Lindell Bromham

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
113 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Lindell Bromham is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lindell Bromham has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Genetics, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 39 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Lindell Bromham's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (36 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers). Lindell Bromham is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (36 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers). Lindell Bromham collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Lindell Bromham's co-authors include Xia Hua, David Penny, Marcel Cardillo, John J. Welch, Andrew Rambaut, Robert Lanfear, T. J. Flowers, Hanaa K. Galal, Megan Woolfit and Russell Dinnage and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lindell Bromham

108 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants

2010 469 citations Lindell Bromham et al. profile →
Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success

2016 351 citations Lindell Bromham, Russell Dinnage et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lindell Bromham Australia	45	2.4k	2.3k	1.7k	1.5k	1.4k	113	6.9k
Matthew W. Pennell United States	33	1.8k 0.7×	995 0.4×	1.6k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	986 0.7×	57	4.4k
John Wakeley United States	39	5.1k 2.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	463 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	82	7.0k
Quentin D. Wheeler United States	29	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 0.7×	3.3k 1.9×	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.4×	97	7.1k
Paul O. Lewis United States	32	3.0k 1.2×	3.3k 1.4×	2.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	63	8.4k
Brent C. Emerson United Kingdom	47	3.2k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	3.1k 1.8×	828 0.5×	3.0k 2.2×	170	8.0k
Sean Nee United Kingdom	44	3.6k 1.5×	2.0k 0.9×	3.3k 1.9×	1.9k 1.2×	3.2k 2.3×	94	9.9k
David Baum United States	44	1.4k 0.6×	3.2k 1.4×	4.1k 2.4×	660 0.4×	609 0.4×	133	7.2k
E. O. Wiley United States	42	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	96	7.0k
Alan R. Rogers United States	39	6.5k 2.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.8×	893 0.6×	2.7k 1.9×	95	10.8k
Nicholas J. Matzke United States	32	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	3.0k 1.7×	1.9k 1.2×	2.2k 1.6×	69	8.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bromham, Lindell, et al.. (2025). Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks. Evolution. 79(5). 858–868.

Bromham, Lindell, et al.. (2025). Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(24). e2504483122–e2504483122.

Meakins, Felicity, Lindell Bromham, & Xia Hua. (2024). Depending on gender. 10(2). 183–208.

Bromham, Lindell, et al.. (2024). Islands are engines of language diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1991–2002. 2 indexed citations

Hua, Xia, Marcel Cardillo, & Lindell Bromham. (2022). Adapting to extremes: Reconstructing evolution in response to changing climate over time and space in the diverse Australian plant genus Acacia. Journal of Biogeography. 49(4). 727–738. 6 indexed citations

Hua, Xia, Felicity Meakins, Cassandra Algy, & Lindell Bromham. (2021). Language change in multidimensional space. 12(1). 78–123. 4 indexed citations

Bromham, Lindell, Alexander Skeels, Hilde Schneemann, Russell Dinnage, & Xia Hua. (2021). There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 878–891. 18 indexed citations

Bromham, Lindell, Russell Dinnage, Hedvig Skirgård, et al.. (2021). Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(2). 163–173. 65 indexed citations

Padovan, Amanda, David Kainer, Carsten Külheim, et al.. (2020). A phylogenomic approach reveals a low somatic mutation rate in a long-lived plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1922). 20192364–20192364. 38 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia & Lindell Bromham. (2020). Modeling colonization rates over time: Generating null models and testing model adequacy in phylogenetic analyses of species assemblages*. Evolution. 74(12). 2605–2616. 4 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia, Simon J. Greenhill, Marcel Cardillo, Hilde Schneemann, & Lindell Bromham. (2019). The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2047–2047. 48 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell. (2019). Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: Assumptions, Models, and Belief in Molecular Dating. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 34(5). 474–486. 42 indexed citations

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Lanfear, Robert, Jessica A. Thomas, John J. Welch, Thomas Brey, & Lindell Bromham. (2007). Metabolic rate does not calibrate the molecular clock. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(39). 15388–15393. 84 indexed citations

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Fontanillas, Eric, John J. Welch, Jessica A. Thomas, & Lindell Bromham. (2007). The influence of body size and net diversification rate on molecular evolution during the radiation of animal phyla. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 95–95. 50 indexed citations

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Thomas, Jessica A., John J. Welch, Megan Woolfit, & Lindell Bromham. (2006). There is no universal molecular clock for invertebrates, but rate variation does not scale with body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(19). 7366–7371. 87 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, Megan Woolfit, Michael S. Y. Lee, & Andrew Rambaut. (2002). TESTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MORPHOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR RATES OF CHANGE ALONG PHYLOGENIES. Evolution. 56(10). 1921–1930. 110 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, David Penny, Andrew Rambaut, & Michael D. Hendy. (2000). The Power of Relative Rates Tests Depends on the Data. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 50(3). 296–301. 116 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, Matthew J. Phillips, & David Penny. (1999). Growing up with dinosaurs: molecular dates and the mammalian radiation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 14(3). 113–118. 101 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell & Bernard M. Degnan. (1999). Hemichordates and deuterostome evolution: robust molecular phylogenetic support for a hemichordate + echinoderm clade. Evolution & Development. 1(3). 166–171. 88 indexed citations

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Purvis, Andy & Lindell Bromham. (1997). Estimating the Transition/Transversion Ratio from Independent Pairwise Comparisons with an Assumed Phylogeny. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 44(1). 112–119. 44 indexed citations

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