Kevin Thornton

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Kevin Thornton is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Thornton has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Genetics, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Kevin Thornton's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Kevin Thornton is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers). Kevin Thornton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Kevin Thornton's co-authors include Peter Andolfatto, Manyuan Long, Esther Betrán, Wen Wang, Jeffrey D. Jensen, Anthony D. Long, Mark Stoneking, Kun Tang, Andrew G. Clark and Julie M. Cridland and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Thornton

55 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The origin of new genes: glimpses from the young and old

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Thornton United States	34	2.9k	1.9k	1.1k	540	332	56	4.4k
Cathy C. Laurie United States	34	3.4k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	807 1.5×	411 1.2×	63	5.3k
Andrew D. Kern United States	30	2.5k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	824 0.7×	447 0.8×	327 1.0×	57	4.7k
Robert Kofler Austria	28	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	641 1.2×	462 1.4×	63	4.4k
Michèle Tixier‐Boichard France	34	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	611 0.5×	329 0.6×	339 1.0×	120	4.8k
Soojin V. Yi United States	37	1.6k 0.6×	2.4k 1.2×	650 0.6×	640 1.2×	568 1.7×	96	4.1k
John F. Y. Brookfield United Kingdom	29	1.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	353 0.7×	385 1.2×	124	3.7k
Kim C. Worley United States	29	1.8k 0.6×	2.5k 1.3×	620 0.6×	325 0.6×	303 0.9×	72	4.1k
Daven C. Presgraves United States	35	3.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 3.0×	645 1.9×	58	4.7k
N. Kaplan United States	21	2.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	868 0.8×	469 0.9×	261 0.8×	33	4.1k
Örjan Carlborg Sweden	39	4.6k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	346 0.6×	110 0.3×	109	6.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Thornton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Thornton

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ragsdale, Aaron P. & Kevin Thornton. (2023). Multiple Sources of Uncertainty Confound Inference of Historical Human Generation Times. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(8). 5 indexed citations

Gower, Graham, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Gertjan Bisschop, et al.. (2022). Demes: a standard format for demographic models. Genetics. 222(3). 22 indexed citations

Ralph, Peter L., Kevin Thornton, & Jerome Kelleher. (2020). Efficiently Summarizing Relationships in Large Samples: A General Duality Between Statistics of Genealogies and Genomes. Genetics. 215(3). 779–797. 49 indexed citations

Thornton, Kevin. (2019). Polygenic Adaptation to an Environmental Shift: Temporal Dynamics of Variation Under Gaussian Stabilizing Selection and Additive Effects on a Single Trait. Genetics. 213(4). 1513–1530. 34 indexed citations

Rogers, Rebekah L., Ling Shao, & Kevin Thornton. (2017). Tandem duplications lead to novel expression patterns through exon shuffling in Drosophila yakuba. PLoS Genetics. 13(5). e1006795–e1006795. 37 indexed citations

Sanjak, Jaleal, Anthony D. Long, & Kevin Thornton. (2017). A Model of Compound Heterozygous, Loss-of-Function Alleles Is Broadly Consistent with Observations from Complex-Disease GWAS Datasets. PLoS Genetics. 13(1). e1006573–e1006573. 19 indexed citations

Rogers, Rebekah L., Julie M. Cridland, Ling Shao, et al.. (2015). Tandem Duplications and the Limits of Natural Selection in Drosophila yakuba and Drosophila simulans. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132184–e0132184. 22 indexed citations

Baldwin-Brown, James G., Anthony D. Long, & Kevin Thornton. (2014). The Power to Detect Quantitative Trait Loci Using Resequenced, Experimentally Evolved Populations of Diploid, Sexual Organisms. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(4). 1040–1055. 65 indexed citations

Thornton, Kevin, et al.. (2013). Properties and Modeling of GWAS when Complex Disease Risk Is Due to Non-Complementing, Deleterious Mutations in Genes of Large Effect. PLoS Genetics. 9(2). e1003258–e1003258. 50 indexed citations

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Hu, Tina T., Michael B. Eisen, Kevin Thornton, & Peter Andolfatto. (2012). A second-generation assembly of the Drosophila simulans genome provides new insights into patterns of lineage-specific divergence. Genome Research. 23(1). 89–98. 116 indexed citations

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Sainudiin, Raazesh, Kevin Thornton, Jennifer Harlow, et al.. (2010). Experiments with the Site Frequency Spectrum. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 73(4). 829–872. 6 indexed citations

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Gilad, Yoav, Jonathan K. Pritchard, & Kevin Thornton. (2009). Characterizing natural variation using next-generation sequencing technologies. Trends in Genetics. 25(10). 463–471. 95 indexed citations

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Jensen, Jeffrey D., Kevin Thornton, & Peter Andolfatto. (2008). An Approximate Bayesian Estimator Suggests Strong, Recurrent Selective Sweeps in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 4(9). e1000198–e1000198. 80 indexed citations

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Tang, Kun, Kevin Thornton, & Mark Stoneking. (2007). A New Approach for Using Genome Scans to Detect Recent Positive Selection in the Human Genome. PLoS Biology. 5(7). e171–e171. 364 indexed citations

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Haddrill, Penelope R., Kevin Thornton, Brian Charlesworth, & Peter Andolfatto. (2005). Multilocus patterns of nucleotide variability and the demographic and selection history of Drosophila melanogaster populations. Genome Research. 15(6). 790–799. 215 indexed citations

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Wilson, Gary M., Stéphane Flibotte, Marco A. Marra, et al.. (2005). Identification by full-coverage array CGH of human DNA copy number increases relative to chimpanzee and gorilla. Genome Research. 16(2). 173–181. 40 indexed citations

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Thornton, Kevin. (2004). Excess of Amino Acid Substitutions Relative to Polymorphism Between X-Linked Duplications in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(2). 273–284. 45 indexed citations

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Thornton, Kevin. (2003). libsequence: a C++ class library for evolutionary genetic analysis. Bioinformatics. 19(17). 2325–2327. 267 indexed citations

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Wang, Wen, Kevin Thornton, Andrew J. Berry, & Manyuan Long. (2002). Nucleotide Variation Along the Drosophila melanogaster Fourth Chromosome. Science. 295(5552). 134–137. 65 indexed citations

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Betrán, Esther, Kevin Thornton, & Manyuan Long. (2002). Retroposed New Genes Out of the X inDrosophila. Genome Research. 12(12). 1854–1859. 69 indexed citations

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