Matthew W. Hahn

30.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
170 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

About

Matthew W. Hahn is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthew W. Hahn has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Molecular Biology, 105 papers in Genetics and 44 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Matthew W. Hahn's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (68 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (37 papers). Matthew W. Hahn is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (68 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (37 papers). Matthew W. Hahn collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Matthew W. Hahn's co-authors include Nello Cristianini, Tijl De Bie, Tami Cruickshank, Jeffery P. Demuth, Mira Han, James B. Pease, Thomas L. Turner, Fábio K. Mendes, Daniel R. Schrider and Gregg W.C. Thomas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Matthew W. Hahn

163 papers receiving 14.5k citations

Hit Papers

CAFE: a computational tool for the study of gene family e... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2006 2014 2014 2013 2005 250 500 750 1000
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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.

  1. CAFE: a computational tool for the study of gene family evolution
    2006 1.1k citations Matthew W. Hahn et al. Bioinformatics profile →
  2. Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?
    2014 836 citations Matthew W. Hahn et al. profile →
  3. Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow
    2014 749 citations Tami Cruickshank, Matthew W. Hahn Molecular Ecology profile →
  4. Estimating Gene Gain and Loss Rates in the Presence of Error in Genome Assembly and Annotation Using CAFE 3
    2013 584 citations Gregg W.C. Thomas, Matthew W. Hahn et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  5. Genomic Islands of Speciation in Anopheles gambiae
    2005 568 citations Matthew W. Hahn et al. profile →
  6. Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans
    2007 514 citations Matthew W. Hahn et al. profile →
  7. Extensive introgression in a malaria vector species complex revealed by phylogenomics
    2014 413 citations James B. Pease, Matthew W. Hahn et al. profile →
  8. New Methods to Calculate Concordance Factors for Phylogenomic Datasets
    2020 411 citations Bùi Quang Minh, Matthew W. Hahn et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
  9. How reticulated are species?
    2015 397 citations James Mallet, Nora J. Besansky et al. BioEssays profile →
  10. CAFE 5 models variation in evolutionary rates among gene families
    2020 396 citations Fábio K. Mendes, Dan Vanderpool et al. Bioinformatics profile →

Peers

Matthew W. Hahn
Petr Danecek United Kingdom
Antonis Rokas United States
Chung‐I Wu United States
Lars S. Jermiin Australia
Dmitri A. Petrov United States
Nick Goldman United Kingdom
Wim Hordijk United States
Itay Mayrose Israel
Richard R. Hudson United States
Roderic Page United Kingdom
Petr Danecek United Kingdom
Matthew W. Hahn
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthew W. Hahn

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smith, Megan L. & Matthew W. Hahn. (2024). Selection leads to false inferences of introgression using popular methods. Genetics. 227(4). 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Megan L., Dan Vanderpool, & Matthew W. Hahn. (2022). Using all Gene Families Vastly Expands Data Available for Phylogenomic Inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(6). 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Richard J., Muthuswamy Raveendran, R. Alan Harris, et al.. (2022). De novo Mutations in Domestic Cat are Consistent with an Effect of Reproductive Longevity on Both the Rate and Spectrum of Mutations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(7). 29 indexed citations
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Lanfear, Robert, et al.. (2022). Updated site concordance factors minimize effects of homoplasy and taxon sampling. Bioinformatics. 39(1). 47 indexed citations
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Wu, Meng, David C. Haak, Gregory J. Anderson, et al.. (2021). Inferring the Genetic Basis of Sex Determination from the Genome of a Dioecious Nightshade. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(7). 2946–2957. 4 indexed citations
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Minh, Bùi Quang, Matthew W. Hahn, & Robert Lanfear. (2020). New Methods to Calculate Concordance Factors for Phylogenomic Datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(9). 2727–2733. 411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Richard J., Predrag Radivojac, & Matthew W. Hahn. (2020). Distinct error rates for reference and nonreference genotypes estimated by pedigree analysis. Genetics. 217(1). 1–10. 8 indexed citations
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Thomas, Gregg W.C., Richard J. Wang, R. Alan Harris, et al.. (2020). Origins and Long-Term Patterns of Copy-Number Variation in Rhesus Macaques. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(4). 1460–1471. 10 indexed citations
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Hibbins, Mark S. & Matthew W. Hahn. (2019). The Timing and Direction of Introgression Under the Multispecies Network Coalescent. Genetics. 211(3). 1059–1073. 29 indexed citations
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Mendes, Fábio K., et al.. (2019). The perils of intralocus recombination for inferences of molecular convergence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 374(1777). 20180244–20180244. 28 indexed citations
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Hahn, Matthew W. & Mark S. Hibbins. (2019). A Three-Sample Test for Introgression. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(12). 2878–2882. 37 indexed citations
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Wu, Meng, Jamie L. Kostyun, Matthew W. Hahn, & Leonie C. Moyle. (2018). Dissecting the basis of novel trait evolution in a radiation with widespread phylogenetic discordance. Molecular Ecology. 27(16). 3301–3316. 54 indexed citations
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Guerrero, Rafael F. & Matthew W. Hahn. (2018). Quantifying the risk of hemiplasy in phylogenetic inference. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(50). 12787–12792. 39 indexed citations
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Hahn, Matthew W., et al.. (2016). AGOUTI: improving genome assembly and annotation using transcriptome data. GigaScience. 5(1). 31–31. 35 indexed citations
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Pease, James B., et al.. (2016). Powerful methods for detecting introgressed regions from population genomic data. Molecular Ecology. 25(11). 2387–2397. 56 indexed citations
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Mallet, James, Nora J. Besansky, & Matthew W. Hahn. (2015). How reticulated are species?. BioEssays. 38(2). 140–149. 397 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pease, James B. & Matthew W. Hahn. (2015). Detection and Polarization of Introgression in a Five-Taxon Phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 64(4). 651–662. 190 indexed citations
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Cruickshank, Tami & Matthew W. Hahn. (2014). Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow. Molecular Ecology. 23(13). 3133–3157. 749 indexed citations breakdown →
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Toups, Melissa A. & Matthew W. Hahn. (2010). Retrogenes Reveal the Direction of Sex-Chromosome Evolution in Mosquitoes. Genetics. 186(2). 763–766. 40 indexed citations
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