Daniel L. Rabosky

18.8k total citations · 9 hit papers
119 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Daniel L. Rabosky is a scholar working on Genetics, Paleontology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel L. Rabosky has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Genetics, 70 papers in Paleontology and 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Daniel L. Rabosky's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (70 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (68 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (37 papers). Daniel L. Rabosky is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (70 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (68 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (37 papers). Daniel L. Rabosky collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Daniel L. Rabosky's co-authors include Irby J. Lovette, Michael E. Alfaro, Pascal O. Title, Emma E. Goldberg, Jeff J. Shi, Jonathan Chang, Huateng Huang, Michael C. Gründler, Francesco Santini and Stephen C. Donnellan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel L. Rabosky

115 papers receiving 12.0k 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.

Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees

2014 828 citations Daniel L. Rabosky PLoS ONE profile →
BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

2014 710 citations Daniel L. Rabosky, Michael C. Gründler et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

2009 667 citations Michael E. Alfaro, Francesco Santini et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

2018 608 citations Daniel L. Rabosky, Jonathan Chang et al. Nature profile →
Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

2013 506 citations Daniel L. Rabosky, Francesco Santini et al. profile →
EXTINCTION RATES SHOULD NOT BE ESTIMATED FROM MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES

2009 448 citations Daniel L. Rabosky Evolution profile →
Model Inadequacy and Mistaken Inferences of Trait-Dependent Speciation

2015 372 citations Daniel L. Rabosky et al. profile →
Molecular Phylogenetics and the Diversification of Hummingbirds

2014 303 citations Daniel L. Rabosky et al. profile →
The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

2024 40 citations Pascal O. Title, Michael C. Gründler et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools 2025 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Marta A. Jarzyna, (unknown), Evan P. Economo, Jacquelyn L. Gill, (unknown), Jordan G. Okie, (unknown), Daniel L. Rabosky, Phillip P. A. Staniczenko, Michael J. Hickerson, Rosemary G. Gillespie, Brian J. McGill	1
2	The Metapopulation Bridge to Macroevolutionary Speciation Rates: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Test 2024 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), Malin L. Pinsky, Daniel L. Rabosky	1
3	Desert lizard diversity worldwide: Effects of environment, time, and evolutionary rate 2022 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·(unknown), Pedro Tarroso, Salvador Carranza, Daniel L. Rabosky	12
4	What makes a fang? Phylogenetic and ecological controls on tooth evolution in rear-fanged snakes 2020 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·(unknown), Andrew M. Durso, Michael C. Gründler, Daniel L. Rabosky, Alison R. Davis Rabosky	25
5	Tip rates, phylogenies and diversification: What are we estimating, and how good are the estimates? 2019 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Pascal O. Title, Daniel L. Rabosky	125
6	Thermal physiological traits in tropical lowland amphibians: Vulnerability to climate warming and cooling 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Rudolf von May, Alessandro Catenazzi, (unknown), (unknown), Craig Moritz, Daniel L. Rabosky	45
7	Speciation in the mountains and dispersal by rivers: Molecular phylogeny of Eulamprus water skinks and the biogeography of Eastern Australia 2018 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Mitzy Pepper, Joanna Sumner, Ian G. Brennan, (unknown), Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, (unknown), Daniel L. Rabosky, Lin Schwarzkopf, Ian Scott, Glenn M. Shea, J. Scott Keogh	10
8	An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes breakdown → 2018 ·Nature ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Jonathan Chang, Pascal O. Title, Peter F. Cowman, Lauren Sallan, Matt Friedman, Kristin Kaschner, Cristina Garilao, Thomas J. Near, Marta Coll, Michael E. Alfaro	608
9	Positive association between population genetic differentiation and speciation rates in New World birds 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael Harvey, Glenn F. Seeholzer, Brian Tilston Smith, Daniel L. Rabosky, Andrés M. Cuervo, Robb T. Brumfield	79
10	Sex-linked genomic variation and its relationship to avian plumage dichromatism and sexual selection 2015 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Huateng Huang, Daniel L. Rabosky	17
11	Phylogenetic disassembly of species boundaries in a widespread group of Australian skinks (Scincidae: Ctenotus) 2014 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Mark N. Hutchinson, Stephen C. Donnellan, Amanda L. Talaba, Irby J. Lovette	34
12	Sexual Selection and Diversification: Reexamining the Correlation between Dichromatism and Speciation Rate in Birds 2014 ·The American Naturalist ·Huateng Huang, Daniel L. Rabosky	45
13	Macroevolutionary speciation rates are decoupled from the evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in Drosophila and birds 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Daniel R. Matute	109
14	Clade Age and Species Richness Are Decoupled Across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life 2012 ·PLoS Biology ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Graham J. Slater, Michael E. Alfaro	154
15	RATES OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ARE CORRELATED WITH SPECIES RICHNESS IN SALAMANDERS 2011 ·Evolution ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Dean C. Adams	101
16	Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates breakdown → 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michael E. Alfaro, Francesco Santini, Chad D. Brock, Hugo Alamillo, Alex Dornburg, Daniel L. Rabosky, Giorgio Carnevale, Luke J. Harmon	667
17	Ecological limits and diversification rate: alternative paradigms to explain the variation in species richness among clades and regions 2009 ·Ecology Letters ·Daniel L. Rabosky	362
18	Ecological Limits on Clade Diversification in Higher Taxa 2009 ·The American Naturalist ·Daniel L. Rabosky	154
19	EXPLOSIVE EVOLUTIONARY RADIATIONS: DECREASING SPECIATION OR INCREASING EXTINCTION THROUGH TIME? 2008 ·Evolution ·Daniel L. Rabosky, Irby J. Lovette	296
20	Phylogenetic distribution of cysteine proteinases in beetles: evidence for an evolutionary shift to an alkaline digestive strategy in Cerambycidae 2000 ·Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ·Kelly S. Johnson, Daniel L. Rabosky	37

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