OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Population Biology is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
What the reproductive number R	27
Building a synthetic basis for kin selection and evolutionary game theory using population genetics	16
The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs	16
Invasion implies substitution in ecological communities with class-structured populations	15
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model	15
Assortative mating by population of origin in a mechanistic model of admixture	13
Exact site frequency spectra of neutrally evolving tumors: A transition between power laws reveals a signature of cell viability	12
Population abundance in predator–prey systems with predator’s dispersal between two patches	12
Systematic comparison of coexistence in models of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant pathogen strains	11
Quantifying the forces that maintain prophages in bacterial genomes	10
Multilocus population-genetic theory	10
Gene drives and population persistence vs elimination: The impact of spatial structure and inbreeding at low density	9
Randomized matrix games in a finite population: Effect of stochastic fluctuations in the payoffs on the evolution of cooperation	9
The effect of human vaccination behaviour on strain competition in an infectious disease: An imitation dynamic approach	8
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	8
Structure of theG-matrix in relation to	7
Fitting stochastic predator–prey models using both population density and kill rate data	7
Testing for population decline using maximal linkage disequilibrium blocks	7
Fifty years of Theoretical Population Biology	7
A temporal model of territorial defence with antagonistic interactions	7
Using YY supermales to destabilize invasive fish populations	7
The popularity spectrum applied to a cross-cultural question	7
Switching environments, synchronous sex, and the evolution of mating types	7
Variance and limiting distribution of coalescence times in a diploid model of a consanguineous population	7
First-order effect of frequency-dependent selection on fixation probability in an age-structured population with application to a public goods game	7

Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	6
Maximum likelihood estimators for scaled mutation rates in an equilibrium mutation–drift model	6
The spatial Muller’s ratchet: Surfing of deleterious mutations during range expansion	6
The effect of consanguinity on coalescence times on the X chromosome	6
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	6
Waiting times in a branching process model of colorectal cancer initiation	6
The nonlinear structure of linkage disequilibrium	6
Developments in coalescent theory from single loci to chromosomes	6
Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table	6
Donnelly (1983) and the limits of genetic genealogy	5
Coevolution fails to maintain genetic variation in a host–parasite model with constant finite population size	5
A characterisation of the reconstructed birth–death process through time rescaling	5
Markov genealogy processes	5
The evolution of coexistence theory	5
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth	5
Fluctuations in lifetime selection in an autocorrelated environment	5
Goodman, Keyfitz & Pullum (1974) and the population frequencies of kinship relationships	5
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	5
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	5
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	4
Recoverability of ancestral recombination graph topologies	4
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	4
Modeling the dispersal–reproduction trade-off in an expanding population	4
Drivers of diversity in individual life courses: Sensitivity of the population entropy of a Markov chain	4
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	4
Some simple rules for estimating reproduction numbers in the presence of reservoir exposure or imported cases	4
The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations and the evolution of genomic islands	4
TPB and the invasion of adaptive dynamics	4
Tuljapurkar and Orzack (1980) and Tuljapurkar (1982a,b): Population dynamics in variable environments	4