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D-Index
41
Citations
6221
World Ranking
5863
National Ranking
1994

John Klicka 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 John Klicka sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 101 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

John Klicka 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 John Klicka sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

John Klicka is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Their work spans a range of subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

Klicka's research topics focus on genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, avian ecology and behavior, Lepidoptera biology and taxonomy, species distribution and climate change, as well as amphibian and reptile biology.

Frequent co-authors in Klicka's publications include:

  • Garth M. Spellman
  • Kevin Epperly
  • Brian Tilston Smith
  • Ricardo Canales-del-Castillo
  • Jaime A. Chaves

Common publication venues for Klicka's papers are:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • The Auk
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Klicka include:

  • Lineage diversity in a widely distributed New World passerine bird, the House Wren, 2023, The Auk
  • Cryptic and extensive hybridization between ancient lineages of American crows, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • The Genomic Signature of Allopatric Speciation in a Songbird Is Shaped by Genome Architecture (Aves: Certhia americana), 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), 2024, The Auk
  • Phylogeography of the widespread white-eared hummingbird (Hylocharis leucotis): pre-glacial expansion and genetic differentiation of populations separated by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 2020, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Best Publications

  • The Importance of Recent Ice Ages in Speciation: A Failed Paradigm

    John Klicka;Robert M. Zink

  • How Many Kinds of Birds Are There and Why Does It Matter

    George F. Barrowclough;Joel Cracraft;John Klicka;Robert M. Zink

  • New insights into New World biogeography: An integrated view from the phylogeny of blackbirds, cardinals, sparrows, tanagers, warblers, and allies

    F. Keith Barker;F. Keith Barker;Kevin J. Burns;John Klicka;Scott M. Lanyon

  • A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves).

    Irby J. Lovette;Jorge L. Pérez-Emán;John P. Sullivan;Richard C. Banks

  • Going to extremes: contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of new world passerine birds.

    F. Keith Barker;Kevin J. Burns;John Klicka;Scott M. Lanyon

  • The profound influence of the Late-Pliocene Panamanian uplift on the exchange, diversification, and distribution of New World Birds

    Brian Tilston Smith;John Klicka

  • Phylogenetics and diversification of tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae), the largest radiation of Neotropical songbirds.

    Kevin J. Burns;Allison J. Shultz;Allison J. Shultz;Pascal O. Title;Pascal O. Title;Nicholas A. Mason;Nicholas A. Mason

  • Evolutionary differentiation in the Neotropical montane region: Molecular phylogenetics and phylogeography of Buarremon brush-finches (Aves, Emberizidae)

    Carlos Daniel Cadena;John Klicka;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • Pleistocene effects on North American songbird evolution

    John Klicka;Robert M. Zink

  • NEW WORLD NINE-PRIMARIED OSCINE RELATIONSHIPS: CONSTRUCTING A MITOCHONDRIAL DNA FRAMEWORK

    John Klicka;Kevin P. Johnson;Scott M. Lanyon

  • Defining a monophyletic Cardinalini: A molecular perspective

    John Klicka;Kevin J. Burns;Garth M. Spellman

  • The tempo of avian diversification during the Quaternary.

    Robert M. Zink;John Klicka;Brian R. Barber

  • Out of Amazonia again and again: episodic crossing of the Andes promotes diversification in a lowland forest flycatcher

    Matthew J Miller;Matthew J Miller;Eldredge Bermingham;John Klicka;Patricia Escalante

  • Two pulses of diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in a montane Mexican bird fauna

    B. R. Barber;John Klicka

  • Positive association between population genetic differentiation and speciation rates in New World birds.

    Michael G. Harvey;Glenn F. Seeholzer;Brian Tilston Smith;Brian Tilston Smith;Daniel L. Rabosky

  • A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the "true thrushes" (Aves: Turdinae).

    John Klicka;Gary Voelker;Garth M. Spellman

  • The Great American Interchange in birds: a phylogenetic perspective with the genus Trogon.

    Jeffrey M. Dacosta;Jeffrey M. Dacosta;John Klicka

  • A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Aves: Passerellidae) relationships

    John Klicka;F. Keith Barker;Kevin J. Burns;Scott M. Lanyon

  • Phylogeography of a Morphologically Diverse Neotropical Montane Species, The Common Bush Tanager (Chlorospingus ophthalmicus)

    Jason T. Weir;Eldredge Bermingham;Matthew J. Miller;Matthew J. Miller;John Klicka

  • Phylogeography of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli): diversification, introgression, and expansion in response to Quaternary climate change.

    Garth M. Spellman;Garth M. Spellman;Brett R. Riddle;John Klicka;John Klicka

  • Two pulses of diversification across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in a montane

    B. R. Barber;J. Klicka

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Zink
Robert M. Zink University of Minnesota
Scott M. Lanyon
Scott M. Lanyon University of Minnesota
Kevin Winker
Kevin Winker University of Alaska Fairbanks
Irby J. Lovette
Irby J. Lovette Cornell University
Gary Voelker
Gary Voelker Texas A&M University
Sievert Rohwer
Sievert Rohwer University of Washington
Eldredge Bermingham
Eldredge Bermingham Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Alexandre Aleixo
Alexandre Aleixo Instituto Tecnológico Vale
Kevin P. Johnson
Kevin P. Johnson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brant C. Faircloth
Brant C. Faircloth Louisiana State University

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