Roger Vila

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
178 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Roger Vila is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger Vila has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Genetics, 127 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 42 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Roger Vila's work include Plant and animal studies (119 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (100 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (48 papers). Roger Vila is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (119 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (100 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (48 papers). Roger Vila collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Finland. Roger Vila's co-authors include Vlad Dincă, Gerard Talavera, Naomi E. Pierce, Vladimir A. Lukhtanov, Leonardo Dapporto, Charles D. Bell, S. Bruce Archibald, Corrie S. Moreau, Raluca Vodă and Michael F. Braby and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roger Vila

171 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Phylogeny of the Ants: Diversification in the Age of Angiosperms

2006 639 citations Roger Vila, Naomi E. Pierce et al. profile →
A Comprehensive and Dated Phylogenomic Analysis of Butterflies

2018 235 citations Roger Vila, Gerard Talavera et al. Current Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger Vila Spain	40	3.8k	3.6k	1.1k	1.0k	928	178	5.7k
Zachariah Gompert United States	39	3.9k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	513 0.5×	1.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	122	6.0k
André Victor Lucci Freitas Brazil	40	3.9k 1.0×	4.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	354 0.4×	1.7k 1.8×	298	5.9k
Charles Mitter United States	46	3.2k 0.8×	4.0k 1.1×	522 0.5×	1.2k 1.2×	881 0.9×	82	6.1k
Christopher W. Wheat Sweden	35	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.5×	526 0.5×	1.3k 1.3×	503 0.5×	98	4.5k
Nadir Álvarez Switzerland	33	1.7k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	497 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	694 0.7×	128	3.9k
Marko Mutanen Finland	34	2.4k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	770 0.7×	728 0.7×	407 0.4×	124	3.6k
Andreas Tribsch Austria	29	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.7×	773 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	71	4.9k
David K. Yeates Australia	38	1.7k 0.4×	3.2k 0.9×	621 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	616 0.7×	175	6.0k
Chris C. Nice United States	33	1.9k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	656 0.6×	363 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	93	4.0k
Leonardo Dapporto Italy	36	2.0k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	864 0.8×	323 0.3×	963 1.0×	164	3.7k

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Vila, Roger, et al.. (2025). Evolution of Hybrid Inviability Associated With Chromosome Fusions. Molecular Ecology. 34(24). e17672–e17672. 1 indexed citations

Wright, Charlotte J, et al.. (2025). Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly. Current Biology. 35(19). 4727–4742.e7. 1 indexed citations

Laetsch, Dominik R., et al.. (2025). Wolbachia Host Shifts and Widespread Occurrence of Reproductive Manipulation Loci in European Butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 34(21). e70125–e70125.

Koutecký, Petr, et al.. (2025). Polyommatine Blue Butterflies Reveal Unexpected Integrity of the W Sex Chromosome Amid Extensive Chromosomal Fragmentation Linked to Telomere Restoration. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(9).

Vila, Roger, et al.. (2024). Regional differences in thermoregulation between two European butterfly communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 93(2). 183–195. 3 indexed citations

Vila, Roger, et al.. (2024). Temporal dynamics of faster neo-Z evolution in butterflies. Evolution. 78(9). 1554–1567. 4 indexed citations

Sáez, Llorenç, Mattia Menchetti, Stefano Scalercio, et al.. (2024). Pollen metabarcoding reveals the origin and multigenerational migratory pathway of an intercontinental-scale butterfly outbreak. Current Biology. 34(12). 2684–2692.e6. 9 indexed citations

Nazari, Vazrick, et al.. (2024). Co-Evolution of Iolana Blues with Their Host Plants and the Higher Phylogeny of Subtribe Scolitantidina (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Diversity. 16(2). 89–89. 2 indexed citations

Schifani, Enrico, et al.. (2024). Alien ants spreading through Europe: Brachyponera chinensis and Nylanderia vividula in Italy. ZooKeys. 12. e123502–e123502. 3 indexed citations

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Yıldırım, Yeşerin, et al.. (2023). Large-scale spatial variation and phenotypic integration in three Argynnini species inform about functions and evolutionary drivers of butterfly wings. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 1 indexed citations

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Talavera, Gerard, Gabriel J. Bowen, Roger Vila, et al.. (2023). A hydrogen isoscape for tracing the migration of herbivorous lepidopterans across the Afro‐Palearctic range. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 38(3). e9675–e9675. 3 indexed citations

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Talla, Venkat, Roger Vila, Kar‐Wai Hong, et al.. (2022). Migratory behaviour is positively associated with genetic diversity in butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 32(3). 560–574. 28 indexed citations

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Dapporto, Leonardo, et al.. (2022). Hybridization fuelled diversification in Spialia butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 31(10). 2951–2967. 12 indexed citations

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Laetsch, Dominik R., Leonardo Dapporto, Alexander Hayward, et al.. (2021). The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: Evidence from European butterfly sister species. Molecular Ecology. 30(14). 3575–3589. 36 indexed citations

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Koubínová, Darina, Vlad Dincă, Miguel L. Munguira, et al.. (2020). Rapid colour shift by reproductive character displacement in Cupido butterflies. Molecular Ecology. 29(24). 4942–4955. 10 indexed citations

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Koubínová, Darina, et al.. (2019). A mirage of cryptic species: Genomics uncover striking mitonuclear discordance in the butterfly Thymelicus sylvestris. Molecular Ecology. 28(17). 3857–3868. 78 indexed citations

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Suchan, Tomasz, Gerard Talavera, Llorenç Sáez, Michał Ronikier, & Roger Vila. (2018). Pollen metabarcoding as a tool for tracking long‐distance insect migrations. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(1). 149–162. 63 indexed citations

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Lukhtanov, Vladimir A., Vlad Dincă, Magne Friberg, et al.. (2018). Versatility of multivalent orientation, inverted meiosis, and rescued fitness in holocentric chromosomal hybrids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(41). E9610–E9619. 61 indexed citations

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Pitteloud, Camille, Nils Arrigo, Tomasz Suchan, et al.. (2017). Climatic niche evolution is faster in sympatric than allopatric lineages of the butterfly genusPyrgus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1852). 20170208–20170208. 15 indexed citations

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Marín, Mario A., et al.. (2015). Butterflies of an Andean periurban cloud forest in the Aburrá valley, Colombia. DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)). 5 indexed citations

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