John K. Kelly

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

John K. Kelly is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John K. Kelly has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Genetics, 64 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 40 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John K. Kelly's work include Plant and animal studies (56 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (53 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (26 papers). John K. Kelly is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (56 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (53 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (26 papers). John K. Kelly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Portugal and Canada. John K. Kelly's co-authors include John H. Willis, Sarah Ann Bodbyl-Roels, Julius P. Mojica, Paul M. Magwene, Patrick J. Monnahan, Susan Kalisz, Mohamed A. F. Noor, Lynda F. Delph, Joy Ward and H. S. Arathi and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

John K. Kelly

119 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Plant mating systems in a changing world 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Plant mating systems in a changing world
    2009 479 citations John K. Kelly et al. profile →

Peers

John K. Kelly
Thomas Bataillon Denmark
Carlos A. Machado United States
Asher D. Cutter Canada
John R. Pannell Switzerland
John H. Willis United States
Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos Australia
Virginie Ravigné France
Armando Caballero Spain
Michael L. Arnold United States
Sylvain Glémin France
Thomas Bataillon Denmark
John K. Kelly
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Fields of papers citing papers by John K. Kelly

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John K. Kelly

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Veltsos, Paris & John K. Kelly. (2024). The quantitative genetics of gene expression in Mimulus guttatus. PLoS Genetics. 20(4). e1011072–e1011072. 1 indexed citations
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Kelly, John K., et al.. (2024). Experimental evolution suggests rapid assembly of the ‘selfing syndrome’ from standing variation in Mimulus guttatus. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1378568–1378568.
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Veltsos, Paris, et al.. (2024). Testing the evolutionary theory of inversion polymorphisms in the yellow monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus). Nature Communications. 15(1). 10397–10397. 2 indexed citations
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Macdonald, Stuart J., et al.. (2023). The genetic basis of adaptation to copper pollution in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1144221–1144221. 5 indexed citations
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Kelly, John K.. (2022). The genomic scale of fluctuating selection in a natural plant population. Evolution Letters. 6(6). 506–521. 12 indexed citations
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Monnahan, Patrick J., Jack M. Colicchio, Lila Fishman, Stuart J. Macdonald, & John K. Kelly. (2021). Predicting evolutionary change at the DNA level in a natural Mimulus population. PLoS Genetics. 17(1). e1008945–e1008945. 9 indexed citations
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Kelly, John K., et al.. (2019). Severe inbreeding depression is predicted by the “rare allele load” inMimulus guttatus*. Evolution. 74(3). 587–596. 20 indexed citations
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Puzey, Joshua R., et al.. (2018). Selective trade-offs maintain alleles underpinning complex trait variation in plants. Science. 361(6401). 475–478. 87 indexed citations
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Nelson, Thomas C., et al.. (2018). Extreme copy number variation at a tRNA ligase gene affecting phenology and fitness in yellow monkeyflowers. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1460–1475. 24 indexed citations
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Monnahan, Patrick J. & John K. Kelly. (2017). The Genomic Architecture of Flowering Time Varies Across Space and Time in Mimulus guttatus. Genetics. 206(3). 1621–1635. 24 indexed citations
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Delph, Lynda F. & John K. Kelly. (2013). On the importance of balancing selection in plants. New Phytologist. 201(1). 45–56. 127 indexed citations
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McLeod, David S., John K. Kelly, & Anthony J. Barley. (2012). «Same-Same but Different»: Another New Species of the Limnonectes kuhlii Complex from Thailand (Anura: Dicroglossidae). Russian Journal of Herpetology. 19(3). 261–274. 10 indexed citations
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Monnahan, Patrick J., et al.. (2012). A Bayesian method for the joint estimation of outcrossing rate and inbreeding depression. Heredity. 109(6). 393–400. 29 indexed citations
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Kelly, John K. & Julius P. Mojica. (2011). Interactions Among Flower-Size QTL of Mimulus guttatus Are Abundant but Highly Variable in Nature. Genetics. 189(4). 1461–1471. 20 indexed citations
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Storz, Jay F., Amy M. Runck, Stephen J. Sabatino, et al.. (2009). Evolutionary and functional insights into the mechanism underlying high-altitude adaptation of deer mouse hemoglobin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(34). 14450–14455. 170 indexed citations
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Storz, Jay F. & John K. Kelly. (2008). Effects of Spatially Varying Selection on Nucleotide Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium: Insights From Deer Mouse Globin Genes. Genetics. 180(1). 367–379. 63 indexed citations
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Kelly, John K.. (1999). RESPONSE TO SELECTION IN PARTIALLY SELF-FERTILIZING POPULATIONS. II. SELECTION ON MULTIPLE TRAITS. Evolution. 53(2). 350–357. 51 indexed citations
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Koske, R. E., et al.. (1996). Effects of sea water on spore germination of a sand-dune-inhabiting arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus. Mycologia. 88(6). 947–950. 15 indexed citations
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Davey, Helen W., John K. Kelly, & Alan G. Wildeman. (1995). The Nucleotide Sequence, Structure, and Preliminary Studies on the Transcriptional Regulation of the Bovine α Skeletal Actin Gene. DNA and Cell Biology. 14(7). 609–618. 13 indexed citations

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