John W. Pepper

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

John W. Pepper is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John W. Pepper has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in John W. Pepper's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (16 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). John W. Pepper is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (16 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (13 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (10 papers). John W. Pepper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Canada. John W. Pepper's co-authors include Carlo C. Maley, Lauren M.F. Merlo, Brian J. Reid, Rachel A. Smolker, Richard C. Connor, Andrew F. Richards, Bernd Heinrich, David P. Watts, John C. Mitani and Matthew D. Herron and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature reviews. Cancer and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

John W. Pepper

49 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process

2006 1.1k citations Lauren M.F. Merlo, John W. Pepper et al. Nature reviews. Cancer profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John W. Pepper United States	27	963	883	719	700	643	49	3.3k
Michael Lachmann United States	34	2.1k 2.2×	2.3k 2.6×	528 0.7×	275 0.4×	712 1.1×	72	5.2k
Stuart A. Newman United States	46	998 1.0×	3.2k 3.6×	180 0.3×	217 0.3×	471 0.7×	156	6.2k
Beáta Újvári Australia	39	1.2k 1.2×	841 1.0×	1.2k 1.7×	471 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	193	4.5k
Rodrigo Hamede Australia	27	808 0.8×	379 0.4×	728 1.0×	163 0.2×	278 0.4×	94	2.5k
María del Mar Delgado Spain	37	551 0.6×	498 0.6×	2.6k 3.6×	183 0.3×	1.4k 2.3×	143	4.4k
L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza United States	36	5.5k 5.7×	1.5k 1.7×	391 0.5×	107 0.2×	432 0.7×	72	8.7k
Michael Kopp Austria	27	1.4k 1.4×	193 0.2×	765 1.1×	207 0.3×	1.1k 1.7×	60	2.9k
Aviv Bergman United States	36	1.4k 1.5×	2.7k 3.0×	326 0.5×	347 0.5×	351 0.5×	96	6.2k
Bernd Heinrich United States	59	3.8k 4.0×	941 1.1×	1.8k 2.5×	319 0.5×	6.7k 10.4×	188	10.5k
Molly Przeworski United States	54	7.3k 7.6×	4.8k 5.4×	673 0.9×	427 0.6×	861 1.3×	89	11.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John W. Pepper

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pepper, John W., Cu Nguyen, Yu Fan, et al.. (2021). Molecular Characterization of the Highest Risk Adult Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Through Multi-Omics Clustering. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 777094–777094. 2 indexed citations

Pepper, John W. & Simon Rosenfeld. (2012). The emerging medical ecology of the human gut microbiome. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 27(7). 381–384. 34 indexed citations

Pepper, John W.. (2012). Drugs that target pathogen public goods are robust against evolved drug resistance. Evolutionary Applications. 5(7). 757–761. 35 indexed citations

Sprouffske, Kathleen, John W. Pepper, & Carlo C. Maley. (2011). Accurate Reconstruction of the Temporal Order of Mutations in Neoplastic Progression. Cancer Prevention Research. 4(7). 1135–1144. 45 indexed citations

Driscoll, William W. & John W. Pepper. (2010). THEORY FOR THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFUSIBLE EXTERNAL GOODS. Evolution. 64(9). 2682–2687. 63 indexed citations

Wilson, David Sloan, et al.. (2010). Population structure influences sexual conflict in wild populations of water striders. Behaviour. 147(12). 1615–1631. 17 indexed citations

Merlo, Lauren M.F., et al.. (2010). Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and the Evolution of Cancer. Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 676. 1–13. 20 indexed citations

Pepper, John W., C. Scott Findlay, Rees Kassen, Sabrina L. Spencer, & Carlo C. Maley. (2009). SYNTHESIS: Cancer research meets evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Applications. 2(1). 62–70. 74 indexed citations

Mitteldorf, Josh & John W. Pepper. (2009). Senescence as an adaptation to limit the spread of disease. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 260(2). 186–195. 46 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W.. (2008). DEFEATING PATHOGEN DRUG RESISTANCE: GUIDANCE FROM EVOLUTIONARY THEORY. Evolution. 62(12). 3185–3191. 27 indexed citations

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Jost, Jürgen & John W. Pepper. (2008). Individual optimization efforts and population dynamics: a mathematical model for the evolution of resource allocation strategies, with applications to reproductive and mating systems. Theory in Biosciences. 127(1). 31–43. 4 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W., Kathleen Sprouffske, & Carlo C. Maley. (2007). Animal Cell Differentiation Patterns Suppress Somatic Evolution. PLoS Computational Biology. 3(12). e250–e250. 53 indexed citations

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Mitteldorf, Josh & John W. Pepper. (2007). How can evolutionary theory accommodate recent empirical results on organismal senescence?. Theory in Biosciences. 126(1). 3–8. 12 indexed citations

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Merlo, Lauren M.F., John W. Pepper, Brian J. Reid, & Carlo C. Maley. (2006). Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process. Nature reviews. Cancer. 6(12). 924–935. 1138 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pepper, John W., et al.. (2003). Allometric scaling of ant foraging trail networks. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(2). 297–303. 32 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W.. (2003). The evolution of evolvability in genetic linkage patterns. Biosystems. 69(2-3). 115–126. 52 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W. & Barbara Smuts. (2002). A Mechanism for the Evolution of Altruism among Nonkin: Positive Assortment through Environmental Feedback. The American Naturalist. 160(2). 205–213. 99 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W. & Barbara Smuts. (2001). AGENT-BASED MODELING OF MULTILEVEL SELECTION: THE EVOLUTION OF FEEDING RESTRAINT AS A CASE STUDY. Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University). 8(1). 10. 5 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W.. (2000). Relatedness in Trait Group Models of Social Evolution. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 206(3). 355–368. 121 indexed citations

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Pepper, John W.. (1996). The behavioral ecology of the glossy black-cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 2 indexed citations

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