2026 Stephen I. Wright: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	65	2711	2567	92	88	195	13933

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

5443
Citations
The effects of artificial selection on the maize genome.

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

937
Citations
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

546
Citations
Evolutionary consequences of self- fertilization in plants

Stephen I. Wright;Susan Kalisz;Tanja Slotte

523
Citations
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

486
Citations
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

424
Citations
Breeding systems and genome evolution.

Deborah Charlesworth;Stephen I Wright

424
Citations
Molecular Population Genetics and the Search for Adaptive Evolution in Plants

Stephen I. Wright;Brandon S. Gaut

406
Citations
Recent speciation associated with the evolution of selfing in Capsella

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

284
Citations
Recombination: an underappreciated factor in the evolution of plant genomes

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

278
Citations
Transposon diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana

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

273
Citations
Genetic analysis of the components of winterhardiness in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).

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

269
Citations
Coevolution between transposable elements and recombination

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

249
Citations
Effects of Recombination Rate and Gene Density on Transposable Element Distributions in Arabidopsis thaliana

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

235
Citations
GENOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF OUTCROSSING AND SELFING IN PLANTS

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

231
Citations
The HKA test revisited: a maximum-likelihood-ratio test of the standard neutral model.

Stephen I. Wright;Brian Charlesworth

226
Citations
Rates and Patterns of Molecular Evolution in Inbred and Outbred Arabidopsis

Stephen I. Wright;Beatrice Lauga;Deborah Charlesworth

216
Citations
Patterns of Polymorphism and Demographic History in Natural Populations of Arabidopsis lyrata

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

209
Citations
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

197
Citations
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

175
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Stinchcombe University of Toronto

Spencer C. H. Barrett University of Toronto

Martin Lascoux Uppsala University

Aneil F. Agrawal University of Toronto

Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

Brandon S. Gaut University of California, Irvine

Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh

Daniel J. Schoen McGill University

Sylvain Glémin University of Rennes

Patrick J. Tranel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

Personal website of Stephen I. Wright

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