Peter Forster

9.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Forster is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Forster has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Peter Forster's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 papers). Peter Forster is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (28 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (10 papers). Peter Forster collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Canada. Peter Forster's co-authors include H. -J. Bandelt, Martin Richards, Colin Renfrew, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Antonio Torroni, Rosalind M. Harding, Shuichi Matsumura, Juliette Saillard, Niels Lynnerup and Søren Nørby and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter Forster

37 papers receiving 5.1k 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.

Mitochondrial portraits of human populations using median networks.

1995 861 citations Peter Forster, Martin Richards et al. profile →
Origin and evolution of Native American mtDNA variation: a reappraisal.

1996 567 citations Peter Forster et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Forster Germany	28	3.9k	1.5k	1.4k	737	477	37	5.4k
Peter A. Underhill United States	51	7.0k 1.8×	2.0k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	703 1.0×	563 1.2×	102	9.1k
Joachim Bürger Germany	35	2.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	545 1.1×	72	5.1k
Vincent Macaulay United Kingdom	44	5.5k 1.4×	3.3k 2.1×	1.9k 1.4×	601 0.8×	544 1.1×	70	7.8k
Toomas Kivisild Estonia	50	6.3k 1.6×	2.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	719 1.0×	547 1.1×	123	8.4k
Jaume Bertranpetit Spain	60	6.2k 1.6×	2.8k 1.8×	1.9k 1.4×	839 1.1×	609 1.3×	223	10.0k
Theodore G. Schurr United States	34	3.4k 0.9×	3.3k 2.2×	1.1k 0.8×	663 0.9×	429 0.9×	114	6.8k
David Glenn Smith United States	41	2.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	807 0.6×	806 1.1×	377 0.8×	200	5.5k
Rebecca L. Cann United States	22	2.6k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	494 0.4×	450 0.6×	393 0.8×	55	4.6k
Swapan Mallick United States	21	3.1k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	901 1.2×	700 1.5×	30	4.5k
L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza United States	36	5.5k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	812 0.6×	404 0.5×	358 0.8×	72	8.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Forster

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20 of 20 papers shown

King, Turi, Gloria G. Fortes, Patricia Balaresque, et al.. (2014). Identification of the remains of King Richard III. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5631–5631. 124 indexed citations

Förster, Michael, Peter Forster, Abdou ElSharawy, et al.. (2012). From next-generation sequencing alignments to accurate comparison and validation of single-nucleotide variants: the pibase software. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(1). e16–e16. 18 indexed citations

Bramanti, Barbara, Mark Thomas, Wolfgang Haak, et al.. (2009). Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers. Science. 326(5949). 137–140. 319 indexed citations

Soares, Pedro, J. Tréjaut, Catherine Hill, et al.. (2008). Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(6). 1209–1218. 150 indexed citations

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

Hohoff, Carsten, et al.. (2006). Y-chromosomal microsatellite mutation rates in a population sample from northwestern Germany. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 121(5). 359–363. 37 indexed citations

Hurles, Matthew E., Bryan Sykes, Mark A. Jobling, & Peter Forster. (2005). The Dual Origin of the Malagasy in Island Southeast Asia and East Africa: Evidence from Maternal and Paternal Lineages. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 76(5). 894–901. 136 indexed citations

McEvoy, Brian, Martin Richards, Peter Forster, & Daniel G. Bradley. (2004). The Longue Durée of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 75(4). 693–702. 60 indexed citations

Forster, Peter. (2003). To Err is Human. Annals of Human Genetics. 67(1). 2–4. 68 indexed citations

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Forster, Peter, Francesco Calı̀, Arne Röhl, et al.. (2002). Continental and subcontinental distributions of mtDNA control region types. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 116(2). 99–108. 36 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Heriberto, Peter Forster, C. Ortmann, & B. Brinkmann. (2001). The results of an mtDNA study of 1200 inhabitants of a German village in comparison to other Caucasian databases and its relevance for forensic casework. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 114(3). 169–172. 40 indexed citations

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Saillard, Juliette, Peter Forster, Niels Lynnerup, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, & Søren Nørby. (2000). mtDNA Variation among Greenland Eskimos: The Edge of the Beringian Expansion. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(3). 718–726. 393 indexed citations

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Forster, Peter, et al.. (2000). A Short Tandem Repeat–Based Phylogeny for the Human Y Chromosome. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 67(1). 182–196. 113 indexed citations

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Kivisild, Toomas & Peter Forster. (2000). The origins of southern and western Eurasian populations: an mtDNA study. 3 indexed citations

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Forster, Peter, et al.. (1999). Human Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in a Kurdish population sample. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 112(3). 181–183. 27 indexed citations

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Pfeiffer, Heriberto, B. Brinkmann, J. Hühne, et al.. (1999). Expanding the forensic German mitochondrial DNA control region database: genetic diversity as a function of sample size and microgeography. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 112(5). 291–298. 80 indexed citations

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Forster, Peter, Manfred Kayser, E. Meyer, et al.. (1998). Phylogenetic resolution of complex mutational features at Y-STR DYS390 in aboriginal Australians and Papuans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15(9). 1108–1114. 42 indexed citations

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Watson, Elizabeth, Peter Forster, Martin Richards, & Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt. (1997). Mitochondrial Footprints of Human Expansions in Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 61(3). 691–704. 297 indexed citations

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Wilkinson‐Herbots, Hilde, et al.. (1996). Site 73 in hypervariable region II of the human mitochondrial genome and the origin of European populations. Annals of Human Genetics. 60(6). 499–508. 24 indexed citations

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Baum, Christel, et al.. (1994). An optimized electroporation protocol applicable to a wide range of cell lines.. PubMed. 17(6). 1058–62. 92 indexed citations

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