Jochen B. W. Wolf

14.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
163 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Jochen B. W. Wolf is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jochen B. W. Wolf has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Genetics, 49 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jochen B. W. Wolf's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (67 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (42 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers). Jochen B. W. Wolf is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (67 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (42 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (30 papers). Jochen B. W. Wolf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Czechia. Jochen B. W. Wolf's co-authors include Hans Ellegren, Fritz Trillmich, Aaron B. A. Shafer, Jelmer W. Poelstra, Nagarjun Vijay, M. Wolfová, Axel Künstner, Robert Ekblom, Niclas Backström and Matthias H. Weissensteiner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jochen B. W. Wolf

155 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

The genomic landscape of species divergence in Ficedula flycatchers

2012 476 citations Hans Ellegren, Reto Burri et al. profile →
The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows

2014 399 citations Jelmer W. Poelstra, Nagarjun Vijay et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jochen B. W. Wolf Germany	43	3.8k	2.1k	1.9k	1.5k	924	163	6.7k
Paulo C. Alves Portugal	44	2.7k 0.7×	963 0.5×	3.6k 1.9×	924 0.6×	309 0.3×	202	5.9k
Patrick Forster Germany	7	5.4k 1.4×	2.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	20	9.5k
Nuno Ferrand Portugal	44	3.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	437 0.5×	156	5.9k
Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins Spain	24	4.1k 1.1×	3.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 2.2×	55	8.9k
Olivier Hanotte United Kingdom	49	4.9k 1.3×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 1.1×	411 0.4×	245	8.1k
Xuhua Xia Canada	41	2.6k 0.7×	4.6k 2.2×	2.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	164	10.1k
Ettore Randi Italy	56	6.3k 1.6×	1.6k 0.7×	6.2k 3.2×	973 0.7×	340 0.4×	226	9.5k
Michael W. Nachman United States	63	6.7k 1.8×	3.5k 1.7×	1.8k 0.9×	2.3k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	137	10.7k
Armando Caballero Spain	45	5.8k 1.5×	947 0.4×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	165	7.1k
Cornelis A. Albers Netherlands	14	6.0k 1.6×	4.2k 2.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	2.9k 3.1×	19	10.8k

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Gwee, Chyi Yin, Dirk Metzler, Jérôme Fuchs, & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2025). Reconciling Gene Tree Discordance and Biogeography in European Crows. Molecular Ecology. 34(10). e17764–e17764. 1 indexed citations

Knief, Ulrich, et al.. (2024). Evolution of Chromosomal Inversions across an Avian Radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(6). 7 indexed citations

Catalán, Ana, et al.. (2023). Chromatin accessibility, not 5mC methylation covaries with partial dosage compensation in crows. PLoS Genetics. 19(9). e1010901–e1010901. 4 indexed citations

Westerdahl, Helena, Hanna Sigeman, Verena E. Kutschera, et al.. (2022). The genomic architecture of the passerine MHC region: High repeat content and contrasting evolutionary histories of single copy and tandemly duplicated MHC genes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(6). 2379–2395. 22 indexed citations

Knief, Ulrich, Wolfgang Forstmeier, Bart Kempenaers, & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2021). A sex chromosome inversion is associated with copy number variation of mitochondrial DNA in zebra finch sperm. Royal Society Open Science. 8(9). 211025–211025. 5 indexed citations

Metzler, Dirk, Ulrich Knief, Joshua V. Peñalba, & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2021). Assortative mating and epistatic mating‐trait architecture induce complex movement of the crow hybrid zone. Evolution. 75(12). 3154–3174. 11 indexed citations

Knief, Ulrich, Christen M. Bossu, & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2020). Extra‐pair paternity as a strategy to reduce the costs of heterospecific reproduction? Insights from the crow hybrid zone. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(5). 727–733. 4 indexed citations

Oliveira, Larissa Rosa de, Enrique A. Crespo, Susana Cárdenas‐Alayza, et al.. (2020). Phylogenomic Discordance in the Eared Seals is best explained by Incomplete Lineage Sorting following Explosive Radiation in the Southern Hemisphere. Systematic Biology. 70(4). 786–802. 35 indexed citations

Weissensteiner, Matthias H., Ignas Bunikis, Ana Catalán, et al.. (2020). Discovery and population genomics of structural variation in a songbird genus. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3403–3403. 89 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Verena E. Kutschera, R. Axel W. Wiberg, et al.. (2020). A genome‐wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein‐coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 973–986. 6 indexed citations

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Tusso, Sergio, Bart Nieuwenhuis, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, et al.. (2019). Ancestral Admixture Is the Main Determinant of Global Biodiversity in Fission Yeast. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(9). 1975–1989. 40 indexed citations

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Klaesson, Axel, et al.. (2019). In situ quantification of individual mRNA transcripts in melanocytes discloses gene regulation of relevance to speciation. Journal of Experimental Biology. 222(Pt 5). 10 indexed citations

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Suo, Fang, Sergio Tusso, Yankai Wang, et al.. (2019). Intraspecific Diversity of Fission Yeast Mitochondrial Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(8). 2312–2329. 18 indexed citations

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Mugal, Carina F., Verena E. Kutschera, Fidel Botero-Castro, Jochen B. W. Wolf, & Ingemar Kaj. (2019). Polymorphism Data Assist Estimation of the Nonsynonymous over Synonymous Fixation Rate Ratio ω for Closely Related Species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 260–279. 21 indexed citations

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Humble, Emily, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Álvaro Martínez Barrio, et al.. (2018). RAD Sequencing and a Hybrid Antarctic Fur Seal Genome Assembly Reveal Rapidly Decaying Linkage Disequilibrium, Global Population Structure and Evidence for Inbreeding. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(8). 2709–2722. 23 indexed citations

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Brealey, Jaelle C., Tom van der Valk, Antton Alberdi, et al.. (2018). Host‐derived population genomics data provides insights into bacterial and diatom composition of the killer whale skin. Molecular Ecology. 28(2). 484–502. 34 indexed citations

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Vijay, Nagarjun, Matthias H. Weissensteiner, Reto Burri, et al.. (2017). Genomewide patterns of variation in genetic diversity are shared among populations, species and higher‐order taxa. Molecular Ecology. 26(16). 4284–4295. 63 indexed citations

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Weissensteiner, Matthias H., Andy Wing Chun Pang, Ignas Bunikis, et al.. (2017). Combination of short-read, long-read, and optical mapping assemblies reveals large-scale tandem repeat arrays with population genetic implications. Genome Research. 27(5). 697–708. 62 indexed citations

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Vijay, Nagarjun, Christen M. Bossu, Jelmer W. Poelstra, et al.. (2016). Evolution of heterogeneous genome differentiation across multiple contact zones in a crow species complex. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13195–13195. 141 indexed citations

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Poelstra, Jelmer W., Nagarjun Vijay, Christen M. Bossu, et al.. (2014). The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows. Science. 344(6190). 1410–1414. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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