Christian Roos

14.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
218 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Christian Roos is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Roos has authored 218 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Social Psychology, 75 papers in Molecular Biology and 51 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Christian Roos's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (121 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (40 papers). Christian Roos is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (121 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (40 papers). Christian Roos collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Christian Roos's co-authors include Dietmar Zinner, Lutz Walter, Hans Zischler, Jürgen Schmitz, Y. Rumpler, Tilo Nadler, Linn F. Groeneveld, Stephen J. O’Brien, Héctor N. Seuánez and Polina L. Perelman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Roos

209 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 250 500 750
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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.

  1. A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates
    2011 917 citations Polina L. Perelman, Warren E. Johnson et al. profile →

Peers

Christian Roos
Anne D. Yoder United States
Phillip A. Morin United States
Todd R. Disotell United States
Nathaniel J. Dominy United States
David Glenn Smith United States
Warren E. Johnson United States
Dustin J. Penn Austria
Maria Paula Cruz Schneider Brazil
Erich D. Jarvis United States
Michael E. Alfaro United States
Anne D. Yoder United States
Christian Roos
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Countries citing papers authored by Christian Roos

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Roos

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Roos

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Roos. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Roos 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 Christian Roos. Christian Roos is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Li, Wenbo, Xiaochen Wang, Ying Shen, et al.. (2025). Integrating population genomics and environmental data to predict adaptation to climate change in post-bottleneck Tibetan macaques. Science Advances. 11(28). eadw0562–eadw0562.
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Ahmed, Tanvir, et al.. (2025). Improper Primate Release Fuels Interspecific Mating: Cases of Two Mixed‐Species Groups in Bangladesh. Ecology and Evolution. 15(10). e72279–e72279.
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Zhao, Qian, Hui Li, Liye Zhang, et al.. (2025). Living on the Rocks: Genomic Analysis of Limestone Langurs Provides Novel Insights into the Adaptive Evolution in Extreme Karst Environments. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 23(1).
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Pozzi, Luca, Meredith Barrett, Mary E. Blair, et al.. (2025). Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7070–7070. 2 indexed citations
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Costa‐Araújo, Rodrigo, Gustavo Rodrigues Canale, Fabiano Rodrigues de Melo, et al.. (2024). A dataset of new occurrence records of primates from the arc of deforestation, Brazil. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11(1). 1–11.
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Tan, Xinxin, Zhijin Liu, Pengfei Fan, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics Reveals High Levels of Incomplete Lineage Sorting at the Ancestral Nodes of the Macaque Radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(11). 10 indexed citations
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Roos, Christian, Dietmar Zinner, Benjamin C. C. Hume, et al.. (2023). Adulis and the transshipment of baboons during classical antiquity. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations
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Roos, Christian, et al.. (2023). Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of oral and rectal microbiota of non‐human primate species in Ghana: A threat to human health. Veterinary Medicine and Science. 10(2). 2 indexed citations
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Blair, Mary E., Elora H. López-Nandam, Badrul Munir Md‐Zain, et al.. (2023). Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships and Unveiling Novel Genetic Diversity among Slow and Pygmy Lorises, including Resurrection of Xanthonycticebus intermedius. Genes. 14(3). 643–643. 10 indexed citations
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Hackl, Christoph M., et al.. (2023). Digital Twins for the Future Power System: An Overview and a Future Perspective. Sustainability. 15(6). 5259–5259. 45 indexed citations
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Roos, Christian, Nikola Tom, Darina Čejková, et al.. (2023). The genomes of the yaws bacterium, Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue, of nonhuman primate and human origin are not genomically distinct. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 17(9). e0011602–e0011602. 5 indexed citations
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Storer, Jessica M., et al.. (2023). Framework of the Alu Subfamily Evolution in the Platyrrhine Three-Family Clade of Cebidae, Callithrichidae, and Aotidae. Genes. 14(2). 249–249. 3 indexed citations
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Storer, Jessica M., Jerilyn A. Walker, Joseph D. Orkin, et al.. (2022). Recently Integrated Alu Elements in Capuchin Monkeys: A Resource for Cebus/Sapajus Genomics. Genes. 13(4). 572–572. 3 indexed citations
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Storer, Jessica M., Jerilyn A. Walker, Morgan A. Brown, et al.. (2022). Owl Monkey Alu Insertion Polymorphisms and Aotus Phylogenetics. Genes. 13(11). 2069–2069. 2 indexed citations
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Roos, Christian, et al.. (2019). Female Assamese macaques bias their affiliation to paternal and maternal kin. Behavioral Ecology. 31(2). 493–507. 19 indexed citations
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Fiore, Anthony Di, Fanny M. Cornejo, Christopher A. Schmitt, et al.. (2014). The rise and fall of a genus: Complete mtDNA genomes shed light on the phylogenetic position of yellow-tailed woolly monkeys, Lagothrix flavicauda, and on the evolutionary history of the family Atelidae (Primates: Platyrrhini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 82. 495–510. 37 indexed citations
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Perelman, Polina L., Warren E. Johnson, Christian Roos, et al.. (2011). A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates. PLoS ONE. 7. 1–17. 7 indexed citations
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Abi-Rached, Laurent, Heiner Kuhl, Christian Roos, et al.. (2009). A Small, Variable, and Irregular Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Locus Accompanies the Absence of MHC-C and MHC-G in Gibbons. The Journal of Immunology. 184(3). 1379–1391. 40 indexed citations

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