Cosimo Posth

9.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 849 citations indexed

About

Cosimo Posth is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cosimo Posth has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 849 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Genetics, 14 papers in Archeology and 8 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Cosimo Posth's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (19 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 papers) and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (9 papers). Cosimo Posth is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (19 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 papers) and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (9 papers). Cosimo Posth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and France. Cosimo Posth's co-authors include Johannes Krause, Hervé Bocherens, Christoph Wißing, Choongwon Jeong, Maria A. Spyrou, Yu He, Alexander Herbig, Kirsten I. Bos, Fernando Racimo and Keiko Kitagawa and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Cosimo Posth

24 papers receiving 819 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.

Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

2018 105 citations Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cosimo Posth Germany	12	386	373	343	324	115	28	849
Alexandra Buzhilova Russia	14	457 1.2×	233 0.6×	273 0.8×	336 1.0×	87 0.8×	68	808
Verónica Fernandes Portugal	19	408 1.1×	745 2.0×	133 0.4×	193 0.6×	268 2.3×	34	1.2k
Meaghan Mackie Denmark	14	343 0.9×	240 0.6×	309 0.9×	188 0.6×	213 1.9×	38	780
Alissa Mittnik Germany	9	429 1.1×	573 1.5×	385 1.1×	219 0.7×	158 1.4×	17	933
Choongwon Jeong United States	16	264 0.7×	662 1.8×	163 0.5×	82 0.3×	180 1.6×	35	1.0k
Farida Alshamali Portugal	13	276 0.7×	451 1.2×	99 0.3×	140 0.4×	126 1.1×	19	664
Stéphane Peyrégne Germany	11	256 0.7×	304 0.8×	186 0.5×	231 0.7×	148 1.3×	14	633
Christine Keyser France	18	495 1.3×	722 1.9×	251 0.7×	92 0.3×	178 1.5×	46	1.0k
Irina Pugach Germany	12	252 0.7×	569 1.5×	181 0.5×	201 0.6×	189 1.6×	12	867
Riaan F. Rifkin South Africa	13	242 0.6×	41 0.1×	317 0.9×	409 1.3×	168 1.5×	17	815

Countries citing papers authored by Cosimo Posth

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cosimo Posth

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

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Crevecœur, Isabelle, Patrick Semal, Mateja Hajdinjak, et al.. (2025). Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 40741–40741.

Reiter, Ella, et al.. (2025). A 6000-year-long genomic transect from the Bogotá Altiplano reveals multiple genetic shifts in the demographic history of Colombia. Science Advances. 11(22). eads6284–eads6284.

Häusler, Martin, Jordi Serangeli, Ella Reiter, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial genomes of Middle Pleistocene horses from the open-air site complex of Schöningen. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(12). 2248–2258.

Oxilia, Gregorio, Sara Silvestrini, Ella Reiter, et al.. (2024). Biomolecular analysis of the Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1415–1415. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ke, Yu He, Rita Radzevičiūtė, et al.. (2023). Middle Holocene Siberian genomes reveal highly connected gene pools throughout North Asia. Current Biology. 33(3). 423–433.e5. 10 indexed citations

Capodiferro, Marco Rosario, Hiba Babiker, Simon Aeschbacher, et al.. (2023). The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry. Current Biology. 33(13). 2602–2615.e5. 8 indexed citations

Villalba‐Mouco, Vanessa, Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Adam B. Rohrlach, et al.. (2023). A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(4). 597–609. 13 indexed citations

Bae, Christopher J., Leslie C. Aiello, John Hawks, et al.. (2023). Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 33(1). e22011–e22011. 7 indexed citations

Miszkiewicz, Justyna J., Hallie R. Buckley, Michal Feldman, et al.. (2022). Female bone physiology resilience in a past Polynesian Outlier community. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 18857–18857.

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Prüfer, Kay, Cosimo Posth, Yu He, et al.. (2021). A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(6). 820–825. 76 indexed citations

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Wang, Chuan‐Chao, Cosimo Posth, Anja Furtwängler, et al.. (2021). Genome-wide autosomal, mtDNA, and Y chromosome analysis of King Bela III of the Hungarian Arpad dynasty. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 19210–19210. 3 indexed citations

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Lankapalli, Aditya Kumar, Susanna Sabin, Maria A. Spyrou, et al.. (2020). A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 9499–9499. 29 indexed citations

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Olalde, Íñigo & Cosimo Posth. (2020). Latest trends in archaeogenetic research of west Eurasians. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 62. 36–43. 12 indexed citations

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He, Yu, Maria A. Spyrou, Marina K. Karapetian, et al.. (2020). Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians Reveal Connections with First Americans and across Eurasia. Cell. 181(6). 1232–1245.e20. 142 indexed citations

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Wißing, Christoph, Hélène Rougier, Chris Baumann, et al.. (2019). Stable isotopes reveal patterns of diet and mobility in the last Neandertals and first modern humans in Europe. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4433–4433. 57 indexed citations

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Loosdrecht, Marieke S. van de, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey, et al.. (2018). Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science. 360(6388). 548–552. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Sullivan, Niall, Cosimo Posth, Valentina Coia, et al.. (2018). Ancient genome-wide analyses infer kinship structure in an Early Medieval Alemannic graveyard. Science Advances. 4(9). eaao1262–eaao1262. 24 indexed citations

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Peltzer, Alexander, Alissa Mittnik, Chuan‐Chao Wang, et al.. (2018). Inferring genetic origins and phenotypic traits of George Bähr, the architect of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2115–2115. 9 indexed citations

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Posth, Cosimo, Christoph Wißing, Keiko Kitagawa, et al.. (2017). Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals. Nature Communications. 8(1). 16046–16046. 148 indexed citations

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Rougier, Hélène, Isabelle Crevecœur, Cédric Beauval, et al.. (2016). Neandertal cannibalism and Neandertal bones used as tools in Northern Europe. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 29005–29005. 61 indexed citations

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