Brian C. O’Meara

10.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
65 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Brian C. O’Meara is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian C. O’Meara has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Genetics, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 23 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Brian C. O’Meara's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (23 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Brian C. O’Meara is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (23 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers). Brian C. O’Meara collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. Brian C. O’Meara's co-authors include Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Stephen A. Smith, Peter C. Wainwright, Cécile Ané, Michael J. Sanderson, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Dwueng-Chwuan Jhwueng, Carl Boettiger, Michael J. Donoghue and Bryan C. Carstens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brian C. O’Meara

63 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

2012 573 citations Brian C. O’Meara et al. profile →
TESTING FOR DIFFERENT RATES OF CONTINUOUS TRAIT EVOLUTION USING LIKELIHOOD

2006 506 citations Brian C. O’Meara, Peter C. Wainwright et al. Evolution profile →
TESTING FOR DIFFERENT RATES OF CONTINUOUS TRAIT EVOLUTION USING LIKELIHOOD

2006 495 citations Brian C. O’Meara, Peter C. Wainwright et al. Evolution profile →
MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION

2012 491 citations Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Brian C. O’Meara et al. Evolution profile →
Detecting Hidden Diversification Shifts in Models of Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction

2016 396 citations Jeremy M. Beaulieu, Brian C. O’Meara Systematic Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian C. O’Meara United States	29	2.1k	2.1k	1.8k	1.6k	1.2k	65	5.4k
Matthew W. Pennell United States	33	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	995 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	57	4.4k
Cécile Ané United States	31	2.0k 1.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	2.1k 1.3×	931 0.8×	70	5.4k
Joseph W. Brown United States	27	2.7k 1.3×	1.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	37	5.3k
Anne D. Yoder United States	47	2.7k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.7×	727 0.6×	140	7.5k
April Wright United States	16	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	913 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	664 0.5×	33	5.0k
David M. Hillis United States	30	2.1k 1.0×	2.6k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.7×	1.1k 0.9×	46	6.9k
Dimitar Dimitrov Norway	28	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	870 0.5×	785 0.5×	714 0.6×	92	3.8k
Kevin E. Omland United States	38	3.1k 1.5×	3.1k 1.5×	815 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	799 0.7×	118	6.4k
Quentin D. Wheeler United States	29	3.3k 1.6×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	963 0.8×	97	7.1k
Christopher C. Witt United States	30	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	942 0.8×	89	4.6k

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Evangelista, Dominic A., Michael A. Gilchrist, Frédéric Legendre, & Brian C. O’Meara. (2025). Concatenation fails to describe the anomalous radiation of giant cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae) despite moderate to low discordance. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 25(1). 72–72.

O’Meara, Brian C., et al.. (2024). dentist: Quantifying uncertainty by sampling points around maximum likelihood estimates. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(4). 628–638. 7 indexed citations

Borstein, Samuel R., Michael P. Hammer, Brian C. O’Meara, & Matthew D. McGee. (2024). The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10325–10325.

Kates, Heather R., Brian C. O’Meara, Raphael LaFrance, et al.. (2024). Shifts in evolutionary lability underlie independent gains and losses of root-nodule symbiosis in a single clade of plants. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4262–4262. 16 indexed citations

O’Meara, Brian C., et al.. (2023). A novel method for jointly modeling the evolution of discrete and continuous traits. Evolution. 77(3). 836–851. 11 indexed citations

Beaulieu, Jeremy M. & Brian C. O’Meara. (2022). Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity. Systematic Biology. 72(1). 50–61. 8 indexed citations

Beaulieu, Jeremy M., Brian C. O’Meara, & Michael A. Gilchrist. (2020). A Spatially Explicit Model of Stabilizing Selection for Improving Phylogenetic Inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(4). 1641–1652. 2 indexed citations

Nguyễn, Văn Đức, Haywood Dail Laughinghouse, Luna L. Sánchez‐Reyes, et al.. (2020). Phylotastic: Improving Access to Tree-of-Life Knowledge With Flexible, on-the-Fly Delivery of Trees. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 16. 1611645688–1611645688. 2 indexed citations

McGee, Matthew D., Samuel R. Borstein, Joana I. Meier, et al.. (2020). The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation. Nature. 586(7827). 75–79. 132 indexed citations

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O’Meara, Brian C., et al.. (2020). Gene expression of functionally-related genes coevolves across fungal species: detecting coevolution of gene expression using phylogenetic comparative methods. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 370–370. 10 indexed citations

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O’Meara, Brian C., et al.. (2019). Ensuring a competent public health responder workforce: The CDC experience. Journal of Emergency Management. 17(3). 199–209. 6 indexed citations

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Borstein, Samuel R., James A. Fordyce, Brian C. O’Meara, Peter C. Wainwright, & Matthew D. McGee. (2018). Reef fish functional traits evolve fastest at trophic extremes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(2). 191–199. 27 indexed citations

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Borstein, Samuel R. & Brian C. O’Meara. (2018). AnnotationBustR : an R package to extract subsequences from GenBank annotations. PeerJ. 6. e5179–e5179. 11 indexed citations

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Jackson, Nathan D., Bryan C. Carstens, Ariadna E. Morales, & Brian C. O’Meara. (2016). Species Delimitation with Gene Flow. Systematic Biology. 66(5). syw117–syw117. 184 indexed citations

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Schwery, Orlando & Brian C. O’Meara. (2016). MonoPhy : a simple R package to find and visualize monophyly issues. PeerJ Computer Science. 2. e56–e56. 23 indexed citations

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Johnson, J.E., et al.. (2015). The Xeromphalina campanella/kauffmanii complex: species delineation and biogeographical patterns of speciation. Mycologia. 107(6). 1270–1284. 12 indexed citations

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Soltis, Pamela S., Mark E. Mort, Maribeth Latvis, et al.. (2013). Phylogenetic relationships and character evolution analysis of Saxifragales using a supermatrix approach. American Journal of Botany. 100(5). 916–929. 86 indexed citations

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Stoltzfus, Arlin, Brian C. O’Meara, Ross Mounce, et al.. (2012). Sharing and re-use of phylogenetic trees (and associated data) to facilitate synthesis. BMC Research Notes. 5(1). 574–574. 28 indexed citations

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O’Meara, Brian C., et al.. (2011). Developmental evolution of flowering plant pollen tube cell walls: callose synthase (CalS) gene expression patterns. EvoDevo. 2(1). 14–14. 35 indexed citations

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Butler, Marguerite A., Brian C. O’Meara, & Jason Pienaar. (2008). Comparative Methods and Data Analysis in R. 6(3). 265–8. 1 indexed citations

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