Joseph I. Hoffman

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
168 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Joseph I. Hoffman is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph I. Hoffman has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Ecology, 66 papers in Genetics and 47 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Joseph I. Hoffman's work include Marine animal studies overview (61 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (51 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (29 papers). Joseph I. Hoffman is often cited by papers focused on Marine animal studies overview (61 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (51 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (29 papers). Joseph I. Hoffman collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Joseph I. Hoffman's co-authors include William Amos, Jaume Forcada, S Best, Adrian V. S. Hill, A J Frodsham, William Amos, Hazel J. Nichols, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Philip N. Trathan and Oliver Krüger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Joseph I. Hoffman

161 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Automated binning of microsatellite alleles: problems and solutions

2006 995 citations William Amos, Joseph I. Hoffman et al. profile →
Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates

2023 155 citations Joseph I. Hoffman et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joseph I. Hoffman United Kingdom	39	2.7k	2.5k	1.6k	1.1k	726	168	5.7k
William Amos United Kingdom	36	3.1k 1.1×	3.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	908 1.3×	84	6.4k
Leo Joseph Australia	38	2.8k 1.0×	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	1.5k 2.1×	195	6.3k
Phillip A. Morin United States	42	2.9k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	983 0.6×	2.3k 2.1×	782 1.1×	105	6.7k
Stuart B. Piertney United Kingdom	42	3.0k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	581 0.5×	623 0.9×	132	6.1k
William B. Sherwin Australia	38	2.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	662 0.6×	832 1.1×	92	5.0k
Kevin Winker United States	40	3.5k 1.3×	2.9k 1.1×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.9×	184	8.1k
John Gatesy United States	28	1.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	1.6k 1.5×	693 1.0×	55	4.4k
Ralph Tiedemann Germany	36	2.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	938 0.6×	753 0.7×	963 1.3×	194	4.1k
Rodney L. Honeycutt United States	49	3.0k 1.1×	2.8k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	933 1.3×	162	6.7k
Conrad A. Matthee South Africa	41	2.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	698 1.0×	137	4.7k

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Nichols, Hazel J., et al.. (2025). Sex‐Dependent Influence of Major Histocompatibility Complex Diversity on Fitness in a Social Mammal. Molecular Ecology. 34(18). e70058–e70058.

Soulsbury, Carl D., et al.. (2025). Predicted deleterious mutations reveal the genetic architecture of male reproductive success in a lekking bird. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1924–1937. 2 indexed citations

Hoffman, Joseph I., David L. J. Vendrami, Martin A. Stoffel, et al.. (2024). Genomic and fitness consequences of a near-extinction event in the northern elephant seal. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(12). 2309–2324. 10 indexed citations

Vendrami, David L. J., et al.. (2024). Refinement of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) reference genome increases continuity and completeness. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 14(11). 1 indexed citations

Thomisch, Karolin, et al.. (2024). Characterizing offshore polar ocean soundscapes using ecoacoustic intensity and diversity metrics. Royal Society Open Science. 11(8). 231917–231917. 3 indexed citations

Graiff, Angelika, Matthias Braun, Amelie Driemel, et al.. (2023). Big data in Antarctic sciences – current status, gaps, and future perspectives. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 91. 45–57. 1 indexed citations

Vitikainen, Emma, Harry H. Marshall, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2023). The social formation of fitness: lifetime consequences of prenatal nutrition and postnatal care in a wild mammal population. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1883). 20220309–20220309. 5 indexed citations

Nichols, Hazel J., et al.. (2021). Where are the beachmasters? Unexpectedly weak polygyny among southern elephant seals on a South Shetland Island. Journal of Zoology. 316(2). 104–117. 2 indexed citations

Vendrami, David L. J., Michaël Bekaert, David H. Green, et al.. (2021). Mytilus trossulus introgression and consequences for shell traits in longline cultivated mussels. Evolutionary Applications. 14(7). 1830–1843. 8 indexed citations

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Marshall, Harry H., Rufus A. Johnstone, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2021). A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3717–3717. 8 indexed citations

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Stoffel, Martin A., Karina Acevedo‐Whitehouse, Stefanie Grosser, et al.. (2020). Early sexual dimorphism in the developing gut microbiome of northern elephant seals. Molecular Ecology. 29(11). 2109–2122. 49 indexed citations

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Humble, Emily, A.J. Paijmans, Jaume Forcada, & Joseph I. Hoffman. (2020). An 85K SNP Array Uncovers Inbreeding and Cryptic Relatedness in an Antarctic Fur Seal Breeding Colony. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(8). 2787–2799. 12 indexed citations

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Wells, David A., Michael A. Cant, Faye J. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Extra-group paternity varies with proxies of relatedness in a social mammal with high inbreeding risk. Behavioral Ecology. 32(1). 94–104. 2 indexed citations

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Humble, Emily, Martin A. Stoffel, Caroline Müller, et al.. (2020). Chemical patterns of colony membership and mother-offspring similarity in Antarctic fur seals are reproducible. PeerJ. 8. e10131–e10131. 3 indexed citations

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Humble, Emily, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Álvaro Martínez Barrio, et al.. (2018). RAD Sequencing and a Hybrid Antarctic Fur Seal Genome Assembly Reveal Rapidly Decaying Linkage Disequilibrium, Global Population Structure and Evidence for Inbreeding. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(8). 2709–2722. 23 indexed citations

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Ortega‐Rubio, Alfredo, et al.. (2018). Genotyping by sequencing reveals contrasting patterns of population structure, ecologically mediated divergence, and long‐distance dispersal in North American palms. Ecology and Evolution. 8(11). 5873–5890. 20 indexed citations

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Eberhart‐Phillips, Luke J., Clemens Küpper, Tom E. X. Miller, et al.. (2017). Sex-specific early survival drives adult sex ratio bias in snowy plovers and impacts mating system and population growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(27). E5474–E5481. 69 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Joseph I., Fraser Simpson, Patrice David, et al.. (2014). High-throughput sequencing reveals inbreeding depression in a natural population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(10). 3775–3780. 198 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Larissa Rosa de, Diogo Meyer, Joseph I. Hoffman, et al.. (2005). Absence of genetic bottleneck in hunted and el niño affected populations of south american fur seal, Arctocephalus australis. 1 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Joseph I., Joanne P. Webster, J. Ndamba, & Mark Woolhouse. (1998). Extensive genetic variation revealed within Biomphalaria pfeifferi from one river system in the Zimbabwean highveld. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 92(6). 4 indexed citations

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