Fabrizio Mafessoni

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 910 citations indexed

About

Fabrizio Mafessoni is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabrizio Mafessoni has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 910 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Fabrizio Mafessoni's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 papers). Fabrizio Mafessoni is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (3 papers). Fabrizio Mafessoni collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Israel. Fabrizio Mafessoni's co-authors include Amedeo Alpi, Elena Loreti, Pierdomenico Perata, Kay Prüfer, Steffi Grote, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Stéphane Peyrégne, Janet Kelso and Cesare de Filippo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fabrizio Mafessoni

16 papers receiving 888 citations

Hit Papers

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2020 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
    2018 239 citations Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni et al. Nature profile →
  2. A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave
    2020 137 citations Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Fabrizio Mafessoni
Fernando A. Villanea United States
Laurie S. Stevison United States
Laurits Skov Denmark
Elena Pilli Italy
Susan E. Ptak Germany
Martin Kuhlwilm Spain
Norman Angerhofer Italy
Serena Tucci United States
Stéphane Peyrégne Germany
Steffi Grote Germany
Fernando A. Villanea United States
Fabrizio Mafessoni
Citations per year, relative to Fabrizio Mafessoni Fabrizio Mafessoni (= 1×) peers Fernando A. Villanea

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabrizio Mafessoni

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ellis, Thomas James, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Hanan Sela, et al.. (2024). 36‐year study reveals stability of a wild wheat population across microhabitats. Molecular Ecology. 33(19). e17512–e17512.
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, et al.. (2024). Uncovering the dynamics of precise repair at CRISPR/Cas9-induced double-strand breaks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5096–5096. 10 indexed citations
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Tkaczynski, Patrick, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Cédric Girard‐Buttoz, et al.. (2023). Shared community effects and the non-genetic maternal environment shape cortisol levels in wild chimpanzees. Communications Biology. 6(1). 565–565. 1 indexed citations
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Cathy Melamed‐Bessudo, Shdema Filler‐Hayut, et al.. (2023). CRISPR/Cas9-induced DNA breaks trigger crossover, chromosomal loss, and chromothripsis-like rearrangements. The Plant Cell. 35(11). 3957–3972. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Linfeng, Zhibin Zhang, Zhenhui Wang, et al.. (2022). Genome sequences of five Sitopsis species of Aegilops and the origin of polyploid wheat B subgenome. Molecular Plant. 15(3). 488–503. 106 indexed citations
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Tramacere, Antonella & Fabrizio Mafessoni. (2022). Cognitive Twists: The Coevolution of Learning and Genes in Human Cognition. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 15(1). 189–217.
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Reinscheid, Rainer K., Fabrizio Mafessoni, Annika Lüttjohann, et al.. (2021). Neandertal introgression and accumulation of hypomorphic mutations in the neuropeptide S (NPS) system promote attenuated functionality. Peptides. 138. 170506–170506. 8 indexed citations
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Michael Lachmann, & Chaitanya S. Gokhale. (2021). On the fitness of informative cues in complex environments. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 527. 110819–110819. 2 indexed citations
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Trucchi, Emiliano, Paolo Gratton, Fabrizio Mafessoni, et al.. (2020). Population Dynamics and Structural Effects at Short and Long Range Support the Hypothesis of the Selective Advantage of the G614 SARS-CoV-2 Spike Variant. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(5). 1966–1979. 21 indexed citations
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Skov, Laurits, Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Fabrizio Mafessoni, et al.. (2020). The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes. Nature. 582(7810). 78–83. 56 indexed citations
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Steffi Grote, Cesare de Filippo, et al.. (2020). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(26). 15132–15136. 137 indexed citations breakdown →
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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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Mafessoni, Fabrizio & Michael Lachmann. (2019). The complexity of understanding others as the evolutionary origin of empathy and emotional contagion. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5794–5794. 21 indexed citations
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Barbieri, Chiara, Rodrigo Barquera, Leonardo Arias, et al.. (2019). The Current Genomic Landscape of Western South America: Andes, Amazonia, and Pacific Coast. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(12). 2698–2713. 37 indexed citations
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Slon, Viviane, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Benjamin Vernot, et al.. (2018). The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature. 561(7721). 113–116. 239 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Rashmi B. Prasad, Leif Groop, Ola Hansson, & Kay Prüfer. (2018). Turning Vice into Virtue: Using Batch-Effects to Detect Errors in Large Genomic Data Sets. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(10). 2697–2708. 5 indexed citations
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio & Michael Lachmann. (2015). Selective Strolls: Fixation and Extinction in Diploids Are Slower for Weakly Selected Mutations Than for Neutral Ones. Genetics. 201(4). 1581–1589. 16 indexed citations
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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, et al.. (2010). The Heat-Inducible Transcription Factor HsfA2 Enhances Anoxia Tolerance in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 152(3). 1471–1483. 210 indexed citations

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