William J. Murphy

25.2k citations

150 papers · 14.4k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 54

Paleontology top 0.2%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 25
Genetics top 0.1%
- Genetic diversity and population structure 45
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 15
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock 14
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction 14
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
Ecological Modeling top 1%
Developmental Biology top 1%
Molecular Biology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 44
Plant Science
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 27
Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 16

Co-authors: Stephen J. O’Brien Mark S. Springer Eduardo Eizirik Stephen W. Russell Emma C. Teeling Oliver A. Ryder Warren E. Johnson Charles J. Lowenstein
Cited by: Paleontology Genetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

William J. Murphy

146 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

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.

2006 The Late Miocene Radiation of Modern Felidae: A Genetic Assessment
2005 A Molecular Phylogeny for Bats Illuminates Biogeography and the Fossil Record
2003 Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary
2001 Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals
2001 Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics
1993 Expression of the nitric oxide synthase gene in mouse macrophages activated for tumor cell killing. Molecular basis for the synergy between interferon-gamma and lipopolysaccharide.
1993 Macrophage nitric oxide synthase gene: two upstream regions mediate induction by interferon gamma and lipopolysaccharide.
1984 Structure of the 5' ends of immunoglobulin genes: a novel conserved sequence.

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by William J. Murphy

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of William J. Murphy's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by William J. Murphy with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites William J. Murphy more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by William J. Murphy

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by William J. Murphy. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by William J. Murphy. The network helps show where William J. Murphy may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network

The 25 scholars most cited alongside William J. Murphy, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with William J. Murphy Line = papers co-authored together William J. Murphy links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	An ancient recombination desert is a speciation supergene in placental mammals Nicole M. Foley,Richard G. Rasulis,Zahoor A. Wani,Mayra N. Mendoza,Henrique V. Figueiró,Klaus‐Peter Koepfli,Terje Raudsepp,William J. Murphy	2025	0
2	Ancestry dynamics and trait selection in a designer cat breed Christopher B. Kaelin,Kelly A. McGowan,Anthony D. Hutcherson,John M. Delay,Jeremiah H. Li,Sarah Kiener,Vidhya Jagannathan,Tosso Leeb,William J. Murphy,Gregory S. Barsh	2024	2
3	Extensive Phylogenomic Discordance and the Complex Evolutionary History of the Neotropical Cat Genus Leopardus Jonas Lescroart,Alejandra Bonilla-Sánchez,Constanza Napolitano,Diana L. Buitrago‐Torres,Héctor E. Ramírez-Cháves,Paola Pulido‐Santacruz,William J. Murphy,Hannes Svardal,Eduardo Eizirik	2023	11
4	How genomic insights into the evolutionary history of clouded leopards inform their conservation Jiaqing Yuan,Wang Gui-qiang,Le Zhao,Andrew C. Kitchener,Sun Ting,Wu Chen,Chen Huang,Chen Wang,Xiao Xu,Jinhong Wang,Hui‐Meng Lu,Lulu Xu,Qigao Jiangzuo,William J. Murphy,Dong‐Dong Wu,Gang Li	2023	6
5	Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution Kevin R. Bredemeyer,LaDeana Hillier,Andrew J. Harris,Graham M. Hughes,Nicole M. Foley,Colleen Lawless,Rachel A Carroll,Jessica M. Storer,Mark A. Batzer,Edward S. Rice,Brian W. Davis,Terje Raudsepp,Stephen J. O’Brien,Leslie A. Lyons,Wesley C. Warren,William J. Murphy	2023	14
6	Genetic swamping of the critically endangered Scottish wildcat was recent and accelerated by disease Jo Howard‐McCombe,Alexandra Jamieson,Alberto Carmagnini,Isa‐Rita M. Russo,Muḥammad Ghazālī,Ruairidh D. Campbell,Carlos A. Driscoll,William J. Murphy,Carsten Nowak,Terry O’Connor,Louise Tomsett,Leslie A. Lyons,Violeta Muñoz‐Fuentes,Michael W. Bruford,Andrew C. Kitchener,Greger Larson,Laurent Frantz,Helen Senn,Daniel J. Lawson,Mark Beaumont	2023	15
7	De novo Mutations in Domestic Cat are Consistent with an Effect of Reproductive Longevity on Both the Rate and Spectrum of Mutations Richard J. Wang,Muthuswamy Raveendran,R. Alan Harris,William J. Murphy,Leslie A. Lyons,Jeffrey Rogers,Matthew W. Hahn	2022	29
8	Tree House Explorer: A Novel Genome Browser for Phylogenomics Andrew J. Harris,Nicole M. Foley,Tiffani L. Williams,William J. Murphy	2022	6
9	An ancient haplotype containing antimicrobial peptide gene variants is associated with severe fungal skin disease in Persian cats Alexandra N. Myers,Sara D. Lawhon,Alison Diesel,Charles W. Bradley,Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann,William J. Murphy	2022	10
10	Persistence and expansion of cryptic endangered red wolf genomic ancestry along the American Gulf coast Bridgett M. vonHoldt,Kristin E. Brzeski,Matthew L. Aardema,Christopher J. Schell,Linda Y. Rutledge,Steven R. Fain,Amy C. Shutt,Anna Linderholm,William J. Murphy	2021	8
11	Genomic architecture constrained placental mammal X Chromosome evolution Wesley Brashear,Kevin R. Bredemeyer,William J. Murphy	2021	17
12	A new domestic cat genome assembly based on long sequence reads empowers feline genomic medicine and identifies a novel gene for dwarfism Reuben M. Buckley,Brian W. Davis,Wesley Brashear,Fabiana Farias,Kei Kuroki,Tina Graves,LaDeana Hillier,Milinn Kremitzki,Gang Li,Rondo P. Middleton,Patrick Minx,Chad Tomlinson,Leslie A. Lyons,William J. Murphy,Wesley C. Warren	2020	82
13	A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids Richard Allen,Hannah Ryan,Brian W. Davis,Charlotte L. King,Laurent Frantz,Evan K. Irving-Pease,Ross Barnett,Anna Linderholm,Liisa Loog,James Haile,Ophélie Lebrasseur,Mark White,Andrew C. Kitchener,William J. Murphy,Greger Larson	2020	15
14	Horse Y chromosome assembly displays unique evolutionary features and putative stallion fertility genes Jan E. Janečka,Brian W. Davis,Sharmila Ghosh,Nandina Paria,Pranab Jyoti Das,Ludovic Orlando,Mikkel Schubert,Martin K. Nielsen,Tom A. E. Stout,Wesley Brashear,Gang Li,Charles D. Johnson,Richard P. Metz,Al Muatasim Al Zadjali,Charles C. Love,Dickson D. Varner,Daniel W. Bellott,William J. Murphy,Bhanu P. Chowdhary,Terje Raudsepp	2018	55
15	Genomic analysis reveals hidden biodiversity within colugos, the sister group to primates Victor C. Mason,Gang Li,Patrick Minx,Jürgen Schmitz,Gennady Churakov,Liliya Doronina,Amanda Melin,Nathaniel J. Dominy,Norman T.‐L. Lim,Mark S. Springer,Richard K. Wilson,Wesley C. Warren,Kristofer M. Helgen,William J. Murphy	2016	62
16	Out-of-Sequence Signal 3 Paralyzes Primary CD4+ T-Cell-Dependent Immunity Gail D. Sckisel,Myriam N. Bouchlaka,Arta M. Monjazeb,Marka R. Crittenden,Brendan D. Curti,Danice Wilkins,Kory A. Alderson,Can M. Sungur,Erik Ames,Annie Mirsoian,Abhinav Reddy,Warren S. Alexander,Athena M. Soulika,Bruce R. Blazar,Dan L. Longo,Robert H. Wiltrout,William J. Murphy	2015	88
17	A high-resolution cat radiation hybrid and integrated FISH mapping resource for phylogenomic studies across Felidae Brian W. Davis,Terje Raudsepp,Alison J. Pearks Wilkerson,Richa Agarwala,Alejandro A. Schäffer,Marlys L. Houck,Bhanu P. Chowdhary,William J. Murphy	2008	41
18	Mammalian evolution and biomedicine: new views from phylogeny Mark S. Springer,William J. Murphy	2007	79
19	Using genomic data to unravel the root of the placental mammal phylogeny William J. Murphy,Thomas H. Pringle,Tess A. Crider,Mark S. Springer,Webb Miller	2007	341
20	Novel Gene Acquisition on Carnivore Y Chromosomes William J. Murphy,Alison J. Pearks Wilkerson,Terje Raudsepp,Richa Agarwala,Alejandro A. Schäffer,Roscoe Stanyon,Bhanu P. Chowdhary	2006	61

About William J. Murphy

William J. Murphy is a scholar working on Paleontology, Genetics and Sensory Systems, having authored 150 papers that have together received 14.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic diversity and population structure (45 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (44 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (27 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (25 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (16 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (15 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (14 papers) and Animal Genetics and Reproduction (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (2.7k citations), Genetics (4.6k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.3k citations). William J. Murphy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Stephen J. O’Brien, Mark S. Springer, Eduardo Eizirik, Stephen W. Russell, Emma C. Teeling, Oliver A. Ryder, Warren E. Johnson, Charles J. Lowenstein, Solomon H. Snyder and Ole Madsen.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact