Alan Cooper

47.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
475 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

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Alan Cooper is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Cooper has authored 475 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Genetics, 117 papers in Molecular Biology and 90 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alan Cooper's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (66 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (56 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (45 papers). Alan Cooper is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (66 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (56 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (45 papers). Alan Cooper collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Alan Cooper's co-authors include Eske Willerslev, Alexei J. Drummond, Simon Y. W. Ho, David Penny, Matthew J. Phillips, Laura S. Weyrich, Laura S. Weyrich, Jeremy J. Austin, Beth Shapiro and M. Thomas P. Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alan Cooper

467 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Time Dependency of Molecular Rate Estimates and Systematic Overestimation of Recent Divergence Times

2005 865 citations Alan Cooper et al. profile →
Contamination in Low Microbial Biomass Microbiome Studies: Issues and Recommendations

2018 643 citations Raphael Eisenhofer, Alan Cooper et al. profile →
Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication

2005 636 citations Greger Larson, Keith Dobney et al. Science profile →
Review Paper. Ancient DNA

2004 532 citations Eske Willerslev, Alan Cooper profile →
Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

2013 409 citations Christina Adler, Keith Dobney et al. profile →
When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

2018 136 citations Chris Turney, Alan Cooper et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Alan Cooper	7.2k	5.8k	5.8k	4.3k	2.0k	475	21.9k
M. Thomas P. Gilbert	8.3k 1.1×	9.9k 1.7×	9.7k 1.7×	3.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.3×	387	24.4k
Eske Willerslev	8.6k 1.2×	11.7k 2.0×	9.9k 1.7×	4.1k 1.0×	3.1k 1.6×	238	24.6k
Michael Hofreiter	8.4k 1.2×	5.1k 0.9×	4.6k 0.8×	3.8k 0.9×	3.2k 1.6×	243	15.4k
Ludovic Orlando	5.3k 0.7×	4.8k 0.8×	4.8k 0.8×	2.4k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	151	11.9k
David Reich	22.6k 3.1×	1.8k 0.3×	9.7k 1.7×	2.2k 0.5×	2.7k 1.3×	181	34.2k
Allan C. Wilson	11.8k 1.6×	4.5k 0.8×	10.1k 1.7×	2.4k 0.6×	1.0k 0.5×	130	22.1k
Rasmus Nielsen	23.7k 3.3×	7.0k 1.2×	17.9k 3.1×	2.5k 0.6×	832 0.4×	293	43.5k
Mark Stoneking	13.6k 1.9×	1.6k 0.3×	8.1k 1.4×	1.8k 0.4×	3.4k 1.7×	286	22.5k
Henry Harpending	7.3k 1.0×	2.8k 0.5×	3.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	1.7k 0.9×	95	13.4k
Matthew J. Collins	3.2k 0.5×	2.5k 0.4×	3.2k 0.5×	5.3k 1.2×	5.7k 2.8×	272	13.8k

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Llamas, Bastien, Kieren J. Mitchell, Emilia Hofman‐Kamińska, et al.. (2025). Coexistence, Extinction and Survival—The Evolutionary History of Bison Species in Western Eurasia. Global Change Biology. 31(8). e70354–e70354. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Sidney, et al.. (2024). Targeting PRDM1 to Enhance CAR T Cell Therapy Against Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL). Blood. 144(Supplement 1). 7176–7176. 1 indexed citations

Rozanov, Eugene, Ilya Usoskin, Chris Turney, et al.. (2024). Global impacts of an extreme solar particle event under different geomagnetic field strengths. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(28). e2321770121–e2321770121. 6 indexed citations

Bray, Sarah, Michael S. Y. Lee, Holly Heiniger, et al.. (2021). Lions and brown bears colonized North America in multiple synchronous waves of dispersal across the Bering Land Bridge. Molecular Ecology. 31(24). 6407–6421. 22 indexed citations

Purnomo, Gludhug A., Kieren J. Mitchell, Sue O’Connor, et al.. (2021). Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact. Genes. 12(7). 965–965. 18 indexed citations

Pietri, Vanesa L. De, Trevor H. Worthy, R. Paul Scofield, et al.. (2020). A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae:Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships ofProsobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192(4). 1045–1070. 11 indexed citations

Weyrich, Laura S., Andrew G. Farrer, Raphael Eisenhofer, et al.. (2019). Laboratory contamination over time during low‐biomass sample analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(4). 982–996. 162 indexed citations

Косинцев, П. А., Kieren J. Mitchell, Thibaut Devièse, et al.. (2018). Evolution and extinction of the giant rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum sheds light on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(1). 31–38. 51 indexed citations

Sheng, Guilian, Axel Barlow, Alan Cooper, et al.. (2018). Ancient DNA from Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of South-Western China Reveals Genetic Diversity Loss during the Holocene. Genes. 9(4). 198–198. 14 indexed citations

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Bird, Michael I., Robin J. Beaman, Scott A. Condie, et al.. (2018). Palaeogeography and voyage modeling indicates early human colonization of Australia was likely from Timor-Roti. Quaternary Science Reviews. 191. 431–439. 56 indexed citations

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Cooper, Alan, et al.. (2016). Diluted honey inhibits biofilm formation: potential application in urinary catheter management?. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 70(2). 140–144. 15 indexed citations

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Cooper, Alan, et al.. (2013). Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy imaging of live epithelial cancer cells under non-aqueous media. Journal of Clinical Pathology. 66(4). 312–318. 8 indexed citations

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Cooper, Alan, et al.. (2012). Youngest reported radiocarbon age of a moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) dated from a natural site in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 43(2). 100–107. 13 indexed citations

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Haile, James, Duane Froese, R. D. E. MacPhee, et al.. (2009). Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(52). 22352–22357. 186 indexed citations

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Larson, Greger, Keith Dobney, Umberto Albarella, et al.. (2005). Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication. Science. 307(5715). 1618–1621. 636 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lwaleed, Bashir A., Robert S. Greenfield, James W. Hicks, Brian Birch, & Alan Cooper. (2005). Quantitation of Seminal Factor IX and Factor IXa in Fertile, Nonfertile, and Vasectomy Subjects: A Step Closer Toward Identifying a Functional Clotting System in Human Semen. Journal of Andrology. 26(1). 146–152. 9 indexed citations

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Hicks, Julie A., et al.. (2005). Do CD142 carrying prostatic exosomes promote angiogenesis?. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 2 indexed citations

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Fleischer, Robert C., Storrs L. Olson, Helen F. James, & Alan Cooper. (2000). Identification of the Extinct Hawaiian Eagle (Haliaeetus) by mtDNA Sequence Analysis. The Auk. 117(4). 1051–1051. 55 indexed citations

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Steel, Mike, Alan Cooper, & David Penny. (1996). Confidence Intervals for the Divergence Time of Two Clades. Systematic Biology. 45(2). 127–127. 6 indexed citations

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