Jeffrey R. Powell

13.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
162 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

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Jeffrey R. Powell is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Insect Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey R. Powell has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 63 papers in Insect Science and 51 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey R. Powell's work include Mosquito-borne diseases and control (67 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (40 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (38 papers). Jeffrey R. Powell is often cited by papers focused on Mosquito-borne diseases and control (67 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (40 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (38 papers). Jeffrey R. Powell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and France. Jeffrey R. Powell's co-authors include Adalgisa Caccone, Walter J. Tabachnick, Etsuko N. Moriyama, Andrea Gloria‐Soria, Martin L. Tracey, C. A. Mourão, Francisco J. Ayala, Panayiota Kotsakiozi, James P. Gibbs and Benjamin Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey R. Powell

159 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

ENZYME VARIABILITY IN THE DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI GROUP. IV. GENIC VARIATION IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OF DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI

1972 734 citations Jeffrey R. Powell et al. Genetics profile →
Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population

2019 491 citations Benjamin Evans, Panayiota Kotsakiozi et al. Scientific Reports profile →
History of domestication and spread of Aedes aegypti - A Review

2013 409 citations Jeffrey R. Powell, Walter J. Tabachnick Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz profile →
Aedes aegypti vector competence studies: A review

2018 288 citations Jeffrey R. Powell et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeffrey R. Powell United States	48	3.1k	2.5k	2.5k	2.2k	1.5k	162	8.5k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	2.4k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	3.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	252	8.9k
Jacob C. Koella Switzerland	48	3.3k 1.1×	690 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	929 0.6×	139	7.6k
Frédéric Thomas France	53	2.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	554 0.4×	327	10.7k
Rosemary S. Hails United Kingdom	44	522 0.2×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	147	6.3k
Curtis M. Lively United States	60	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	6.7k 2.7×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	176	12.0k
Angus Buckling United Kingdom	71	1.7k 0.6×	5.6k 2.2×	7.8k 3.1×	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.7×	233	15.9k
Paul A. Fuerst United States	46	750 0.2×	3.3k 1.3×	2.6k 1.0×	417 0.2×	657 0.4×	117	7.8k
Dieter Ebert Switzerland	67	2.9k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	9.4k 3.8×	3.1k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	280	18.0k
Andrew R. Weeks Australia	44	717 0.2×	1.2k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.4×	994 0.7×	154	7.2k
Michael R. Strand United States	68	1.9k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	11.1k 5.0×	3.4k 2.2×	233	14.7k

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Balcazar, Darío, Athanase Badolo, Michaël Luciano Tantely, et al.. (2025). From macro to micro: De novo genomes of Aedes mosquitoes enable comparative genomics among close and distant relatives. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(8). 1 indexed citations

Rose, Noah H., Athanase Badolo, Massamba Sylla, et al.. (2023). Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. eLife. 12. 35 indexed citations

Braaten, Patrick J., et al.. (2022). Growth and survival rates of dispersing free embryos and settled larvae of pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River, Montana and North Dakota. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 105(8). 993–1014. 4 indexed citations

Dweck, Hany K. M., Joel Lutomiah, Rosemary Sang, et al.. (2021). Larval sites of the mosquito Aedes aegypti formosus in forest and domestic habitats in Africa and the potential association with oviposition evolution. Ecology and Evolution. 11(22). 16327–16343. 25 indexed citations

Powell, Jeffrey R., et al.. (2021). Increasing Effectiveness of Genetically Modifying Mosquito Populations: Risk Assessment of Releasing Blood-Fed Females. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 104(5). 1895–1906. 2 indexed citations

Rose, Noah H., Massamba Sylla, Athanase Badolo, et al.. (2020). Climate and Urbanization Drive Mosquito Preference for Humans. Current Biology. 30(18). 3570–3579.e6. 149 indexed citations

Evans, Benjamin, Panayiota Kotsakiozi, André Luis Costa‐da‐Silva, et al.. (2019). Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13047–13047. 491 indexed citations breakdown →

Gloria‐Soria, Andrea, et al.. (2019). Genetic diversity of laboratory strains and implications for research: The case of Aedes aegypti. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 13(12). e0007930–e0007930. 33 indexed citations

Baskett, Marissa L., et al.. (2019). Quantifying the efficacy of genetic shifting in control of mosquito‐borne diseases. Evolutionary Applications. 12(8). 1552–1568. 5 indexed citations

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Powell, Jeffrey R.. (2016). New contender for most lethal animal. Nature. 540(7634). 525–525. 11 indexed citations

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Richardson, Joshua B., et al.. (2015). Evidence of Limited Polyandry in a Natural Population of Aedes aegypti. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 93(1). 189–193. 23 indexed citations

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Powell, Jeffrey R. & Walter J. Tabachnick. (2013). History of domestication and spread of Aedes aegypti - A Review. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 108(suppl 1). 11–17. 409 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brown, Julia E. H., et al.. (2011). Genetics and Morphology of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Septic Tanks in Puerto Rico. Journal of Medical Entomology. 48(6). 1095–1102. 8 indexed citations

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Milinkovitch, Michel C., Daniel Monteyne, Michael A. Russello, et al.. (2007). Giant Galápagos tortoises; molecular genetic analyses identify a trans-island hybrid in a repatriation program of an endangered taxon. BMC Ecology. 7(1). 2–2. 15 indexed citations

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Powell, Jeffrey R. & Adalgisa Caccone. (2006). Giant tortoises. Current Biology. 16(5). R144–R145. 5 indexed citations

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Powell, Jeffrey R., et al.. (2003). Analysis of a Shift in Codon Usage in Drosophila. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 57(0). S214–S225. 49 indexed citations

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García, Beatriz A. & Jeffrey R. Powell. (1998). Phylogeny of Species of Triatoma (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Journal of Medical Entomology. 35(3). 232–238. 50 indexed citations

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Vrana, Paul B., Michel C. Milinkovitch, Jeffrey R. Powell, & Ward C. Wheeler. (1994). Higher Level Relationships of the Arctoid Carnivora Based on Sequence Data and "Total Evidence". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 3(1). 47–58. 84 indexed citations

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Milinkovitch, Michel C., Axel Meyer, & Jeffrey R. Powell. (1994). Phylogeny of all major groups of cetaceans based on DNA sequences from three mitochondrial genes.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 11(6). 939–48. 84 indexed citations

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Powell, Jeffrey R.. (1987). Anecdotal, Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics : "In the Air"—Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species. Genetics. 117(3). 363–366. 8 indexed citations

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