Karen E. Sears

3.7k total citations
78 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Karen E. Sears is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Karen E. Sears has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 24 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Karen E. Sears's work include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (24 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (22 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (19 papers). Karen E. Sears is often cited by papers focused on Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (24 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (22 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (19 papers). Karen E. Sears collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Karen E. Sears's co-authors include Lee Niswander, John J. Rasweiler, Richard R. Behringer, Alexa Sadier, E. M. Kelly, John J. Flynn, Nadav Ahituv, Florence Petit, Elizabeth R. Dumont and Stephen J. Rossiter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Karen E. Sears

74 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Karen E. Sears United States 25 712 691 588 425 349 78 1.9k
Laura A. B. Wilson Australia 24 689 1.0× 517 0.7× 289 0.5× 489 1.2× 363 1.0× 83 2.1k
Hideki Endo Japan 23 900 1.3× 243 0.4× 439 0.7× 263 0.6× 700 2.0× 181 1.9k
Frietson Galis Netherlands 29 546 0.8× 682 1.0× 423 0.7× 379 0.9× 627 1.8× 72 2.7k
Nathan M. Young United States 34 946 1.3× 1000 1.4× 345 0.6× 1.2k 2.8× 340 1.0× 63 3.2k
Rebecca L. Young United States 23 220 0.3× 286 0.4× 500 0.9× 226 0.5× 341 1.0× 41 1.4k
Vera Weisbecker Australia 25 1.2k 1.6× 192 0.3× 571 1.0× 555 1.3× 469 1.3× 78 1.8k
Christophe Soligo United Kingdom 20 758 1.1× 167 0.2× 282 0.5× 356 0.8× 247 0.7× 40 1.5k
Daisuke Koyabu Japan 16 494 0.7× 137 0.2× 341 0.6× 217 0.5× 351 1.0× 73 971
Arhat Abzhanov United States 26 576 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 498 0.8× 313 0.7× 351 1.0× 43 2.5k
Lionel Hautier France 27 1.7k 2.4× 214 0.3× 784 1.3× 674 1.6× 793 2.3× 109 2.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen E. Sears

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Poddar, Aunoy, Miguel Turrero Garcίa, Sean de la O, et al.. (2025). Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons. Nature. 647(8088). 187–193.
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Brown, Federico D., Georg Mayer, Natalia Pabón‐Mora, et al.. (2024). Uncovering developmental diversity in the field. Development. 151(20).
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Sears, Karen E., et al.. (2024). Different orthology inference algorithms generate similar predicted orthogroups among Brassicaceae species. Applications in Plant Sciences. 13(1). e11627–e11627.
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Sears, Karen E., et al.. (2024). Establishing a Variant Allele Frequency Cutoff for Manual Curation of Medical Exome Sequencing Data. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 27(1). 36–41. 1 indexed citations
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Sadier, Alexa, Neal Anthwal, Andrew L. Krause, et al.. (2023). Bat teeth illuminate the diversification of mammalian tooth classes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4687–4687. 10 indexed citations
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Anthwal, Neal, Daniel J. Urban, Alexa Sadier, et al.. (2023). Insights into the formation and diversification of a novel chiropteran wing membrane from embryonic development. BMC Biology. 21(1). 101–101. 4 indexed citations
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Anthwal, Neal, Laurel R. Yohe, Brandon P. Hedrick, et al.. (2023). Cochlea development shapes bat sensory system evolution. The Anatomical Record. 309(4). 1061–1072. 1 indexed citations
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Yohe, Laurel R., Matteo Fabbri, Daniela Lee, et al.. (2022). Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats. Evolution. 76(10). 2347–2360. 17 indexed citations
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Sugrue, Victoria J, Joseph A. Zoller, Pritika Narayan, et al.. (2021). Castration delays epigenetic aging and feminizes DNA methylation at androgen-regulated loci. eLife. 10. 42 indexed citations
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Mutumi, Gregory L., Brandon P. Hedrick, Laurel R. Yohe, et al.. (2021). Find the food first: An omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats*. Evolution. 75(11). 2791–2801. 24 indexed citations
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Sadier, Alexa, Karen E. Sears, & Molly C. Womack. (2021). Unraveling the heritage of lost traits. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 338(1-2). 107–118. 17 indexed citations
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Sears, Karen E., et al.. (2021). Developmental influence on evolutionary rates and the origin of placental mammal tooth complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(23). 19 indexed citations
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Sadier, Alexa, et al.. (2021). Non-model systems in mammalian forelimb evo-devo. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 69. 65–71. 8 indexed citations
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Davies, Kalina T. J., Laurel R. Yohe, Elizabeth R. Dumont, et al.. (2020). Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats. Molecular Ecology. 29(10). 1839–1859. 20 indexed citations
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Kavanagh, Kathryn D., C. Scott Bailey, & Karen E. Sears. (2020). Evidence of five digits in embryonic horses and developmental stabilization of tetrapod digit number. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1920). 20192756–20192756. 9 indexed citations
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Yohe, Laurel R., Kalina T. J. Davies, Nancy B. Simmons, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA‐Seq, and degenerate‐primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(1). 140–153. 13 indexed citations
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Sadier, Alexa, Kalina T. J. Davies, Laurel R. Yohe, et al.. (2018). Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats. eLife. 7. 35 indexed citations
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Sears, Karen E., Terence D. Capellini, & Rui Diogo. (2015). On the serial homology of the pectoral and pelvic girdles of tetrapods. Evolution. 69(10). 2543–2555. 32 indexed citations
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Sears, Karen E., et al.. (2007). The correlated evolution of Runx2 tandem repeats and facial length in Carnivora. UCL Discovery (University College London). 5 indexed citations

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