Megan Ruffley

693 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 355 citations indexed

About

Megan Ruffley is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Megan Ruffley has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 355 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Ecological Modeling, 9 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Megan Ruffley's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). Megan Ruffley is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (9 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (8 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). Megan Ruffley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and United Kingdom. Megan Ruffley's co-authors include David C. Tank, Bryan C. Carstens, Jack Sullivan, Anahí Espíndola, Megan L. Smith, Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Lauren Gillespie, Patricia L. M. Lang, Lucas Czech and Tom R. Booker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Megan Ruffley

16 papers receiving 351 citations

Hit Papers

Genetic diversity loss in the Anthropocene 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 40 80 120
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. 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Megan Ruffley United States 9 177 118 115 97 93 16 355
Alexander T. Xue United States 10 241 1.4× 129 1.1× 115 1.0× 95 1.0× 117 1.3× 12 418
Hernando Rodríguez‐Correa Mexico 10 143 0.8× 95 0.8× 72 0.6× 84 0.9× 97 1.0× 20 320
Nicolás A. Hazzi United States 9 160 0.9× 88 0.7× 57 0.5× 127 1.3× 83 0.9× 21 329
Jorge Montiel United States 1 80 0.5× 102 0.9× 153 1.3× 109 1.1× 99 1.1× 3 318
Odile Maliet France 7 134 0.8× 72 0.6× 104 0.9× 133 1.4× 115 1.2× 10 371
Rob Massatti United States 11 254 1.4× 156 1.3× 171 1.5× 127 1.3× 113 1.2× 22 420
Celestino Flores‐López Mexico 8 109 0.6× 85 0.7× 113 1.0× 68 0.7× 147 1.6× 24 319
Natalia Trujillo‐Arias Argentina 10 137 0.8× 78 0.7× 85 0.7× 121 1.2× 91 1.0× 19 275
Bogdan‐Iuliu Hurdu Romania 10 69 0.4× 129 1.1× 132 1.1× 120 1.2× 118 1.3× 28 412
Frank R. Stokvis Netherlands 8 177 1.0× 88 0.7× 239 2.1× 122 1.3× 46 0.5× 17 367

Countries citing papers authored by Megan Ruffley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Megan Ruffley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Megan Ruffley

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Ruffley, Megan, et al.. (2025). Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis from Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 76(1). 605–635. 5 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Lauren, Megan Ruffley, & Moisés Expósito‐Alonso. (2024). Deep learning models map rapid plant species changes from citizen science and remote sensing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(37). e2318296121–e2318296121. 9 indexed citations
3.
Overcast, Isaac, et al.. (2024). Detecting the ecological footprint of selection. PLoS ONE. 19(6). e0302794–e0302794. 1 indexed citations
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Ruffley, Megan, Megan L. Smith, Anahí Espíndola, et al.. (2022). Genomic evidence of an ancient inland temperate rainforest in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Molecular Ecology. 31(10). 2985–3001. 5 indexed citations
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Vance, Summer E., et al.. (2022). From coral reefs to Joshua trees: What ecological interactions teach us about the adaptive capacity of biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1857). 20210389–20210389. 8 indexed citations
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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 →
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Overcast, Isaac, Megan Ruffley, James Rosindell, et al.. (2021). A unified model of species abundance, genetic diversity, and functional diversity reveals the mechanisms structuring ecological communities. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(8). 2782–2800. 29 indexed citations
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Gillespie, Lauren, Megan Ruffley, & Moisés Expósito‐Alonso. (2021). An Image is Worth a Thousand Species: Scaling high-resolution plant biodiversity prediction to biome-level using citizen science data and remote sensing imagery. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 5. 1 indexed citations
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Ruffley, Megan, et al.. (2021). Phylogenetic diversity and community assembly in a naturally fragmented system. Ecology and Evolution. 11(24). 18066–18080. 3 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Jack, Megan L. Smith, Anahí Espíndola, et al.. (2019). Integrating life history traits into predictive phylogeography. Molecular Ecology. 28(8). 2062–2073. 13 indexed citations
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McGill, Brian J., Jonathan M. Chase, Joaquín Hortal, et al.. (2019). Unifying macroecology and macroevolution to answer fundamental questions about biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(12). 1925–1936. 38 indexed citations
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Ruffley, Megan, et al.. (2019). Identifying models of trait‐mediated community assembly using random forests and approximate Bayesian computation. Ecology and Evolution. 9(23). 13218–13230. 14 indexed citations
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Ruffley, Megan, Megan L. Smith, Anahí Espíndola, et al.. (2018). Combining allele frequency and tree‐based approaches improves phylogeographic inference from natural history collections. Molecular Ecology. 27(4). 1012–1024. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Megan L., Megan Ruffley, A. M. Rankin, et al.. (2018). Testing for the presence of cryptic diversity in tail-dropper slugs (Prophysaon) using molecular data. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124(3). 518–532. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Megan L., Megan Ruffley, Anahí Espíndola, et al.. (2017). Demographic model selection using random forests and the site frequency spectrum. Molecular Ecology. 26(17). 4562–4573. 38 indexed citations
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Espíndola, Anahí, Megan Ruffley, Megan L. Smith, et al.. (2016). Identifying cryptic diversity with predictive phylogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1841). 20161529–20161529. 47 indexed citations

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