Wolfgang Stephan

11.6k citations
127 papers · 8.0k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 48
Topics
Genetic diversity and population structure (73 papers)Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (61 papers)Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (21 papers)

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Stephan

126 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

The evolutionary dynamics of repetitive DNA in eukaryotes199420262004201519944008001.2k

Peers

Wolfgang Stephan
Comparison fields: 5 of 132
  • Genetics 5.3k
  • Molecular Biology 3.2k
  • Plant Science 2.6k
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 1.0k
  • Ecology 633
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Fields of papers citing papers by Wolfgang Stephan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Stephan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wolfgang Stephan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wolfgang Stephan 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 Wolfgang Stephan. Wolfgang Stephan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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#WorkIndexed citations
1 5
2 31
3 17
4 24
5 14
6 10
7 40
8 17
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10 17
11 23
12 168
13 124
14 20
15 83
16 235
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About Wolfgang Stephan

Wolfgang Stephan is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science, having authored 127 papers that have together received 8.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic diversity and population structure (73 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (61 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (21 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (5.3k citations), Plant Science (2.6k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (1.0k citations). Wolfgang Stephan has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Brian Charlesworth, Paul Sniegowski, Yuseob Kim, Charles H. Langley, Haipeng Li, Thomas Wiehe, Pavlos Pavlidis, Thomas Städler, John M. Braverman and David A. Kirby. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

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