Benjamin Kerr

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Kerr is a scholar working on Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Kerr has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Genetics, 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Kerr's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (33 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Benjamin Kerr is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (33 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Benjamin Kerr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Benjamin Kerr's co-authors include Brendan J. M. Bohannan, Marcus W. Feldman, Margaret A. Riley, Peter Godfrey‐Smith, Antony M. Dean, Claudia Neuhauser, Paul B. Rainey, Jenna Gallie, Susan Taylor and Joshua Nahum and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Kerr

54 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

  1. Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors
    2002 1.2k citations Benjamin Kerr, Margaret A. Riley et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Kerr United States 27 1.9k 1.6k 744 723 692 55 3.5k
Richard E. Michod United States 40 2.4k 1.3× 2.0k 1.2× 1.2k 1.6× 1.3k 1.8× 666 1.0× 114 4.8k
Daniel J. Rankin Switzerland 26 1.3k 0.6× 810 0.5× 412 0.6× 1.3k 1.7× 711 1.0× 39 2.9k
Sam P. Brown United Kingdom 48 2.9k 1.5× 1.5k 0.9× 2.0k 2.7× 1.0k 1.4× 1.4k 2.1× 144 6.6k
Denis Roze France 32 1.7k 0.9× 849 0.5× 532 0.7× 820 1.1× 320 0.5× 65 2.6k
Margaret A. Riley United States 11 1.2k 0.6× 946 0.6× 809 1.1× 342 0.5× 427 0.6× 13 2.3k
Minus van Baalen France 29 2.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.9× 200 0.3× 1.0k 1.4× 669 1.0× 51 3.7k
István Scheuring Hungary 27 830 0.4× 859 0.5× 299 0.4× 458 0.6× 300 0.4× 82 2.2k
Akira Sasaki Japan 35 3.0k 1.5× 2.2k 1.3× 347 0.5× 761 1.1× 481 0.7× 85 4.8k
Mark Broom United Kingdom 30 1.1k 0.5× 1.5k 0.9× 216 0.3× 945 1.3× 493 0.7× 160 3.1k
Paul W. Ewald United States 34 1.5k 0.8× 592 0.4× 432 0.6× 1.4k 2.0× 1.1k 1.6× 81 4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Benjamin Kerr

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Kerr

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Kerr

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kosterlitz, Olivia, et al.. (2023). Evolutionary “Crowdsourcing”: Alignment of Fitness Landscapes Allows for Cross-species Adaptation of a Horizontally Transferred Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(11). 4 indexed citations
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Gupta, Animesh, Luis Zaman, Jenna Gallie, et al.. (2022). Host-parasite coevolution promotes innovation through deformations in fitness landscapes. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations
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Kosterlitz, Olivia, et al.. (2022). Estimating the transfer rates of bacterial plasmids with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis. PLoS Biology. 20(7). e3001732–e3001732. 17 indexed citations
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Wargo, Andrew R., et al.. (2021). Virus shedding kinetics and unconventional virulence tradeoffs. PLoS Pathogens. 17(5). e1009528–e1009528. 5 indexed citations
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Kerr, Benjamin, et al.. (2017). Adaptations of an RNA virus to increasing thermal stress. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0189602–e0189602. 13 indexed citations
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Nahum, Joshua, Peter Godfrey‐Smith, Brittany N. Harding, et al.. (2015). A tortoise–hare pattern seen in adapting structured and unstructured populations suggests a rugged fitness landscape in bacteria. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(24). 7530–7535. 54 indexed citations
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Heilmann, Silja, Sandeep Krishna, & Benjamin Kerr. (2015). Why do bacteria regulate public goods by quorum sensing?—How the shapes of cost and benefit functions determine the form of optimal regulation. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 767–767. 60 indexed citations
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Cooper, Jacob D., Claudia Neuhauser, Antony M. Dean, & Benjamin Kerr. (2015). Tipping the mutation–selection balance: Limited migration increases the frequency of deleterious mutants. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 380. 123–133. 6 indexed citations
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Goldsby, Heather J., David B. Knoester, Benjamin Kerr, & Charles Ofria. (2014). The Effect of Conflicting Pressures on the Evolution of Division of Labor. PLoS ONE. 9(8). e102713–e102713. 6 indexed citations
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Conlin, Peter L., Josephine R. Chandler, & Benjamin Kerr. (2014). Games of life and death: antibiotic resistance and production through the lens of evolutionary game theory. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 21. 35–44. 36 indexed citations
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Gallie, Jenna, et al.. (2013). Evolutionary rescue from extinction is contingent on a lower rate of environmental change. Nature. 494(7438). 463–467. 207 indexed citations
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Goldsby, Heather J., et al.. (2012). The Evolution of Temporal Polyethism. 178–185. 1 indexed citations
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Miner, Brooks E. & Benjamin Kerr. (2010). Adaptation to local ultraviolet radiation conditions among neighbouringDaphniapopulations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 278(1710). 1306–1313. 20 indexed citations
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Kerr, Benjamin, et al.. (2009). Introgression of sexually selected traits in lek-mating species. Evolutionary ecology research. 11(8). 1235–1250. 1 indexed citations
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Sheih, Alyssa, et al.. (2009). Coevolutionary cycling of host sociality and pathogen virulence in contact networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 261(4). 561–569. 24 indexed citations
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Godfrey‐Smith, Peter & Benjamin Kerr. (2009). Selection in Ephemeral Networks. The American Naturalist. 174(6). 906–911. 10 indexed citations
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Kerr, Benjamin, et al.. (2007). THE EVOLUTION OF RESTRAINT IN BACTERIAL BIOFILMS UNDER NONTRANSITIVE COMPETITION. Evolution. 62(3). 538–548. 30 indexed citations
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Kerr, Benjamin & Marcus W. Feldman. (2002). Carving the Cognitive Niche: Optimal Learning Strategies in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 220(2). 169–188. 39 indexed citations
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Kerr, Benjamin, Margaret A. Riley, Marcus W. Feldman, & Brendan J. M. Bohannan. (2002). Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors. Nature. 418(6894). 171–174. 1171 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kerr, Benjamin, Dylan W. Schwilk, Aviv Bergman, & Marcus W. Feldman. (1999). Rekindling an old flame: A haploid model for the evolution and impact of flammability in resprouting plants. Evolutionary ecology research. 1(7). 807–833. 42 indexed citations

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