Qingyan Dai

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 189 citations indexed

About

Qingyan Dai is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Qingyan Dai has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 189 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Qingyan Dai's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers). Qingyan Dai is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (3 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers). Qingyan Dai collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Qingyan Dai's co-authors include Douglas Chesters, Chao‐Dong Zhu, Ai‐bing Zhang, Chunsheng Wu, Qiang Gao, Qiaomei Fu, Xiaotian Feng, Peng Cao, Wanjing Ping and Ping Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Qingyan Dai

9 papers receiving 179 citations

Hit Papers

The deep population history of northern East Asia from th... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 25 50 75
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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.

  1. The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene
    2021 87 citations Xiaowei Mao, Hucai Zhang et al. Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Qingyan Dai China 7 114 48 38 32 30 13 189
Alisa O. Vershinina Russia 8 116 1.0× 35 0.7× 97 2.6× 13 0.4× 35 1.2× 14 204
Graham Gower Denmark 6 107 0.9× 69 1.4× 19 0.5× 15 0.5× 44 1.5× 7 193
Johanna von Seth Sweden 11 169 1.5× 72 1.5× 22 0.6× 12 0.4× 102 3.4× 16 238
Magdalena Fraser Sweden 8 102 0.9× 27 0.6× 23 0.6× 95 3.0× 26 0.9× 11 210
Sara Álvarez Solas Spain 6 81 0.7× 40 0.8× 20 0.5× 61 1.9× 24 0.8× 21 212
Karis Baker United Kingdom 10 101 0.9× 49 1.0× 10 0.3× 15 0.5× 101 3.4× 14 224
Ekaterina Antipina Russia 3 114 1.0× 69 1.4× 9 0.2× 25 0.8× 60 2.0× 11 166
Roselyn Ware United Kingdom 7 185 1.6× 117 2.4× 27 0.7× 44 1.4× 88 2.9× 8 346
Victoria E. Mullin United Kingdom 6 55 0.5× 28 0.6× 8 0.2× 41 1.3× 28 0.9× 7 142
Antoine Fages Switzerland 8 133 1.2× 60 1.3× 7 0.2× 35 1.1× 71 2.4× 14 259

Countries citing papers authored by Qingyan Dai

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Fields of papers citing papers by Qingyan Dai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Qingyan Dai

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

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Fu, Qiaomei, Peng Cao, Qingyan Dai, et al.. (2025). Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium. Cell. 188(15). 3919–3926.e9. 6 indexed citations
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Liu, Yichen, Xiaoyan Yang, Tianyi Wang, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal basal Asian ancestries and dynamic population interactions over time on the southern Tibetan Plateau. iScience. 28(11). 113676–113676.
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Zhang, Ming, Caihui Wang, Yuyan Zheng, et al.. (2025). Ancient Mitogenomes Reveal the Maternal Genetic History of East Asian Gray Wolves (Canis lupus). Integrative Zoology.
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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
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Liu, Yichen, Bo Miao, Wenying Li, et al.. (2024). Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over evolutionary history. Cell. 187(21). 5891–5900.e8. 9 indexed citations
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Miao, Bo, Yalin Liu, Ruowei Yang, et al.. (2022). Assessment of contaminants associated with gold-standard ancient DNA protocols. Science Bulletin. 68(1). 5–9.
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Liu, Yalin, Tianyi Wang, Xuechun Fan, et al.. (2021). Maternal genetic history of southern East Asians over the past 12,000 years. Journal of genetics and genomics. 48(10). 899–907. 8 indexed citations
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Mao, Xiaowei, Hucai Zhang, Yichen Liu, et al.. (2021). The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene. Cell. 184(12). 3256–3266.e13. 87 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hu, Jingyang, Hong Wu, Qingyan Dai, et al.. (2020). Genetic Diversity, Inbreeding Level, and Genetic Load in Endangered Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus). Frontiers in Genetics. 11. 615926–615926. 14 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas, et al.. (2017). Integrative Profiling of Bee Communities from Habitats of Tropical Southern Yunnan (China). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 5336–5336. 10 indexed citations
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Chesters, Douglas, Yu Fang, Qingyan Dai, et al.. (2013). Heuristic optimization for global species clustering of DNA sequence data from multiple loci. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4(10). 961–970. 5 indexed citations
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Dai, Qingyan, Qiang Gao, Chunsheng Wu, et al.. (2012). Phylogenetic Reconstruction and DNA Barcoding for Closely Related Pine Moth Species (Dendrolimus) in China with Multiple Gene Markers. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e32544–e32544. 48 indexed citations

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