Laura Kubatko

7.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Laura Kubatko is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Kubatko has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Genetics, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Laura Kubatko's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (41 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (35 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers). Laura Kubatko is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (41 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (35 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers). Laura Kubatko collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Kenya. Laura Kubatko's co-authors include Julia Chifman, J. H. Degnan, L. Lacey Knowles, Bryan C. Carstens, Meng Chen, Andrea D. Wolfe, Paul D. Blischak, Laura M. Boykin, Lili Yu and Liang Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Laura Kubatko

61 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quartet Inference from SNP Data Under the Coalescent Model

2014 847 citations Julia Chifman, Laura Kubatko Bioinformatics profile →
Inconsistency of Phylogenetic Estimates from Concatenated Data under Coalescence

2007 800 citations Laura Kubatko et al. Systematic Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Kubatko United States	27	2.7k	2.4k	1.2k	1.0k	780	64	4.8k
Jonathan P. Bollback United States	20	2.0k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.4×	957 0.9×	990 1.3×	39	6.0k
Michael P. Cummings United States	43	2.2k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	355 0.5×	92	5.8k
Todd A. Castoe United States	39	2.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	589 0.8×	118	6.0k
Lê Sỹ Vinh Vietnam	15	1.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.4×	534 0.7×	53	7.1k
Mark T. Holder United States	27	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	665 0.6×	730 0.9×	47	4.5k
Gerard Talavera Spain	26	2.1k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	2.2k 1.8×	1.3k 1.3×	382 0.5×	61	6.4k
M. Hasegawa Japan	19	1.9k 0.7×	3.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	696 0.9×	32	5.9k
Diep Thi Hoang Vietnam	6	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	400 0.5×	11	6.4k
Paul B. Frandsen United States	20	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.8×	1.0k 1.0×	526 0.7×	77	5.7k
Jessica Leigh Canada	12	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	810 0.8×	280 0.4×	14	5.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kubatko, Laura, et al.. (2025). The promise of composite likelihood for species-level phylogenomic inference. 4(1).

Kubatko, Laura, Alexander S. Leonard, & Julia Chifman. (2024). Identifiability of speciation times under the multispecies coalescent. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 595. 111927–111927. 1 indexed citations

Swofford, David L., et al.. (2024). Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood. Systematic Biology. 74(1). 53–69. 13 indexed citations

Peng, Jing, David L. Swofford, & Laura Kubatko. (2022). Estimation of speciation times under the multispecies coalescent. Bioinformatics. 38(23). 5182–5190. 7 indexed citations

Chifman, Julia, et al.. (2022). A phylogenetic approach to inferring the order in which mutations arise during cancer progression. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(12). e1010560–e1010560. 3 indexed citations

Kubatko, Laura, et al.. (2020). Consistency of SVDQuartets and Maximum Likelihood for Coalescent-Based Species Tree Estimation. Systematic Biology. 70(1). 33–48. 21 indexed citations

Kubatko, Laura, et al.. (2020). Comparative Performance of Popular Methods for Hybrid Detection using Genomic Data. Systematic Biology. 70(5). 891–907. 36 indexed citations

Wainaina, James M., Laura Kubatko, Jagger Harvey, et al.. (2019). Evolutionary insights of Bean common mosaic necrosis virus and Cowpea aphid-borne mosaic virus. PeerJ. 7. e6297–e6297. 10 indexed citations

Boykin, Laura M., James M. Wainaina, Susan Seal, et al.. (2018). Review and guide to a future naming system of African Bemisia tabaci species. Systematic Entomology. 43(3). 427–433. 23 indexed citations

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Kubatko, Laura, et al.. (2018). Identifiability and Reconstructibility of Species Phylogenies Under a Modified Coalescent. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 81(2). 408–430. 11 indexed citations

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Blischak, Paul D., Laura Kubatko, & Andrea D. Wolfe. (2017). SNP genotyping and parameter estimation in polyploids using low-coverage sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 34(3). 407–415. 58 indexed citations

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Blischak, Paul D., Laura Kubatko, & Andrea D. Wolfe. (2015). Accounting for genotype uncertainty in the estimation of allele frequencies in autopolyploids. Molecular Ecology Resources. 16(3). 742–754. 27 indexed citations

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Kubatko, Laura, Premal Shah, Radu Herbei, & Michael A. Gilchrist. (2015). A codon model of nucleotide substitution with selection on synonymous codon usage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94. 290–297. 9 indexed citations

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Herbei, Radu & Laura Kubatko. (2013). Monte Carlo estimation of total variation distance of Markov chains on large spaces, with application to phylogenetics. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 12(1). 39–48. 2 indexed citations

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Roos, Christian, Dietmar Zinner, Laura Kubatko, et al.. (2011). Nuclear versus mitochondrial DNA: evidence for hybridization in colobine monkeys. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 77–77. 104 indexed citations

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Boykin, Laura M., Karen Armstrong, Laura Kubatko, & Paul De Barro. (2011). Species Delimitation and Global Biosecurity. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. 8. 1–37. 156 indexed citations

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Kubatko, Laura, et al.. (2011). Estimating species trees using approximate Bayesian computation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 59(2). 354–363. 28 indexed citations

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Knowles, L. Lacey & Laura Kubatko. (2010). Estimating species trees : practical and theoretical aspects. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 116 indexed citations

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Boykin, Laura M., Laura Kubatko, & Timothy K. Lowrey. (2009). Comparison of methods for rooting phylogenetic trees: A case study using Orcuttieae (Poaceae: Chloridoideae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54(3). 687–700. 25 indexed citations

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Efromovich, Sam & Laura Kubatko. (2008). Coalescent Time Distributions in Trees of Arbitrary Size. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 7(1). Article2–Article2. 18 indexed citations

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