Rita Rasteiro

919 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 623 citations indexed

About

Rita Rasteiro is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Rasteiro has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 623 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Rita Rasteiro's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (5 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers). Rita Rasteiro is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (5 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 papers). Rita Rasteiro collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, France and United Kingdom. Rita Rasteiro's co-authors include Lounès Chikhi, Callum J. Macgregor, Sören Nylin, Mark Beaumont, Tom Brereton, Jon R. Bridle, Ilik J. Saccheri, Geoff Martin, Richard Fox and David B. Roy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rita Rasteiro

15 papers receiving 608 citations

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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.

Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

2019 334 citations Callum J. Macgregor, Chris D. Thomas et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Rasteiro Portugal	10	184	97	91	85	81	16	623
Qinqi Xu China	9	207 1.1×	117 1.2×	78 0.9×	48 0.6×	199 2.5×	13	658
Jean Gayon France	17	185 1.0×	174 1.8×	9 0.1×	50 0.6×	75 0.9×	107	1.1k
Elisabetta Cilli Italy	12	166 0.9×	185 1.9×	119 1.3×	16 0.2×	53 0.7×	45	639
Rex Dalton Russia	11	63 0.3×	102 1.1×	35 0.4×	42 0.5×	58 0.7×	112	523
Jeremy S. Herman United Kingdom	16	384 2.1×	82 0.8×	87 1.0×	109 1.3×	297 3.7×	50	1.1k
Jason A. Wilder United States	14	502 2.7×	225 2.3×	66 0.7×	30 0.4×	36 0.4×	30	810
Davíd Carrasco Sweden	16	114 0.6×	107 1.1×	22 0.2×	27 0.3×	93 1.1×	55	1.0k
Abby Grace Drake United States	10	287 1.6×	80 0.8×	77 0.8×	14 0.2×	366 4.5×	15	1.1k
Daniel B. Thomas New Zealand	17	72 0.4×	61 0.6×	82 0.9×	20 0.2×	327 4.0×	46	815
Katherine E. Willmore Canada	16	238 1.3×	193 2.0×	107 1.2×	10 0.1×	260 3.2×	34	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rita Rasteiro

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

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16 of 16 papers shown

Maié, Tiago, et al.. (2025). The effect of habitat loss and fragmentation on isolation by distance and divergence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(31). e2410951122–e2410951122.

Soriano‐Paños, David, et al.. (2024). Species‐Specific Traits Shape Genetic Diversity During an Expansion–Contraction Cycle and Bias Demographic History Reconstruction. Molecular Ecology. 34(1). e17597–e17597. 1 indexed citations

Sharma, Reeta, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Rita Rasteiro, et al.. (2024). Conservation implications of high gene flow and lack of pronounced spatial genetic structure in elephants supported by contiguous suitable habitat in north‐western India. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(2). 2 indexed citations

Schiebelhut, Lauren M., Rena M. Schweizer, Ellie E. Armstrong, et al.. (2023). Genomics and conservation: Guidance from training to analyses and applications. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(2). e13893–e13893. 8 indexed citations

Ginja, Catarina, Sílvia Guimarães, Rute R. da Fonseca, et al.. (2023). Iron age genomic data from Althiburos – Tunisia renew the debate on the origins of African taurine cattle. iScience. 26(7). 107196–107196. 7 indexed citations

Fumagalli, Matteo, Stéphane M. Camus, Yoan Diekmann, et al.. (2019). Genetic diversity of CHC22 clathrin impacts its function in glucose metabolism. eLife. 8. 22 indexed citations

Macgregor, Callum J., Chris D. Thomas, David B. Roy, et al.. (2019). Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4455–4455. 334 indexed citations breakdown →

Sharma, Reeta, Benoît Goossens, Rasmus Heller, et al.. (2018). Genetic analyses favour an ancient and natural origin of elephants on Borneo. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 880–880. 20 indexed citations

Ottoni, Claudio, et al.. (2016). Comparing maternal genetic variation across two millennia reveals the demographic history of an ancient human population in southwest Turkey. Royal Society Open Science. 3(2). 150250–150250. 9 indexed citations

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Jobling, Mark A., Rita Rasteiro, & Jon H. Wetton. (2015). In the blood: the myth and reality of genetic markers of identity. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39(2). 142–161. 30 indexed citations

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Arenas, Miguel, Stefano Mona, Audrey Trochet, et al.. (2014). The scaling of genetic diversity in a changing and fragmented world. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 55–60. 5 indexed citations

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Rasteiro, Rita & Lounès Chikhi. (2013). Female and Male Perspectives on the Neolithic Transition in Europe: Clues from Ancient and Modern Genetic Data. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e60944–e60944. 44 indexed citations

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Rasteiro, Rita, et al.. (2012). Investigating sex-biased migration during the Neolithic transition in Europe, using an explicit spatial simulation framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1737). 2409–2416. 29 indexed citations

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Gamba, Cristina, Eva Fernández‐Domínguez, Marie‐France Deguilloux, et al.. (2011). Ancient DNA from an Early Neolithic Iberian population supports a pioneer colonization by first farmers. Molecular Ecology. 21(1). 45–56. 80 indexed citations

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Rasteiro, Rita & Lounès Chikhi. (2009). Revisiting the peopling of Japan: an admixture perspective. Journal of Human Genetics. 54(6). 349–354. 12 indexed citations

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Rasteiro, Rita & José B. Pereira‐Leal. (2007). Multiple domain insertions and losses in the evolution of the Rab prenylation complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 140–140. 20 indexed citations

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