David Penny

20.7k citations
238 papers · 14.4k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 66

Impact in

  • Paleontology top 0.1%
    • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Genetics top 0.1%
    • Genetic diversity and population structure

Papers in

    • Evolution and Paleontology Studies 42
    • Genetic diversity and population structure 73
    • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics 19

David Penny

233 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis , cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus 2002 · 838 citations
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Peers

David Penny
Comparison fields: 5 of 192
  • Paleontology 3.0k
  • Genetics 5.1k
  • Molecular Biology 8.8k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2.5k
  • Ecology 2.3k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Penny, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 201023
2 200648
3 2006206
4 200422
5
Evolutionary analysis of Arabidopsis , cyanobacterial, and chloroplast genomes reveals plastid phylogeny and thousands of cyanobacterial genes in the nucleus
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2002838
6
Estimating the number of females in the founding population of New Zealand: Analysis of mtDNA variation
20029
7 20017
8 1999101
9 1998177
10 199619
11 19966
12 199629
13 19964
14 199328
15 199211
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Molecular evolution : an annotated reader
19846
17 19764
18 197581
19 19743
20 197222

About David Penny

David Penny is a scholar working on Paleontology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and History and Philosophy of Science, having authored 238 papers that have together received 14.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (96 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (73 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (42 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (18 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (16 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (3.0k citations), Genetics (5.1k citations), Molecular Biology (8.8k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.5k citations) and Ecology (2.3k citations). David Penny has collaborated with scholars based in New Zealand, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Michael D. Hendy, Mike Steel, Peter J. Lockhart, Anthony M. Poole, Lindell Bromham, Scott William Roy, Matthew J. Phillips, Alan Cooper, Lesley J. Collins and Daniel Jeffares. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Biology and Evolution, Systematic Biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Nature and Genome Biology and Evolution.

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