Joseph W. Brown

8.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
37 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Joseph W. Brown is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph W. Brown has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Joseph W. Brown's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers). Joseph W. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (15 papers). Joseph W. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Joseph W. Brown's co-authors include Stephen A. Smith, Joseph F. Walker, Luke J. Harmon, Matthew W. Pennell, Jonathan M. Eastman, David J. Winter, François Michonneau, Ya Yang, Michael J. Moore and Graham J. Slater and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Joseph W. Brown

37 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

2014 753 citations Joseph W. Brown et al. Bioinformatics profile →
BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

2014 710 citations Joseph W. Brown et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

2018 696 citations Stephen A. Smith, Joseph W. Brown American Journal of Botany profile →
Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants

2015 348 citations Stephen A. Smith, Michael J. Moore et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology profile →
rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data

2016 325 citations François Michonneau, Joseph W. Brown et al. Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →
Quartet Sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life

2018 199 citations James B. Pease, Joseph W. Brown et al. American Journal of Botany profile →

Peers

Joseph W. Brown

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Brian C. O’Meara United States

Johan A. A. Nylander Sweden

Andrew L. Hipp United States

Susana Magallón Mexico

Brent D. Mishler United States

Paul B. Frandsen United States

Lyn G. Cook Australia

Dimitar Dimitrov Norway

Beryl B. Simpson United States

Richard H. Ree United States

Brian C. O’Meara United States

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1.6k ×0.8

2.1k ×1.4

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775 ×0.6

1.2k ×1.1

NLC

Citations per year, relative to Joseph W. Brown Joseph W. Brown (= 1×) peers Brian C. O’Meara

Countries citing papers authored by Joseph W. Brown

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph W. Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph W. Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joseph W. Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joseph W. Brown based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Joseph W. Brown. Joseph W. Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Claramunt, Santiago, Catherine Sheard, Joseph W. Brown, et al.. (2025). A new time tree of birds reveals the interplay between dispersal, geographic range size, and diversification. Current Biology. 35(16). 3883–3895.e4. 2 indexed citations

Paradis, Emmanuel, Santiago Claramunt, Joseph W. Brown, & Klaus Schliep. (2022). Confidence intervals in molecular dating by maximum likelihood. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 178. 107652–107652. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen A., Nathanael Walker‐Hale, Joseph F. Walker, & Joseph W. Brown. (2019). Phylogenetic Conflicts, Combinability, and Deep Phylogenomics in Plants. Systematic Biology. 69(3). 579–592. 53 indexed citations

Smith, Stephen A., Joseph W. Brown, & Joseph F. Walker. (2018). So many genes, so little time: A practical approach to divergence-time estimation in the genomic era. PLoS ONE. 13(5). e0197433–e0197433. 175 indexed citations

Pease, James B., Joseph W. Brown, Joseph F. Walker, Cody E. Hinchliff, & Stephen A. Smith. (2018). Quartet Sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life. American Journal of Botany. 105(3). 385–403. 199 indexed citations breakdown →

Smith, Stephen A., Joseph W. Brown, Ya Yang, et al.. (2017). Disparity, diversity, and duplications in the Caryophyllales. New Phytologist. 217(2). 836–854. 54 indexed citations

Brown, Joseph W. & Stephen A. Smith. (2017). The Past Sure is Tense: On Interpreting Phylogenetic Divergence Time Estimates. Systematic Biology. 67(2). 340–353. 66 indexed citations

Brown, Joseph W., Ning Wang, & Stephen A. Smith. (2017). The development of scientific consensus: Analyzing conflict and concordance among avian phylogenies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 116. 69–77. 19 indexed citations

Brown, Joseph W., Joseph F. Walker, & Stephen A. Smith. (2017). Phyx: phylogenetic tools for unix. Bioinformatics. 33(12). 1886–1888. 206 indexed citations

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Michonneau, François, Joseph W. Brown, & David J. Winter. (2016). rotl: an R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 7(12). 1476–1481. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johnson, Jeff, Joseph W. Brown, Jérôme Fuchs, & David P. Mindell. (2016). Multi-locus phylogenetic inference among New World Vultures (Aves: Cathartidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 105. 193–199. 29 indexed citations

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McTavish, Emily Jane, Cody E. Hinchliff, Joseph W. Brown, et al.. (2015). Phylesystem: a git-based data store for community-curated phylogenetic estimates. Bioinformatics. 31(17). 2794–2800. 26 indexed citations

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Stein, Robert W., Joseph W. Brown, & Arne Ø. Mooers. (2015). A molecular genetic time scale demonstrates Cretaceous origins and multiple diversification rate shifts within the order Galliformes (Aves). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 92. 155–164. 45 indexed citations

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Smith, Stephen A., Michael J. Moore, Joseph W. Brown, & Ya Yang. (2015). Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 150–150. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johnson, Jeff, Sandra L. Talbot, George K. Sage, et al.. (2010). The Use of Genetics for the Management of a Recovering Population: Temporal Assessment of Migratory Peregrine Falcons in North America. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e14042–e14042. 19 indexed citations

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Brown, Joseph W. & Peter Shaw. (2008). The Role of the Plant Nucleolus in Pre-mRNA Processing. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 326. 291–311. 23 indexed citations

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Brown, Joseph W., Joshua S. Rest, Jaime García‐Moreno, Michael D. Sorenson, & David P. Mindell. (2008). Strong mitochondrial DNA support for a Cretaceous origin of modern avian lineages. BMC Biology. 6(1). 6–6. 194 indexed citations

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Brown, Joseph W., Peter J. Van Coeverden de Groot, Tim P. Birt, et al.. (2007). Appraisal of the consequences of the DDT‐induced bottleneck on the level and geographic distribution of neutral genetic variation in Canadian peregrine falcons,Falco peregrinus. Molecular Ecology. 16(2). 327–343. 56 indexed citations

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Brown, Joseph W.. (2004). Arabidopsis nucleolar protein database (AtNoPDB). Nucleic Acids Research. 33(Database issue). D633–D636. 58 indexed citations

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Brown, Joseph W.. (2003). Plant snoRNA database. Nucleic Acids Research. 31(1). 432–435. 77 indexed citations

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