3.1(top 5%)
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3.4(top 5%)
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174(top 1%)
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2.1K
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254.1K
citations
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Most Cited Articles of Journal of Molecular Evolution

TitleYearCitations
A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences198021.3K
Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: a maximum likelihood approach198110.6K
Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA19856.5K
Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in hominoidea19892.8K
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: approximate methods19942.1K
Accuracy of estimated phylogenetic trees from molecular data. II. Gene frequency data19831.9K
Evolution of the cytochrome b gene of mammals19911.8K
Progressive sequence alignment as a prerequisite to correct phylogenetic trees19871.6K
The mitochondrial DNA molecular of Drosophila yakuba: nucleotide sequence, gene organization, and genetic code19851.3K
Intervening sequences of regularly spaced prokaryotic repeats derive from foreign genetic elements20051.3K
Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: tempo and mode of evolution19821.2K
Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: a new method of phylogenetic inference19961.2K
A new method for calculating evolutionary substitution rates19841.2K
Analyzing the mosaic structure of genes19921.1K
Unbiased estimation of the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution1993933
Patterns of nucleotide composition at fourfold degenerate sites of animal mitochondrial genomes1995898
Evolution of substrate specificities in the P-type ATPase superfamily1998699
Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution1994673
Amelioration of bacterial genomes: rates of change and exchange1997627
Statistical tests of models of DNA substitution1993624
Evolution in bacteria: evidence for a universal substitution rate in cellular genomes1987615
Comparison of three actin-coding sequences in the mouse; evolutionary relationships between the actin genes of warm-blooded vertebrates1986614
An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms1986601
Maximum likelihood inference of protein phylogeny and the origin of chloroplasts1990584
Plant mitochondrial DNA evolves rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence1988523