Bradley J. Nelson

26.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 859 citations indexed

About

Bradley J. Nelson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bradley J. Nelson has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 859 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bradley J. Nelson's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (5 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Bradley J. Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (5 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Bradley J. Nelson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Chile. Bradley J. Nelson's co-authors include Evan E. Eichler, Kendra Hoekzema, Max L. Dougherty, Bradley P. Coe, Stuart Cantsilieris, Tychele N. Turner, Michael C. Zody, Melanie Sorensen, Zev Kronenberg and Richard K. Wilson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bradley J. Nelson

18 papers receiving 851 citations

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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.

Characterizing the Major Structural Variant Alleles of the Human Genome

2019 269 citations Peter A. Audano, Arvis Sulovari et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bradley J. Nelson United States	11	508	498	152	131	76	22	859
Archana N. Raja United States	9	624 1.2×	583 1.2×	212 1.4×	267 2.0×	99 1.3×	12	1.0k
Ernesto Lowy Spain	13	426 0.8×	347 0.7×	112 0.7×	36 0.3×	75 1.0×	23	1.0k
Kendra Hoekzema United States	16	686 1.4×	660 1.3×	215 1.4×	201 1.5×	97 1.3×	26	1.3k
Matthew C. LaFave United States	14	1.1k 2.1×	535 1.1×	72 0.5×	43 0.3×	79 1.0×	22	1.4k
Matteo Accetturo Italy	11	287 0.6×	263 0.5×	34 0.2×	67 0.5×	71 0.9×	18	892
Ashok Ragavendran United States	14	769 1.5×	429 0.9×	81 0.5×	140 1.1×	44 0.6×	24	1.1k
Alexandra P MacKenzie United States	6	1.0k 2.0×	838 1.7×	140 0.9×	341 2.6×	227 3.0×	6	1.7k
Thomas Thumberger Germany	17	1.2k 2.4×	377 0.8×	183 1.2×	38 0.3×	29 0.4×	39	1.6k
Karuna Sampath Singapore	21	1.5k 3.0×	362 0.7×	55 0.4×	116 0.9×	154 2.0×	40	1.8k
Melissa Kramer United States	15	980 1.9×	835 1.7×	448 2.9×	108 0.8×	260 3.4×	27	1.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Nelson, Bradley J.. (2025). Donald Trump’s Spheres of Influence Strategic Doctrine. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 1–27. 1 indexed citations

Valenzuela‐Miranda, Diego, Ana Teresa Gonçalves, Valentina Valenzuela‐Muñoz, et al.. (2022). Proximity ligation strategy for the genomic reconstruction of microbial communities associated with the ectoparasite Caligus rogercresseyi. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 783–783. 4 indexed citations

Gallardo‐Escárate, Cristian, Valentina Valenzuela‐Muñoz, Gustavo Núñez-Acuña, et al.. (2021). Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the sea louse Caligus rogercresseyi by SMRT sequencing and Hi-C analysis. Scientific Data. 8(1). 60–60. 18 indexed citations

Nelson, Bradley J.. (2020). Algorithmic Bias and the Pastoral: Gender Misrecognition in Light of Natural Knowledge. Cervantes Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America. 40(2). 73–92. 1 indexed citations

Huber, Carmen, Alexander Watts, Jean Hai Ein Yong, et al.. (2020). Modelling airport catchment areas to anticipate the spread of infectious diseases across land and air travel. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 36. 100380–100380. 10 indexed citations

Nelson, Bradley J.. (2020). Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. Calíope. 25(2). 256–260. 3 indexed citations

Hsieh, PingHsun, Mitchell R. Vollger, Vy Dang, et al.. (2019). Adaptive archaic introgression of copy number variants and the discovery of previously unknown human genes. Science. 366(6463). 51 indexed citations

Audano, Peter A., Arvis Sulovari, Tina A. Graves-Lindsay, et al.. (2019). Characterizing the Major Structural Variant Alleles of the Human Genome. Cell. 176(3). 663–675.e19. 269 indexed citations breakdown →

Dougherty, Max L., Jason G. Underwood, Bradley J. Nelson, et al.. (2018). Transcriptional fates of human-specific segmental duplications in brain. Genome Research. 28(10). 1566–1576. 41 indexed citations

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Guo, Hui, Michael Duyzend, Bradley P. Coe, et al.. (2018). Genome sequencing identifies multiple deleterious variants in autism patients with more severe phenotypes. Genetics in Medicine. 21(7). 1611–1620. 80 indexed citations

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Cantsilieris, Stuart, Bradley J. Nelson, John Huddleston, et al.. (2018). Recurrent structural variation, clustered sites of selection, and disease risk for the complement factor H ( CFH ) gene family. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(19). 42 indexed citations

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Dougherty, Max L., Xander Nuttle, Osnat Penn, et al.. (2017). The birth of a human-specific neural gene by incomplete duplication and gene fusion. Genome biology. 18(1). 49–49. 29 indexed citations

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Turner, Tychele N., Bradley P. Coe, Diane E. Dickel, et al.. (2017). Genomic Patterns of De Novo Mutation in Simplex Autism. Cell. 171(3). 710–722.e12. 208 indexed citations

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Nelson, Bradley J., et al.. (2016). EmpPrior: using outside empirical data to inform branch-length priors for Bayesian phylogenetics. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 253–253.

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Mohajeri, Kiana, Stuart Cantsilieris, John Huddleston, et al.. (2016). Interchromosomal core duplicons drive both evolutionary instability and disease susceptibility of the Chromosome 8p23.1 region. Genome Research. 26(11). 1453–1467. 20 indexed citations

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Nelson, Bradley J.. (2014). Zayas Unchained: A Perverse God, or Theological Kitsch?. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota). 42–59.

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Doyle, Vinson P., et al.. (2014). Untangling the influences of unmodeled evolutionary processes on phylogenetic signal in a forensically important HIV-1 transmission cluster. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75. 126–137. 3 indexed citations

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Carstens, Bryan C., Reid S. Brennan, Michael Harvey, et al.. (2013). Model selection as a tool for phylogeographic inference: an example from the willow Salix melanopsis. Molecular Ecology. 22(15). 4014–4028. 47 indexed citations

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DeBiasse, Melissa B., Bradley J. Nelson, & Michael E. Hellberg. (2013). Evaluating summary statistics used to test for incomplete lineage sorting: mito‐nuclear discordance in the reef sponge Callyspongia vaginalis. Molecular Ecology. 23(1). 225–238. 23 indexed citations

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Nelson, Bradley J.. (2011). The Aesthetics of Rape, and the Rape of Aesthetics. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota). 62–80.

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