Jon H. Wetton

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Jon H. Wetton is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon H. Wetton has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Genetics, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jon H. Wetton's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (21 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (13 papers). Jon H. Wetton is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (22 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (21 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (13 papers). Jon H. Wetton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Hungary. Jon H. Wetton's co-authors include David T. Parkin, David Walters, Mark A. Jobling, Karsten Neumann, Celia A. May, Pedro J. Cordero, Terry Burke, Erkki Korpimäki, Jürgen Wiehn and Pasi Tolonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jon H. Wetton

45 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Demographic study of a wild house sparrow population by DNA fingerprinting

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jon H. Wetton United Kingdom	21	1.1k	1.0k	898	446	121	47	1.9k
Judith A. Smith United Kingdom	16	941 0.9×	720 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	204 0.5×	153 1.3×	32	2.0k
Arild Husby Sweden	28	750 0.7×	848 0.8×	895 1.0×	461 1.0×	204 1.7×	60	2.0k
Vittorio Baglione Spain	22	771 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	473 0.5×	168 0.4×	127 1.0×	49	1.5k
Lee A. Rollins Australia	23	717 0.7×	644 0.6×	614 0.7×	259 0.6×	151 1.2×	80	1.6k
Stanislav Bureš Czechia	21	961 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	257 0.6×	273 2.3×	35	2.2k
Lewis G. Spurgin United Kingdom	24	695 0.7×	920 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	322 0.7×	150 1.2×	52	2.2k
Thomas Borge Norway	16	690 0.7×	770 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	341 0.8×	190 1.6×	17	1.8k
A. Christa Mateman Netherlands	21	925 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	390 0.4×	165 0.4×	128 1.1×	40	1.6k
Jocelyn Poissant Canada	21	589 0.6×	652 0.6×	1.0k 1.1×	232 0.5×	180 1.5×	54	1.8k
Oddmund Kleven Norway	29	1.4k 1.3×	1.5k 1.5×	658 0.7×	125 0.3×	201 1.7×	95	2.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2025). Evaluating genome-wide and targeted forensic sequencing approaches to kinship determination. Forensic Science International Genetics. 76. 103228–103228. 2 indexed citations

Eales, James, Xiaoguang Xu, Rita Neumann, et al.. (2025). Multiple origins and phenotypic implications of an extended human pseudoautosomal region shown by analysis of the UK Biobank. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 112(4). 927–939.

Jobling, Mark A., et al.. (2025). Rapid on-site universal vertebrate species identification via multi-barcode nanopore sequencing. PLoS ONE. 20(11). e0336383–e0336383.

Neumann, Rita, et al.. (2023). Defining cat mitogenome variation and accounting for numts via multiplex amplification and Nanopore sequencing. Forensic Science International Genetics. 67. 102944–102944. 2 indexed citations

Beasley, Jordan, et al.. (2021). Massively parallel sequencing and capillary electrophoresis of a novel panel of falcon STRs: Concordance with minisatellite DNA profiles from historical wildlife crime. Forensic Science International Genetics. 54. 102550–102550. 3 indexed citations

Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2019). Mitigating the effects of reference sequence bias in single-multiplex massively parallel sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA control region. Forensic Science International Genetics. 40. 9–17. 7 indexed citations

Hallast, Pille, et al.. (2019). Massively parallel sequencing of autosomal STRs and identity-informative SNPs highlights consanguinity in Saudi Arabia. Forensic Science International Genetics. 43. 102164–102164. 27 indexed citations

Ogden, Rob, et al.. (2019). Defining end user requirements for a field-based molecular detection system for wildlife forensic investigations. Forensic Science International. 301. 231–239. 11 indexed citations

Neumann, Rita, et al.. (2018). Recombination hotspots in an extended human pseudoautosomal domain predicted from double-strand break maps and characterized by sperm-based crossover analysis. PLoS Genetics. 14(10). e1007680–e1007680. 7 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2017). Extensive geographical and social structure in the paternal lineages of Saudi Arabia revealed by analysis of 27 Y-STRs. Forensic Science International Genetics. 33. 98–105. 32 indexed citations

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Smith, Lisa L., et al.. (2017). Forensic science and the right to access to justice: Testing the efficacy of self-examination intimate DNA swabs to enhance victim-centred responses to sexual violence in low-resource environments. Science & Justice. 57(5). 331–335. 5 indexed citations

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Jobling, Mark A., et al.. (2016). Application of a mitochondrial DNA control region frequency database for UK domestic cats. Forensic Science International Genetics. 27. 149–155. 4 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2010). Analysis and interpretation of mixed profiles generated by 34 cycle SGM Plus® amplification. Forensic Science International Genetics. 5(5). 376–380. 4 indexed citations

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Dawnay, Nick, Rob Ogden, Jon H. Wetton, Roger S. Thorpe, & Ross McEwing. (2008). Genetic data from 28 STR loci for forensic individual identification and parentage analyses in 6 bird of prey species. Forensic Science International Genetics. 3(2). e63–e69. 30 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2004). An extremely sensitive species-specific ARMs PCR test for the presence of tiger bone DNA. Forensic Science International. 140(1). 139–145. 26 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (2003). Mitochondrial profiling of dog hairs. Forensic Science International. 133(3). 235–241. 48 indexed citations

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Korpimäki, Erkki, Celia A. May, David T. Parkin, Jon H. Wetton, & Jürgen Wiehn. (2000). Environmental‐ and parental condition‐related variation in sex ratio of kestrel broods. Journal of Avian Biology. 31(2). 128–134. 76 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H. & David T. Parkin. (1997). A suite of falcon single‐locus minisatellite probes: a powerful alternative to DNA fingerprinting. Molecular Ecology. 6(2). 119–128. 11 indexed citations

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May, Celia A. & Jon H. Wetton. (1991). DNA fingerprinting by specific priming of concatenated oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research. 19(16). 4557–4557. 2 indexed citations

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Wetton, Jon H., et al.. (1989). Improved gentic fingerprinting using RNA probes. Nucleic Acids Research. 17(14). 5867–5867. 32 indexed citations

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