Christopher R. Cooney

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christopher R. Cooney is a scholar working on Genetics, Paleontology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher R. Cooney has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Paleontology and 11 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Christopher R. Cooney's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (11 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Christopher R. Cooney is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (11 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). Christopher R. Cooney collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Christopher R. Cooney's co-authors include Gavin H. Thomas, Joseph A. Tobias, Nathalie Seddon, Zoë K. Varley, Christopher J. Moody, L. O. Nouri, Jen A. Bright, Emma C. Hughes, Angela M. Chira and J. R. Elliot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Christopher R. Cooney

30 papers receiving 1.1k 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. Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds
    2017 241 citations Christopher R. Cooney, Jen A. Bright 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
Christopher R. Cooney United Kingdom 18 437 374 340 330 231 30 1.1k
Jason Pienaar United States 10 387 0.9× 385 1.0× 257 0.8× 366 1.1× 210 0.9× 24 916
Jonathan B. Losos United States 9 539 1.2× 513 1.4× 315 0.9× 244 0.7× 304 1.3× 11 1.2k
Michael C. Gründler United States 13 579 1.3× 425 1.1× 217 0.6× 384 1.2× 264 1.1× 21 1.3k
Jonathan P. Drury United States 18 651 1.5× 314 0.8× 336 1.0× 210 0.6× 307 1.3× 37 1.1k
Danny Rojas Portugal 14 534 1.2× 151 0.4× 237 0.7× 229 0.7× 125 0.5× 28 744
Matthew D. McGee United States 19 297 0.7× 516 1.4× 368 1.1× 192 0.6× 516 2.2× 37 1.4k
Steven Poe United States 21 556 1.3× 429 1.1× 196 0.6× 464 1.4× 188 0.8× 63 1.4k
Erin Clancey United States 6 244 0.6× 305 0.8× 198 0.6× 197 0.6× 172 0.7× 15 669
Gillian C. Gibb New Zealand 15 260 0.6× 511 1.4× 319 0.9× 553 1.7× 157 0.7× 26 1.1k
Glenn Litsios Switzerland 18 319 0.7× 320 0.9× 307 0.9× 162 0.5× 338 1.5× 28 890

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher R. Cooney

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher R. Cooney

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chen, Yu‐Chi, et al.. (2025). Diverse evolutionary trajectories of mitocoding DNA in mammalian and avian nuclear genomes. Genome Research. 35(6). 1313–1324. 1 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., et al.. (2024). Spatio‐temporal integrated Bayesian species distribution models reveal lack of broad relationships between traits and range shifts. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(5). 1 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., et al.. (2023). The effects of ecology and behavior on the evolution of coloration in Coraciiformes. Behavioral Ecology. 34(3). 387–398. 3 indexed citations
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He, Yichen, Christopher R. Cooney, Steve Maddock, & Gavin H. Thomas. (2023). Using pose estimation to identify regions and points on natural history specimens. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(2). e1010933–e1010933. 2 indexed citations
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He, Yichen, Zoë K. Varley, L. O. Nouri, et al.. (2022). Deep learning image segmentation reveals patterns of UV reflectance evolution in passerine birds. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5068–5068. 5 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., Yichen He, Zoë K. Varley, et al.. (2022). Latitudinal gradients in avian colourfulness. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(5). 622–629. 36 indexed citations
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Kim, Dong Won, Elsie Place, Thea F. Rogers, et al.. (2022). Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(7). 1035–1045. 43 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., et al.. (2022). Sociality, ecology and developmental constraints predict variation in brain size across birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(1). 144–155. 6 indexed citations
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Elliot, J. R., et al.. (2021). Allometric conservatism in the evolution of bird beaks. Evolution Letters. 6(1). 83–91. 8 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., Judith E. Mank, & Alison E. Wright. (2021). Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes. Evolution. 75(11). 2857–2866. 16 indexed citations
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Navalón, Guillermo, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Jen A. Bright, Christopher R. Cooney, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2020). The consequences of craniofacial integration for the adaptive radiations of Darwin’s finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(2). 270–278. 62 indexed citations
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Chira, Angela M., Christopher R. Cooney, Jen A. Bright, et al.. (2020). The signature of competition in ecomorphological traits across the avian radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1938). 20201585–20201585. 9 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., et al.. (2020). Noncoding regions underpin avian bill shape diversification at macroevolutionary scales. Genome Research. 30(4). 553–565. 25 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R. & Gavin H. Thomas. (2020). Heterogeneous relationships between rates of speciation and body size evolution across vertebrate clades. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(1). 101–110. 56 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., Catherine Sheard, Susan D. Healy, et al.. (2020). Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2383–2383. 44 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., et al.. (2019). Sexual selection predicts the rate and direction of colour divergence in a large avian radiation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1773–1773. 80 indexed citations
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Marki, Petter Z., Jonathan D. Kennedy, Christopher R. Cooney, Carsten Rahbek, & Jon Fjeldså. (2019). Adaptive radiation and the evolution of nectarivory in a large songbird clade. Evolution. 73(6). 1226–1240. 17 indexed citations
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Afanasyeva, Arina, et al.. (2018). Human long intrinsically disordered protein regions are frequent targets of positive selection. Genome Research. 28(7). 975–982. 47 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., Jen A. Bright, Emma C. Hughes, et al.. (2018). Correlates of rate heterogeneity in avian ecomorphological traits. Ecology Letters. 21(10). 1505–1514. 28 indexed citations
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Cooney, Christopher R., Jen A. Bright, J. R. Elliot, et al.. (2017). Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds. Nature. 542(7641). 344–347. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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