Luke M. Evans

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Luke M. Evans is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke M. Evans has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Luke M. Evans's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (16 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (11 papers). Luke M. Evans is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (16 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (11 papers). Luke M. Evans collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Luke M. Evans's co-authors include Matthew C. Keller, Thomas G. Whitham, Emma C. Johnson, Stephen DiFazio, Richard Border, Andrew Smolen, Patrick F. Sullivan, Gerard J. Allan, Amy M. Brunner and Gerald A. Tuskan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics and American Journal of Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Luke M. Evans

47 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

No Support for Historical Candidate Gene or Candidate Gene-by-Interaction Hypotheses for Major Depression Across Multiple Large Samples

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luke M. Evans United States	19	650	384	355	309	248	50	1.7k
Larry J. Leamy United States	38	1.6k 2.5×	740 1.9×	586 1.7×	282 0.9×	502 2.0×	113	4.5k
Fiona J. Clissold Australia	21	768 1.2×	373 1.0×	216 0.6×	407 1.3×	1.2k 4.8×	30	2.7k
Robert L. Moss United States	30	596 0.9×	105 0.3×	374 1.1×	282 0.9×	507 2.0×	69	2.9k
Henk van Dijk Netherlands	27	370 0.6×	704 1.8×	601 1.7×	194 0.6×	471 1.9×	86	2.0k
Tom Reader United Kingdom	21	276 0.4×	123 0.3×	154 0.4×	197 0.6×	492 2.0×	53	1.3k
Jacob Gratten Australia	25	1.3k 2.1×	113 0.3×	556 1.6×	96 0.3×	262 1.1×	40	2.1k
Jeffrey L. Peters United States	26	1.1k 1.7×	133 0.3×	539 1.5×	138 0.4×	319 1.3×	91	1.9k
Theodore J. Morgan United States	24	743 1.1×	171 0.4×	272 0.8×	105 0.3×	550 2.2×	49	1.7k
Christopher Basten United States	21	955 1.5×	709 1.8×	409 1.2×	95 0.3×	334 1.3×	43	1.8k
Sylvia Ortmann Germany	35	752 1.2×	112 0.3×	333 0.9×	154 0.5×	918 3.7×	127	4.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Evans, Luke M., et al.. (2025). Error Breakdown and Sensitivity Analysis of Dynamical Quantities in Markov State Models. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 21(23). 12304–12316.

Simon, Sandra, Anna Furches, Luke M. Evans, et al.. (2024). Genetic underpinnings of arthropod community distributions in Populus trichocarpa. New Phytologist. 242(3). 1307–1323. 2 indexed citations

Grotzinger, Andrew D., et al.. (2024). Disentangling differing relationships between internalizing disorders and alcohol use. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 195(5). e32975–e32975.

Rawstorn, Jonathan C, Narayan Subedi, Harriet Koorts, et al.. (2024). Stakeholder perceptions of factors contributing to effective implementation of exercise cardiac telerehabilitation in clinical practice. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 24(1). 116–125. 3 indexed citations

Sterrett, John, et al.. (2023). Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis. mSystems. 9(1). e0067723–e0067723. 5 indexed citations

Hoeffer, Charles A., et al.. (2023). Testing associations between human anxiety and genes previously implicated by mouse anxiety models. Genes Brain & Behavior. 22(6). e12851–e12851. 3 indexed citations

Evans, Luke M., et al.. (2023). Transcriptome-wide gene-gene interaction associations elucidate pathways and functional enrichment of complex traits. PLoS Genetics. 19(5). e1010693–e1010693. 2 indexed citations

Evans, Luke M., Seon-Kyeong Jang, Dana B. Hancock, et al.. (2021). Genetic architecture of four smoking behaviors using partitioned SNP heritability. Addiction. 116(9). 2498–2508. 7 indexed citations

Colbert, Sarah M. C., Emma C. Johnson, Claire L. Morrison, et al.. (2021). Novel characterization of the multivariate genetic architecture of internalizing psychopathology and alcohol use. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 186(6). 353–366. 6 indexed citations

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Evans, Luke M., Emma C. Johnson, John K. Hewitt, et al.. (2020). The Role of A Priori–Identified Addiction and Smoking Gene Sets in Smoking Behaviors. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 22(8). 1310–1315. 5 indexed citations

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Border, Richard, et al.. (2020). Little Evidence of Modified Genetic Effect of rs16969968 on Heavy Smoking Based on Age of Onset of Smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 23(6). 1055–1063. 2 indexed citations

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Wallen, Matthew P., Stephen Brown, Luke M. Evans, et al.. (2020). High‐intensity interval training improves cardiorespiratory fitness in cancer patients and survivors: A meta‐analysis. European Journal of Cancer Care. 29(4). e13267–e13267. 32 indexed citations

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Johnson, Emma C., Luke M. Evans, & Matthew C. Keller. (2018). Relationships between estimated autozygosity and complex traits in the UK Biobank. PLoS Genetics. 14(7). e1007556–e1007556. 28 indexed citations

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Evans, Luke M. & Matthew C. Keller. (2018). Using partitioned heritability methods to explore genetic architecture. Nature Reviews Genetics. 19(3). 185–185. 5 indexed citations

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Zhou, Ran, David Macaya‐Sanz, Eli Rodgers‐Melnick, et al.. (2018). Characterization of a large sex determination region in Salix purpurea L. (Salicaceae). Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 293(6). 1437–1452. 50 indexed citations

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Pearce, David, et al.. (2015). Higher photosynthetic capacity from higher latitude: foliar characteristics and gas exchange of southern, central and northern populations ofPopulus angustifolia. Tree Physiology. 35(9). 936–948. 42 indexed citations

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Brunner, Amy M., Luke M. Evans, Chuan-Yu Hsu, & Xiaoyan Sheng. (2014). Vernalization and the chilling requirement to exit bud dormancy: shared or separate regulation?. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5. 732–732. 59 indexed citations

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Evans, Luke M., Gancho T. Slavov, Eli Rodgers‐Melnick, et al.. (2014). Population genomics of Populus trichocarpa identifies signatures of selection and adaptive trait associations. Nature Genetics. 46(10). 1089–1096. 252 indexed citations

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Evans, Luke M., et al.. (2012). Enhanced purification and characterization of the PfeIF4A (PfH45) helicase from Plasmodium Falciparum using a codon-optimised clone. Protein Expression and Purification. 85(1). 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Evans, Luke M., Richard W. Hofstetter, Matthew P. Ayres, & Kier D. Klepzig. (2011). Temperature Alters the Relative Abundance and Population Growth Rates of Species Within theDendroctonus frontalis(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Community. Environmental Entomology. 40(4). 824–834. 9 indexed citations

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