Athena Lam

667 total citations
25 papers, 398 citations indexed

About

Athena Lam is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Athena Lam has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 398 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 9 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Athena Lam's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Athena Lam is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (9 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Athena Lam collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Indonesia. Athena Lam's co-authors include Michael Balke, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Jérôme Morinière, Matthew H. Van Dam, Samuel Arvidsson, Axel Hausmann, Peter J.P. Croucher, Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Stefan Schmidt and Lars Hendrich and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The EMBO Journal and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Athena Lam

23 papers receiving 389 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Athena Lam United States 13 167 154 145 116 76 25 398
Matthew H. Van Dam United States 11 193 1.2× 228 1.5× 136 0.9× 83 0.7× 71 0.9× 26 464
Wan F. A. Jusoh Malaysia 11 147 0.9× 188 1.2× 113 0.8× 160 1.4× 58 0.8× 24 367
Whitney L. E. Tsai United States 11 301 1.8× 152 1.0× 175 1.2× 211 1.8× 72 0.9× 19 478
Björn Rulik Germany 11 159 1.0× 220 1.4× 227 1.6× 134 1.2× 113 1.5× 29 495
Francesco Cicconardi United Kingdom 17 245 1.5× 283 1.8× 167 1.2× 196 1.7× 39 0.5× 26 640
Yong‐Chao Su Taiwan 16 318 1.9× 190 1.2× 95 0.7× 168 1.4× 111 1.5× 42 609
Carol K. L. Yeung Taiwan 12 344 2.1× 149 1.0× 157 1.1× 137 1.2× 89 1.2× 18 524
Anton Chichvarkhin Russia 13 165 1.0× 130 0.8× 144 1.0× 77 0.7× 37 0.5× 28 443
Chih–Ming Hung Taiwan 7 230 1.4× 74 0.5× 140 1.0× 106 0.9× 94 1.2× 11 364
Nicolás A. Hazzi United States 9 160 1.0× 127 0.8× 57 0.4× 46 0.4× 88 1.2× 21 329

Countries citing papers authored by Athena Lam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Athena Lam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Athena Lam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Athena Lam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Athena Lam 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 Athena Lam. Athena Lam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Esposito, Lauren A., et al.. (2025). Towards Large‐Scale Museomics Projects: A Cost‐Effective and High‐Throughput Extraction Method for Obtaining Historical DNA From Museum Insect Specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(8). e14117–e14117. 1 indexed citations
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Lam, Athena, Matthew H. Van Dam, Jiřı́ Hájek, et al.. (2024). Plate tectonics, cold adaptation and long-distance range expansion to remote archipelagos and the high Andes as drivers of a circumantarctic freshwater arthropod radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 204. 108279–108279.
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Dam, Matthew H. Van, Athena Lam, Felipe A. Noguera, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomics of Tetraopes longhorn beetles unravels their evolutionary history and biogeographic origins. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 7285–7285. 3 indexed citations
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Collins, Jason C., Xiang Chen, Nicholas Balanda, et al.. (2024). Shared and distinct mechanisms of UBA1 inactivation across different diseases. The EMBO Journal. 43(10). 1919–1946. 26 indexed citations
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Rivera, Danielle, James Henderson, Athena Lam, et al.. (2024). High-Quality, Chromosome-Level Reference Genomes of the Viviparous Caribbean Skinks Spondylurus nitidus and S. culebrae. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(5).
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Dam, Matthew H. Van, et al.. (2024). Biogeography confounds the signal of cospeciation in Batesian mimicry. Current Biology. 34(23). 5554–5563.e4. 1 indexed citations
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Dam, Matthew H. Van, et al.. (2022). How the Easter Egg Weevils Got Their Spots: Phylogenomics Reveals Müllerian Mimicry in Pachyrhynchus (Coleoptera, Curculionidae).. Systematic Biology. 72(3). 516–529. 7 indexed citations
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Balke, Michael, Rawati Panjaitan, Suriani Surbakti, et al.. (2022). NextRAD phylogenomics, sanger sequencing and morphological data to establish three new species of New Guinea stream beetles. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 51–64. 1 indexed citations
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Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Lloyd T. White, Helena Shaverdo, et al.. (2021). New Guinean orogenic dynamics and biota evolution revealed using a custom geospatial analysis pipeline. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 51–51. 16 indexed citations
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Dam, Matthew H. Van, James Henderson, Andrew J. Rominger, et al.. (2021). The Easter Egg Weevil (Pachyrhynchus) genome reveals syntenic patterns in Coleoptera across 200 million years of evolution. PLoS Genetics. 17(8). e1009745–e1009745. 14 indexed citations
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Simison, W. Brian, James F. Parham, Theodore J. Papenfuss, Athena Lam, & James Henderson. (2020). An Annotated Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of the Red-Eared Slider Turtle (Trachemys scripta elegans). Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(4). 456–462. 28 indexed citations
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Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, Mirna Martins Casagrande, et al.. (2019). Flight over the Proto-Caribbean seaway: Phylogeny and macroevolution of Neotropical Anaeini leafwing butterflies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 137. 86–103. 14 indexed citations
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Krehenwinkel, Henrik, et al.. (2018). Scaling up DNA barcoding – Primer sets for simple and cost efficient arthropod systematics by multiplex PCR and Illumina amplicon sequencing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(11). 2181–2193. 23 indexed citations
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Dam, Matthew H. Van, Athena Lam, Katayo Sagata, et al.. (2017). Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve the phylogeny of Australasian smurf-weevils. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0188044–e0188044. 44 indexed citations
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Morinière, Jérôme, Bruno Cancian de Araújo, Athena Lam, et al.. (2016). Species Identification in Malaise Trap Samples by DNA Barcoding Based on NGS Technologies and a Scoring Matrix. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155497–e0155497. 95 indexed citations
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Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., Jérôme Morinière, Athena Lam, & Michael Balke. (2016). New Insights into the Systematics of the GenusPolyuraBillberg, 1820 (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) with an Emphasis on theP. athamasGroup. Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. 70(2). 145–152. 3 indexed citations
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Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A., et al.. (2016). Bayesian Poisson tree processes and multispecies coalescent models shed new light on the diversification of Nawab butterflies in the Solomon Islands (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae,Polyura). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178(2). 241–256. 11 indexed citations
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Croucher, Peter J.P., et al.. (2010). Stabilizing selection maintains exuberant colour polymorphism in the spider Theridion californicum (Araneae, Theridiidae). Molecular Ecology. 20(2). 206–218. 20 indexed citations

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