2026 Alexei J. Drummond: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	72	1211	1156	7	6	146	86834

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Ecology and Evolution

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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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22854
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BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees

Alexei J Drummond;Andrew Rambaut

14708
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Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

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

11313
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Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7.

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

10675
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Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence

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

7066
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BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

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

7022
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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

4307
Citations
Bayesian phylogenetic and phylodynamic data integration using BEAST 1.10

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

3880
Citations
Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences

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

3553
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Bayesian Inference of Species Trees from Multilocus Data

Joseph Heled;Alexei J. Drummond

2736
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Bayesian phylogeography finds its roots.

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

2020
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Estimating Mutation Parameters, Population History and Genealogy Simultaneously From Temporally Spaced Sequence Data

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

1229
Citations
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

1197
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Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

Russell Gray;Alexei J. Drummond;Simon Greenhill

1090
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Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

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

993
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bModelTest: Bayesian phylogenetic site model averaging and model comparison

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

858
Citations
Bayesian inference of population size history from multiple loci

Joseph Heled;Alexei J Drummond

833
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Choosing appropriate substitution models for the phylogenetic analysis of protein-coding sequences

Beth Shapiro;Andrew Rambaut;Alexei J. Drummond

818
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Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison

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

810
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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

668
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Accurate Model Selection of Relaxed Molecular Clocks in Bayesian Phylogenetics

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

627
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