Marina Rafajlović

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 925 citations indexed

About

Marina Rafajlović is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Rafajlović has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 925 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Ecology and 8 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Marina Rafajlović's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers). Marina Rafajlović is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (16 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (5 papers). Marina Rafajlović collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United Kingdom and United States. Marina Rafajlović's co-authors include Roger K. Butlin, Rui Faria, Anja M. Westram, B. Mehlig, Mark Ravinet, Kerstin Johannesson, Mohamed A. F. Noor, Juan Galindo, Marina Panova and Tomas Larsson and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The American Naturalist and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Marina Rafajlović

30 papers receiving 919 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow

2017 335 citations Mark Ravinet, Rui Faria et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Rafajlović Sweden	14	667	236	235	218	129	30	925
Christelle Fraïssé France	15	746 1.1×	319 1.4×	271 1.2×	224 1.0×	125 1.0×	26	1.0k
Sean Stankowski United Kingdom	17	508 0.8×	199 0.8×	261 1.1×	315 1.4×	138 1.1×	38	868
Josephine R. Paris United Kingdom	11	456 0.7×	233 1.0×	235 1.0×	159 0.7×	95 0.7×	28	784
José Cerca Norway	10	235 0.4×	180 0.8×	222 0.9×	242 1.1×	102 0.8×	25	665
Shahan Derkarabetian United States	19	596 0.9×	363 1.5×	271 1.2×	251 1.2×	37 0.3×	47	998
Gemma E. Beatty United Kingdom	16	283 0.4×	158 0.7×	257 1.1×	237 1.1×	205 1.6×	28	736
Harald Letsch Germany	16	386 0.6×	226 1.0×	254 1.1×	548 2.5×	90 0.7×	26	917
Siri Birkeland Norway	8	216 0.3×	157 0.7×	164 0.7×	217 1.0×	128 1.0×	14	588
Martina Podnar Croatia	13	303 0.5×	163 0.7×	291 1.2×	138 0.6×	86 0.7×	37	694
Cuong Q. Tang United Kingdom	10	224 0.3×	377 1.6×	573 2.4×	210 1.0×	74 0.6×	13	923

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Rafajlović

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marina Rafajlović. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marina Rafajlović 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 Marina Rafajlović. Marina Rafajlović is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Jahnke, Marlene, Carl André, Henrik Christiansen, et al.. (2025). Seascape genomics: Assisting marine biodiversity management by combining genetic knowledge with environmental and ecological information. Marine Policy. 182. 106867–106867. 1 indexed citations

Moan, Alan Le, Sean Stankowski, Marina Rafajlović, et al.. (2024). Coupling of twelve putative chromosomal inversions maintains a strong barrier to gene flow between snail ecotypes. Evolution Letters. 8(4). 575–586. 13 indexed citations

Johannesson, Kerstin, Rui Faria, Alan Le Moan, et al.. (2024). Diverse pathways to speciation revealed by marine snails. Trends in Genetics. 40(4). 337–351. 13 indexed citations

Aubier, Thomas G., et al.. (2024). Negative Coupling: The Coincidence of Premating Isolating Barriers Can Reduce Reproductive Isolation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16(10). a041435–a041435. 4 indexed citations

Berdan, Emma L., Nick Barton, Roger K. Butlin, et al.. (2023). How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(12). 1761–1782. 42 indexed citations

Lucek, Kay, Mabel D. Giménez, Mathieu Joron, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Chromosomal Rearrangements in Speciation: From Micro- to Macroevolution. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 15(11). a041447–a041447. 18 indexed citations

Arntzen, Jan W., Gary M. Bucciarelli, Evan McCartney‐Melstad, et al.. (2023). Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone. Heredity. 131(1). 15–24. 9 indexed citations

Moan, Alan Le, Kerstin Johannesson, Rui Faria, et al.. (2022). Ten years of demographic modelling of divergence and speciation in the sea. Evolutionary Applications. 16(2). 542–559. 20 indexed citations

Wit, Pierre De, et al.. (2022). Adaptive, maladaptive, neutral, or absent plasticity: Hidden caveats of reaction norms. Evolutionary Applications. 16(2). 486–503. 4 indexed citations

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Wit, Pierre De, E. C. Faust, León Green, et al.. (2022). A decade of progress in marine evolutionary biology. Evolutionary Applications. 16(2). 193–201. 3 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, et al.. (2022). The role of phenotypic plasticity in the establishment of range margins. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1846). 20210012–20210012. 21 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, Jake M. Alexander, Roger K. Butlin, & Kerstin Johannesson. (2022). Preface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1846). 20210491–20210491. 2 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, Jordi Rambla, Jeffrey L. Feder, Arcadi Navarro, & Rui Faria. (2021). Inversions and genomic differentiation after secondary contact: When drift contributes to maintenance, not loss, of differentiation. Evolution. 75(6). 1288–1303. 9 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, et al.. (2021). The Effect of the Recombination Rate between Adaptive Loci on the Capacity of a Population to Expand Its Range. The American Naturalist. 197(5). 526–542. 12 indexed citations

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Bisschop, Gertjan, et al.. (2020). The impact of global selection on local adaptation and reproductive isolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1806). 20190531–20190531. 9 indexed citations

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Rafajlović, Marina, et al.. (2020). Assortative mating, sexual selection, and their consequences for gene flow in Littorina. Evolution. 74(7). 1482–1497. 20 indexed citations

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Faria, Rui, Hernán E. Morales, Tomas Larsson, et al.. (2018). Multiple chromosomal rearrangements in a hybrid zone betweenLittorina saxatilisecotypes. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1375–1393. 89 indexed citations

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Ravinet, Mark, Rui Faria, Roger K. Butlin, et al.. (2017). Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 30(8). 1450–1477. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

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Johansson, Daniel, Ricardo T. Pereyra, Marina Rafajlović, & Kerstin Johannesson. (2017). Reciprocal transplants support a plasticity-first scenario during colonisation of a large hyposaline basin by a marine macro alga. BMC Ecology. 17(1). 14–14. 16 indexed citations

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Johansson, Daniel, Lisa Sundqvist, Nikolaj A. Kovaltchouk, et al.. (2016). Divergence within and among Seaweed Siblings (Fucus vesiculosus and F. radicans) in the Baltic Sea. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161266–e0161266. 32 indexed citations

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