Greger Larson

17.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
100 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Greger Larson is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Greger Larson has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Genetics, 36 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Greger Larson's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (39 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (34 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers). Greger Larson is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (39 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (34 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (27 papers). Greger Larson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Greger Larson's co-authors include Keith Dobney, Dorian Q. Fuller, Leif Andersson, Laurent Frantz, Meiying Fang, Alan Cooper, Thomas Cucchi, Joachim Bürger, Allowen Evin and Ross Barnett and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Greger Larson

96 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Ce... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2016 2008 2014 2021 200 400 600
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. Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication
    2005 636 citations Greger Larson, Keith Dobney et al. Science profile →
  2. Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions
    2016 498 citations Dorian Q. Fuller, Greger Larson et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Identification of the Yellow Skin Gene Reveals a Hybrid Origin of the Domestic Chicken
    2008 380 citations Greger Larson, Dominic Wright et al. profile →
  4. The Evolution of Animal Domestication
    2014 342 citations Greger Larson, Dorian Q. Fuller profile →
  5. Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas
    2021 118 citations Angela Perri, Tatiana R. Feuerborn et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Greger Larson United Kingdom 43 3.5k 1.5k 1.2k 1.1k 855 100 6.7k
Keith Dobney United Kingdom 40 2.3k 0.6× 1.5k 1.0× 1.7k 1.4× 761 0.7× 384 0.4× 106 5.4k
Daniel G. Bradley Ireland 65 9.0k 2.6× 1.2k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 2.8k 2.5× 875 1.0× 172 13.5k
Jean‐Denis Vigne France 35 1.9k 0.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.2× 437 0.4× 187 0.2× 115 4.1k
Melinda A. Zeder United States 34 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 2.7k 2.2× 358 0.3× 160 0.2× 62 6.2k
Anders Götherström Sweden 38 3.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 821 0.7× 113 0.1× 114 5.4k
Jennifer A. Leonard United States 40 3.3k 0.9× 2.7k 1.8× 795 0.6× 850 0.8× 121 0.1× 105 5.0k
Ludovic Orlando Denmark 56 5.3k 1.5× 4.8k 3.2× 2.4k 1.9× 4.8k 4.2× 121 0.1× 151 11.9k
Carles Vilà Spain 48 4.9k 1.4× 3.4k 2.3× 464 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 210 0.2× 125 7.3k
Mattias Jakobsson Sweden 44 9.6k 2.7× 2.8k 1.9× 1.5k 1.2× 3.0k 2.7× 129 0.2× 127 14.3k
Oliver A. Ryder United States 51 6.1k 1.7× 2.8k 1.8× 1.8k 1.4× 5.4k 4.8× 314 0.4× 233 13.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lord, Kathryn A., Greger Larson, Robin G. Allaby, & Elinor K. Karlsson. (2025). A universally applicable definition for domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(22). e2413207122–e2413207122. 2 indexed citations
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Lebrasseur, Ophélie, Francisco J. Prevosti, Laurent Frantz, et al.. (2024). Patagonian partnerships: the extinct Dusicyon avus and its interaction with prehistoric human communities. Royal Society Open Science. 11(4). 231835–231835. 2 indexed citations
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Larson, Greger. (2023). Nine lives The Cat’s Meow: How Cats Evolved From the Savanna to Your Sofa Jonathan B. Losos Viking, 2023. 400 pp.. Science. 380(6650). 1113–1113. 1 indexed citations
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Jamieson, Alexandra, Alberto Carmagnini, Isa‐Rita M. Russo, et al.. (2023). Genetic swamping of the critically endangered Scottish wildcat was recent and accelerated by disease. Current Biology. 33(21). 4761–4769.e5. 15 indexed citations
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Peters, Joris, Ophélie Lebrasseur, Evan K. Irving-Pease, et al.. (2022). The biocultural origins and dispersal of domestic chickens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(24). e2121978119–e2121978119. 36 indexed citations
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Dimopoulos, Evangelos A., Alberto Carmagnini, Irina M. Velsko, et al.. (2022). HAYSTAC: A Bayesian framework for robust and rapid species identification in high-throughput sequencing data. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(9). e1010493–e1010493. 7 indexed citations
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Fuller, Dorian Q., Tim Denham, Logan Kistler, et al.. (2022). Progress in domestication research: Explaining expanded empirical observations. Quaternary Science Reviews. 296. 107737–107737. 10 indexed citations
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Petrelli, Simona, Maria Buglione, Valeria Maselli, et al.. (2021). Population genomic, olfactory, dietary, and gut microbiota analyses demonstrate the unique evolutionary trajectory of feral pigs. Molecular Ecology. 31(1). 220–237. 20 indexed citations
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Bogaard, Amy, Robin G. Allaby, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, et al.. (2021). Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective. World Archaeology. 53(1). 56–77. 54 indexed citations
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Sinding, Mikkel‐Holger S., Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, Alberto Carmagnini, et al.. (2021). Kouprey (Bos sauveli) genomes unveil polytomic origin of wild Asian Bos. iScience. 24(11). 103226–103226. 7 indexed citations
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Perri, Angela, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent Frantz, et al.. (2021). Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 118 indexed citations breakdown →
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Allen, Richard, Hannah Ryan, Brian W. Davis, et al.. (2020). A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1928). 20200690–20200690. 15 indexed citations
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Velsko, Irina M., Laurent Frantz, Alexander Herbig, Greger Larson, & Christina Warinner. (2018). Selection of Appropriate Metagenome Taxonomic Classifiers for Ancient Microbiome Research. mSystems. 3(4). 33 indexed citations
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Allen, Richard, Joel M. Alves, Carly Ameen, et al.. (2018). Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna. World Archaeology. 50(2). 285–299. 5 indexed citations
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Ollivier, Morgane, Anne Tresset, Laurent Frantz, et al.. (2018). Dogs accompanied humans during the Neolithic expansion into Europe. Biology Letters. 14(10). 20180286–20180286. 41 indexed citations
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Larson, Greger, et al.. (2017). Reconsidering the distribution of gray wolves. 动物学研究. 38(3). 115–116. 1 indexed citations
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Maselli, Valeria, Daniela Rippa, Greger Larson, et al.. (2016). Southern Italian wild boar population, hotspot of genetic diversity. Bollettino del CILEA (CILEA). 18 indexed citations
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Evin, Allowen, Linus Girdland Flink, Adrian Bălăşescu, et al.. (2014). Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1660). 20130616–20130616. 63 indexed citations
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Larson, Greger, Keith Dobney, Umberto Albarella, et al.. (2005). Worldwide Phylogeography of Wild Boar Reveals Multiple Centers of Pig Domestication. Science. 307(5715). 1618–1621. 636 indexed citations breakdown →

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