Benjamin M. Peter

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Benjamin M. Peter is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin M. Peter has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 10 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin M. Peter's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (12 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers). Benjamin M. Peter is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (12 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (7 papers). Benjamin M. Peter collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Benjamin M. Peter's co-authors include Montgomery Slatkin, Rasmus Nielsen, Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez, Stéphane Peyrégne, Laurent Excoffier, Daniel Wegmann, John Novembre, Laurits Skov, Felix M. Key and Megan Y. Dennis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin M. Peter

31 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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 high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

2020 137 citations Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin M. Peter United States	18	814	343	167	138	135	32	1.3k
Stephan Schiffels Germany	13	1.3k 1.5×	461 1.3×	327 2.0×	208 1.5×	268 2.0×	25	1.7k
Alec Knight United States	13	620 0.8×	289 0.8×	102 0.6×	85 0.6×	115 0.9×	18	878
Johanna L. A. Paijmans Germany	18	531 0.7×	390 1.1×	145 0.9×	414 3.0×	347 2.6×	44	1.1k
Mark Stoneking United States	8	620 0.8×	286 0.8×	138 0.8×	153 1.1×	91 0.7×	8	930
Andrea Benazzo Italy	19	562 0.7×	227 0.7×	70 0.4×	205 1.5×	57 0.4×	35	965
Shi‐Fang Wu China	19	1.2k 1.5×	752 2.2×	123 0.7×	287 2.1×	64 0.5×	39	1.8k
Juan J. Sánchez Spain	14	523 0.6×	215 0.6×	240 1.4×	161 1.2×	327 2.4×	24	1.1k
Laura R. Botigué Spain	12	1.1k 1.3×	455 1.3×	258 1.5×	115 0.8×	128 0.9×	18	1.7k
Gaynor Dolman Australia	18	659 0.8×	269 0.8×	49 0.3×	301 2.2×	211 1.6×	33	1.2k
Min‐Sheng Peng China	18	754 0.9×	376 1.1×	133 0.8×	76 0.6×	68 0.5×	58	1.1k

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Yang, Jiaqi, Leonardo Nicola Martin Iasi, Qiaomei Fu, et al.. (2025). An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry. Current Biology. 35(20). 4898–4908.e4.

Peyrégne, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). KIN: a method to infer relatedness from low-coverage ancient DNA. Genome biology. 24(1). 10–10. 36 indexed citations

Peyrégne, Stéphane, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, & Svante Pääbo. (2022). The evolutionary history of human spindle genes includes back-and-forth gene flow with Neandertals. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Dang, Benjamin M. Peter, Wulf Schiefenhövel, Manfred Kayser, & Mark Stoneking. (2022). Assessing Human Genome-wide Variation in the Massim Region of Papua New Guinea and Implications for the Kula Trading Tradition. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(8). 1 indexed citations

Peter, Benjamin M.. (2022). A geometric relationship of F 2, F 3 and F 4-statistics with principal component analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1852). 20200413–20200413. 17 indexed citations

Iasi, Leonardo Nicola Martin, Harald Ringbauer, & Benjamin M. Peter. (2021). An Extended Admixture Pulse Model Reveals the Limitations to Human–Neandertal Introgression Dating. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(11). 5156–5174. 8 indexed citations

Skov, Laurits, et al.. (2021). Different historical generation intervals in human populations inferred from Neanderthal fragment lengths and mutation signatures. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5317–5317. 19 indexed citations

Massilani, Diyendo, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, et al.. (2020). Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians. Science. 370(6516). 579–583. 54 indexed citations

Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Steffi Grote, Cesare de Filippo, et al.. (2020). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(26). 15132–15136. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peyrégne, Stéphane & Benjamin M. Peter. (2020). AuthentiCT: a model of ancient DNA damage to estimate the proportion of present-day DNA contamination. Genome biology. 21(1). 246–246. 31 indexed citations

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Key, Felix M., Roger Mundry, Benjamin M. Peter, et al.. (2018). Human local adaptation of the TRPM8 cold receptor along a latitudinal cline. PLoS Genetics. 14(5). e1007298–e1007298. 70 indexed citations

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Orlenko, Alena, Benjamin M. Peter, & David A. Liberles. (2017). Characterizing the roles of changing population size and selection on the evolution of flux control in metabolic pathways. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 117–117. 11 indexed citations

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Jeong, Choongwon, Benjamin M. Peter, Buddha Basnyat, et al.. (2017). A longitudinal cline characterizes the genetic structure of human populations in the Tibetan plateau. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0175885–e0175885. 15 indexed citations

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Orlenko, Alena, A Teufel, Benjamin M. Peter, & David A. Liberles. (2016). Selection on metabolic pathway function in the presence of mutation-selection-drift balance leads to rate-limiting steps that are not evolutionarily stable. Biology Direct. 11(1). 31–31. 14 indexed citations

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Novembre, John & Benjamin M. Peter. (2016). Recent advances in the study of fine-scale population structure in humans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 41. 98–105. 36 indexed citations

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Peter, Benjamin M., Sujay Chattopadhyay, Philippe Lemey, Evgeni V. Sokurenko, & Vladimir N. Minin. (2015). Synonymous and nonsynonymous distances help untangle convergent evolution and recombination. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 3 indexed citations

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Nakagome, Shigeki, Gorka Alkorta‐Aranburu, Roberto Amato, et al.. (2015). Estimating the Ages of Selection Signals from Different Epochs in Human History. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(3). 657–669. 24 indexed citations

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Key, Felix M., Benjamin M. Peter, Megan Y. Dennis, et al.. (2014). Selection on a Variant Associated with Improved Viral Clearance Drives Local, Adaptive Pseudogenization of Interferon Lambda 4 (IFNL4). PLoS Genetics. 10(10). e1004681–e1004681. 69 indexed citations

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Peter, Benjamin M., Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez, & Rasmus Nielsen. (2012). Distinguishing between Selective Sweeps from Standing Variation and from a De Novo Mutation. PLoS Genetics. 8(10). e1003011–e1003011. 143 indexed citations

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Peter, Benjamin M., Daniel Wegmann, & Laurent Excoffier. (2010). Distinguishing between population bottleneck and population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice procedure. Molecular Ecology. 19(21). 4648–4660. 97 indexed citations

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