Fredrik Ronquist

104.9k total citations · 14 hit papers
123 papers, 85.8k citations indexed

About

Fredrik Ronquist is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fredrik Ronquist has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 85.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 42 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Fredrik Ronquist's work include Plant and animal studies (35 papers), Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Fredrik Ronquist is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (35 papers), Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny (32 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Fredrik Ronquist collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Spain. Fredrik Ronquist's co-authors include John P. Huelsenbeck, Bret Larget, Sebastian Höhna, Paul van der Mark, Daniel L. Ayres, Marc A. Suchard, Aaron E. Darling, Maxim Teslenko, Liang Liu and Isabel Sanmartín and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Fredrik Ronquist

117 papers receiving 83.2k citations

Hit Papers

MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed mo... 1997 2026 2006 2016 2003 2012 2001 2001 2001 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k 25.0k
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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.

  1. MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models
    2003 25.4k citations Fredrik Ronquist, John P. Huelsenbeck Bioinformatics profile →
  2. MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
    2012 20.9k citations Fredrik Ronquist, John P. Huelsenbeck et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  3. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees
    2001 19.3k citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist Bioinformatics profile →
  4. MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogeny
    2001 4.5k citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist Bioinformatics profile →
  5. Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny and Its Impact on Evolutionary Biology
    2001 2.2k citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist et al. profile →
  6. Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis of Combined Data
    2004 1.6k citations Fredrik Ronquist, John P. Huelsenbeck et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  7. Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis: A New Approach to the Quantification of Historical Biogeography
    1997 1.4k citations Fredrik Ronquist Systematic Biology profile →
  8. Parallel Metropolis coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian phylogenetic inference
    2004 916 citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  9. Southern Hemisphere Biogeography Inferred by Event-Based Models: Plant versus Animal Patterns
    2004 762 citations Fredrik Ronquist et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  10. Potential Applications and Pitfalls of Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny
    2002 683 citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  11. A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera
    2012 620 citations Fredrik Ronquist et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  12. RevBayes: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference Using Graphical Models and an Interactive Model-Specification Language
    2016 499 citations Michael J. Landis, Nicolas Lartillot et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  13. BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics
    2011 461 citations John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  14. Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process
    2015 294 citations Chi Zhang, Fredrik Ronquist et al. Systematic Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fredrik Ronquist Sweden 55 29.7k 29.6k 22.2k 21.4k 20.1k 123 85.8k
John P. Huelsenbeck United States 65 29.2k 1.0× 35.0k 1.2× 23.5k 1.1× 25.8k 1.2× 21.4k 1.1× 107 92.9k
Joseph Felsenstein United States 55 20.8k 0.7× 44.8k 1.5× 24.2k 1.1× 26.3k 1.2× 21.9k 1.1× 94 96.4k
Alexei J. Drummond New Zealand 60 18.9k 0.6× 21.8k 0.7× 15.5k 0.7× 23.4k 1.1× 10.5k 0.5× 108 70.3k
Alexandros Stamatakis Germany 53 15.9k 0.5× 28.6k 1.0× 16.2k 0.7× 13.6k 0.6× 15.3k 0.8× 176 63.3k
Marc A. Suchard United States 78 15.6k 0.5× 18.9k 0.6× 12.6k 0.6× 17.0k 0.8× 10.9k 0.5× 300 64.7k
David Posada Spain 55 13.0k 0.4× 18.9k 0.6× 15.4k 0.7× 18.5k 0.9× 12.5k 0.6× 164 56.6k
Glen Stecher United States 12 17.9k 0.6× 62.4k 2.1× 30.8k 1.4× 22.1k 1.0× 47.6k 2.4× 14 153.5k
Arndt von Haeseler Austria 58 12.4k 0.4× 28.4k 1.0× 13.8k 0.6× 14.1k 0.7× 13.2k 0.7× 192 61.8k
Koichiro Tamura Japan 34 23.8k 0.8× 82.5k 2.8× 41.3k 1.9× 32.5k 1.5× 60.9k 3.0× 76 206.1k
Keith A. Crandall United States 77 13.2k 0.4× 16.9k 0.6× 19.6k 0.9× 20.9k 1.0× 9.0k 0.4× 377 57.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fredrik Ronquist

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fredrik Ronquist. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fredrik Ronquist based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fredrik Ronquist. Fredrik Ronquist is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sundh, John, Lokeshwaran Manoharan, Laura J. A. van Dijk, et al.. (2025). HAPP: High-accuracy pipeline for processing deep metabarcoding data. PLoS Computational Biology. 21(11). e1013558–e1013558.
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Lundin, Daniel, et al.. (2023). ASV portal: an interface to DNA-based biodiversity data in the Living Atlas. BMC Bioinformatics. 24(1). 6–6. 3 indexed citations
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Marquina, Daniel, Tomas Roslin, Piotr Łukasik, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2022). Evaluation of non-destructive DNA extraction protocols for insect metabarcoding: gentler and shorter is better. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6. 12 indexed citations
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Braga, Mariana P., Niklas Janz, Sören Nylin, Fredrik Ronquist, & Michael J. Landis. (2021). Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2134–2145. 19 indexed citations
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Vondráček, Dominik, et al.. (2021). Awakening a taxonomist's third eye: exploring the utility of computer vision and deep learning in insect systematics. Systematic Entomology. 46(4). 757–766. 8 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik, Viktor Senderov, Johannes Borgström, et al.. (2021). Universal probabilistic programming offers a powerful approach to statistical phylogenetics. Communications Biology. 4(1). 244–244. 13 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik, Viktor Senderov, Johannes Borgström, et al.. (2021). Publisher Correction: Universal probabilistic programming offers a powerful approach to statistical phylogenetics. Communications Biology. 4(1). 354–354.
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Zhang, Chi, John P. Huelsenbeck, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2020). Using Parsimony-Guided Tree Proposals to Accelerate Convergence in Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference. Systematic Biology. 69(5). 1016–1032. 18 indexed citations
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Braga, Mariana P., Michael J. Landis, Sören Nylin, Niklas Janz, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2020). Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host–Parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution. Systematic Biology. 69(6). 1149–1162. 23 indexed citations
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Karlsson, Dave, et al.. (2020). The data of the Swedish Malaise Trap Project, a countrywide inventory of Sweden's insect fauna. ZooKeys. 8. e56286–e56286. 16 indexed citations
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Karlsson, Dave, Emily Hartop, Mattias Forshage, Mathias Jaschhof, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2020). The Swedish Malaise Trap Project: A 15 Year Retrospective on a Countrywide Insect Inventory. ZooKeys. 8. e47255–e47255. 89 indexed citations
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Macklin, James, Falko Glöckler, Mikko Heikkinen, et al.. (2018). General introduction to DINA. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 2. e25646–e25646. 1 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik, Nicolas Lartillot, & Matthew J. Phillips. (2016). Closing the gap between rocks and clocks using total-evidence dating. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1699). 20150136–20150136. 85 indexed citations
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Lartillot, Nicolas, Matthew J. Phillips, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2016). A mixed relaxed clock model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1699). 20150132–20150132. 42 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik, et al.. (2005). MorphBank, The Development of a General Purpose Bioinformatics Database.. International Conference on Internet Computing. 31–37. 1 indexed citations
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Pape, Thomas, et al.. (2005). Svenska Malaisefälleprojektet, eller hur många arter steklar, flugor och myggor finns i Sverige?. 126. 43–53. 9 indexed citations
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Huelsenbeck, John P. & Fredrik Ronquist. (2001). MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogeny. Bioinformatics. 17(17). 754–755. 4506 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ronquist, Fredrik, et al.. (2001). The biology and distribution of Orussus abietinus in the Nordic countries.. 122. 1–11. 2 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik. (1997). Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis: A New Approach to the Quantification of Historical Biogeography. Systematic Biology. 46(1). 195–195. 75 indexed citations
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Ronquist, Fredrik. (1995). PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE LIOPTERIDAE, AN ARCHAIC GROUP OF CYNIPOID WASPS (HYMENOPTERA). 46. 3–74. 30 indexed citations

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