Thomas Weighill

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Weighill is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Economics and Econometrics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Weighill has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Weighill's work include Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 papers), Game Theory and Voting Systems (3 papers) and Topological and Geometric Data Analysis (3 papers). Thomas Weighill is often cited by papers focused on Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 papers), Game Theory and Voting Systems (3 papers) and Topological and Geometric Data Analysis (3 papers). Thomas Weighill collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Italy. Thomas Weighill's co-authors include Konrad Scheffler, Ben Murrell, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Joel O. Wertheim, S. Moola, Daniel J. Sheward, Jan Buys, Justin Solomon and James M. Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLoS Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Weighill

7 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

2012 1.2k citations Ben Murrell, Joel O. Wertheim et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

2013 932 citations Ben Murrell, S. Moola 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
Thomas Weighill United States	5	708	554	542	366	358	14	2.2k
John A. Browne Ireland	31	870 1.2×	314 0.6×	440 0.8×	454 1.2×	499 1.4×	108	2.7k
Wayne Delport South Africa	19	709 1.0×	492 0.9×	579 1.1×	415 1.1×	262 0.7×	29	2.3k
Steven Weaver United States	20	1.2k 1.7×	757 1.4×	686 1.3×	284 0.8×	239 0.7×	33	2.9k
Alex D. Greenwood Germany	33	1.2k 1.7×	390 0.7×	775 1.4×	544 1.5×	250 0.7×	125	3.3k
Daniel J. Sheward Sweden	18	662 0.9×	964 1.7×	255 0.5×	294 0.8×	496 1.4×	37	2.1k
Frank M. Horodyski United States	23	706 1.0×	482 0.9×	744 1.4×	449 1.2×	219 0.6×	29	2.4k
Mathieu Fourment Australia	19	620 0.9×	364 0.7×	453 0.8×	479 1.3×	100 0.3×	36	1.9k
Paulo César Peregrino Ferreira Brazil	29	784 1.1×	430 0.8×	448 0.8×	977 2.7×	347 1.0×	78	2.5k
Katherine R. Spindler United States	26	1.3k 1.8×	755 1.4×	1.3k 2.3×	740 2.0×	402 1.1×	65	3.1k
Antoinette C. van der Kuyl Netherlands	25	759 1.1×	406 0.7×	368 0.7×	294 0.8×	249 0.7×	67	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Weighill

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Weighill

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Weighill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Weighill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Weighill based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Weighill. Thomas Weighill is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Statistical models of ballot truncation in ranked choice elections. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 54(11). 4908–4926.

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Detecting spatial dependence with persistent homology. Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications IEICE. 14(2). 106–125.

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Geometric Averages of Partitioned Datasets. 7(1). 104–132.

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Murphy, James M., et al.. (2023). Measuring Segregation via Analysis on Graphs. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 44(1). 80–105.

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Ranked Choice Voting and Minority Representation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 6 indexed citations

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Coarse infinite-dimensionality of hyperspaces of finite subsets. European Journal of Mathematics. 8(1). 335–355.

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Proportionality in multi-winner RCV elections: A simulation study with ballot truncation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Solomon, Justin, et al.. (2020). Geometry of Graph Partitions via Optimal Transport. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 42(5). A3340–A3366. 5 indexed citations

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Weighill, Thomas. (2017). Mal'tsev objects, R_1-spaces and ultrametric spaces. Theory and applications of categories. 32. 1485–1500. 1 indexed citations

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Duality in non-abelian algebra III. Normal categories and 0-regular varieties. Algebra Universalis. 77(1). 1–28.

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Weighill, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Duality in non-abelian algebra II. From Isbell bicategories to Grandis exact categories. Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures. 11(3). 553–570. 1 indexed citations

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Murrell, Ben, S. Moola, Thomas Weighill, et al.. (2013). FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(5). 1196–1205. 932 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murrell, Ben, et al.. (2012). Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection. PLoS Genetics. 8(7). e1002764–e1002764. 1244 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murrell, Ben, et al.. (2011). Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Learning Alignment-Specific Models of Protein Evolution. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28898–e28898. 9 indexed citations

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