April Wright

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

April Wright is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, April Wright has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Paleontology, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in April Wright's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (6 papers). April Wright is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (6 papers). April Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. April Wright's co-authors include Robert Lanfear, Brett Calcott, Paul B. Frandsen, David M. Hillis, Nicholas J. Matzke, Graeme T. Lloyd, David M. Hillis, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Thomas J. Devitt and David C. Cannatella and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

April Wright

32 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses

2016 4.1k citations Robert Lanfear, Paul B. Frandsen et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
April Wright United States	16	1.9k	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	913	33	5.0k
Paul B. Frandsen United States	20	2.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	526 0.6×	77	5.7k
Jesús Gómez‐Zurita Spain	27	2.4k 1.3×	990 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	1.7k 1.5×	642 0.7×	80	4.8k
Paschalia Kapli United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	471 0.5×	32	4.0k
Pavlos Pavlidis Greece	23	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	332 0.4×	58	4.8k
David J. Lohman United States	24	3.1k 1.7×	1.7k 1.1×	2.7k 1.9×	1.9k 1.6×	608 0.7×	67	7.2k
Michael Balke Germany	37	3.5k 1.9×	1.2k 0.7×	2.2k 1.5×	2.2k 1.8×	1.2k 1.3×	203	6.0k
Guillaume Achaz France	25	1.2k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	273 0.3×	55	5.3k
Johannes Bergsten Sweden	26	1.9k 1.0×	925 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	569 0.6×	69	3.5k
Laura Kvist Finland	23	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	293 0.3×	91	4.4k
Bernhard Misof Germany	52	3.6k 1.9×	2.3k 1.4×	3.0k 2.0×	1.9k 1.6×	866 0.9×	162	7.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of April Wright

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All Works

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Kammerer, Christian F., et al.. (2025). Incorporating Continuous Characters in Joint Estimation of Dicynodont Phylogeny. Systematic Biology.

May, Michael R., et al.. (2024). Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations. Systematic Biology. 74(1). 34–52. 6 indexed citations

Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, Orlando Schwery, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Chi Zhang, & April Wright. (2024). Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 204–204. 1 indexed citations

Höhna, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics. Systematic Biology. 73(5). 861–871. 7 indexed citations

Simões, Tiago R., Oksana Vernygora, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, & April Wright. (2023). Handling Logical Character Dependency in Phylogenetic Inference: Extensive Performance Testing of Assumptions and Solutions Using Simulated and Empirical Data. Systematic Biology. 72(3). 662–680. 15 indexed citations

Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, Orlando Schwery, Rachel C. M. Warnock, Chi Zhang, & April Wright. (2023). Practical guidelines for Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 204–204. 4 indexed citations

Crother, Brian I., et al.. (2023). Species Delimitation of Eastern Pinesnake Complex (Pituophis melanoleucus). 2(1). 1–14. 2 indexed citations

Ward, L. I., et al.. (2022). Genomic data support the taxonomic validity of Middle American livebearers Poeciliopsis gracilis and Poeciliopsis pleurospilus (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae). PLoS ONE. 17(1). e0262687–e0262687. 6 indexed citations

Román‐Palacios, Cristian, April Wright, & Josef C. Uyeda. (2021). treedata.table : a wrapper for data.table that enables fast manipulation of large phylogenetic trees matched to data. PeerJ. 9. e12450–e12450. 3 indexed citations

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Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, Erin E. Saupe, Tara M. Smiley, et al.. (2020). Seven rules for simulations in paleobiology. Paleobiology. 46(4). 435–444. 15 indexed citations

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Devitt, Thomas J., April Wright, David C. Cannatella, & David M. Hillis. (2019). Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(7). 2624–2633. 83 indexed citations

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Wright, April. (2019). A Systematist’s Guide to Estimating Bayesian Phylogenies From Morphological Data. Insect Systematics and Diversity. 3(3). 2–2. 32 indexed citations

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Matzke, Nicholas J. & April Wright. (2016). Inferring node dates from tip dates in fossil Canidae: the importance of tree priors. Biology Letters. 12(8). 20160328–20160328. 78 indexed citations

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Lanfear, Robert, et al.. (2016). PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(3). msw260–msw260. 4086 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wright, April, Graeme T. Lloyd, & David M. Hillis. (2015). Modeling Character Change Heterogeneity in Phylogenetic Analyses of Morphology through the Use of Priors. Systematic Biology. 65(4). 602–611. 81 indexed citations

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Wright, April & David M. Hillis. (2014). Bayesian Analysis Using a Simple Likelihood Model Outperforms Parsimony for Estimation of Phylogeny from Discrete Morphological Data. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109210–e109210. 201 indexed citations

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Li, Teng, Jimeng Hua, April Wright, et al.. (2014). Long-branch attraction and the phylogeny of true water bugs (Hemiptera: Nepomorpha) as estimated from mitochondrial genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14(1). 99–99. 29 indexed citations

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Gouin, Nicolás, April Wright, Katarzyna B. Miska, et al.. (2006). Modo-UG, a marsupial nonclassical MHC class I locus. Immunogenetics. 58(5-6). 396–406. 18 indexed citations

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Miska, Katarzyna B., et al.. (2004). Analysis of a marsupial MHC region containing two recently duplicated class I loci. Mammalian Genome. 15(10). 851–864. 23 indexed citations

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Hofkin, Bruce V., April Wright, Kornelia Rassmann, et al.. (2003). Ancient DNA gives green light to Galápagos Land Iguana repatriation. Conservation Genetics. 4(1). 105–108. 10 indexed citations

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