Nathan Wales

4.9k total citations
48 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Nathan Wales is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Wales has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 15 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nathan Wales's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (15 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers). Nathan Wales is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (15 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers). Nathan Wales collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and United States. Nathan Wales's co-authors include M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Enrico Cappellini, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, Christian Carøe, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Eske Willerslev, Logan Kistler, María C. Ávila‐Arcos and Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Wales

48 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathan Wales Denmark 26 719 626 601 600 469 48 2.2k
Robin G. Allaby United Kingdom 37 1.4k 2.0× 689 1.1× 467 0.8× 1.5k 2.5× 946 2.0× 73 3.7k
Logan Kistler United States 22 679 0.9× 373 0.6× 321 0.5× 394 0.7× 410 0.9× 50 1.6k
Torsten Günther Sweden 23 1.7k 2.4× 781 1.2× 170 0.3× 731 1.2× 586 1.2× 50 2.9k
Cristiano Vernesi Italy 29 1000 1.4× 607 1.0× 866 1.4× 172 0.3× 173 0.4× 83 2.3k
Norbert Benecke Germany 28 951 1.3× 210 0.3× 806 1.3× 60 0.1× 695 1.5× 68 2.2k
Blaise Petitpierre Switzerland 23 1.0k 1.4× 469 0.7× 2.1k 3.5× 561 0.9× 160 0.3× 41 4.9k
David Horton United States 31 246 0.3× 270 0.4× 660 1.1× 1.4k 2.4× 227 0.5× 187 3.2k
Eric J. Routman United States 31 2.8k 3.9× 859 1.4× 823 1.4× 784 1.3× 311 0.7× 54 4.3k
Michael L. Arnold United States 33 2.6k 3.6× 1.3k 2.0× 931 1.5× 1.8k 3.0× 178 0.4× 59 4.9k
Yibo Hu China 31 621 0.9× 812 1.3× 1.2k 2.1× 289 0.5× 108 0.2× 114 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan Wales

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathan Wales

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Wales

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar A., William J. Baker, Vincent Bonhomme, et al.. (2025). Genomics and morphometry of herbarium specimens elucidate the origin of the Cape Verde date palm ( Phoenix atlantica A.Chev.) and highlight its agronomic potential. Plants People Planet. 7(5). 1358–1371. 1 indexed citations
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Jensen, Theis Zetner Trolle, Jonas Niemann, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, et al.. (2025). Ancient DNA and biomarkers from artefacts: insights into technology and cultural practices in Neolithic Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2057). 20250092–20250092. 1 indexed citations
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Ramos‐Madrigal, Jazmín, Gayle J. Fritz, Bruce D. Smith, et al.. (2024). The genomic origin of early maize in eastern North America. Cell. 188(1). 33–43.e16. 1 indexed citations
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Bouby, Laurent, et al.. (2023). Disentangling the origins of viticulture in the western Mediterranean. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 17284–17284. 4 indexed citations
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Louis, Marié, Petra Korlević, Frederick I. Archer, et al.. (2023). Ancient dolphin genomes reveal rapid repeated adaptation to coastal waters. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4020–4020. 6 indexed citations
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Muschick, Moritz, Stephanie Hänsch, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2023). Ancient DNA is preserved in fish fossils from tropical lake sediments. Molecular Ecology. 32(22). 5913–5931. 5 indexed citations
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Yang, Chunyan, Kristine Bohmann, Xiaoyang Wang, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity Soup II: A bulk‐sample metabarcoding pipeline emphasizing error reduction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). 1252–1264. 34 indexed citations
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Viruel, Juan, Krista McGrath, Steven B. Janssens, et al.. (2021). Patterns of transmission and horizontal gene transfer in the Dioscorea sansibarensis leaf symbiosis revealed by whole-genome sequencing. Current Biology. 31(12). 2666–2673.e4. 8 indexed citations
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Niemann, Jonas, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, et al.. (2020). Extended survival of Pleistocene Siberian wolves into the early 20th century on the island of Honshū. iScience. 24(1). 101904–101904. 3 indexed citations
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Wales, Nathan & Logan Kistler. (2019). Extraction of Ancient DNA from Plant Remains. Methods in molecular biology. 1963. 45–55. 21 indexed citations
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Jastroch, Martin, Jason R. Treberg, Michael Hofreiter, et al.. (2017). Inactivation of thermogenic UCP1 as a historical contingency in multiple placental mammal clades. Science Advances. 3(7). e1602878–e1602878. 69 indexed citations
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Nistelberger, Heidi, Oliver Smith, Nathan Wales, Bastiaan Star, & Sanne Boessenkool. (2016). The efficacy of high-throughput sequencing and target enrichment on charred archaeobotanical remains. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37347–37347. 33 indexed citations
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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Hannes Schroeder, et al.. (2015). Comparative performance of two whole‐genome capture methodologies on ancient DNA Illumina libraries. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(6). 725–734. 33 indexed citations
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Martin, Michael D., Filipe Garrett Vieira, Simon Y. W. Ho, et al.. (2015). Genomic Characterization of a South AmericanPhytophthoraHybrid Mandates Reassessment of the Geographic Origins ofPhytophthora infestans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(2). 478–491. 46 indexed citations
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Fonseca, Rute R. da, Bruce D. Smith, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2015). The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States. Nature Plants. 1(1). 14003–14003. 111 indexed citations
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Tsangaras, Kyriakos, Nathan Wales, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, et al.. (2014). Hybridization Capture Using Short PCR Products Enriches Small Genomes by Capturing Flanking Sequences (CapFlank). PLoS ONE. 9(10). e109101–e109101. 16 indexed citations
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Martin, Michael D., Enrico Cappellini, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, et al.. (2013). Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2172–2172. 92 indexed citations
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Wales, Nathan. (2012). Modeling Neanderthal clothing using ethnographic analogues. Journal of Human Evolution. 63(6). 781–795. 41 indexed citations
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Purzycki, Benjamin Grant, et al.. (2012). What Does God Know? Supernatural Agents’ Access to Socially Strategic and Non‐Strategic Information. Cognitive Science. 36(5). 846–869. 47 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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