Scott Williamson

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
28 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Scott Williamson is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Scott Williamson has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Genetics, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Scott Williamson's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers). Scott Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (5 papers). Scott Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Indonesia. Scott Williamson's co-authors include Carlos D. Bustamante, Ryan D. Hernandez, Rasmus Nielsen, Andrew G. Clark, Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Melissa J. Hubisz, Richard O. Prum, Hong Gao, Adi Fledel-Alon and Rodolfo H. Torres and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Journal of Finance.

In The Last Decade

Scott Williamson

27 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations from Multidimensional SNP Frequency Data

2009 1.2k citations Ryan N. Gutenkunst, Ryan D. Hernandez et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data

2005 716 citations Rasmus Nielsen, Scott Williamson et al. Genome Research profile →
Natural selection on protein-coding genes in the human genome

2005 579 citations Carlos D. Bustamante, Adi Fledel-Alon et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Scott Williamson United States	24	4.0k	2.1k	1.2k	774	509	28	6.3k
Guojie Zhang China	49	3.6k 0.9×	3.6k 1.7×	1.9k 1.6×	1.5k 1.9×	935 1.8×	224	8.8k
Wolfgang Stephan Germany	48	5.3k 1.3×	3.2k 1.5×	2.6k 2.2×	1.0k 1.3×	633 1.2×	127	8.0k
Paulien Hogeweg Netherlands	40	1.7k 0.4×	3.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	558 0.7×	475 0.9×	144	6.0k
Akihiro Shima Japan	38	2.8k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	909 0.8×	201 0.3×	371 0.7×	183	6.1k
Adrian E. Platts United States	20	3.4k 0.8×	4.2k 2.0×	2.6k 2.2×	507 0.7×	495 1.0×	56	9.1k
Joachim Hermisson Austria	35	3.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	551 0.5×	987 1.3×	516 1.0×	68	5.1k
Fyodor A. Kondrashov United States	39	2.5k 0.6×	4.5k 2.2×	1.3k 1.1×	479 0.6×	631 1.2×	85	6.9k
David D. Pollock United States	36	2.3k 0.6×	4.0k 1.9×	1.4k 1.2×	670 0.9×	773 1.5×	95	5.9k
Éric Durand France	35	3.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	554 0.5×	522 0.7×	1.2k 2.4×	78	5.9k
A. T. Sumner United Kingdom	29	3.5k 0.9×	3.7k 1.8×	4.4k 3.7×	488 0.6×	360 0.7×	84	7.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Scott Williamson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Scott Williamson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Scott Williamson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williamson, Scott. (2011). The Moral Hazard Theory of Corporate Financial Structure: Empirical Tests. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

Andrés, Aida M., Megan Y. Dennis, Warren W. Kretzschmar, et al.. (2010). Balancing Selection Maintains a Form of ERAP2 that Undergoes Nonsense-Mediated Decay and Affects Antigen Presentation. PLoS Genetics. 6(10). e1001157–e1001157. 186 indexed citations

Gutenkunst, Ryan N., Ryan D. Hernandez, Scott Williamson, & Carlos D. Bustamante. (2009). Inferring the Joint Demographic History of Multiple Populations from Multidimensional SNP Frequency Data. PLoS Genetics. 5(10). e1000695–e1000695. 1244 indexed citations breakdown →

Boyko, Adam R., Scott Williamson, Amit Indap, et al.. (2008). Assessing the Evolutionary Impact of Amino Acid Mutations in the Human Genome. PLoS Genetics. 4(5). e1000083–e1000083. 459 indexed citations

Hernandez, Ryan D., et al.. (2007). Context-Dependent Mutation Rates May Cause Spurious Signatures of a Fixation Bias Favoring Higher GC-Content in Humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(10). 2196–2202. 34 indexed citations

Sweeney, Megan, Michael J. Thomson, Yong Gu Cho, et al.. (2007). Global Dissemination of a Single Mutation Conferring White Pericarp in Rice. PLoS Genetics. 3(8). e133–e133. 224 indexed citations

Hernandez, Ryan D., Scott Williamson, & Carlos D. Bustamante. (2007). Context Dependence, Ancestral Misidentification, and Spurious Signatures of Natural Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(8). 1792–1800. 112 indexed citations

Williamson, Scott, Melissa J. Hubisz, Andrew G. Clark, et al.. (2007). Localizing Recent Adaptive Evolution in the Human Genome. PLoS Genetics. 3(6). e90–e90. 354 indexed citations

Caicedo, Ana L., Scott Williamson, Ryan D. Hernandez, et al.. (2007). Genome-Wide Patterns of Nucleotide Polymorphism in Domesticated Rice. PLoS Genetics. 3(9). e163–e163. 336 indexed citations

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Gardner, Michelle, Scott Williamson, Ferrán Casals, et al.. (2007). Extreme individual marker FST values do not imply population-specific selection in humans: the NRG1 example. Human Genetics. 121(6). 759–762. 20 indexed citations

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Clark, Andrew G., Melissa J. Hubisz, Carlos D. Bustamante, Scott Williamson, & Rasmus Nielsen. (2005). Ascertainment bias in studies of human genome-wide polymorphism. Genome Research. 15(11). 1496–1502. 362 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Rasmus, Scott Williamson, Yuseob Kim, et al.. (2005). Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data. Genome Research. 15(11). 1566–1575. 716 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bustamante, Carlos D., Adi Fledel-Alon, Scott Williamson, et al.. (2005). Natural selection on protein-coding genes in the human genome. Nature. 437(7062). 1153–1157. 579 indexed citations breakdown →

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Williamson, Scott, Ryan D. Hernandez, Adi Fledel-Alon, et al.. (2005). Simultaneous inference of selection and population growth from patterns of variation in the human genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(22). 7882–7887. 249 indexed citations

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Williamson, Scott, et al.. (2004). A Statistical Characterization of Consistent Patterns of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Evolution Within Infected Patients. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(3). 456–468. 37 indexed citations

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Kelly, John K., Scott Williamson, Maria E. Orive, Marilyn S. Smith, & Robert D. Holt. (2003). Linking Dynamical and Population Genetic Models of Persistent Viral Infection. The American Naturalist. 162(1). 14–28. 24 indexed citations

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Williamson, Scott & Maria E. Orive. (2002). The Genealogy of a Sequence Subject to Purifying Selection at Multiple Sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19(8). 1376–1384. 64 indexed citations

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Prum, Richard O. & Scott Williamson. (2002). Reaction–diffusion models of within-feather pigmentation patterning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 269(1493). 781–792. 73 indexed citations

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Prum, Richard O. & Scott Williamson. (2001). Theory of the growth and evolution of feather shape. Journal of Experimental Zoology. 291(1). 30–57. 85 indexed citations

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Kelly, John K. & Scott Williamson. (2000). Predicting Response to Selection on a Quantitative Trait: A Comparison between Models for Mixed-mating Populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 207(1). 37–56. 15 indexed citations

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