John Novembre

26.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
85 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

John Novembre is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Novembre has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Genetics, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in John Novembre's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (31 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (27 papers). John Novembre is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (31 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (27 papers). John Novembre collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. John Novembre's co-authors include Kenneth Lange, David H. Alexander, Matthew Stephens, Desislava Petkova, Alison P. Galvani, Adam R. Boyko, Carlos D. Bustamante, Anna Di Rienzo, Matthew R. Nelson and Graham Coop and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

John Novembre

84 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals

2009 5.6k citations David H. Alexander, John Novembre et al. Genome Research profile →
Genes mirror geography within Europe

2008 887 citations John Novembre, Adam R. Boyko et al. profile →
Signals of recent positive selection in a worldwide sample of human populations

2009 535 citations Joseph K. Pickrell, Graham Coop et al. Genome Research profile →
Visualizing spatial population structure with estimated effective migration surfaces

2015 392 citations John Novembre, Matthew Stephens et al. Nature Genetics profile →
Circuit‐theory applications to connectivity science and conservation

2018 287 citations Brett G. Dickson, Christine M. Albano et al. Conservation Biology profile →
Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society

2022 105 citations Anna Di Rienzo, John Novembre et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Novembre United States	41	8.3k	2.8k	1.6k	1.5k	830	85	11.9k
Anders Albrechtsen Denmark	39	5.5k 0.7×	3.2k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	910 0.6×	641 0.8×	118	8.7k
David H. Alexander United States	8	5.4k 0.7×	4.2k 1.5×	1.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.5×	745 0.9×	10	10.7k
Graham Coop United States	46	7.3k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	870 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	1000 1.2×	84	10.1k
Melissa J. Hubisz United States	33	6.7k 0.8×	4.9k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	37	10.9k
Anna Di Rienzo United States	48	5.4k 0.6×	3.2k 1.2×	798 0.5×	622 0.4×	506 0.6×	118	9.4k
Adam Auton United States	24	11.0k 1.3×	7.9k 2.8×	1.5k 0.9×	3.8k 2.5×	1.3k 1.6×	34	19.4k
Oliver A. Ryder United States	51	6.1k 0.7×	5.4k 1.9×	2.8k 1.7×	2.5k 1.7×	1.6k 2.0×	233	13.0k
Richard R. Hudson United States	42	7.5k 0.9×	4.7k 1.7×	1.4k 0.8×	2.7k 1.8×	1.4k 1.7×	62	12.2k
Cornelis A. Albers Netherlands	14	6.0k 0.7×	4.2k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	2.9k 1.9×	1.2k 1.4×	19	10.8k
Ryk Ward United States	46	7.9k 1.0×	4.0k 1.4×	919 0.6×	749 0.5×	354 0.4×	79	14.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Novembre

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Rice, Daniel P., et al.. (2025). Detecting deviations from Kingman coalescence using 2-site frequency spectra. Genetics. 229(4).

Cotter, Daniel J., E. Hofgard, John Novembre, Zachary A. Szpiech, & Noah A. Rosenberg. (2023). A rarefaction approach for measuring population differences in rare and common variation. Genetics. 224(2). 1 indexed citations

Skeen, Heather R., David E. Willard, Andrew W. Jones, et al.. (2023). Intestinal microbiota of Nearctic‐Neotropical migratory birds vary more over seasons and years than between host species. Molecular Ecology. 32(12). 3290–3307. 11 indexed citations

Vecchyo, Diego Ortega‐Del, Kirk E. Lohmueller, & John Novembre. (2022). Haplotype-based inference of the distribution of fitness effects. Genetics. 220(4). 3 indexed citations

Biddanda, Arjun, Matthias Steinrücken, & John Novembre. (2022). Properties of 2-locus genealogies and linkage disequilibrium in temporally structured samples. Genetics. 221(1). 3 indexed citations

Petr, Martin, et al.. (2022). Modeling the spatiotemporal spread of beneficial alleles using ancient genomes. eLife. 11. 8 indexed citations

Marcus, Joseph, et al.. (2021). Fast and flexible estimation of effective migration surfaces. eLife. 10. 43 indexed citations

Biddanda, Arjun, Daniel P. Rice, & John Novembre. (2020). A variant-centric perspective on geographic patterns of human allele frequency variation. eLife. 9. 37 indexed citations

Jeong, Choongwon, David Witonsky, Buddha Basnyat, et al.. (2018). Detecting past and ongoing natural selection among ethnically Tibetan women at high altitude in Nepal. PLoS Genetics. 14(9). e1007650–e1007650. 47 indexed citations

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Al-Asadi, Hussein, Kushal K. Dey, John Novembre, & Matthew Stephens. (2018). Inference and visualization of DNA damage patterns using a grade of membership model. Bioinformatics. 35(8). 1292–1298. 4 indexed citations

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Smith, Joel, Graham Coop, Matthew Stephens, & John Novembre. (2018). Estimating Time to the Common Ancestor for a Beneficial Allele. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(4). 1003–1017. 37 indexed citations

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Dickson, Brett G., Christine M. Albano, Ranjan Anantharaman, et al.. (2018). Circuit‐theory applications to connectivity science and conservation. Conservation Biology. 33(2). 239–249. 287 indexed citations breakdown →

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Serres‐Armero, Aitor, Inna Povolotskaya, Javier Quilez, et al.. (2017). Similar genomic proportions of copy number variation within gray wolves and modern dog breeds inferred from whole genome sequencing. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 977–977. 20 indexed citations

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Marcus, Joseph & John Novembre. (2016). Visualizing the geography of genetic variants. Bioinformatics. 33(4). 594–595. 68 indexed citations

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Kessner, Darren & John Novembre. (2015). Power Analysis of Artificial Selection Experiments Using Efficient Whole Genome Simulation of Quantitative Traits. Genetics. 199(4). 991–1005. 37 indexed citations

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Yang, Wen-Yun, Alexander Platt, Charleston W. K. Chiang, et al.. (2014). Spatial Localization of Recent Ancestors for Admixed Individuals. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 4(12). 2505–2518. 12 indexed citations

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Yang, Wen-Yun, John Novembre, Eleazar Eskin, & Eran Halperin. (2012). A model-based approach for analysis of spatial structure in genetic data. Nature Genetics. 44(6). 725–731. 98 indexed citations

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Novembre, John & Anna Di Rienzo. (2009). Spatial patterns of variation due to natural selection in humans. Nature Reviews Genetics. 10(11). 745–755. 152 indexed citations

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Alexander, David H., John Novembre, & Kenneth Lange. (2009). Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals. Genome Research. 19(9). 1655–1664. 5635 indexed citations breakdown →

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Coop, Graham, Joseph K. Pickrell, John Novembre, et al.. (2009). The Role of Geography in Human Adaptation. PLoS Genetics. 5(6). e1000500–e1000500. 293 indexed citations

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