Robert C. Thomson

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Robert C. Thomson is a scholar working on Genetics, Global and Planetary Change and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert C. Thomson has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Genetics, 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 22 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Robert C. Thomson's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (24 papers) and Turtle Biology and Conservation (19 papers). Robert C. Thomson is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (24 papers) and Turtle Biology and Conservation (19 papers). Robert C. Thomson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Germany. Robert C. Thomson's co-authors include H. Bradley Shaffer, Phillip Q. Spinks, Jeremy M. Brown, Anthony J. Barley, Jarrett R. Johnson, Ian Wang, Adrián Nieto‐Montes de, Scott V. Edwards, Andrew M. Shedlock and David C. Plachetzki and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Robert C. Thomson

57 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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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.

A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins

2021 124 citations Robert C. Thomson, Phillip Q. Spinks et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert C. Thomson United States	26	893	651	613	594	475	59	1.9k
W. Bryan Jennings United States	16	805 0.9×	388 0.6×	356 0.6×	387 0.7×	535 1.1×	35	1.7k
Pascal O. Title United States	16	807 0.9×	836 1.3×	428 0.7×	452 0.8×	575 1.2×	22	2.4k
Carl H. Oliveros United States	22	797 0.9×	338 0.5×	408 0.7×	501 0.8×	508 1.1×	51	1.7k
Chris R. Feldman United States	23	679 0.8×	572 0.9×	806 1.3×	346 0.6×	320 0.7×	53	2.0k
Robert W. Bryson United States	25	1.2k 1.3×	291 0.4×	775 1.3×	442 0.7×	405 0.9×	66	2.0k
Noah M. Reid United States	15	1.2k 1.3×	432 0.7×	402 0.7×	659 1.1×	253 0.5×	25	2.5k
Paul T. Chippindale United States	26	1.1k 1.3×	496 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	655 1.1×	670 1.4×	44	2.6k
Jean‐François Flot Belgium	28	877 1.0×	492 0.8×	644 1.1×	930 1.6×	388 0.8×	88	2.9k
Matthew L. Niemiller United States	21	574 0.6×	439 0.7×	520 0.8×	295 0.5×	586 1.2×	89	1.7k
Jonathon C. Marshall United States	16	874 1.0×	377 0.6×	567 0.9×	493 0.8×	228 0.5×	26	2.3k

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Thomson, Robert C., et al.. (2025). Dissecting genotype-environment relationships with functional implications for parental selection in Cannabis breeding. Journal of Heredity. 117(1). 24–38.

Thomson, Robert C., et al.. (2024). Complex Models of Sequence Evolution Improve Fit, But Not Gene Tree Discordance, for Tetrapod Mitogenomes. Systematic Biology. 74(1). 86–100. 3 indexed citations

Thomson, Robert C., et al.. (2023). Testing concordance and conflict in spatial replication of landscape genetics inferences. Molecular Ecology. 33(20). e17104–e17104. 3 indexed citations

Thomson, Robert C., et al.. (2023). Biogeographic inferences across spatial and evolutionary scales. Molecular Ecology. 32(8). 2055–2070. 4 indexed citations

Barley, Anthony J., et al.. (2019). Model-Based Species Delimitation: Are Coalescent Species Reproductively Isolated?. Systematic Biology. 69(4). 708–721. 32 indexed citations

Barley, Anthony J., Adrián Nieto‐Montes de, Tod W. Reeder, et al.. (2018). Complex patterns of hybridization and introgression across evolutionary timescales in Mexican whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 132. 284–295. 27 indexed citations

Thomson, Robert C., et al.. (2018). Revised classification of the righteye flounders (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on multilocus phylogeny with complete taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 125. 147–162. 27 indexed citations

Thomson, Robert C., Phillip Q. Spinks, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2017). Molecular phylogeny and divergence of the map turtles (Emydidae: Graptemys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 121. 61–70. 19 indexed citations

de, Adrián Nieto‐Montes, Anthony J. Barley, Rubí N. Meza-Lázaro, et al.. (2016). Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 106. 241–253. 61 indexed citations

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Spinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, Evan McCartney‐Melstad, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2016). Phylogeny and temporal diversification of the New World pond turtles (Emydidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 103. 85–97. 34 indexed citations

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Brown, Jeremy M. & Robert C. Thomson. (2016). Bayes factors unmask highly variable information content, bias, and extreme influence in phylogenomic analyses. Systematic Biology. 66(4). syw101–syw101. 110 indexed citations

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Thomson, Robert C., David C. Plachetzki, D. Luke Mahler, & Brian R. Moore. (2014). A critical appraisal of the use of microRNA data in phylogenetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(35). E3659–68. 49 indexed citations

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Spinks, Phillip Q., et al.. (2014). Multilocus phylogeny of the New-World mud turtles (Kinosternidae) supports the traditional classification of the group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 76. 254–260. 24 indexed citations

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Spinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, Ya‐Ping Zhang, et al.. (2012). Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in the critically endangered Asian box turtle genus Cuora. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 63(3). 656–667. 32 indexed citations

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Thomson, Robert C. & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2010). Rapid progress on the vertebrate tree of life. BMC Biology. 8(1). 19–19. 27 indexed citations

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Thomson, Robert C., Ian Wang, & Jarrett R. Johnson. (2010). Genome-enabled development of DNA markers for ecology, evolution and conservation. Molecular Ecology. 19(11). 2184–2195. 115 indexed citations

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Spinks, Phillip Q., et al.. (2009). Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 56–56. 48 indexed citations

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Spinks, Phillip Q., Robert C. Thomson, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2009). Nuclear gene phylogeography reveals the historical legacy of an ancient inland sea on lineages of the western pond turtle,Emys marmoratain California. Molecular Ecology. 19(3). 542–556. 45 indexed citations

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Thomson, Robert C., Andrew M. Shedlock, Scott V. Edwards, & H. Bradley Shaffer. (2008). Developing markers for multilocus phylogenetics in non-model organisms: A test case with turtles. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 49(2). 514–525. 56 indexed citations

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Shaffer, H. Bradley & Robert C. Thomson. (2007). Delimiting Species in Recent Radiations. Systematic Biology. 56(6). 896–906. 181 indexed citations

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