João C. Teixeira

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 712 citations indexed

About

João C. Teixeira is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, João C. Teixeira has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in João C. Teixeira's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). João C. Teixeira is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). João C. Teixeira collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and Portugal. João C. Teixeira's co-authors include Christian D. Huber, Cesare de Filippo, Aida M. Andrés, Felix M. Key, Alan Cooper, Bastien Llamas, Joshua M. Schmidt, Bárbara Domingues Bitarello, Diogo Meyer and Rodrigo Barquera and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

João C. Teixeira

23 papers receiving 703 citations

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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.

The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics

2021 268 citations João C. Teixeira, Christian D. Huber Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
João C. Teixeira Australia	11	406	178	109	96	73	25	712
Pierre Luisi Spain	14	461 1.1×	239 1.3×	113 1.0×	145 1.5×	50 0.7×	20	818
Gili Greenbaum Israel	10	188 0.5×	116 0.7×	110 1.0×	29 0.3×	53 0.7×	25	538
David Enard United States	14	469 1.2×	345 1.9×	69 0.6×	124 1.3×	46 0.6×	24	915
R Kondo Japan	8	591 1.5×	516 2.9×	101 0.9×	57 0.6×	70 1.0×	9	1.1k
Michael DeGiorgio United States	7	520 1.3×	182 1.0×	49 0.4×	49 0.5×	64 0.9×	7	690
Francisco C. Ceballos Spain	12	631 1.6×	203 1.1×	79 0.7×	26 0.3×	32 0.4×	31	900
Min‐Sheng Peng China	18	754 1.9×	376 2.1×	76 0.7×	29 0.3×	56 0.8×	58	1.1k
Xingbo Zhao China	18	547 1.3×	443 2.5×	100 0.9×	28 0.3×	27 0.4×	70	1.2k
Paul Verdu France	17	531 1.3×	131 0.7×	49 0.4×	95 1.0×	36 0.5×	30	886
Michael DeGiorgio United States	20	865 2.1×	470 2.6×	141 1.3×	35 0.4×	94 1.3×	57	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Teixeira, João C., et al.. (2025). Enhanced sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) retrieval from Antarctic diatoms. Marine Micropaleontology. 199. 102477–102477.

Esteve, Xavier, Yassine Souilmi, João C. Teixeira, et al.. (2025). Genetic transitions in the Neolithic and Bronze Age at Mas d’en Boixos (Catalonia, Spain). iScience. 28(7). 112871–112871.

Purnomo, Gludhug A., Shimona Kealy, Sue O’Connor, et al.. (2024). The genetic origins and impacts of historical Papuan migrations into Wallacea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(52). e2412355121–e2412355121. 2 indexed citations

Valente, Maria João, Teresa Fernandes, Cristina Barrocas Dias, et al.. (2024). Shrouded in history: Unveiling the ways of life of an early Muslim population in Santarém, Portugal (8th– 10th century AD). PLoS ONE. 19(3). e0299958–e0299958. 1 indexed citations

Johar, Angad, et al.. (2022). The immunogenetic impact of European colonization in the Americas. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 918227–918227. 3 indexed citations

Rohrlach, Adam B., Cláudia Umbelino, Francisco Curate, et al.. (2022). A 1000-year-old case of Klinefelter's syndrome diagnosed by integrating morphology, osteology, and genetics. The Lancet. 400(10353). 691–692. 4 indexed citations

Souilmi, Yassine, Raymond Tobler, Angad Johar, et al.. (2022). Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 2003–2015. 13 indexed citations

Purnomo, Gludhug A., Kieren J. Mitchell, Sue O’Connor, et al.. (2021). Mitogenomes Reveal Two Major Influxes of Papuan Ancestry across Wallacea Following the Last Glacial Maximum and Austronesian Contact. Genes. 12(7). 965–965. 18 indexed citations

Teixeira, João C. & Christian D. Huber. (2021). The inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(10). 268 indexed citations breakdown →

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Politis, Gustavo G., Mariela E. González, Kelly M. Harkins, et al.. (2021). Ancient mitochondrial genomes from the Argentinian Pampas inform the early peopling of the Southern Cone of South America. iScience. 24(6). 102553–102553. 13 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C., Chris Stringer, Jonathan Tuke, et al.. (2021). Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(5). 616–624. 30 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C. & Christian D. Huber. (2021). Authors’ Reply to Letter to the Editor: Neutral genetic diversity as a useful tool for conservation biology. Conservation Genetics. 22(4). 547–549. 1 indexed citations

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Barquera, Rodrigo, Da Di, Stéphane Bühler, et al.. (2020). Binding affinities of 438 HLA proteins to complete proteomes of seven pandemic viruses and distributions of strongest and weakest HLA peptide binders in populations worldwide. HLA. 96(3). 277–298. 71 indexed citations

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Souilmi, Yassine, et al.. (2020). Ancient DNA Studies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Genes. 11(11). 1346–1346. 5 indexed citations

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O’Neill, Mary B., Guillaume Laval, João C. Teixeira, Ann C. Palmenberg, & Caitlin S. Pepperell. (2019). Genetic susceptibility to severe childhood asthma and rhinovirus-C maintained by balancing selection in humans for 150 000 years. Human Molecular Genetics. 29(5). 736–744. 7 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C., et al.. (2015). Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history. Frontiers in Genetics. 6. 12–12. 4 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C., Cesare de Filippo, Antje Weihmann, et al.. (2015). Long-Term Balancing Selection in LAD1 Maintains a Missense Trans-Species Polymorphism in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Bonobos. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(5). 1186–1196. 66 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C., et al.. (2014). Echoes from Sepharad: signatures on the maternal gene pool of crypto-Jewish descendants. European Journal of Human Genetics. 23(5). 693–699. 10 indexed citations

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Key, Felix M., João C. Teixeira, Cesare de Filippo, & Aida M. Andrés. (2014). Advantageous diversity maintained by balancing selection in humans. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 29. 45–51. 78 indexed citations

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Teixeira, João C., et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial DNA-control region sequence variation in the NE Portuguese Jewish community. Forensic science international. Genetics supplement series. 3(1). e51–e52. 6 indexed citations

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