Sonya M. Clegg

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sonya M. Clegg is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonya M. Clegg has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Ecology, 28 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sonya M. Clegg's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (21 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers). Sonya M. Clegg is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (21 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers). Sonya M. Clegg collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Sonya M. Clegg's co-authors include Ian P. F. Owens, Nicholas J. Clark, Jiro Kikkawa, Arnaud Estoup, Craig Moritz, Sandie M. Degnan, Marcos Robalinho Lima, Thomas B. Smith, Albert B. Phillimore and Mari Kimura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sonya M. Clegg

69 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection

2017 266 citations Adam M. Siepielski, Michael B. Morrissey et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonya M. Clegg United Kingdom	30	1.6k	1.2k	1.1k	732	583	70	3.3k
Gary Voelker United States	29	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	767 0.7×	302 0.4×	613 1.1×	111	2.4k
W. Ian Montgomery United Kingdom	38	3.0k 1.8×	828 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	266 0.4×	939 1.6×	165	4.4k
Maxime Galan France	36	1.7k 1.1×	1.6k 1.4×	899 0.8×	458 0.6×	265 0.5×	117	3.8k
H. C. Proctor Canada	31	1.5k 0.9×	586 0.5×	2.9k 2.7×	1.2k 1.7×	687 1.2×	213	4.4k
Juan Carlos Illera Spain	29	975 0.6×	875 0.8×	779 0.7×	263 0.4×	488 0.8×	88	2.1k
Konstans Wells Germany	27	1.2k 0.7×	393 0.3×	801 0.7×	461 0.6×	736 1.3×	85	2.7k
Gernot Segelbacher Germany	36	2.1k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	998 0.9×	305 0.4×	579 1.0×	120	3.8k
John G. Ewen United Kingdom	35	2.5k 1.5×	666 0.6×	1.5k 1.4×	468 0.6×	769 1.3×	166	3.7k
Josef Bryja Czechia	37	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	183 0.3×	646 1.1×	184	4.0k
Luís Fábio Silveira Brazil	23	1.2k 0.7×	614 0.5×	665 0.6×	191 0.3×	922 1.6×	208	2.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dudgeon, Christine L., et al.. (2024). Genetic patterns reveal geographic drivers of divergence in silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis). Scientific Reports. 14(1). 20426–20426. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Ernest, Āris Jansons, Nadir Erbilgin, et al.. (2024). Long-insert sequence capture detects high copy numbers in a defence-related beta-glucosidase gene βglu-1 with large variations in white spruce but not Norway spruce. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 118–118. 3 indexed citations

Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2023). The effect of divergent and parallel selection on the genomic landscape of divergence. Molecular Ecology. 33(3). e17225–e17225. 2 indexed citations

Smith, W. J. Bernhard & Sonya M. Clegg. (2023). Hybridisation and genomic diversity in British and Irish pigeons Columba livia. European Journal of Wildlife Research. 69(5). 1 indexed citations

Smith, W. J. Bernhard, et al.. (2023). The island syndrome in birds. Journal of Biogeography. 51(9). 1607–1622. 11 indexed citations

Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2022). Insular nestling growth and its relationship to parental care effort in Silvereyes,Zosterops lateralis. Emu - Austral Ornithology. 122(3-4). 193–202. 1 indexed citations

Sendell‐Price, Ashley T., Kristen Ruegg, Eric C. Anderson, et al.. (2020). The Genomic Landscape of Divergence Across the Speciation Continuum in Island-Colonising Silvereyes ( Zosterops lateralis ). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(9). 3147–3163. 22 indexed citations

Valente, Luís, Albert B. Phillimore, Martim Melo, et al.. (2020). A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide. Nature. 579(7797). 92–96. 84 indexed citations

Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2019). The effect of insularity on avian growth rates and implications for insular body size evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1894). 20181967–20181967. 17 indexed citations

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Quilodrán, Claudio S., Kristen Ruegg, Ashley T. Sendell‐Price, et al.. (2019). The multiple population genetic and demographic routes to islands of genomic divergence. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(1). 6–21. 20 indexed citations

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Coulson, Tim, et al.. (2017). The influence of climatic variation and density on the survival of an insular passerine Zosterops lateralis. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0176360–e0176360. 10 indexed citations

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Siepielski, Adam M., Michael B. Morrissey, Mathieu Buoro, et al.. (2017). Precipitation drives global variation in natural selection. Science. 355(6328). 959–962. 266 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clark, Nicholas J., et al.. (2015). Specialist enemies, generalist weapons and the potential spread of exotic pathogens: malaria parasites in a highly invasive bird. International Journal for Parasitology. 45(14). 891–899. 40 indexed citations

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Clark, Nicholas J., Robert D. Adlard, & Sonya M. Clegg. (2014). First evidence of avian malaria in Capricorn Silvereyes (Zosterops Lateralis Chlorocephalus) on Heron Island. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 44(1). 1–11. 3 indexed citations

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Ponce‐Reyes, Rocío, Sonya M. Clegg, Sílvia B. Carvalho, Eve McDonald‐Madden, & Hugh P. Possingham. (2014). Geographical surrogates of genetic variation for selecting island populations for conservation. Diversity and Distributions. 20(6). 640–651. 14 indexed citations

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Stevenson, John C., et al.. (2011). Extra-Curricular Activities: creating graduates with impact in education. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University). 2 indexed citations

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Stevenson, Jacqueline, et al.. (2010). The Leeds Met Book of Student Futures. Leeds Beckett Repository (Leeds Beckett University). 1 indexed citations

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Ishtiaq, Farah, Laurent Guillaumot, Sonya M. Clegg, et al.. (2008). Avian haematozoan parasites and their associations with mosquitoes across Southwest Pacific Islands. Molecular Ecology. 17(20). 4545–4555. 89 indexed citations

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Green, Jonathan M., Jan Vinjé, Chris I. Gallimore, et al.. (2001). Erratum. Virus Genes. 23(2). 241–241. 1 indexed citations

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Clegg, Sonya M., P. T. Hale, & Craig Moritz. (1998). Molecular population genetics of the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus): mtDNA variation. Molecular Ecology. 7(6). 679–686. 37 indexed citations

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