Loren H. Rieseberg

56.1k total citations · 15 hit papers
437 papers, 37.1k citations indexed

About

Loren H. Rieseberg is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Loren H. Rieseberg has authored 437 papers receiving a total of 37.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Plant Science, 242 papers in Genetics and 130 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Loren H. Rieseberg's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (209 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (129 papers) and Plant and animal studies (84 papers). Loren H. Rieseberg is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (209 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (129 papers) and Plant and animal studies (84 papers). Loren H. Rieseberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Loren H. Rieseberg's co-authors include Pamela S. Soltis, John M. Burke, John H. Willis, Nolan C. Kane, C. Randal Linder, Norman C. Ellstrand, Eric J. Baack, Christian Lexer, Michael S. Barker and Keith A. Gardner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Loren H. Rieseberg

426 papers receiving 35.8k citations

Hit Papers

Chromosomal rearrangements and speciation 1991 2026 2002 2014 2001 1997 2009 2003 2007 250 500 750 1000
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.

  1. Chromosomal rearrangements and speciation
    2001 1.1k citations Loren H. Rieseberg profile →
  2. Hybrid Origins of Plant Species
    1997 1.1k citations Loren H. Rieseberg profile →
  3. The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants
    2009 1.0k citations Troy E. Wood, Naoki Takebayashi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization
    2003 968 citations Loren H. Rieseberg, Olivier Raymond et al. Science profile →
  5. Plant Speciation
    2007 851 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. Science profile →
  6. Transgressive segregation, adaptation and speciation
    1999 848 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. profile →
  7. Phylogenetic consequences of cytoplasmic gene flow in plants.
    1991 701 citations Loren H. Rieseberg, Pamela S. Soltis Europe PMC (PubMed Central) profile →
  8. Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security
    2014 679 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  9. Trends in Global Agricultural Land Use: Implications for Environmental Health and Food Security
    2018 627 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. profile →
  10. Molecular Data and the Dynamic Nature of Polyploidy
    1993 551 citations Pamela S. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis et al. profile →
  11. Hybridization and extinction
    2016 534 citations Marco Todesco, Gregory L. Owens et al. Evolutionary Applications profile →
  12. What Can Molecular and Morphological Markers Tell Us About Plant Hybridization?
    1993 507 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. profile →
  13. Revisiting the Impact of Inversions in Evolution: From Population Genetic Markers to Drivers of Adaptive Shifts and Speciation?
    2008 494 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. profile →
  14. A genomic perspective on hybridization and speciation
    2016 368 citations Loren H. Rieseberg et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
  15. What we still don't know about invasion genetics
    2014 296 citations Dan G. Bock, Céline Caseys et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Loren H. Rieseberg United States 100 18.9k 17.8k 13.8k 11.7k 4.8k 437 37.1k
Rod Peakall Australia 54 13.1k 0.7× 18.2k 1.0× 12.0k 0.9× 7.8k 0.7× 6.2k 1.3× 184 34.8k
Rémy J. Petit France 71 7.5k 0.4× 15.3k 0.9× 9.2k 0.7× 7.2k 0.6× 5.7k 1.2× 158 25.9k
Pamela S. Soltis United States 120 29.5k 1.6× 12.7k 0.7× 30.2k 2.2× 30.0k 2.6× 4.4k 0.9× 701 56.7k
Deborah Charlesworth United Kingdom 84 11.7k 0.6× 16.3k 0.9× 13.0k 0.9× 11.0k 0.9× 5.0k 1.1× 278 29.5k
Jérôme Goudet Switzerland 46 10.0k 0.5× 26.0k 1.5× 10.0k 0.7× 7.0k 0.6× 7.2k 1.5× 124 39.3k
Peter E. Smouse United States 36 12.9k 0.7× 25.1k 1.4× 10.9k 0.8× 9.5k 0.8× 7.5k 1.6× 78 44.9k
Michael J. Donoghue United States 91 10.0k 0.5× 5.3k 0.3× 18.9k 1.4× 10.7k 0.9× 8.8k 1.8× 250 32.7k
Norman C. Ellstrand United States 58 9.0k 0.5× 6.7k 0.4× 8.6k 0.6× 4.4k 0.4× 5.2k 1.1× 159 17.9k
James S. Farris United States 55 5.8k 0.3× 7.6k 0.4× 12.1k 0.9× 11.5k 1.0× 4.0k 0.8× 144 29.4k
Thomas Mitchell‐Olds United States 79 12.0k 0.6× 5.6k 0.3× 6.8k 0.5× 8.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.6× 208 20.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Yue, Anna McCormick, Nora P Castañeda Álvarez, et al.. (2025). Agricultural landscape genomics to increase crop resilience. Plant Communications. 6(2). 101260–101260. 1 indexed citations
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Owens, Gregory L., Céline Caseys, Nora Mitchell, et al.. (2025). Shared Selection and Genetic Architecture Drive Strikingly Repeatable Evolution in Long-Term Experimental Hybrid Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(1).
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Frachon, Léa, et al.. (2024). Biotic interactions promote local adaptation to soil in plants. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5186–5186. 8 indexed citations
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Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Mojtaba Jahani, et al.. (2024). Inversions contribute disproportionately to parallel genomic divergence in dune sunflowers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 325–335. 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Cassandra Elphinstone, et al.. (2022). Mutation Load in Sunflower Inversions Is Negatively Correlated with Inversion Heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(5). 25 indexed citations
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Wu, Yihan, et al.. (2021). Genome report: a draft genome of Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) as a model system for invasion genetics. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(12). 6 indexed citations
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Huang, Kaichi, Rose L. Andrew, Gregory L. Owens, Kate L. Ostevik, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2020). Multiple chromosomal inversions contribute to adaptive divergence of a dune sunflower ecotype. Molecular Ecology. 29(14). 2535–2549. 102 indexed citations
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Smith, Chris C. R., et al.. (2018). Genetics of alternative splicing evolution during sunflower domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). 6768–6773. 30 indexed citations
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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Emily B. M. Drummond, Sam Yeaman, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2017). A novel post hoc method for detecting index switching finds no evidence for increased switching on the Illumina HiSeq X. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(1). 169–175. 16 indexed citations
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Todesco, Marco, Gregory L. Owens, Kate L. Ostevik, et al.. (2016). Hybridization and extinction. Evolutionary Applications. 9(7). 892–908. 534 indexed citations breakdown →
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Scaglione, Davide, Sebastian Reyes-Chin-Wo, Alberto Acquadro, et al.. (2016). The genome sequence of the outbreeding globe artichoke constructed de novo incorporating a phase-aware low-pass sequencing strategy of F1 progeny. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 19427–19427. 82 indexed citations
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Li, Zheng, Anthony E. Baniaga, Emily B. Sessa, et al.. (2015). Early genome duplications in conifers and other seed plants. Science Advances. 1(10). e1501084–e1501084. 184 indexed citations
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Hodgins, Kathryn A., Zhao Lai, Kristin A. Nurkowski, Jie Huang, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2013). The molecular basis of invasiveness: differences in gene expression of native and introduced common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in stressful and benign environments. Molecular Ecology. 22(9). 2496–2510. 48 indexed citations
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Hodgins, Kathryn A. & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2011). Genetic differentiation in life-history traits of introduced and native common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24(12). 2731–2749. 89 indexed citations
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Wood, Troy E., Naoki Takebayashi, Michael S. Barker, et al.. (2009). The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(33). 13875–13879. 1025 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grundt, Hanne Hegre, et al.. (2006). High biological species diversity in the arctic flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(4). 972–975. 113 indexed citations
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Rieseberg, Loren H., Olivier Raymond, David M. Rosenthal, et al.. (2003). Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization. Science. 301(5637). 1211–1216. 968 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rieseberg, Loren H. & Pamela S. Soltis. (1991). Phylogenetic consequences of cytoplasmic gene flow in plants.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 5(1). 65–84. 701 indexed citations breakdown →

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