Peter Arctander

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Arctander is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Arctander has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Genetics, 40 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Peter Arctander's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (41 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (21 papers). Peter Arctander is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (41 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (30 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (21 papers). Peter Arctander collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Uganda and United States. Peter Arctander's co-authors include Hans R. Siegismund, Silvester Nyakaana, Diethard Tautz, Richard H. Thomas, Alessandro Minelli, Alfried P. Vogler, Bent T. Christensen, John Gatesy, Jon Fjeldså and Bent Friis Theisen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter Arctander

67 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

A plea for DNA taxonomy 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 200 400 600
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.

  1. A plea for DNA taxonomy
    2003 711 citations Peter Arctander et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Arctander Denmark 39 2.2k 2.1k 1.3k 879 547 67 4.4k
Richard H. Thomas United Kingdom 26 1.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.2× 986 1.1× 357 0.7× 41 4.1k
Joan Pons Spain 29 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.5k 1.7× 554 1.0× 93 4.4k
Laura Kvist Finland 23 1.9k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 1.1× 1.6k 1.8× 293 0.5× 91 4.4k
P. R. Baverstock Australia 37 2.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 452 0.8× 122 4.9k
David S. Woodruff United States 38 2.1k 1.0× 2.4k 1.1× 848 0.6× 1.2k 1.4× 437 0.8× 95 5.0k
Vicki L. Friesen Canada 38 2.7k 1.2× 2.6k 1.2× 832 0.6× 882 1.0× 288 0.5× 121 4.2k
Conrad A. Matthee South Africa 41 2.0k 0.9× 2.0k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 1.0k 1.8× 137 4.7k
Hans R. Siegismund Denmark 35 1.9k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 690 0.5× 1.2k 1.4× 263 0.5× 121 3.9k
Heike Hadrys Germany 23 1.1k 0.5× 918 0.4× 1.0k 0.8× 826 0.9× 406 0.7× 53 2.8k
Benoît Nabholz France 30 2.4k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 1.9k 1.4× 893 1.0× 329 0.6× 56 4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Arctander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Arctander

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Arctander

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Okello, John B. A., Charles Masembe, Henrik B. Rasmussen, et al.. (2008). Population Genetic Structure of Savannah Elephants in Kenya: Conservation and Management Implications. Journal of Heredity. 99(5). 443–452. 32 indexed citations
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Okello, John B. A., George Wittemyer, Henrik B. Rasmussen, et al.. (2008). Effective population size dynamics reveal impacts of historic climatic events and recent anthropogenic pressure in African elephants. Molecular Ecology. 17(17). 3788–3799. 53 indexed citations
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Lorenzen, Eline D., et al.. (2007). Phylogeography, hybridization and Pleistocene refugia of the kob antelope (Kobus kob). Molecular Ecology. 16(15). 3241–3252. 26 indexed citations
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Rukov, Jakob Lewin, et al.. (2007). High Qualitative and Quantitative Conservation of Alternative Splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(4). 909–917. 29 indexed citations
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Lorenzen, Eline D., et al.. (2006). Hybridization between subspecies of waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) in zones of overlap with limited introgression. Molecular Ecology. 15(12). 3787–3799. 28 indexed citations
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Vinther, Jeppe, et al.. (2006). Identification of miRNA targets with stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(16). e107–e107. 104 indexed citations
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Lydolph, Magnus Christian, J. Steven Jacobsen, Peter Arctander, et al.. (2005). Beringian Paleoecology Inferred from Permafrost-Preserved Fungal DNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 71(2). 1012–1017. 104 indexed citations
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Alpers, Deryn, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Peter Arctander, & Terence J. Robinson. (2004). Population genetics of the roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) with suggestions for conservation. Molecular Ecology. 13(7). 1771–1784. 89 indexed citations
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Zagrobelny, Mika, Daniel Jeffares, & Peter Arctander. (2004). Differences in non-LTR retrotransposons within C. elegans and C. briggsae genomes. Gene. 330. 61–66. 6 indexed citations
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Pitra, Christian, Anders J. Hansen, Dietmar Lieckfeldt, & Peter Arctander. (2002). An exceptional case of historical outbreeding in African sable antelope populations. Molecular Ecology. 11(7). 1197–1208. 52 indexed citations
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Klitgaard, Kirstine & Peter Arctander. (2001). Recombination among Multiple Mitochondrial Pseudogenes from a Passerine Genus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 18(3). 362–369. 13 indexed citations
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Arctander, Peter, et al.. (2001). Phylogeography and conservation of impala and greater kudu. Molecular Ecology. 10(3). 711–719. 62 indexed citations
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Roy, Michael, et al.. (1998). DMSO-preserved samples as a source of mRNA for RT-PCR. Molecular Ecology. 1429–1430. 4 indexed citations
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Gravlund, Peter, Morten Meldgaard, Svante Pääbo, & Peter Arctander. (1998). Polyphyletic Origin of the Small-Bodied, High-Arctic Subspecies of Tundra Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 10(2). 151–159. 45 indexed citations
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Siegismund, Hans R., et al.. (1998). Population structure of African buffalo inferred from mtDNA sequences and microsatellite loci: high variation but low differentiation. Molecular Ecology. 7(2). 225–237. 87 indexed citations
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Theisen, Bent Friis, et al.. (1996). Simplicity-correlated size growth of the nuclear 28S ribosomal RNA D3 expansion segment in the crustacean order isopoda. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42(2). 211–223. 266 indexed citations
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Siegismund, Hans R. & Peter Arctander. (1995). Structure of African Elephant Populations. Journal of Heredity. 86(6). 467–469. 6 indexed citations
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Arctander, Peter & Jon Fjeldså. (1994). Andean tapaculos of the genus Scytalopus (Aves, Rhinocryptidae): A study of speciation using DNA sequence data. Conservation Genetics. 68. 205–225. 52 indexed citations
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Nørremølle, Anne, Sven Asger Sørensen, & Peter Arctander. (1992). Nucleotide sequence and PCR‐amplification of a polymorphic Mbol site in human DNA marker D4S95 linked to the Huntington disease locus. Clinical Genetics. 42(4). 210–211. 1 indexed citations

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