Kwaku Aduse‐Poku

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 580 citations indexed

About

Kwaku Aduse‐Poku is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 580 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Kwaku Aduse‐Poku's work include Plant and animal studies (21 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (17 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Kwaku Aduse‐Poku is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (21 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (17 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Kwaku Aduse‐Poku collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Kwaku Aduse‐Poku's co-authors include Niklas Wahlberg, Oskar Brattström, Paul M. Brakefield, David J. Lohman, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, Roger Vila, Andrew Warren, Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Akito Y. Kawahara and Rod Eastwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Kwaku Aduse‐Poku

23 papers receiving 560 citations

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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.

A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

2018 235 citations Marianne Espeland, Jesse W. Breinholt et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kwaku Aduse‐Poku United States	12	421	401	134	91	86	24	580
Nicolas Chazot Sweden	12	364 0.9×	282 0.7×	152 1.1×	98 1.1×	66 0.8×	22	515
Rod Eastwood Australia	10	431 1.0×	416 1.0×	104 0.8×	84 0.9×	83 1.0×	25	582
Evgueni V. Zakharov United States	7	451 1.1×	481 1.2×	77 0.6×	107 1.2×	128 1.5×	12	637
Nitish Narula United States	7	476 1.1×	534 1.3×	69 0.5×	97 1.1×	41 0.5×	7	640
Arne W. Lehmann Germany	19	606 1.4×	302 0.8×	120 0.9×	63 0.7×	30 0.3×	35	672
Elisabet Weingartner Sweden	7	329 0.8×	380 0.9×	81 0.6×	111 1.2×	75 0.9×	7	482
Oskar Brattström United Kingdom	17	418 1.0×	366 0.9×	132 1.0×	115 1.3×	71 0.8×	42	697
Neil Rosser United Kingdom	13	464 1.1×	385 1.0×	115 0.9×	70 0.8×	37 0.4×	23	605
Zach Gompert United States	9	266 0.6×	473 1.2×	96 0.7×	44 0.5×	126 1.5×	14	662
Maria Heikkilä Finland	10	462 1.1×	498 1.2×	66 0.5×	133 1.5×	88 1.0×	23	616

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Goldstein, Paul Z., Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, Jérôme Barbut, et al.. (2024). Habitat opening fostered diversity: impact of dispersal and habitat‐shifts in the evolutionary history of a speciose afrotropical insect group. Ecography. 2024(8). 1 indexed citations

Espeland, Marianne, Szabolcs Sáfián, James W. Coleman, et al.. (2023). Phylogeny of the Poritiinae (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), butterflies with ant associations and unusual lichenivorous diets. Systematic Entomology. 48(3). 422–433.

Tseng, Hui‐Yun, et al.. (2022). Out of Asia: Intercontinental dispersals after the Eocene-Oligocene transition shaped the zoogeography of Limenitidinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 170. 107444–107444. 9 indexed citations

Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, Erik van Bergen, Szabolcs Sáfián, et al.. (2021). Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification inBicyclus, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies. Systematic Biology. 71(3). 570–588. 17 indexed citations

Brattström, Oskar, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, Erik van Bergen, Vernon French, & Paul M. Brakefield. (2020). A release from developmental bias accelerates morphological diversification in butterfly eyespots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(44). 27474–27480. 13 indexed citations

Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, et al.. (2020). Systematics and evolution of the African butterfly genus Mylothris (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 43. 1–14. 4 indexed citations

Ma, Li‐Jun, Yuan Zhang, David J. Lohman, et al.. (2020). A phylogenomic tree inferred with an inexpensive PCR ‐generated probe kit resolves higher‐level relationships among Neptis butterflies (Nymphalidae: Limenitidinae). Systematic Entomology. 45(4). 924–934. 10 indexed citations

Molleman, Freerk, Juhan Javoiš, Robert Β. Davis, et al.. (2019). Quantifying the effects of species traits on predation risk in nature: A comparative study of butterfly wing damage. Journal of Animal Ecology. 89(3). 716–729. 11 indexed citations

Lohman, David J., Niklas Wahlberg, Chris Müller, et al.. (2018). Evolution of Hypolimnas butterflies (Nymphalidae): Out-of-Africa origin and Wolbachia-mediated introgression. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 123. 50–58. 24 indexed citations

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Espeland, Marianne, Jesse W. Breinholt, Keith R. Willmott, et al.. (2018). A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies. Current Biology. 28(5). 770–778.e5. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, Freerk Molleman, William Oduro, et al.. (2017). Relative contribution of neutral and deterministic processes in shaping fruit‐feeding butterfly assemblages in Afrotropical forests. Ecology and Evolution. 8(1). 296–308. 8 indexed citations

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Bergen, Erik van, et al.. (2017). Conserved patterns of integrated developmental plasticity in a group of polyphenic tropical butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 59–59. 43 indexed citations

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, Paul M. Brakefield, Niklas Wahlberg, & Oskar Brattström. (2016). Expanded molecular phylogeny of the genusBicyclus(Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) shows the importance of increased sampling for detecting semi-cryptic species and highlights potentials for future studies. Systematics and Biodiversity. 15(2). 115–130. 14 indexed citations

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Brattström, Oskar, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, Steve C. Collins, & Paul M. Brakefield. (2015). Revision of the Bicyclus ignobilis species-group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa. 4018(1). 57–79. 4 indexed citations

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, Oskar Brattström, Ullasa Kodandaramaiah, et al.. (2015). Systematics and historical biogeography of the old world butterfly subtribe Mycalesina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 167–167. 38 indexed citations

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, William Oduro, Samuel Oppong, et al.. (2012). Spatial and temporal variation in butterfly biodiversity in a West African forest: lessons for establishing efficient rapid monitoring programmes. African Journal of Ecology. 50(3). 326–334. 22 indexed citations

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, et al.. (2009). Out-of-Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 53(2). 463–478. 64 indexed citations

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Larsen, Torben Bjerregaard, Kwaku Aduse‐Poku, & Szabolcs Sáfián. (2009). The Butterflies of Boabeng-Fiema Monkey Sanctuary — Biodiversity and Extinction in a Forest Fragment in Ghana. African Entomology. 17(2). 131–146. 5 indexed citations

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Oduro, William & Kwaku Aduse‐Poku. (2007). Preliminary assessment of fruit-feeding butterfly communities in the Owabi Wildlife Sanctuary. 17(1). 7 indexed citations

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Aduse‐Poku, Kwaku, et al.. (2003). Improving Rural Livelihoods within the the Context of Sustainable Development: A case Study of the Goaso Forest District. Pure (Coventry University). 4 indexed citations

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