Isabel Sanmartín

12.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
90 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Isabel Sanmartín is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Isabel Sanmartín has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 37 papers in Paleontology and 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Isabel Sanmartín's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (33 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers). Isabel Sanmartín is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (33 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers). Isabel Sanmartín collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom. Isabel Sanmartín's co-authors include Fredrik Ronquist, Alexandre Antonelli, Richard H. Ree, Johan A. A. Nylander, Andrea S. Meseguer, Henrik Enghoff, Cajsa Lisa Anderson, Claes Persson, Hans ter Steege and Carina Hoorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Isabel Sanmartín

90 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

Amazonia Through Time: An... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2010 2004 2009 2018 2011 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity
    2010 1.7k citations Carina Hoorn, Hans ter Steege et al. profile →
  2. Southern Hemisphere Biogeography Inferred by Event-Based Models: Plant versus Animal Patterns
    2004 762 citations Isabel Sanmartín, Fredrik Ronquist Systematic Biology profile →
  3. Tracing the impact of the Andean uplift on Neotropical plant evolution
    2009 503 citations Alexandre Antonelli, Johan A. A. Nylander et al. profile →
  4. Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder‐event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection
    2018 494 citations Isabel Sanmartín et al. Journal of Biogeography profile →
  5. Why are there so many plant species in the Neotropics?
    2011 438 citations Alexandre Antonelli, Isabel Sanmartín profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Isabel Sanmartín Spain 37 5.0k 2.3k 2.2k 2.0k 2.0k 90 8.5k
Richard H. Ree United States 42 5.3k 1.1× 2.5k 1.1× 2.6k 1.2× 1.8k 0.9× 2.9k 1.4× 66 8.7k
Michael D. Crisp Australia 43 4.2k 0.8× 2.9k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 147 7.9k
Daniele Silvestro Sweden 37 3.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 125 8.4k
R. Toby Pennington United Kingdom 52 6.7k 1.3× 3.5k 1.5× 1.5k 0.7× 954 0.5× 2.8k 1.4× 161 10.7k
Peter Wilf United States 52 6.5k 1.3× 2.8k 1.3× 590 0.3× 2.3k 1.1× 2.2k 1.1× 130 9.6k
H. Peter Linder Switzerland 51 7.0k 1.4× 5.0k 2.2× 1.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 2.3k 1.2× 160 12.3k
Johan A. A. Nylander Sweden 25 2.7k 0.5× 791 0.3× 1.5k 0.7× 899 0.4× 1.8k 0.9× 45 5.7k
Fabien L. Condamine France 36 2.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.7× 975 0.5× 120 4.6k
Brent D. Mishler United States 43 4.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.5× 872 0.4× 600 0.3× 1.5k 0.7× 127 6.9k
Steven A. Trewick New Zealand 34 2.4k 0.5× 1.4k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 765 0.4× 168 5.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Villaverde, Tamara, et al.. (2024). The sweet tabaiba or there and back again: phylogeographical history of the Macaronesian Euphorbia balsamifera. Annals of Botany. 133(5-6). 883–904. 6 indexed citations
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Perez, Manolo F., Tamara Villaverde, Carlos García‐Verdugo, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomics and phylogeographic model testing using convolutional neural networks reveal a history of recent admixture in the Canarian Kleinia neriifolia. Molecular Ecology. 33(21). e17537–e17537. 1 indexed citations
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Villaverde, Tamara, Isabel Larridon, Toral Shah, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics sheds new light on the drivers behind a long‐lasting systematic riddle: the figwort family Scrophulariaceae. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1601–1615. 7 indexed citations
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Meseguer, Andrea S., et al.. (2022). Macroevolutionary dynamics in the transition of angiosperms to aquatic environments. New Phytologist. 235(1). 344–355. 9 indexed citations
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Olsson, Sanna, Tamara Villaverde, Lisa Pokorny, et al.. (2021). Ecological and geological processes impacting speciation modes drive the formation of wide‐range disjunctions within tribe Putorieae (Rubiaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 59(5). 915–934. 19 indexed citations
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Sanmartín, Isabel, et al.. (2021). Skipping the Dry Diagonal: spatio-temporal evolution ofCrotonsectionCleodora(Euphorbiaceae) in the Neotropics. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 197(1). 61–84. 18 indexed citations
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Kirschner, Philipp, Eliška Záveská, Alexander Gamisch, et al.. (2020). Long-term isolation of European steppe outposts boosts the biome’s conservation value. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1968–1968. 51 indexed citations
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Riina, Ricarda, et al.. (2020). More than one sweet tabaiba: Disentangling the systematics of the succulent dendroid shrub Euphorbia balsamifera. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 59(3). 490–503. 11 indexed citations
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Antonelli, Alexandre, María Ariza, James S. Albert, et al.. (2018). Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research. PeerJ. 6. e5644–e5644. 107 indexed citations
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Villaverde, Tamara, Lisa Pokorny, Sanna Olsson, et al.. (2018). Bridging the micro‐ and macroevolutionary levels in phylogenomics: Hyb‐Seq solves relationships from populations to species and above. New Phytologist. 220(2). 636–650. 103 indexed citations
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Meseguer, Andrea S., Jorge M. Lobo, Josselin Cornuault, et al.. (2018). Reconstructing deep‐time palaeoclimate legacies in the clusioid Malpighiales unveils their role in the evolution and extinction of the boreotropical flora. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 27(5). 616–628. 30 indexed citations
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Thode, Verônica A., Isabel Sanmartín, & Lúcia G. Lohmann. (2018). Contrasting patterns of diversification between Amazonian and Atlantic forest clades of Neotropical lianas (Amphilophium, Bignonieae) inferred from plastid genomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 133. 92–106. 53 indexed citations
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Mairal, Mario, Juli Caujapé‐Castells, Loïc Pellissier, et al.. (2018). A tale of two forests: ongoing aridification drives population decline and genetic diversity loss at continental scale in Afro-Macaronesian evergreen-forest archipelago endemics. Annals of Botany. 122(6). 1005–1017. 16 indexed citations
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Sanmartín, Isabel. (2010). Evolutionary Biogeography: An Integrative Approach. Systematic Biology. 59(4). 486–488. 11 indexed citations
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Buerki, Sven, Félix Forest, Pedro Acevedo‐Rodríguez, et al.. (2009). Plastid and nuclear DNA markers reveal intricate relationships at subfamilial and tribal levels in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 51(2). 238–258. 126 indexed citations
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Nylander, Johan A. A., Urban Olsson, Per Alström, & Isabel Sanmartín. (2008). Accounting for Phylogenetic Uncertainty in Biogeography: A Bayesian Approach to Dispersal-Vicariance Analysis of the Thrushes (Aves: Turdus). Systematic Biology. 57(2). 257–268. 324 indexed citations
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Sanmartín, Isabel & Fredrik Ronquist. (2002). New solutions to old problems: widespread taxa, redundant distributions and missing areas in event-based biogeography. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 25(2). 75–93. 28 indexed citations

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