2026 Mark A. Beaumont: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	60	11680	10757	898	835	114	24326

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Biology and Biochemistry

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898

835

114

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Biology and Biochemistry

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Citations

24326

World Ranking

11680

National Ranking

898

Overview

Mark A. Beaumont is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a notable emphasis on genetics. Within these broader fields, their work spans several subfields, including genetics, artificial intelligence, ecology, molecular biology, and archaeology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas related to genetic diversity and population structure, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, evolution and genetic dynamics, wildlife ecology and conservation, archaeology and historical studies, and identification and quantification in food.

Notable recent papers authored by Mark A. Beaumont include:

"Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics," 2022, published in PLoS Biology
"The role of gene flow and chromosomal instability in shaping the bread wheat genome," 2021, published in Nature Plants
"Genetic swamping of the critically endangered Scottish wildcat was recent and accelerated by disease," 2023, published in Current Biology
"On the use of genome-wide data to model and date the time of anthropogenic hybridisation: An example from the Scottish wildcat," 2021, published in Molecular Ecology
"Rapid homoploid hybrid speciation in British gardens: The origin of Oxford ragwort (Senecio squalidus)," 2020, published in Molecular Ecology

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Molecular Ecology
arXiv (Cornell University)
Molecular Ecology Resources
Current Biology

Mark A. Beaumont has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, including:

Zhangyi He
Feng Yu
Xiaoyang Dai
Jo Howard-McCombe
Wenyang Lyu

Best Publications

Approximate Bayesian computation in population genetics.

M. A. Beaumont;Wenyang Zhang;D. Balding

3361
Citations
Evaluating Loci for Use in the Genetic Analysis of Population Structure

Mark A. Beaumont;Richard A. Nichols

2063
Citations
Approximate Bayesian Computation in Evolution and Ecology

Mark A. Beaumont

1267
Citations
Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans

Mark A. Beaumont;David J. Balding

1222
Citations
Inferring population history with DIY ABC

Jean-Marie Cornuet;Filipe Santos;Mark A. Beaumont;Christian P. Robert

1010
Citations
The Bayesian revolution in genetics

Mark A. Beaumont;Bruce Rannala

744
Citations
Adaptive approximate Bayesian computation

Mark A. Beaumont;Jean-Marie Cornuet;Jean-Michel Marin;Christian P. Robert

712
Citations
Statistical evaluation of alternative models of human evolution

Nelson J. R. Fagundes;Nicolas Ray;Mark Beaumont;Samuel Neuenschwander

680
Citations
Detecting population expansion and decline using microsatellites.

Mark A. Beaumont

658
Citations
The Origins of Lactase Persistence in Europe

Yuval Itan;Adam Powell;Mark A. Beaumont;Joachim Burger

643
Citations
ONeSAMP: a program to estimate effective population size using approximate Bayesian computation

David A. Tallmon;Ally Koyuk;Gordon Luikart;Mark A. Beaumont

546
Citations
Adaptation and speciation: what can F(st) tell us?

Mark A. Beaumont

523
Citations
Estimation of population growth or decline in genetically monitored populations.

Mark A Beaumont

520
Citations
Microsatellites reveal heterosis in red deer

T. N Coulson;J. M Pemberton;S. D Albon;M Beaumont

485
Citations
Genetic diversity and introgression in the Scottish wildcat.

M. Beaumont;E. M. Barratt;D. Gottelli;A. C. Kitchener

450
Citations
Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

Callum J. Macgregor;Chris D. Thomas;David B. Roy;Mark A. Beaumont

423
Citations
Handbook of Approximate Bayesian Computation

Scott A. Sisson;Yanan Fan;Mark Beaumont

412
Citations
Y genetic data support the Neolithic demic diffusion model

LounÃ¨s Chikhi;Richard A. Nichols;Guido Barbujani;Mark A. Beaumont

405
Citations
Testing for genetic evidence of population expansion and contraction: an empirical analysis of microsatellite DNA variation using a hierarchical Bayesian model.

Jay F. Storz;Mark A. Beaumont

387
Citations
Statistical inferences in phylogeography

Rasmus Nielsen;Mark A. Beaumont

340
Citations