Norman Kaplan

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Norman Kaplan is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Norman Kaplan has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Mathematical Physics, 26 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Norman Kaplan's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (32 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (14 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). Norman Kaplan is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (32 papers), Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (14 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers). Norman Kaplan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Norman Kaplan's co-authors include Richard R. Hudson, Richard Morris, Eden R. Martin, Charles H. Langley, Stephanie A. Monks, Liling Warren, Russell F. Warren, John F. Y. Brookfield, Thomas L. Wickiewicz and Brian Charlesworth and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Bioinformatics and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Norman Kaplan

74 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE NUMBER OF RECOMBINATION EVE... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 400 800 1.2k
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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. STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE NUMBER OF RECOMBINATION EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF A SAMPLE OF DNA SEQUENCES
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Norman Kaplan United States 26 2.0k 1.7k 993 343 300 75 4.3k
T. V. Arak Estonia 11 778 0.4× 2.7k 1.6× 418 0.4× 181 0.5× 93 0.3× 15 4.8k
Paul Marjoram United States 28 2.4k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 126 0.4× 98 0.3× 97 4.9k
N. Kaplan United States 21 2.8k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 868 0.9× 40 0.1× 84 0.3× 33 4.1k
Mark Seielstad United States 33 3.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.0× 271 0.3× 287 0.8× 49 0.2× 69 5.9k
Fiona Cunningham United Kingdom 32 3.7k 1.9× 4.4k 2.7× 355 0.4× 441 1.3× 83 0.3× 132 9.5k
Ian D. Morris United Kingdom 34 807 0.4× 1.7k 1.0× 193 0.2× 336 1.0× 176 0.6× 166 5.1k
Francisco J. Silva Spain 35 950 0.5× 2.1k 1.2× 1.0k 1.0× 285 0.8× 13 0.0× 104 4.9k
Kenneth S. Brown United States 36 602 0.3× 651 0.4× 133 0.1× 153 0.4× 1.9k 6.5× 114 4.7k
Ryan D. Hernandez United States 31 3.6k 1.8× 2.7k 1.6× 802 0.8× 115 0.3× 12 0.0× 58 6.3k
Jason Miller United States 19 1.8k 0.9× 5.5k 3.3× 2.7k 2.7× 166 0.5× 20 0.1× 56 9.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Norman Kaplan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Norman Kaplan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xu, Zongli, Norman Kaplan, & Jack A. Taylor. (2007). Tag SNP selection for candidate gene association studies using HapMap and gene resequencing data. European Journal of Human Genetics. 15(10). 1063–1070. 29 indexed citations
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Xu, Zongli, Norman Kaplan, & Jack A. Taylor. (2007). TAGster: efficient selection of LD tag SNPs in single or multiple populations. Bioinformatics. 23(23). 3254–3255. 35 indexed citations
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McBride, Kim L., Ricardo H. Pignatelli, Mark Lewin, et al.. (2005). Inheritance analysis of congenital left ventricular outflow tract obstruction malformations: Segregation, multiplex relative risk, and heritability. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 134A(2). 180–186. 141 indexed citations
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Morris, Richard & Norman Kaplan. (2004). Testing for association with a case‐parents design in the presence of genotyping errors. Genetic Epidemiology. 26(2). 142–154. 24 indexed citations
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Morris, Richard & Norman Kaplan. (2002). On the advantage of haplotype analysis in the presence of multiple disease susceptibility alleles. Genetic Epidemiology. 23(3). 221–233. 302 indexed citations
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Rieger, Randall H., Norman Kaplan, & Clarice R. Weinberg. (2001). Efficient use of siblings in testing for linkage and association. Genetic Epidemiology. 20(2). 175–191. 5 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman & Richard Morris. (2001). Issues concerning association studies for fine mapping a susceptibility gene for a complex disease. Genetic Epidemiology. 20(4). 432–457. 41 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman & Richard Morris. (2001). Prospects for Association-Based Fine Mapping of a Susceptibility Gene for a Complex Disease. Theoretical Population Biology. 60(3). 181–191. 13 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman & Eden R. Martin. (2001). Power Calculations for a General Class of Tests of Linkage and Association That Use Nuclear Families with Affected and Unaffected Sibs. Theoretical Population Biology. 60(3). 193–201. 13 indexed citations
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Martin, Eden R., Stephanie A. Monks, Liling Warren, & Norman Kaplan. (2000). A Test for Linkage and Association in General Pedigrees: The Pedigree Disequilibrium Test. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(1). 146–154. 435 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman, Stephanie A. Monks, & Eden R. Martin. (2000). A test for linkage and association in general pedigrees. 1(2). 65–67. 10 indexed citations
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Allison, David B., Moonseong Heo, Norman Kaplan, & Eden R. Martin. (1999). Sibling-Based Tests of Linkage and Association for Quantitative Traits. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 64(6). 1754–1764. 97 indexed citations
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Stephens, Elizabeth, Jack A. Taylor, Norman Kaplan, et al.. (1994). Ethnic variation in the CYP2E1 gene: polymorphism analysis of 695 African-Americans, European-Americans and Taiwanese. Pharmacogenetics. 4(4). 185–192. 149 indexed citations
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Kimmel, Carole A., William H. Farland, Philip D. Ross, et al.. (1989). Overview of a workshop on quantitative models for developmental toxicity risk assessment. Environmental Health Perspectives. 79. 209–215. 5 indexed citations
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Arnoczky, Steven P., Russell F. Warren, & Norman Kaplan. (1985). Meniscal remodeling following partial meniscectomy—An experimental study in the dog. Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. 1(4). 247–252. 52 indexed citations
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Asmussen, Søren & Norman Kaplan. (1976). Branching random walks I. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 4(1). 1–13. 55 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman & Søren Asmussen. (1976). Branching random walks II. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 4(1). 15–31. 37 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman. (1975). A note on the supercritical generalized age-dependent branching process. Journal of Applied Probability. 12(2). 341–345. 4 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman & Anthony G. Pakes. (1974). Supercritical age-dependent branching processes with immigration. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 2(4). 371–389. 17 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman. (1974). The supercritical p-dimensional Galton-Watson process with immigration. Mathematical Biosciences. 22. 1–18. 4 indexed citations

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