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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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 →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Tracing the evolutionary history of the CCR5delta32 deletion via ancient and modern genomes 2025 ·Cell ·Kirstine Ravn, (unknown), (unknown), Jonas Meisner, (unknown), Michael E. Benros, Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev, Morten E. Allentoft, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Simon Rasmussen	0
2	Metazoan diversity in Chilean hypersaline lakes unveiled by environmental DNA 2025 ·Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution ·Mattia Saccò, Matthew A. Campbell, Pablo Aguilar, (unknown), Tina E. Berry, Matthew J. Heydenrych, (unknown), Nicole E. White, Chris Harrod, Morten E. Allentoft	1
3	Targeting Terrestrial Vertebrates With eDNA : Trends, Perspectives, and Considerations for Sampling 2025 ·Environmental DNA ·Joshua P. Newton, Morten E. Allentoft, Philip W. Bateman, Mieke van der Heyde, Paul Nevill	10
4	Far away from home? Ancient DNA shows the presence of bicolored shrew (Crocidura leucodon) in Bronze Age Denmark 2024 ·Ecology and Evolution ·Mahsa Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, (unknown), Marie Kanstrup, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Morten E. Allentoft	2
5	Threatened North African seagrass meadows have supported green turtle populations for millennia 2023 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Meaghan Mackie, (unknown), Morten E. Allentoft, Annette C. Broderick, (unknown), Brendan J. Godley, Robin Snape, (unknown), Hermann Genz, (unknown), Michael Dee, Per J. Palsbøll, Michelle Alexander, Alberto J. Taurozzi, Canan Çakırlar	10
6	Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave 2022 ·Communications Biology ·Gabriele Scorrano, Sofie Nielsen, Domenico Lo Vetro, Rikai Sawafuji, Meaghan Mackie, Ashot Margaryan, Anna K. Fotakis, Cristina Martínez‐Labarga, (unknown), Morten E. Allentoft, (unknown), Fabio Martini, Olga Rickards, Jesper V. Olsen, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Enrico Cappellini, Martin Sikora	15
7	Complete mitochondrial genomes from museum specimens clarify millipede evolution in the Eastern Arc Mountains 2022 ·Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Martin Nielsen, Ashot Margaryan, (unknown), Henrik Enghoff, Morten E. Allentoft	7
8	Viviparous sea snakes can be used as bioindicators for diverse marine environments 2021 ·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)) ·Arne Redsted Rasmussen, Anders Hay‐Schmidt, Farnis B. Boneka, Morten E. Allentoft, Kate L. Sanders, Johan Elmberg	10
9	Metabarcoding under Brine: Microbial Ecology of Five Hypersaline Lakes at Rottnest Island (WA, Australia) 2021 ·Water ·Mattia Saccò, Nicole E. White, Matthew A. Campbell, Sébastien Allard, William F. Humphreys, (unknown), (unknown), Alex Laini, Morten E. Allentoft	7
10	Ancient DNA reveals multiple origins and migration waves of extinct Japanese brown bear lineages 2021 ·Royal Society Open Science ·Takahiro Segawa, Takahiro Yonezawa, Hiroshi Mori, Ayumi Akiyoshi, Morten E. Allentoft, Ayako Kohno, Fuyuki Tokanai, Eske Willerslev, Naoki Kohno, Hidenori Nishihara	10
11	Salt to conserve: a review on the ecology and preservation of hypersaline ecosystems 2021 ·Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ·Mattia Saccò, Nicole E. White, Chris Harrod, (unknown), Pablo Aguilar, (unknown), Karina Meredith, Bonnie K. Baxter, Aharon Oren, Elena Anufriieva, Nickolai Shadrin, (unknown), (unknown), Morten E. Allentoft	78
12	Screening archaeological bone for palaeogenetic and palaeoproteomic studies 2020 ·PLoS ONE ·Ioannis Kontopoulos, Kirsty Penkman, Victoria E. Mullin, Laura Winkelbach, Martina Unterländer, Amelie Scheu, Susanne Kreutzer, Henrik B. Hansen, Ashot Margaryan, Matthew D. Teasdale, (unknown), Martin Street, Niels Lynnerup, Ioannis Liritzis, Αδαμάντιος Σαμψών, Christina Papageorgopoulou, Morten E. Allentoft, Joachim Bürger, Daniel G. Bradley, Matthew J. Collins	44
13	Mapping human mobility during the third and second millennia BC in present-day Denmark 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Karin Margarita Frei, Sophie Bergerbrant, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Niels Lynnerup, Lise Harvig, Morten E. Allentoft, Martin Sikora, T. Douglas Price, Robert Frei, Kristian Kristiansen	48
14	Serious chronic disease of the cervical spine and trauma in a young female from the middle ages (Czech Republic) 2018 ·International Journal of Paleopathology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tomáš Zikmund, Jozef Kaiser, (unknown), (unknown), Marián Baldovič, (unknown), Martin Sikora, Morten E. Allentoft	2
15	A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Karin Margarita Frei, Chiara Villa, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Morten E. Allentoft, Flemming Kaul, (unknown), (unknown), A. S. Wilson, Michelle Taube, Jesper Olsen, Niels Lynnerup, Eske Willerslev, Kristian Kristiansen, Robert Frei	50
16	Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe breakdown → 2017 ·Antiquity ·Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft, Karin Margarita Frei, Rune Iversen, Niels Nørkjær Johannsen, Guus Kroonen, Łukasz Pospieszny, T. Douglas Price, Simon Rasmussen, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Martin Sikora, Eske Willerslev	128
17	An assessment of ancient DNA preservation in Holocene–Pleistocene fossil bone excavated from the world heritage Naracoorte Caves, South Australia 2016 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Alicia Grealy, (unknown), Morten E. Allentoft, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Elizabeth H. Reed, Michael Bunce	17
18	A molecular characterization of a newly discovered megafaunal fossil site in North Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand 2011 ·Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand ·Morten E. Allentoft, R. Paul Scofield, Charlotte L. Oskam, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Bunce	8
19	Fossil avian eggshell preserves ancient DNA 2010 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Charlotte L. Oskam, James Haile, (unknown), Paul Rigby, Morten E. Allentoft, (unknown), (unknown), Gifford H. Miller, Jean‐Luc Schwenninger, Chris Jacomb, Richard Walter, Alexander Baynes, Joe Dortch, (unknown), M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Richard N. Holdaway, Eske Willerslev, Michael Bunce	94
20	‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ – an archaeological case study on ancient ‘dirt’ DNA 2009 ·Antiquity ·Martin B. Hebsgaard, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jette Arneborg, Patricia Heyn, Morten E. Allentoft, Michael Bunce, Kasper Munch, Charles E. Schweger, Eske Willerslev	51

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