OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	22
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	21
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	17
Editorial Board	15
Extinction threshold and large population limit of a plant metapopulation model with recurrent extinction events and a seed bank component	15
What drives bacterial extinction? The role of bacteriophages	13
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	12
Editorial Board	11
Stochastic dynamics at the back of a gene drive eradication wave	11
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	11
Improving the realism of neutral ecological models by incorporating transient dynamics with temporal changes in community size	10
The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure	9
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	9
The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size	8
Editorial Board	8
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	8
Editorial Board	7
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	7
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	7
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	7
Correlation of coalescence times in a diploid Wright–Fisher model with recombination and selfing	7
Estimating the Lambda measure in multiple-merger coalescents	6
The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population	6
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	6
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	6

Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	6
Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	6
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	6
Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	6
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	5
A clarification of historical concepts of effective population size and their applicability to subdivided populations	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	5
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	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
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	4
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	4
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	4
Evolution under Stochastic Transmission: Mutation-rate Modifiers	4
Editorial Board	4
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	4
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	4
Editorial Board	4
Identity-by-descent segments in large samples	3
Computing tree size under dynamical models of diversification	3
Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal	3
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	3
Editorial Board	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
Editorial Board	3
Gene-culture association and coevolution	3
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Editorial Board	3
Strategies for resolving cellular phylogenies from sequential lineage tracing data	3
The Patterson-Price-Reich's rule of population structure analysis from genetic marker data	3
Consistency and central limit results for the maximum likelihood estimator in the Admixture Model	3
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	3
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Editorial Board	3
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	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
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Mathematical bounds on r2	2
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	2
Aggregation unveiled: A sequential modelling approach to bark beetle outbreaks	2
The expected sample allele frequencies from populations of changing size via orthogonal polynomials	2
Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	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
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	2
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	2
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2
Editorial Board	2
Amitosis as a strategy of cell division—Insight from the proliferation of Tetrahymena thermophila macronuclei	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 mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	2
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	2
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
Editorial Board	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Editorial Board	1
A decomposition of a phylogenetically-informed distance between species assemblages into basal and terminal components	1
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	1
Success-biased social learning in a one-consumer, two-resource model	1
Interacting Partially Observable DBN to model the dynamics of partially observable metapopulations: Opportunities and open challenges	1
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Editorial Board	1
Editorial Board	1
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	1
When can we reconstruct the ancestral state? A unified theory	1
Prevalence of social parasitism in ant populations: Modeling energetics, demography and space in the Polyergus/Formica system	1
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use	1
An almost infinite sites model	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases	1
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Analytical Bayesian approach for the design of surveillance and control programs to assess pest-eradication success	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Evolving genealogies in cultural evolution, the descendant process, and the number of cultural traits	1