Steven Weaver

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Steven Weaver is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Weaver has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Steven Weaver's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (6 papers). Steven Weaver is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (6 papers). Steven Weaver collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Steven Weaver's co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Joel O. Wertheim, Stephen D. Shank, Ben Murrell, Stephanie J. Spielman, Spencer V. Muse, Davey M. Smith, Konrad Scheffler, Michael Li and Andrew Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Steven Weaver

32 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Datamonkey 2.0: A Modern Web Application for Characterizing Selective and Other Evolutionary Processes

2017 619 citations Steven Weaver, Stephen D. Shank et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selection

2015 486 citations Davey M. Smith, Joel O. Wertheim et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

2015 383 citations Ben Murrell, Steven Weaver et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies

2019 367 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Art F. Y. Poon et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven Weaver United States	20	1.2k	757	686	452	449	33	2.9k
Wayne Delport South Africa	19	709 0.6×	492 0.6×	579 0.8×	312 0.7×	297 0.7×	29	2.3k
Alex D. Greenwood Germany	33	1.2k 1.0×	390 0.5×	775 1.1×	475 1.1×	781 1.7×	125	3.3k
Thomas Weighill United States	5	708 0.6×	554 0.7×	542 0.8×	349 0.8×	250 0.6×	14	2.2k
Jan Fredrik Simons United States	17	1.2k 1.0×	627 0.8×	617 0.9×	287 0.6×	267 0.6×	25	2.7k
Michael Charleston Australia	26	1.2k 1.0×	511 0.7×	1.2k 1.7×	503 1.1×	470 1.0×	95	3.4k
John B. Dame United States	44	1.5k 1.3×	735 1.0×	484 0.7×	460 1.0×	1.0k 2.3×	113	5.9k
Vladimir N. Minin United States	26	1.0k 0.9×	419 0.6×	1.2k 1.7×	277 0.6×	339 0.8×	65	2.8k
Christina L. Burch United States	25	1.2k 1.0×	401 0.5×	1.5k 2.2×	553 1.2×	656 1.5×	46	3.0k
Juha T. Huiskonen United Kingdom	37	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 2.1×	459 0.7×	381 0.8×	863 1.9×	85	3.6k
J. Scott Armstrong United States	28	1.1k 1.0×	797 1.1×	417 0.6×	1.4k 3.2×	273 0.6×	125	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Weaver

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Weaver

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Weaver

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20 of 20 papers shown

Weaver, Steven, et al.. (2024). AUTO-TUNE: selecting the distance threshold for inferring HIV transmission clusters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1400003–1400003. 1 indexed citations

Miura, Sayaka, Maxwell Sanderford, Qiqing Tao, et al.. (2022). TopHap: rapid inference of key phylogenetic structures from common haplotypes in large genome collections with limited diversity. Bioinformatics. 38(10). 2719–2726. 4 indexed citations

Maher, M. Cyrus, István Bartha, Steven Weaver, et al.. (2022). Predicting the mutational drivers of future SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. Science Translational Medicine. 14(633). eabk3445–eabk3445. 99 indexed citations

Kumar, Sudhir, Qiqing Tao, Steven Weaver, et al.. (2021). An Evolutionary Portrait of the Progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and Its Dominant Offshoots in COVID-19 Pandemic. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(8). 3046–3059. 41 indexed citations

MacLean, Oscar A., Spyros Lytras, Steven Weaver, et al.. (2021). Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001115–e3001115. 121 indexed citations

Lucaci, Alexander G., Sadie R Wisotsky, Stephen D. Shank, Steven Weaver, & Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. (2021). Extra base hits: Widespread empirical support for instantaneous multiple-nucleotide changes. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0248337–e0248337. 11 indexed citations

Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Sadie R Wisotsky, Ananías A. Escalante, Brittany Rife Magalis, & Steven Weaver. (2020). Contrast-FEL—A Test for Differences in Selective Pressures at Individual Sites among Clades and Sets of Branches. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(3). 1184–1198. 35 indexed citations

Baker, Dannon, Marius van den Beek, Daniel Blankenberg, et al.. (2020). No more business as usual: Agile and effective responses to emerging pathogen threats require open data and open analytics. PLoS Pathogens. 16(8). e1008643–e1008643. 17 indexed citations

Spielman, Stephanie J., Steven Weaver, Stephen D. Shank, et al.. (2019). Evolution of Viral Genomes: Interplay Between Selection, Recombination, and Other Forces. Methods in molecular biology. 427–468. 46 indexed citations

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Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Art F. Y. Poon, Ryan Velazquez, et al.. (2019). HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 295–299. 367 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shank, Stephen D., Steven Weaver, & Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. (2018). phylotree.js - a JavaScript library for application development and interactive data visualization in phylogenetics. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 276–276. 37 indexed citations

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Eren, Kemal, Steven Weaver, Melissa Smith, et al.. (2018). Full-Length Envelope Analyzer (FLEA): A tool for longitudinal analysis of viral amplicons. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(12). e1006498–e1006498. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Melissa, Ben Murrell, Kemal Eren, et al.. (2016). Rapid Sequencing of CompleteenvGenes from Primary HIV-1 Samples. Virus Evolution. 2(2). vew018–vew018. 17 indexed citations

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Murrell, Ben, Steven Weaver, Martin D. Smith, et al.. (2015). Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(5). 1365–1371. 383 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Davey M., Joel O. Wertheim, Steven Weaver, et al.. (2015). Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(5). 1342–1353. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scheffler, Konrad, Steven Weaver, Ben Murrell, et al.. (2014). IDEPI: Rapid Prediction of HIV-1 Antibody Epitopes and Other Phenotypic Features from Sequence Data Using a Flexible Machine Learning Platform. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(9). e1003842–e1003842. 37 indexed citations

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Rongnoparut, Pornpimol & Steven Weaver. (1991). Isolation and characterization of a cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase-encoding cDNA from mouse liver. Gene. 101(2). 261–265. 39 indexed citations

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Weaver, Steven, et al.. (1986). A naturally occurring deletion in the mouse Hbbs beta-globin gene cluster.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 83(12). 4374–4378. 7 indexed citations

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Weaver, Steven, et al.. (1985). Evolution of the mouse beta-globin genes: a recent gene conversion in the Hbbs haplotype.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2(4). 304–20. 27 indexed citations

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Hutchison, Clyde A., Stephen C. Hardies, Richard W. Padgett, Steven Weaver, & Marshall H. Edgell. (1984). The mouse globin pseudogene beta h3 is descended from a premammalian delta-globin gene.. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 259(20). 12881–12889. 21 indexed citations

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