Anja M. Westram

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Anja M. Westram is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Anja M. Westram has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Anja M. Westram's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (7 papers). Anja M. Westram is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior (7 papers). Anja M. Westram collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Austria. Anja M. Westram's co-authors include Roger K. Butlin, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Mark Ravinet, Marina Rafajlović, Marina Panova, Irene Keller, Juan Galindo, Jukka Jokela and B. Mehlig and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Anja M. Westram

39 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow

2017 335 citations Mark Ravinet, Rui Faria et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Anja M. Westram United Kingdom	22	1.3k	640	425	350	330	40	1.9k
Rui Faria Portugal	22	1.4k 1.1×	438 0.7×	634 1.5×	350 1.0×	357 1.1×	61	2.0k
Mark Ravinet Norway	19	1.2k 1.0×	511 0.8×	436 1.0×	404 1.2×	372 1.1×	48	1.8k
Jordan D. Satler United States	10	789 0.6×	396 0.6×	434 1.0×	503 1.4×	239 0.7×	17	1.5k
Noah M. Reid United States	15	1.2k 0.9×	805 1.3×	659 1.6×	680 1.9×	432 1.3×	25	2.5k
Nicolas C. Rochette United States	8	809 0.6×	468 0.7×	525 1.2×	312 0.9×	209 0.6×	9	1.4k
Tara A. Pelletier United States	12	630 0.5×	412 0.6×	361 0.8×	446 1.3×	264 0.8×	23	1.3k
Nicholas P. Murphy Australia	24	527 0.4×	967 1.5×	336 0.8×	301 0.9×	403 1.2×	83	1.7k
Vincent Dubut France	18	946 0.7×	518 0.8×	565 1.3×	309 0.9×	308 0.9×	38	1.6k
Delbert W. Hutchison United States	8	1.2k 1.0×	623 1.0×	293 0.7×	534 1.5×	416 1.3×	12	1.7k
Bernard Angers Canada	25	1.3k 1.0×	653 1.0×	587 1.4×	434 1.2×	675 2.0×	77	2.2k

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Johannesson, Kerstin, et al.. (2025). Short INDELs and SNPs as markers of evolutionary processes in hybrid zones. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 38(3). 367–378. 1 indexed citations

Raffini, Francesca, Kerstin Johannesson, Rui Faria, et al.. (2025). Phenotypic Divergence and Genomic Architecture Between Parallel Ecotypes at Two Different Points on the Speciation Continuum in a Marine Snail. Molecular Ecology. 34(21). e70025–e70025.

Barton, Nick, Rui Faria, Sean Stankowski, et al.. (2024). Predicting rapid adaptation in time from adaptation in space: A 30-year field experiment in marine snails. Science Advances. 10(41). 7 indexed citations

Johannesson, Kerstin, Rui Faria, Alan Le Moan, et al.. (2024). Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by marine snails. Trends in Genetics. 40(4). 337–351. 13 indexed citations

Berdan, Emma L., Nick Barton, Roger K. Butlin, et al.. (2023). How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(12). 1761–1782. 42 indexed citations

Lucek, Kay, Mabel D. Giménez, Mathieu Joron, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Chromosomal Rearrangements in Speciation: From Micro- to Macroevolution. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 15(11). a041447–a041447. 18 indexed citations

Stankowski, Sean, Juan Galindo, Rui Faria, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome phylogeography of the intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2(1). 3 indexed citations

Koch, Eva L., Mark Ravinet, Anja M. Westram, Kerstin Johannesson, & Roger K. Butlin. (2022). Genetic architecture of repeated phenotypic divergence in Littorina saxatilis ecotype evolution. Evolution. 76(10). 2332–2346. 18 indexed citations

Moan, Alan Le, Kerstin Johannesson, Rui Faria, et al.. (2022). Ten years of demographic modelling of divergence and speciation in the sea. Evolutionary Applications. 16(2). 542–559. 20 indexed citations

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Westram, Anja M., et al.. (2022). What is reproductive isolation?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(9). 1143–1164. 59 indexed citations

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Westram, Anja M., Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, & Roger K. Butlin. (2021). Using replicate hybrid zones to understand the genomic basis of adaptive divergence. Molecular Ecology. 30(15). 3797–3814. 44 indexed citations

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Koch, Eva L., Hernán E. Morales, Anja M. Westram, et al.. (2021). Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis. Evolution Letters. 5(3). 196–213. 51 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, et al.. (2020). Assortative mating, sexual selection, and their consequences for gene flow in Littorina. Evolution. 74(7). 1482–1497. 20 indexed citations

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Westram, Anja M., et al.. (2020). A developmentally descriptive method for quantifying shape in gastropod shells. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(163). 20190721–20190721. 18 indexed citations

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Morales, Hernán E., Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, et al.. (2019). Genomic architecture of parallel ecological divergence: Beyond a single environmental contrast. Science Advances. 5(12). eaav9963–eaav9963. 77 indexed citations

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Johannesson, Kerstin, et al.. (2019). Is embryo abortion a post‐zygotic barrier to gene flow between Littorina ecotypes?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(3). 342–351. 13 indexed citations

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Faria, Rui, Hernán E. Morales, Tomas Larsson, et al.. (2018). Multiple chromosomal rearrangements in a hybrid zone betweenLittorina saxatilisecotypes. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1375–1393. 89 indexed citations

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Butlin, Roger K., et al.. (2017). Adaptation to dislodgement risk on wave-swept rocky shores in the snail Littorina saxatilis. PLoS ONE. 12(10). e0186901–e0186901. 33 indexed citations

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Westram, Anja M., Jukka Jokela, & Irene Keller. (2013). Hidden Biodiversity in an Ecologically Important Freshwater Amphipod: Differences in Genetic Structure between Two Cryptic Species. PLoS ONE. 8(8). e69576–e69576. 19 indexed citations

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Westram, Anja M., et al.. (2011). Spatial Distribution of Cryptic Species Diversity in European Freshwater Amphipods (Gammarus fossarum) as Revealed by Pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE. 6(8). e23879–e23879. 54 indexed citations

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