George Koki

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

George Koki is a scholar working on Genetics, Geography, Planning and Development and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Koki has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 5 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in George Koki's work include Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (9 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). George Koki is often cited by papers focused on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (11 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (9 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). George Koki collaborates with scholars based in Papua New Guinea, United States and Australia. George Koki's co-authors include Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Françoise R. Friedlaender, D. Andrew Merriwether, Jason A. Hodgson, H. Gratten, Charles S. Mgone, Madhuri Prasad, Heather Norton, Paul Zimmet and Laura Scheinfeldt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

George Koki

35 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

2016 254 citations Heather Norton, Laura Scheinfeldt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Koki Papua New Guinea	20	613	261	253	185	185	37	1.5k
Jonathan S. Friedlaender United States	27	1.1k 1.8×	408 1.6×	396 1.6×	192 1.0×	293 1.6×	58	2.2k
Stephen Oppenheimer United Kingdom	28	1.0k 1.7×	520 2.0×	291 1.2×	169 0.9×	486 2.6×	64	3.4k
J. Tréjaut Taiwan	15	533 0.9×	326 1.2×	174 0.7×	105 0.6×	159 0.9×	48	1.3k
Amanda M. Casto United States	14	1.3k 2.0×	524 2.0×	78 0.3×	265 1.4×	136 0.7×	28	2.3k
Martin Sikora United States	23	1.2k 1.9×	516 2.0×	77 0.3×	114 0.6×	339 1.8×	54	2.3k
Moses S. Schanfield United States	22	1.1k 1.8×	604 2.3×	69 0.3×	195 1.1×	235 1.3×	88	2.2k
Jeremy Martinson United States	27	946 1.5×	756 2.9×	207 0.8×	291 1.6×	99 0.5×	71	3.0k
Alicia Sanchez‐Mazas Switzerland	32	822 1.3×	656 2.5×	68 0.3×	134 0.7×	113 0.6×	105	2.8k
Maria A. Spyrou Germany	22	597 1.0×	287 1.1×	16 0.1×	114 0.6×	207 1.1×	38	1.4k
Fernando L. Méndez United States	20	1.4k 2.3×	395 1.5×	23 0.1×	81 0.4×	463 2.5×	35	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Koki

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Koki, George, et al.. (2015). Les Lésions Rétiniennes au Cours de la Prééclampsie/éclampsie et leur Valeur Prédictive sur le Devenir de la Grossesse. Health sciences and disease. 16(2).

Duggan, Ana T., Bethwyn Evans, Françoise R. Friedlaender, et al.. (2014). Maternal History of Oceania from Complete mtDNA Genomes: Contrasting Ancient Diversity with Recent Homogenization Due to the Austronesian Expansion. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 94(5). 721–733. 44 indexed citations

Lee, Esther J., George Koki, & D. Andrew Merriwether. (2010). Characterization of population structure from the mitochondrial DNA vis‐à‐vis language and geography in Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 142(4). 613–624. 5 indexed citations

Friedlaender, Jonathan S., Françoise R. Friedlaender, Floyd A. Reed, et al.. (2008). The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders. PLoS Genetics. 4(1). e19–e19. 208 indexed citations

Friedlaender, Jonathan S., Françoise R. Friedlaender, Jason A. Hodgson, et al.. (2007). Melanesian mtDNA Complexity. PLoS ONE. 2(2). e248–e248. 88 indexed citations

Scheinfeldt, Laura, Françoise R. Friedlaender, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, et al.. (2006). Unexpected NRY Chromosome Variation in Northern Island Melanesia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(8). 1628–1641. 37 indexed citations

Friedlaender, Jonathan S., Theodore G. Schurr, George Koki, et al.. (2005). Expanding Southwest Pacific Mitochondrial Haplogroups P and Q. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(6). 1506–1517. 78 indexed citations

Merriwether, D. Andrew, Jason A. Hodgson, Françoise R. Friedlaender, et al.. (2005). Ancient mitochondrial M haplogroups identified in the Southwest Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(37). 13034–13039. 59 indexed citations

Norton, Heather, Jonathan S. Friedlaender, D. Andrew Merriwether, et al.. (2005). Skin and hair pigmentation variation in Island Melanesia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 130(2). 254–268. 25 indexed citations

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Jobes, David V., Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Charles S. Mgone, et al.. (2000). A novel JC virus variant found in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea has a 21-base pair deletion in the agnoprotein gene.. PubMed. 2(6). 350–8. 11 indexed citations

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Ryschkewitsch, Caroline F., Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Charles S. Mgone, et al.. (2000). Human polyomavirus JC variants in Papua New Guinea and Guam reflect ancient population settlement and viral evolution. Microbes and Infection. 2(9). 987–996. 29 indexed citations

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Mgone, Charles S., George Koki, M.M. Paniu, et al.. (1996). Occurrence of the erythrocyte band 3 (AE1) gene deletion in relation to malaria endemicity in Papua New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 90(3). 228–231. 63 indexed citations

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Bhatia, Kuldeep, Francis L. Black, Thomas A. Smith, Madhuri Prasad, & George Koki. (1995). Class I HLA antigens in two long‐separated populations: Melanesians and South Amerinds. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 97(3). 291–305. 20 indexed citations

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Hodge, Allison, et al.. (1995). Modernity and obesity in coastal and Highland Papua New Guinea.. PubMed. 19(3). 154–61. 42 indexed citations

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Smith, Thomas A., Kuldeep Bhatia, Madhuri Prasad, George Koki, & Michael P. Alpers. (1994). Altitude, language, and class I HLA allele frequencies in Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 95(2). 155–168. 10 indexed citations

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Dowse, Gary K., et al.. (1994). Extraordinary prevalence of non‐insulin‐dependent diabetes mellitus and bimodal plasma glucose distribution in the Wanigela people of Papua New Guinea. The Medical Journal of Australia. 160(12). 767–774. 56 indexed citations

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King, Helen E., et al.. (1991). Glucose Tolerance in Papua New Guinea: Comparison of Austronesian and Non‐Austronesian Communities of Karkar Island. Diabetic Medicine. 8(5). 481–488. 11 indexed citations

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King, H., Deepa Rao, K. Bhatia, et al.. (1989). Family Resemblance for Glucose Tolerance in a Melanesian Population, the Tolai. Human Heredity. 39(4). 212–217. 6 indexed citations

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Bhatia, K., et al.. (1988). High prevalence of the haplotype HLA‐A11, B27 in arthritis patients from the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Tissue Antigens. 31(2). 103–106. 11 indexed citations

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Bhatia, Kuldeep, Madhuri Prasad, G. Barnish, & George Koki. (1988). Antigen and haplotype frequencies at three human leucocyte antigen loci (HLA‐A, ‐B, ‐C) in the Pawaia of Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 75(3). 329–340. 30 indexed citations

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