F. Keith Barker

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

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F. Keith Barker is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Keith Barker has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in F. Keith Barker's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (21 papers). F. Keith Barker is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (21 papers). F. Keith Barker collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. F. Keith Barker's co-authors include François Lutzoni, Scott M. Lanyon, Alice Cibois, Julie Feinstein, Joël Cracraft, Irby J. Lovette, Jeff G. Groth, George F. Barrowclough, Kevin J. Burns and Sharon A. Jansa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

F. Keith Barker

56 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
F. Keith Barker United States	28	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	1.1k	827	57	3.6k
Per Alström Sweden	31	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	612 0.6×	756 0.9×	119	3.3k
Shannon J. Hackett United States	29	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	967 1.2×	65	4.6k
Tamaki Yuri United States	14	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	909 1.1×	16	3.3k
Martin Irestedt Sweden	34	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	923 1.1×	134	3.6k
Scott M. Lanyon United States	32	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	738 0.7×	723 0.9×	65	3.3k
Jochen Martens Germany	30	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	662 0.6×	465 0.6×	165	3.0k
John Klicka United States	35	2.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	981 0.9×	645 0.8×	97	4.0k
Robert G. Moyle United States	37	2.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	146	4.5k
George F. Barrowclough United States	28	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	639 0.6×	731 0.9×	56	3.3k
Sushma Reddy United States	18	973 0.6×	975 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	621 0.8×	32	3.0k

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Barker, F. Keith, et al.. (2024). Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea). The Auk. 141(2). 1 indexed citations

Barker, F. Keith, et al.. (2022). Songbirds of the Americas show uniform morphological evolution despite heterogeneous diversification. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(10). 1335–1351. 7 indexed citations

Barker, F. Keith, et al.. (2021). Autosomal, sex-linked and mitochondrial loci resolve evolutionary relationships among wrens in the genus Campylorhynchus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 163. 107242–107242. 6 indexed citations

Kimball, Rebecca T., Carl H. Oliveros, Ning Wang, et al.. (2019). A Phylogenomic Supertree of Birds. Diversity. 11(7). 109–109. 97 indexed citations

Remsen, J. V., Alexis F. L. A. Powell, Richard Schodde, F. Keith Barker, & Scott M. Lanyon. (2016). A revised classification of the Icteridae (Aves) based on DNA sequence data. Zootaxa. 4093(2). 285–92. 14 indexed citations

Barker, F. Keith. (2014). Mitogenomic data resolve basal relationships among passeriform and passeridan birds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79. 313–324. 30 indexed citations

Burns, Kevin J., Allison J. Shultz, Pascal O. Title, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 75. 41–77. 134 indexed citations

Alström, Per, Urban Olsson, F. Keith Barker, et al.. (2013). Multilocus phylogeny of the avian family Alaudidae (larks) reveals complex morphological evolution, non-monophyletic genera and hidden species diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69(3). 1043–1056. 55 indexed citations

Powell, Alexis F. L. A., F. Keith Barker, Scott M. Lanyon, et al.. (2013). A comprehensive species-level molecular phylogeny of the New World blackbirds (Icteridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 71. 94–112. 36 indexed citations

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Ryan, Peter G., et al.. (2013). The origin of finches on Tristan da Cunha and Gough Island, central South Atlantic ocean. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69(1). 299–305. 16 indexed citations

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Barker, F. Keith, Sara J. Oyler‐McCance, & Diana F. Tomback. (2013). Blood from a turnip: tissue origin of low-coverage shotgun sequencing libraries affects recovery of mitogenome sequences. Mitochondrial DNA. 26(3). 384–388. 10 indexed citations

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Powell, Alexis F. L. A., F. Keith Barker, & Scott M. Lanyon. (2012). Empirical evaluation of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses of mitogenomic data: An avian case study. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66(1). 69–79. 58 indexed citations

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Lovette, Irby J., Jorge L. Pérez‐Emán, John P. Sullivan, et al.. (2010). A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(2). 753–770. 126 indexed citations

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McKay, Bailey D., F. Keith Barker, Herman L. Mays, Stéphanie M. Doucet, & Geoffrey E. Hill. (2010). A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the manakins (Aves: Pipridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55(2). 733–737. 23 indexed citations

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Kimball, Rebecca T., Edward L. Braun, F. Keith Barker, et al.. (2008). A well-tested set of primers to amplify regions spread across the avian genome. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50(3). 654–660. 161 indexed citations

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Spellman, Garth M., Alice Cibois, Robert G. Moyle, Kevin Winker, & F. Keith Barker. (2008). Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a bombycillid?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49(3). 1036–1040. 25 indexed citations

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Fitzsimmons, Lauren P., F. Keith Barker, & Daniel J. Mennill. (2008). Individual variation and lek-based vocal distinctiveness in songs of the screaming piha (Lipaugus Vociferans), A suboscine songbird. Scholarship at UWindsor (University of Windsor).

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Barker, F. Keith & François Lutzoni. (2002). The Utility of the Incongruence Length Difference Test. Systematic Biology. 51(4). 625–637. 397 indexed citations

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Barker, F. Keith, George F. Barrowclough, & Jeff G. Groth. (2002). A phylogenetic hypothesis for passerine birds: taxonomic and biogeographic implications of an analysis of nuclear DNA sequence data. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 269(1488). 295–308. 315 indexed citations

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Lutzoni, François & F. Keith Barker. (1999). Sampling Confidence Envelopes of Phylogenetic Trees for Combinability Testing: A Reply to Rodrigo. Systematic Biology. 48(3). 596–603. 1 indexed citations

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