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Papers

(The median citation count of Theoretical Population Biology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	33
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	29
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	23
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	18
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	16
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	14
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	14
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	12
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	11
Editorial Board	11
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	10
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	10
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	9
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	8
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	8
Editorial Board	7
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	7
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	7
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	6
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	6
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	6
Model of neo-Malthusian population anticipating future changes in resources	6
The 2022 Feldman Prize	6
Editorial Board	6
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	6

Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	6
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	5
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	5
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	5
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
Editorial Board	5
Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction	5
A two-sex renewal model and its population projection	5
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model	4
Editorial Board	4
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	4
Editorial Board	4
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	4
Evolution of trustfulness in the case where resources for cooperation are sometimes absent	4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	4
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	4
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	3
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	3
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	3
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	3
The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	3
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Stochastic viability in an island model with partial dispersal: Approximation by a diffusion process in the limit of a large number of islands	2
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
Editorial Board	2
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth	2
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	2
Effects of cultural transmission of surnaming decisions on the sex ratio at birth	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2
Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network	2
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	2
Mathematical epidemiology for a later age	2
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	2

Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	2
Editorial Board	2
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Indirect interaction between an endemic and an invading pathogen: A case study of Plasmodium and Usutu virus dynamics in a shared bird host population	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	2
Editorial Board	2
The role of spatial competitive interactions between trees in shaping forest patterns	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Editorial Board	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	1
Editorial Board	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Editorial Board	1
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Editorial Board	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	1
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment	1
Exploring artificial habitat fragmentation to control invasion by infectious wildlife diseases	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1