Fernando Racimo

14.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Fernando Racimo is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Racimo has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Fernando Racimo's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers). Fernando Racimo is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers) and Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers). Fernando Racimo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and United Kingdom. Fernando Racimo's co-authors include Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez, Rasmus Nielsen, Sriram Sankararaman, Montgomery Slatkin, Davide Marnetto, Jeremy J. Berg, Matteo Fumagalli, Michael Dannemann, Ida Moltke and Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Racimo

41 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Evidence for archaic adaptive introgression in humans 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2015 100 200 300
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. Evidence for archaic adaptive introgression in humans
    2015 355 citations Fernando Racimo, Rasmus Nielsen et al. profile →
  2. Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation
    2015 334 citations Matteo Fumagalli, Ida Moltke et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fernando Racimo United States 25 1.6k 658 384 342 304 41 2.7k
Luca Pagani Italy 29 1.4k 0.9× 499 0.8× 244 0.6× 420 1.2× 314 1.0× 82 2.4k
Martin Sikora United States 23 1.2k 0.7× 516 0.8× 397 1.0× 339 1.0× 234 0.8× 54 2.3k
Brenna M. Henn United States 31 2.0k 1.3× 710 1.1× 261 0.7× 462 1.4× 361 1.2× 68 3.4k
Alain Froment France 37 1.4k 0.9× 824 1.3× 146 0.4× 353 1.0× 306 1.0× 88 3.8k
Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez United States 22 2.3k 1.5× 925 1.4× 162 0.4× 234 0.7× 189 0.6× 40 3.3k
Óscar Lao Netherlands 32 1.8k 1.1× 1.0k 1.6× 176 0.5× 428 1.3× 126 0.4× 66 3.4k
Himla Soodyall South Africa 29 2.0k 1.3× 876 1.3× 268 0.7× 635 1.9× 442 1.5× 58 3.5k
Sriram Sankararaman United States 31 3.2k 2.0× 1.6k 2.5× 337 0.9× 518 1.5× 541 1.8× 87 5.0k
Francisco Rothhammer Chile 31 1.4k 0.9× 546 0.8× 485 1.3× 694 2.0× 395 1.3× 155 3.3k
Évelyne Heyer France 37 2.6k 1.7× 1.1k 1.7× 174 0.5× 314 0.9× 156 0.5× 147 4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Fernando Racimo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fernando Racimo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fernando Racimo

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Petr, Martin, et al.. (2024). Exploring the effects of ecological parameters on the spatial structure of genetic tree sequences. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Reeve, Andrew Hart, Graham Gower, José Martín Pujolar, et al.. (2023). Population genomics of the island thrush elucidates one of earth’s great archipelagic radiations. Evolution Letters. 7(1). 24–36. 4 indexed citations
3.
Louis, Marié, Petra Korlević, Frederick I. Archer, et al.. (2023). Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4020–4020. 6 indexed citations
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Edmunds, Shelley J., Gergely Boza, Fernando Racimo, et al.. (2023). Dealing with dimensionality: the application of machine learning to multi-omics data. Bioinformatics. 39(2). 41 indexed citations
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Ramos‐Madrigal, Jazmín, et al.. (2023). PaleoProPhyler: a reproducible pipeline for phylogenetic inference using ancient proteins. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 5 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando, et al.. (2022). The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics. eLife. 11. 21 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando, et al.. (2022). The Role of Life Scientists in the Biospheric Emergency: A Case for Acknowledging Failure and Changing Tactics. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Cheng, Jade Yu, Aaron J. Stern, Fernando Racimo, & Rasmus Nielsen. (2021). Detecting Selection in Multiple Populations by Modeling Ancestral Admixture Components. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(1). 23 indexed citations
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Irving-Pease, Evan K., et al.. (2021). Quantitative Human Paleogenetics: What can Ancient DNA Tell us About Complex Trait Evolution?. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 703541–703541. 16 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph Fyfe, et al.. (2020). The spatiotemporal spread of human migrations during the European Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(16). 8989–9000. 49 indexed citations
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Berg, Jeremy J., Arbel Harpak, Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong, et al.. (2019). Reduced signal for polygenic adaptation of height in UK Biobank. eLife. 8. 209 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando, Jeremy J. Berg, & Joseph K. Pickrell. (2018). Detecting Polygenic Adaptation in Admixture Graphs. Genetics. 208(4). 1565–1584. 74 indexed citations
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Theunert, Christoph, Fernando Racimo, & Montgomery Slatkin. (2017). Joint Estimation of Relatedness Coefficients and Allele Frequencies from Ancient Samples. Genetics. 206(2). 1025–1035. 4 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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Racimo, Fernando, Gabriel Renaud, & Montgomery Slatkin. (2016). Joint Estimation of Contamination, Error and Demography for Nuclear DNA from Ancient Humans. PLoS Genetics. 12(4). e1005972–e1005972. 34 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando, Davide Marnetto, & Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez. (2016). Signatures of Archaic Adaptive Introgression in Present-Day Human Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(2). msw216–msw216. 127 indexed citations
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Racimo, Fernando. (2015). Testing for Ancient Selection Using Cross-population Allele Frequency Differentiation. Genetics. 202(2). 733–750. 66 indexed citations
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Fumagalli, Matteo, Ida Moltke, Niels Grarup, et al.. (2015). Greenlandic Inuit show genetic signatures of diet and climate adaptation. Science. 349(6254). 1343–1347. 334 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kim, Wook, Fernando Racimo, Jonas Schlüter, Stuart B. Levy, & Kevin R. Foster. (2014). Importance of positioning for microbial evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(16). E1639–47. 114 indexed citations
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Marugán‐Lobón, Jesús, Fernando Racimo, Gabe S. Bever, et al.. (2012). Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls. Nature. 487(7406). 223–226. 168 indexed citations

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