Christina Warinner

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Christina Warinner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christina Warinner has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Christina Warinner's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (26 papers), Gut microbiota and health (20 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers). Christina Warinner is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (26 papers), Gut microbiota and health (20 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 papers). Christina Warinner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Christina Warinner's co-authors include Noreen Tuross, Matthew J. Collins, Camilla Speller, Cecil M. Lewis, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Andrew T. Ozga, Johannes Krause, Jessica Hendy, Alexander Herbig and Courtney A. Hofman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Christina Warinner

80 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes

2015 353 citations Alexandra J. Obregón-Tito, Raúl Y. Tito et al. Nature Communications profile →
Ancient DNA analysis

2021 169 citations Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →
Paleoproteomics

2022 69 citations Christina Warinner, Matthew J. Collins et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christina Warinner United States	33	1.2k	1.1k	831	803	687	84	3.2k
Wolfgang Haak Germany	25	593 0.5×	2.2k 2.1×	1.2k 1.4×	1.5k 1.9×	308 0.4×	53	3.5k
Camilla Speller Canada	30	669 0.6×	953 0.9×	873 1.1×	762 0.9×	801 1.2×	92	2.5k
Christina Adler Australia	17	554 0.5×	634 0.6×	321 0.4×	475 0.6×	183 0.3×	27	1.8k
Cecil M. Lewis United States	24	898 0.8×	584 0.6×	239 0.3×	358 0.4×	214 0.3×	50	1.7k
Mikkel Schubert Denmark	15	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.7×	483 0.6×	434 0.5×	847 1.2×	21	3.1k
Sharon N. DeWitte United States	27	330 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	335 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	137 0.2×	71	2.6k
Alexander Herbig Germany	28	1.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	263 0.3×	399 0.5×	483 0.7×	51	2.8k
Enrico Cappellini Denmark	24	706 0.6×	725 0.7×	498 0.6×	569 0.7×	428 0.6×	54	2.0k
Kirsten I. Bos Germany	24	727 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	349 0.4×	591 0.7×	293 0.4×	34	2.4k
Rosalind M. Harding United Kingdom	37	1.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.7×	139 0.2×	304 0.4×	511 0.7×	69	6.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Christina Warinner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christina Warinner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christina Warinner

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kushniarevich, Alena, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Craig Cessford, et al.. (2025). Bone Adhered Sediments as a Source of Target and Environmental DNA and Proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(9).

Warinner, Christina, et al.. (2025). Microbial dynamics and Pseudomonas natural product production in milk and dairy products. Natural Product Reports. 42(5). 842–855. 1 indexed citations

Walden, John, Julie A. Hoggarth, Claire E. Ebert, et al.. (2025). Biocultural Taphonomies and Analysis of an Emerging Terminal Classic (750–900 CE) Maya Deathway. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 32(1). 1 indexed citations

Wegner, Carl‐Eric, Raphaela Stahl, Irina M. Velsko, et al.. (2023). A glimpse of the paleome in endolithic microbial communities. Microbiome. 11(1). 210–210. 4 indexed citations

Yates, James A. Fellows, Christina Warinner, Arthur Kocher, et al.. (2023). Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Fagernäs, Zandra, Domingo C. Salazar‐García, María Haber Uriarte, et al.. (2022). Understanding the microbial biogeography of ancient human dentitions to guide study design and interpretation. PubMed. 3. xtac006–xtac006. 9 indexed citations

Dimopoulos, Evangelos A., Alberto Carmagnini, Irina M. Velsko, et al.. (2022). HAYSTAC: A Bayesian framework for robust and rapid species identification in high-throughput sequencing data. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(9). e1010493–e1010493. 7 indexed citations

Austin, Rita M., Molly K. Zuckerman, Tanvi P. Honap, et al.. (2022). Remembering St. Louis Individual—structural violence and acute bacterial infections in a historical anatomical collection. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1050–1050. 15 indexed citations

Borry, Maxime, Alexander Hübner, & Christina Warinner. (2022). sam2lca: Lowest Common Ancestor for SAM/BAM/CRAMalignment files. The Journal of Open Source Software. 7(74). 4360–4360. 3 indexed citations

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Moore, Kathleen N., Camille C. Gunderson, Rita M. Austin, et al.. (2021). Shifts in gut and vaginal microbiomes are associated with cancer recurrence time in women with ovarian cancer. PeerJ. 9. e11574–e11574. 37 indexed citations

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Rampelli, Simone, Silvia Turroni, Carolina Mallol, et al.. (2021). Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt. Communications Biology. 4(1). 169–169. 22 indexed citations

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Yates, James A. Fellows, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Åshild J. Vågene‬, et al.. (2021). Community-curated and standardised metadata of published ancient metagenomic samples with AncientMetagenomeDir. Scientific Data. 8(1). 31–31. 32 indexed citations

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Orlando, Ludovic, Robin G. Allaby, Pontus Skoglund, et al.. (2021). Ancient DNA analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Velsko, Irina M., Laurent Frantz, Alexander Herbig, Greger Larson, & Christina Warinner. (2018). Selection of Appropriate Metagenome Taxonomic Classifiers for Ancient Microbiome Research. mSystems. 3(4). 33 indexed citations

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Sankaranarayanan, Krithivasan, et al.. (2017). Patterns of Variation in the Oral and Gut Microbiomes of Traditional Populations. 1 indexed citations

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Ziesemer, Kirsten A., Allison E. Mann, Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, et al.. (2015). Intrinsic challenges in ancient microbiome reconstruction using 16S rRNA gene amplification. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 16498–16498. 108 indexed citations

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Obregón-Tito, Alexandra J., Raúl Y. Tito, Jessica L. Metcalf, et al.. (2015). Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6505–6505. 353 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rühli, Frank, Thomas Stöllner, Don Brothwell, et al.. (2012). Ancient salt mining and salt men: the interdisciplinary Chehrabad Douzlakh project in north-western Iran. Antiquity. 86(333). 13 indexed citations

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Warinner, Christina & Noreen Tuross. (2010). Brief communication: Tissue isotopic enrichment associated with growth depression in a pig: Implications for archaeology and ecology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 141(3). 486–493. 64 indexed citations

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Tuross, Noreen, Christina Warinner, Karola Kirsanow, & Cynthia L. Kester. (2008). Organic oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in a porcine controlled dietary study. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 22(11). 1741–1745. 58 indexed citations

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