Aylwyn Scally

13.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
27 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Aylwyn Scally is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aylwyn Scally has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Aylwyn Scally's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (6 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers). Aylwyn Scally is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (6 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers). Aylwyn Scally collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Russia. Aylwyn Scally's co-authors include Richard Durbin, Chris Tyler‐Smith, Yali Xue, Charlotte Clarke, Petr Danecek, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Iwanka Kozarewa, Philip J. Stephens, Frances J.D. Smith and Daniel J. Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Aylwyn Scally

25 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A large genome center's improvements to the Illumina sequencing system

2008 559 citations Michael A. Quail, Iwanka Kozarewa et al. Nature Methods profile →
BCFtools/RoH: a hidden Markov model approach for detecting autozygosity from next-generation sequencing data

2016 400 citations Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Petr Danecek et al. profile →
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

2015 209 citations Huw S. Groucutt, Eleanor M. L. Scerri et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aylwyn Scally United Kingdom	16	963	919	293	259	242	27	2.3k
Juan José Martínez Sánchez Denmark	23	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	75 0.3×	222 0.9×	88 0.4×	69	2.3k
Fernando Racimo United States	25	1.6k 1.6×	658 0.7×	304 1.0×	342 1.3×	119 0.5×	41	2.7k
Mauro Santos Spain	35	1.8k 1.9×	771 0.8×	56 0.2×	77 0.3×	362 1.5×	133	4.2k
Luca Pagani Italy	29	1.4k 1.4×	499 0.5×	314 1.1×	420 1.6×	66 0.3×	82	2.4k
Paula F. Campos Denmark	25	903 0.9×	785 0.9×	359 1.2×	391 1.5×	160 0.7×	47	2.5k
Matteo Fumagalli Italy	31	1.6k 1.6×	978 1.1×	65 0.2×	71 0.3×	237 1.0×	67	3.5k
David Serre United States	36	2.1k 2.2×	1.7k 1.9×	580 2.0×	978 3.8×	140 0.6×	82	5.1k
Pedro Soares Portugal	30	1.8k 1.8×	1.0k 1.1×	507 1.7×	991 3.8×	74 0.3×	64	3.1k
Martin Sikora United States	23	1.2k 1.2×	516 0.6×	234 0.8×	339 1.3×	259 1.1×	54	2.3k
Melanie Kuch Canada	19	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 1.1×	174 0.6×	779 3.0×	100 0.4×	31	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aylwyn Scally

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20 of 20 papers shown

Huang, Qin Qin, Rashesh Sanghvi, Daniel Malawsky, et al.. (2025). The impact of ancestral, genetic, and environmental influences on germline de novo mutation rates and spectra. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4527–4527.

Jung, Hyunchul, Tsun-Po Yang, Susan Walker, et al.. (2025). Complex de novo structural variants are an underestimated cause of rare disorders. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9528–9528.

Scally, Aylwyn, et al.. (2025). A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans. Nature Genetics. 57(4). 856–864. 3 indexed citations

Eastwood, Sophie V., Gibran Hemani, Sarah Watkins, et al.. (2024). Ancestry, ethnicity, and race: explaining inequalities in cardiometabolic disease. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 30(6). 541–551. 6 indexed citations

Alagöz, Gökberk, Felix Krueger, Maria Rostovskaya, et al.. (2023). NANOGP1 , a tandem duplicate of NANOG , exhibits partial functional conservation in human naïve pluripotent stem cells. Development. 150(2). 2 indexed citations

Schlebusch, Carina M., Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, et al.. (2021). Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science. 130. 105374–105374. 6 indexed citations

Walker, Conor R., Aylwyn Scally, Nicola De Maio, & Nick Goldman. (2021). Short-range template switching in great ape genomes explored using pair hidden Markov models. PLoS Genetics. 17(3). e1009221–e1009221. 10 indexed citations

Mathieson, Iain & Aylwyn Scally. (2020). What is ancestry?. PLoS Genetics. 16(3). e1008624–e1008624. 93 indexed citations

Skov, Laurits, Ruoyun Hui, Vladimir Shchur, et al.. (2018). Detecting archaic introgression using an unadmixed outgroup. PLoS Genetics. 14(9). e1007641–e1007641. 66 indexed citations

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Mattle‐Greminger, Maja P., Tugce Bilgin Sonay, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2018). Genomes reveal marked differences in the adaptive evolution between orangutan species. Genome biology. 19(1). 193–193. 15 indexed citations

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Narasimhan, Vagheesh M., Raheleh Rahbari, Aylwyn Scally, et al.. (2017). Estimating the human mutation rate from autozygous segments reveals population differences in human mutational processes. Nature Communications. 8(1). 303–303. 54 indexed citations

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Seoighe, Cathal & Aylwyn Scally. (2017). Inference of Candidate Germline Mutator Loci in Humans from Genome-Wide Haplotype Data. PLoS Genetics. 13(1). e1006549–e1006549. 13 indexed citations

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Scally, Aylwyn. (2016). The mutation rate in human evolution and demographic inference. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 41. 36–43. 68 indexed citations

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Pagani, Luca, Stephan Schiffels, Deepti Gurdasani, et al.. (2015). Tracing the Route of Modern Humans out of Africa by Using 225 Human Genome Sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 96(6). 986–991. 110 indexed citations

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Scally, Aylwyn, Bryndís Yngvadóttir, Yali Xue, et al.. (2013). A Genome-Wide Survey of Genetic Variation in Gorillas Using Reduced Representation Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e65066–e65066. 18 indexed citations

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Scally, Aylwyn & Richard Durbin. (2012). Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution. Nature Reviews Genetics. 13(10). 745–753. 342 indexed citations

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Quail, Michael A., Iwanka Kozarewa, Frances J.D. Smith, et al.. (2008). A large genome center's improvements to the Illumina sequencing system. Nature Methods. 5(12). 1005–1010. 559 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scally, Aylwyn, C. J. Clarke, & M. J. McCaughrean. (2005). Dynamical evolution of the Orion nebula cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 358(3). 742–754. 24 indexed citations

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Adams, Timothy E., M. B. Davies, R. F. Jameson, & Aylwyn Scally. (2002). Brown dwarf populations in open clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 333(3). 547–560. 17 indexed citations

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Scally, Aylwyn & Charlotte Clarke. (2001). Destruction of protoplanetary discs in the Orion Nebula Cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 325(2). 449–456. 155 indexed citations

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