Adam D. Leaché

9.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
114 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Adam D. Leaché is a scholar working on Genetics, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Adam D. Leaché has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Genetics, 69 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 50 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Adam D. Leaché's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (72 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (69 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Adam D. Leaché is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (72 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (69 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Adam D. Leaché collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Adam D. Leaché's co-authors include Matthew K. Fujita, Tod W. Reeder, Jimmy A. McGuire, Bruce Rannala, Craig Moritz, Frank T. Burbrink, Vladimir N. Minin, Ziheng Yang, Charles W. Linkem and Rebecca B. Harris and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Adam D. Leaché

108 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

2012 667 citations Matthew K. Fujita, Adam D. Leaché et al. profile →
Molecular Systematics of the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus): A Comparison of Parsimony, Likelihood, and Bayesian Approaches

2002 543 citations Adam D. Leaché, Tod W. Reeder Systematic Biology profile →
Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Data

2014 359 citations Adam D. Leaché, Matthew K. Fujita et al. Systematic Biology profile →

Peers

Adam D. Leaché

GENET

GPC

EEBS

Salvador Carranza Spain

Bryan C. Carstens United States

Stephen C. Donnellan Australia

Tod W. Reeder United States

Frank T. Burbrink United States

John E. McCormack United States

Emily Moriarty Lemmon United States

Leo Joseph Australia

Theodore J. Papenfuss United States

Frank Glaw Germany

Salvador Carranza Spain

Adam D. Leaché

3.2k ×0.9

GENET

3.6k ×1.6

GPC

1.1k ×0.5

1.8k ×0.8

EEBS

2.2k ×1.3

Citations per year, relative to Adam D. Leaché Adam D. Leaché (= 1×) peers Salvador Carranza

Countries citing papers authored by Adam D. Leaché

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Fields of papers citing papers by Adam D. Leaché

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adam D. Leaché

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gottscho, Andrew D., Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Julio A. Lemos‐Espinal, et al.. (2025). Comparative Phylogeography of Phrynosomatid Lizards in Baja California: Asynchronous Divergences and Expansion of Callisaurus draconoides Across the North American Deserts. Journal of Biogeography. 52(12).

Richmond, Jonathan Q., Andrew D. Gottscho, Elizabeth L. Jockusch, et al.. (2025). Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards. Evolution. 79(7). 1386–1399. 1 indexed citations

Das, Indraneil, et al.. (2024). Establishing species boundaries in Bornean geckos. Biology Letters. 20(8). 20240157–20240157. 2 indexed citations

Singhal, Sonal, et al.. (2024). Comparative approaches to understanding speciation: a case study in Xantusia lizards. 3(1). 3 indexed citations

Huang, Jun, et al.. (2021). Phase Resolution of Heterozygous Sites in Diploid Genomes is Important to Phylogenomic Analysis under the Multispecies Coalescent Model. Systematic Biology. 71(2). 334–352. 16 indexed citations

Leaché, Adam D., et al.. (2021). Characterization of a pericentric inversion in plateau fence lizards ( Sceloporus tristichus ): evidence from chromosome-scale genomes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(2). 7 indexed citations

Telemeco, Rory S., Mariana B. Grizante, Damien S. Waits, et al.. (2021). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard ( Sceloporus undulatus ), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology. GigaScience. 10(10). 19 indexed citations

Ofori‐Boateng, Caleb, David C. Blackburn, Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto, et al.. (2021). A new critically endangered slippery frog (Amphibia, Conrauidae, Conraua) from the Atewa Range, central Ghana. Zootaxa. 4995(1). 71–95. 2 indexed citations

Blair, Christopher, Drew R. Schield, Daren C. Card, et al.. (2021). The effects of climate and demographic history in shaping genomic variation across populations of the Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos). Molecular Ecology. 30(18). 4481–4496. 9 indexed citations

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Patton, Austin H., Mark J. Margres, Christopher P. Kozakiewicz, et al.. (2020). A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Science. 370(6522). 26 indexed citations

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Magee, Andrew F., Sebastian Höhna, Tetyana I. Vasylyeva, Adam D. Leaché, & Vladimir N. Minin. (2020). Locally adaptive Bayesian birth-death model successfully detects slow and rapid rate shifts. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(10). e1007999–e1007999. 31 indexed citations

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Leaché, Adam D., Tianqi Zhu, Bruce Rannala, & Ziheng Yang. (2018). The Spectre of Too Many Species. Systematic Biology. 68(1). 168–181. 207 indexed citations

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Ofori‐Boateng, Caleb, et al.. (2018). A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa. 4374(4). 565–578. 2 indexed citations

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Leaché, Adam D., Jared A. Grummer, Rebecca B. Harris, & Ian Breckheimer. (2017). Evidence for concerted movement of nuclear and mitochondrial clines in a lizard hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology. 26(8). 2306–2316. 21 indexed citations

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de, Adrián Nieto‐Montes, Anthony J. Barley, Rubí N. Meza-Lázaro, et al.. (2016). Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 106. 241–253. 61 indexed citations

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Grummer, Jared A., Martha L. Calderón‐Espinosa, Adrián Nieto‐Montes de, et al.. (2015). Estimating the temporal and spatial extent of gene flow among sympatric lizard populations (genus Sceloporus ) in the southern Mexican highlands. Molecular Ecology. 24(7). 1523–1542. 18 indexed citations

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Leaché, Adam D., Matthew K. Fujita, Vladimir N. Minin, & Remco Bouckaert. (2014). Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Data. Systematic Biology. 63(4). 534–542. 359 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leaché, Adam D., et al.. (2013). Comparative Species Divergence across Eight Triplets of Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus) Using Genomic Sequence Data. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(12). 2410–2419. 27 indexed citations

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Prasad, Vandana, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, Adam D. Leaché, et al.. (2011). Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae. Nature Communications. 2(1). 480–480. 158 indexed citations

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Leaché, Adam D., et al.. (2005). The amphibians of the forested parts of south-western Ghana. 41. 27 indexed citations

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