Alexander Herbig

8.3k total citations
51 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Alexander Herbig is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Herbig has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Alexander Herbig's work include Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (23 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Alexander Herbig is often cited by papers focused on Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (23 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Alexander Herbig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Alexander Herbig's co-authors include Johannes Krause, Kay Nieselt, Kirsten I. Bos, Maria A. Spyrou, Patrick J. Stover, Cynthia M. Sharma, Konrad U. Förstner, Christina Warinner, Günter Jäger and Alexander Seitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Herbig

49 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Herbig Germany	28	1.4k	1.2k	483	408	399	51	2.8k
Christina Warinner United States	33	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	687 1.4×	188 0.5×	803 2.0×	84	3.2k
Étienne Patin France	33	1.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	78 0.2×	385 0.9×	148 0.4×	65	3.5k
Cecil M. Lewis United States	24	584 0.4×	898 0.8×	214 0.4×	167 0.4×	358 0.9×	50	1.7k
Rosalind M. Harding United Kingdom	37	1.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	511 1.1×	1.6k 3.9×	304 0.8×	69	6.8k
Verena J. Schuenemann Germany	25	1.2k 0.9×	814 0.7×	332 0.7×	232 0.6×	386 1.0×	56	2.4k
Kirsten I. Bos Germany	24	1.6k 1.1×	727 0.6×	293 0.6×	170 0.4×	591 1.5×	34	2.4k
Gila Kahila Bar‐Gal Israel	21	451 0.3×	243 0.2×	189 0.4×	614 1.5×	228 0.6×	47	1.6k
Maria A. Spyrou Germany	22	597 0.4×	287 0.2×	111 0.2×	128 0.3×	207 0.5×	38	1.4k
Charles L. Greenblatt Israel	32	436 0.3×	743 0.6×	174 0.4×	683 1.7×	300 0.8×	149	3.6k
Lucy van Dorp United Kingdom	23	579 0.4×	722 0.6×	298 0.6×	1.1k 2.7×	66 0.2×	46	2.8k

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Hermes, Taylor R., Raffaela A. Bianco, П. А. Косинцев, et al.. (2025). Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage. Cell. 188(20). 5748–5762.e18. 3 indexed citations

Couto, Natacha, Alexander Herbig, Johannes Krause, et al.. (2025). Performance of shotgun metagenomics on whole blood from patients with suspected bloodstream infection: Challenges remain. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 237. 107231–107231.

Yates, James A. Fellows, Christina Warinner, Arthur Kocher, et al.. (2023). Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Vågene‬, Åshild J., Tanvi P. Honap, Kelly M. Harkins, et al.. (2022). Geographically dispersed zoonotic tuberculosis in pre-contact South American human populations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1195–1195. 22 indexed citations

Wu, Xiyan, Chao Ning, Felix M. Key, et al.. (2021). A 3,000-year-old, basal S. enterica lineage from Bronze Age Xinjiang suggests spread along the Proto-Silk Road. PLoS Pathogens. 17(9). e1009886–e1009886. 8 indexed citations

Furtwängler, Anja, Judith Neukamm, Ella Reiter, et al.. (2020). Comparison of Target Enrichment Strategies for Ancient Pathogen DNA. BioTechniques. 69(6). 455–459. 20 indexed citations

Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar, Susanna Sabin, Maria A. Spyrou, et al.. (2020). A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9499–9499. 29 indexed citations

Sabin, Susanna, Alexander Herbig, Åshild J. Vågene‬, et al.. (2020). A seventeenth-century Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome supports a Neolithic emergence of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Genome biology. 21(1). 201–201. 56 indexed citations

Nelson, Elizabeth A., Jane E. Buikstra, Alexander Herbig, Tiffiny A. Tung, & Kirsten I. Bos. (2020). Advances in the molecular detection of tuberculosis in pre-contact Andean South America. International Journal of Paleopathology. 29. 128–140. 15 indexed citations

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Spyrou, Maria A., Kirsten I. Bos, Alexander Herbig, & Johannes Krause. (2019). Ancient pathogen genomics as an emerging tool for infectious disease research. Nature Reviews Genetics. 20(6). 323–340. 140 indexed citations

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Hübler, Ron, Felix M. Key, Christina Warinner, et al.. (2019). HOPS: automated detection and authentication of pathogen DNA in archaeological remains. Genome biology. 20(1). 280–280. 67 indexed citations

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Velsko, Irina M., Laurent Frantz, Alexander Herbig, Greger Larson, & Christina Warinner. (2018). Selection of Appropriate Metagenome Taxonomic Classifiers for Ancient Microbiome Research. mSystems. 3(4). 33 indexed citations

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Avanzi, Charlotte, Ben Krause‐Kyora, Alexander Seitz, et al.. (2018). Ancient Mycobacterium leprae genomes reveal an unexpected diversity of leprosy in medieval Europe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1 indexed citations

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Schuenemann, Verena J., Aditya Kumar Lankapalli, Rodrigo Barquera, et al.. (2018). Historic Treponema pallidum genomes from Colonial Mexico retrieved from archaeological remains. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 12(6). e0006447–e0006447. 41 indexed citations

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Fillinger, Sven, Konrad U. Förstner, Alexander Herbig, et al.. (2017). dRNA-seq transcriptional profiling of the FK506 biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces tsukubaensis NRRL18488 and general analysis of the transcriptome. RNA Biology. 14(11). 1617–1626. 14 indexed citations

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Fuchs, Stephan, Jörg Bernhardt, Stephan Michalik, et al.. (2017). Aureo Wiki The repository of the Staphylococcus aureus research and annotation community. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 308(6). 558–568. 87 indexed citations

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Immel, Alexander, Adeline Le Cabec, Alexander Herbig, et al.. (2016). Effect of X-ray irradiation on ancient DNA in sub-fossil bones – Guidelines for safe X-ray imaging. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32969–32969. 58 indexed citations

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Spyrou, Maria A., Rezeda I. Tukhbatova, Michal Feldman, et al.. (2016). Historical Y. pestis Genomes Reveal the European Black Death as the Source of Ancient and Modern Plague Pandemics. Cell Host & Microbe. 19(6). 874–881. 107 indexed citations

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Herbig, Alexander, Florian Battke, Rafat Amin, et al.. (2011). The PII protein GlnK is a pleiotropic regulator for morphological differentiation and secondary metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 92(6). 1219–1236. 23 indexed citations

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Herbig, Alexander & Kay Nieselt. (2011). nocoRNAc: Characterization of non-coding RNAs in prokaryotes. BMC Bioinformatics. 12(1). 40–40. 22 indexed citations

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