Jane Melville

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Jane Melville is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Genetics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Jane Melville has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 39 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Jane Melville's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (59 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (35 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers). Jane Melville is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (59 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (35 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers). Jane Melville collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Germany. Jane Melville's co-authors include James A. Schulte, Roy Swain, Allan Larson, Luke J. Harmon, J. Scott Keogh, Leo Joseph, Nick Porch, David K. Yeates, Margaret Byrne and Jeremy J. Austin and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The American Naturalist and Environmental Pollution.

In The Last Decade

Jane Melville

79 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jane Melville Australia	25	1.3k	1.1k	1.0k	910	779	83	2.8k
José M. Padial Spain	23	1.7k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	745 1.0×	71	3.2k
Krystal A. Tolley South Africa	33	1.8k 1.4×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	713 0.8×	1.5k 2.0×	173	3.5k
Aurélien Miralles France	18	1.1k 0.9×	982 0.9×	918 0.9×	614 0.7×	640 0.8×	64	2.6k
Luciano Javier Ávila Argentina	24	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	906 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	521 0.7×	139	2.5k
Mario Garcı́a-Parı́s Spain	27	1.5k 1.2×	818 0.7×	826 0.8×	826 0.9×	597 0.8×	84	2.4k
Simon P. Loader United Kingdom	26	2.0k 1.6×	907 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	918 1.0×	808 1.0×	109	3.2k
Petros Lymberakis Greece	35	2.0k 1.6×	1.9k 1.7×	1.0k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	126	3.7k
Daniel G. Mulcahy United States	23	1.5k 1.2×	927 0.8×	714 0.7×	605 0.7×	339 0.4×	60	2.3k
Paul Doughty Australia	32	2.0k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 1.6×	980 1.1×	954 1.2×	120	3.3k
Ignacio De la Riva Spain	27	2.5k 2.0×	1.3k 1.1×	1.7k 1.7×	1.4k 1.5×	821 1.1×	132	4.1k

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Melville, David S., et al.. (2025). Second successful breeding of Australian gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica macrotarsa) in New Zealand. Notornis. 72(3). 175–175.

Fenker, Jéssica, Jane Melville, & Craig Moritz. (2024). Dragons in the tropics – Phylogeography and speciation in Diporiphora lizards and common geographic breaks in co-distributed taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 197. 108090–108090. 1 indexed citations

Hampton, Jordan O., Michael T. Lohr, Aaron J. Specht, et al.. (2023). Lead exposure of mainland Australia's top avian predator. Environmental Pollution. 332. 122004–122004. 5 indexed citations

Thiele, Kevin R., Mark S. Harvey, Pat Hutchings, et al.. (2022). Introducing the Australian Journal of Taxonomy, a new, fully-online, fully open-access journal for the rapid publication of new Australian species and other taxa. 1. 1–7. 1 indexed citations

Hipsley, Christy A., et al.. (2021). Herpetofaunal diversity changes with climate: evidence from the Quaternary of McEachern’s Deathtrap Cave, southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41(5). 3 indexed citations

Melville, Jane, et al.. (2019). Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics. Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 78. 23–55. 8 indexed citations

Melville, Jane, Euan G. Ritchie, Stephanie N. J. Chapple, Richard E. Glor, & James A. Schulte. (2018). Diversity in Australia’s tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 77. 41–61. 6 indexed citations

Balasubramaniam, S., et al.. (2016). New data from basal Australian songbird lineages show that complex structure of MHC class II β genes has early evolutionary origins within passerines. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 112–112. 11 indexed citations

Doughty, Paul, et al.. (2015). Revision of the Western Australian pebble-mimic dragon species-group (Tympanocryptis cephalus: Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa. 4039(1). 85–117. 6 indexed citations

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Oliver, Paul M., Rebecca J. Laver, Jane Melville, & Paul Doughty. (2014). A new species of Velvet Gecko (Oedura: Diplodactylidae) from the limestone ranges of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia. Zootaxa. 3873(1). 49–61. 14 indexed citations

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Moussalli, Adnan, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetic evidence of historic mitochondrial introgression and cryptic diversity in the genus Pseudemoia (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 81. 86–95. 8 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane, et al.. (2014). The Role of Integrative Taxonomy in the Conservation Management of Cryptic Species: The Taxonomic Status of Endangered Earless Dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis) in the Grasslands of Queensland, Australia. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e101847–e101847. 22 indexed citations

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Murphy, Thomas M., et al.. (2012). Freedom from Echinococcus multilocularis: An Irish perspective. Veterinary Parasitology. 190(1-2). 196–203. 7 indexed citations

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Harmon, Luke J., et al.. (2010). EVIDENCE OF CONSTRAINED PHENOTYPIC EVOLUTION IN A CRYPTIC SPECIES COMPLEX OF AGAMID LIZARDS. Evolution. 65(4). 976–992. 87 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane, et al.. (2009). Historical biogeography, phylogenetic relationships and intraspecific diversity of agamid lizards in the Central Asian deserts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53(1). 99–112. 50 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane & Joshua M. Hale. (2009). Length variation in the N-terminal domain of the recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG1) across squamates. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52(3). 898–903. 6 indexed citations

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Clemann, Nick, et al.. (2008). Microhabitat occupation and functional morphology of four species of sympatric agamid lizards in the Kyzylkum Desert, central Uzbekistán. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 31(2). 51–62. 8 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane, et al.. (2000). Where to now?: Issues in the management of Indigenous research in higher education. Issues in educational research. 10(1). 67. 4 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane & Roy Swain. (2000). MITOCHONDRIAL DNA-SEQUENCE BASED PHYLOGENY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SNOW SKINKS (SQUAMATA: SCINCIDAE: NIVEOSCINCUS) OF TASMANIA. Herpetologica. 56(2). 196–208. 20 indexed citations

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Melville, Jane, et al.. (1997). SPATIAL SEPARATION IN TWO SYMPATRIC SKINKS, NIVEOSCINCUS MICROLEPIDOTUS AND N. METALLICUS, FROM TASMANIA. Herpetologica. 53(1). 126–132. 6 indexed citations

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