Lucas Czech

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
21 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Lucas Czech is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas Czech has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Lucas Czech's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers). Lucas Czech is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers). Lucas Czech collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Norway. Lucas Czech's co-authors include Alexandros Stamatakis, Pierre Barbera, Alexey M. Kozlov, Benoît Morel, Diego Darriba, Tomáš Flouri, Micah Dunthorn, Frédéric Mahé, Moisés Expósito‐Alonso and David Bass and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Lucas Czech

21 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

EPA-ng: Massively Parallel Evolutionary Placement of Genetic Sequences

2018 398 citations Pierre Barbera, Alexey M. Kozlov et al. Systematic Biology profile →
Genesis and Gappa: processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic (placement) data

2020 216 citations Lucas Czech, Pierre Barbera et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene

2022 128 citations Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Tom R. Booker et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas Czech Germany	13	689	614	213	177	114	21	1.3k
Rewati Tappu Germany	6	683 1.0×	557 0.9×	201 0.9×	91 0.5×	62 0.5×	7	1.4k
Isabell Flade Germany	3	594 0.9×	540 0.9×	202 0.9×	99 0.6×	61 0.5×	5	1.3k
Sina Beier Germany	8	653 0.9×	589 1.0×	232 1.1×	108 0.6×	69 0.6×	11	1.4k
Julia Schwartzman United States	20	577 0.8×	460 0.7×	127 0.6×	180 1.0×	134 1.2×	33	1.3k
Brian Bushnell United States	9	1.1k 1.6×	755 1.2×	302 1.4×	222 1.3×	103 0.9×	13	1.9k
Joshua Ladau United States	14	923 1.3×	1.0k 1.6×	282 1.3×	99 0.6×	181 1.6×	25	2.1k
Pierre Barbera Germany	9	573 0.8×	528 0.9×	245 1.2×	99 0.6×	34 0.3×	10	1.1k
Sylvie Estrela United States	17	755 1.1×	533 0.9×	172 0.8×	450 2.5×	155 1.4×	22	1.5k
Sandi Wong United States	6	734 1.1×	452 0.7×	114 0.5×	59 0.3×	63 0.6×	7	1.4k
Roland C. Wilhelm United States	23	625 0.9×	696 1.1×	482 2.3×	113 0.6×	94 0.8×	47	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Lucas Czech

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lucas Czech

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucas Czech

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lucas Czech. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lucas Czech based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lucas Czech. Lucas Czech is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Czech, Lucas, Jeffrey P. Spence, & Moisés Expósito‐Alonso. (2024). grenedalf: population genetic statistics for the next generation of pool sequencing. Bioinformatics. 40(8). 10 indexed citations

Czech, Lucas, et al.. (2023). Interpreting phylogenetic placements for taxonomic assignment of environmental DNA. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(5). e12990–e12990. 2 indexed citations

Czech, Lucas, Alexandros Stamatakis, Micah Dunthorn, & Pierre Barbera. (2022). Metagenomic Analysis using Phylogenetic Placement -- A Review of the First Decade. arXiv (Cornell University). 36 indexed citations

Czech, Lucas, Alexandros Stamatakis, Micah Dunthorn, & Pierre Barbera. (2022). Metagenomic Analysis Using Phylogenetic Placement—A Review of the First Decade. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 871393–871393. 1 indexed citations

Dhami, Manpreet K., Mark C. Bitter, Lucas Czech, et al.. (2022). Wide-ranging consequences of priority effects governed by an overarching factor. eLife. 11. 26 indexed citations

Czech, Lucas & Moisés Expósito‐Alonso. (2022). grenepipe: a flexible, scalable and reproducible pipeline to automate variant calling from sequence reads. Bioinformatics. 38(20). 4809–4811. 12 indexed citations

Expósito‐Alonso, Moisés, Tom R. Booker, Lucas Czech, et al.. (2022). Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene. Science. 377(6613). 1431–1435. 128 indexed citations breakdown →

Mahé, Frédéric, Lucas Czech, Alexandros Stamatakis, et al.. (2021). Swarm v3: towards tera-scale amplicon clustering. Bioinformatics. 38(1). 267–269. 72 indexed citations

Gottschling, Marc, Lucas Czech, Frédéric Mahé, Sina M. Adl, & Micah Dunthorn. (2020). The Windblown: Possible Explanations for Dinophyte DNA in Forest Soils. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 68(1). e12833–e12833. 10 indexed citations

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Czech, Lucas, Pierre Barbera, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2020). Genesis and Gappa: processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic (placement) data. Bioinformatics. 36(10). 3263–3265. 216 indexed citations breakdown →

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Barbera, Pierre, Lucas Czech, Sarah Lutteropp, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2020). SCRAPP : A tool to assess the diversity of microbial samples from phylogenetic placements. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(1). 340–349. 9 indexed citations

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Czech, Lucas. (2020). Novel Methods for Analyzing and Visualizing Phylogenetic Placements. Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Morel, Benoît, Pierre Barbera, Lucas Czech, et al.. (2020). Phylogenetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Data Is Difficult. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(5). 1777–1791. 87 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaofan, et al.. (2019). Quartet-Based Computations of Internode Certainty Provide Robust Measures of Phylogenetic Incongruence. Systematic Biology. 69(2). 308–324. 30 indexed citations

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Jamy, Mahwash, Rachel Foster, Pierre Barbera, et al.. (2019). Long‐read metabarcoding of the eukaryotic rDNA operon to phylogenetically and taxonomically resolve environmental diversity. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(2). 429–443. 79 indexed citations

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Czech, Lucas & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2019). Scalable methods for analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic placement of metagenomic samples. PLoS ONE. 14(5). e0217050–e0217050. 65 indexed citations

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Czech, Lucas, Pierre Barbera, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2018). Methods for automatic reference trees and multilevel phylogenetic placement. Bioinformatics. 35(7). 1151–1158. 23 indexed citations

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Bass, David, Lucas Czech, Ben Williams, et al.. (2018). Clarifying the Relationships between Microsporidia and Cryptomycota. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 65(6). 773–782. 91 indexed citations

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Barbera, Pierre, Alexey M. Kozlov, Lucas Czech, et al.. (2018). EPA-ng: Massively Parallel Evolutionary Placement of Genetic Sequences. Systematic Biology. 68(2). 365–369. 398 indexed citations breakdown →

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Czech, Lucas, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, & Alexandros Stamatakis. (2017). A Critical Review on the Use of Support Values in Tree Viewers and Bioinformatics Toolkits. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(6). 1535–1542. 17 indexed citations

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