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Alexei J. Drummond

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Ecology and Evolution
New Zealand
2026
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Biology and Biochemistry
New Zealand
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
72
Citations
86834
World Ranking
1207
National Ranking
7

Alexei J. Drummond publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexei J. Drummond sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 146 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Alexei J. Drummond D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexei J. Drummond sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Alexei J. Drummond is a researcher affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand, specializing in fields that intersect biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their body of work includes significant contributions in infectious diseases, molecular biology, genetics, paleontology, and modeling and simulation.

Their research topics primarily cover genomics and phylogenetic studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, evolution and paleontology studies, genetic diversity and population structure, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, animal virus infections studies, and linguistics and language evolution.

Alexei J. Drummond has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Genomic epidemiology reveals transmission patterns and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Genomic Evidence of In-Flight Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Despite Predeparture Testing, 2021, Emerging infectious diseases
  • Improving the performance of Bayesian phylogenetic inference under relaxed clock models, 2020, BMC Evolutionary Biology
  • Phylodynamics reveals the role of human travel and contact tracing in controlling the first wave of COVID-19 in four island nations, 2021, Virus Evolution
  • Genomic epidemiology reveals transmission patterns and dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Drummond include:

  • Jordan Douglas
  • Fábio K. Mendes
  • David Welch
  • Remco Bouckaert
  • Jemma L. Geoghegan

The primary venues where Drummond's research is published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Systematic Biology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Alexei J. Drummond was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

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  • BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

    Alexei J Drummond;Andrew Rambaut

  • Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

    Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard;Dong-jie Xie;Andrew Rambaut

  • Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7.

    Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J Drummond;Dong Xie;Guy Baele

  • Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence

    Alexei J Drummond;Simon Y. W Ho;Matthew J Phillips;Andrew Rambaut

  • BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

    Remco R. Bouckaert;Joseph Heled;Denise Kühnert;Timothy G. Vaughan

  • BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis.

    Remco Bouckaert;Remco Bouckaert;Timothy G Vaughan;Timothy G Vaughan;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Joëlle Barido-Sottani;Sebastián Duchêne

  • Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

    Marc A Suchard;Philippe Lemey;Guy Baele;Daniel L Ayres

  • Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences

    A J Drummond;A Rambaut;B Shapiro;O G Pybus

  • Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data

    Joseph Heled;Alexei J. Drummond

  • Bayesian phylogeography finds its roots.

    Philippe Lemey;Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard

  • Estimating Mutation Parameters, Population History and Genealogy Simultaneously From Temporally Spaced Sequence Data

    Alexei J. Drummond;Geoff K. Nicholls;Allen G. Rodrigo;Wiremu Solomon

  • Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates and Systematic Overestimation of Recent Divergence Times

    Simon Y. W. Ho;Matthew J. Phillips;Alan Cooper;Alexei J. Drummond

  • Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

    Russell Gray;Alexei J. Drummond;Simon Greenhill

  • Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

    Remco Bouckaert;Philippe Lemey;Michael D. Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill

  • bModelTest: Bayesian phylogenetic site model averaging and model comparison

    Remco R. Bouckaert;Remco R. Bouckaert;Alexei J. Drummond

  • Bayesian inference of population size history from multiple loci

    Joseph Heled;Alexei J Drummond

  • Choosing appropriate substitution models for the phylogenetic analysis of protein-coding sequences

    Beth Shapiro;Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J. Drummond

  • Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison

    Beth Shapiro;Alexei J. Drummond;Andrew Rambaut;Michael C. Wilson

  • Birth–death skyline plot reveals temporal changes of epidemic spread in HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)

    Tanja Stadler;Denise Kühnert;Sebastian Bonhoeffer;Alexei J. Drummond

  • Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

    Guy Baele;Wai Lok Sibon Li;Alexei J. Drummond;Marc A. Suchard

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
Tanja Stadler
Tanja Stadler Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Remco R. Bouckaert
Remco R. Bouckaert University of Auckland
Marc A. Suchard
Marc A. Suchard University of California, Los Angeles
David W. Welch
David W. Welch University of Auckland
Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
Oliver G. Pybus
Oliver G. Pybus University of Oxford
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney

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