Jessica Leigh

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Jessica Leigh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jessica Leigh has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jessica Leigh's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (4 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (3 papers). Jessica Leigh is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (4 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (3 papers). Jessica Leigh collaborates with scholars based in Canada, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Jessica Leigh's co-authors include David Bryant, Andrew J. Roger, B. Franz Lang, Alastair G. B. Simpson, Vladimı́r Hampl, Philippe Lopez, Éric Bapteste, Joel B. Dacks, Laura Hug and Bachar Cheaib and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Jessica Leigh

13 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

popart: full‐feature software for haplotype network construction

2015 4.5k citations Jessica Leigh, David Bryant Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jessica Leigh Canada	12	2.1k	2.1k	1.8k	1.1k	810	14	5.7k
Guillaume Achaz France	25	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	565 0.7×	55	5.3k
Pavlos Pavlidis Greece	23	1.3k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	697 0.9×	58	4.8k
Arnaud Couloux France	52	2.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.2×	1.9k 2.3×	146	7.6k
April Wright United States	16	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.8×	781 1.0×	33	5.0k
Guido Fritzsch Germany	17	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	1.0k 1.0×	525 0.6×	19	4.5k
Lê Sỹ Vinh Vietnam	15	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	2.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	53	7.1k
Diep Thi Hoang Vietnam	6	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	2.4k 1.3×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.7×	11	6.4k
Andrew J. Bohonak United States	24	2.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	751 0.4×	975 0.9×	391 0.5×	49	4.6k
Kevin Winker United States	40	3.5k 1.6×	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	603 0.7×	184	8.1k
Laura Kvist Finland	23	1.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	658 0.8×	91	4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Jessica Leigh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jessica Leigh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jessica Leigh

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

Kranjc, Nace, et al.. (2024). Y chromosome shredding in Anopheles gambiae: Insight into the cellular dynamics of a novel synthetic sex ratio distorter. PLoS Genetics. 20(6). e1011303–e1011303.

Gray, Paul, et al.. (2020). Young People and Mental Health: How do young people want mental health support to be delivered?. 1 indexed citations

Leigh, Jessica & David Bryant. (2015). Monte Carlo Strategies for Selecting Parameter Values in Simulation Experiments. Systematic Biology. 64(5). 741–751. 21 indexed citations

Leigh, Jessica & David Bryant. (2015). popart: full‐feature software for haplotype network construction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(9). 1110–1116. 4453 indexed citations breakdown →

Becker, Matthias, Nicole Gruenheit, Mike Steel, et al.. (2013). Hybridization may facilitate in situ survival of endemic species through periods of climate change. Nature Climate Change. 3(12). 1039–1043. 85 indexed citations

Leigh, Jessica, François‐Joseph Lapointe, Philippe Lopez, & Éric Bapteste. (2011). Evaluating Phylogenetic Congruence in the Post-Genomic Era. Genome Biology and Evolution. 3. 571–587. 42 indexed citations

Silberfeld, Thomas, Jessica Leigh, Heroen Verbruggen, et al.. (2010). A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the brown algae (Heterokonta, Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae): Investigating the evolutionary nature of the “brown algal crown radiation”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56(2). 659–674. 245 indexed citations

Halary, Sébastien, Jessica Leigh, Bachar Cheaib, Philippe Lopez, & Éric Bapteste. (2009). Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(1). 127–132. 211 indexed citations

Hampl, Vladimı́r, Laura Hug, Jessica Leigh, et al.. (2009). Phylogenomic analyses support the monophyly of Excavata and resolve relationships among eukaryotic “supergroups”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(10). 3859–3864. 353 indexed citations

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Leigh, Jessica, Edward Susko, Manuela Baumgärtner, & Andrew J. Roger. (2008). Testing Congruence in Phylogenomic Analysis. Systematic Biology. 57(1). 104–115. 151 indexed citations

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Liu, Yu, Jessica Leigh, Henner Brinkmann, et al.. (2008). Phylogenomic Analyses Support the Monophyly of Taphrinomycotina, including Schizosaccharomyces Fission Yeasts. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(1). 27–34. 78 indexed citations

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Kolísko, Martin, Ivan Čepička, Vladimı́r Hampl, et al.. (2008). Molecular phylogeny of diplomonads and enteromonads based on SSU rRNA, alpha-tubulin and HSP90 genes: Implications for the evolutionary history of the double karyomastigont of diplomonads. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 205–205. 35 indexed citations

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Goddard, Matthew R., et al.. (2006). Invasion and Persistence of a Selfish Gene in the Cnidaria. PLoS ONE. 1(1). e3–e3. 45 indexed citations

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Leigh, Jessica & B. Franz Lang. (2004). Mitochondrial 3′ tRNA editing in the jakobid Seculamonas ecuadoriensis: A novel mechanism and implications for tRNA processing. RNA. 10(4). 615–621. 27 indexed citations

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