2026 Thomas F. Hansen: 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	68	1516	1449	25	25	143	18347

Overview

Thomas F. Hansen is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, focusing strongly on evolutionary processes and genetic dynamics.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Key subfields of research encompass:

Genetics
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Paleontology
Ecology

The central topics in their work involve:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genetic diversity and population structure
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Plant and animal studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change

Thomas F. Hansen has contributed publications to several frequent venues, including:

Evolution
Systematic Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among their recent papers are:

Evolvability: A Quantitative-Genetics Perspective (2021), published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
Evolvability and trait function predict phenotypic divergence of plant populations (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Evolvability predicts macroevolution under fluctuating selection (2024), published in Science
Both Diet and Sociality Affect Primate Brain-Size Evolution (2022), published in Systematic Biology
A Cautionary Note on "A Cautionary Note on the Use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck Models in Macroevolutionary Studies" (2023), published in Systematic Biology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Christophe Pélabon
Geir H. Bolstad
Kjetil Lysne Voje
Bjørn Tore Kopperud
Masahito Tsuboi

Best Publications

Phylogenies and the comparative method: A general approach to incorporating phylogenetic information into the analysis of interspecific data

Emilia P. Martins;Thomas F. Hansen;Thomas F. Hansen

1856
Citations
STABILIZING SELECTION AND THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ADAPTATION.

Thomas F. Hansen

1347
Citations
Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

796
Citations
Measuring and comparing evolvability and constraint in multivariate characters

T. F. Hansen;D. Houle

716
Citations
TRANSLATING BETWEEN MICROEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND MACROEVOLUTIONARY PATTERNS: THE CORRELATION STRUCTURE OF INTERSPECIFIC DATA.

Thomas F. Hansen;Emília P. Martins

602
Citations
Heritability is not Evolvability

Thomas F. Hansen;Christophe Pélabon;David Houle

498
Citations
The Evolution of Genetic Architecture

Thomas F. Hansen

479
Citations
Is modularity necessary for evolvability? Remarks on the relationship between pleiotropy and evolvability.

Thomas F Hansen

428
Citations
Comparing strengths of directional selection: how strong is strong?

Joe Hereford;Thomas F. Hansen;David Houle

414
Citations
A COMPARATIVE METHOD FOR STUDYING ADAPTATION TO A RANDOMLY EVOLVING ENVIRONMENT

Thomas F. Hansen;Thomas F. Hansen;Jason Pienaar;Steven Hecht Orzack

394
Citations
The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts

Josef C. Uyeda;Thomas F. Hansen;Stevan J. Arnold;Jason Pienaar

381
Citations
Pelagic food web configurations at different levels of nutrient richness and their implications for the ratio fish production:primary production

Ulrich Sommer;Herwig Stibor;Alexis Katechakis;Frank Sommer

364
Citations
Measurement and meaning in biology.

David Houle;Christophe Pélabon;Günter P. Wagner;Thomas F. Hansen

361
Citations
Integrated phenotypes: understanding trait covariation in plants and animals

W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;W. Scott Armbruster;Christophe Pélabon;Geir H. Bolstad;Thomas F. Hansen

314
Citations
Evolution of morphological allometry

Christophe Pelabon;Cyril Joel Patrick Firmat;Geir Hysing Bolstad;Kjetil L. Voje

297
Citations
Evolution of the immune system influences speciation rates in teleost fishes

Martin Malmstrøm;Michael Matschiner;Ole Kristian Tørresen;Bastiaan Star

274
Citations
Evolvability, stabilizing selection, and the problem of stasis

Thomas F. Hansen;David Houle

271
Citations
ALLOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF ALLOMETRY

Kjetil L. Voje;Thomas F. Hansen;Camilla K. Egset;Geir H. Bolstad

271
Citations
Good genes and old age: Do old mates provide superior genes?

T. F. Hansen;D. K. Price

244
Citations
Modeling Genetic Architecture: A Multilinear Theory of Gene Interaction

Thomas F. Hansen;Günter P. Wagner

243
Citations
EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

J. Arjan G. M. De Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Lauren Ancel Meyers;Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

143
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Scott Armbruster University of Portsmouth

Ulrich Sommer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

David Houle Florida State University

Günter P. Wagner Yale University

Kari Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

Herwig Stibor Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Hreinn Stefansson deCODE Genetics (Iceland)

Tonu Esko University of Tartu

Benjamin M. Neale Harvard University

Mark J. Daly Massachusetts General Hospital

External Links

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