Robin G. Allaby

7.6k citations

73 papers · 3.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 37

Impact in

Paleontology top 1%
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Geography, Planning and Development top 0.2%
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Papers in

Paleontology 18
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 17
Genetics 39
- Genetic diversity and population structure 25
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 17
- Forensic and Genetic Research 7

Co-authors: Dorian Q. Fuller Terence A. Brown Chris J. Stevens Oliver Smith George Willcox Logan Kistler Martin K. Jones Roselyn Ware
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Genome (5 papers)Science (5 papers)Scientific Reports (3 papers)Molecular Biology and Evolution (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States China

In The Last Decade

Robin G. Allaby

72 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Ancient DNA analysis 2021 · 169 citations

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it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Reviews Methods Primers
2014 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	A universally applicable definition for domestication Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kathryn A. Lord, Greger Larson, Robin G. Allaby, Elinor K. Karlsson	2025	2
2	Progress in domestication research: Explaining expanded empirical observations Quaternary Science Reviews ·Dorian Q. Fuller, Tim Denham, Logan Kistler, Chris J. Stevens, Greger Larson, Amy Bogaard, Robin G. Allaby	2022	10
3	A stepwise route to domesticate rice by controlling seed shattering and panicle shape Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ryo Ishikawa, Cristina Castillo, Than Myint Htun, Koji Numaguchi, Kazuya INOUE, Yumi Oka, Miki Ogasawara, Shôhei Sugiyama, Natsumi Takama, Chhourn Orn, Chizuru Inoue, Ken–Ichi Nonomura, Robin G. Allaby, Dorian Q. Fuller, Takashige Ishii	2022	29
4	The Evolutionary History of Wild, Domesticated, and Feral Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae) Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Makenzie E. Mabry, S. Turner, Evan Y. Gallagher, Alex C. McAlvay, Hong An, Patrick P. Edger, Jonathan D. Moore, David Pink, Graham R. Teakle, Chris J. Stevens, Guy C. Barker, Joanne A. Labate, Dorian Q. Fuller, Robin G. Allaby, Timothy Beissinger, Jared E. Decker, Michael A. Gore, J. Chris Pires	2021	58
5	Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective World Archaeology ·Amy Bogaard, Robin G. Allaby, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Robin Bendrey, Sarah L. Crowley, Thomas Cucchi, Tim Denham, Laurent Frantz, Dorian Q. Fuller, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Elinor K. Karlsson, Aurélie Manin, Fiona Marshall, Natalie G. Mueller, Joris Peters, Charles Stépanoff, Alexander Weide, Greger Larson	2021	54
6	Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Robin G. Allaby, Chris J. Stevens, Logan Kistler, Dorian Q. Fuller	2021	55
7	Phylogenomic analysis points to a South American origin of Manihot and illuminates the primary gene pool of cassava New Phytologist ·Marcelo Fragomeni Simon, J. Moises Mendoza F., Hsiao‐Lei Liu, Márcio Lacerda Lopes Martins, Sergei V. Drovetski, Natalia A. S. Przelomska, Hope Loiselle, Taciana Barbosa Cavalcanti, Peter W. Inglis, Natalie G. Mueller, Robin G. Allaby, Fábio de Oliveira Freitas, Logan Kistler	2021	8
8	Ancient DNA analysis Nature Reviews Methods Primers ·Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby, Pontus Skoglund, Clio Der Sarkissian, Philipp W. Stockhammer, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Qiaomei Fu, Johannes Krause, Eske Willerslev, Anne C. Stone, Christina Warinner Hit paper breakdown →	2021	169
9	Archaeological Central American maize genomes suggest ancient gene flow from South America Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Logan Kistler, Heather B. Thakar, Amber M. VanDerwarker, Alejandra I. Domic, Anders Bergström, Richard J. George, Thomas K. Harper, Robin G. Allaby, Kenneth Hirth, Douglas J. Kennett	2020	36
10	Microsatellite marker development in the crop wild relative Linum bienne using genome skimming Applications in Plant Sciences ·Beatrice Landoni, Juan Viruel, Rocío Gómez, Robin G. Allaby, Adrian C. Brennan, F. Xavier Picó, Rocío Pérez‐Barrales	2020	7
11	A Massive, Late Neolithic Pit Structure associated with Durrington Walls Henge Internet Archaeology ·Vincent Gaffney, Eamonn Baldwin, Martin Bates, Richard Bates, Chris Gaffney, Derek A. Hamilton, Tim Kinnaird, Wolfgang Neubauer, R B Yorston, Robin G. Allaby, Henry Chapman, Paul Garwood, Klaus Löcker, Alois Hinterleitner, Tom Sparrow, Immo Trinks, Mario Wallner, Matthew Leivers	2020	9
12	A domestication history of dynamic adaptation and genomic deterioration in Sorghum Nature Plants ·Oliver Smith, William V. Nicholson, Logan Kistler, Emma Mace, Alan Clapham, Pamela Rose, Chris J. Stevens, Roselyn Ware, Siva Samavedam, Guy C. Barker, David Jordan, Dorian Q. Fuller, Robin G. Allaby	2019	68
13	Flax latitudinal adaptation at LuTFL1 altered architecture and promoted fiber production Scientific Reports ·Rafał M. Gutaker, Maricris Zaidem, Yong‐Bi Fu, Axel Diederichsen, Oliver Smith, Roselyn Ware, Robin G. Allaby	2019	17
14	A re‐evaluation of the domestication bottleneck from archaeogenomic evidence Evolutionary Applications ·Robin G. Allaby, Roselyn Ware, Logan Kistler	2018	62
15	Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Robin G. Allaby, Chris J. Stevens, Leilani Lucas, Osamu Maeda, Dorian Q. Fuller	2017	78
16	Phylogeography of herbarium specimens of asexually propagated paper mulberry [Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L’Hér. ex Vent. (Moraceae)] reveals genetic diversity across the Pacific Annals of Botany ·Claudia Payacán, Ximena Moncada, Gloria Rojas, Andrew Clarke, Kuo‐Fang Chung, Robin G. Allaby, Daniela Seelenfreund, Andrea Seelenfreund	2017	13
17	The Limits of Mean-Field Heterozygosity Estimates under Spatial Extension in Simulated Plant Populations PLoS ONE ·James L. Kitchen, Robin G. Allaby	2012	1
18	The complex origins of domesticated crops in the Fertile Crescent Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Terence A. Brown, Martin K. Jones, W. Powell, Robin G. Allaby	2008	213
19	AFLP data and the origins of domesticated crops Genome ·Robin G. Allaby, Terence A. Brown	2003	50
20	DNA in wheat seeds from European archaeological sites Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Terry Brown, Robin G. Allaby, Keri A. Brown, Kerry O'Donoghue, Robert Sallares	1994	39

About Robin G. Allaby

Robin G. Allaby is a scholar working on Paleontology, Genetics, Endocrinology, Geography, Planning and Development and Plant Science, having authored 73 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic diversity and population structure (25 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (17 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (7 papers), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (7 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (946 citations), Geography, Planning and Development (491 citations), Anthropology (518 citations), Genetics (1.4k citations) and Archeology (447 citations). Robin G. Allaby has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Dorian Q. Fuller, Terence A. Brown, Chris J. Stevens, Oliver Smith, George Willcox, Logan Kistler, Martin K. Jones, Roselyn Ware, Nicole Boivin and Yong‐Bi Fu. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Genome, Science, Scientific Reports and Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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