Katerina Guschanski

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Katerina Guschanski is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katerina Guschanski has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Katerina Guschanski's work include Primate Behavior and Ecology (18 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Katerina Guschanski is often cited by papers focused on Primate Behavior and Ecology (18 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (17 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers). Katerina Guschanski collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and United States. Katerina Guschanski's co-authors include Vincent Savolainen, Susanna Sawyer, Johannes Krause, Linda Vigilant, Svante Pääbo, Henrik Kaessmann, Tom van der Valk, Love Dalén, Mimi Arandjelovic and Tomàs Marquès‐Bonet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Katerina Guschanski

38 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA

2012 318 citations Susanna Sawyer, Johannes Krause et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katerina Guschanski Sweden	21	808	677	532	444	340	40	1.8k
Lori Lawson Handley United Kingdom	28	1.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.8×	2.0k 3.8×	186 0.4×	796 2.3×	47	3.6k
Olaf Thalmann Finland	12	489 0.6×	326 0.5×	331 0.6×	301 0.7×	171 0.5×	19	959
Linn F. Groeneveld Germany	14	653 0.8×	223 0.3×	183 0.3×	256 0.6×	159 0.5×	24	1.2k
F. Javier Pérez‐Barbería Spain	29	754 0.9×	149 0.2×	1.6k 3.0×	289 0.7×	617 1.8×	86	2.5k
David A. Ray United States	35	924 1.1×	2.0k 2.9×	332 0.6×	226 0.5×	516 1.5×	99	3.2k
Yoshi Kawamoto Japan	21	388 0.5×	207 0.3×	339 0.6×	646 1.5×	491 1.4×	105	1.5k
Filipe Garrett Vieira Denmark	23	1.6k 2.0×	955 1.4×	518 1.0×	39 0.1×	459 1.4×	51	3.0k
Cynthia Steiner United States	16	664 0.8×	508 0.8×	330 0.6×	232 0.5×	341 1.0×	36	1.5k
Sarah B. Kingan United States	23	1.2k 1.5×	941 1.4×	220 0.4×	29 0.1×	409 1.2×	33	2.2k
Mary Katherine Gonder United States	17	445 0.6×	214 0.3×	392 0.7×	392 0.9×	221 0.7×	39	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katerina Guschanski

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Guschanski, Katerina, Kyle Kai‐How Farh, Lukas F. K. Kuderna, et al.. (2025). Genomic Signatures of Island Colonisation in Highly Diverse Primates. Molecular Ecology. 34(23). e17815–e17815. 1 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, Shenglin Liu, Axel Jensen, et al.. (2025). Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies. Current Biology. 35(4). 927–930.e3. 9 indexed citations

Brealey, Jaelle C., Mathilde Le Moullec, Vanessa C. Bieker, et al.. (2024). Ancient reindeer mitogenomes reveal island-hopping colonisation of the Arctic archipelagos. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 4143–4143. 5 indexed citations

Jensen, Axel, et al.. (2024). Y chromosome introgression between deeply divergent primate species. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10398–10398. 1 indexed citations

Guellil, Meriam, Olivia Cheronet, Susanna Sawyer, et al.. (2024). Screening great ape museum specimens for DNA viruses. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29806–29806. 2 indexed citations

Jensen, Axel, Dorien de Vries, Robin M. D. Beck, et al.. (2023). Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(12). 12 indexed citations

Nota, Kevin, et al.. (2022). Isolated Grauer's gorilla populations differ in diet and gut microbiome. Molecular Ecology. 32(23). 6523–6542. 7 indexed citations

Dehasque, Marianne, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, David Díez‐del‐Molino, et al.. (2020). Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA. Evolution Letters. 4(2). 94–108. 41 indexed citations

Valk, Tom van der, Itzel Sifuentes‐Romero, Térese B. Hart, et al.. (2019). The Genome of the Endangered Dryas Monkey Provides New Insights into the Evolutionary History of the Vervets. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(1). 183–194. 27 indexed citations

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Eckardt, Winnie, et al.. (2019). Behavioral responses around conspecific corpses in adult eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei spp.). PeerJ. 7. e6655–e6655. 15 indexed citations

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Robbins, Martha M., Maryke Gray, Katerina Guschanski, et al.. (2019). Dispersal and reproductive careers of male mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. Primates. 60(2). 133–142. 16 indexed citations

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Brealey, Jaelle C., Tom van der Valk, Antton Alberdi, et al.. (2018). Host‐derived population genomics data provides insights into bacterial and diatom composition of the killer whale skin. Molecular Ecology. 28(2). 484–502. 34 indexed citations

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Valk, Tom van der, David Díez‐del‐Molino, Tomàs Marquès‐Bonet, Katerina Guschanski, & Love Dalén. (2018). Historical Genomes Reveal the Genomic Consequences of Recent Population Decline in Eastern Gorillas. Current Biology. 29(1). 165–170.e6. 115 indexed citations

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Valk, Tom van der, Edson Sandoval‐Castellanos, Damien Caillaud, et al.. (2018). Significant loss of mitochondrial diversity within the last century due to extinction of peripheral populations in eastern gorillas. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6551–6551. 26 indexed citations

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Malukiewicz, Joanna, et al.. (2016). Application of PE‐RADSeq to the study of genomic diversity and divergence of two Brazilian marmoset species (Callithrix jacchusandC. penicillata). American Journal of Primatology. 79(2). 1–12. 6 indexed citations

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Guschanski, Katerina, Johannes Krause, Susanna Sawyer, et al.. (2013). Next-Generation Museomics Disentangles One of the Largest Primate Radiations. Systematic Biology. 62(4). 539–554. 169 indexed citations

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Meunier, Julien, Frédéric Lemoine, Magali Soumillon, et al.. (2012). Birth and expression evolution of mammalian microRNA genes. Genome Research. 23(1). 34–45. 223 indexed citations

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Sawyer, Susanna, Johannes Krause, Katerina Guschanski, Vincent Savolainen, & Svante Pääbo. (2012). Temporal Patterns of Nucleotide Misincorporations and DNA Fragmentation in Ancient DNA. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e34131–e34131. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thalmann, Olaf, Daniel Wegmann, Mimi Arandjelovic, et al.. (2011). Historical sampling reveals dramatic demographic changes in western gorilla populations. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 85–85. 45 indexed citations

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Arandjelovic, Mimi, Katerina Guschanski, Grit Schubert, et al.. (2009). Two‐step multiplex polymerase chain reaction improves the speed and accuracy of genotyping using DNA from noninvasive and museum samples. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9(1). 28–36. 128 indexed citations

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