Alex Dornburg

8.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
95 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Alex Dornburg is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Dornburg has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Alex Dornburg's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (23 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (18 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (18 papers). Alex Dornburg is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (23 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (18 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (18 papers). Alex Dornburg collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Alex Dornburg's co-authors include Jeffrey P. Townsend, Thomas J. Near, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Jacob S. Berv, Daniel J. Field, Richard O. Prum, Matt Friedman, Ron I. Eytan and Peter C. Wainwright and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

In The Last Decade

Alex Dornburg

91 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

  1. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
    2015 1.2k citations Alex Dornburg, Jeffrey P. Townsend et al. profile →
  2. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
    2016 786 citations Alex Dornburg, Jeffrey P. Townsend et al. profile →
  3. Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification
    2012 743 citations Thomas J. Near, Ron I. Eytan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates
    2009 667 citations Michael E. Alfaro, Francesco Santini et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes
    2013 398 citations Thomas J. Near, Alex Dornburg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  6. Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous
    2022 75 citations Richard Harrington, Edward D. Burress et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Dornburg United States 33 2.2k 2.0k 1.7k 1.7k 1.4k 95 6.1k
Samantha A. Price United States 29 1.4k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 837 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 1.6k 1.1× 61 4.5k
Iracilda Sampaio Brazil 36 1.7k 0.8× 708 0.4× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 259 5.0k
Horácio Schneider Brazil 36 1.3k 0.6× 745 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 942 0.7× 192 4.6k
Todd H. Oakley United States 39 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 108 5.5k
Michael A. Bell United States 44 2.6k 1.2× 770 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 3.5k 2.1× 1.9k 1.4× 151 7.1k
Gavin J. P. Naylor United States 32 2.6k 1.2× 940 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 134 4.8k
Rodney L. Honeycutt United States 49 933 0.4× 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 1.0× 2.8k 1.7× 3.0k 2.2× 162 6.7k
Guillermo Ortı́ United States 48 3.9k 1.8× 903 0.4× 2.3k 1.3× 2.4k 1.4× 1.6k 1.1× 114 7.4k
Thomas J. Near United States 55 5.0k 2.3× 2.7k 1.3× 2.5k 1.4× 3.4k 2.0× 2.9k 2.1× 186 9.8k
David M. Hillis United States 30 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 2.7k 1.6× 2.6k 1.5× 1.5k 1.1× 46 6.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brownstein, Chase Doran, Alex Dornburg, & Thomas J. Near. (2025). Cenozoic evolutionary history obscures the Mesozoic origins of acanthopterygian fishes. Evolution. 79(6). 922–934. 1 indexed citations
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Dornburg, Alex, Rachel Williams, Michael E. Alfaro, et al.. (2024). Considering Decoupled Phenotypic Diversification Between Ontogenetic Phases in Macroevolution: An Example Using Triggerfishes (Balistidae). Systematic Biology. 73(2). 434–454. 1 indexed citations
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Wcisel, Dustin J., et al.. (2024). Investigating the Impact of Whole-Genome Duplication on Transposable Element Evolution in Teleost Fishes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(1). 1 indexed citations
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Townsend, Jeffrey P., et al.. (2023). Seasonality of endemic COVID-19. mBio. 14(6). e0142623–e0142623. 30 indexed citations
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Wcisel, Dustin J., et al.. (2023). A chromosome-level genome assembly of longnose gar, Lepisosteus osseus. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(7). 2 indexed citations
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Harrington, Richard, Edward D. Burress, Matthew A. Campbell, et al.. (2022). Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1211–1220. 75 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wcisel, Dustin J., Alex Dornburg, Sean C. McConnell, et al.. (2022). A highly diverse set of novel immunoglobulin-like transcript (NILT) genes in zebrafish indicates a wide range of functions with complex relationships to mammalian receptors. Immunogenetics. 75(1). 53–69. 4 indexed citations
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Wcisel, Dustin J., Christina L. Williams, Matthew Breen, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome annotation reveals minimal immunogenetic diversity among Wyoming toads, Anaxyrus baxteri. Conservation Genetics. 23(4). 669–681. 3 indexed citations
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Townsend, Jeffrey P., Hayley B. Hassler, Zheng Wang, et al.. (2021). The durability of immunity against reinfection by SARS-CoV-2: a comparative evolutionary study. TUScholarShare (Temple University). 87 indexed citations
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Lippi, Catherine A., Gregory J. Watkins‐Colwell, Andrew W. Jones, et al.. (2021). Comparing the dietary niche overlap and ecomorphological differences between invasive Hemidactylus mabouia geckos and a native gecko competitor. Ecology and Evolution. 11(24). 18719–18732. 7 indexed citations
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Warren, Dan L., et al.. (2021). The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(6). 985–995. 13 indexed citations
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Warren, Dan L., Ron I. Eytan, Alex Dornburg, et al.. (2021). Reevaluating claims of ecological speciation in Halichoeres bivittatus. Ecology and Evolution. 11(16). 11449–11456. 2 indexed citations
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Fisk, Jeffrey Nicholas, Alex Dornburg, Stephen G. Gaffney, et al.. (2021). Premetastatic shifts of endogenous and exogenous mutational processes support consolidative therapy in EGFR-driven lung adenocarcinoma. Cancer Letters. 526. 346–351. 10 indexed citations
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Wcisel, Dustin J., Jeremy Howard, Jeffrey A. Yoder, & Alex Dornburg. (2020). Transcriptome Ortholog Alignment Sequence Tools (TOAST) for phylogenomic dataset assembly. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 41–41. 9 indexed citations
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Phillips, Anna J., Alex Dornburg, Frank E. Anderson, et al.. (2019). Expression of concern: Phylogenomic Analysis of a Putative Missing Link Sparks Reinterpretation of Leech Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(7). 1882–1882. 2 indexed citations
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Dornburg, Alex, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Elizabeth L. Spriggs, et al.. (2017). New insights on the sister lineage of percomorph fishes with an anchored hybrid enrichment dataset. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 110. 27–38. 35 indexed citations
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Near, Thomas J., Ron I. Eytan, Alex Dornburg, et al.. (2012). Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(34). 13698–13703. 743 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alfaro, Michael E., Francesco Santini, Chad D. Brock, et al.. (2009). Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(32). 13410–13414. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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