Morten E. Allentoft

17.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
84 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Morten E. Allentoft is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Morten E. Allentoft has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Genetics, 32 papers in Ecology and 29 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Morten E. Allentoft's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (25 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (18 papers). Morten E. Allentoft is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (25 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (18 papers). Morten E. Allentoft collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Australia and United States. Morten E. Allentoft's co-authors include Eske Willerslev, Michael Bunce, Richard N. Holdaway, John O’Brien, Charlotte L. Oskam, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Ashot Margaryan, Marie L. Hale, Martin Sikora and R. Paul Scofield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Morten E. Allentoft

82 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

The half-life of DNA in bone: measuring decay kinetics in 158 dated fossils

2012 389 citations Morten E. Allentoft, Matthew J. Collins et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Aquatic environmental DNA: A review of the macro-organismal biomonitoring revolution

2023 154 citations Mattia Saccò, Matthew A. Campbell et al. profile →
Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

2017 128 citations Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft et al. Antiquity profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Morten E. Allentoft	1.4k	1.0k	949	914	811	84	3.2k
Camilla Speller	953 0.7×	801 0.8×	873 0.9×	669 0.7×	762 0.9×	92	2.5k
Paula F. Campos	903 0.6×	895 0.9×	550 0.6×	785 0.9×	391 0.5×	47	2.5k
Michael Buckley	1.0k 0.7×	859 0.8×	1.9k 2.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.8k 2.2×	135	4.5k
James Haile	1.2k 0.9×	2.4k 2.3×	648 0.7×	1.7k 1.8×	243 0.3×	61	4.1k
Melanie Kuch	1.6k 1.1×	925 0.9×	762 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	779 1.0×	31	3.0k
Morten Rasmussen	1.0k 0.7×	2.9k 2.8×	611 0.6×	2.2k 2.4×	373 0.5×	34	4.5k
Richard N. Holdaway	791 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	1.0k 1.1×	505 0.6×	186 0.2×	89	3.2k
Lounès Chikhi	2.6k 1.8×	1.6k 1.6×	432 0.5×	819 0.9×	311 0.4×	118	4.7k
John R. Stewart	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	408 0.4×	510 0.6×	96	4.2k
Sandro L. Bonatto	2.6k 1.8×	932 0.9×	564 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	423 0.5×	144	5.1k

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Saccò, Mattia, Matthew A. Campbell, Pablo Aguilar, et al.. (2025). Metazoan diversity in Chilean hypersaline lakes unveiled by environmental DNA. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 13. 1 indexed citations

Ravn, Kirstine, Jonas Meisner, Michael E. Benros, et al.. (2025). Tracing the evolutionary history of the CCR5delta32 deletion via ancient and modern genomes. Cell. 188(14). 3679–3695.e16.

Newton, Joshua P., Morten E. Allentoft, Philip W. Bateman, Mieke van der Heyde, & Paul Nevill. (2025). Targeting Terrestrial Vertebrates With eDNA : Trends, Perspectives, and Considerations for Sampling. Environmental DNA. 7(1). 10 indexed citations

Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, Mahsa, et al.. (2024). Far away from home? Ancient DNA shows the presence of bicolored shrew (Crocidura leucodon) in Bronze Age Denmark. Ecology and Evolution. 14(7). e11680–e11680. 2 indexed citations

Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, Mahsa, Ryan J. Ellis, Tina E. Berry, et al.. (2023). Rock pools as a source of environmental DNA for the detection of the threatened Pilbara olive python (Liasis olivaceus barroni). Frontiers in Environmental Science. 11. 4 indexed citations

Nielsen, Martin, et al.. (2022). Complete mitochondrial genomes from museum specimens clarify millipede evolution in the Eastern Arc Mountains. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(2). 924–939. 7 indexed citations

Scorrano, Gabriele, Sofie Nielsen, Domenico Lo Vetro, et al.. (2022). Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1262–1262. 15 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Arne Redsted, Anders Hay‐Schmidt, Farnis B. Boneka, et al.. (2021). Viviparous sea snakes can be used as bioindicators for diverse marine environments. Architecture, Design and Conservation (Aarhus School of Architecture, Design School Kolding, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK)). 14(2). 10 indexed citations

Saccò, Mattia, Nicole E. White, Matthew A. Campbell, et al.. (2021). Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia). Water. 13(14). 1899–1899. 7 indexed citations

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Margaryan, Ashot, Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, et al.. (2021). Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244872–e0244872. 12 indexed citations

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Saccò, Mattia, Nicole E. White, Chris Harrod, et al.. (2021). Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 96(6). 2828–2850. 78 indexed citations

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Segawa, Takahiro, Takahiro Yonezawa, Hiroshi Mori, et al.. (2021). Ancient DNA reveals multiple origins and migration waves of extinct Japanese brown bear lineages. Royal Society Open Science. 8(8). 210518–210518. 10 indexed citations

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Kontopoulos, Ioannis, Kirsty Penkman, Victoria E. Mullin, et al.. (2020). Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0235146–e0235146. 44 indexed citations

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Frei, Karin Margarita, Sophie Bergerbrant, Karl-Göran Sjögren, et al.. (2019). Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0219850–e0219850. 48 indexed citations

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Zikmund, Tomáš, et al.. (2018). Serious chronic disease of the cervical spine and trauma in a young female from the middle ages (Czech Republic). International Journal of Paleopathology. 24. 185–196. 2 indexed citations

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Frei, Karin Margarita, Chiara Villa, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, et al.. (2017). A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female. PLoS ONE. 12(6). e0178834–e0178834. 50 indexed citations

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Kristiansen, Kristian, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin Margarita Frei, et al.. (2017). Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe. Antiquity. 91(356). 334–347. 128 indexed citations breakdown →

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Allentoft, Morten E., et al.. (2011). A molecular characterization of a newly discovered megafaunal fossil site in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 42(4). 241–256. 8 indexed citations

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Oskam, Charlotte L., James Haile, Paul Rigby, et al.. (2010). Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1690). 1991–2000. 94 indexed citations

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Hebsgaard, Martin B., M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jette Arneborg, et al.. (2009). ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA. Antiquity. 83(320). 430–444. 51 indexed citations

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