George Roderick

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
121 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

George Roderick is a scholar working on Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Roderick has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Insect Science, 52 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 31 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in George Roderick's work include Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (47 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (24 papers). George Roderick is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (48 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (47 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (24 papers). George Roderick collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. George Roderick's co-authors include Rosemary G. Gillespie, Neil Davies, Robert F. Denno, Maria Navajas, Francis X. Villablanca, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Robyn S. Cowan, Alfried P. Vogler, R. P. Lane and Vincent Savolainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

George Roderick

118 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

INVASIVE PHYTOPHAGOUS PESTS ARISING THROUGH A RECENT TROPICAL EVOLUTIONARY RADIATION: TheBactrocera dorsalisComplex of Fruit Flies

2004 497 citations George Roderick et al. profile →
Long-distance dispersal: a framework for hypothesis testing

2011 444 citations Rosemary G. Gillespie, George Roderick et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Roderick United States	47	3.7k	2.7k	2.2k	2.2k	1.6k	121	7.7k
J. S. Bale United Kingdom	44	3.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	2.1k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	179	7.6k
Wolfgang Nentwig Switzerland	45	2.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	168	7.5k
Andrew R. Weeks Australia	44	3.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	2.2k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	994 0.6×	154	7.2k
Daniel J. Funk United States	30	1.6k 0.4×	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	3.9k 1.8×	998 0.6×	50	7.0k
Francesco Frati Italy	32	3.3k 0.9×	4.8k 1.8×	2.8k 1.2×	3.3k 1.5×	1.2k 0.8×	136	9.4k
Felix A. H. Sperling Canada	45	2.9k 0.8×	3.9k 1.4×	1.7k 0.8×	3.6k 1.6×	908 0.6×	184	7.4k
Andrew T. Beckenbach Canada	33	3.2k 0.9×	3.9k 1.4×	2.2k 1.0×	4.0k 1.8×	1.3k 0.8×	57	9.1k
Chris Simon United States	44	3.7k 1.0×	6.0k 2.2×	2.7k 1.2×	4.5k 2.0×	1.7k 1.0×	138	11.3k
Jeffrey L. Feder United States	55	4.4k 1.2×	4.6k 1.7×	4.2k 1.9×	5.6k 2.5×	1.6k 1.0×	204	11.7k
Winnie Hallwachs United States	32	3.2k 0.9×	4.6k 1.7×	3.2k 1.4×	3.6k 1.6×	952 0.6×	143	9.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Roderick

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Pétillon, Julien, et al.. (2020). Non-native spiders change assemblages of Hawaiian forest fragment kipuka over space and time. NeoBiota. 55. 1–9. 6 indexed citations

Sun, Yan & George Roderick. (2019). Rapid evolution of invasive traits facilitates the invasion of common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Journal of Ecology. 107(6). 2673–2687. 34 indexed citations

Sun, Yan, et al.. (2017). Climatic suitability ranking of biological control candidates: a biogeographic approach for ragweed management in Europe. Ecosphere. 8(4). 52 indexed citations

Gillespie, Rosemary G. & George Roderick. (2014). Geology and climate drive diversification. Nature. 509(7500). 297–298. 84 indexed citations

Schoville, Sean D., Athena Lam, & George Roderick. (2012). A range‐wide genetic bottleneck overwhelms contemporary landscape factors and local abundance in shaping genetic patterns of an alpine butterfly (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Colias behrii). Molecular Ecology. 21(17). 4242–4256. 16 indexed citations

Marsico, Travis D., Erin K. Espeland, George W. Gilchrist, et al.. (2010). PERSPECTIVE: Underutilized resources for studying the evolution of invasive species during their introduction, establishment, and lag phases. Evolutionary Applications. 3(2). 203–219. 51 indexed citations

Nardi, Francesco, Antonio Carapelli, Jeffrey L. Boore, et al.. (2010). Domestication of olive fly through a multi-regional host shift to cultivated olives: Comparative dating using complete mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(2). 678–686. 93 indexed citations

Schoville, Sean D. & George Roderick. (2010). Evolutionary diversification of cryophilic Grylloblatta species (Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) in alpine habitats of California. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 163–163. 41 indexed citations

Charlat, Sylvain, Anne Duplouy, Emily A. Hornett, et al.. (2009). The joint evolutionary histories of Wolbachia and mitochondria in Hypolimnas bolina. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 64–64. 94 indexed citations

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Charlat, Sylvain, et al.. (2007). Disrupting the timing of Wolbachia-induced male-killing. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations

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Charlat, Sylvain, Max Reuter, Emily A. Dyson, et al.. (2007). Male-Killing Bacteria Trigger a Cycle of Increasing Male Fatigue and Female Promiscuity. Current Biology. 17(3). 273–277. 74 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Leo H., John S. Strazanac, & George Roderick. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of Banza (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae), the endemic katydids of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 41(1). 53–63. 59 indexed citations

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Chen, Yolanda H., Susan B. Opp, Stewart H. Berlocher, & George Roderick. (2006). Are bottlenecks associated with colonization? Genetic diversity and diapause variation of native and introduced Rhagoletis completa populations. Oecologia. 149(4). 656–667. 40 indexed citations

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Nardi, Francesco, Antonio Carapelli, John Vontas, et al.. (2006). Geographical distribution and evolutionary history of organophosphate-resistant Ace alleles in the olive fly (Bactrocera oleae). Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 36(7). 593–602. 26 indexed citations

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Epps, Clinton W., Per J. Palsbøll, John D. Wehausen, George Roderick, & Dale R. McCullough. (2006). Elevation and connectivity define genetic refugia for mountain sheep as climate warms. Molecular Ecology. 15(14). 4295–4302. 51 indexed citations

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Charlat, Sylvain, et al.. (2005). Is extreme male-killer prevalence a local or common event in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina? A survey across Indo-Pacific populations. UCL Discovery (University College London).

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Vandergast, Amy G., Rosemary G. Gillespie, & George Roderick. (2004). Influence of volcanic activity on the population genetic structure of Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiders: fragmentation, rapid population growth and the potential for accelerated evolution. Molecular Ecology. 13(7). 1729–1743. 76 indexed citations

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Mun, Jeomhee, Andrew J. Bohonak, & George Roderick. (2003). Population structure of the pumpkin fruit flyBactrocera depressa(Tephritidae) in Korea and Japan: Pliocene allopatry or recent invasion?. Molecular Ecology. 12(11). 2941–2951. 43 indexed citations

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Villablanca, Francis X., George Roderick, & Stephen R. Palumbi. (1998). Invasion genetics of the Mediterranean fruit fly: variation in multiple nuclear introns. Molecular Ecology. 7(5). 547–560. 96 indexed citations

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Coll, Moshe, et al.. (1994). Population structure of a predatory beetle: the importance of gene flow for intertrophic level interactions. Heredity. 72(3). 228–236. 28 indexed citations

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