Ian Barnes

16.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
97 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Ian Barnes is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Barnes has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Genetics, 46 papers in Ecology and 31 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Ian Barnes's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers). Ian Barnes is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (23 papers). Ian Barnes collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Ian Barnes's co-authors include Adrian M. Lister, Love Dalén, John R. Stewart, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Alan Cooper, Michael Hofreiter, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Beth Shapiro, Mark Thomas and Selina Brace and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ian Barnes

92 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Refugia revisited: individualistic responses of species in space and time

2009 993 citations John R. Stewart, Adrian M. Lister et al. profile →
Assessing ancient DNA studies

2005 457 citations M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Ian Barnes et al. profile →
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

2016 196 citations Frido Welker, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project

2022 172 citations Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska 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						Papers	Cites
Ian Barnes United Kingdom	37	2.9k	2.3k	1.5k	1.4k	862	97	5.9k
Love Dalén Sweden	35	2.9k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	763 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	474 0.5×	157	5.1k
Nadin Rohland United States	33	4.7k 1.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.1×	2.8k 2.1×	905 1.0×	50	7.9k
Jeremy J. Austin Australia	39	2.2k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	765 0.5×	1.4k 1.0×	238 0.3×	156	4.8k
Ludovic Orlando Denmark	56	5.3k 1.9×	4.8k 2.1×	2.4k 1.6×	4.8k 3.5×	1.2k 1.3×	151	11.9k
Jennifer A. Leonard United States	40	3.3k 1.2×	2.7k 1.2×	795 0.5×	850 0.6×	371 0.4×	105	5.0k
R. D. E. MacPhee United States	41	1.6k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	3.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	137	7.1k
Greger Larson United Kingdom	43	3.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	734 0.9×	100	6.7k
Morten Rasmussen Denmark	27	1.0k 0.4×	2.9k 1.2×	611 0.4×	2.2k 1.6×	360 0.4×	34	4.5k
Matthias Meyer Germany	46	6.0k 2.1×	2.6k 1.1×	2.9k 1.9×	4.1k 3.0×	1.9k 2.2×	93	11.4k
Sandro L. Bonatto Brazil	38	2.6k 0.9×	932 0.4×	564 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	298 0.3×	144	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Barnes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Barnes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Barnes

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All Works

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Cahsan, Binia De, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Michael V. Westbury, et al.. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(4). 1 indexed citations

Stevens, Rhiannon E., Hazel Reade, Kerry L. Sayle, et al.. (2025). Major excursions in sulfur isotopes linked to permafrost change in Eurasia during the last 50,000 years. Nature Geoscience. 18(10). 961–965.

Folly, Arran J., James Galloway, Stefan Schmidt, et al.. (2025). DNA from museum samples of a parasitoid wasp genus (Braconidae: Syntretus ) offers novel insights into host‐parasitoid interactions. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(3). 319–329.

Percival‐Alwyn, Lawrence, Ian Barnes, Matthew D. Clark, et al.. (2024). UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Plants People Planet. 7(4). 969–977. 6 indexed citations

Goodall‐Copestake, William P., Selina Brace, Frederick I. Archer, et al.. (2023). Historical Mitogenomic Diversity and Population Structuring of Southern Hemisphere Fin Whales. Genes. 14(5). 1038–1038. 3 indexed citations

Cuber, Piotr, Clementine Geeves, Silvia Salatino, et al.. (2023). Comparing the Accuracy and Efficiency of Third Generation Sequencing Technologies, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, and Pacific Biosciences, for DNA Barcode Sequencing Applications. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

Mullin, Victoria E., Andres Arce, Will Nash, et al.. (2022). First large‐scale quantification study of DNA preservation in insects from natural history collections using genome‐wide sequencing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 360–371. 12 indexed citations

Blaxter, Mark, Nova Mieszkowska, Federica Di Palma, et al.. (2022). Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(4). 172 indexed citations breakdown →

Booth, Thomas J., Joanna Brück, Selina Brace, & Ian Barnes. (2021). Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31(3). 379–400. 19 indexed citations

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Meiri, Meirav, Adrian M. Lister, П. А. Косинцев, Grant D. Zazula, & Ian Barnes. (2020). Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late Quaternary. Journal of Biogeography. 47(10). 2223–2234. 13 indexed citations

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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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Charlton, Sophy, Thomas J. Booth, & Ian Barnes. (2019). The problem with petrous? A consideration of the potential biases in the utilization ofpars petrosafor ancient DNA analysis. World Archaeology. 51(4). 574–585. 11 indexed citations

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Welker, Frido, Mateja Hajdinjak, Sahra Talamo, et al.. (2016). Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(40). 11162–11167. 196 indexed citations breakdown →

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Turvey, Samuel T., Selina Brace, Richard P. Young, et al.. (2016). Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal. Diversity and Distributions. 22(5). 589–602. 18 indexed citations

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Brown, Terence A. & Ian Barnes. (2015). The current and future applications of ancient DNA in Quaternary science. Journal of Quaternary Science. 30(2). 144–153. 13 indexed citations

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Edwards, Ceiridwen J., Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey, et al.. (2011). Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline. Current Biology. 21(15). 1251–1258. 179 indexed citations

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Haile, James, Duane Froese, R. D. E. MacPhee, et al.. (2009). Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(52). 22352–22357. 186 indexed citations

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Tuross, Noreen, Karola Kirsanow, & Ian Barnes. (2009). Limits and possibilities for subsistence and climate reconstruction based on organic and inorganic oxygen isotopes in vertebrate calcified tissues. GeCAS. 73. 1 indexed citations

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Hong, Huynh A., Alessia Cazzato, Sisareuth Tan, et al.. (2008). Bacillus subtilis isolated from the human gastrointestinal tract. Research in Microbiology. 160(2). 134–143. 214 indexed citations

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Lister, Adrian M., Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Michael Bunce, et al.. (2005). The phylogenetic position of the ‘giant deer’ Megaloceros giganteus. Nature. 438(7069). 850–853. 76 indexed citations

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