Peter Savolainen

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Peter Savolainen is a scholar working on Genetics, Virology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Savolainen has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Genetics, 21 papers in Virology and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Peter Savolainen's work include Human-Animal Interaction Studies (29 papers), Rabies epidemiology and control (21 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (18 papers). Peter Savolainen is often cited by papers focused on Human-Animal Interaction Studies (29 papers), Rabies epidemiology and control (21 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (18 papers). Peter Savolainen collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and China. Peter Savolainen's co-authors include Joakim Lundeberg, Thomas Leitner, Ya‐Ping Zhang, Jing Luo, Alan N. Wilton, Mattias Oskarsson, Elizabeth Matisoo‐Smith, Cornelya F. C. Klütsch, Ai‐bing Zhang and Alireza A. Ardalan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Peter Savolainen

50 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.

Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Savolainen Sweden	26	2.5k	984	754	476	323	53	3.2k
Heidi G. Parker United States	32	3.0k 1.2×	655 0.7×	1.9k 2.5×	240 0.5×	111 0.3×	60	4.9k
Jennifer A. Leonard United States	40	3.3k 1.3×	2.7k 2.8×	850 1.1×	158 0.3×	247 0.8×	105	5.0k
Elinor K. Karlsson United States	28	2.3k 0.9×	338 0.3×	2.4k 3.2×	132 0.3×	106 0.3×	54	5.4k
Alfred L. Roca United States	33	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	933 1.2×	218 0.5×	34 0.1×	103	3.4k
Carlos A. Driscoll United States	20	1.1k 0.4×	733 0.7×	282 0.4×	67 0.1×	91 0.3×	33	1.7k
Nathan B. Sutter United States	20	2.0k 0.8×	299 0.3×	1.2k 1.7×	158 0.3×	58 0.2×	26	3.0k
Laurie Marker Namibia	28	1.0k 0.4×	1.7k 1.7×	272 0.4×	97 0.2×	62 0.2×	121	3.0k
Marilyn Menotti‐Raymond United States	32	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	1.4k 1.8×	79 0.2×	30 0.1×	57	3.7k
Keith Dobney United Kingdom	40	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	761 1.0×	62 0.1×	672 2.1×	106	5.4k
Alex D. Greenwood Germany	33	775 0.3×	781 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	167 0.4×	31 0.1×	125	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Savolainen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Savolainen

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Buckley, Reuben M., Alex C. Harris, Peter Savolainen, et al.. (2025). Analysis of canine gene constraint identifies new variants for orofacial clefts and stature. Genome Research. 35(5). 1080–1093.

Wang, Shizhi, Liangliang Zhang, Peng Cao, et al.. (2024). Historic dog Furs Unravel the Origin and Artificial Selection of Modern Nordic Lapphund and Elkhound dog Breeds. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(7). 2 indexed citations

Arendt, Maja L., Kylie M. Cairns, J. William O. Ballard, Peter Savolainen, & Emma Axelsson. (2016). Diet adaptation in dog reflects spread of prehistoric agriculture. Heredity. 117(5). 301–306. 59 indexed citations

Wang, Guodong, Weiwei Zhai, Hechuan Yang, et al.. (2015). Out of southern East Asia: the natural history of domestic dogs across the world. Cell Research. 26(1). 21–33. 198 indexed citations

Wang, Guodong, Weiwei Zhai, Hechuan Yang, et al.. (2013). The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1860–1860. 207 indexed citations

Oskarsson, Mattias, et al.. (2012). Narrow genetic basis for the Australian dingo confirmed through analysis of paternal ancestry. Genetica. 140(1-3). 65–73. 36 indexed citations

Niskanen, Alina K., Emil Hagström, Hannes Lohi, et al.. (2012). MHC variability supports dog domestication from a large number of wolves: high diversity in Asia. Heredity. 110(1). 80–85. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Ai‐bing, et al.. (2011). Comprehensive study of mtDNA among Southwest Asian dogs contradicts independent domestication of wolf, but implies dog–wolf hybridization. Ecology and Evolution. 1(3). 373–385. 55 indexed citations

Oskarsson, Mattias, et al.. (2011). Mitochondrial DNA data indicate an introduction through Mainland Southeast Asia for Australian dingoes and Polynesian domestic dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1730). 967–974. 108 indexed citations

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Klütsch, Cornelya F. C., Eija H. Seppälä, Mathias Uhlén, Hannes Lohi, & Peter Savolainen. (2010). Segregation of point mutation heteroplasmy in the control region of dog mtDNA studied systematically in deep generation pedigrees. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 125(4). 527–535. 7 indexed citations

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Klütsch, Cornelya F. C., Eija H. Seppälä, Tove Fall, et al.. (2010). Regional occurrence, high frequency but low diversity of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup d1 suggests a recent dog-wolf hybridization in Scandinavia. Animal Genetics. 42(1). 100–103. 33 indexed citations

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Oskarsson, Mattias, et al.. (2006). Dog Y chromosomal DNA sequence: identification, sequencing and SNP discovery. BMC Genetics. 7(1). 45–45. 36 indexed citations

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Guo, Songchang, Peter Savolainen, Jianping Su, et al.. (2006). Origin of mitochondrial DNA diversity of domestic yaks. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 6(1). 73–73. 96 indexed citations

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Savolainen, Peter, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Lars Arvestad, Leif Andersson, & Joakim Lundeberg. (2005). ESTs from brain and testis of White Leghorn and red junglefowl: annotation, bioinformatic classification of unknown transcripts and analysis of expression levels. Cytogenetic and Genome Research. 111(1). 79–87. 20 indexed citations

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Ka, Sojeong, Carolyn Fitzsimmons, Lina Jacobsson, et al.. (2005). Expression Analysis of Growth and Energy Regulation‐Associated Genes in Two Divergent Chicken Strains. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1040(1). 357–359. 5 indexed citations

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Rubin, Carl‐Johan, Robert Fredriksson, Peter Savolainen, et al.. (2004). Gene expression in femoral bone from two divergent chicken populations, differing markedly in bone phenotypes. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. 19. 1 indexed citations

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Savolainen, Peter, et al.. (2004). Forensic informativity of domestic dog mtDNA control region sequences. Forensic Science International. 154(2-3). 99–110. 50 indexed citations

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Savolainen, Peter, et al.. (2004). Myostatin rapid sequence evolution in ruminants predates domestication. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 33(3). 782–790. 25 indexed citations

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Ellegren, Hans, et al.. (1996). The genetical history of an isolated population of the endangered grey wolf Canis lupus : a study of nuclear and mitochondrial polymorphisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1348). 1661–1669. 59 indexed citations

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Savolainen, Peter, et al.. (1994). Fluorescent‐based typing of the two short tandem repeat loci HUMTH01 and HUMACTBP2: Reproducibility of size measurements and genetic variation in the swedish population. Electrophoresis. 15(1). 890–895. 20 indexed citations

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