James Kijas

9.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

James Kijas is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, James Kijas has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Genetics, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in James Kijas's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (69 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (43 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers). James Kijas is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (69 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (43 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers). James Kijas collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. James Kijas's co-authors include Jennifer R. S. Meadows, Laércio R. Porto-Neto, John C. McEwan, Russell McCulloch, Ben J. Hayes, Brian P. Dalrymple, Antônio Reverter, W. Barendse, Vicki Whan and Herman W. Raadsma and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

James Kijas

96 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection

2012 619 citations James Kijas, Johannes A. Lenstra et al. PLoS Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Kijas Australia	39	3.8k	1.1k	859	505	432	98	4.7k
Herman W. Raadsma Australia	37	2.9k 0.8×	633 0.6×	533 0.6×	689 1.4×	586 1.4×	117	4.5k
David E. MacHugh Ireland	44	4.2k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	833 1.0×	754 1.5×	569 1.3×	151	6.8k
W. Barendse Australia	38	3.9k 1.0×	852 0.7×	745 0.9×	764 1.5×	989 2.3×	153	5.0k
Hendrik‐Jan Megens Netherlands	40	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	694 0.8×	309 0.6×	948 2.2×	112	5.2k
Laércio R. Porto-Neto Australia	29	2.7k 0.7×	538 0.5×	765 0.9×	757 1.5×	455 1.1×	119	3.4k
Robert D. Schnabel United States	43	6.2k 1.6×	1.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.4×	1.3k 2.6×	749 1.7×	126	7.8k
S. Dunner Spain	30	2.6k 0.7×	1.9k 1.6×	240 0.3×	381 0.8×	635 1.5×	119	4.2k
R.P.M.A. Crooijmans Netherlands	47	5.6k 1.5×	2.1k 1.8×	694 0.8×	348 0.7×	1.9k 4.4×	211	7.6k
Carl‐Johan Rubin Sweden	32	2.9k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	405 0.5×	155 0.3×	766 1.8×	73	4.6k
Michèle Tixier‐Boichard France	34	2.5k 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	171 0.2×	285 0.6×	2.0k 4.7×	120	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Kijas

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kijas, James, et al.. (2025). The role of transposon activity in shapingcis-regulatory element evolution after whole-genome duplication. Genome Research. 35(3). 475–488.

Naval-Sánchez, Marina, Laércio R. Porto-Neto, Diércles F. Cardoso, et al.. (2020). Selection signatures in tropical cattle are enriched for promoter and coding regions and reveal missense mutations in the damage response gene HELB. Genetics Selection Evolution. 52(1). 27–27. 25 indexed citations

Nguyen, Quan, Ross L. Tellam, Marina Naval-Sánchez, et al.. (2018). Mammalian genomic regulatory regions predicted by utilizing human genomics, transcriptomics, and epigenetics data. GigaScience. 7(3). 1–17. 26 indexed citations

Kijas, James, Sean McWilliam, Marina Naval-Sánchez, et al.. (2018). Evolution of Sex Determination Loci in Atlantic Salmon. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5664–5664. 36 indexed citations

Henshall, John, Laércio R. Porto-Neto, Sonja Dominik, et al.. (2017). Estimating the genetic merit of sires by using pooled DNA from progeny of undetermined pedigree. Genetics Selection Evolution. 49(1). 28–28. 17 indexed citations

Yang, Liu, Lingyang Xu, Yang Zhou, et al.. (2017). Diversity of copy number variation in a worldwide population of sheep. Genomics. 110(3). 143–148. 55 indexed citations

Brito, Luiz F., James Kijas, Ricardo Vieira Ventura, et al.. (2017). Genetic diversity and signatures of selection in various goat breeds revealed by genome-wide SNP markers. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 229–229. 138 indexed citations

Goddard, Michael E., Michael A. Black, Rüdiger Bräuning, et al.. (2016). Copy number variants in the sheep genome detected using multiple approaches. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 441–441. 29 indexed citations

Gorkhali, Neena Amatya, Kunzhe Dong, Min Yang, et al.. (2016). Genomic analysis identified a potential novel molecular mechanism for high-altitude adaptation in sheep at the Himalayas. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29963–29963. 37 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Enciso, Miguel, G. de los Campos, Nicholas J. Hudson, James Kijas, & Antônio Reverter. (2016). The ‘heritability’ of domestication and its functional partitioning in the pig. Heredity. 118(2). 160–168. 5 indexed citations

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Dong, Yang, Xiaolei Zhang, Min Xie, et al.. (2015). Reference genome of wild goat (capra aegagrus) and sequencing of goat breeds provide insight into genic basis of goat domestication. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 431–431. 76 indexed citations

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Hudson, Nicholas J., et al.. (2014). Compression Efficiency Relationship Matrix: Developing New Methods to Determine Genomic Relationships for Improved Breeding. Proceedings of the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. 473. 1 indexed citations

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Kijas, James, Johannes A. Lenstra, Ben J. Hayes, et al.. (2012). Genome-Wide Analysis of the World's Sheep Breeds Reveals High Levels of Historic Mixture and Strong Recent Selection. PLoS Biology. 10(2). e1001258–e1001258. 619 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mömke, S., Anne Wöhlke, Marion Hewicker‐Trautwein, et al.. (2011). A Frameshift Mutation within LAMC2 Is Responsible for Herlitz Type Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa (HJEB) in Black Headed Mutton Sheep. PLoS ONE. 6(5). e18943–e18943. 19 indexed citations

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Kadarmideen, Haja N., Nathan S. Watson‐Haigh, James Kijas, et al.. (2010). Genetics of Global Gene Expression Patterns and Gene Networks Affecting Muscling in Sheep. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 1 indexed citations

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Meadows, Jennifer R. S., Stefan Hiendleder, & James Kijas. (2010). Haplogroup relationships between domestic and wild sheep resolved using a mitogenome panel. Heredity. 106(4). 700–706. 97 indexed citations

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Archibald, Alan, N. E. Cockett, Brian P. Dalrymple, et al.. (2010). The sheep genome reference sequence: a work in progress. Animal Genetics. 41(5). 449–453. 157 indexed citations

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Meadows, Jennifer R. S. & James Kijas. (2008). Re‐sequencing regions of the ovine Y chromosome in domestic and wild sheep reveals novel paternal haplotypes. Animal Genetics. 40(1). 119–123. 28 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Orly, Barbara Zangerl, Sue Pearce‐Kelling, et al.. (2006). Linkage disequilibrium mapping in domestic dog breeds narrows the progressive rod–cone degeneration interval and identifies ancestral disease-transmitting chromosome. Genomics. 88(5). 541–550. 57 indexed citations

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Kijas, James. (2003). Canine Models of Ocular Disease: Outcross Breedings Define a Dominant Disorder Present in the English Mastiff and Bull Mastiff Dog Breeds. Journal of Heredity. 94(1). 27–30. 34 indexed citations

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