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Stephen I. Wright

Stephen I. Wright

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
65
Citations
13933
World Ranking
2711
National Ranking
92

Stephen I. Wright publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen I. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 195 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Stephen I. Wright D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stephen I. Wright sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 65 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Stephen I. Wright is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada, specializing in research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily focuses on subfields including Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Cancer Research.

Their research addresses topics such as genetic diversity and population structure, chromosomal and genetic variations, plant reproductive biology, plant and animal studies, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, weed control and herbicide applications, and plant parasitism and resistance.

Recent publications by Stephen I. Wright include:

  • Rapid weed adaptation and range expansion in response to agriculture over the past two centuries, 2022, Science
  • Widespread Recombination Suppression Facilitates Plant Sex Chromosome Evolution, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Gametophytic Selection, 2020, Plant Communications
  • The genetic architecture and population genomic signatures of glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus tuberculatus, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • The genetic architecture of repeated local adaptation to climate in distantly related plants, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephen I. Wright include:

  • John R. Stinchcombe
  • Spencer C. H. Barrett
  • Julia M. Kreiner
  • Baharul I. Choudhury
  • Joanna L. Rifkin

Their publications are often featured in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Biology and Evolution, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Molecular Ecology, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Stephen I. Wright received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 2006.

Best Publications

  • The map-based sequence of the rice genome

    Takashi Matsumoto;Jianzhong Wu;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Yuichi Katayose

  • The effects of artificial selection on the maize genome.

    Stephen I. Wright;Irie Vroh Bi;Steve G. Schroeder;Masanori Yamasaki

  • The butterfly plant arms-race escalated by gene and genome duplications.

    Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Patrick P. Edger;Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer;Michaël Bekaert;Jadranka Rota

  • Evolutionary consequences of self- fertilization in plants

    Stephen I. Wright;Susan Kalisz;Tanja Slotte

  • The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

    Tanja Slotte;Tanja Slotte;Khaled M. Hazzouri;Khaled M. Hazzouri;J. Arvid Ågren;Daniel Koenig

  • An atlas of over 90,000 conserved noncoding sequences provides insight into crucifer regulatory regions

    Annabelle Haudry;Adrian E Platts;Emilio Vello;Douglas R Hoen

  • Breeding systems and genome evolution.

    Deborah Charlesworth;Stephen I Wright

  • Molecular Population Genetics and the Search for Adaptive Evolution in Plants

    Stephen I. Wright;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Recent speciation associated with the evolution of selfing in Capsella

    John Paul Foxe;Tanja Slotte;Eli A. Stahl;Barbara Neuffer

  • Recombination: an underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes

    Brandon S. Gaut;Stephen I. Wright;Carène Rizzon;Jan Dvorak

  • Transposon diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Quang Hien Le;Stephen Wright;Zhihui Yu;Thomas Bureau

  • Genetic analysis of the components of winterhardiness in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

    A. Pan;P. M. Hayes;F. Chen;T. H. H. Chen

  • Coevolution between transposable elements and recombination

    Tyler V. Kent;Jasmina Uzunović;Stephen I. Wright

  • Effects of Recombination Rate and Gene Density on Transposable Element Distributions in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Stephen I. Wright;Newton Agrawal;Thomas E. Bureau

  • GENOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF OUTCROSSING AND SELFING IN PLANTS

    Stephen I. Wright;Rob W. Ness;John Paul Foxe;Spencer C. H. Barrett

  • The HKA test revisited: a maximum-likelihood-ratio test of the standard neutral model.

    Stephen I. Wright;Brian Charlesworth

  • Rates and Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Inbred and Outbred Arabidopsis

    Stephen I. Wright;Beatrice Lauga;Deborah Charlesworth

  • Patterns of Polymorphism and Demographic History in Natural Populations of Arabidopsis lyrata

    Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra;Stephen I. Wright;John Paul Foxe;Akira Kawabe

  • Genome-wide evidence for efficient positive and purifying selection in Capsella grandiflora, a plant species with a large effective population size

    Tanja Slotte;John Paul Foxe;Khaled Michel Hazzouri;Stephen I. Wright

  • Effects of Gene Expression on Molecular Evolution in Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis lyrata

    Stephen I. Wright;C. B. Kenneth Yau;Mark Looseley;Blake C. Meyers

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Stinchcombe
John R. Stinchcombe University of Toronto
Spencer C. H. Barrett
Spencer C. H. Barrett University of Toronto
Martin Lascoux
Martin Lascoux Uppsala University
Aneil F. Agrawal
Aneil F. Agrawal University of Toronto
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Brandon S. Gaut
Brandon S. Gaut University of California, Irvine
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Daniel J. Schoen
Daniel J. Schoen McGill University
Sylvain Glémin
Sylvain Glémin University of Rennes
Patrick J. Tranel
Patrick J. Tranel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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