Frank Maixner

5.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Frank Maixner is a scholar working on Archeology, Genetics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Frank Maixner has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Archeology, 23 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Frank Maixner's work include Paleopathology and ancient diseases (18 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (16 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 papers). Frank Maixner is often cited by papers focused on Paleopathology and ancient diseases (18 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (16 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 papers). Frank Maixner collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Austria and Germany. Frank Maixner's co-authors include Michael Wagner, Holger Daims, Eva Spieck, Alexander Loy, Sebastian Lücker, Matthias Horn, Thomas Rattei, Hanna Koch, Albert Zink and Éric Pelletier and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Frank Maixner

61 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Nitrospira metagenome illuminates the physiology and evolution of globally important nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

2010 629 citations Sebastian Lücker, Frank Maixner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frank Maixner Italy	22	1.2k	1.2k	640	536	460	65	2.8k
Pilar Junier Switzerland	33	535 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	848 1.3×	174 0.3×	201 0.4×	132	3.6k
Elisabetta Zanardini Italy	25	628 0.5×	347 0.3×	333 0.5×	395 0.7×	179 0.4×	63	2.1k
Annette Summers Engel United States	27	368 0.3×	1.6k 1.3×	708 1.1×	201 0.4×	191 0.4×	59	2.9k
Michel Aragno Switzerland	35	696 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	179 0.3×	368 0.8×	89	4.3k
Andrew Ogram United States	30	1.1k 0.9×	1.7k 1.4×	914 1.4×	471 0.9×	239 0.5×	77	3.5k
Anna A. Gorbushina Germany	39	194 0.2×	869 0.7×	720 1.1×	246 0.5×	226 0.5×	101	4.7k
Ana Z. Miller Spain	33	309 0.3×	576 0.5×	340 0.5×	201 0.4×	127 0.3×	111	3.1k
Joanna J Waniek Germany	35	2.4k 1.9×	2.2k 1.8×	913 1.4×	422 0.8×	122 0.3×	125	6.6k
Patricia A. Sobecky United States	30	692 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	617 1.0×	349 0.7×	124 0.3×	60	2.8k
Roberta R. Fulthorpe Canada	37	1.5k 1.2×	2.0k 1.7×	1.5k 2.4×	514 1.0×	283 0.6×	93	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Frank Maixner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Frank Maixner

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Giuffra, Valentina, et al.. (2024). Histology of pulmonary tuberculosis in a 19th-century mummy from Comiso (Sicily, Italy). International Journal of Paleopathology. 47. 54–60.

Maixner, Frank, et al.. (2024). Genetic Predisposition of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Ancient Human Remains. Annals of Global Health. 90(1). 6–6. 3 indexed citations

Sarhan, Mohamed S., Alexandar Tzankov, Andreas J. Bircher, et al.. (2023). A nontuberculous mycobacterium could solve the mystery of the lady from the Franciscan church in Basel, Switzerland. BMC Biology. 21(1). 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Zink, Albert, et al.. (2023). Tuberculosis in mummies – New findings, perspectives and limitations. Tuberculosis. 143. 102371–102371. 2 indexed citations

Maixner, Frank, Dennis G. Drescher, Giulia Boccalini, et al.. (2023). Microscopic Evidence of Malaria Infection in Visceral Tissue from Medici Family, Italy. Emerging infectious diseases. 29(6). 1280–1283. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Oona Y.-C., Houdini H.T. Wu, Gurdyal S. Besra, et al.. (2023). Sensitive lipid biomarker detection for tuberculosis in late Neanderthal skeletons from Subalyuk Cave, Hungary. Tuberculosis. 143. 102420–102420. 2 indexed citations

Maixner, Frank, Julia Gresky, & Albert Zink. (2021). Ancient DNA analysis of rare genetic bone disorders. International Journal of Paleopathology. 33. 182–187. 2 indexed citations

Maixner, Frank, et al.. (2021). The elusive parasite: comparing macroscopic, immunological, and genomic approaches to identifying malaria in human skeletal remains from Sayala, Egypt (third to sixth centuries AD). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 13(7). 115–115. 11 indexed citations

Sarhan, Mohamed S., Rainer H. Straub, Adrian Tett, et al.. (2021). Ancient DNA diffuses from human bones to cave stones. iScience. 24(12). 103397–103397. 8 indexed citations

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Szikossy, Ildikó, Dávid Rakk, Gabriella Terhes, et al.. (2021). Lipid biomarker-based verification of TB infection in mother’s and daughter’s mummified human remains (Vác Mummy Collection, 18th century, CE, Hungary). Acta Biologica Szegediensis. 64(2). 99–109. 3 indexed citations

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Maixner, Frank, Mohamed S. Sarhan, Guido Valverde, et al.. (2021). Linear polyacrylamide is highly efficient in precipitating and purifying environmental and ancient DNA. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). 653–667. 10 indexed citations

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Zink, Albert & Frank Maixner. (2019). The Current Situation of the Tyrolean Iceman. Gerontology. 65(6). 699–706. 3 indexed citations

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Maixner, Frank, Kaisa Thorell, Lena Granehäll, et al.. (2019). Helicobacter pyloriin ancient human remains. World Journal of Gastroenterology. 25(40). 6289–6298. 10 indexed citations

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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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Jackowski, Christian, Natallia Shved, Frank Rühli, et al.. (2017). The Sommersdorf mummies—An interdisciplinary investigation on human remains from a 17th-19th century aristocratic crypt in southern Germany. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0183588–e0183588. 8 indexed citations

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Maixner, Frank, et al.. (2016). Tuberculosis in early medieval Switzerland – osteological and molecular evidence. Swiss Medical Weekly. 146(304). w14269–w14269. 5 indexed citations

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Neparáczki, Endre, Horolma Pamjav, Bernadett Csányi, et al.. (2016). Genetic structure of the early Hungarian conquerors inferred from mtDNA haplotypes and Y-chromosome haplogroups in a small cemetery. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 292(1). 201–214. 16 indexed citations

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Maixner, Frank, et al.. (2014). Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Presence of Treponema denticola in a Tissue Biopsy of the Iceman. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99994–e99994. 19 indexed citations

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Reinhard, Karl J., Eduard Egarter-Vigl, Frank Maixner, et al.. (2013). Parasitism of the Zweeloo Woman: Dicrocoeliasis evidenced in a Roman period bog mummy. International Journal of Paleopathology. 3(3). 224–228. 29 indexed citations

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Hall, Edward K., Gabriel Singer, Ieda Hämmerle, et al.. (2010). Looking inside the box: using Raman microspectroscopy to deconstruct microbial biomass stoichiometry one cell at a time. The ISME Journal. 5(2). 196–208. 25 indexed citations

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