Alan Filipski

51.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 41.5k citations indexed

About

Alan Filipski is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Filipski has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 41.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Alan Filipski's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Alan Filipski is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (3 papers). Alan Filipski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Alan Filipski's co-authors include Sudhir Kumar, Koichiro Tamura, Daniel S. Peterson, Glen Stecher, Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Oscar Murillo, Paul Billing-Ross, S. Blair Hedges, Alan Walker and Joel T. Dudley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genetics and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Alan Filipski

13 papers receiving 40.8k citations

Hit Papers

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0 2012 2026 2016 2021 2013 2012 10.0k 20.0k 30.0k 40.0k
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.

  1. MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
    2013 40.6k citations Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  2. Estimating divergence times in large molecular phylogenies
    2012 463 citations Koichiro Tamura, Fabia U. Battistuzzi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Filipski United States 11 16.4k 12.6k 8.0k 6.4k 4.9k 14 41.5k
Daniel G. Peterson United States 32 15.8k 1.0× 12.6k 1.0× 7.6k 0.9× 6.0k 0.9× 4.3k 0.9× 118 38.8k
Daniel S. Peterson United States 28 16.1k 1.0× 12.5k 1.0× 7.9k 1.0× 6.1k 1.0× 4.7k 1.0× 96 42.9k
Olivier Gascuel France 35 21.0k 1.3× 10.8k 0.9× 11.1k 1.4× 8.7k 1.4× 6.5k 1.3× 136 46.4k
Stéphane Guindon France 21 16.3k 1.0× 8.8k 0.7× 10.0k 1.2× 8.3k 1.3× 7.3k 1.5× 39 39.8k
Daron M. Standley Japan 36 17.9k 1.1× 9.0k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 5.4k 0.8× 6.6k 1.4× 113 35.8k
Hamish McWilliam United Kingdom 15 25.5k 1.6× 10.7k 0.8× 6.7k 0.8× 6.1k 1.0× 2.8k 0.6× 18 46.3k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom 32 32.5k 2.0× 13.2k 1.0× 7.9k 1.0× 7.3k 1.2× 3.1k 0.6× 68 57.4k
Naruya Saitou Japan 45 30.6k 1.9× 14.6k 1.2× 12.8k 1.6× 10.8k 1.7× 4.2k 0.9× 199 58.9k
Marc Lohse Germany 23 25.7k 1.6× 13.5k 1.1× 8.4k 1.1× 7.2k 1.1× 4.1k 0.8× 25 48.8k
Aaron E. Darling Australia 39 15.2k 0.9× 8.0k 0.6× 9.6k 1.2× 6.4k 1.0× 7.5k 1.5× 101 34.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Filipski

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Filipski

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Filipski

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All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Battistuzzi, Fabia U., Paul Billing-Ross, Oscar Murillo, Alan Filipski, & Sudhir Kumar. (2015). A Protocol for Diagnosing the Effect of Calibration Priors on Posterior Time Estimates: A Case Study for the Cambrian Explosion of Animal Phyla. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(7). 1907–1912. 25 indexed citations
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Filipski, Alan, Koichiro Tamura, Paul Billing-Ross, Oscar Murillo, & Sudhir Kumar. (2015). Phylogenetic placement of metagenomic reads using the minimum evolution principle. BMC Genomics. 16(S1). S13–S13. 22 indexed citations
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Filipski, Alan, et al.. (2014). Prospects for Building Large Timetrees Using Molecular Data with Incomplete Gene Coverage among Species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(9). 2542–2550. 48 indexed citations
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Tamura, Koichiro, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson, et al.. (2013). Brief Communication MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0. 15 indexed citations
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Tamura, Koichiro, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson, Alan Filipski, & Sudhir Kumar. (2013). MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(12). 2725–2729. 40603 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tamura, Koichiro, Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Paul Billing-Ross, et al.. (2012). Estimating divergence times in large molecular phylogenies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(47). 19333–19338. 463 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kumar, Sudhir, Joel T. Dudley, Alan Filipski, & Li Liu. (2011). Phylomedicine: an evolutionary telescope to explore and diagnose the universe of disease mutations. Trends in Genetics. 27(9). 377–386. 55 indexed citations
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Battistuzzi, Fabia U., Alan Filipski, S. Blair Hedges, & Sudhir Kumar. (2010). Performance of Relaxed-Clock Methods in Estimating Evolutionary Divergence Times and Their Credibility Intervals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(6). 1289–1300. 78 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sudhir & Alan Filipski. (2007). Multiple sequence alignment: In pursuit of homologous DNA positions. Genome Research. 17(2). 127–135. 93 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sudhir, et al.. (2005). Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human–chimpanzee divergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(52). 18842–18847. 116 indexed citations
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Kumar, Sudhir, Sudhindra R. Gadagkar, Alan Filipski, & Xun Gu. (2001). Determination of the Number of Conserved Chromosomal Segments Between Species. Genetics. 157(3). 1387–1395. 16 indexed citations
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Filipski, Alan, et al.. (1986). Making UNIX secure. BYTE archive. 11(4). 113–128. 4 indexed citations

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