Shyam Gopalakrishnan

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Shyam Gopalakrishnan is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shyam Gopalakrishnan has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Shyam Gopalakrishnan's work include Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (9 papers). Shyam Gopalakrishnan is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (16 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (9 papers). Shyam Gopalakrishnan collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Norway and United Kingdom. Shyam Gopalakrishnan's co-authors include M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Antton Alberdi, Mikkel‐Holger S. Sinding, Christian Carøe, Nathan Wales, Kristine Bohmann, Sarah S. T. Mak and Martin Nielsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shyam Gopalakrishnan

64 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing

2017 248 citations Sarah S. T. Mak, Shyam Gopalakrishnan et al. GigaScience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shyam Gopalakrishnan Denmark	26	945	895	710	276	263	68	2.3k
Federico G. Hoffmann United States	36	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	832 1.2×	165 0.6×	606 2.3×	110	3.2k
Nicola M. Anthony United States	24	599 0.6×	498 0.6×	389 0.5×	160 0.6×	324 1.2×	57	1.6k
Manfred Grabherr Sweden	20	1.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.5×	484 0.7×	100 0.4×	418 1.6×	45	3.1k
Ke Bi United States	27	984 1.0×	1.4k 1.5×	725 1.0×	454 1.6×	610 2.3×	70	2.5k
Anthony J. Geneva United States	17	457 0.5×	500 0.6×	306 0.4×	155 0.6×	371 1.4×	42	1.4k
Juan Galindo Spain	17	861 0.9×	1.7k 1.9×	808 1.1×	145 0.5×	594 2.3×	52	2.8k
Bettina Harr Germany	29	1.1k 1.1×	1.8k 2.0×	492 0.7×	129 0.5×	609 2.3×	45	2.8k
Joanna L. Kelley United States	30	1.2k 1.3×	1.8k 2.0×	1.0k 1.4×	180 0.7×	484 1.8×	97	3.6k
Rute R. da Fonseca Denmark	25	1.1k 1.2×	914 1.0×	575 0.8×	48 0.2×	325 1.2×	58	2.4k
Francisco Rodrı́guez-Trelles Spain	26	939 1.0×	608 0.7×	293 0.4×	97 0.4×	274 1.0×	43	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Shyam Gopalakrishnan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shyam Gopalakrishnan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shyam Gopalakrishnan

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

All Works

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Holman, Luke E., Richard Gyllencreutz, James Scourse, et al.. (2025). Navigating Past Oceans: Comparing Metabarcoding and Metagenomics of Marine Ancient Sediment Environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(6). e14086–e14086. 2 indexed citations

Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Cristiano Vernesi, Federica Mattucci, et al.. (2025). Whole‐Genome Data to Investigate Recent and Historical Dog Introgression Patterns in Italian Wolves. Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). e72508–e72508.

Holman, Luke E., Wesley R. Farnsworth, Philippa Ascough, et al.. (2025). Ancient environmental DNA indicates limited human impact on marine biodiversity in pre-industrial Iceland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240031–20240031. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Xin, Emily Louisa Cavill, Ashot Margaryan, et al.. (2024). A Genomic Exploration of the Possible De‐Extirpation of the Zanzibar Leopard. Molecular Ecology. 34(23). e17566–e17566. 1 indexed citations

Edmunds, Shelley J., Gergely Boza, Fernando Racimo, et al.. (2023). Dealing with dimensionality: the application of machine learning to multi-omics data. Bioinformatics. 39(2). 41 indexed citations

Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, et al.. (2023). HaploCart: Human mtDNA haplogroup classification using a pangenomic reference graph. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(6). e1011148–e1011148. 9 indexed citations

Gopalakrishnan, Shyam, Clarissa C. Parker, Jérôme Nicod, et al.. (2021). Analysis of independent cohorts of outbred CFW mice reveals novel loci for behavioral and physiological traits and identifies factors determining reproducibility. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(1). 8 indexed citations

Barreiro, Fátima Sánchez, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, et al.. (2021). Historical population declines prompted significant genomic erosion in the northern and southern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum ). Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6355–6369. 30 indexed citations

Yang, Chunyan, Kristine Bohmann, Xiaoyang Wang, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity Soup II: A bulk‐sample metabarcoding pipeline emphasizing error reduction. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). 1252–1264. 34 indexed citations

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Cavill, Emily Louisa, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Lara Puetz, et al.. (2021). Conservation genomics of the endangered Seychelles Magpie‐Robin (Copsychus sechellarum): a unique insight into the history of a precious endemic bird. Ibis. 164(2). 396–410. 4 indexed citations

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Koziol, Adam, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, et al.. (2020). Holo-Omics: Integrated Host-Microbiota Multi-omics for Basic and Applied Biological Research. iScience. 23(8). 101414–101414. 95 indexed citations

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Louis, Marié, José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita, Cristina Garilao, et al.. (2020). Influence of past climate change on phylogeography and demographic history of narwhals, Monodon monoceros. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1925). 20192964–20192964. 39 indexed citations

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Gao, Jianjun, et al.. (2020). Adapting Genotyping-by-Sequencing and Variant Calling for Heterogeneous Stock Rats. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(7). 2195–2205. 10 indexed citations

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Niemann, Jonas, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, et al.. (2020). Extended survival of Pleistocene Siberian wolves into the early 20th century on the island of Honshū. iScience. 24(1). 101904–101904. 3 indexed citations

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Margaryan, Ashot, Christina Lehmkuhl Noer, Stine Raith Richter, et al.. (2020). Mitochondrial genomes of Danish vertebrate species generated for the national DNA reference database, DNAmark. Environmental DNA. 3(2). 472–480. 31 indexed citations

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Dorp, Lucy van, Pere Gelabert, Adrien Rieux, et al.. (2019). Plasmodium vivax Malaria Viewed through the Lens of an Eradicated European Strain. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(3). 773–785. 31 indexed citations

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Bohmann, Kristine, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Martin Nielsen, et al.. (2018). Using DNA metabarcoding for simultaneous inference of common vampire bat diet and population structure. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(5). 1050–1063. 59 indexed citations

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Alberdi, Antton, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Kristine Bohmann, et al.. (2018). Promises and pitfalls of using high‐throughput sequencing for diet analysis. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(2). 327–348. 164 indexed citations

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Mak, Sarah S. T., Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Christian Carøe, et al.. (2017). Comparative performance of the BGISEQ-500 vs Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing platforms for palaeogenomic sequencing. GigaScience. 6(8). 1–13. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prakash, Amit, et al.. (2002). Biochemical factors associated in controlling fibre elongation in different cotton genotypes. ePrints@Bangalore University (Bangalore University). 1 indexed citations

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