Selina Brace

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 881 citations indexed

About

Selina Brace is a scholar working on Genetics, Paleontology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Selina Brace has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 881 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 19 papers in Paleontology and 19 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Selina Brace's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). Selina Brace is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (10 papers). Selina Brace collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Selina Brace's co-authors include Ian Barnes, Samuel T. Turvey, Jeremy Field, John R. Stewart, Marcelo Weksler, Roseina Woods, Love Dalén, Mateja Hajdinjak, Svante Pääbo and Matthias Meyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Selina Brace

38 papers receiving 859 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.

  1. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
    2016 196 citations Frido Welker, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Selina Brace United Kingdom 18 377 323 305 225 155 41 881
Johanna L. A. Paijmans Germany 18 347 0.9× 414 1.3× 531 1.7× 205 0.9× 390 2.5× 44 1.1k
Kieren J. Mitchell Australia 19 461 1.2× 391 1.2× 339 1.1× 130 0.6× 214 1.4× 52 949
Silvia Castiglione Italy 18 437 1.2× 220 0.7× 118 0.4× 229 1.0× 67 0.4× 50 784
Marina Melchionna Italy 18 428 1.1× 193 0.6× 111 0.4× 272 1.2× 60 0.4× 50 782
Alessandro Mondanaro Italy 17 438 1.2× 207 0.6× 105 0.3× 261 1.2× 57 0.4× 50 802
John P. Hunter United States 12 636 1.7× 243 0.8× 241 0.8× 121 0.5× 278 1.8× 28 1.1k
Gertrud E. Rößner Germany 17 667 1.8× 514 1.6× 194 0.6× 203 0.9× 93 0.6× 47 995
Alexandra van der Geer Netherlands 19 755 2.0× 574 1.8× 153 0.5× 379 1.7× 54 0.3× 59 1.2k
Carmela Serio Italy 16 374 1.0× 173 0.5× 96 0.3× 189 0.8× 53 0.3× 46 668
Gernot Rabeder Austria 18 697 1.8× 823 2.5× 547 1.8× 601 2.7× 275 1.8× 46 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Selina Brace

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Fields of papers citing papers by Selina Brace

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Selina Brace. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Selina Brace. The network helps show where Selina Brace may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Selina Brace

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

All Works

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Epp, Laura S., Sanne Boessenkool, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, et al.. (2025). Palaeogenomic inference of biodiversity dynamics across Quaternary timescales. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 1(4). 233–247. 1 indexed citations
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Cahsan, Binia De, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Michael V. Westbury, et al.. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(4). 1 indexed citations
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Folly, Arran J., James Galloway, Stefan Schmidt, et al.. (2025). DNA from museum samples of a parasitoid wasp genus (Braconidae: Syntretus ) offers novel insights into host‐parasitoid interactions. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 18(3). 319–329.
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Miguez, Roberto Portela, Andrew C. Kitchener, Michael Hofreiter, et al.. (2023). Assessing the identity of rare historical museum specimens of the extinct blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) using an ancient DNA approach. Mammalian Biology. 103(6). 549–560. 2 indexed citations
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Goodall‐Copestake, William P., Selina Brace, Frederick I. Archer, et al.. (2023). Historical Mitogenomic Diversity and Population Structuring of Southern Hemisphere Fin Whales. Genes. 14(5). 1038–1038. 3 indexed citations
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Mullin, Victoria E., Andres Arce, Will Nash, et al.. (2022). First large‐scale quantification study of DNA preservation in insects from natural history collections using genome‐wide sequencing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 360–371. 12 indexed citations
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Brace, Selina, Yoan Diekmann, Thomas Booth, et al.. (2022). Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century. Current Biology. 32(20). 4350–4359.e6. 2 indexed citations
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Charlton, Sophy, Selina Brace, Mateja Hajdinjak, et al.. (2022). Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(11). 1658–1668. 8 indexed citations
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Booth, Thomas J., Joanna Brück, Selina Brace, & Ian Barnes. (2021). Tales from the Supplementary Information: Ancestry Change in Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age Britain Was Gradual with Varied Kinship Organization. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 31(3). 379–400. 19 indexed citations
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Woods, Roseina, Samuel T. Turvey, Selina Brace, et al.. (2020). Rapid size change associated with intra-island evolutionary radiation in extinct Caribbean “island-shrews”. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 106–106. 7 indexed citations
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Hajdinjak, Mateja, Stéphane Peyrégne, Selina Brace, et al.. (2019). A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(31). 15610–15615. 27 indexed citations
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Scott, Michael, Laura R. Botigué, Selina Brace, et al.. (2019). A 3,000-year-old Egyptian emmer wheat genome reveals dispersal and domestication history. Nature Plants. 5(11). 1120–1128. 37 indexed citations
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Brace, Selina, et al.. (2018). Destructive sampling natural science collections: an overview for museum professionals and researchers. UCL Discovery (University College London). 11 indexed citations
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Brace, Selina, et al.. (2018). Identifying source populations for the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber L. 1758, into Britain: evidence from ancient DNA. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2708–2708. 16 indexed citations
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Welker, Frido, Mateja Hajdinjak, Sahra Talamo, et al.. (2016). Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(40). 11162–11167. 196 indexed citations breakdown →
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Turvey, Samuel T., Selina Brace, Richard P. Young, et al.. (2016). Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal. Diversity and Distributions. 22(5). 589–602. 18 indexed citations
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Brace, Selina, Jessica A. Thomas, Love Dalén, et al.. (2016). Evolutionary History of the Nesophontidae, the Last Unplaced Recent Mammal Family. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(12). 3095–3103. 34 indexed citations
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