Andrew D. Kern

16.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Andrew D. Kern is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew D. Kern has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Andrew D. Kern's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers). Andrew D. Kern is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers). Andrew D. Kern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Andrew D. Kern's co-authors include Daniel R. Schrider, David J Begun, Corbin D. Jones, Matthew W. Hahn, Sofie R. Salama, Sol Katzman, David Haussler, Alisha K. Holloway, Heather A. Lindfors and Katherine S. Pollard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Andrew D. Kern

53 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans

2006 672 citations Andrew D. Kern et al. profile →
Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans

2007 514 citations David J Begun, Alisha K. Holloway et al. PLoS Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew D. Kern United States	30	2.6k	2.5k	824	447	339	57	4.7k
Kim C. Worley United States	29	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	620 0.8×	325 0.7×	403 1.2×	72	4.1k
Arcadi Navarro Spain	36	2.1k 0.8×	2.8k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	449 1.0×	320 0.9×	136	5.2k
Wesley C. Warren United States	41	2.9k 1.1×	3.0k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	600 1.3×	761 2.2×	155	6.5k
Jeffrey D. Wall United States	45	2.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.8×	932 1.1×	437 1.0×	448 1.3×	89	6.7k
Matthew V. Rockman United States	33	2.2k 0.9×	2.8k 1.1×	850 1.0×	853 1.9×	628 1.9×	63	5.4k
Kevin Thornton United States	34	1.9k 0.7×	2.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	540 1.2×	291 0.9×	56	4.4k
Soojin V. Yi United States	37	2.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	650 0.8×	640 1.4×	306 0.9×	96	4.1k
Scott A. Rifkin United States	19	3.8k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	502 0.6×	218 0.5×	223 0.7×	31	4.9k
Carmela Gissi Italy	30	3.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.5×	474 0.6×	429 1.0×	1.1k 3.3×	66	5.2k
Rachel J. O’Neill United States	37	2.4k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.9k 2.3×	431 1.0×	330 1.0×	119	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew D. Kern

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Small, Scott T., et al.. (2025). Sweeps in Space: Leveraging Geographic Data to Identify Beneficial Alleles in Anopheles gambiae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(6). 1 indexed citations

Tittes, Silas, Scott T. Small, Denise M. Piscopo, et al.. (2025). Cephalopod sex determination and its ancient evolutionary origin. Current Biology. 35(4). 931–939.e4. 2 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Murillo F., Andrew D. Kern, & Peter L. Ralph. (2024). Shared evolutionary processes shape landscapes of genomic variation in the great apes. Genetics. 226(4). 4 indexed citations

Small, Scott T., Carlo Costantini, N’Falé Sagnon, et al.. (2023). Standing genetic variation and chromosome differences drove rapid ecotype formation in a major malaria mosquito. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(11). e2219835120–e2219835120. 9 indexed citations

Battey, C.J., et al.. (2021). Visualizing population structure with variational autoencoders. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(1). 48 indexed citations

Battey, C.J., Peter L. Ralph, & Andrew D. Kern. (2020). Space is the Place: Effects of Continuous Spatial Structure on Analysis of Population Genetic Data. Genetics. 215(1). 193–214. 64 indexed citations

Abraham, Abin, et al.. (2020). Evaluating human autosomal loci for sexually antagonistic viability selection in two large biobanks. Genetics. 217(1). 1–10. 19 indexed citations

Kern, Andrew D. & Daniel R. Schrider. (2018). diploS/HIC: An Updated Approach to Classifying Selective Sweeps. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(6). 1959–1970. 93 indexed citations

Schrider, Daniel R., Julien F. Ayroles, Daniel R. Matute, & Andrew D. Kern. (2018). Supervised machine learning reveals introgressed loci in the genomes of Drosophila simulans and D. sechellia. PLoS Genetics. 14(4). e1007341–e1007341. 80 indexed citations

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Kern, Andrew D. & Jody Hey. (2017). Exact Calculation of the Joint Allele Frequency Spectrum for Isolation with Migration Models. Genetics. 207(1). 241–253. 17 indexed citations

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Schrider, Daniel R. & Andrew D. Kern. (2017). Soft Sweeps Are the Dominant Mode of Adaptation in the Human Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(8). 1863–1877. 102 indexed citations

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Kern, Andrew D., et al.. (2017). The Effect of Common Inversion Polymorphisms In(2L)t and In(3R)Mo on Patterns of Transcriptional Variation in Drosophila melanogaster. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 7(11). 3659–3668. 34 indexed citations

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Kern, Andrew D. & Daniel R. Schrider. (2016). Discoal: flexible coalescent simulations with selection. Bioinformatics. 32(24). 3839–3841. 58 indexed citations

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Schrider, Daniel R., et al.. (2016). Effects of Linked Selective Sweeps on Demographic Inference and Model Selection. Genetics. 204(3). 1207–1223. 100 indexed citations

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Kern, Andrew D., et al.. (2015). Highly Constrained Intergenic Drosophila Ultraconserved Elements Are Candidate ncRNAs. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(3). 689–698. 11 indexed citations

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Wuest, Samuel E., et al.. (2012). Computational analysis and characterization of UCE-like elements (ULEs) in plant genomes. Genome Research. 22(12). 2455–2466. 23 indexed citations

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Begun, David J, Heather A. Lindfors, Andrew D. Kern, & Corbin D. Jones. (2007). Evidence for de Novo Evolution of Testis-Expressed Genes in the Drosophila yakuba / Drosophila erecta Clade. Genetics. 176(2). 1131–1137. 153 indexed citations

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Begun, David J, Alisha K. Holloway, Kristian Stevens, et al.. (2007). Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans. PLoS Biology. 5(11). e310–e310. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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Levine, Mia T, Corbin D. Jones, Andrew D. Kern, Heather A. Lindfors, & David J Begun. (2006). Novel genes derived from noncoding DNA in Drosophila melanogaster are frequently X-linked and exhibit testis-biased expression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(26). 9935–9939. 253 indexed citations

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Kern, Andrew D., Corbin D. Jones, & David J Begun. (2002). Genomic Effects of Nucleotide Substitutions inDrosophila simulans. Genetics. 162(4). 1753–1761. 17 indexed citations

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