World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
63
Citations
14049
World Ranking
1036
National Ranking
276

William L. Rooney 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 William L. Rooney sits on this spectrum.

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 publications 467+

This scientist: 268 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William L. Rooney 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 William L. Rooney sits on this spectrum.

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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1931 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

Sorghum, Agronomy, Botany, Sweet sorghum and Quantitative trait locus are his primary areas of study. His Sorghum research integrates issues from Germplasm, Growing season, Crop, Hordeum vulgare and Hybrid. The Agronomy study combines topics in areas such as Genetic variability and Genetic variation.

His studies deal with areas such as Arabidopsis thaliana, Genome, Circadian clock, Locus and Polyphenol as well as Botany. The concepts of his Sweet sorghum study are interwoven with issues in Biomass, Biofuel, Ethanol fuel, Bioenergy and Sugar. His Quantitative trait locus research includes elements of Inflorescence, Association mapping and Oryza sativa.

His most cited work include:

  • Designing sorghum as a dedicated bioenergy feedstock (494 citations)
  • Community Resources and Strategies for Association Mapping in Sorghum (246 citations)
  • Coincident light and clock regulation of pseudoresponse regulator protein 37 (PRR37) controls photoperiodic flowering in sorghum (214 citations)

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

His primary areas of investigation include Sorghum, Agronomy, Sweet sorghum, Botany and Hybrid. His research integrates issues of Germplasm, Horticulture, Crop, Quantitative trait locus and Biomass in his study of Sorghum. His Agronomy research incorporates themes from Bioenergy and Starch.

His research in Sweet sorghum tackles topics such as Sugar which are related to areas like Sucrose. William L. Rooney combines subjects such as Allele and Backcrossing with his study of Botany. His work carried out in the field of Hybrid brings together such families of science as Cytoplasmic male sterility and Pollen.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Sorghum (76.89%)
  • Agronomy (50.00%)
  • Sweet sorghum (21.43%)

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

  • Sorghum (76.89%)
  • Agronomy (50.00%)
  • Horticulture (15.97%)

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

William L. Rooney mainly focuses on Sorghum, Agronomy, Horticulture, Quantitative trait locus and Raw material. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Germplasm, Panicle, Gene, Candidate gene and Hybrid. His Agronomy study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Wax and Water vapor.

The various areas that William L. Rooney examines in his Horticulture study include Gene flow, Genome-wide association study, Single-nucleotide polymorphism and Pollen. His research in Quantitative trait locus intersects with topics in Genomics and Plant breeding. His Raw material course of study focuses on Biomass and Dry matter, Biofuel, Animal science, Pulp and paper industry and Renewable energy.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • A review of sweet sorghum as a viable renewable bioenergy crop and its techno-economic analysis (29 citations)
  • Automated detection and measurement of individual sorghum panicles using density-based clustering of terrestrial lidar data (17 citations)
  • Maturity2, a novel regulator of flowering time in Sorghum bicolor, increases expression of SbPRR37 and SbCO in long days delaying flowering. (13 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

William L. Rooney focuses on Sorghum, Agronomy, Panicle, Heritability and Quantitative trait locus. William L. Rooney merges many fields, such as Sorghum and Term, in his writings. His study in the field of Grain yield and Aphid is also linked to topics like Throughput, Melanaphis sacchari and Coccinellidae.

His Heritability research includes themes of Endosperm, Food science and Mutant. As a member of one scientific family, William L. Rooney mostly works in the field of Endosperm, focusing on Starch and, on occasion, Wild type, Bioenergy, Sweet sorghum and Bagasse. His work deals with themes such as Positional cloning, Genetic analysis and Epistasis, which intersect with Quantitative trait locus.

Best Publications

  • Designing sorghum as a dedicated bioenergy feedstock

    William L. Rooney;Jürg Blumenthal;Brent Bean;John E. Mullet

  • Community Resources and Strategies for Association Mapping in Sorghum

    Alexandra M. Casa;Gael Pressoir;Patrick J. Brown;Sharon E. Mitchell

  • Phenolic Compounds and Antioxidant Activity of Sorghum Grains of Varying Genotypes

    Linda Dykes;Lloyd W. Rooney;Ralph D. Waniska;William L. Rooney

  • Coincident light and clock regulation of pseudoresponse regulator protein 37 (PRR37) controls photoperiodic flowering in sorghum

    Rebecca L. Murphy;Robert R. Klein;Daryl T. Morishige;Jeff A. Brady

  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for High-Throughput Phenotyping and Agronomic Research

    Yeyin Shi;J. Alex Thomasson;Seth C. Murray;N. Ace Pugh

  • Genetic Improvement of Sorghum as a Biofuel Feedstock: I. QTL for Stem Sugar and Grain Nonstructural Carbohydrates

    Seth C. Murray;Arun Sharma;William L. Rooney;Patricia E. Klein

  • Features of sweet sorghum juice and their performance in ethanol fermentation

    Xiaorong Wu;Scott Staggenborg;Johathan L. Propheter;William L. Rooney

  • SWEET SORGHUM GENETIC DIVERSITY AND ASSOCIATION MAPPING FOR BRIX AND HEIGHT

    Seth C. Murray;William L. Rooney;Martha T. Hamblin;Sharon E. Mitchell

  • Genetic diversity of public inbreds of sorghum determined by mapped AFLP and SSR markers.

    Monica A. Menz;Robert R. Klein;Robert R. Klein;Natalie C. Unruh;William L. Rooney

  • Greenhouse evaluation of agronomic and crude oil-phytoremediation potential among Alfalfa genotypes

    C. C. Wiltse;W. L. Rooney;Z. Chen;A. P. Schwab

  • Genome evolution in the genus Sorghum (Poaceae)

    H. James Price;Sally L. Dillon;George Hodnett;William L. Rooney

  • Energy Sorghum—a genetic model for the design of C4 grass bioenergy crops

    John Mullet;Daryl Morishige;Ryan McCormick;Sandra Truong

  • Fertility restorer locus Rf1 of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein not present in the colinear region of rice chromosome 12

    R. R. Klein;P. E. Klein;J. E. Mullet;P. Minx

  • Genetic Improvement of Sorghum as a Biofuel Feedstock: II. QTL for Stem and Leaf Structural Carbohydrates

    Seth C. Murray;William L. Rooney;Sharon E. Mitchell;Arun Sharma

  • Flavonoid composition of red sorghum genotypes

    Linda Dykes;Larry M. Seitz;William L. Rooney;Lloyd W. Rooney

  • Multitemporal field-based plant height estimation using 3D point clouds generated from small unmanned aerial systems high-resolution imagery

    L. Malambo;S.C. Popescu;S.C. Murray;E. Putman

  • Genetic control of a photoperiod-sensitive response in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

    W. L. Rooney;S. Aydin

  • Sorghum Improvement—Integrating Traditional and New Technology to Produce Improved Genotypes

    W.L Rooney

  • Efficient Mapping of Plant Height Quantitative Trait Loci in a Sorghum Association Population With Introgressed Dwarfing Genes

    Patrick J. Brown;William L. Rooney;Cleve Franks;Stephen Kresovich

  • Inheritance of inflorescence architecture in sorghum

    P. J. Brown;P. E. Klein;E. Bortiri;C. B. Acharya

  • High biomass yield energy sorghum: developing a genetic model for C4 grass bioenergy crops

    Sara N. Olson;Kimberley Ritter;Kimberley Ritter;William Rooney;Armen Kemanian

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Mullet
John E. Mullet Texas A&M University
Patricia E. Klein
Patricia E. Klein Texas A&M University
Robert R. Klein
Robert R. Klein Agricultural Research Service
David M. Stelly
David M. Stelly Texas A&M University
Stephen Kresovich
Stephen Kresovich Clemson University
Seth C. Murray
Seth C. Murray Texas A&M University
Sorin C. Popescu
Sorin C. Popescu Texas A&M University
Lloyd W. Rooney
Lloyd W. Rooney Texas A&M University
Donghai Wang
Donghai Wang Kansas State University
Ramasamy Perumal
Ramasamy Perumal Kansas State University

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing William L. Rooney

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles