Kieran Samuk

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 645 citations indexed

About

Kieran Samuk is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kieran Samuk has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 645 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Kieran Samuk's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (6 papers). Kieran Samuk is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (6 papers). Kieran Samuk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Kieran Samuk's co-authors include Katharine L. Korunes, Gregory L. Owens, Dolph Schluter, Sara Miller, Diana J. Rennison, Mohamed A. F. Noor, Kira E. Delmore, Kate L. Ostevik, Leticia Avilés and Loren H. Rieseberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Biology and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Kieran Samuk

17 papers receiving 637 citations

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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.

pixy : Unbiased estimation of nucleotide diversity and divergence in the presence of missing data

2021 307 citations Katharine L. Korunes, Kieran Samuk Molecular Ecology Resources profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kieran Samuk United States	12	432	190	185	154	122	18	645
Katherine C. Teeter United States	9	562 1.3×	141 0.7×	191 1.0×	102 0.7×	151 1.2×	10	710
Stefan Laurent Germany	16	486 1.1×	265 1.4×	240 1.3×	194 1.3×	146 1.2×	33	849
Katya L. Mack United States	12	288 0.7×	249 1.3×	143 0.8×	74 0.5×	188 1.5×	15	654
Daniel L. Powell United States	11	505 1.2×	191 1.0×	156 0.8×	128 0.8×	107 0.9×	18	663
Cortland K. Griswold Canada	15	369 0.9×	148 0.8×	191 1.0×	74 0.5×	194 1.6×	41	642
John M. Mercer United States	8	549 1.3×	205 1.1×	275 1.5×	185 1.2×	206 1.7×	10	920
Petra Dufková Czechia	9	492 1.1×	129 0.7×	196 1.1×	75 0.5×	186 1.5×	14	695
Matthew L. Aardema United States	16	345 0.8×	164 0.9×	306 1.7×	92 0.6×	140 1.1×	40	809
Julia Reger United Kingdom	6	378 0.9×	198 1.0×	141 0.8×	90 0.6×	152 1.2×	6	634
Monica Ruibal Australia	9	353 0.8×	79 0.4×	229 1.2×	110 0.7×	339 2.8×	11	633

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kieran Samuk

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18 of 18 papers shown

Stevison, Laurie S., et al.. (2025). Correcting for Bias in Estimates of θw and Tajima's D From Missing Data in Next‐Generation Sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(6). e14104–e14104.

Samuk, Kieran. (2022). Average nucleotide diversity should be weighted by per‐site sample size. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(2). 355–358. 2 indexed citations

Samuk, Kieran & Mohamed A. F. Noor. (2022). Gene flow biases population genetic inference of recombination rate. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(11). 19 indexed citations

Roesti, Marius, Kimberly J. Gilbert, & Kieran Samuk. (2022). Chromosomal inversions can limit adaptation to new environments. Molecular Ecology. 31(17). 4435–4439. 14 indexed citations

Korunes, Katharine L. & Kieran Samuk. (2021). pixy : Unbiased estimation of nucleotide diversity and divergence in the presence of missing data. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(4). 1359–1368. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

Korunes, Katharine L. & Kieran Samuk. (2021). ksamuk/pixy: pixy 0.95.02. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Ostevik, Kate L., Kieran Samuk, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2020). Ancestral Reconstruction of Karyotypes Reveals an Exceptional Rate of Nonrandom Chromosomal Evolution in Sunflower. Genetics. 214(4). 1031–1045. 24 indexed citations

Samuk, Kieran, et al.. (2020). Natural Selection Shapes Variation in Genome-wide Recombination Rate in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Current Biology. 30(8). 1517–1528.e6. 38 indexed citations

Miller, Sara, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary dynamics of recent selection on cognitive abilities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(6). 3045–3052. 37 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L. & Kieran Samuk. (2019). Adaptive introgression during environmental change can weaken reproductive isolation. Nature Climate Change. 10(1). 58–62. 25 indexed citations

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Rennison, Diana J., Kira E. Delmore, Kieran Samuk, Gregory L. Owens, & Sara Miller. (2019). Shared Patterns of Genome-Wide Differentiation Are More Strongly Predicted by Geography Than by Ecology. The American Naturalist. 195(2). 192–200. 15 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran, et al.. (2018). Exposure to predators does not lead to the evolution of larger brains in experimental populations of threespine stickleback. Evolution. 72(4). 916–929. 19 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran, Gregory L. Owens, Kira E. Delmore, et al.. (2017). Gene flow and selection interact to promote adaptive divergence in regions of low recombination. Molecular Ecology. 26(17). 4378–4390. 90 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran. (2016). The evolutionary genomics of adaptation and speciation in the threespine stickleback. Open Collections. 3 indexed citations

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Miller, Sara, Kieran Samuk, & Diana J. Rennison. (2016). An experimental test of the effect of predation upon behaviour and trait correlations in the threespine stickleback. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119(1). 117–125. 2 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran, et al.. (2014). Reversed brain size sexual dimorphism accompanies loss of parental care in white sticklebacks. Ecology and Evolution. 4(16). 3236–3243. 29 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran & Leticia Avilés. (2013). Indiscriminate care of offspring predates the evolution of sociality in alloparenting social spiders. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 67(8). 1275–1284. 12 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran, et al.. (2011). Sister clade comparisons reveal reduced maternal care behavior in social cobweb spiders. Behavioral Ecology. 23(1). 35–43. 8 indexed citations

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