Elena Essel

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 179 citations indexed

About

Elena Essel is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elena Essel has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 179 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Archeology and 2 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Elena Essel's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 papers). Elena Essel is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 papers). Elena Essel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Russia. Elena Essel's co-authors include Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin Vernot, М.B. Kozlikin, M.V. Shunkov, А. П. Деревянко, Svante Pääbo, Mateja Hajdinjak, Sarah Nagel and Zenobia Jacobs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Elena Essel

5 papers receiving 171 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.

Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

2021 67 citations Elena I. Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elena Essel Germany	5	78	78	74	62	32	5	179
Louise Loe United Kingdom	7	34 0.4×	134 1.7×	106 1.4×	124 2.0×	75 2.3×	12	354
Thijessen Naidoo Sweden	8	60 0.8×	118 1.5×	218 2.9×	90 1.5×	65 2.0×	10	327
Lumila Paula Menéndez Germany	11	98 1.3×	119 1.5×	45 0.6×	89 1.4×	10 0.3×	40	256
Valeri Khartanovich Russia	5	76 1.0×	52 0.7×	51 0.7×	115 1.9×	14 0.4×	10	197
Anita Szczepanek Poland	11	48 0.6×	192 2.5×	88 1.2×	134 2.2×	16 0.5×	48	287
Zandra Fagernäs Denmark	7	43 0.6×	69 0.9×	87 1.2×	61 1.0×	45 1.4×	16	175
Olivia Cheronet Austria	9	32 0.4×	168 2.2×	213 2.9×	110 1.8×	83 2.6×	20	336
Irene Dori Italy	10	69 0.9×	135 1.7×	31 0.4×	122 2.0×	15 0.5×	21	234
Cláudia Rodrigues-Carvalho Brazil	9	56 0.7×	70 0.9×	58 0.8×	60 1.0×	11 0.3×	29	200
Thiseas C. Lamnidis Germany	5	20 0.3×	75 1.0×	147 2.0×	60 1.0×	39 1.2×	8	222

Countries citing papers authored by Elena Essel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Elena Essel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Elena Essel

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Essel, Elena, Petra Korlević, & Matthias Meyer. (2021). A Method for the Temperature-Controlled Extraction of DNA from Ancient Bones. BioTechniques. 71(1). 382–386. 6 indexed citations

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Zavala, Elena I., Zenobia Jacobs, Benjamin Vernot, et al.. (2021). Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave. Nature. 595(7867). 399–403. 67 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Petr, Martin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, et al.. (2020). The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes. Science. 369(6511). 1653–1656. 68 indexed citations

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Maričić, Tomislav, Ayinuer Aximu‐Petri, Elena Essel, et al.. (2020). A direct RT-qPCR approach to test large numbers of individuals for SARS-CoV-2. PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0244824–e0244824. 11 indexed citations

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Hajdinjak, Mateja, Stéphane Peyrégne, Selina Brace, et al.. (2019). A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(31). 15610–15615. 27 indexed citations

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