Pedro Soares

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Pedro Soares is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pedro Soares has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Pedro Soares's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (30 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Pedro Soares is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (30 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (20 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers). Pedro Soares collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and Czechia. Pedro Soares's co-authors include Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay, Luı́sa Pereira, Teresa Rito, Maru Mormina, Stephen Oppenheimer, Luca Ermini, Verónica Fernandes, Antonio Salas and David C. Samuels and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Pedro Soares

62 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock

2009 534 citations Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Pedro Soares	1.8k	1.0k	991	507	464	64	3.1k
Luı́sa Pereira	3.2k 1.8×	1.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	466 0.9×	372 0.8×	169	5.2k
Peter Forster	3.9k 2.2×	1.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	477 0.9×	737 1.6×	37	5.4k
Alessandro Achilli	3.1k 1.7×	1.9k 1.8×	1.1k 1.1×	330 0.7×	579 1.2×	102	5.0k
Ornella Semino	4.5k 2.5×	1.5k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	414 0.8×	619 1.3×	83	6.0k
Mait Metspalu	2.1k 1.2×	636 0.6×	869 0.9×	351 0.7×	362 0.8×	68	2.9k
Richard Villems	3.5k 2.0×	1.3k 1.2×	1.4k 1.4×	268 0.5×	409 0.9×	79	4.6k
Himla Soodyall	2.0k 1.2×	876 0.8×	635 0.6×	442 0.9×	268 0.6×	58	3.5k
Anna Olivieri	1.8k 1.0×	764 0.7×	647 0.7×	222 0.4×	392 0.8×	52	2.7k
Toomas Kivisild	6.3k 3.6×	2.4k 2.3×	2.3k 2.3×	547 1.1×	719 1.5×	123	8.4k
Alfredo Coppa	1.2k 0.7×	598 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	430 0.8×	474 1.0×	94	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pedro Soares

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Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2025). Analysis of Selective Pressure on Ancient Human Mitochondrial Genomes Reveals the Presence of Widespread Sequencing Artefacts. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 26(16). 7739–7739. 1 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Tiago A. Fernandes, Maria João Sousa, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomics and functional annotation of 530 non-Saccharomyces yeasts from winemaking environments reveals their fermentome and flavorome. Studies in Mycology. 111(1). 1–18.

Katoh, Kazutaka, et al.. (2024). Benchmarking the discrimination power of commonly used markers and amplicons in marine fish (e)DNA (meta)barcoding. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 3 indexed citations

Soares, Pedro, et al.. (2023). Structural characterization of the Aspergillus niger citrate transporter CexA uncovers the role of key residues S75, R192 and Q196. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 21. 2884–2898. 4 indexed citations

Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2023). Evaluating Data Sharing of SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for Molecular Epidemiology across the COVID-19 Pandemic. Viruses. 15(2). 560–560. 3 indexed citations

Santos‐Pereira, Cátia, Teresa Rito, Pedro Soares, et al.. (2023). Functional and sequence-based metagenomics to uncover carbohydrate-degrading enzymes from composting samples. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 107(17). 5379–5401. 15 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Neža Čadež, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2022). Whole-Genome Sequencing and Annotation of the Yeast Clavispora santaluciae Reveals Important Insights about Its Adaptation to the Vineyard Environment. Journal of Fungi. 8(1). 52–52. 4 indexed citations

Franco‐Duarte, Ricardo, Alberto Gómez‐Carballa, Antonio Salas, et al.. (2022). Phylogeography of Sub-Saharan Mitochondrial Lineages Outside Africa Highlights the Roles of the Holocene Climate Changes and the Atlantic Slave Trade. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(16). 9219–9219. 3 indexed citations

Rito, Teresa, et al.. (2021). Improvement of Torulaspora delbrueckii Genome Annotation: Towards the Exploitation of Genomic Features of a Biotechnologically Relevant Yeast. Journal of Fungi. 7(4). 287–287. 12 indexed citations

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Rito, Teresa, Martin Richards, Maria Pala, Margarida Correia‐Neves, & Pedro Soares. (2020). Phylogeography of 27,000 SARS-CoV-2 Genomes: Europe as the Major Source of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Microorganisms. 8(11). 1678–1678. 14 indexed citations

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Vieira, Pedro E., et al.. (2020). BAGS: An automated Barcode, Audit & Grade System for DNA barcode reference libraries. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(2). 573–583. 37 indexed citations

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Soares, Pedro, et al.. (2020). Carboxylic Acid Transporters in Candida Pathogenesis. mBio. 11(3). 19 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Vincent, Pedro Soares, & Martin Richards. (2019). Rectifying long-standing misconceptions about the ρ statistic for molecular dating. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0212311–e0212311. 15 indexed citations

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Soares‐Silva, Isabel, Daniel Vieira, Joana Sá‐Pessoa, et al.. (2018). The acetate uptake transporter family motif “NPAPLGL(M/S)” is essential for substrate uptake. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 122. 1–10. 21 indexed citations

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Pereira, Joana B., Marta D. Costa, Daniel Vieira, et al.. (2017). Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1851). 20161976–20161976. 18 indexed citations

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Brandão, Andreia, Ken Eng, Teresa Rito, et al.. (2016). Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Human Genetics. 135(4). 363–376. 30 indexed citations

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Tříska, Petr, Pedro Soares, Étienne Patin, et al.. (2015). Extensive Admixture and Selective Pressure Across the Sahel Belt. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(12). 3484–3495. 55 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Verónica, Farida Alshamali, Marco G. Alves, et al.. (2012). The Arabian Cradle: Mitochondrial Relicts of the First Steps along the Southern Route out of Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 90(2). 347–355. 95 indexed citations

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Hill, Catherine, Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, et al.. (2006). Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(12). 2480–2491. 139 indexed citations

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Hill, Catherine, Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, et al.. (2006). A Mitochondrial Stratigraphy for Island Southeast Asia. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 80(1). 29–43. 191 indexed citations

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