Axel Janke

9.8k total citations
119 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Axel Janke is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Janke has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Molecular Biology, 74 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Axel Janke's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (63 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers). Axel Janke is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (71 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (63 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers). Axel Janke collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United States. Axel Janke's co-authors include Úlfur Árnason, Anette Gullberg, Maria A. Nilsson, Björn M. Hallström, Svante Pääbo, Xiufeng Xu, Stefan Hiendleder, Morgan Kullberg, Vikas Kumar and Arndt von Haeseler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Axel Janke

115 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel Janke Germany 46 3.4k 3.1k 1.7k 1.6k 977 119 6.7k
François Catzeflis France 38 1.8k 0.5× 2.2k 0.7× 1.9k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 123 5.5k
Matthias Meyer Germany 46 4.1k 1.2× 6.0k 1.9× 2.9k 1.7× 2.6k 1.6× 744 0.8× 93 11.4k
Eduardo Eizirik Brazil 36 2.5k 0.7× 2.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.2× 2.8k 1.7× 1.4k 1.4× 112 7.2k
Michael J. Stanhope United States 54 3.9k 1.1× 2.6k 0.8× 2.8k 1.6× 2.7k 1.6× 2.1k 2.1× 127 10.1k
Christophe J. Douady France 40 2.8k 0.8× 1.8k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 2.7k 1.6× 1.0k 1.0× 86 6.5k
Rodney L. Honeycutt United States 49 1.7k 0.5× 2.8k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 3.0k 1.8× 1.8k 1.8× 162 6.7k
Michael J. Braun United States 38 1.8k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 1.9k 2.0× 106 7.1k
Emmanuel Douzery France 56 3.7k 1.1× 3.0k 1.0× 2.9k 1.7× 2.6k 1.6× 2.3k 2.4× 108 9.0k
Ian Barnes United Kingdom 37 1.4k 0.4× 2.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 638 0.7× 97 5.9k
Adalgisa Caccone United States 52 2.4k 0.7× 3.3k 1.1× 706 0.4× 2.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.5× 252 8.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Axel Janke

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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Janke

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Janke

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Axel Janke. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Axel Janke 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 Axel Janke. Axel Janke 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
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Jong, Menno de, et al.. (2025). Population-genomics reveals a dual ancestry of grizzly bears. iScience. 28(7). 112870–112870. 1 indexed citations
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Winter, Sven, et al.. (2024). Population genomics of the southern giraffe. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 201. 108198–108198. 1 indexed citations
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Jong, Menno de, et al.. (2024). Near chromosome-level and highly repetitive genome assembly of the snake pipefish Entelurus aequoreus (Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2024. 1–13. 3 indexed citations
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Janke, Axel, et al.. (2024). High-speed whole-genome sequencing of a Whippet: Rapid chromosome-level assembly and annotation of an extremely fast dog’s genome. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2024. gigabyte134–gigabyte134.
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Jong, Menno de, et al.. (2024). Ocean‐Wide Conservation Genomics of Blue Whales Suggest New Northern Hemisphere Subspecies. Molecular Ecology. 34(2). e17619–e17619. 2 indexed citations
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Jong, Menno de, Cock van Oosterhout, A. Rus Hoelzel, & Axel Janke. (2023). Moderating the neutralist–selectionist debate: exactly which propositions are we debating, and which arguments are valid?. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(1). 23–55. 11 indexed citations
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Winter, Sven, et al.. (2023). A chromosome-scale reference genome assembly of the great sand eel,Hyperoplus lanceolatus. Journal of Heredity. 114(2). 189–194. 2 indexed citations
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Greve, Carola, Tilman Schell, Axel Janke, et al.. (2023). The de novo genome of the Black-necked Snakefly (Venustoraphidia nigricollis Albarda, 1891): A resource to study the evolution of living fossils. Journal of Heredity. 115(1). 112–119. 3 indexed citations
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Gupta, Deepak, et al.. (2023). The genome of the pygmy right whale illuminates the evolution of rorquals. BMC Biology. 21(1). 79–79. 8 indexed citations
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Jong, Menno de, Aidin Niamir, Andrew C. Kitchener, et al.. (2023). Range-wide whole-genome resequencing of the brown bear reveals drivers of intraspecies divergence. Communications Biology. 6(1). 153–153. 21 indexed citations
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Blumer, Moritz, Tom Brown, Mariella Bontempo Freitas, et al.. (2022). Gene losses in the common vampire bat illuminate molecular adaptations to blood feeding. Science Advances. 8(12). eabm6494–eabm6494. 29 indexed citations
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Päckert, Martin, Martin Irestedt, Axel Janke, et al.. (2022). Speciation and population divergence in a mutualistic seed dispersing bird. Communications Biology. 5(1). 429–429. 2 indexed citations
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Jong, Menno de, et al.. (2021). SambaR: An R package for fast, easy and reproducible population‐genetic analyses of biallelic SNP data sets. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(4). 1369–1379. 59 indexed citations
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Prost, Stefan, Malte Petersen, Deepak Gupta, et al.. (2020). Improving the Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Siamese Fighting Fish ( Betta splendens ) in a University Master’s Course. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(7). 2179–2183. 11 indexed citations
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Westhaus, Sandra, Frank‐Andreas Weber, Sabrina Schiwy, et al.. (2020). Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in raw and treated wastewater in Germany – Suitability for COVID-19 surveillance and potential transmission risks. The Science of The Total Environment. 751. 141750–141750. 265 indexed citations
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Lammers, Fritjof, et al.. (2017). Screening for the ancient polar bear mitochondrial genome reveals low integration of mitochondrial pseudogenes ( numts ) in bears. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2(1). 251–254. 5 indexed citations
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Hallström, Björn M., Adrian Schneider, Stefan Zoller, & Axel Janke. (2011). A Genomic Approach to Examine the Complex Evolution of Laurasiatherian Mammals. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28199–e28199. 26 indexed citations
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Misawa, Kazuharu & Axel Janke. (2003). Revisiting the Glires concept—phylogenetic analysis of nuclear sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 28(2). 320–327. 35 indexed citations
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Hiendleder, Stefan, et al.. (2001). Molecular data on wild sheep genetic resources and domestic sheep evolution. Archives animal breeding/Archiv für Tierzucht. 44. 271–279. 4 indexed citations

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