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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Wright–Fisher graph model and the impact of directional selection on genetic variation	25
Pneumococcus and the stress-gradient hypothesis: A trade-off links	17
Editorial Board	17
The mutation process on the ancestral line under selection	12
What drives bacterial extinction? The role of bacteriophages	12
Demographic inference for spatially heterogeneous populations using long shared haplotypes	12
Editorial Board	11
Interconnection between density-regulation and stability in competitive ecological network	10
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
The TMRCA of general genealogies in populations with deterministically varying size	9
Stochastic dynamics at the back of a gene drive eradication wave	9
Editorial Board	7
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	7
Coalescence and sampling distributions for Feller diffusions	7
Limits to selection on standing variation in an asexual population	7
Muller’s ratchet and gene duplication	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
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	6
The shirker’s dilemma and the prospect of cooperation in large groups	6
Modeling temporal dynamics of genetic diversity in stage-structured plant populations with reference to demographic genetic structure	6
On the sign of the average effect of an allele	6
Determining the most recent common ancestor in a finite linear habitat with asymmetric dispersal	6
On the connections between the spatial Lambda–Fleming–Viot model and other processes for analysing geo-referenced genetic data	6

Parentage exclusion of close relatives in haplodiploid species	6
Disbandment rules that most facilitate the evolution of cooperation	6
The distribution of the number of mutations in the genealogy of a sample from a single population	6
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	5
A central limit theorem concerning uncertainty in estimates of individual admixture	5
Dynamics of SIR model with heterogeneous response to intervention policy	5
Spatial invasion of cooperative parasites	5
Dynamics of an intraguild predation system with optimal foraging and harvesting	5
Taylor’s law for exponentially growing local populations linked by migration	5
Eco-evolutionary dynamics of anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminths	5
A clarification of historical concepts of effective population size and their applicability to subdivided populations	5
Editorial Board	5
The grapheme-valued Wright–Fisher diffusion with mutation	4
Using mathematical constraints to explain narrow ranges for allele-sharing dissimilarities	4
Evolution of redirected help with stepping-stone dispersal	4
Editorial Board	4
Editorial Board	4
Patterns of spawning and settlement of reef fishes as strategic responses to post-settlement competition	4
Evolution under Stochastic Transmission: Mutation-rate Modifiers	4
Identity-by-descent segments in large samples	4
Strategies for resolving cellular phylogenies from sequential lineage tracing data	4
The ancestral selection graph for a Λ-asymmetric Moran model	4
Riding the waves from epidemic to endemic: Viral mutations, immunological change and policy responses	4
Editorial Board	4
Beyond fitness: The information imparted in population states by selection throughout lifecycles	4
Evolution of spite versus evolution of altruism through a disbandment mechanism	4
Cultural transmission, competition for prey, and the evolution of cooperative hunting	3
Modeling and migration-based control of depopulation	3
Gene-culture association and coevolution	3
Effect of competition on emergent phases and phase transitions in competitive systems	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Importance of environmental productivity and diet quality in intraguild predation	3
Adaptation of a quantitative trait to a changing environment: New analytical insights on the asexual and infinitesimal sexual models	3
One hundred years of influenza A evolution	3
Mathematical bounds on r2	3
Bernoulli factories and duality in Wright–Fisher and Allen–Cahn models of population genetics	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
Computing tree size under dynamical models of diversification	3
Editorial Board	3
A stochastic field theory for the evolution of quantitative traits in finite populations	2
Evolution with recombination as Gibbs sampling	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
Stochastic viability in an island model with partial dispersal: Approximation by a diffusion process in the limit of a large number of islands	2
Biographical sketch: Freddy Bugge Christiansen	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
Large effects and the infinitesimal model	2

Neutral diversity in experimental metapopulations	2
Continuous irregular dynamics with multiple neutral trajectories permit species coexistence in competitive communities	2
A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling	2
Editorial Board	2
Corrigendum to “Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction” [Theoretical Population Biology 143 (2022) 30–45]	2
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	2
Editorial Board	2
The structured coalescent in the context of gene copy number variation	2
Mathematical model of rabies vaccination in the United States	2
Species coexistence as an emergent effect of interacting mechanisms	2
Mean-field interacting multi-type birth–death processes with a view to applications in phylodynamics	2
Editorial Board	2
Moments of the length of sample genealogy and their applications	2
A matrix-analytical sampling formula for time-homogeneous coalescent processes under the infinite sites mutation model	1
The impact of simultaneous infections on phage-host ecology	1
Muller’s ratchet in a near-critical regime: Tournament versus fitness proportional selection	1
Temporal variability can promote migration between habitats	1
On multi-type Cannings models and multi-type exchangeable coalescents	1
Corrigendum to “Exact calculation of the expected SFS in structured populations” [Theoretical Population Biology Volume 163(2025) 50-61]	1
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	1
Analytical Bayesian approach for the design of surveillance and control programs to assess pest-eradication success	1
Interacting Partially Observable DBN to model the dynamics of partially observable metapopulations: Opportunities and open challenges	1
Spatial evolutionary public goods game theory applied to optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants	1
Editorial Board	1
Decomposition of disparities in life expectancy with applications to administrative health claims and registry data	1
A decomposition of a phylogenetically-informed distance between species assemblages into basal and terminal components	1
Copuling population dynamics and diel migration patterns	1
Success-biased social learning in a one-consumer, two-resource model	1
Stochastic modeling of Dalbulus maidis, vector of maize diseases	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
Distributions of cherries and pitchforks for the Ford model	1
Evolution of delayed dispersal with group size effect and population dynamics	1
Impact of co-occurrent assortative mating and vertical cultural transmission on measures of genetic associations	1
Threshold dynamics in age-structured distributions with expanding support: A unified mathematical framework	1
Evolutionarily stable levels of aposematic defence in prey populations	1
Evolving genealogies in cultural evolution, the descendant process, and the number of cultural traits	1
Cultural niche construction with application to fertility control: A model for education and social transmission of contraceptive use	1
Evolutionary dynamics of dispersal and local adaptation in multi-resource landscapes	1
An almost infinite sites model	1