Lara Urban

17.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 640 citations indexed

About

Lara Urban is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lara Urban has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 640 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Lara Urban's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Lara Urban is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (6 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (5 papers). Lara Urban collaborates with scholars based in Germany, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Lara Urban's co-authors include Neil J. Gemmell, Olivier Fédrigo, Erich D. Jarvis, Heng Li, Haoyu Cheng, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli, Alana Alexander, J. Jotautas Baronas, Edward T. Tipper and Daniel J. Kunz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Lara Urban

24 papers receiving 634 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.

Haplotype-resolved assembly of diploid genomes without parental data

2022 296 citations Haoyu Cheng, Erich D. Jarvis et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers

Lara Urban

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ECOLO

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Jay Ghurye United States

Weiwen Wang China

Francesco Catania Germany

Matthias H. Weissensteiner United States

Amir Szitenberg Israel

Anthony Aylward United States

Abraham E. Tucker United States

Wei Tao China

Caroline Belser France

Jay Ghurye United States

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475 ×1.2

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122 ×0.7

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251 ×1.5

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168 ×1.3

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50 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Lara Urban Lara Urban (= 1×) peers Jay Ghurye

Countries citing papers authored by Lara Urban

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lara Urban

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lara Urban. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lara Urban. The network helps show where Lara Urban may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lara Urban

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lara Urban. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lara Urban 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 Lara Urban. Lara Urban is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Marti, Hanna, Michael Biggel, Stefan Kesselheim, et al.. (2025). Nanopore- and AI-empowered microbial viability inference. GigaScience. 14. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, C. Scott, Rochelle Constantine, Emma L. Carroll, et al.. (2025). Leveraging Synteny to Generate Reference Genomes for Conservation: Assembling the Genomes of Hector's and Māui Dolphins. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(7). e14109–e14109.

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Croville, Guillaume, et al.. (2025). Improvements in RNA and DNA nanopore sequencing allow for rapid genetic characterization of avian influenza. Virus Evolution. 11(1). veaf010–veaf010. 1 indexed citations

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Borràs, Sílvia, Michael Schloter, Xavier Rodó, et al.. (2024). Air monitoring by nanopore sequencing. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae099–ycae099. 7 indexed citations

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West, Annie G., Michael Hoggard, Andrew Digby, et al.. (2024). Elusive aetiology of exudative cloacitis in the critically endangered kākāpō. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 52(2). 193–206. 1 indexed citations

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Martin, Edward J., et al.. (2024). Sonification of Genomic Data to Represent Genetic Load in Zoo Populations. Zoo Biology. 43(6). 513–519. 1 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, et al.. (2024). Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants. Current Biology. 34(23). 5602–5606.e1. 1 indexed citations

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Goldman, Nick, et al.. (2024). Detection of hidden antibiotic resistance through real-time genomics. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5494–5494. 24 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, Allison K. Miller, Shaun Wilkinson, et al.. (2023). Non-invasive real-time genomic monitoring of the critically endangered kākāpō. eLife. 12. 18 indexed citations

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Jeunen, Gert‐Jan, Francesca Strano, Ulla von Ammon, et al.. (2023). Assessing the utility of marine filter feeders for environmental DNA ( eDNA ) biodiversity monitoring. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(4). 771–786. 21 indexed citations

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Adams, Clare I. M., Gert‐Jan Jeunen, Hugh Cross, et al.. (2023). Environmental DNA metabarcoding describes biodiversity across marine gradients. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 80(4). 953–971. 11 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, Allison K. Miller, Shaun Wilkinson, et al.. (2023). Non-invasive real-time genomic monitoring of the critically endangered kākāpō. eLife. 12.

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Digby, Andrew, Daryl Eason, Michael Lierz, et al.. (2023). Hidden impacts of conservation management on fertility of the critically endangered kākāpō. PeerJ. 11. e14675–e14675. 5 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, et al.. (2022). Commonly used Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium filtering schemes impact population structure inferences using RADseq data. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(7). 2599–2613. 52 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, Mariana De Niz, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, et al.. (2022). eLife’s new model and its impact on science communication. eLife. 11. 2 indexed citations

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Cheng, Haoyu, Erich D. Jarvis, Olivier Fédrigo, et al.. (2022). Haplotype-resolved assembly of diploid genomes without parental data. Nature Biotechnology. 40(9). 1332–1335. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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Macey, Jonathan R., Stephan Pabinger, Vanessa L. González, et al.. (2021). Evidence of two deeply divergent co-existing mitochondrial genomes in the Tuatara reveals an extremely complex genomic organization. Communications Biology. 4(1). 116–116. 18 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, Andre Holzer, J. Jotautas Baronas, et al.. (2021). Freshwater monitoring by nanopore sequencing. eLife. 10. 75 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, et al.. (2021). Might Gene Duplication and Neofunctionalization Contribute to the Sexual Lability Observed in Fish?. Sexual Development. 15(1-3). 122–133. 4 indexed citations

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Urban, Lara, et al.. (2016). Telocytes (interstitial Cajal-like cells) in human Fallopian tubes. Bratislavské lekárske listy/Bratislava medical journal. 117(5). 263–267. 21 indexed citations

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