Andreas Wollstein

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Andreas Wollstein is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andreas Wollstein has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Genetics, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Andreas Wollstein's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers), melanin and skin pigmentation (7 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (6 papers). Andreas Wollstein is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (8 papers), melanin and skin pigmentation (7 papers) and Forensic and Genetic Research (6 papers). Andreas Wollstein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Andreas Wollstein's co-authors include Manfred Kayser, Fan Liu, Susan Walsh, Arwin Ralf, Óscar Lao, Mark Stoneking, Leda Kovatsi, Wojciech Branicki, Irina Pugach and Kaye N. Ballantyne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Andreas Wollstein

27 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania
    2011 342 citations Irina Pugach, Andreas Wollstein et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andreas Wollstein Germany 18 1.2k 785 365 324 230 27 2.0k
Mannis van Oven Netherlands 25 2.4k 2.0× 1.8k 2.2× 129 0.4× 760 2.3× 59 0.3× 43 3.4k
Concepción de la Rúa Vaca Spain 20 620 0.5× 233 0.3× 126 0.3× 478 1.5× 88 0.4× 71 1.1k
Jonathan S. Friedlaender United States 27 1.1k 0.9× 408 0.5× 74 0.2× 293 0.9× 63 0.3× 58 2.2k
Shinji Harihara Japan 19 982 0.8× 457 0.6× 124 0.3× 243 0.8× 76 0.3× 47 1.6k
Sandra Beleza Portugal 20 805 0.7× 387 0.5× 287 0.8× 115 0.4× 202 0.9× 35 1.4k
Santos Alonso Spain 19 564 0.5× 286 0.4× 161 0.4× 244 0.8× 113 0.5× 65 1.1k
Ömer Gökçümen United States 25 796 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 110 0.3× 152 0.5× 61 0.3× 73 2.0k
Hiroki Oota Japan 23 924 0.8× 758 1.0× 45 0.1× 273 0.8× 18 0.1× 68 1.9k
Lawrence Hon United States 11 493 0.4× 931 1.2× 84 0.2× 71 0.2× 55 0.2× 17 1.6k
Qasim Ayub United Kingdom 28 1.8k 1.5× 806 1.0× 55 0.2× 405 1.3× 16 0.1× 93 2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Andreas Wollstein

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Andreas Wollstein's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Andreas Wollstein with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Andreas Wollstein more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Andreas Wollstein

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Andreas Wollstein. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Andreas Wollstein. The network helps show where Andreas Wollstein may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andreas Wollstein

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andreas Wollstein. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andreas Wollstein based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Andreas Wollstein. Andreas Wollstein is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Wollstein, Andreas, Susan Walsh, Fan Liu, et al.. (2017). Novel quantitative pigmentation phenotyping enhances genetic association, epistasis, and prediction of human eye colour. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 43359–43359. 22 indexed citations
2.
Walsh, Susan, Lakshmi Chaitanya, Krystal Breslin, et al.. (2017). Global skin colour prediction from DNA. Human Genetics. 136(7). 847–863. 85 indexed citations
3.
Liu, Fan, Merel A. Hamer, Joris Deelen, et al.. (2016). The MC1R Gene and Youthful Looks. Current Biology. 26(9). 1213–1220. 55 indexed citations
4.
Wollstein, Andreas & Óscar Lao. (2015). Detecting individual ancestry in the human genome. PubMed. 6(1). 7–7. 17 indexed citations
5.
Wollstein, Andreas & Wolfgang Stephan. (2015). Inferring positive selection in humans from genomic data. PubMed. 6(1). 5–5. 14 indexed citations
6.
Wollstein, Andreas, Clifford Ruff, David Dunaway, et al.. (2015). An Automatic 3D Facial Landmarking Algorithm Using 2D Gabor Wavelets. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 25(2). 580–588. 20 indexed citations
7.
Lao, Óscar, Fan Liu, Andreas Wollstein, & Manfred Kayser. (2014). GAGA: A New Algorithm for Genomic Inference of Geographic Ancestry Reveals Fine Level Population Substructure in Europeans. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(2). e1003480–e1003480. 5 indexed citations
8.
Ackermann, Katrin, et al.. (2014). Assessing the suitability of miRNA-142-5p and miRNA-541 for bloodstain deposition timing. Forensic Science International Genetics. 12. 181–184. 12 indexed citations
9.
Jacobs, Leonie C., Andreas Wollstein, Óscar Lao, et al.. (2012). Comprehensive candidate gene study highlights UGT1A and BNC2 as new genes determining continuous skin color variation in Europeans. Human Genetics. 132(2). 147–158. 72 indexed citations
10.
Walsh, Susan, Fan Liu, Andreas Wollstein, et al.. (2012). The HIrisPlex system for simultaneous prediction of hair and eye colour from DNA. Forensic Science International Genetics. 7(1). 98–115. 272 indexed citations
11.
Pugach, Irina, et al.. (2011). Dating the age of admixture via wavelet transform analysis of genome-wide data. Genome biology. 12(2). R19–R19. 59 indexed citations
12.
Walsh, Susan, Andreas Wollstein, Fan Liu, et al.. (2011). DNA-based eye colour prediction across Europe with the IrisPlex system. Forensic Science International Genetics. 6(3). 330–340. 101 indexed citations
13.
Wollstein, Andreas, Óscar Lao, Christian Becker, et al.. (2010). Demographic History of Oceania Inferred from Genome-wide Data. Current Biology. 20(22). 1983–1992. 117 indexed citations
14.
Liu, Fan, Andreas Wollstein, Pirro G. Hysi, et al.. (2010). Digital Quantification of Human Eye Color Highlights Genetic Association of Three New Loci. PLoS Genetics. 6(5). e1000934–e1000934. 139 indexed citations
15.
Vermeulen, Mark, Andreas Wollstein, Kristiaan J. van der Gaag, et al.. (2009). Improving global and regional resolution of male lineage differentiation by simple single-copy Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat polymorphisms. Forensic Science International Genetics. 3(4). 205–213. 75 indexed citations
16.
Wollstein, Andreas, Alexander Herrmann, Michael Wittig, et al.. (2007). Efficacy assessment of SNP sets for genome-wide disease association studies. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(17). e113–e113. 12 indexed citations
17.
Nothnagel, Michael, Andreas Wollstein, & Michael Krawczak. (2007). Comparative Assessment of the Association Information Captured by SNP Tagging. Human Heredity. 64(1). 27–34. 3 indexed citations
18.
Franke, André, Andreas Wollstein, Markus Teuber, et al.. (2006). GENOMIZER: an integrated analysis system for genome-wide association data. Human Mutation. 27(6). 583–588. 14 indexed citations
19.
Robinson, Peter N., Andreas Wollstein, Ulrike Böhme, & Bradley J. Beattie. (2004). Ontologizing gene-expression microarray data: characterizing clusters with Gene Ontology. Bioinformatics. 20(6). 979–981. 61 indexed citations
20.
Hampe, Jochen, et al.. (2001). An integrated system for high throughput TaqMan™ based SNP genotyping. Bioinformatics. 17(7). 654–655. 82 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mannis van Oven Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Concepción de la Rúa Vaca Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jonathan S. Friedlaender Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shinji Harihara Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sandra Beleza Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Santos Alonso Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ömer Gökçümen Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Hiroki Oota Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Lawrence Hon Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Qasim Ayub
Rankless by CCL
2026