OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theoretical Population Biology is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What the reproductive number R	31
The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs	25
Bifurcations and hydra effects in Bazykin’s predator–prey model	18
Exact site frequency spectra of neutrally evolving tumors: A transition between power laws reveals a signature of cell viability	16
Total biomass of a single population in two-patch environments	11
The effect of human vaccination behaviour on strain competition in an infectious disease: An imitation dynamic approach	10
Gene drives and population persistence vs elimination: The impact of spatial structure and inbreeding at low density	10
A hidden Markov model to estimate homozygous-by-descent probabilities associated with nested layers of ancestors	10
Markov genealogy processes	8
Metacommunities, fitness and gradual evolution	8
Switching environments, synchronous sex, and the evolution of mating types	8
Structure of theG-matrix in relation to	8
A model of the burglar alarm hypothesis of prey alarm calls	8
Variance and limiting distribution of coalescence times in a diploid model of a consanguineous population	7
Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table	7
Fitting stochastic predator–prey models using both population density and kill rate data	7
Recoverability of ancestral recombination graph topologies	6
Variances and covariances of linear summary statistics of segregating sites	6
Waiting times in a branching process model of colorectal cancer initiation	6
The effect of consanguinity on coalescence times on the X chromosome	6
The effects of epistasis and linkage on the invasion of locally beneficial mutations and the evolution of genomic islands	5
Coevolution fails to maintain genetic variation in a host–parasite model with constant finite population size	5
Character displacement in the presence of multiple trait differences: Evolution of the storage effect in germination and growth	5
A time-since-infection model for populations with two pathogens	5
Fixation and effective size in a haploid–diploid population with asexual reproduction	5

Conformity and content-biased cultural transmission in the evolution of altruism	5
A compendium of covariances and correlation coefficients of coalescent tree properties	5
A nearly-neutral biallelic Moran model with biased mutation and linear and quadratic selection	4
Improving pest monitoring networks using a simulation-based approach to contribute to pesticide reduction	4
Quantifying the impact of changes in effective population size and expression level on the rate of coding sequence evolution	4
Selection, recombination, and the ancestral initiation graph	4
Rates of convergence in the two-island and isolation-with-migration models	4
The best of both worlds: Combining population genetic and quantitative genetic models	4
A cultural evolutionary model of the interaction between parental beliefs and behaviors, with applications to vaccine hesitancy	4
The Recombination Hotspot Paradox: Co-evolution between PRDM9 and its target sites	4
Success-biased social learning in a one-consumer, two-resource model	4
Inference of gene flow in the process of speciation: Efficient maximum-likelihood implementation of a generalised isolation-with-migration model	4
Joint effect of changing selection and demography on the site frequency spectrum	4
The curse of the plateau. Measuring confidence in human mortality estimates at extreme ages	3
Evolution of cooperation with respect to fixation probabilities in multi-player games with random payoffs	3
Untangling the role of temporal and spatial variations in persistence of populations	3
Selection on age-specific survival: Constant versus fluctuating environment	3
A mathematical framework for evo-devo dynamics	3
Analytical Bayesian approach for the design of surveillance and control programs to assess pest-eradication success	3
Inclusive fitness and Hamilton’s rule in a stochastic environment	3
Coalescent models derived from birth–death processes	3
Population models, mathematical epidemiology, and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Model of two competing populations in two habitats with migration: Application to optimal marine protected area size	3
Maximum likelihood estimation and natural pairwise estimating equations are identical for three sequences and a symmetric 2-state substitution model	3
Time to extinction of a cultural trait in an overlapping generation model	3
Theoretical analysis of principal components in an umbrella model of intraspecific evolution	3
Unstable population dynamics in obligate co-operators	3
Male mating choices: The drive behind menopause?	3
Mate guarding in primates arises due to partner scarcity, even if the father provides no paternal care at all	3