Nikolay Oskolkov

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Nikolay Oskolkov is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikolay Oskolkov has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Nikolay Oskolkov's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (4 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (4 papers). Nikolay Oskolkov is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (4 papers) and Pancreatic function and diabetes (4 papers). Nikolay Oskolkov collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Finland. Nikolay Oskolkov's co-authors include Igor I. Potemkin, Ola Hansson, Matteo Bocci, Åsa K. Björklund, Mikael N.E. Sommarin, Göran Karlsson, Markus Ringnér, Gyula Pekár, Christer Larsson and David Lindgren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Nikolay Oskolkov

26 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Spatially and functionally distinct subclasses of breast cancer-associated fibroblasts revealed by single cell RNA sequencing

2018 561 citations Michael Bartoschek, Nikolay Oskolkov et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nikolay Oskolkov Sweden	15	638	395	226	219	185	28	1.2k
Michael J. Flister United States	22	758 1.2×	599 1.5×	230 1.0×	151 0.7×	213 1.2×	53	1.6k
Hua Mao United States	21	994 1.6×	529 1.3×	285 1.3×	141 0.6×	213 1.2×	52	1.8k
Chia-Lung Tsai Taiwan	21	844 1.3×	325 0.8×	272 1.2×	143 0.7×	145 0.8×	73	1.5k
Luisa Ottobrini Italy	22	718 1.1×	213 0.5×	421 1.9×	155 0.7×	197 1.1×	58	1.6k
Annapaola Andolfo Italy	22	716 1.1×	220 0.6×	340 1.5×	96 0.4×	134 0.7×	49	1.5k
Sumie Kato Chile	22	417 0.7×	518 1.3×	349 1.5×	183 0.8×	113 0.6×	51	1.4k
Thomas Krahn Germany	20	544 0.9×	256 0.6×	345 1.5×	217 1.0×	108 0.6×	40	1.4k
Yuichiro Shimizu Japan	27	1.3k 2.1×	279 0.7×	228 1.0×	347 1.6×	219 1.2×	54	2.3k
Geeta Upadhyay United States	16	596 0.9×	266 0.7×	167 0.7×	104 0.5×	159 0.9×	31	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Oskolkov, Nikolay, et al.. (2025). Improving taxonomic inference from ancient environmental metagenomes by masking microbial-like regions in reference genomes. GigaScience. 14.

Oskolkov, Nikolay, Anna Sandionigi, Anders Götherström, et al.. (2024). Unraveling the ancient fungal DNA from the Iceman gut. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 1225–1225. 1 indexed citations

Oskolkov, Nikolay, Claudio Mirabello, Per Unneberg, et al.. (2024). Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 5630–5630. 2 indexed citations

Rönn, Tina, Alexander Perfilyev, Nikolay Oskolkov, & Charlotte Ling. (2024). Predicting type 2 diabetes via machine learning integration of multiple omics from human pancreatic islets. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 11 indexed citations

Yates, James A. Fellows, Christina Warinner, Arthur Kocher, et al.. (2023). Introduction to Ancient Metagenomics. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

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

Mármol‐Sánchez, Emilio, Bastian Fromm, Nikolay Oskolkov, et al.. (2023). Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger. Genome Research. 33(8). 1299–1316. 8 indexed citations

Zhang, Yali, S. Emil Ruff, Nikolay Oskolkov, et al.. (2023). The microbial biodiversity at the archeological site of Tel Megiddo (Israel). Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1253371–1253371. 4 indexed citations

Oskolkov, Nikolay, Małgorzata Santel, Hemang Parikh, et al.. (2022). High-throughput muscle fiber typing from RNA sequencing data. Skeletal Muscle. 12(1). 16–16. 6 indexed citations

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Valk, Tom van der, Marianne Dehasque, Juan Camilo Chacón-Duque, et al.. (2022). Evolutionary consequences of genomic deletions and insertions in the woolly mammoth genome. iScience. 25(8). 104826–104826. 4 indexed citations

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Halvorsen, Matthew, Ruth Huh, Nikolay Oskolkov, et al.. (2020). Increased burden of ultra-rare structural variants localizing to boundaries of topologically associated domains in schizophrenia. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1842–1842. 42 indexed citations

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Bartoschek, Michael, Nikolay Oskolkov, Matteo Bocci, et al.. (2018). Spatially and functionally distinct subclasses of breast cancer-associated fibroblasts revealed by single cell RNA sequencing. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5150–5150. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prasad, Rashmi B., Peter Almgren, Ola Hansson, et al.. (2016). Excess maternal transmission of variants in the THADA gene to offspring with type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia. 59(8). 1702–1713. 14 indexed citations

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Fadista, João, Nikolay Oskolkov, Ola Hansson, & Leif Groop. (2016). LoFtool: a gene intolerance score based on loss-of-function variants in 60 706 individuals. Bioinformatics. 33(4). 471–474. 61 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yuedan, Nikolay Oskolkov, Liliya Shcherbina, et al.. (2016). HMGB1 binds to the rs7903146 locus in TCF7L2 in human pancreatic islets. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 430. 138–145. 14 indexed citations

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Su, Jing, Carl Johan Ekman, Nikolay Oskolkov, et al.. (2015). A novel atlas of gene expression in human skeletal muscle reveals molecular changes associated with aging. Skeletal Muscle. 5(1). 35–35. 72 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yuedan, Soo Young Park, Jing Su, et al.. (2014). TCF7L2 is a master regulator of insulin production and processing. Human Molecular Genetics. 23(24). 6419–6431. 144 indexed citations

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Vikman, Petter, João Fadista, & Nikolay Oskolkov. (2014). RNA sequencing: current and prospective uses in metabolic research. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology. 53(2). R93–R101. 16 indexed citations

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Oskolkov, Nikolay & Igor I. Potemkin. (2007). Complexation in Asymmetric Solutions of Oppositely Charged Polyelectrolytes: Phase Diagram. Macromolecules. 40(23). 8423–8429. 56 indexed citations

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Potemkin, Igor I., Nikolay Oskolkov, Alexei R. Khokhlov, & P. Reineker. (2005). Effect of low-molecular-weight salt on the nematic ordering in solutions of rodlike polyelectrolytes. Physical Review E. 72(2). 21804–21804. 23 indexed citations

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