Pablo A. Goloboff

19.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
101 papers, 14.5k citations indexed

About

Pablo A. Goloboff is a scholar working on Paleontology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pablo A. Goloboff has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 14.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Paleontology, 41 papers in Genetics and 40 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Pablo A. Goloboff's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers). Pablo A. Goloboff is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (34 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers). Pablo A. Goloboff collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United States and Sweden. Pablo A. Goloboff's co-authors include James S. Farris, Kevin C. Nixon, Santiago A. Catalano, Claudia Szumik, J. Salvador Arias, Ambrosio Torres, Mari Källersjö, Bengt Oxelman, Daniel Rafael Miranda‐Esquivel and James M. Carpenter and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Pablo A. Goloboff

97 papers receiving 13.9k 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.

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

2008 4.4k citations Pablo A. Goloboff, James S. Farris et al. Cladistics profile →
TNT version 1.5, including a full implementation of phylogenetic morphometrics

2016 1.8k citations Pablo A. Goloboff, Santiago A. Catalano Cladistics profile →
ESTIMATING CHARACTER WEIGHTS DURING TREE SEARCH

1993 1.0k citations Pablo A. Goloboff Cladistics profile →
Analyzing Large Data Sets in Reasonable Times: Solutions for Composite Optima

1999 805 citations Pablo A. Goloboff Cladistics profile →
T.N.T.: Tree Analysis Using New Technology

2003 696 citations Pablo A. Goloboff et al. profile →
Improvements to resampling measures of group support

2003 629 citations Pablo A. Goloboff, James S. Farris et al. Cladistics profile →
Improvements to resampling measures of group support

2003 521 citations Pablo A. Goloboff Cladistics profile →
Weighted parsimony outperforms other methods of phylogenetic inference under models appropriate for morphology

2017 322 citations Pablo A. Goloboff et al. Cladistics profile →
TNTversion 1.6, with a graphical interface forMacOSand Linux, including new routines in parallel

2023 228 citations Pablo A. Goloboff et al. Cladistics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pablo A. Goloboff Argentina	39	7.5k	5.5k	4.3k	3.4k	2.4k	101	14.5k
Daniel L. Rabosky United States	50	5.2k 0.7×	4.8k 0.9×	3.5k 0.8×	4.6k 1.3×	2.6k 1.1×	119	12.1k
Luke J. Harmon United States	49	4.7k 0.6×	5.1k 0.9×	4.0k 0.9×	4.7k 1.4×	2.2k 0.9×	114	13.0k
Liam J. Revell United States	36	3.8k 0.5×	5.9k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	74	12.9k
Kevin C. Nixon United States	46	4.4k 0.6×	8.0k 1.4×	2.8k 0.6×	2.8k 0.8×	4.8k 2.0×	108	14.6k
Kevin de Queiroz United States	44	3.1k 0.4×	4.4k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	3.8k 1.1×	2.3k 0.9×	126	11.5k
David R. Maddison United States	33	2.8k 0.4×	6.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.4×	3.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.5×	86	12.7k
Ward C. Wheeler United States	63	4.1k 0.5×	6.6k 1.2×	1.9k 0.4×	5.5k 1.6×	5.6k 2.3×	171	17.4k
Richard E. Glor United States	31	1.9k 0.3×	4.1k 0.7×	2.9k 0.7×	3.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	64	10.6k
Juan J. Morrone Mexico	49	5.2k 0.7×	5.3k 1.0×	2.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	437 0.2×	341	10.2k
Wayne P. Maddison Canada	52	4.9k 0.6×	9.6k 1.7×	3.5k 0.8×	10.1k 3.0×	7.3k 3.0×	134	24.0k

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Catalano, Santiago A., Ignacio H. Escapa, Kelsey D. Pugh, et al.. (2025). PlaceMyFossils: An Integrative Approach to Analyze and Visualize the Phylogenetic Placement of Fossils Using Backbone Trees. Systematic Biology. 74(4). 672–684. 1 indexed citations

Goloboff, Pablo A.. (2025). Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood. Systematic Biology. 75(2). 277–295.

Laet, Jan De & Pablo A. Goloboff. (2024). Nothing to it: a reply to Wheeler's “much ado about nothing”. Cladistics. 40(4). 456–467.

Simmons, Mark P., Pablo A. Goloboff, Ben C Stöver, Mark S. Springer, & John Gatesy. (2023). Quantification of congruence among gene trees with polytomies using overall success of resolution for phylogenomic coalescent analyses. Cladistics. 39(5). 418–436. 2 indexed citations

Goloboff, Pablo A. & Jan De Laet. (2023). Farewell to the requirement for character independence: phylogenetic methods to incorporate different types of dependence between characters. Cladistics. 40(3). 209–241. 6 indexed citations

Pei, Rui, Michael Pittman, Pablo A. Goloboff, et al.. (2020). Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology. 30(20). 4033–4046.e8. 86 indexed citations

Szumik, Claudia, et al.. (2019). Implications of the Tympanal Hearing Organ and Ultrastructure of Chaetotaxy for the Higher Classification of Embioptera. American Museum Novitates. 2019(3933). 1–1. 7 indexed citations

Goloboff, Pablo A. & Mark Wilkinson. (2018). On defining a unique phylogenetic tree with homoplastic characters. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 122. 95–101. 8 indexed citations

Szumik, Claudia, Lone Aagesen, Diego Baldo, et al.. (2007). Biogeografía del norte argentino (paralelos 21 a 32): primer ensayoutilizando vertebrados, insectos y plantas. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (2007). Tratamiento de la ambigüedad en grandes matrices de datos. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Laet, Jan De, et al.. (2004). Treatment of multiple trees in resampling analyses. Cladistics. 20. 590–590. 6 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (2003). Parsimony, likelihood, and simplicity. Cladistics. 19(2). 91–103. 72 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A., et al.. (2003). Improvements to resampling measures of group support. Cladistics. 19(4). 324–332. 629 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goloboff, Pablo A., et al.. (2002). Association between neotropical burrowing spiders (araneae: nemesiidae) and mites (acari: heterostigmata, scutacaridae). Acarologia. 42(2). 173–184. 8 indexed citations

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Janies, Daniel, Pablo A. Goloboff, & Diego Pol. (2001). Large-Scale Phylogenetic Analysis for the Study of Zoonosis and Assessment of Influenza Surveillance. Scalable Computing Practice and Experience. 8(2). 1 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (1997). Self‐Weighted Optimization: Tree Searches and Character State Reconstructions under Implied Transformation Costs. Cladistics. 13(3). 225–245. 91 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (1996). METHODS FOR FASTER PARSIMONY ANALYSIS. Cladistics. 12(3). 199–220. 66 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (1993). A reanalysis of mygalomorph spider families (Araneae). American Museum Novitates. 3056. 1–32. 87 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A. & Norman I. Platnick. (1987). A review of the Chilean spiders of the superfamily Migoidea (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 10 indexed citations

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Goloboff, Pablo A.. (1982). Descripcion de la hembra de achetopus paraguayensis (gerschman y schiapelli, 1940) araneae, dipluridae. Physis. Secciones A, B y C. 41(100). 103–105. 1 indexed citations

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