Nicholas J. Matzke

15.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
69 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Nicholas J. Matzke is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas J. Matzke has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Paleontology, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Nicholas J. Matzke's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Nicholas J. Matzke is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (18 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Nicholas J. Matzke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and New Zealand. Nicholas J. Matzke's co-authors include Brian Swartz, Jenny L. McGuire, Susumu Tomiya, Tiago B. Quental, Charles R. Marshall, Emily Lindsey, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Anthony D. Barnosky, Kaitlin C. Maguire and Brian R. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas J. Matzke

67 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2014 2013 2013 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
    2011 2.6k citations Nicholas J. Matzke et al. profile →
  2. Model Selection in Historical Biogeography Reveals that Founder-Event Speciation Is a Crucial Process in Island Clades
    2014 981 citations Nicholas J. Matzke Systematic Biology profile →
  3. Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing
    2013 769 citations Nicholas J. Matzke profile →
  4. Bayesian Analysis of Biogeography when the Number of Areas is Large
    2013 624 citations Nicholas J. Matzke et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  5. Probabilistic historical biogeography: new models for founder-event speciation, imperfect detection, and fossils allow improved accuracy and model-testing
    2013 440 citations Nicholas J. Matzke profile →
  6. ENMTools 1.0: an R package for comparative ecological biogeography
    2021 268 citations Dan L. Warren, Nicholas J. Matzke et al. profile →
  7. Statistical comparison of DEC and DEC+J is identical to comparison of two ClaSSE submodels, and is therefore valid
    2022 90 citations Nicholas J. Matzke Journal of Biogeography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas J. Matzke United States 32 3.0k 2.2k 2.1k 1.9k 1.9k 69 8.5k
Daniele Silvestro Sweden 37 3.2k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 125 8.4k
Rampal S. Etienne Netherlands 44 2.9k 1.0× 3.1k 1.4× 3.6k 1.7× 1.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 165 8.0k
Rosemary G. Gillespie United States 48 4.4k 1.5× 2.8k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 0.7× 4.4k 2.4× 189 9.8k
Michael D. Crisp Australia 43 4.2k 1.4× 1.3k 0.6× 2.9k 1.3× 1.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 147 7.9k
Brent C. Emerson United Kingdom 47 3.1k 1.0× 3.0k 1.3× 1.4k 0.7× 828 0.4× 3.2k 1.7× 170 8.0k
Arne Ø. Mooers Canada 46 4.0k 1.3× 4.0k 1.8× 3.9k 1.8× 3.3k 1.7× 2.9k 1.6× 135 11.6k
Charles R. Marshall United States 37 1.9k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 3.1k 1.7× 1.1k 0.6× 75 7.7k
Daniel L. Rabosky United States 50 4.8k 1.6× 2.9k 1.3× 3.5k 1.7× 5.2k 2.8× 4.6k 2.4× 119 12.1k
Dan L. Warren United States 28 3.0k 1.0× 3.9k 1.7× 2.5k 1.2× 812 0.4× 2.6k 1.4× 64 9.9k
Marcel Cardillo Australia 37 2.0k 0.7× 3.7k 1.6× 2.1k 1.0× 1.8k 0.9× 1.5k 0.8× 105 7.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas J. Matzke

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All Works

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Ogilvie, Huw A., Fábio K. Mendes, Timothy G. Vaughan, et al.. (2021). Novel Integrative Modeling of Molecules and Morphology across Evolutionary Timescales. Systematic Biology. 71(1). 208–220. 11 indexed citations
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Lee, William G., et al.. (2021). Pioneering polyploids: the impact of whole-genome duplication on biome shifting in New Zealand Coprosma (Rubiaceae) and Veronica (Plantaginaceae). Biology Letters. 17(9). 20210297–20210297. 6 indexed citations
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Matzke, Nicholas J., et al.. (2020). Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions of MotB Are Proton-Motile and Require MotA for Motility. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 625837–625837. 10 indexed citations
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Warren, Dan L., Nicholas J. Matzke, & Teresa L. Iglesias. (2019). Evaluating presence‐only species distribution models with discrimination accuracy is uninformative for many applications. Journal of Biogeography. 47(1). 167–180. 77 indexed citations
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Blom, Mozes P. K., Nicholas J. Matzke, Jason G. Bragg, et al.. (2019). Habitat preference modulates trans-oceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1904). 20182575–20182575. 25 indexed citations
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Warren, Dan L., Nicholas J. Matzke, Marcel Cardillo, et al.. (2019). danlwarren/ENMTools: Initial beta release. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 10 indexed citations
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Matzke, Nicholas J. & Randall B. Irmis. (2018). Including autapomorphies is important for paleontological tip-dating with clocklike data, but not with non-clock data. PeerJ. 6. e4553–e4553. 31 indexed citations
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Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar A., Guillaume Chomicki, Fabien L. Condamine, et al.. (2017). Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot. New Phytologist. 215(2). 891–905. 150 indexed citations
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Matzke, Nicholas J. & April Wright. (2016). Inferring node dates from tip dates in fossil Canidae: the importance of tree priors. Biology Letters. 12(8). 20160328–20160328. 78 indexed citations
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Dupin, Julia, Nicholas J. Matzke, Tiina Särkinen, et al.. (2016). Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae. Journal of Biogeography. 44(4). 887–899. 228 indexed citations
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Dembo, Mana, Nicholas J. Matzke, Arne Ø. Mooers, & Mark Collard. (2015). Bayesian analysis of a morphological supermatrix sheds light on controversial fossil hominin relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1812). 20150943–20150943. 104 indexed citations
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Shih, Patrick M. & Nicholas J. Matzke. (2013). Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(30). 12355–12360. 103 indexed citations
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Wood, Hannah M., Nicholas J. Matzke, Rosemary G. Gillespie, & Charles E. Griswold. (2012). Treating Fossils as Terminal Taxa in Divergence Time Estimation Reveals Ancient Vicariance Patterns in the Palpimanoid Spiders. Systematic Biology. 62(2). 264–284. 160 indexed citations
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Bottaro, Andrea, et al.. (2006). Immunology in the spotlight at the Dover 'Intelligent Design' trial. Nature Immunology. 7(5). 433–435. 11 indexed citations
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Scott, Eugenie C., et al.. (2004). The Morphology of Steve. DigitalCommons - Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw State University). 2 indexed citations

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