José Cerca

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 665 citations indexed

About

José Cerca is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, José Cerca has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 665 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in José Cerca's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). José Cerca is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). José Cerca collaborates with scholars based in Norway, United States and Sweden. José Cerca's co-authors include Torsten H. Struck, Dimitar Dimitrov, Michael Nowak, Karl‐Henrik Larsson, Brita Stedje, Siri Birkeland, Lee Hsiang Liow, Günter Purschke, Sonja Kistenich and Jeffrey L. Feder and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Scientific Reports and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

José Cerca

21 papers receiving 661 citations

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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.

Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species

2017 371 citations Torsten H. Struck, Jeffrey L. Feder et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
José Cerca Norway	10	242	235	222	180	128	25	665
Gemma E. Beatty United Kingdom	16	237 1.0×	283 1.2×	257 1.2×	158 0.9×	99 0.8×	28	736
Siri Birkeland Norway	8	217 0.9×	216 0.9×	164 0.7×	157 0.9×	79 0.6×	14	588
Marina Rafajlović Sweden	14	218 0.9×	667 2.8×	235 1.1×	236 1.3×	108 0.8×	30	925
Cuong Q. Tang United Kingdom	10	210 0.9×	224 1.0×	573 2.6×	377 2.1×	96 0.8×	13	923
Sonja Kistenich Norway	7	246 1.0×	138 0.6×	139 0.6×	110 0.6×	76 0.6×	11	496
Martina Podnar Croatia	13	138 0.6×	303 1.3×	291 1.3×	163 0.9×	187 1.5×	37	694
Josephine R. Paris United Kingdom	11	159 0.7×	456 1.9×	235 1.1×	233 1.3×	104 0.8×	28	784
Sean Stankowski United Kingdom	17	315 1.3×	508 2.2×	261 1.2×	199 1.1×	83 0.6×	38	868
Josefin Stiller United States	14	117 0.5×	207 0.9×	223 1.0×	202 1.1×	71 0.6×	31	637
Mari Kekkonen Finland	5	199 0.8×	236 1.0×	157 0.7×	182 1.0×	53 0.4×	8	528

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Cerca

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Tørresen, Ole K., Clément Goubert, Helle Tessand Baalsrud, et al.. (2025). Chromosomal Inversions Mediated by Tandem Insertions of Transposable Elements. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(8). 1 indexed citations

Jenike, Katharine M., et al.. (2025). k-mer approaches for biodiversity genomics. Genome Research. 35(2). 219–230. 2 indexed citations

Cerca, José, Mark Ravinet, Ian Bradbury, et al.. (2025). Reference genome bias in light of species-specific chromosomal reorganization and translocations. Genome biology. 26(1). 355–355.

Tørresen, Ole K., et al.. (2025). Pangenomes as a framework for adaptive radiation, speciation, and adaptation. American Journal of Botany. 112(12). e70130–e70130.

Charvet, Patrícia, Vicente Vieira Faria, Alexandre Luis Padovan Aleixo, et al.. (2025). Geographical variation in mitogenomes of the largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis: Challenges and perspectives for conservation efforts. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03757–e03757. 1 indexed citations

Cerca, José, et al.. (2025). Population genomics of the invasive blackberry (Rubus niveus) in the Galapagos Islands. Global Ecology and Conservation. 62. e03732–e03732.

Cerca, José, George Pacheco, Glenn‐Peter Sætre, et al.. (2024). Understanding human-commensalism through an ecological and evolutionary framework. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(2). 159–169. 1 indexed citations

Zapata, Felipe, José Cerca, Claudia L. Henriquez, et al.. (2024). Darwin’s overlooked radiation: genomic evidence points to the early stages of a radiation in the Galápagos prickly pear cactus ( Opuntia : Cactaceae). 3(1).

Goubert, Clément, et al.. (2024). Consistent accumulation of transposable elements in species of the Hawaiian Tetragnatha spiny-leg adaptive radiation across the archipelago chronosequence. 3(1). 5 indexed citations

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Ålund, Murielle, Janette W. Boughman, José Cerca, et al.. (2023). Anthropogenic Change and the Process of Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 15(12). a041455–a041455. 9 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, Darko D. Cotoras, Vanessa C. Bieker, et al.. (2023). Multiple paths toward repeated phenotypic evolution in the spiny‐leg adaptive radiation ( Tetragnatha ; Hawai'i). Molecular Ecology. 32(18). 4971–4985. 6 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, Michael V. Westbury, Mads Peter Heide‐Jørgensen, et al.. (2022). High genomic diversity in the endangered East Greenland Svalbard Barents Sea stock of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6118–6118. 5 indexed citations

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Radashevsky, Vasily I., et al.. (2021). A review of the worldwide distribution of Marenzelleria viridis, with new records for M. viridis, M. neglecta and Marenzelleria sp. (Annelida: Spionidae). Zootaxa. 5081(3). 353–372. 4 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, Angel G. Rivera‐Colón, Mafalda S. Ferreira, et al.. (2021). Incomplete lineage sorting and ancient admixture, and speciation without morphological change in ghost-worm cryptic species. PeerJ. 9. e10896–e10896. 18 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, et al.. (2021). Removing the bad apples: A simple bioinformatic method to improve loci‐recovery in de novo RADseq data for non‐model organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). 805–817. 40 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, Bob B. M. Wong, Topi K. Lehtonen, et al.. (2021). Pervasive admixture and the spread of a large‐lipped form in a cichlid fish radiation. Molecular Ecology. 30(21). 5551–5571. 8 indexed citations

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Cerca, José, et al.. (2019). Delimitation of cryptic species drastically reduces the geographical ranges of marine interstitial ghost-worms (Stygocapitella; Annelida, Sedentaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 143. 106663–106663. 31 indexed citations

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Struck, Torsten H., Jeffrey L. Feder, Mika Bendiksby, et al.. (2017). Finding Evolutionary Processes Hidden in Cryptic Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 33(3). 153–163. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Castro, Sílvia, et al.. (2014). The effects of achene type and germination time on plant performance in the heterocarpic Anacyclus clavatus (Asteraceae). American Journal of Botany. 101(5). 892–898. 15 indexed citations

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Loureiro, João, et al.. (2013). Genome size variation and polyploidy incidence in the alpine flora from Spain. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid. 70(1). 39–47. 19 indexed citations

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