Simon Aeschbacher

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 545 citations indexed

About

Simon Aeschbacher is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Aeschbacher has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 545 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Simon Aeschbacher's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (3 papers). Simon Aeschbacher is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (4 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (3 papers). Simon Aeschbacher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and United States. Simon Aeschbacher's co-authors include Graham Coop, Ivan Jurić, Reinhard Bürger, Mark Beaumont, Andreas Futschik, Fanny Pouyet, John H. Willis, Laurent Excoffier, Sam Yeaman and Simon H. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Biology and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Simon Aeschbacher

12 papers receiving 539 citations

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The Strength of Selection against Neanderthal Introgression

2016 179 citations Ivan Jurić, Simon Aeschbacher et al. PLoS Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Aeschbacher Switzerland	9	433	136	65	59	58	12	545
Willy Rodríguez France	7	376 0.9×	125 0.9×	39 0.6×	37 0.6×	122 2.1×	9	477
Arun Durvasula United States	13	587 1.4×	288 2.1×	104 1.6×	212 3.6×	85 1.5×	17	808
Simona Grusea France	7	238 0.5×	98 0.7×	24 0.4×	24 0.4×	83 1.4×	16	359
Mason Liang United States	6	353 0.8×	126 0.9×	26 0.4×	37 0.6×	45 0.8×	8	462
Alexandre Gouy Switzerland	7	456 1.1×	245 1.8×	52 0.8×	46 0.8×	86 1.5×	12	564
Mark Whitten Germany	7	443 1.0×	193 1.4×	29 0.4×	19 0.3×	93 1.6×	8	591
Kristian Hanghøj Denmark	15	500 1.2×	273 2.0×	23 0.4×	42 0.7×	202 3.5×	21	663
Yan Wong United Kingdom	7	220 0.5×	122 0.9×	24 0.4×	28 0.5×	22 0.4×	8	371
Anneleen Van Geystelen Belgium	14	477 1.1×	138 1.0×	132 2.0×	38 0.6×	50 0.9×	18	564
Lolke van der Veen France	4	260 0.6×	48 0.4×	23 0.4×	7 0.1×	32 0.6×	5	416

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Aeschbacher

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Potente, Giacomo, Narjes Yousefi, Simon Aeschbacher, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the Genome-Wide Consequences of Range Expansion and Mating System Transitions in Primula vulgaris. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(10). 1 indexed citations

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Laetsch, Dominik R., et al.. (2023). Demographically explicit scans for barriers to gene flow using gIMble. PLoS Genetics. 19(10). e1010999–e1010999. 16 indexed citations

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Aeschbacher, Simon, Michael Krützen, Adelgunde Kratzer, et al.. (2023). Comparative evaluation of the MAPlex, Precision ID Ancestry Panel, and VISAGE Basic Tool for biogeographical ancestry inference. Forensic Science International Genetics. 64. 102850–102850. 6 indexed citations

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Capodiferro, Marco Rosario, Hiba Babiker, Simon Aeschbacher, et al.. (2023). The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry. Current Biology. 33(13). 2602–2615.e5. 8 indexed citations

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Blanckenhorn, Wolf U., Martin A. Schäfer, Kentaro K. Shimizu, et al.. (2023). Geographic Variation in Genomic Signals of Admixture Between Two Closely Related European Sepsid Fly Species. Evolutionary Biology. 50(4). 395–412. 1 indexed citations

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Pouyet, Fanny, et al.. (2018). Background selection and biased gene conversion affect more than 95% of the human genome and bias demographic inferences. eLife. 7. 85 indexed citations

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Aeschbacher, Simon, et al.. (2017). Population-genomic inference of the strength and timing of selection against gene flow. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(27). 7061–7066. 83 indexed citations

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Jurić, Ivan, Simon Aeschbacher, & Graham Coop. (2016). The Strength of Selection against Neanderthal Introgression. PLoS Genetics. 12(11). e1006340–e1006340. 179 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yeaman, Sam, Simon Aeschbacher, & Reinhard Bürger. (2016). The evolution of genomic islands by increased establishment probability of linked alleles. Molecular Ecology. 25(11). 2542–2558. 53 indexed citations

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Aeschbacher, Simon & Reinhard Bürger. (2014). The Effect of Linkage on Establishment and Survival of Locally Beneficial Mutations. Genetics. 197(1). 317–336. 39 indexed citations

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Aeschbacher, Simon, Andreas Futschik, & Mark Beaumont. (2013). Approximate Bayesian computation for modular inference problems with many parameters: the example of migration rates. Molecular Ecology. 22(4). 987–1002. 10 indexed citations

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Aeschbacher, Simon, Mark Beaumont, & Andreas Futschik. (2012). A Novel Approach for Choosing Summary Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation. Genetics. 192(3). 1027–1047. 64 indexed citations

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