Sara Rocha

1.2k total citations
38 papers, 771 citations indexed

About

Sara Rocha is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Genetics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Rocha has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 771 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Sara Rocha's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (25 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers). Sara Rocha is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (25 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers). Sara Rocha collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Germany. Sara Rocha's co-authors include D. James Harris, David Posada, Miguel Á. Carretero, Merly Escalona, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Nuno Ferrand, Fernando Sequeira, J. W. Arntzen and João Alexandrino and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Sara Rocha

38 papers receiving 743 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sara Rocha Portugal 14 430 352 216 203 191 38 771
Jie‐Qiong Jin China 17 382 0.9× 356 1.0× 221 1.0× 220 1.1× 192 1.0× 36 794
Xiaomao Zeng China 18 453 1.1× 482 1.4× 143 0.7× 425 2.1× 242 1.3× 75 972
Tyler Linderoth United States 9 615 1.4× 124 0.4× 141 0.7× 446 2.2× 199 1.0× 18 1.0k
Jiří Moravec Czechia 20 562 1.3× 717 2.0× 421 1.9× 116 0.6× 293 1.5× 52 1.0k
Barbara L. Banbury United States 8 239 0.6× 153 0.4× 81 0.4× 169 0.8× 144 0.8× 19 539
Mario Lo Valvo Italy 16 287 0.7× 267 0.8× 207 1.0× 78 0.4× 175 0.9× 64 731
Xiangjiang Zhan China 18 340 0.8× 92 0.3× 269 1.2× 194 1.0× 130 0.7× 56 850
Helena Gonçalves Portugal 16 396 0.9× 359 1.0× 275 1.3× 106 0.5× 158 0.8× 26 653
Leo J. Borkin Russia 19 529 1.2× 489 1.4× 197 0.9× 199 1.0× 200 1.0× 70 922
Natalia M. Belfiore United States 10 375 0.9× 84 0.2× 81 0.4× 173 0.9× 116 0.6× 16 670

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Rocha

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sara Rocha

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Rocha

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Rocha. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Rocha based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara Rocha. Sara Rocha is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rocha, Sara, et al.. (2023). Transcriptomic landscape of the kleptoplastic sea slug Elysia viridis. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 89(1). 1 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Luı́s, et al.. (2023). Aliens on Boats? The Eastern and Western Expansion of the African House Gecko. Genes. 14(2). 381–381. 3 indexed citations
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Nussbaum, Ronald A., Julia J. Day, Leigh C. Latta, et al.. (2020). The roles of vicariance and isolation by distance in shaping biotic diversification across an ancient archipelago: evidence from a Seychelles caecilian amphibian. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 110–110. 4 indexed citations
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Blom, Mozes P. K., Nicholas J. Matzke, Jason G. Bragg, et al.. (2019). Habitat preference modulates trans-oceanic dispersal in a terrestrial vertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1904). 20182575–20182575. 25 indexed citations
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Escalona, Merly, Sara Rocha, & David Posada. (2018). NGSphy: phylogenomic simulation of next-generation sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 34(14). 2506–2507. 5 indexed citations
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Escalona, Merly, Sara Rocha, & David Posada. (2018). Author Correction: A comparison of tools for the simulation of genomic next-generation sequencing data. Nature Reviews Genetics. 19(11). 733–733. 1 indexed citations
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Vasconcelos, Raquel, Sara Rocha, & Xavier Santos. (2017). Sharing refuges on arid islands: ecological and social influence on aggregation behaviour of wall geckos. PeerJ. 5. e2802–e2802. 6 indexed citations
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Ribeiro, Ângela M., Andrew D. Foote, Anne Kupczok, et al.. (2016). Marine genomics: News and views. Marine Genomics. 31. 1–8. 13 indexed citations
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Escalona, Merly, Sara Rocha, & David Posada. (2016). A comparison of tools for the simulation of genomic next-generation sequencing data. Nature Reviews Genetics. 17(8). 459–469. 114 indexed citations
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Freitas, Susana, Sara Rocha, João C. Campos, et al.. (2016). Parthenogenesis through the ice ages: A biogeographic analysis of Caucasian rock lizards (genus Darevskia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 102. 117–127. 44 indexed citations
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Harris, D. James, et al.. (2015). 02. Deep genetic differentiation within [I]Janetaescincus[/I] spp. (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Seychelles Islands. Herpetological Journal. 25(4). 205–213. 4 indexed citations
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Harris, D. James, et al.. (2013). Phylogenetic relationships of Trachylepis skink species from Madagascar and the Seychelles (Squamata: Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 67(3). 615–620. 16 indexed citations
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Fonseca, Miguel M., Sara Rocha, & David Posada. (2012). Base-Pairing Versatility Determines Wobble Sites in tRNA Anticodons of Vertebrate Mitogenomes. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36605–e36605. 3 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, D. James Harris, & David Posada. (2011). Cryptic diversity within the endemic prehensile-tailed geckoUrocotyledon inexpectataacross the Seychelles Islands: patterns of phylogeographical structure and isolation at the multilocus level. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 104(1). 177–191. 19 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, Miguel Á. Carretero, & D. James Harris. (2010). On the diversity, colonization patterns and status of Hemidactylus spp. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the Western Indian Ocean islands. Herpetological Journal. 20(2). 83–89. 14 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, Miguel Vences, Frank Glaw, David Posada, & D. James Harris. (2009). Multigene phylogeny of Malagasy day geckos of the genus Phelsuma. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 52(2). 530–537. 51 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, David Posada, Miguel Á. Carretero, & D. James Harris. (2006). Phylogenetic affinities of Comoroan and East African day geckos (genus Phelsuma): Multiple natural colonisations, introductions and island radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 43(2). 685–692. 31 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, Miguel Á. Carretero, & D. James Harris. (2005). Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Hemidactylus geckos from the Comoro islands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 35(1). 292–299. 31 indexed citations
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Rocha, Sara, Miguel Á. Carretero, & D. James Harris. (2005). Mitochondrial DNA sequence data suggests two independent colonizations of the Comoros archipelago by Chameleons of the genus Furcifer. 12 indexed citations

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