Maria Pala

5.8k total citations
52 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Maria Pala is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Maria Pala has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Genetics, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Maria Pala's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (21 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (13 papers). Maria Pala is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (21 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation (13 papers). Maria Pala collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Maria Pala's co-authors include Antonio Torroni, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Ornella Semino, Rosaria Scozzari, Hans-Jürgen Bandelt, Ugo A. Perego, Vincenza Battaglia, Giacinta Angela Stocchino and Baharak Hooshiar Kashani and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Maria Pala

50 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Maria Pala Italy 22 1.2k 988 480 264 256 52 2.4k
Vicente M. Cabrera Spain 32 2.2k 1.8× 825 0.8× 953 2.0× 225 0.9× 99 0.4× 93 3.2k
Kenji Hayasaka Japan 18 837 0.7× 818 0.8× 188 0.4× 135 0.5× 107 0.4× 22 1.8k
Shi‐Fang Wu China 19 1.2k 1.0× 752 0.8× 123 0.3× 287 1.1× 114 0.4× 39 1.8k
Max Ingman Sweden 13 1.5k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 280 0.6× 149 0.6× 25 0.1× 14 2.6k
Anna Olivieri Italy 30 1.8k 1.5× 764 0.8× 647 1.3× 107 0.4× 30 0.1× 52 2.7k
B. А. Malyarchuk Russia 30 2.4k 1.9× 776 0.8× 811 1.7× 229 0.9× 47 0.2× 163 2.9k
Jodi A. Irwin United States 30 2.1k 1.7× 2.0k 2.0× 585 1.2× 515 2.0× 151 0.6× 60 3.1k
Ya-Ping Zhang China 17 758 0.6× 616 0.6× 139 0.3× 226 0.9× 163 0.6× 33 1.7k
August E. Woerner United States 22 1.4k 1.1× 817 0.8× 373 0.8× 274 1.0× 43 0.2× 65 2.1k
Alessandro Achilli Italy 40 3.1k 2.6× 1.9k 1.9× 1.1k 2.3× 187 0.7× 40 0.2× 102 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Maria Pala

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Maria Pala

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All Works

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Foody, M. George B., Katharina Dulias, Peter Ditchfıeld, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset. Antiquity. 99(407). 1356–1371. 1 indexed citations
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Gandini, Francesca, Teresa Rito, M. George B. Foody, et al.. (2025). Leveraging known Pacific colonisation times to test models for the ancestry of Southeast Asians. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 37044–37044.
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Bodner, Martin, Anna Olivieri, Francesca Gandini, et al.. (2022). Helena’s Many Daughters: More Mitogenome Diversity behind the Most Common West Eurasian mtDNA Control Region Haplotype in an Extended Italian Population Sample. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(12). 6725–6725. 4 indexed citations
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Rito, Teresa, Martin Richards, Maria Pala, Margarida Correia‐Neves, & Pedro Soares. (2020). Phylogeography of 27,000 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: Europe as the Major Source of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Microorganisms. 8(11). 1678–1678. 14 indexed citations
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Pereira, Joana B., Marta D. Costa, Daniel Vieira, et al.. (2017). Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1851). 20161976–20161976. 18 indexed citations
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Silva, Marina, Daniel Vieira, Andreia Brandão, et al.. (2017). A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 88–88. 51 indexed citations
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Brandão, Andreia, Ken Eng, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2016). Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Human Genetics. 135(4). 363–376. 30 indexed citations
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Gandini, Francesca, Alessandro Achilli, Maria Pala, et al.. (2016). Mapping human dispersals into the Horn of Africa from Arabian Ice Age refugia using mitogenomes. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25472–25472. 35 indexed citations
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Pala, Maria, et al.. (2013). FISSIONING IN PLANARIANS. Monitore Zoologico Italiano-Italian Journal of Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Olivieri, Anna, Maria Pala, Francesca Gandini, et al.. (2013). Mitogenomes from Two Uncommon Haplogroups Mark Late Glacial/Postglacial Expansions from the Near East and Neolithic Dispersals within Europe. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e70492–e70492. 40 indexed citations
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Costa, Marta D., Joana B. Pereira, Maria Pala, et al.. (2013). A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2543–2543. 64 indexed citations
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Karachanak-Yankova, Sena, Valeria Carossa, Desislava Nesheva, et al.. (2011). Bulgarians vs the other European populations: a mitochondrial DNA perspective. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 126(4). 497–503. 31 indexed citations
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Harrath, Abdel Halim, et al.. (2011). Schmidtea mediterraneaphylogeography: an old species surviving on a few Mediterranean islands?. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 274–274. 48 indexed citations
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Ghelli, Anna, Anna Maria Porcelli, Claudia Zanna, et al.. (2009). The Background of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup J Increases the Sensitivity of Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Cells to 2,5-Hexanedione Toxicity. PLoS ONE. 4(11). e7922–e7922. 77 indexed citations
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Cormio, Antonella, Francesco Milella, Maurizio Marra, et al.. (2009). Variations at the H-strand replication origins of mitochondrial DNA and mitochondrial DNA content in the blood of type 2 diabetes patients. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1787(5). 547–552. 10 indexed citations
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Perego, Ugo A., Alessandro Achilli, Norman Angerhofer, et al.. (2009). Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups. Current Biology. 19(1). 1–8. 497 indexed citations
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Fornarino, Simona, Maria Pala, Vincenza Battaglia, et al.. (2009). Mitochondrial and Y-chromosome diversity of the Tharus (Nepal): a reservoir of genetic variation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 154–154. 58 indexed citations
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Martı́n, Miguel A., Valério Carelli, Leo Nijtmans, et al.. (2008). Mitochondrial DNA background modulates the assembly kinetics of OXPHOS complexes in a cellular model of mitochondrial disease. Human Molecular Genetics. 17(24). 4001–4011. 134 indexed citations
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Stocchino, Giacinta Angela, et al.. (2004). Karyology and karyometric analysis of an Afrotropical freshwater planarian (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). Italian Journal of Zoology. 71(2). 89–93. 14 indexed citations

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