Robert Lanfear

Molecular Biology · 2012–2026

A researcher in the Science corpus: 11 papers; trusts 18 researchers and is trusted by 8 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Molecular Biology — 128 citations into it; #6,108 of 17,773 by trust here, #5,189 by citations
• Genetics — 89 citations into it; #2,679 of 6,854 by trust here, #1,002 by citations
• Paleontology — 39 citations into it; #620 of 1,427 by trust here, #176 by citations
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 38 citations into it
• Statistics and Probability — 17 citations into it

Whom Robert Lanfear trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. David Posada
2. Mark Pagel
3. Alexandros Stamatakis
4. Michael P. Cummings
5. Fredrik Ronquist
6. Stéphane Guindon
7. Andrew Meade
8. K. Burnham
9. B. Calcott
10. Alan R. Lemmon

Who trusts Robert Lanfear overall

1. YU-BING Wang
2. Bin‐Bin Liu
3. S. Winterton
4. R. Machado
5. D. Mckenna
6. Alan R. Lemmon
7. C. Meehan
8. J. Gillung
9. Chuan-Yu Xiang
10. E. Lemmon

Papers from Robert Lanfear's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Robert Lanfear trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models (Bioinform.)
2. Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach (Journal of Molecular Evolution)
3. Selecting the best-fit model of nucleotide substitution. (Systematic Biology)
4. A phylogenetic mixture model for detecting pattern-heterogeneity in gene sequence or character-state data. (Systematic Biology)
5. Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data. (Systematic Biology)
6. A general empirical model of protein evolution derived from multiple protein families using a maximum-likelihood approach.
7. New algorithms and methods to estimate maximum-likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0.
8. jModelTest: phylogenetic model averaging. (Molecular biology and evolution)
9. RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies
10. Performance of maximum parsimony and likelihood phylogenetics when evolution is heterogeneous (Nature)

Their papers

• Partitionfinder: combined selection of partitioning schemes and substitution models for phylogenetic analyses. (2012) — 5,480 citations
• IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era (2019) — 13,735 citations
• The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science (2015) — 1,122 citations
• PartitionFinder 2: New Methods for Selecting Partitioned Models of Evolution for Molecular and Morphological Phylogenetic Analyses. (2016) — 5,145 citations
• Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets (2014) — 700 citations
• Ultrafast Sample placement on Existing tRees (UShER) enables real-time phylogenetics for the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (2021) — 364 citations
• IQ-TREE 3: phylogenomic inference software using complex evolutionary models (2026) — 336 citations
• Corrigendum to: IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era (2020) — 402 citations
• Plant Mating Systems Often Vary Widely Among Populations (2018) — 181 citations
• Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera. (2017) — 728 citations
• Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution (2014) — 2,414 citations