John E. McCormack

10.4k citations

89 papers · 5.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Paleontology top 1%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies

Papers in

Genetics 52
- Genetic diversity and population structure 45
Molecular Biology 29
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 25

Co-authors: Brant C. Faircloth (19 shared papers)Robb T. Brumfield (10 shared papers)Travis C. Glenn (6 shared papers)Nicholas G. Crawford (4 shared papers)Michael Harvey (4 shared papers)Amanda J. Zellmer (7 shared papers)L. Lacey Knowles (3 shared papers)Sarah M. Hird (3 shared papers)
Journals: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (7 papers)The Auk (7 papers)Molecular Ecology (6 papers)Molecular Ecology Resources (4 papers)Evolution (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Mexico Brazil

In The Last Decade

John E. McCormack

85 papers receiving 5.3k citations

John E. McCormack's Hit Papers

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The drivers of tropical speciation 2014 · 441 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Nature
2012 Systematic Biology
2011 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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1	Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales Systematic Biology ·Brant C. Faircloth, John E. McCormack, Nicholas G. Crawford, Michael Harvey, Robb T. Brumfield, Travis C. Glenn Hit paper breakdown →	2012	900
2	Applications of next-generation sequencing to phylogeography and phylogenetics Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·John E. McCormack, Sarah M. Hird, Amanda J. Zellmer, Bryan C. Carstens, Robb T. Brumfield Hit paper breakdown →	2011	477
3	The drivers of tropical speciation Nature ·Brian Tilston Smith, John E. McCormack, Andrés M. Cuervo, Michael J. Hickerson, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, Carlos Daniel Cadena, Jorge L. Pérez‐Emán, Curtis W. Burney, Xiaoou Xie, Michael Harvey, Brant C. Faircloth, Travis C. Glenn, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Jesse Prejean, Samantha Fields, Robb T. Brumfield Hit paper breakdown →	2014	441
4	Ultraconserved elements are novel phylogenomic markers that resolve placental mammal phylogeny when combined with species-tree analysis Genome Research ·John E. McCormack, Brant C. Faircloth, Nicholas G. Crawford, Patricia Adair Gowaty, Robb T. Brumfield, Travis C. Glenn	2011	294
5	Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: A valuable paradigm for phylogenomics Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Scott V. Edwards, Zhenxiang Xi, Axel Janke, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. McCormack, Travis C. Glenn, B. Zhong, Shaoyuan Wu, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Adam D. Leaché, Liang Liu, Charles C. Davis	2015	276
6	A Phylogeny of Birds Based on Over 1,500 Loci Collected by Target Enrichment and High-Throughput Sequencing PLoS ONE ·John E. McCormack, Michael Harvey, Brant C. Faircloth, Nicholas G. Crawford, Travis C. Glenn, Robb T. Brumfield	2013	268
7	More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs Biology Letters ·Nicholas G. Crawford, Brant C. Faircloth, John E. McCormack, Robb T. Brumfield, Kevin Winker, Travis C. Glenn	2012	267
8	DOES NICHE DIVERGENCE ACCOMPANY ALLOPATRIC DIVERGENCE INAPHELOCOMAJAYS AS PREDICTED UNDER ECOLOGICAL SPECIATION?: INSIGHTS FROM TESTS WITH NICHE MODELS Evolution ·John E. McCormack, Amanda J. Zellmer, L. Lacey Knowles	2009	250
9	CALIBRATING DIVERGENCE TIMES ON SPECIES TREES VERSUS GENE TREES: IMPLICATIONS FOR SPECIATION HISTORY OF APHELOCOMA JAYS Evolution ·John E. McCormack, Joseph Heled, Kathleen Semple Delaney, A. Townsend Peterson, L. Lacey Knowles	2010	233
10	Sequence capture of ultraconserved elements from bird museum specimens Molecular Ecology Resources ·John E. McCormack, Whitney L. E. Tsai, Brant C. Faircloth	2015	191
11	Recent postglacial range expansion drives the rapid diversification of a songbird lineage in the genusJunco Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Borja Milá, John E. McCormack, Gabriela Castañeda, Robert K. Wayne, Thomas B. Smith	2007	138
12	High phylogenetic utility of an ultraconserved element probe set designed for Arachnida Molecular Ecology Resources ·James Starrett, Shahan Derkarabetian, Marshal Hedin, Robert W. Bryson, John E. McCormack, Brant C. Faircloth	2016	111
13	Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Species Trees: How Accuracy of Phylogenetic Inference Depends upon the Divergence History and Sampling Design Systematic Biology ·John E. McCormack, Huateng Huang, L. Lacey Knowles	2009	105
14	Speciation in the highlands of Mexico: genetic and phenotypic divergence in the Mexican jay (Aphelocoma ultramarina) Molecular Ecology ·John E. McCormack, A. Townsend Peterson, Elisa Bonaccorso, Thomas B. Smith	2008	96
15	Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos BMC Biology ·John E. McCormack, Bonnie S. Bowen, Thomas B. Smith	2008	73
16	Landscape genetics of California mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus): the roles of ecological and historical factors in generating differentiation Molecular Ecology ·Katherine Pease, Adam H. Freedman, John P. Pollinger, John E. McCormack, Wolfgang Buermann, Jeff Rodzen, Jim Banks, Erin P. Meredith, Vernon C. Bleich, Robert Schaefer, K. Jones, Robert K. Wayne	2009	71
17	Next-generation sequencing reveals phylogeographic structure and a species tree for recent bird divergences Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·John E. McCormack, James M. Maley, Sarah M. Hird, Elizabeth P. Derryberry, Gary R. Graves, Robb T. Brumfield	2011	71
18	Genomic approaches to understanding population divergence and speciation in birds The Auk ·David P. L. Toews, Leonardo Campagna, Scott A. Taylor, Christopher N. Balakrishnan, Daniel T. Baldassarre, Petra E. Deane‐Coe, Michael Harvey, Daniel M. Hooper, Darren E. Irwin, Caroline Duffie Judy, Nicholas A. Mason, John E. McCormack, Kevin G. McCracken, Carl H. Oliveros, Rebecca J. Safran, Elizabeth S. C. Scordato, Katherine Faust Stryjewski, Anna Tigano, J. Albert C. Uy, Benjamin M. Winger	2015	63
19	The gut of the finch: uniqueness of the gut microbiome of the Galápagos vampire finch Microbiome ·Alice Michel, Lewis M. Ward, Shana K. Goffredi, Katherine S. Dawson, Daniel T. Baldassarre, Alec R. Brenner, Kiyoko M. Gotanda, John E. McCormack, Sean W. Mullin, Ariel O’Neill, Gabrielle S. Tender, J. Albert C. Uy, Kristie B. Yu, Victoria J. Orphan, Jaime A. Chaves	2018	61
20	More than skin and bones: Comparing extraction methods and alternative sources of DNA from avian museum specimens Molecular Ecology Resources ·Whitney L. E. Tsai, Margaret E. Schedl, James M. Maley, John E. McCormack	2019	61

About John E. McCormack

John E. McCormack is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Ecological Modeling, having authored 89 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (25 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers), Plant and animal studies (17 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (11 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (992 citations), Paleontology (973 citations), Genetics (3.1k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.7k citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (873 citations). John E. McCormack has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Brazil. Frequent co-authors include Brant C. Faircloth, Robb T. Brumfield, Travis C. Glenn, Nicholas G. Crawford, Michael Harvey, Amanda J. Zellmer, L. Lacey Knowles, Sarah M. Hird, Whitney L. E. Tsai and Thomas B. Smith. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, The Auk, Molecular Ecology, Molecular Ecology Resources and Evolution.

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