
89 12
90 18
91 16
92 16
93 17
94 12
95 8
96 9
97 9
98 11
99 12
100 5
101 8
102 4
103 11
104 5
105 9
106 7
107 4
108 8
109+ 99
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Overview

Timothy L. Friesen is affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science as evidenced by the volume of publications in the subfield.

Their work concentrates particularly on topics involving Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, and Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food. Additional areas of research include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms, and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals.

Friesen has contributed to numerous publications, notably in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), each with 12 publications. Other frequent publication outlets include Theoretical and Applied Genetics (6 publications), Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (5 publications), and Phytopathology (5 publications).

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Friesen are:

  • Characterization of Effector-Target Interactions in Necrotrophic Pathosystems Reveals Trends and Variation in Host Manipulation, 2021, Annual Review of Phytopathology
  • Plant genes hijacked by necrotrophic fungal pathogens, 2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • A protein kinase-major sperm protein gene hijacked by a necrotrophic fungal pathogen triggers disease susceptibility in wheat, 2021, The Plant Journal
  • A triple threat: the Parastagonospora nodorum SnTox267 effector exploits three distinct host genetic factors to cause disease in wheat, 2021, New Phytologist
  • The Parastagonospora nodorum necrotrophic effector SnTox5 targets the wheat gene Snn5 and facilitates entry into the leaf mesophyll, 2021, New Phytologist

Friesen has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Justin D. Faris
  • Nathan A. Wyatt
  • Gayan K. Kariyawasam
  • Jonathan K. Richards
  • Steven S. Xu

Best Publications

  • Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer.

    Timothy L Friesen;Eva H Stukenbrock;Zhaohui Liu;Steven Meinhardt

  • A unique wheat disease resistance-like gene governs effector-triggered susceptibility to necrotrophic pathogens

    Justin D. Faris;Zengcui Zhang;Huangjun Lu;Shunwen Lu

  • Host-specific toxins: effectors of necrotrophic pathogenicity.

    Timothy L. Friesen;Justin D. Faris;Peter S. Solomon;Richard P. Oliver

  • The cysteine rich necrotrophic effector SnTox1 produced by Stagonospora nodorum triggers susceptibility of wheat lines harboring Snn1.

    Zhaohui Liu;Zengcui Zhang;Justin D. Faris;Richard P. Oliver

  • The Stagonospora nodorum-wheat pathosystem involves multiple proteinaceous host-selective toxins and corresponding host sensitivity genes that interact in an inverse gene-for-gene manner.

    Timothy L. Friesen;Steven W. Meinhardt;Justin D. Faris

  • The hijacking of a receptor kinase-driven pathway by a wheat fungal pathogen leads to disease

    Gongjun Shi;Zengcui Zhang;Timothy L. Friesen;Timothy L. Friesen;Dina Raats

  • Pyrenophora teres: profile of an increasingly damaging barley pathogen.

    Zhaohui Liu;Simon R. Ellwood;Richard P. Oliver;Timothy L. Friesen;Timothy L. Friesen

  • Genetic and Physical Mapping of a Gene Conditioning Sensitivity in Wheat to a Partially Purified Host-Selective Toxin Produced by Stagonospora nodorum.

    Z. H. Liu;J. D. Faris;S. W. Meinhardt;S. Ali

  • SnTox3 Acts in Effector Triggered Susceptibility to Induce Disease on Wheat Carrying the Snn3 Gene

    Zhaohui Liu;Justin D. Faris;Richard P. Oliver;Kar-Chun Tan

  • Stagonospora nodorum: From Pathology to Genomics and Host Resistance

    Richard P. Oliver;Timothy L. Friesen;Justin D. Faris;Peter S. Solomon

  • Molecular mapping of resistance to Pyrenophora tritici-repentis race 5 and sensitivity to Ptr ToxB in wheat

    T. L. Friesen;Justin D. Faris

  • A wheat intervarietal genetic linkage map based on microsatellite and target region amplified polymorphism markers and its utility for detecting quantitative trait loci.

    Z. H. Liu;James A Anderson;J. Hu;T. L. Friesen

  • Characterization of the Interaction of a Novel Stagonospora nodorum Host-Selective Toxin with a Wheat Susceptibility Gene

    Timothy L. Friesen;Zengcui Zhang;Peter S. Solomon;Richard P. Oliver

  • Targeted Introgression of a Wheat Stem Rust Resistance Gene by DNA Marker-Assisted Chromosome Engineering

    Zhixia Niu;Daryl L. Klindworth;Timothy L. Friesen;Shiaoman Chao

  • The Tsn1-ToxA interaction in the wheat-Stagonospora nodorum pathosystem parallels that of the wheat-tan spot system.

    Zhaohui LiuZ. Liu;Timothy L. FriesenT.L. Friesen;Hua LingH. Ling;Steven W. MeinhardtS.W. Meinhardt

  • New broad-spectrum resistance to septoria tritici blotch derived from synthetic hexaploid wheat

    S. Mahmod Tabib Ghaffary;Justin D. Faris;Timothy L. Friesen;Richard G. F. Visser

  • Quantitative Trait Loci Analysis and Mapping of Seedling Resistance to Stagonospora nodorum Leaf Blotch in Wheat

    Z. H. Liu;T. L. Friesen;J. B. Rasmussen;S. Ali

  • Identification of quantitative trait loci for race-nonspecific resistance to tan spot in wheat.

    Justin D. Faris;T. L. Friesen

  • Whole genome mapping in a wheat doubled haploid population using SSRs and TRAPs and the identification of QTL for agronomic traits

    C.-G. Chu;S. S. Xu;T. L. Friesen;J. D. Faris

  • Identification and characterization of a novel host–toxin interaction in the wheat– Stagonospora nodorum pathosystem

    Nilwala S. Abeysekara;Timothy L. Friesen;Beat Keller;Justin D. Faris

Frequent Co-Authors

Justin D. Faris
Justin D. Faris Agricultural Research Service
Steven S. Xu
Steven S. Xu United States Department of Agriculture
Richard P. Oliver
Richard P. Oliver Curtin University
Shaobin Zhong
Shaobin Zhong North Dakota State University
Shiaoman Chao
Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service
Peter S. Solomon
Peter S. Solomon Australian National University
Yue Jin
Yue Jin US Department of Agriculture
James K. Hane
James K. Hane Curtin University
Kar-Chun Tan
Kar-Chun Tan Curtin University

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