Standout Papers

Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution 1997 2026 2006 2016 3.9k
  1. Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution (1999)
    Mark Pagel Nature
  2. Phylogenetic Analysis and Comparative Data: A Test and Review of Evidence (2002)
    Robert P. Freckleton, Paul Harvey et al. The American Naturalist
  3. Bayesian Estimation of Ancestral Character States on Phylogenies (2004)
    Mark Pagel, Andrew Meade et al. Systematic Biology
  4. Inferring evolutionary processes from phylogenies (1997)
    Mark Pagel Zoologica Scripta
  5. The Maximum Likelihood Approach to Reconstructing Ancestral Character States of Discrete Characters on Phylogenies (1999)
    Mark Pagel Systematic Biology
  6. Bayesian Analysis of Correlated Evolution of Discrete Characters by Reversible‐Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2006)
    Mark Pagel, Andrew Meade The American Naturalist
  7. A method for the analysis of comparative data (1992)
    Mark Pagel Journal of Theoretical Biology
  8. Natural Selection: Domains, Levels, and Challenges (1994)
    Mark Pagel, George C. Williams Journal of Animal Ecology
  9. Detecting Regular Sound Changes in Linguistics as Events of Concerted Evolution (2014)
    Daniel J. Hruschka, Simon Branford et al. Current Biology
  10. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history (2007)
    Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson et al. Nature
  11. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals (2015)
    Rébecca Grollemund, Simon Branford et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Immediate Impact

5 by Nobel laureates 38 from Science/Nature 98 standout
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Works of Mark Pagel being referenced

Multiple routes to mammalian diversity
2011 Nature
Inferring the historical patterns of biological evolution
1999 StandoutNature
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Mark Pagel 4492 8519 5561 167 20.9k
Ernst Mayr 8677 7022 6127 299 24.6k
Andy Purvis 4295 7776 10034 191 22.9k
John L. Gittleman 4713 6826 11936 114 26.6k
Paul Harvey 6726 12228 12124 316 28.8k
Anthony R. Ives 4083 9867 8401 241 23.1k
James M. Cheverud 11003 5486 3355 293 23.4k
Robert P. Freckleton 2805 7251 7772 204 18.8k
Peter R. Grant 8249 9695 8889 240 19.5k
Jonathan B. Losos 7655 12159 6996 266 24.8k
Stevan J. Arnold 7748 14369 5636 136 20.7k

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