Alexei J. Drummond

103.8k total citations · 19 hit papers
108 papers, 70.3k citations indexed

About

Alexei J. Drummond is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexei J. Drummond has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 70.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Molecular Biology, 63 papers in Genetics and 31 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Alexei J. Drummond's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (56 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (40 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (29 papers). Alexei J. Drummond is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (56 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (40 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (29 papers). Alexei J. Drummond collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Alexei J. Drummond's co-authors include Andrew Rambaut, Marc A. Suchard, Dong Xie, Joseph Heled, Guy Baele, Simon Y. W. Ho, Matthew J. Phillips, Remco Bouckaert, Simon Buxton and Steven Stones-Havas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexei J. Drummond

107 papers receiving 69.4k citations

Hit Papers

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable deskt... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2012 2007 2012 2018 2006 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
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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. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
    2012 15.0k citations Amy Wilson, Steven Stones-Havas et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  2. BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees
    2007 10.8k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut BMC Evolutionary Biology profile →
  3. Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7
    2012 8.2k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Marc A. Suchard et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  4. Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7
    2018 7.1k citations Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  5. Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence
    2006 5.1k citations Alexei J. Drummond, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
  6. BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis
    2014 4.9k citations Remco Bouckaert, Denise Kühnert et al. profile →
  7. Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences
    2005 2.4k citations Alexei J. Drummond Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  8. Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10
    2018 2.3k citations Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey et al. Virus Evolution profile →
  9. Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data
    2009 2.0k citations Alexei J. Drummond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  10. Bayesian Phylogeography Finds Its Roots
    2009 1.3k citations Philippe Lemey, Andrew Rambaut et al. profile →
  11. Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates and Systematic Overestimation of Recent Divergence Times
    2005 865 citations Alexei J. Drummond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  12. Estimating Mutation Parameters, Population History and Genealogy Simultaneously From Temporally Spaced Sequence Data
    2002 843 citations Alexei J. Drummond, Allen G. Rodrigo et al. Genetics profile →
  13. bModelTest: Bayesian phylogenetic site model averaging and model comparison
    2017 598 citations Remco Bouckaert, Alexei J. Drummond BMC Evolutionary Biology profile →
  14. Bayesian inference of population size history from multiple loci
    2008 591 citations Alexei J. Drummond et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology profile →
  15. Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics
    2012 474 citations Guy Baele, Alexei J. Drummond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  16. Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement
    2009 435 citations Alexei J. Drummond et al. Science profile →
  17. Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis with BEAST
    2015 385 citations Alexei J. Drummond, Remco Bouckaert profile →
  18. Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family
    2012 347 citations Remco Bouckaert, Philippe Lemey et al. Science profile →
  19. StarBEAST2 Brings Faster Species Tree Inference and Accurate Estimates of Substitution Rates
    2017 326 citations Huw A. Ogilvie, Remco Bouckaert et al. Molecular Biology and 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
Alexei J. Drummond New Zealand 60 23.4k 21.8k 18.9k 15.5k 10.5k 108 70.3k
Marc A. Suchard United States 78 17.0k 0.7× 18.9k 0.9× 15.6k 0.8× 12.6k 0.8× 10.9k 1.0× 300 64.7k
Andrew Rambaut United Kingdom 93 20.1k 0.9× 19.3k 0.9× 15.4k 0.8× 11.9k 0.8× 9.0k 0.9× 225 72.1k
David Posada Spain 55 18.5k 0.8× 18.9k 0.9× 13.0k 0.7× 15.4k 1.0× 12.5k 1.2× 164 56.6k
Keith A. Crandall United States 77 20.9k 0.9× 16.9k 0.8× 13.2k 0.7× 19.6k 1.3× 9.0k 0.9× 377 57.3k
Alexandros Stamatakis Germany 53 13.6k 0.6× 28.6k 1.3× 15.9k 0.8× 16.2k 1.0× 15.3k 1.5× 176 63.3k
Arndt von Haeseler Austria 58 14.1k 0.6× 28.4k 1.3× 12.4k 0.7× 13.8k 0.9× 13.2k 1.3× 192 61.8k
Fredrik Ronquist Sweden 55 21.4k 0.9× 29.6k 1.4× 29.7k 1.6× 22.2k 1.4× 20.1k 1.9× 123 85.8k
John P. Huelsenbeck United States 65 25.8k 1.1× 35.0k 1.6× 29.2k 1.5× 23.5k 1.5× 21.4k 2.0× 107 92.9k
Bùi Quang Minh Austria 32 10.8k 0.5× 22.1k 1.0× 11.9k 0.6× 12.9k 0.8× 11.7k 1.1× 78 52.1k
Joseph Felsenstein United States 55 26.3k 1.1× 44.8k 2.0× 20.8k 1.1× 24.2k 1.6× 21.9k 2.1× 94 96.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baele, Guy, Xiang Ji, Gabriel W. Hassler, et al.. (2025). BEAST X for Bayesian phylogenetic, phylogeographic and phylodynamic inference. Nature Methods. 22(8). 1653–1656. 8 indexed citations
2.
Mendes, Fábio K., Remco Bouckaert, Luiz Max Carvalho, & Alexei J. Drummond. (2024). How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model. Systematic Biology. 74(1). 158–175. 4 indexed citations
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Douglas, Jordan, Alexei J. Drummond, & Richard L. Kingston. (2021). Evolutionary history of cotranscriptional editing in the paramyxoviral phosphoprotein gene. Virus Evolution. 7(1). veab028–veab028. 19 indexed citations
4.
Ogilvie, Huw A., Fábio K. Mendes, Timothy G. Vaughan, et al.. (2021). Novel Integrative Modeling of Molecules and Morphology across Evolutionary Timescales. Systematic Biology. 71(1). 208–220. 11 indexed citations
5.
Douglas, Jordan, Fábio K. Mendes, Remco Bouckaert, et al.. (2021). Phylodynamics reveals the role of human travel and contact tracing in controlling the first wave of COVID-19 in four island nations. Virus Evolution. 7(2). veab052–veab052. 26 indexed citations
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Deforche, Koen, Pieter Libin, Alexei J. Drummond, et al.. (2019). SANTA-SIM: simulating viral sequence evolution dynamics under selection and recombination. Virus Evolution. 5(1). vez003–vez003. 18 indexed citations
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Suchard, Marc A., Philippe Lemey, Guy Baele, et al.. (2018). Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10. Virus Evolution. 4(1). vey016–vey016. 2288 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bouckaert, Remco & Alexei J. Drummond. (2017). bModelTest: Bayesian phylogenetic site model averaging and model comparison. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 42–42. 598 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vaughan, Timothy G., et al.. (2016). Inferring Ancestral Recombination Graphs from Bacterial Genomic Data. Genetics. 205(2). 857–870. 30 indexed citations
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Stadler, Tanja, Timothy G. Vaughan, Alex Gavryushkin, et al.. (2015). How well can the exponential-growth coalescent approximate constant-rate birth–death population dynamics?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1806). 20150420–20150420. 25 indexed citations
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Davies, Neil M, Dawn Field, Katharine Barker, et al.. (2014). Report of the 14th Genomic Standards Consortium Meeting, Oxford, UK, September 17-21, 2012.. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 9(3). 1236–1250. 2 indexed citations
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Popinga, Alex, et al.. (2014). Bayesian Coalescent Epidemic Inference: Comparison of Stochastic and Deterministic SIR Population Dynamics. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Gavryushkina, Alexandra, David Welch, & Alexei J. Drummond. (2013). Recursive algorithms for phylogenetic tree counting. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 8(1). 26–26. 9 indexed citations
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Wilson, Amy, Steven Stones-Havas, Shane Sturrock, et al.. (2012). Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics. 28(12). 1647–1649. 14977 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Weixin & Alexei J. Drummond. (2011). Model Averaging and Bayes Factor Calculation of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(2). 751–761. 100 indexed citations
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Holmes, Edward C. & Alexei J. Drummond. (2007). The Evolutionary Genetics of Viral Emergence. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 315. 51–66. 66 indexed citations
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Biek, Roman, Alexei J. Drummond, & Mary Poss. (2006). A Virus Reveals Population Structure and Recent Demographic History of Its Carnivore Host. Science. 311(5760). 538–541. 126 indexed citations
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Lemey, Philippe, Oliver G. Pybus, Andrew Rambaut, et al.. (2004). The Molecular Population Genetics of HIV-1 Group O. Genetics. 167(3). 1059–1068. 87 indexed citations
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Strimmer, Korbinian, et al.. (2004). A brief introduction to the Phylogenetic Analysis Library version 1.5. 175–179. 3 indexed citations
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Lunter, Gerton, et al.. (2003). Bayesian phylogenetic inference under a statistical insertion-deletion model. Lecture notes in computer science. 2812. 228–244. 3 indexed citations

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