Joe Felsenstein

28.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
38 papers, 24.7k citations indexed

About

Joe Felsenstein is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Joe Felsenstein has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 24.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Joe Felsenstein's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Joe Felsenstein is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers). Joe Felsenstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Joe Felsenstein's co-authors include Gary A. Churchill, Hirohisa Kishino, Mary K. Kuhner, Jon Yamato, Richard C Lewontin, Brian Golding, Shozo Yokoyama, Uta Francke, J. Edwin Seegmiller and Stanley M. Gartler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joe Felsenstein

38 papers receiving 23.6k citations

Hit Papers

PHYLIP-Phylogeny inferenc... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1989 1978 1987 1996 1973 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. PHYLIP-Phylogeny inference package (Version 3.2)
    1989 16.3k citations Joe Felsenstein Cladistics profile →
  2. Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading
    1978 2.4k citations Joe Felsenstein Systematic Biology profile →
  3. Molecular evolutionary genetics
    1987 1.8k citations Joe Felsenstein Cell profile →
  4. A Hidden Markov Model approach to variation among sites in rate of evolution
    1996 623 citations Joe Felsenstein, Gary A. Churchill Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  5. Maximum-likelihood estimation of evolutionary trees from continuous characters.
    1973 516 citations Joe Felsenstein profile →
  6. Maximum Likelihood and Minimum-Steps Methods for Estimating Evolutionary Trees from Data on Discrete Characters
    1973 472 citations Joe Felsenstein Systematic Biology profile →
  7. Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap. Evolution 39:783-791
    1985 462 citations Joe Felsenstein Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joe Felsenstein United States 22 12.0k 7.9k 5.3k 5.1k 3.5k 38 24.7k
Masami Hasegawa Japan 61 12.2k 1.0× 8.0k 1.0× 6.0k 1.1× 3.9k 0.8× 4.8k 1.4× 232 23.4k
David Bryant New Zealand 41 7.7k 0.6× 6.7k 0.9× 3.6k 0.7× 3.9k 0.8× 3.5k 1.0× 171 21.6k
David M. Hillis United States 58 8.3k 0.7× 7.2k 0.9× 5.3k 1.0× 3.9k 0.8× 5.4k 1.5× 140 21.6k
Walter M. Fitch United States 49 13.2k 1.1× 4.5k 0.6× 3.8k 0.7× 3.2k 0.6× 2.4k 0.7× 113 20.6k
David L. Swofford United States 34 7.9k 0.7× 7.3k 0.9× 5.0k 1.0× 5.0k 1.0× 6.6k 1.9× 55 21.7k
Hirohisa Kishino Japan 41 8.6k 0.7× 7.0k 0.9× 3.8k 0.7× 3.1k 0.6× 3.7k 1.1× 146 17.9k
Roderic Page United Kingdom 47 6.3k 0.5× 4.2k 0.5× 3.2k 0.6× 4.5k 0.9× 3.2k 0.9× 129 16.7k
James J. Bull United States 64 6.0k 0.5× 9.6k 1.2× 6.0k 1.1× 4.5k 0.9× 6.6k 1.9× 203 22.6k
Korbinian Strimmer Germany 29 8.5k 0.7× 4.8k 0.6× 4.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 4.3k 1.2× 47 21.2k
Dong Xie United States 26 7.4k 0.6× 7.2k 0.9× 5.1k 1.0× 3.1k 0.6× 6.6k 1.9× 37 22.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Felsenstein, Joe. (2006). WHAT MATHEMATICIANS WILL SEE OF PHYLOGENIES1. Evolution. 60(4). 872–872. 1 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (2004). An ancestor's influence. Nature Genetics. 36(10). 1031–1031. 2 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe & Gary A. Churchill. (1996). A Hidden Markov Model approach to variation among sites in rate of evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 13(1). 93–104. 623 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kuhner, Mary K., Jon Yamato, & Joe Felsenstein. (1995). Estimating effective population size and mutation rate from sequence data using Metropolis-Hastings sampling.. Genetics. 140(4). 1421–1430. 349 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe & Hirohisa Kishino. (1993). Is there Something Wrong with the Bootstrap on Phylogenies? A Reply to Hillis and Bull. Systematic Biology. 42(2). 193–200. 291 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1993). PHYLIP: phylogenetic inference package version 3.5c. Distributed over the Internet. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 29 indexed citations
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Murtagh, Fionn, R. N. Curnow, Joe Felsenstein, et al.. (1991). Book reviews. Journal of Classification. 8(1). 115–148. 1 indexed citations
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Golding, Brian & Joe Felsenstein. (1990). A maximum likelihood approach to the detection of selection from a phylogeny. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 31(6). 511–523. 37 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1989). PHYLIP-Phylogeny inference package (Version 3.2). Cladistics. 5. 164–166. 16266 indexed citations breakdown →
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1987). Molecular evolutionary genetics. Cell. 51(3). 343–344. 1775 indexed citations breakdown →
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1987). Access to theory. Nature. 326(6109). 219–220. 10 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1985). Confidence Limits on Phylogenies With a Molecular Clock. Systematic Biology. 34(2). 152–161. 267 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1985). Phylogenies from Gene Frequencies: A Statistical Problem. Systematic Biology. 34(3). 300–311. 45 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1983). An Introduction to Mathematical Taxonomy.G. Dunn , B. S. Everitt. The Quarterly Review of Biology. 58(3). 485–485. 24 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe, et al.. (1981). Bibliography of theoretical population genetics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 20 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe. (1976). Molecular population genetics and evolution.. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 28(3). 303–304. 252 indexed citations
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Francke, Uta, Joe Felsenstein, Stanley M. Gartler, et al.. (1976). The occurrence of new mutants in the X-linked recessive Lesch-Nyhan disease.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 28(2). 123–37. 86 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joe & Shozo Yokoyama. (1976). THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION. II. INDIVIDUAL SELECTION FOR RECOMBINATION. Genetics. 83(4). 845–859. 3 indexed citations

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