Yuseob Kim

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Yuseob Kim is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuseob Kim has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yuseob Kim's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (31 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers). Yuseob Kim is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (31 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (8 papers). Yuseob Kim collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Germany. Yuseob Kim's co-authors include Wolfgang Stephan, Rasmus Nielsen, Carlos D. Bustamante, Hideki Innan, Scott Williamson, Melissa J. Hubisz, Andrew G. Clark, H. Allen Orr, Charles F. Aquadro and Jeffrey D. Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Yuseob Kim

45 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data

2005 716 citations Rasmus Nielsen, Scott Williamson et al. Genome Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yuseob Kim United States	23	2.4k	910	523	345	188	47	3.1k
Clifford Zeyl United States	22	1.2k 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	540 1.0×	421 1.2×	124 0.7×	42	2.1k
N. Kaplan United States	21	2.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.4×	868 1.7×	469 1.4×	157 0.8×	33	4.1k
Pleuni S. Pennings United States	21	1.7k 0.7×	520 0.6×	366 0.7×	448 1.3×	166 0.9×	49	2.5k
Daniel R. Schrider United States	26	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	623 1.2×	244 0.7×	214 1.1×	45	2.8k
Jeffrey D. Jensen United States	45	3.8k 1.5×	1.9k 2.0×	679 1.3×	785 2.3×	223 1.2×	128	5.9k
Sergey Kryazhimskiy United States	21	1.3k 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	310 0.6×	210 0.6×	198 1.1×	34	2.6k
Kevin Thornton United States	34	2.9k 1.2×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 2.1×	540 1.6×	102 0.5×	56	4.4k
Nick G.C. Smith United Kingdom	28	1.5k 0.6×	1.6k 1.8×	641 1.2×	249 0.7×	52 0.3×	38	2.6k
Darin R. Rokyta United States	32	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	210 0.4×	187 0.5×	201 1.1×	84	2.8k
Josep M. Comeron United States	26	1.3k 0.5×	1.8k 1.9×	590 1.1×	256 0.7×	72 0.4×	40	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Yuseob Kim

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yuseob Kim

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kim, Yuseob. (2025). Noncovarying storage effect: Balancing and positive directional selection on mutant alleles that amplify random fitness and demographic fluctuations. PLoS ONE. 20(7). e0328130–e0328130.

Kim, Yuseob. (2023). Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2001). 20230822–20230822. 4 indexed citations

Kim, Yuseob, et al.. (2021). Inference of population genetic parameters from an irregular time series of seasonal influenza virus sequences. Genetics. 217(2). 1 indexed citations

Kim, Yuseob, et al.. (2018). Urban heat island effect on cicada densities in metropolitan Seoul. PeerJ. 6. e4238–e4238. 11 indexed citations

Vy, Ha My T., Yong‐Jin Won, & Yuseob Kim. (2017). Multiple Modes of Positive Selection Shaping the Patterns of Incomplete Selective Sweeps over African Populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(11). 2792–2807. 15 indexed citations

Kim, Yuseob, et al.. (2016). Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Balanced Polymorphism in Periodic Environments by a Genomic Storage Effect. Genetics. 202(4). 1437–1448. 22 indexed citations

Kim, Yuseob, et al.. (2016). Population genetic processes affecting the mode of selective sweeps and effective population size in influenza virus H3N2. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 156–156. 7 indexed citations

Kim, Ji Yeon, Elizabeth Kern, Tae Ho Kim, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic analysis of two Plectus mitochondrial genomes (Nematoda: Plectida) supports a sister group relationship between Plectida and Rhabditida within Chromadorea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107. 90–102. 27 indexed citations

Moon, Sunjin, Tae Hun Kim, Kyung‐Tai Lee, et al.. (2015). A genome-wide scan for signatures of directional selection in domesticated pigs. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 130–130. 54 indexed citations

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Kim, Yuseob, et al.. (2014). Episodic Nucleotide Substitutions in Seasonal Influenza Virus H3N2 Can Be Explained by Stochastic Genealogical Process without Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(3). 704–710. 3 indexed citations

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Schneider, Kristan A. & Yuseob Kim. (2013). Genetic Hitchhiking under Heterogeneous Spatial Selection Pressures. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e61742–e61742. 4 indexed citations

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Kim, Yuseob. (2013). Stochastic patterns of polymorphism after a selective sweep over a subdivided population. Genetics Research. 95(2-3). 57–67. 4 indexed citations

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Dudley, Joel T., Yuseob Kim, Li Liu, et al.. (2012). Human genomic disease variants: A neutral evolutionary explanation. Genome Research. 22(8). 1383–1394. 33 indexed citations

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Escalante, Ananías A., David L. Smith, & Yuseob Kim. (2009). The dynamics of mutations associated with anti-malarial drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum. Trends in Parasitology. 25(12). 557–563. 33 indexed citations

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Innan, Hideki & Yuseob Kim. (2008). Detecting Local Adaptation Using the Joint Sampling of Polymorphism Data in the Parental and Derived Populations. Genetics. 179(3). 1713–1720. 59 indexed citations

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Xue, Yali, Allan Daly, Bryndís Yngvadóttir, et al.. (2006). Spread of an Inactive Form of Caspase-12 in Humans Is Due to Recent Positive Selection. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 78(4). 659–670. 125 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Rasmus, Scott Williamson, Yuseob Kim, et al.. (2005). Genomic scans for selective sweeps using SNP data. Genome Research. 15(11). 1566–1575. 716 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kim, Yuseob & Rasmus Nielsen. (2004). Linkage Disequilibrium as a Signature of Selective Sweeps. Genetics. 167(3). 1513–1524. 318 indexed citations

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Innan, Hideki & Yuseob Kim. (2004). Pattern of polymorphism after strong artificial selection in a domestication event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(29). 10667–10672. 257 indexed citations

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Kim, Yuseob & Wolfgang Stephan. (2000). Joint Effects of Genetic Hitchhiking and Background Selection on Neutral Variation. Genetics. 155(3). 1415–1427. 146 indexed citations

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