Jacob S. Berv

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Jacob S. Berv is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob S. Berv has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Paleontology, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jacob S. Berv's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (6 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (6 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (5 papers). Jacob S. Berv is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (6 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (6 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (5 papers). Jacob S. Berv collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Jacob S. Berv's co-authors include Daniel J. Field, Richard O. Prum, Alex Dornburg, Jeffrey P. Townsend, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, David E. Fastovsky, Christopher J. Clark, Regan E. Dunn and Vivi Vajda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Current Biology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Jacob S. Berv

15 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
    2015 1.2k citations Richard O. Prum, Jacob S. Berv et al. Nature profile →
  2. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
    2016 786 citations Richard O. Prum, Jacob S. Berv et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Jacob S. Berv
Jena L. Chojnowski United States
Christopher J. Huddleston United States
Josef C. Uyeda United States
Ben D. Marks United States
Kathleen J. Miglia United States
Michael J. Landis United States
John J. Schenk United States
John Harshman United States
Seraina Klopfstein Switzerland
Wendell Challenger Canada
Jena L. Chojnowski United States
Jacob S. Berv
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Fields of papers citing papers by Jacob S. Berv

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob S. Berv

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jacob S. Berv. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jacob S. Berv 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 Jacob S. Berv. Jacob S. Berv is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Weeks, Brian C., et al.. (2025). Skeletal trait measurements for thousands of bird species. Scientific Data. 12(1). 884–884.
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Thomas, Gregg W.C., Jacob S. Berv, Michael A. Lampson, et al.. (2025). The Genomic Landscape, Causes, and Consequences of Extensive Phylogenomic Discordance in Murine Rodents. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(2). 1 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S., et al.. (2025). Habitat-associated evolutionary rates in deep-sea invertebrates. Evolution. 79(7). 1334–1348. 1 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S., Sonal Singhal, Daniel J. Field, et al.. (2024). Genome and life-history evolution link bird diversification to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Science Advances. 10(31). eadp0114–eadp0114. 7 indexed citations
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Pegan, Teresa M., et al.. (2023). The pace of mitochondrial molecular evolution varies with seasonal migration distance. Evolution. 78(1). 160–173. 3 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S., Leonardo Campagna, Teresa J. Feo, et al.. (2021). Genomic phylogeography of the White-crowned Manakin Pseudopipra pipra (Aves: Pipridae) illuminates a continental-scale radiation out of the Andes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 164. 107205–107205. 19 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S., et al.. (2021). Ecological selectivity and the evolution of mammalian substrate preference across the K–Pg boundary. Ecology and Evolution. 11(21). 14540–14554. 15 indexed citations
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van, Paul, Eugenia Zarza, Lucas R. Moreira, et al.. (2021). Recent divergence and lack of shared phylogeographic history characterize the diversification of neotropical savanna birds. Journal of Biogeography. 48(5). 1124–1137. 16 indexed citations
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Clark, Christopher J., Jimmy A. McGuire, Elisa Bonaccorso, Jacob S. Berv, & Richard O. Prum. (2018). Complex coevolution of wing, tail, and vocal sounds of courting male bee hummingbirds. Evolution. 72(3). 630–646. 35 indexed citations
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Field, Daniel J., Antoine Bercovici, Jacob S. Berv, et al.. (2018). Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction. Current Biology. 28(11). 1825–1831.e2. 90 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S. & Daniel J. Field. (2017). Genomic Signature of an Avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg Extinction. Systematic Biology. 67(1). 1–13. 85 indexed citations
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Berv, Jacob S. & Daniel J. Field. (2017). Genomic signature of an avian Lilliput Effect across the K-Pg extinction. The University of Bath Online Publications Store (The University of Bath). 1 indexed citations
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Prum, Richard O., Jacob S. Berv, Alex Dornburg, et al.. (2016). A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature. 534(7607). S7–S8. 786 indexed citations breakdown →
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Prum, Richard O., Jacob S. Berv, Alex Dornburg, et al.. (2015). A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature. 526(7574). 569–573. 1174 indexed citations breakdown →
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Feo, Teresa J., Jacob M. Musser, Jacob S. Berv, & Christopher J. Clark. (2014). Divergence in morphology, calls, song, mechanical sounds, and genetics supports species status for the Inaguan hummingbird (Trochilidae:Calliphlox “evelynae” lyrura). The Auk. 132(1). 248–264. 16 indexed citations

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