Nathan M. Springer

25.3k citations

154 papers · 11.2k · 7 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.05%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Virus Research Studies
Genetics top 0.2%
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Papers in

Plant Science 124
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 71
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 48
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 19
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 19
- Genetics and Plant Breeding 15
Molecular Biology 60
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 19
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering 13

Co-authors: Robert M. Stupar (8 shared papers)Patrick S. Schnable (19 shared papers)Steven R. Eichten (22 shared papers)Shawn M. Kaeppler (25 shared papers)Robert J. Schmitz (10 shared papers)Candice N. Hirsch (28 shared papers)James C. Schnable (4 shared papers)Michael Freeling (2 shared papers)
Journals: The Plant Cell (18 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (14 papers)Genetics (12 papers)The Plant Journal (12 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Australia

In The Last Decade

Nathan M. Springer

152 papers receiving 11.0k citations

Nathan M. Springer's Hit Papers

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cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution 2023 · 163 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2019 Nature Plants
2016 The Plant Cell
2016 Genome biology
2015 PLoS Genetics
2014 Genome biology
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Advancing Crop Transformation in the Era of Genome Editing The Plant Cell ·Fredy Altpeter, Nathan M. Springer, Laura Bartley, Ann E. Blechl, Thomas P. Brutnell, Vitaly Citovsky, Liza Conrad, Stanton B. Gelvin, David Jackson, Albert P. Kausch, Peggy G. Lemaux, June I. Medford, Martha Orozo-Cardenas, David M. Tricoli, Joyce Van Eck, Daniel F. Voytas, Virginia Walbot, Kan Wang, Zhanyuan J. Zhang, C. Neal Stewart Hit paper breakdown →	2016	486
2	Differentiation of the maize subgenomes by genome dominance and both ancient and ongoing gene loss Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James C. Schnable, Nathan M. Springer, Michael Freeling Hit paper breakdown →	2011	475
3	Widespread natural variation of DNA methylation within angiosperms Genome biology ·Chad E. Niederhuth, Adam J. Bewick, Lexiang Ji, Magdy Alabady, Kyung Do Kim, Qing Li, Nicholas Rohr, Aditi Rambani, John M. Burke, Joshua A. Udall, Chiedozie Egesi, Jeremy Schmutz, Jane Grimwood, Scott A. Jackson, Nathan M. Springer, Robert J. Schmitz Hit paper breakdown →	2016	389
4	Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs Genome biology ·Lin Li, Steven R. Eichten, Rena Shimizu, Katherine Petsch, Cheng‐Ting Yeh, Wei Wu, Antony M. Chettoor, Scott A. Givan, Rex A Cole, John E. Fowler, Matthew M. S. Evans, Michael J. Scanlon, Jianming Yu, Patrick S. Schnable, Marja C.P. Timmermans, Nathan M. Springer, Gary J. Muehlbauer Hit paper breakdown →	2014	389
5	Maize Inbreds Exhibit High Levels of Copy Number Variation (CNV) and Presence/Absence Variation (PAV) in Genome Content PLoS Genetics ·Nathan M. Springer, Kai Ying, Yan Fu, Tieming Ji, Cheng‐Ting Yeh, Yi Jia, Wei Wu, Todd Richmond, Jacob O. Kitzman, Heidi Rosenbaum, A. Leonardo Iniguez, W. Brad Barbazuk, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Dan Nettleton, Patrick S. Schnable	2009	382
6	Progress Toward Understanding Heterosis in Crop Plants Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Patrick S. Schnable, Nathan M. Springer	2013	324
7	Transposable Elements Contribute to Activation of Maize Genes in Response to Abiotic Stress PLoS Genetics ·Irina Makarevitch, Amanda J. Waters, Patrick T. West, Michelle C. Stitzer, Candice N. Hirsch, Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra, Nathan M. Springer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	312
8	Allelic variation and heterosis in maize: How do two halves make more than a whole? Genome Research ·Nathan M. Springer, Robert M. Stupar	2007	277
9	Discovery of induced point mutations in maize genes by TILLING BMC Plant Biology ·Bradley J. Till, Steven H. Reynolds, Clifford F. Weil, Nathan M. Springer, Chris Burtner, Kim Young, Elisabeth Bowers, Christine A. Codomo, Linda C. Enns, Anthony R. Odden, Elizabeth A. Greene, Luca Comai, Steven Henikoff	2004	266
10	Widespread long-range cis-regulatory elements in the maize genome Nature Plants ·William A. Ricci, Zefu Lu, Lexiang Ji, Alexandre P. Marand, Christina L. Ethridge, Nathalie G. Murphy, Jaclyn M Noshay, Mary Galli, Maria Katherine Mejía‐Guerra, Maria Colomé‐Tatché, Frank Johannes, M. Jordan Rowley, Victor G. Corces, Jixian Zhai, Michael J. Scanlon, Edward S. Buckler, Andrea Gallavotti, Nathan M. Springer, Robert J. Schmitz, Xiaoyu Zhang Hit paper breakdown →	2019	262
11	Pervasive gene content variation and copy number variation in maize and its undomesticated progenitor Genome Research ·Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner, Steven R. Eichten, Sunita Kumari, Peter Tiffin, Joshua C. Stein, Doreen Ware, Nathan M. Springer	2010	218
12	Cis-transcriptional Variation in Maize Inbred Lines B73 and Mo17 Leads to Additive Expression Patterns in the F1 Hybrid Genetics ·Robert M. Stupar, Nathan M. Springer	2006	202
13	Epigenetic and Genetic Influences on DNA Methylation Variation in Maize Populations The Plant Cell ·Steven R. Eichten, Roman Briskine, Jawon Song, Qing Li, Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner, Peter J. Hermanson, Amanda J. Waters, Evan Starr, Patrick T. West, Peter Tiffin, Chad L. Myers, Matthew Vaughn, Nathan M. Springer	2013	189
14	Conserved plant genes with similarity to mammalian de novo DNA methyltransferases Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Xiaofeng Cao, Nathan M. Springer, Michael G. Muszynski, Ronald L. Phillips, Shawn M. Kaeppler, Steven E. Jacobsen	2000	187
15	Transposable element influences on gene expression in plants Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms ·Cory D. Hirsch, Nathan M. Springer	2016	186
16	Reciprocal Silencing, Transcriptional Bias and Functional Divergence of Homeologs in Polyploid Cotton (Gossypium) Genetics ·Bhupendra Chaudhary, Lex Flagel, Robert M. Stupar, Joshua A. Udall, Neetu Verma, Nathan M. Springer, Jonathan F. Wendel	2009	183
17	RNA-directed DNA methylation enforces boundaries between heterochromatin and euchromatin in the maize genome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Qing Li, Jonathan I. Gent, Greg Zynda, Jawon Song, Irina Makarevitch, Cory D. Hirsch, Candice N. Hirsch, R. Kelly Dawe, Thelma F. Madzima, Karen McGinnis, Damon Lisch, Robert J. Schmitz, Matthew Vaughn, Nathan M. Springer	2015	165
18	cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Alexandre P. Marand, Andrea L. Eveland, Kerstin Kaufmann, Nathan M. Springer Hit paper breakdown →	2023	163
19	Parent-of-Origin Effects on Gene Expression and DNA Methylation in the Maize Endosperm The Plant Cell ·Amanda J. Waters, Irina Makarevitch, Steven R. Eichten, Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner, Cheng‐Ting Yeh, Wayne Wenzhong Xu, Patrick S. Schnable, Matthew Vaughn, Mary Gehring, Nathan M. Springer	2011	163
20	Exploiting induced and natural epigenetic variation for crop improvement Nature Reviews Genetics ·Nathan M. Springer, Robert J. Schmitz	2017	159

About Nathan M. Springer

Nathan M. Springer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 154 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (71 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (48 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (47 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (19 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (15 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (8.8k citations), Genetics (3.0k citations), Molecular Biology (5.3k citations), Horticulture (54 citations) and Endocrinology (233 citations). Nathan M. Springer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Robert M. Stupar, Patrick S. Schnable, Steven R. Eichten, Shawn M. Kaeppler, Robert J. Schmitz, Candice N. Hirsch, James C. Schnable, Michael Freeling, Irina Makarevitch and Cory D. Hirsch. Their work appears in journals such as The Plant Cell, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Genetics, The Plant Journal and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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