Xia Hua

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Xia Hua is a scholar working on Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Xia Hua has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 16 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Xia Hua's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers). Xia Hua is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (13 papers). Xia Hua collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and China. Xia Hua's co-authors include Lindell Bromham, John J. Wiens, Russell Dinnage, Caitlin J. Karanewsky, Matthew E. Aiello‐Lammens, Gena C. Sbeglia, Abigail Cahill, Fabrizio Spagnolo, M. Caitlin Fisher‐Reid and Simon J. Greenhill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xia Hua

51 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

How does climate change cause extinction?

2012 647 citations Xia Hua et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success

2016 351 citations Lindell Bromham, Russell Dinnage et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xia Hua Australia	23	812	661	624	596	559	56	2.7k
Jatna Supriatna Indonesia	30	398 0.5×	932 1.4×	617 1.0×	237 0.4×	917 1.6×	156	2.9k
Mathias Currat Switzerland	30	438 0.5×	977 1.5×	659 1.1×	451 0.8×	304 0.5×	57	4.3k
Paolo Menozzi Italy	31	175 0.2×	675 1.0×	482 0.8×	664 1.1×	465 0.8×	86	4.2k
Uma Ramakrishnan India	37	552 0.7×	1.9k 2.8×	830 1.3×	357 0.6×	392 0.7×	164	4.0k
Russell Dinnage Australia	17	473 0.6×	505 0.8×	619 1.0×	710 1.2×	258 0.5×	31	1.8k
Brian Swartz United States	7	774 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	514 0.8×	846 1.4×	665 1.2×	7	2.8k
Bo Dalsgaard Denmark	27	1.1k 1.3×	804 1.2×	2.2k 3.5×	1.8k 3.0×	399 0.7×	60	3.5k
Giorgio Bertorelle Italy	38	354 0.4×	1.1k 1.7×	420 0.7×	482 0.8×	285 0.5×	112	4.7k
Guinevere O. U. Wogan United States	16	1.1k 1.3×	1.4k 2.1×	705 1.1×	933 1.6×	974 1.7×	36	3.4k
Kaitlin C. Maguire United States	11	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	603 1.0×	970 1.6×	723 1.3×	20	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Xia Hua

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xia Hua

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Xia Hua. 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 Xia Hua. The network helps show where Xia Hua may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xia Hua

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jofré, P., Pablo Villarreal, Francisco A. Cubillos, et al.. (2025). Studying stellar populations in Omega Centauri with phylogenetics. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A291–A291.

Bromham, Lindell, et al.. (2025). Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks. Evolution. 79(5). 858–868.

Bromham, Lindell, et al.. (2025). Macroevolutionary analysis of polysynthesis shows that language complexity is more likely to evolve in small, isolated populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(24). e2504483122–e2504483122.

Hua, Xia & Craig Moritz. (2025). A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way. Systematic Biology. 74(5). 723–739. 1 indexed citations

Scheele, Benjamin C., et al.. (2024). Variation in amphibian maturation rates influences population vulnerability to disease‐induced declines. Animal Conservation. 27(5). 600–610. 2 indexed citations

Jofré, P., P. B. Tissera, Robert M. Yates, et al.. (2024). On the Evolutionary History of a Simulated Disk Galaxy as Seen by Phylogenetic Trees. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 154–154. 1 indexed citations

Jofré, P., Sven Buder, Payel Das, et al.. (2024). Assembling a high-precision abundance catalogue of solar twins in GALAH for phylogenetic studies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(3). 2946–2966. 6 indexed citations

Meakins, Felicity, Lindell Bromham, & Xia Hua. (2024). Depending on gender. 10(2). 183–208.

Hua, Xia, et al.. (2022). Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach. Systematic Biology. 71(6). 1362–1377. 9 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia. (2022). BayesVarbrul: a unified multidimensional analysis of language change in a speaker community. 7(1). 40–52. 4 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia, Marcel Cardillo, & Lindell Bromham. (2022). Adapting to extremes: Reconstructing evolution in response to changing climate over time and space in the diverse Australian plant genus Acacia. Journal of Biogeography. 49(4). 727–738. 6 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia, Felicity Meakins, Cassandra Algy, & Lindell Bromham. (2021). Language change in multidimensional space. 12(1). 78–123. 4 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, Alexander Skeels, Hilde Schneemann, Russell Dinnage, & Xia Hua. (2021). There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk. Nature Human Behaviour. 5(7). 878–891. 18 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, Russell Dinnage, Hedvig Skirgård, et al.. (2021). Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(2). 163–173. 65 indexed citations

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Moritz, Craig, et al.. (2021). Temperature predicts the rate of molecular evolution in Australian Eugongylinae skinks. Evolution. 76(2). 252–261. 12 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia & Lindell Bromham. (2020). Modeling colonization rates over time: Generating null models and testing model adequacy in phylogenetic analyses of species assemblages*. Evolution. 74(12). 2605–2616. 4 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia, Simon J. Greenhill, Marcel Cardillo, Hilde Schneemann, & Lindell Bromham. (2019). The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2047–2047. 48 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia & Robert Lanfear. (2018). The influence of non‐random species sampling on macroevolutionary and macroecological inference from phylogenies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(5). 1353–1362. 7 indexed citations

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Hua, Xia. (2016). The impact of seasonality on niche breadth, distribution range and species richness: a theoretical exploration of Janzen's hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1835). 20160349–20160349. 9 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell, Russell Dinnage, & Xia Hua. (2016). Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success. Nature. 534(7609). 684–687. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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