Janet Kelso

42.1k total citations · 16 hit papers
101 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Janet Kelso is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Janet Kelso has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Janet Kelso's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (22 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers). Janet Kelso is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (22 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers). Janet Kelso collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Janet Kelso's co-authors include Svante Pääbo, Martin Kircher, Kay Prüfer, Michael Dannemann, Udo Stenzel, Matthias Meyer, Gabriel Renaud, Richard E. Green, Michael Lachmann and Swapan Mallick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Janet Kelso

98 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Deep proteome and transcriptome mapping of a human cancer cell line

2011 781 citations Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo et al. profile →
Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

2007 602 citations Janet Kelso, Kay Prüfer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

2014 596 citations Michael Dannemann, Kay Prüfer et al. Nature profile →
Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion

2015 408 citations Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso et al. Science profile →
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

2015 393 citations Qiaomei Fu, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Nature profile →
Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins

2016 325 citations Matthias Meyer, Cesare de Filippo et al. Nature profile →
DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

2013 309 citations Qiaomei Fu, Matthias Meyer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

2016 254 citations Benjamin Vernot, Janet Kelso et al. Science profile →
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

2018 239 citations Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni et al. Nature profile →
Schmutzi: estimation of contamination and endogenous mitochondrial consensus calling for ancient DNA

2015 234 citations Gabriel Renaud, Viviane Slon et al. Genome biology 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 →
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

2020 137 citations Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia

2017 131 citations Birgit Nickel, Matthias Meyer et al. profile →
Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals

2015 124 citations Susanna Sawyer, Gabriel Renaud et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression

2019 112 citations Martin Petr, Svante Pääbo et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

2021 67 citations Elena I. Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave 2025 ·Nature Communications ·Zenobia Jacobs, Elena I. Zavala, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, (unknown), М.B. Kozlikin, А. П. Деревянко, (unknown), Paul Goldberg, Alexander Agadjanian, Sergei K. Vasiliev, Frank Brink, Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon, (unknown), Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Richard G. Roberts	1
2	Resolving the source of branch length variation in the Y chromosome phylogeny 2025 ·Genome biology ·(unknown), Janet Kelso, Stéphane Peyrégne	1
3	More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans 2023 ·Nature Reviews Genetics ·Stéphane Peyrégne, Viviane Slon, Janet Kelso	20
4	Neandertal introgression partitions the genetic landscape of neuropsychiatric disorders and associated behavioral phenotypes 2022 ·Translational Psychiatry ·Michael Dannemann, Yuri Milaneschi, Danat Yermakovich, (unknown), (unknown), Kristi Krebs, Manuel A. Friese, Christian Otte, Tōnu Esko, Andres Metspalu, Lili Milani, Reedik Mägi, Mari Nelis, Kelli Lehto, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Janet Kelso, Stefan M. Gold	9
5	The evolutionary history of human spindle genes includes back-and-forth gene flow with Neandertals 2022 ·eLife ·Stéphane Peyrégne, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo	14
6	The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Samantha Brown, Diyendo Massilani, М.B. Kozlikin, M.V. Shunkov, А. П. Деревянко, Alexander Stoessel, (unknown), Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka	23
7	Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave breakdown → 2021 ·Nature ·Elena I. Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs, Benjamin Vernot, M.V. Shunkov, М.B. Kozlikin, А. П. Деревянко, Elena Essel, (unknown), Sarah Nagel, (unknown), Frédéric Romagné, Anna Schmidt, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, Viviane Slon, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Richard G. Roberts, Matthias Meyer	67
8	Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians 2020 ·Science ·Diyendo Massilani, Laurits Skov, Mateja Hajdinjak, Б. Гунчинсурен, (unknown), Seonbok Yi, (unknown), Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Thibaut Devièse, Thomas Higham, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Svante Pääbo	54
9	Reduced lipolysis in lipoma phenocopies lipid accumulation in obesity 2020 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Diana Le Duc, Chen-Ching Lin, Yulia Popkova, (unknown), (unknown), Mehmet Volkan Çakır, Sonja Grunewald, (unknown), Andreas Dietz, Dirk Dannenberger, Antje Garten, Johannes R. Lemke, Jürgen Schiller, Matthias Blüher, Pamela A. Nono Nankam, Ulrike Rolle‐Kampczyk, Martin von Bergen�, Janet Kelso, Torsten Schöneberg	13
10	A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, Cesare de Filippo, Viviane Slon, К. А. Колобова, Bence Viola, С. В. Маркин, Manjusha Chintalapati, Stéphane Peyrégne, Laurits Skov, Pontus Skoglund, A. Krivoshapkin, А. П. Деревянко, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, Kay Prüfer, Svante Pääbo	137
11	The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes 2020 ·Science ·Martin Petr, Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, Elena Essel, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crevecœur, Patrick Semal, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Marco de la Rasilla Vives, Antonio Rosas, M.V. Shunkov, М.B. Kozlikin, А. П. Деревянко, Benjamin Vernot, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso	68
12	Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression breakdown → 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Martin Petr, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Benjamin Vernot	112
13	A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Peyrégne, Selina Brace, Elena Essel, Cesare de Filippo, Isabelle Glocke, Steffi Grote, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Sarah Nagel, Janet Kelso, Kay Prüfer, Benjamin Vernot, Ian Barnes, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Chris Stringer	27
14	admixr—R package for reproducible analyses using ADMIXTOOLS 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Martin Petr, Benjamin Vernot, Janet Kelso	85
15	Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Thiseas C. Lamnidis, Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, Elina Salmela, Anna Wessman, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Valery Khartanovich, Oleg Balanovsky, (unknown), Antje Weihmann, Antti Sajantila, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Päivi Onkamo, Wolfgang Haak, Johannes Krause, Stephan Schiffels	71
16	Functional implications of Neandertal introgression in modern humans 2017 ·Genome biology ·Michael Dannemann, Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso	64
17	Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne breakdown → 2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Frido Welker, Mateja Hajdinjak, Sahra Talamo, Klervia Jaouen, Michael Dannemann, Francine David, Michèle Julien, Matthias Meyer, Janet Kelso, Ian Barnes, Selina Brace, Pepijn Kamminga, Román Fischer, Benedikt M. Kessler, John R. Stewart, Svante Pääbo, Matthew J. Collins, Jean‐Jacques Hublin	196
18	Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals breakdown → 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Susanna Sawyer, Gabriel Renaud, Bence Viola, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Marie-Theres Gansauge, M.V. Shunkov, А. П. Деревянко, Kay Prüfer, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo	124
19	InCoB celebrates its tenth anniversary as first joint conference with ISCB-Asia 2011 ·BMC Genomics ·Christian Schönbach, Tin Wee Tan, Janet Kelso, Burkhard Rost, Sheila Nathan, Shoba Ranganathan	7
20	DATABASE: A new forum for biological databases and curation 2009 ·Database ·David Landsman, Robert Gentleman, Janet Kelso, B. F. Francis Ouellette	7

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