Ludovic Orlando

44.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
151 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Ludovic Orlando is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ludovic Orlando has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Genetics, 55 papers in Ecology and 49 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ludovic Orlando's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (47 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (44 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (34 papers). Ludovic Orlando is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (47 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (44 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (34 papers). Ludovic Orlando collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, France and United States. Ludovic Orlando's co-authors include Mikkel Schubert, Eske Willerslev, Stinus Lindgreen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Aurélien Ginolhac, Hákon Jónsson, Morten Rasmussen, Philip L. Johnson, Philip Francis Thomsen and Jos Kielgast and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ludovic Orlando

149 papers receiving 11.6k 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.

AdapterRemoval v2: rapid adapter trimming, identification, and read merging

2016 1.2k citations Mikkel Schubert, Ludovic Orlando et al. profile →
mapDamage2.0: fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters

2013 934 citations Hákon Jónsson, Aurélien Ginolhac et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA

2011 892 citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Morten Rasmussen et al. profile →
The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals

2007 315 citations Johannes Krause, Carles Lalueza‐Fox et al. Current Biology profile →
Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia

2007 225 citations Johannes Krause, Ludovic Orlando et al. profile →
Ancient DNA analysis

2021 169 citations Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

Peers

Ludovic Orlando

GENET

ECOLO

PALEO

ARCHE

Beth Shapiro United States

Matthias Meyer Germany

Michael Hofreiter Germany

Nadin Rohland United States

Ian Barnes United Kingdom

Mattias Jakobsson Sweden

Eske Willerslev Denmark

Alan R. Rogers United States

Johannes Krause Germany

M. Thomas P. Gilbert Denmark

Beth Shapiro United States

Ludovic Orlando

4.0k ×0.8

GENET

3.6k ×0.7

ECOLO

2.7k ×0.6

2.1k ×0.9

PALEO

830 ×0.5

ARCHE

Citations per year, relative to Ludovic Orlando Ludovic Orlando (= 1×) peers Beth Shapiro

Countries citing papers authored by Ludovic Orlando

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ludovic Orlando

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ludovic Orlando. 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 Ludovic Orlando. The network helps show where Ludovic Orlando may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ludovic Orlando

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liu, Xuexue, Jianfei Pan, Yanli Zhang, et al.. (2025). Selection at the GSDMC locus in horses and its implications for human mobility. Science. 389(6763). 925–930. 1 indexed citations

Orlando, Ludovic, Magnus Åbrink, Brandon D. Velie, et al.. (2024). An endothelial regulatory module links blood pressure regulation with elite athletic performance. PLoS Genetics. 20(6). e1011285–e1011285. 1 indexed citations

Pryor, Alexander J.E., Carly Ameen, James A. Milton, et al.. (2024). Isotopic biographies reveal horse rearing and trading networks in medieval London. Science Advances. 10(12). eadj5782–eadj5782. 1 indexed citations

Nota, Kevin, Ludovic Orlando, Matteo Girardi, et al.. (2024). Enriching barcoding markers in environmental samples utilizing a phylogenetic probe design: Insights from mock communities. Environmental DNA. 6(4). 2 indexed citations

Sutcliffe, Richard F. E., Aude Perdereau, Jean‐Marc Aury, et al.. (2023). Imputed genomes of historical horses provide insights into modern breeding. iScience. 26(7). 107104–107104. 3 indexed citations

Outram, Alan K., Robin Bendrey, Richard P. Evershed, Ludovic Orlando, & Victor F. Zaibert. (2021). Rebuttal of Taylor and Barrón-Ortiz 2021 Rethinking the evidence for early horse domestication at Botai. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 3 indexed citations

Orlando, Ludovic, Robin G. Allaby, Pontus Skoglund, et al.. (2021). Ancient DNA analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 169 indexed citations breakdown →

Gauthier, Jérémy, Samuel Neuenschwander, Lauri Kaila, et al.. (2020). Museomics identifies genetic erosion in two butterfly species across the 20th century in Finland. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(5). 1191–1205. 38 indexed citations

Hanghøj, Kristian, Gabriel Renaud, Anders Albrechtsen, & Ludovic Orlando. (2019). DamMet: ancient methylome mapping accounting for errors, true variants, and post-mortem DNA damage. GigaScience. 8(4). 17 indexed citations

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Janečka, Jan E., Brian W. Davis, Sharmila Ghosh, et al.. (2018). Horse Y chromosome assembly displays unique evolutionary features and putative stallion fertility genes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2945–2945. 55 indexed citations

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Renaud, Gabriel, Bent Petersen, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, et al.. (2018). Improved de novo genomic assembly for the domestic donkey. Science Advances. 4(4). eaaq0392–eaaq0392. 34 indexed citations

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Pedersen, Casper‐Emil Tingskov, Anders Albrechtsen, Paul D. Etter, et al.. (2018). A southern African origin and cryptic structure in the highly mobile plains zebra. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(3). 491–498. 28 indexed citations

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Leonardi, Michela, Francesco Boschin, Robert Beyer, et al.. (2018). Late Quaternary horses in Eurasia in the face of climate and vegetation change. Science Advances. 4(7). eaar5589–eaar5589. 23 indexed citations

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Lefébure, Tristan, Claire Morvan, Florian Malard, et al.. (2017). Less effective selection leads to larger genomes. Genome Research. 27(6). 1016–1028. 63 indexed citations

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Sigsgaard, Eva Egelyng, Ida Broman Nielsen, Steffen Bach, et al.. (2016). Population characteristics of a large whale shark aggregation inferred from seawater environmental DNA. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(1). 4–4. 222 indexed citations

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Jónsson, Hákon, Aurélien Ginolhac, Mikkel Schubert, Philip L. Johnson, & Ludovic Orlando. (2013). mapDamage2.0: fast approximate Bayesian estimates of ancient DNA damage parameters. Bioinformatics. 29(13). 1682–1684. 934 indexed citations breakdown →

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Martin, Michael D., Enrico Cappellini, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, et al.. (2013). Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2172–2172. 92 indexed citations

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Ginolhac, Aurélien, Morten Rasmussen, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Eske Willerslev, & Ludovic Orlando. (2011). mapDamage: testing for damage patterns in ancient DNA sequences. Bioinformatics. 27(15). 2153–2155. 233 indexed citations

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Krause, Johannes, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Ludovic Orlando, et al.. (2007). The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals. Current Biology. 17(21). 1908–1912. 315 indexed citations breakdown →

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Orlando, Ludovic. (2005). L'anti-Jurassic Park : Faire parler l'ADN fossile. 3 indexed citations

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