Joshua B. Plotkin

18.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
146 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Joshua B. Plotkin is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua B. Plotkin has authored 146 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Genetics, 53 papers in Molecular Biology and 46 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joshua B. Plotkin's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (57 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (45 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Joshua B. Plotkin is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (57 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (45 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Joshua B. Plotkin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Joshua B. Plotkin's co-authors include Grzegorz Kudla, Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Jonathan Dushoff, Alexander J. Stewart, Andrew W. Murray, David Tollervey, Todd L. Parsons, Premal Shah, Hélène Morlon and Matthew D. Potts and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Joshua B. Plotkin

144 papers receiving 11.4k 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.

Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias

2010 1.1k citations Joshua B. Plotkin, Grzegorz Kudla profile →
Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli

2009 1.1k citations Grzegorz Kudla, Andrew W. Murray et al. Science profile →
The Population Genetics of dN/dS

2008 652 citations Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Joshua B. Plotkin profile →
Evolutionary games with environmental feedbacks

2020 189 citations Joshua B. Plotkin et al. Nature Communications profile →
Strategy evolution on higher-order networks

2024 36 citations Qi Su, Long Wang et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua B. Plotkin

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua B. Plotkin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua B. Plotkin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joshua B. Plotkin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joshua B. Plotkin 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 Joshua B. Plotkin. Joshua B. Plotkin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Unilateral incentive alignment in two-agent stochastic games 2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alex McAvoy, (unknown), Christian Hilbe, Krishnendu Chatterjee, Wolfram Barfuß, Qi Su, Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Joshua B. Plotkin	2
2	The evolution of social behaviors and risk preferences in settings with uncertainty 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Qi Su, Long Wang, Joshua B. Plotkin	6
3	History constrains the evolution of efficient color naming, enabling historical inference 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Colin R. Twomey, David H. Brainard, Joshua B. Plotkin	2
4	Reproductive variance can drive behavioral dynamics 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Qi Su, Long Wang, Joshua B. Plotkin	16
5	Drift as a Driver of Language Change: An Artificial Language Experiment 2022 ·Cognitive Science ·(unknown), Joshua B. Plotkin, Gareth Roberts	2
6	Evolution of cooperation with contextualized behavior 2022 ·Science Advances ·Qi Su, Alex McAvoy, Joshua B. Plotkin	21
7	Adherence to public institutions that foster cooperation 2021 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), Joshua B. Plotkin	26
8	What we talk about when we talk about colors 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Colin R. Twomey, Gareth Roberts, David H. Brainard, Joshua B. Plotkin	20
9	Evolution of cooperation with asymmetric social interactions 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Qi Su, Benjamin Allen, Joshua B. Plotkin	68
10	Prosociality in the economic Dictator Game is associated with less parochialism and greater willingness to vote for intergroup compromise 2020 ·Judgment and Decision Making ·Mohsen Mosleh, Alexander J. Stewart, Joshua B. Plotkin, David G. Rand	1
11	Evolutionary Rescue Through Partly Heritable Phenotypic Variability 2019 ·Genetics ·Oana Carja, Joshua B. Plotkin	19
12	Codon usage influences fitness through RNA toxicity 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), James Brindle, (unknown), Joshua B. Plotkin, Grzegorz Kudla	63
13	Inferring the shape of global epistasis 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jakub Otwinowski, David M. McCandlish, Joshua B. Plotkin	123
14	Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Balanced Polymorphism in Periodic Environments by a Genomic Storage Effect 2016 ·Genetics ·(unknown), Yuseob Kim, Joshua B. Plotkin	22
15	Epistasis and the Dynamics of Reversion in Molecular Evolution 2016 ·Genetics ·David M. McCandlish, Premal Shah, Joshua B. Plotkin	32
16	Immune history shapes specificity of pandemic H1N1 influenza antibody responses 2013 ·The Journal of Experimental Medicine ·Yang Li, (unknown), David Bostick, (unknown), Jonathan J. Madara, Susanne L. Linderman, Qin Liu, Donald M. Carter, Jens Wrammert, Susanna Esposito, Nicola Principi, Joshua B. Plotkin, Ted M. Ross, Rafi Ahmed, Patrick C. Wilson, Scott E. Hensley	132
17	Why Transcription Factor Binding Sites Are Ten Nucleotides Long 2012 ·Genetics ·Alexander J. Stewart, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Joshua B. Plotkin	100
18	Coding-Sequence Determinants of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli breakdown → 2009 ·Science ·Grzegorz Kudla, Andrew W. Murray, David Tollervey, Joshua B. Plotkin	1088
19	The dynamics of adaptation on correlated fitness landscapes 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Gašper Tkačik, Joshua B. Plotkin	84
20	Dynamical resonance can account for seasonality of influenza epidemics 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jonathan Dushoff, Joshua B. Plotkin, Simon A. Levin, David J. D. Earn	278

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