Eske Willerslev

72.3k total citations · 12 hit papers
238 papers, 24.6k citations indexed

About

Eske Willerslev is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eske Willerslev has authored 238 papers receiving a total of 24.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Genetics, 82 papers in Ecology and 74 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Eske Willerslev's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (83 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (41 papers). Eske Willerslev is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (83 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (41 papers). Eske Willerslev collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Eske Willerslev's co-authors include Philip Francis Thomsen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Ludovic Orlando, Alan Cooper, Morten Rasmussen, Éric Coissac, Christian Brochmann, Pierre Taberlet, Anders J. Hansen and François Pompanon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eske Willerslev

235 papers receiving 23.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Environmental DNA – An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

2014 1.4k citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Eske Willerslev profile →
Towards next‐generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

2012 1.3k citations Eske Willerslev et al. profile →
Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA

2011 892 citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Morten Rasmussen et al. profile →
Power and limitations of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron for plant DNA barcoding

2006 876 citations Eske Willerslev et al. profile →
Detection of a Diverse Marine Fish Fauna Using Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples

2012 755 citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Morten Rasmussen et al. PLoS ONE profile →
Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication

2005 636 citations Greger Larson, Keith Dobney et al. Science profile →
Review Paper. Ancient DNA

2004 532 citations Eske Willerslev, Alan Cooper Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

2012 389 citations Morten E. Allentoft, James Haile et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Tracing the peopling of the world through genomics

2017 369 citations Rasmus Nielsen, Mattias Jakobsson et al. profile →
Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

2012 362 citations Pontus Skoglund, Helena Malmström et al. Science profile →
Ancient DNA analysis

2021 169 citations Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →
Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

2017 128 citations Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft et al. Antiquity profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eske Willerslev

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

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tracing the evolutionary history of the CCR5delta32 deletion via ancient and modern genomes 2025 ·Cell ·Kirstine Ravn, (unknown), (unknown), Jonas Meisner, (unknown), Michael E. Benros, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev, Morten E. Allentoft, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Simon Rasmussen	0
2	Ancient DNA reveals multiple origins and migration waves of extinct Japanese brown bear lineages 2021 ·Royal Society Open Science ·Takahiro Segawa, Takahiro Yonezawa, Hiroshi Mori, Ayumi Akiyoshi, Morten E. Allentoft, Ayako Kohno, Fuyuki Tokanai, Eske Willerslev, Naoki Kohno, Hidenori Nishihara	10
3	Ancient DNA analysis breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Reviews Methods Primers ·Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby, Pontus Skoglund, Clio Der Sarkissian, Philipp W. Stockhammer, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Qiaomei Fu, Johannes Krause, Eske Willerslev, Anne C. Stone, Christina Warinner	169
4	Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Ashot Margaryan, Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, T. Douglas Price, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Poul Otto Nielsen, Lasse Sørensen, Eske Willerslev, Rune Iversen, Martin Sikora, Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft	12
5	Enamel proteome sequences from Dmanisi (Georgia) enable molecular phylogeny beyond the limits of ancient DNA preservation 2019 ·Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) ·Enrico Cappellini, Frido Welker, (unknown), David Lordkipanidze, Eske Willerslev	1
6	Mitogenomic diversity in Sacred Ibis Mummies sheds light on early Egyptian practices 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Sally Wasef, Sankar Subramanian, Richard O’Rorke, Leon Huynen, (unknown), Caitlin Curtis, Alex Popinga, Barbara R. Holland, Salima Ikram, Craig D. Millar, Eske Willerslev, David M. Lambert	16
7	Environmental DNA for improved detection and environmental surveillance of schistosomiasis 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Mita Eva Sengupta, Micaela Hellström, H.C. Kariuki, Annette Olsen, Philip Francis Thomsen, Helena Mejer, Eske Willerslev, Mariam T. Mwanje, Henry Madsen, Thomas K. Kristensen, Anna‐Sofie Stensgaard, Birgitte J. Vennervald	100
8	Ancient individuals from the North American Northwest Coast reveal 10,000 years of regional genetic continuity 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John Lindo, Alessandro Achilli, Ugo A. Perego, David Archer, Cristina Valdiosera, Barbara Petzelt, Joycelynn Mitchell, Rosita Worl, E. James Dixon, T. E. Fifield, Morten Rasmussen, Eske Willerslev, Jerome S. Cybulski, Brian M. Kemp, Michael DeGiorgio, Ripan S. Malhi	66
9	A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Karin Margarita Frei, Chiara Villa, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Morten E. Allentoft, Flemming Kaul, (unknown), (unknown), A. S. Wilson, Michelle Taube, Jesper Olsen, Niels Lynnerup, Eske Willerslev, Kristian Kristiansen, Robert Frei	50
10	Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe breakdown → 2017 ·Antiquity ·Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin Margarita Frei, Rune Iversen, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price, Simon Rasmussen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev	128
11	Origins and Genetic Legacy of Neolithic Farmers and Hunter-Gatherers in Europe breakdown → 2012 ·Science ·Pontus Skoglund, Helena Malmström, Maanasa Raghavan, Jan Storå, Per Hall, Eske Willerslev, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Anders Götherström, Mattias Jakobsson	362
12	mapDamage: testing for damage patterns in ancient DNA sequences 2011 ·Bioinformatics ·Aurélien Ginolhac, Morten Rasmussen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Eske Willerslev, Ludovic Orlando	233
13	Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA 2010 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Charlotte L. Oskam, James Haile, (unknown), Paul Rigby, Morten E. Allentoft, (unknown), (unknown), Gifford H. Miller, Jean‐Luc Schwenninger, Chris Jacomb, Richard Walter, Alexander Baynes, Joe Dortch, (unknown), M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Richard N. Holdaway, Eske Willerslev, Michael Bunce	94
14	Why study ancient DNA damage? 2010 ·Jonas Binladen, Eske Willerslev	2
15	Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James Haile, Duane Froese, R. D. E. MacPhee, Richard G. Roberts, Lee J. Arnold, Alberto V. Reyes, Morten Rasmussen, Rasmus Nielsen, Barry W. Brook, Simon G. Robinson, Martina Demuro, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Kasper Munch, Jeremy J. Austin, Alan Cooper, Ian Barnes, Per Möller, Eske Willerslev	186
16	‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA 2009 ·Antiquity ·Martin B. Hebsgaard, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jette Arneborg, Patricia Heyn, Morten E. Allentoft, Michael Bunce, Kasper Munch, Charles E. Schweger, Eske Willerslev	51
17	Unique Locality of Wooly Rhinoceros in Arctic Siberia 2009 ·AGUFM ·S. P. Davydov, A. Sher, Г. Г. Боескоров, (unknown), Jonas Binladen, Eske Willerslev, Alexei Tikhonov	1
18	Beringian Paleoecology Inferred from Permafrost-Preserved Fungal DNA 2005 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Magnus Christian Lydolph, J. Steven Jacobsen, Peter Arctander, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, D. Gilichinsky, Anders J. Hansen, Eske Willerslev, Lene Lange	104
19	Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication breakdown → 2005 ·Science ·Greger Larson, Keith Dobney, Umberto Albarella, Meiying Fang, Elizabeth Matisoo‐Smith, Judith Robins, Stewart Lowden, Heather Finlayson, Tina B. Brand, Eske Willerslev, Peter Rowley‐Conwy, Leif Andersson, Alan Cooper	636
20	JAWS: just add water system - a device for detection of nucleic acids in Martian ice caps 2002 ·UCL Discovery (University College London) ·Anders J. Hansen, Eske Willerslev, (unknown), (unknown), Regin Rønn, Daniel Jeffares	1

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