Patrick G. Meirmans

7.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
52 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Patrick G. Meirmans is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick G. Meirmans has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Plant Science and 15 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Patrick G. Meirmans's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (31 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (15 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Patrick G. Meirmans is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (31 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (15 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Patrick G. Meirmans collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Canada and Germany. Patrick G. Meirmans's co-authors include Peter H. van Tienderen, Philip W. Hedrick, Nathalie Isabel, Shenglin Liu, Stephanie Meirmans, Jean Bousquet, Kermit Ritland, Manuel Lamothe, Maurine Neiman and Pierre Périnet and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Evolution and Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick G. Meirmans

51 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

genotype and genodive : two programs for the analysis of ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2010 2012 2015 2020 500 1000 1.5k
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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. genotype and genodive : two programs for the analysis of genetic diversity of asexual organisms
    2004 1.6k citations Patrick G. Meirmans, Peter H. van Tienderen Molecular Ecology Notes profile →
  2. Assessing population structure: FST and related measures
    2010 940 citations Patrick G. Meirmans, Philip W. Hedrick Molecular Ecology Resources profile →
  3. The trouble with isolation by distance
    2012 468 citations Patrick G. Meirmans Molecular Ecology profile →
  4. Seven common mistakes in population genetics and how to avoid them
    2015 307 citations Patrick G. Meirmans Molecular Ecology profile →
  5. genodive version 3.0: Easy‐to‐use software for the analysis of genetic data of diploids and polyploids
    2020 266 citations Patrick G. Meirmans Molecular Ecology Resources profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick G. Meirmans Netherlands 27 3.8k 1.9k 1.6k 1.6k 1.2k 52 6.1k
Yvonne I. Verkuil Netherlands 17 4.5k 1.2× 2.5k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 52 7.5k
Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer Netherlands 24 4.3k 1.1× 2.8k 1.5× 2.0k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.1× 55 7.5k
Joop Jukema Netherlands 22 4.3k 1.1× 2.9k 1.5× 2.0k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 45 7.7k
Leo Zwarts Netherlands 23 4.2k 1.1× 3.2k 1.7× 2.0k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 46 8.2k
Sylvain Piry France 21 5.0k 1.3× 3.1k 1.6× 809 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 53 7.2k
Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins Spain 24 4.1k 1.1× 2.0k 1.0× 2.0k 1.3× 1.7k 1.1× 885 0.7× 55 8.9k
Susan Bassham United States 19 3.5k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 930 0.6× 989 0.6× 994 0.8× 34 5.4k
Barbara K. Mable United Kingdom 35 3.1k 0.8× 2.0k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 2.2k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 95 7.8k
Brook G. Milligan United States 22 2.2k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 46 5.2k
Sylvain Glémin France 44 4.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 683 0.5× 114 7.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meirmans, Patrick G.. (2024). Correcting for Replicated Genotypes May Introduce More Problems Than it Solves. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(3). e14041–e14041. 3 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., et al.. (2024). Natural selection on feralization genes contributed to the invasive spread of wild pigs throughout the United States. Molecular Ecology. 33(12). 3 indexed citations
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Raubenheimer, David, Patrick G. Meirmans, Nicole M. van Dam, et al.. (2023). Development of embodied capital: Diet composition, foraging skills, and botanical knowledge of forager children in the Congo Basin. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 1 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., et al.. (2022). Biogeographic Population Structure of Chimeric Blades of Porphyra in the Northeast Atlantic Reveals Southern Rich Gene Pools, Introgression and Cryptic Plasticity. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 818368–818368. 5 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G.. (2021). Niche divergence contributes to geographical parthenogenesis in two dandelion taxa. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(7). 1071–1086. 10 indexed citations
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Stift, Marc, Filip Kolář, & Patrick G. Meirmans. (2019). Structure is more robust than other clustering methods in simulated mixed-ploidy populations. Heredity. 123(4). 429–441. 69 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G.. (2018). Subsampling reveals that unbalanced sampling affects Structure results in a multi-species dataset. Heredity. 122(3). 276–287. 39 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., Julie Godbout, Manuel Lamothe, Summer L. Thompson, & Nathalie Isabel. (2017). History rather than hybridization determines population structure and adaptation in Populus balsamifera. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 30(11). 2044–2058. 9 indexed citations
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Barmentlo, S. Henrik, Patrick G. Meirmans, Sheila H. Luijten, Ludwig Triest, & J. Gerard B. Oostermeijer. (2017). Outbreeding depression and breeding system evolution in small, remnant populations of Primula vulgaris: consequences for genetic rescue. Conservation Genetics. 19(3). 545–554. 37 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G. & Peter H. van Tienderen. (2012). The effects of inheritance in tetraploids on genetic diversity and population divergence. Heredity. 110(2). 131–137. 82 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G.. (2012). AMOVA-Based Clustering of Population Genetic Data. Journal of Heredity. 103(5). 744–750. 130 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G.. (2012). The trouble with isolation by distance. Molecular Ecology. 21(12). 2839–2846. 468 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pelgas, Betty, Jean Bousquet, Patrick G. Meirmans, Kermit Ritland, & Nathalie Isabel. (2011). QTL mapping in white spruce: gene maps and genomic regions underlying adaptive traits across pedigrees, years and environments. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 145–145. 97 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., Jérôme Goudet, & Oscar E. Gaggiotti. (2011). Ecology and life history affect different aspects of the population structure of 27 high-alpine plants. Molecular Ecology. 20(15). 3144–3155. 48 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G. & Philip W. Hedrick. (2010). Assessing population structure: FST and related measures. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(1). 5–18. 940 indexed citations breakdown →
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Neiman, Maurine, Stephanie Meirmans, & Patrick G. Meirmans. (2009). What Can Asexual Lineage Age Tell Us about the Maintenance of Sex?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1168(1). 185–200. 55 indexed citations
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Thompson, Stacey Lee, Manuel Lamothe, Patrick G. Meirmans, Pierre Périnet, & Nathalie Isabel. (2009). Repeated unidirectional introgression towardsPopulus balsamiferain contact zones of exotic and native poplars. Molecular Ecology. 19(1). 132–145. 68 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., Jean Bousquet, & Nathalie Isabel. (2008). A metapopulation model for the introgression from genetically modified plants into their wild relatives. Evolutionary Applications. 2(2). 160–171. 21 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G., Hans C. M. den Nijs, & Peter H. van Tienderen. (2005). Male sterility in triploid dandelions: asexual females vs asexual hermaphrodites. Heredity. 96(1). 45–52. 33 indexed citations
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Meirmans, Patrick G. & Peter H. van Tienderen. (2004). genotype and genodive : two programs for the analysis of genetic diversity of asexual organisms. Molecular Ecology Notes. 4(4). 792–794. 1601 indexed citations breakdown →

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