Joseph Felsenstein

115.7k total citations · 19 hit papers
94 papers, 96.4k citations indexed

About

Joseph Felsenstein is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Felsenstein has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 96.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Joseph Felsenstein's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers). Joseph Felsenstein is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (33 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers). Joseph Felsenstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Mexico. Joseph Felsenstein's co-authors include Peter Beerli, Mary K. Kuhner, Richard C Lewontin, Jon Yamato, Hirohisa Kishino, Arindam RoyChoudhury, David Bryant, Noah A. Rosenberg, Remco Bouckaert and James F. Crow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Joseph Felsenstein

94 papers receiving 92.3k citations

Hit Papers

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYL... 1974 2026 1991 2008 1985 1985 1981 1985 1975 10.0k 20.0k 30.0k
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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. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP
    1985 36.9k citations Joseph Felsenstein Evolution profile →
  2. Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap
    1985 16.6k citations Joseph Felsenstein Evolution profile →
  3. Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach
    1981 12.0k citations Joseph Felsenstein Journal of Molecular Evolution profile →
  4. Phylogenies and the Comparative Method
    1985 8.0k citations Joseph Felsenstein profile →
  5. THE GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE
    1975 2.6k citations Joseph Felsenstein Evolution profile →
  6. Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will be Positively Misleading
    1978 1.9k citations Joseph Felsenstein profile →
  7. PHYLOGENIES FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: INFERENCE AND RELIABILITY
    1988 1.8k citations Joseph Felsenstein Annual Review of Genetics profile →
  8. Maximum likelihood estimation of a migration matrix and effective population sizes innsubpopulations by using a coalescent approach
    2001 1.5k citations Joseph Felsenstein et al. profile →
  9. THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION
    1974 1.2k citations Joseph Felsenstein Genetics profile →
  10. The Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change.
    1975 960 citations Joseph Felsenstein et al. Evolution profile →
  11. Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Migration Rates and Effective Population Numbers in Two Populations Using a Coalescent Approach
    1999 854 citations Joseph Felsenstein et al. Genetics profile →
  12. SKEPTICISM TOWARDS SANTA ROSALIA, OR WHY ARE THERE SO FEW KINDS OF ANIMALS?
    1981 747 citations Joseph Felsenstein Evolution profile →
  13. Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis
    2012 705 citations David Bryant, Remco Bouckaert et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  14. A simulation comparison of phylogeny algorithms under equal and unequal evolutionary rates.
    1994 630 citations Mary K. Kuhner, Joseph Felsenstein Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  15. PHYLOGENIES AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS
    1988 628 citations Joseph Felsenstein profile →
  16. THE THEORETICAL POPULATION GENETICS OF VARIABLE SELECTION AND MIGRATION
    1976 570 citations Joseph Felsenstein Annual Review of Genetics profile →
  17. [24] Inferring phylogenies from protein sequences by parsimony, distance, and likelihood methods
    1996 542 citations Joseph Felsenstein Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →
  18. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Population Growth Rates Based on the Coalescent
    1998 525 citations Mary K. Kuhner, Jon Yamato et al. Genetics profile →
  19. Numerical Methods for Inferring Evolutionary Trees
    1982 506 citations Joseph Felsenstein profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joseph Felsenstein United States 55 44.8k 26.3k 24.2k 21.9k 20.8k 94 96.4k
John P. Huelsenbeck United States 65 35.0k 0.8× 25.8k 1.0× 23.5k 1.0× 21.4k 1.0× 29.2k 1.4× 107 92.9k
M Nei United States 47 67.7k 1.5× 31.5k 1.2× 31.7k 1.3× 42.3k 1.9× 16.0k 0.8× 69 152.8k
Fredrik Ronquist Sweden 55 29.6k 0.7× 21.4k 0.8× 22.2k 0.9× 20.1k 0.9× 29.7k 1.4× 123 85.8k
Masatoshi Nei United States 82 28.4k 0.6× 43.8k 1.7× 16.4k 0.7× 23.2k 1.1× 15.6k 0.8× 199 88.0k
Alexandros Stamatakis Germany 53 28.6k 0.6× 13.6k 0.5× 16.2k 0.7× 15.3k 0.7× 15.9k 0.8× 176 63.3k
Alexei J. Drummond New Zealand 60 21.8k 0.5× 23.4k 0.9× 15.5k 0.6× 10.5k 0.5× 18.9k 0.9× 108 70.3k
Arndt von Haeseler Austria 58 28.4k 0.6× 14.1k 0.5× 13.8k 0.6× 13.2k 0.6× 12.4k 0.6× 192 61.8k
Julie Thompson France 38 74.2k 1.7× 19.6k 0.7× 23.6k 1.0× 34.3k 1.6× 11.7k 0.6× 124 138.9k
David Posada Spain 55 18.9k 0.4× 18.5k 0.7× 15.4k 0.6× 12.5k 0.6× 13.0k 0.6× 164 56.6k
Koichiro Tamura Japan 34 82.5k 1.8× 32.5k 1.2× 41.3k 1.7× 60.9k 2.8× 23.8k 1.1× 76 206.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leaché, Adam D., Barbara L. Banbury, Joseph Felsenstein, Adrián Nieto‐Montes de, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2015). Short Tree, Long Tree, Right Tree, Wrong Tree: New Acquisition Bias Corrections for Inferring SNP Phylogenies. Systematic Biology. 64(6). 1032–1047. 257 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (2014). Covariation of gene frequencies in a stepping-stone lattice of populations. Theoretical Population Biology. 100. 88–97. 1 indexed citations
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Bryant, David, Remco Bouckaert, Joseph Felsenstein, Noah A. Rosenberg, & Arindam RoyChoudhury. (2012). Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(8). 1917–1932. 705 indexed citations breakdown →
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Emery, Leslie S., Joseph Felsenstein, & Joshua M. Akey. (2010). Estimators of the Human Effective Sex Ratio Detect Sex Biases on Different Timescales. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 87(6). 848–856. 37 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (2005). Accuracy of Coalescent Likelihood Estimates: Do We Need More Sites, More Sequences, or More Loci?. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(3). 691–700. 254 indexed citations
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Kuhner, Mary K., Jon Yamato, & Joseph Felsenstein. (2000). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Recombination Rates From Population Data. Genetics. 156(3). 1393–1401. 160 indexed citations
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Kuhner, Mary K. & Joseph Felsenstein. (2000). Sampling among haplotype resolutions in a coalescent-based genealogy sampler. Genetic Epidemiology. 19(S1). S15–S21. 15 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1997). An Alternating Least Squares Approach to Inferring Phylogenies from Pairwise Distances. Systematic Biology. 46(1). 101–111. 231 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1996). [24] Inferring phylogenies from protein sequences by parsimony, distance, and likelihood methods. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 418–427. 542 indexed citations breakdown →
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Felsenstein, Joseph & Hirohisa Kishino. (1993). Is There Something Wrong with the Bootstrap on Phylogenies? A Reply to Hillis and Bull. Systematic Biology. 42(2). 193–193. 34 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1991). Obituary: Allan Charles Wilson (1934–1991). Nature. 353(6339). 19–19. 2 indexed citations
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Kishino, Hirohisa, et al.. (1991). An evolutionary model for maximum likelihood alignment of DNA sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 33(2). 114–124. 292 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1991). Counting phylogenetic invariants in some simple cases. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 152(3). 357–376. 32 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1988). PHYLOGENIES FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: INFERENCE AND RELIABILITY. Annual Review of Genetics. 22(1). 521–565. 1784 indexed citations breakdown →
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1986). DISTANCE METHODS: A REPLY TO FARRIS. Cladistics. 2(2). 130–143. 54 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1985). CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP. Evolution. 39(4). 783–791. 36940 indexed citations breakdown →
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1981). EVOLUTIONARY TREES FROM GENE FREQUENCIES AND QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERS: FINDING MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATES. Evolution. 35(6). 1229–1242. 305 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1981). Skepticism Towards Santa Rosalia, or Why are There so Few Kinds of Animals?. Evolution. 35(1). 124–124. 281 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1979). Isolation by distance: reply to Lalouel and Morton. Annals of Human Genetics. 42(4). 523–527. 3 indexed citations
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Felsenstein, Joseph. (1976). THE THEORETICAL POPULATION GENETICS OF VARIABLE SELECTION AND MIGRATION. Annual Review of Genetics. 10(1). 253–280. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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