Morten Rasmussen

13.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Morten Rasmussen is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Morten Rasmussen has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Ecology and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Morten Rasmussen's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (13 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Morten Rasmussen is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (13 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Morten Rasmussen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Morten Rasmussen's co-authors include Eske Willerslev, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Philip Francis Thomsen, Jos Kielgast, Lars Iversen, Ludovic Orlando, Peter Rask Møller, Carsten Wiuf, Aurélien Ginolhac and James Haile and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Morten Rasmussen

34 papers receiving 4.3k 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.

Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA

2011 892 citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Jos Kielgast et al. Molecular Ecology profile →
Detection of a Diverse Marine Fish Fauna Using Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples

2012 755 citations Philip Francis Thomsen, Jos Kielgast et al. PLoS ONE profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morten Rasmussen Denmark	27	2.9k	2.2k	1.0k	611	427	34	4.5k
Jeremy J. Austin Australia	39	2.1k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	2.2k 2.1×	765 1.3×	494 1.2×	156	4.8k
Love Dalén Sweden	35	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	2.9k 2.8×	763 1.2×	786 1.8×	157	5.1k
Ian Barnes United Kingdom	37	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	2.9k 2.7×	1.5k 2.5×	668 1.6×	97	5.9k
Lounès Chikhi France	37	1.6k 0.6×	819 0.4×	2.6k 2.5×	432 0.7×	281 0.7×	118	4.7k
Sandro L. Bonatto Brazil	38	932 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	2.6k 2.5×	564 0.9×	357 0.8×	144	5.1k
R. Paul Scofield New Zealand	29	1.7k 0.6×	517 0.2×	894 0.9×	1.4k 2.3×	375 0.9×	177	3.5k
Paula F. Campos Denmark	25	895 0.3×	785 0.4×	903 0.9×	550 0.9×	122 0.3×	47	2.5k
Ken Aplin Australia	30	1.3k 0.4×	360 0.2×	980 0.9×	1.1k 1.7×	241 0.6×	116	3.1k
Philip Francis Thomsen Denmark	29	6.4k 2.2×	5.0k 2.2×	423 0.4×	273 0.4×	801 1.9×	61	7.3k
Lutz Bachmann Norway	34	1.9k 0.7×	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.3×	223 0.4×	143 0.3×	119	4.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Morten Rasmussen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Morten Rasmussen

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

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Lindo, John, Alessandro Achilli, Ugo A. Perego, et al.. (2017). Ancient individuals from the North American Northwest Coast reveal 10,000 years of regional genetic continuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(16). 4093–4098. 66 indexed citations

Lindo, John, Emilia Huerta‐Sánchez, Shigeki Nakagome, et al.. (2016). A time transect of exomes from a Native American population before and after European contact. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13175–13175. 96 indexed citations

Malaspinas, Anna‐Sapfo, Ole Tange, J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar, et al.. (2014). bammds: a tool for assessing the ancestry of low-depth whole-genome data using multidimensional scaling (MDS). Bioinformatics. 30(20). 2962–2964. 33 indexed citations

Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor, Simon Rasmussen, Andaine Seguin‐Orlando, et al.. (2014). Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans. Current Biology. 24(21). 2518–2525. 31 indexed citations

Fordyce, Sarah L., María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Morten Rasmussen, et al.. (2013). Deep Sequencing of RNA from Ancient Maize Kernels. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e50961–e50961. 35 indexed citations

Ginolhac, Aurélien, Julia T. Vilstrup, Jesper Stenderup, et al.. (2012). Improving the performance of true single molecule sequencing for ancient DNA. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 177–177. 32 indexed citations

Schnell, Ida Bærholm, Philip Francis Thomsen, Nicholas Wilkinson, et al.. (2012). Screening mammal biodiversity using DNA from leeches. Current Biology. 22(20). 1980–1980. 11 indexed citations

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

Jørgensen, Tina, James Haile, Per Möller, et al.. (2011). A comparative study of ancient sedimentary DNA, pollen and macrofossils from permafrost sediments of northern Siberia reveals long‐term vegetational stability. Molecular Ecology. 21(8). 1989–2003. 136 indexed citations

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Kampmann, Marie‐Louise, Sarah L. Fordyce, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, et al.. (2011). A simple method for the parallel deep sequencing of full influenza A genomes. Journal of Virological Methods. 178(1-2). 243–248. 38 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Philip Francis, Jos Kielgast, Lars Iversen, et al.. (2011). Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology. 21(11). 2565–2573. 892 indexed citations breakdown →

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Razgour, Orly, Elizabeth L. Clare, Matt R. K. Zeale, et al.. (2011). High‐throughput sequencing offers insight into mechanisms of resource partitioning in cryptic bat species. Ecology and Evolution. 1(4). 556–570. 154 indexed citations

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Bohmann, Kristine, Ara Monadjem, Christina Lehmkuhl Noer, et al.. (2011). Molecular Diet Analysis of Two African Free-Tailed Bats (Molossidae) Using High Throughput Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 6(6). e21441–e21441. 167 indexed citations

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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Enrico Cappellini, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2011). Application and comparison of large-scale solution-based DNA capture-enrichment methods on ancient DNA. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 74–74. 86 indexed citations

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Orlando, Ludovic, Aurélien Ginolhac, Maanasa Raghavan, et al.. (2011). True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone. Genome Research. 21(10). 1705–1719. 88 indexed citations

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Allentoft, Morten E., Charlotte L. Oskam, Jayne Houston, et al.. (2011). Profiling the Dead: Generating Microsatellite Data from Fossil Bones of Extinct Megafauna—Protocols, Problems, and Prospects. PLoS ONE. 6(1). e16670–e16670. 41 indexed citations

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Jørgensen, Tina, Kurt H. Kjær, James Haile, et al.. (2011). Islands in the ice: detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA Meta‐barcoding. Molecular Ecology. 21(8). 1980–1988. 66 indexed citations

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Morin, Phillip A., Frederick I. Archer, Andrew D. Foote, et al.. (2010). Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species. Genome Research. 20(7). 908–916. 317 indexed citations

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Haile, James, Duane Froese, R. D. E. MacPhee, et al.. (2009). Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(52). 22352–22357. 186 indexed citations

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Gigli, Elena, Morten Rasmussen, Sergi Civit, et al.. (2009). An improved PCR method for endogenous DNA retrieval in contaminated Neandertal samples based on the use of blocking primers. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36(12). 2676–2679. 13 indexed citations

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