Jennifer Raff

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 876 citations indexed

About

Jennifer Raff is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jennifer Raff has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 876 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Archeology and 6 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Jennifer Raff's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (12 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Jennifer Raff is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (12 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Jennifer Raff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Chile. Jennifer Raff's co-authors include Dennis H. O’Rourke, Deborah A. Bolnick, Ripan S. Malhi, Alyssa C. Bader, Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Jessica Bardill, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Margarita Rzhetskaya, Mark Stoneking and Dominique Quinque and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jennifer Raff

21 papers receiving 837 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.

  1. A framework for enhancing ethical genomic research with Indigenous communities
    2018 251 citations Katrina G. Claw, Matthew Z. Anderson et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jennifer Raff United States 13 432 208 183 158 142 22 876
Darlene A. Weston Canada 16 291 0.7× 169 0.8× 148 0.8× 433 2.7× 91 0.6× 24 893
Richard Hagan United Kingdom 12 213 0.5× 218 1.0× 133 0.7× 187 1.2× 71 0.5× 20 668
Arkadiusz Sołtysiak Poland 12 127 0.3× 387 1.9× 179 1.0× 353 2.2× 58 0.4× 54 906
Emőke J. E. Szathmáry Canada 18 549 1.3× 98 0.5× 253 1.4× 161 1.0× 116 0.8× 32 1.2k
François‐Xavier Ricaut France 21 860 2.0× 228 1.1× 219 1.2× 481 3.0× 61 0.4× 64 1.3k
Jessica Hendy United Kingdom 15 276 0.6× 399 1.9× 265 1.4× 349 2.2× 36 0.3× 34 915
Siân E. Halcrow New Zealand 24 148 0.3× 435 2.1× 64 0.3× 799 5.1× 49 0.3× 80 1.3k
Dale L. Hutchinson United States 15 316 0.7× 417 2.0× 69 0.4× 1.0k 6.5× 62 0.4× 44 1.4k
Andrea L. Waters‐Rist Netherlands 13 104 0.2× 265 1.3× 86 0.5× 397 2.5× 25 0.2× 45 730
Meaghan Mackie Denmark 14 240 0.6× 309 1.5× 213 1.2× 343 2.2× 19 0.1× 38 780

Countries citing papers authored by Jennifer Raff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jennifer Raff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jennifer Raff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jennifer Raff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jennifer Raff based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jennifer Raff. Jennifer Raff is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Scott, G. Richard, Dennis H. O’Rourke, Jennifer Raff, et al.. (2021). Peopling the Americas: Not “Out of Japan”. PaleoAmerica. 7(4). 309–332. 12 indexed citations
2.
Raff, Jennifer & Connie J. Mulligan. (2021). Race reconciled II: Interpreting and communicating biological variation and race in 2021. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175(2). 313–315. 3 indexed citations
3.
Barajas‐Olmos, Francisco, Humberto Garcia‐Ortíz, Margarita Rzhetskaya, et al.. (2019). Comparing signals of natural selection between three Indigenous North American populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(19). 9312–9317. 28 indexed citations
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Braje, Todd J., Jon M. Erlandson, Torben C. Rick, et al.. (2019). Fladmark + 40: What Have We Learned about a Potential Pacific Coast Peopling of the Americas?. American Antiquity. 85(1). 1–21. 48 indexed citations
5.
Claw, Katrina G., Matthew Z. Anderson, Rene L. Begay, et al.. (2018). A framework for enhancing ethical genomic research with Indigenous communities. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2957–2957. 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bardill, Jessica, Alyssa C. Bader, Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, et al.. (2018). Advancing the ethics of paleogenomics. Science. 360(6387). 384–385. 70 indexed citations
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Bolnick, Deborah A., et al.. (2016). Native American Genomics and Population Histories. Annual Review of Anthropology. 45(1). 319–340. 26 indexed citations
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Hayes, M. Geoffrey, et al.. (2015). Current developments in anthropological genetics of the North American Arctic.
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Raff, Jennifer, et al.. (2015). Mitochondrial diversity of Iñupiat people from the Alaskan North Slope provides evidence for the origins of the Paleo‐ and Neo‐Eskimo peoples. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 157(4). 603–614. 16 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer & Deborah A. Bolnick. (2015). Does Mitochondrial Haplogroup X Indicate Ancient Trans-Atlantic Migration to the Americas? A Critical Re-Evaluation. PaleoAmerica. 1(4). 297–304. 24 indexed citations
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Potter, Ben A., Jennifer Raff, Michael D. Powers, et al.. (2015). Two contemporaneous mitogenomes from terminal Pleistocene burials in eastern Beringia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(45). 13833–13838. 40 indexed citations
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Kitchen, Andrew, Amy L. Non, Clarence C. Gravlee, et al.. (2015). Anthropological Genetics. American Anthropologist. 117(4). 736–737. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Jing, Dominique Quinque, Hans‐Peter Horz, et al.. (2014). Comparative analysis of the human saliva microbiome from different climate zones: Alaska, Germany, and Africa. BMC Microbiology. 14(1). 316–316. 129 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer, et al.. (2014). Ancient DNA from the Schild site in Illinois: Implications for the Mississippian transition in the Lower Illinois River Valley. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 156(3). 434–448. 4 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer. (2014). Nicholas Wade and Race: Building a Scientific Façade. Human Biology. 86(3). 227–227. 5 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer, et al.. (2011). Ancient DNA perspectives on American colonization and population history. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146(4). 503–514. 57 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer, et al.. (2010). South from Alaska: A Pilot aDNA Study of Genetic History on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians. Human Biology. 82(5-6). 677–693. 4 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Dennis H. & Jennifer Raff. (2010). The Human Genetic History of the Americas: The Final Frontier. Current Biology. 20(4). R202–R207. 110 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer, et al.. (2010). South from Alaska: A Pilot aDNA Study of Genetic History on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians. Human Biology. 82(5/6). 677–693. 21 indexed citations
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Raff, Jennifer. (2008). An ancient DNA perspective on the prehistory of the Lower Illinois Valley. Optics Express. 30(11). 19544–19556. 4 indexed citations

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