Mário Vicente

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 579 citations indexed

About

Mário Vicente is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mário Vicente has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 579 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Archeology and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Mário Vicente's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (14 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (5 papers). Mário Vicente is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (14 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers) and Race, Genetics, and Society (5 papers). Mário Vicente collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, South Africa and Germany. Mário Vicente's co-authors include Carina M. Schlebusch, Mattias Jakobsson, Marlize Lombard, Himla Soodyall, Per Sjödin, Torsten Günther, Helena Malmström, Maryna Steyn, Alexandra Coutinho and Arielle R. Munters and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mário Vicente

15 papers receiving 561 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago
    2017 259 citations Carina M. Schlebusch, Helena Malmström et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mário Vicente Sweden 11 311 184 169 115 93 19 579
Arielle R. Munters Sweden 8 200 0.6× 142 0.8× 128 0.8× 125 1.1× 72 0.8× 11 400
Farida Alshamali Portugal 13 451 1.5× 276 1.5× 140 0.8× 99 0.9× 126 1.4× 19 664
Kathryn Weedman Arthur United States 7 136 0.4× 103 0.6× 166 1.0× 126 1.1× 36 0.4× 16 351
Per Persson Norway 11 200 0.6× 146 0.8× 200 1.2× 288 2.5× 52 0.6× 28 580
Alexandra Coutinho Sweden 5 144 0.5× 100 0.5× 114 0.7× 95 0.8× 55 0.6× 8 305
Samantha Brown Germany 11 170 0.5× 303 1.6× 301 1.8× 290 2.5× 98 1.1× 19 600
Marsha Levine United Kingdom 10 148 0.5× 99 0.5× 109 0.6× 174 1.5× 29 0.3× 12 432
Lolke van der Veen France 4 260 0.8× 67 0.4× 64 0.4× 28 0.2× 48 0.5× 5 416
Matthew J. Jobin United States 6 222 0.7× 71 0.4× 70 0.4× 44 0.4× 77 0.8× 6 367
Irina Pugach Germany 12 569 1.8× 252 1.4× 201 1.2× 181 1.6× 189 2.0× 12 867

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mário Vicente

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mário Vicente

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Varela, Ricardo, Reyhan Yaka, Mário Vicente, et al.. (2026). Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period. Nature Communications. 17(1).
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Jakobsson, Mattias, Carolina Bernhardsson, James McKenna, et al.. (2025). Homo sapiens-specific evolution unveiled by ancient southern African genomes. Nature. 650(8100). 156–163.
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Vicente, Mário, Noemí Tirado, Luis A. Parada, et al.. (2025). Human adaptation in the Andes Mountains.
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Krzewińska, Maja, Ricardo Varela, Reyhan Yaka, et al.. (2024). Related in Death? Further Insights on the Curious Case of Bishop Peder Winstrup and His Grandchild’s Burial. Heritage. 7(2). 576–584.
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Vicente, Mário, Thijessen Naidoo, Tom van der Valk, et al.. (2023). aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow. Genome biology. 24(1). 242–242. 21 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário, Noemí Tirado, Marie Vahter, et al.. (2022). Human adaptation to arsenic in Bolivians living in the Andes. Chemosphere. 301. 134764–134764. 11 indexed citations
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Dussex, Nicolás, Marianne Dehasque, David Díez‐del‐Molino, et al.. (2021). Integrating multi-taxon palaeogenomes and sedimentary ancient DNA to study past ecosystem dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1957). 20211252–20211252. 17 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário, et al.. (2021). The performance of common SNP arrays in assigning African mitochondrial haplogroups. BMC Genomic Data. 22(1). 43–43. 5 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário, Thembi Russell, Nina Hollfelder, et al.. (2021). Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa. BMC Biology. 19(1). 259–259. 7 indexed citations
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Hollfelder, Nina, Rickard Hammarén, Mário Vicente, et al.. (2020). Patterns of African and Asian admixture in the Afrikaner population of South Africa. BMC Biology. 18(1). 16–16. 19 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário & Carina M. Schlebusch. (2020). African population history: an ancient DNA perspective. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 62. 8–15. 23 indexed citations
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Coutinho, Alexandra, Mário Vicente, & Carina M. Schlebusch. (2020). DNA is the key to unlocking our ancient African past. The Biochemist. 42(1). 12–17. 1 indexed citations
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Schlebusch, Carina M., Per Sjödin, Gwenna Breton, et al.. (2020). Khoe-San Genomes Reveal Unique Variation and Confirm the Deepest Population Divergence in Homo sapiens. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 2944–2954. 60 indexed citations
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Steyn, Maryna, et al.. (2019). Four Iron Age women from KwaZulu-Natal: biological anthropology, genetics and archaeological context. Southern African humanities. 32(1). 23–56. 8 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário, et al.. (2019). Population history and genetic adaptation of the Fulani nomads: inferences from genome-wide data and the lactase persistence trait. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 915–915. 37 indexed citations
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Vicente, Mário, Mattias Jakobsson, Peter Ebbesen, & Carina M. Schlebusch. (2019). Genetic Affinities among Southern Africa Hunter-Gatherers and the Impact of Admixing Farmer and Herder Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(9). 1849–1861. 22 indexed citations
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Schlebusch, Carina M., Helena Malmström, Torsten Günther, et al.. (2017). Southern African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence to 350,000 to 260,000 years ago. Science. 358(6363). 652–655. 259 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barbieri, Chiara, Mário Vicente, Sandra Oliveira, et al.. (2014). Migration and Interaction in a Contact Zone: mtDNA Variation among Bantu-Speakers in Southern Africa. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e99117–e99117. 38 indexed citations
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Barbieri, Chiara, Mário Vicente, Jorge Rocha, et al.. (2013). Ancient Substructure in Early mtDNA Lineages of Southern Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 92(2). 285–292. 51 indexed citations

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