Stefania Benónísdóttir

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 952 citations indexed

About

Stefania Benónísdóttir is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefania Benónísdóttir has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 952 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Genetics, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Stefania Benónísdóttir's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers). Stefania Benónísdóttir is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (8 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (4 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (4 papers). Stefania Benónísdóttir collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Iceland and United States. Stefania Benónísdóttir's co-authors include Augustine Kong, Alexander I. Young, Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir, Kāri Stefánsson, Daníel F. Guðbjartsson, Ásmundur Oddsson, Molly Przeworski, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Gísli Másson and Agnar Helgason and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stefania Benónísdóttir

10 papers receiving 941 citations

Hit Papers

The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2022 100 200 300 400 500
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. The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes
    2018 519 citations Augustine Kong, Guðmar Þorleifsson et al. Science profile →
  2. Obesity and risk of female reproductive conditions: A Mendelian randomisation study
    2022 119 citations Teresa Ferreira, Stefania Benónísdóttir et al. PLoS Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefania Benónísdóttir United Kingdom 8 464 196 188 149 114 12 952
Robbee Wedow United States 8 563 1.2× 209 1.1× 91 0.5× 198 1.3× 162 1.4× 18 1.1k
Alexander I. Young United Kingdom 14 891 1.9× 307 1.6× 235 1.3× 245 1.6× 153 1.3× 19 1.5k
Aysu Okbay Netherlands 12 705 1.5× 209 1.1× 128 0.7× 229 1.5× 85 0.7× 22 1.2k
Ásmundur Oddsson Iceland 9 348 0.8× 156 0.8× 198 1.1× 227 1.5× 90 0.8× 12 890
Kamil Sicinski United States 9 183 0.4× 193 1.0× 129 0.7× 67 0.4× 184 1.6× 14 666
Chayna Davis United States 14 363 0.8× 112 0.6× 184 1.0× 90 0.6× 39 0.3× 24 1.2k
Benjamin E. Berkman United States 19 598 1.3× 41 0.2× 363 1.9× 152 1.0× 72 0.6× 64 1.4k
Hanyang Shen United States 14 437 0.9× 90 0.5× 105 0.6× 147 1.0× 73 0.6× 34 1.0k
Raymond K. Walters United States 9 1.1k 2.4× 166 0.8× 101 0.5× 359 2.4× 69 0.6× 18 1.6k
Philip J. Moore United States 8 146 0.3× 194 1.0× 38 0.2× 114 0.8× 43 0.4× 15 522

Countries citing papers authored by Stefania Benónísdóttir

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefania Benónísdóttir

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefania Benónísdóttir

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Benónísdóttir, Stefania, et al.. (2025). Realizing the full potential of Our Future Health through data linkage and trans-biobank efforts. Nature Genetics. 57(10). 2341–2348.
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Song, Shuang, Stefania Benónísdóttir, Jun S. Liu, & Augustine Kong. (2025). Participation bias in the estimation of heritability and genetic correlation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2425530122–e2425530122. 1 indexed citations
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Benónísdóttir, Stefania & Augustine Kong. (2023). Studying the genetics of participation using footprints left on the ascertained genotypes. Nature Genetics. 55(8). 1413–1420. 11 indexed citations
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Ferreira, Teresa, Stefania Benónísdóttir, Nilüfer Rahmioğlu, et al.. (2022). Obesity and risk of female reproductive conditions: A Mendelian randomisation study. PLoS Medicine. 19(2). e1003679–e1003679. 119 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Alexander I., Stefania Benónísdóttir, Aysu Okbay, et al.. (2022). Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects. Nature Genetics. 54(6). 897–905. 43 indexed citations
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Ivarsdottir, Erna V., Stefania Benónísdóttir, Guðmar Þorleifsson, et al.. (2019). Sequence variation at ANAPC1 accounts for 24% of the variability in corneal endothelial cell density. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1284–1284. 20 indexed citations
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Young, Alexander I., Stefania Benónísdóttir, Molly Przeworski, & Augustine Kong. (2019). Deconstructing the sources of genotype-phenotype associations in humans. Science. 365(6460). 1396–1400. 150 indexed citations
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Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Michael L. Frigge, et al.. (2018). The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Science. 359(6374). 424–428. 519 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kong, Augustine, Guðmar Þorleifsson, Stefania Benónísdóttir, et al.. (2018). The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology. 4 indexed citations
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Þórólfsdóttir, Rósa B., Garðar Sveinbjörnsson, Patrick Sulem, et al.. (2017). A Missense Variant in PLEC Increases Risk of Atrial Fibrillation. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 70(17). 2157–2168. 56 indexed citations
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Arnadottir, Gudny A., Brynjar Ö. Jensson, Gerald Sulem, et al.. (2017). Compound heterozygous mutations in UBA5 causing early-onset epileptic encephalopathy in two sisters. BMC Medical Genetics. 18(1). 103–103. 29 indexed citations

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