Sonal Singhal

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Sonal Singhal is a scholar working on Genetics, Global and Planetary Change and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonal Singhal has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Genetics, 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Sonal Singhal's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (31 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Sonal Singhal is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (31 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Sonal Singhal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Sonal Singhal's co-authors include Craig Moritz, Daniel L. Rabosky, Ke Bi, Tyler Linderoth, Jeffrey M. Good, Dan Vanderpool, Maggie R. Grundler, Michael Harvey, Guarino Rinaldi Colli and Simon C. Griffith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Sonal Singhal

35 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

2024 40 citations Pascal O. Title, Sonal Singhal et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonal Singhal United States	21	999	546	401	390	371	37	1.5k
Sally Potter Australia	22	873 0.9×	478 0.9×	296 0.7×	352 0.9×	365 1.0×	47	1.4k
Jeffrey W. Streicher United States	24	723 0.7×	495 0.9×	447 1.1×	757 1.9×	323 0.9×	71	1.6k
Jordan D. Satler United States	10	789 0.8×	434 0.8×	503 1.3×	233 0.6×	396 1.1×	17	1.5k
Tara A. Pelletier United States	12	630 0.6×	361 0.7×	446 1.1×	264 0.7×	412 1.1×	23	1.3k
Ben Wielstra Netherlands	25	1.0k 1.1×	373 0.7×	343 0.9×	631 1.6×	607 1.6×	88	1.8k
Charles W. Linkem United States	22	769 0.8×	445 0.8×	437 1.1×	834 2.1×	325 0.9×	35	1.5k
Sangeet Lamichhaney United States	16	1.3k 1.3×	685 1.3×	481 1.2×	197 0.5×	381 1.0×	28	1.9k
Peter A. Hosner United States	21	786 0.8×	521 1.0×	480 1.2×	257 0.7×	558 1.5×	65	1.7k
Yann Surget‐Groba France	22	618 0.6×	424 0.8×	535 1.3×	570 1.5×	433 1.2×	48	1.5k
Daren C. Card United States	24	802 0.8×	475 0.9×	285 0.7×	328 0.8×	273 0.7×	43	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Singhal, Sonal, Ivan Prates, Huateng Huang, et al.. (2025). Adaptive radiation, ‘taxon murk’, and the reality of early burst speciation: an example from Australia’s scincid lizards. 4(1).

Singhal, Sonal, et al.. (2024). Population structure and natural selection across a flower color polymorphism in the desert plant Encelia farinosa. American Journal of Botany. 111(10). e16413–e16413. 1 indexed citations

Singhal, Sonal, et al.. (2024). Comparative approaches to understanding speciation: a case study in Xantusia lizards. 3(1). 3 indexed citations

Title, Pascal O., Sonal Singhal, Michael C. Gründler, et al.. (2024). The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes. Science. 383(6685). 918–923. 40 indexed citations breakdown →

Brennan, Ian G., Sonal Singhal, & Ziad Al Bkhetan. (2024). pipesnake : generalized software for the assembly and analysis of phylogenomic datasets from conserved genomic loci. Bioinformatics. 40(5).

Singhal, Sonal, et al.. (2021). Diversification, disparification and hybridization in the desert shrubs Encelia. New Phytologist. 230(3). 1228–1241. 18 indexed citations

Singhal, Sonal, Adam B. Roddy, Felipe Zapata, et al.. (2020). Natural selection maintains species despite frequent hybridization in the desert shrub Encelia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(52). 33373–33383. 19 indexed citations

Zeng, Yu, et al.. (2020). A Tale of Winglets: Evolution of Flight Morphology in Stick Insects. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 8. 18 indexed citations

Fujita, Matthew K., et al.. (2020). Evolutionary Dynamics and Consequences of Parthenogenesis in Vertebrates. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 51(1). 191–214. 29 indexed citations

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Bi, Ke, Tyler Linderoth, Sonal Singhal, et al.. (2019). Temporal genomic contrasts reveal rapid evolutionary responses in an alpine mammal during recent climate change. PLoS Genetics. 15(5). e1008119–e1008119. 59 indexed citations

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Harvey, Michael, Sonal Singhal, & Daniel L. Rabosky. (2019). Beyond Reproductive Isolation: Demographic Controls on the Speciation Process. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 50(1). 75–95. 76 indexed citations

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Grundler, Maggie R., Sonal Singhal, Mark A. Cowan, & Daniel L. Rabosky. (2019). Is genomic diversity a useful proxy for census population size? Evidence from a species‐rich community of desert lizards. Molecular Ecology. 28(7). 1664–1674. 20 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal, Maggie R. Grundler, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, & Daniel L. Rabosky. (2017). Squamate Conserved Loci (SqCL): A unified set of conserved loci for phylogenomics and population genetics of squamate reptiles. Molecular Ecology Resources. 17(6). e12–e24. 42 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal, Ellen M. Leffler, Isaac Turner, et al.. (2015). Stable recombination hotspots in birds. Science. 350(6263). 928–932. 226 indexed citations

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Brandley, Matthew C., Jason G. Bragg, Sonal Singhal, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the performance of anchored hybrid enrichment at the tips of the tree of life: a phylogenetic analysis of Australian Eugongylus group scincid lizards. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 62–62. 55 indexed citations

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Bi, Ke, Dan Vanderpool, Sonal Singhal, et al.. (2012). Transcriptome-based exon capture enables highly cost-effective comparative genomic data collection at moderate evolutionary scales. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 403–403. 211 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal & Craig Moritz. (2012). Testing hypotheses for genealogical discordance in a rainforest lizard. Molecular Ecology. 21(20). 5059–5072. 28 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal & Craig Moritz. (2011). STRONG SELECTION AGAINST HYBRIDS MAINTAINS A NARROW CONTACT ZONE BETWEEN MORPHOLOGICALLY CRYPTIC LINEAGES IN A RAINFOREST LIZARD. Evolution. 66(5). 1474–1489. 41 indexed citations

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Rowe, Kevin C., Sonal Singhal, Matthew D. MacManes, et al.. (2011). Museum genomics: low‐cost and high‐accuracy genetic data from historical specimens. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(6). 1082–1092. 115 indexed citations

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Singhal, Sonal & Michele A. Johnson. (2007). The behavioral ecology of sleep: Natural sleeping site choice in three Anolis lizard species. Behaviour. 144(9). 1033–1052. 34 indexed citations

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