Alexander Platt

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alexander Platt is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Platt has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Alexander Platt's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (7 papers). Alexander Platt is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (7 papers). Alexander Platt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Canada. Alexander Platt's co-authors include Magnus Nordborg, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Arthur Korte, Vincent Segura, Ümit Seren, Quan Long, Joy Bergelson, Justin Borevitz, Matthew Horton and F. Gianluca Sperone and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Platt

19 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

An efficient multi-locus mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies in structured populations

2012 709 citations Vincent Segura, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Platt United States	11	1.2k	1.1k	545	116	86	23	1.9k
Ashley Farlow Austria	14	1.1k 0.9×	795 0.7×	696 1.3×	98 0.8×	68 0.8×	14	1.9k
Jenny Hagenblad Sweden	23	986 0.9×	686 0.6×	399 0.7×	263 2.3×	82 1.0×	54	1.5k
Chunlao Tang United States	12	1.1k 0.9×	787 0.7×	497 0.9×	194 1.7×	43 0.5×	12	1.5k
Roman Briskine United States	18	1.1k 0.9×	472 0.4×	558 1.0×	120 1.0×	94 1.1×	20	1.4k
Ümit Seren Austria	10	943 0.8×	716 0.7×	448 0.8×	64 0.6×	63 0.7×	12	1.4k
Honggang Zheng United States	15	1.3k 1.1×	835 0.8×	493 0.9×	82 0.7×	76 0.9×	19	1.7k
Ryo Ishikawa Japan	21	1.1k 0.9×	544 0.5×	615 1.1×	155 1.3×	31 0.4×	47	1.4k
Chikako Shindo United Kingdom	16	1.7k 1.5×	887 0.8×	818 1.5×	130 1.1×	128 1.5×	18	2.1k
Armin Scheben Australia	20	1.1k 1.0×	413 0.4×	569 1.0×	318 2.7×	45 0.5×	45	1.5k
Stéphane De Mita France	17	1.2k 1.1×	460 0.4×	439 0.8×	152 1.3×	208 2.4×	30	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alexander Platt

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Alexander Platt's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Alexander Platt with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Alexander Platt more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Platt

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alexander Platt. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alexander Platt. The network helps show where Alexander Platt may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Platt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Platt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Platt based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alexander Platt. Alexander Platt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Platt, Alexander, et al.. (2026). Interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans was strongly sex biased. Science. 391(6788). 922–925.

Gordon, Paul M. K., Frank van der Meer, Tarah Lynch, et al.. (2025). Apollo: a comprehensive GPU-powered within-host simulator for viral evolution and infection dynamics across population, tissue, and cell. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5783–5783.

Harris, Daniel, Alexander Platt, Matthew E.B. Hansen, et al.. (2023). Diverse African genomes reveal selection on ancient modern human introgressions in Neanderthals. Current Biology. 33(22). 4905–4916.e5. 12 indexed citations

Cao, Chen, Qing Li, William Zhang, et al.. (2023). cLD: Rare-variant linkage disequilibrium between genomic regions identifies novel genomic interactions. PLoS Genetics. 19(12). e1011074–e1011074. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Chao, et al.. (2020). The importance of including ethnically diverse populations in studies of quantitative trait evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 62. 30–35. 3 indexed citations

Platt, Alexander, et al.. (2019). An estimator of first coalescent time reveals selection on young variants and large heterogeneity in rare allele ages among human populations. PLoS Genetics. 15(8). e1008340–e1008340. 11 indexed citations

Platt, Alexander, Claudia Weber, & David A. Liberles. (2018). Protein evolution depends on multiple distinct population size parameters. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 17–17. 10 indexed citations

Platt, Alexander, et al.. (2016). The Reaction of Rescue Wheat to Sawfly Damage1. Scientific Agriculture. 10 indexed citations

Platt, Alexander, et al.. (2016). Shattering, Breaking and Threshability in Barley Varieties1. Scientific Agriculture. 1 indexed citations

10.

Platt, Alexander & Ruby I. Larson. (2016). An Attempt to Transfer Solid Stem from Triticum Durum to T. Vulgare by Hybridization1. Scientific Agriculture.

11.

Platt, Alexander, Paul F. Gugger, Matteo Pellegrini, & Victoria L. Sork. (2015). Genome‐wide signature of local adaptation linked to variable CpG methylation in oak populations. Molecular Ecology. 24(15). 3823–3830. 86 indexed citations

12.

Brachi, Benjamin, Christopher Meyer, Romain Villoutreix, et al.. (2015). Coselected genes determine adaptive variation in herbivore resistance throughout the native range of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(13). 4032–4037. 89 indexed citations

13.

Yang, Wen-Yun, Alexander Platt, Charleston W. K. Chiang, et al.. (2014). Spatial Localization of Recent Ancestors for Admixed Individuals. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 4(12). 2505–2518. 12 indexed citations

14.

Lovell, John T., Thomas Juenger, Scott D. Michaels, et al.. (2013). Pleiotropy of FRIGIDA enhances the potential for multivariate adaptation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1763). 20131043–20131043. 104 indexed citations

15.

Korte, Arthur, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Vincent Segura, et al.. (2012). A mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies of correlated traits in structured populations. Nature Genetics. 44(9). 1066–1071. 288 indexed citations

16.

Segura, Vincent, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, Alexander Platt, et al.. (2012). An efficient multi-locus mixed-model approach for genome-wide association studies in structured populations. Nature Genetics. 44(7). 825–830. 709 indexed citations breakdown →

17.

Horton, Matthew, Angela M. Hancock, Yu Huang, et al.. (2012). Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in worldwide Arabidopsis thaliana accessions from the RegMap panel. Nature Genetics. 44(2). 212–216. 369 indexed citations

18.

Anastasio, Alison, Alexander Platt, Matthew Horton, et al.. (2011). Source verification of mis‐identified Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. The Plant Journal. 67(3). 554–566. 55 indexed citations

19.

Platt, Alexander, Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson, & Magnus Nordborg. (2010). Conditions Under Which Genome-Wide Association Studies Will be Positively Misleading. Genetics. 186(3). 1045–1052. 142 indexed citations

20.

Platt, Alexander. (2007). Association mapping through heuristic evolutionary history reconstruction-application to GAW15 Problem 3. BMC Proceedings. 1(S1). S131–S131. 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact