Sewall Wright

60.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
102 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Sewall Wright is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sewall Wright has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Plant Science, 25 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sewall Wright's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (14 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Sewall Wright is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (14 papers) and Plant and animal studies (13 papers). Sewall Wright collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and China. Sewall Wright's co-authors include A. Upadhyaya, Oscar Kempthorne, G. Ledyard Stebbins, K. A. Nichols, Cedric A. B. Smith, R. N. Curnow, Randy L. Anderson, Rogelio Carrillo‐González, Ma. del Carmen A. Gónzalez‐Chávez and Joseph B. Morton and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sewall Wright

101 papers receiving 12.6k citations

Hit Papers

THE INTERPRETATION OF POPULATION STRUCTURE BY F-STATISTIC... 1965 2026 1985 2005 1965 1965 1978 1998 1968 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. THE INTERPRETATION OF POPULATION STRUCTURE BY F-STATISTICS WITH SPECIAL REGARD TO SYSTEMS OF MATING
    1965 2.6k citations Sewall Wright Evolution profile →
  2. The Interpretation of Population Structure by F-Statistics with Special Regard to Systems of Mating
    1965 1.2k citations Sewall Wright Evolution profile →
  3. Variability within and among natural populations
    1978 1.1k citations Sewall Wright University of Chicago Press eBooks profile →
  4. A survey of soils for aggregate stability and glomalin, a glycoprotein produced by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
    1998 982 citations Sewall Wright et al. Plant and Soil profile →
  5. Evolution and the Genetics of Populations: Volume 2, The Theory of Gene Frequencies
    1968 917 citations Sewall Wright et al. profile →
  6. The theory of gene frequencies
    1969 652 citations Sewall Wright University of Chicago Press eBooks profile →
  7. Evolution and the Genetics of Populations. Volume 3. Experimental Results and Evolutionary Deductions.
    1977 380 citations Sewall Wright et al. profile →
  8. Evolution and the Genetics of Populations. Vol. 2. The Theory of Gene Frequencies.
    1971 334 citations Sewall Wright et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sewall Wright United States 47 6.7k 4.5k 3.6k 2.5k 2.1k 102 13.7k
Janis Antonovics United States 66 4.1k 0.6× 5.6k 1.3× 6.5k 1.8× 2.7k 1.1× 1.7k 0.8× 208 13.6k
Graham Bell Canada 60 5.0k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 4.9k 1.4× 3.6k 1.4× 2.4k 1.1× 220 13.6k
Andrew J. Beattie Australia 50 3.1k 0.5× 2.5k 0.6× 5.5k 1.5× 1.8k 0.7× 821 0.4× 132 8.7k
Michael Doebeli Canada 52 7.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.3× 3.1k 0.9× 4.4k 1.7× 3.0k 1.4× 156 15.8k
John McKay United States 46 3.9k 0.6× 3.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.9× 2.4k 0.9× 2.4k 1.2× 177 11.4k
Eviatar Nevo Israel 78 7.0k 1.0× 15.5k 3.4× 4.0k 1.1× 2.9k 1.2× 5.5k 2.6× 573 24.1k
E. C. Pielou Canada 30 1.5k 0.2× 2.0k 0.5× 2.6k 0.7× 5.3k 2.1× 954 0.4× 71 13.3k
Hugh G. Gauch United States 49 3.0k 0.4× 9.0k 2.0× 2.0k 0.6× 4.0k 1.6× 635 0.3× 100 16.2k
Samuel M. Scheiner United States 47 2.9k 0.4× 1.8k 0.4× 4.8k 1.4× 4.0k 1.6× 770 0.4× 131 11.3k
M. P. Hassell United Kingdom 66 5.7k 0.8× 4.0k 0.9× 7.0k 2.0× 6.7k 2.7× 839 0.4× 139 19.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rust, Michael Κ., Sewall Wright, Les Greenberg, et al.. (2015). Laboratory and Field Evaluations of Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Baits Against Argentine Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Economic Entomology. 108(3). 1228–1236. 35 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall, K. A. Nichols, & Walter Schmidt. (2006). Comparison of efficacy of three extractants to solubilize glomalin on hyphae and in soil. Chemosphere. 64(7). 1219–1224. 41 indexed citations
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Herrick, Jeffrey E., et al.. (2002). Spatial heterogeneity of aggregate stability and soil carbon in semi-arid rangeland. Environmental Pollution. 116(3). 445–455. 152 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (2002). A desktop magnetic resonance imaging system. Magnetic Resonance Materials in Physics Biology and Medicine. 13(3). 177–185. 26 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall, et al.. (2000). Unusually large contribution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi tosoil organic matter pools in tropical forest soils. Plant and soils. Plant and Soil. 233(2). 5 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall & Randy L. Anderson. (2000). Aggregate stability and glomalin in alternative crop rotations for the central Great Plains. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 31(3-4). 249–253. 228 indexed citations
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Roberts, Brenda, Rodrigo Vargas, Daniel S. Munk, et al.. (1997). Soil potassium fertility guidelines for cotton in California.. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 1. 611–613. 1 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1990). Evolution in mendelian populations. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 52(1-2). 241–295. 116 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1988). Surfaces of Selective Value Revisited. The American Naturalist. 131(1). 115–123. 213 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1982). CHARACTER CHANGE, SPECIATION, AND THE HIGHER TAXA. Evolution. 36(3). 427–443. 185 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1978). Variability within and among natural populations. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 1139 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wright, Sewall. (1978). Modes of Speciation. Michael J. D. White W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco. 1978. VIII + 456 pp. illus. $27.50.. Paleobiology. 4(3). 373–379. 8 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1977). Experimental results and evolutionary deductions. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 218 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1969). The theory of gene frequencies. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 652 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wright, Sewall. (1968). Evolution and the genetics of populations : a treatise. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 31(3). 506–11. 46 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1968). Dispersion of Drosophila pseudoobscura. The American Naturalist. 102(923). 81–84. 7 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1964). THE DISTRIBUTION OF SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY ALLELES IN POPULATIONS. Evolution. 18(4). 609–619. 69 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1964). Biology and the Philosophy of Science. The Monist. 48(2). 265–288. 21 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1960). POSTNATAL CHANGES IN THE INTENSITY OF COAT COLOR IN DIVERSE GENOTYPES OF THE GUINEA PIG. Genetics. 45(11). 1503–1529. 3 indexed citations
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Wright, Sewall. (1953). Gene and Organism. The American Naturalist. 87(832). 5–18. 15 indexed citations

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