Stephan Schiffels

13.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Stephan Schiffels is a scholar working on Genetics, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Schiffels has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Archeology and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Stephan Schiffels's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (16 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (5 papers). Stephan Schiffels is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (16 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (5 papers). Stephan Schiffels collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Stephan Schiffels's co-authors include Richard Durbin, George F. Turner, Milan Malinsky, Benjamin P. Ngatunga, Yohey Terai, Richard Challis, Eric A. Miska, Martin J. Genner, Alexandra M. Tyers and Ville Mustonen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Schiffels

24 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Inferring human population size and separation history from multiple genome sequences

2014 619 citations Stephan Schiffels, Richard Durbin profile →
Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations

2018 105 citations Marieke S. van de Loosdrecht, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Schiffels Germany	13	1.3k	461	327	268	208	25	1.7k
Nelson J. R. Fagundes Brazil	17	800 0.6×	358 0.8×	162 0.5×	158 0.6×	197 0.9×	59	1.5k
Bastien Llamas Australia	24	842 0.7×	537 1.2×	284 0.9×	581 2.2×	412 2.0×	82	1.9k
Hákon Jónsson Iceland	12	1.3k 1.0×	744 1.6×	343 1.0×	330 1.2×	417 2.0×	17	1.8k
Clio Der Sarkissian France	18	856 0.7×	617 1.3×	213 0.7×	357 1.3×	652 3.1×	25	1.6k
Luca Ermini United Kingdom	19	983 0.8×	843 1.8×	373 1.1×	257 1.0×	443 2.1×	35	2.0k
Aylwyn Scally United Kingdom	16	963 0.8×	919 2.0×	259 0.8×	227 0.8×	183 0.9×	27	2.3k
Susanna Sawyer Germany	9	711 0.6×	571 1.2×	427 1.3×	399 1.5×	376 1.8×	17	1.6k
María C. Ávila‐Arcos United States	21	839 0.7×	464 1.0×	278 0.9×	245 0.9×	436 2.1×	39	1.5k
Garrett Hellenthal United Kingdom	21	1.9k 1.5×	700 1.5×	246 0.8×	153 0.6×	146 0.7×	42	2.6k
Axel Barlow Germany	22	943 0.8×	493 1.1×	103 0.3×	354 1.3×	436 2.1×	59	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Schiffels

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Foody, M. George B., Katharina Dulias, Peter Ditchfıeld, et al.. (2025). Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset. Antiquity. 99(407). 1356–1371. 1 indexed citations

Sayer, Duncan, Joscha Gretzinger, John Hines, et al.. (2025). West African ancestry in seventh-century England: two individuals from Kent and Dorset. Antiquity. 99(407). 1341–1355. 1 indexed citations

Geier, Andreas, et al.. (2024). PNPLA3 fatty liver allele was fixed in Neanderthals and segregates neutrally in humans. Gut. 73(6). 1008–1014. 3 indexed citations

Childebayeva, Ainash, Adam B. Rohrlach, Stephan Schiffels, et al.. (2024). Bronze age Northern Eurasian genetics in the context of development of metallurgy and Siberian ancestry. Communications Biology. 7(1). 723–723.

Gretzinger, Joscha, Victoria E. Gibbon, Sandra Penske, et al.. (2024). 9,000 years of genetic continuity in southernmost Africa demonstrated at Oakhurst rockshelter. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(11). 2121–2134. 1 indexed citations

Schiffels, Stephan & Kathrin Nägele. (2024). Rapa Nui’s population history rewritten using ancient DNA. Nature. 633(8029). 290–291. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ke, Kay Prüfer, Ben Krause‐Kyora, et al.. (2023). High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry. Cell Genomics. 3(9). 100377–100377. 12 indexed citations

Gower, Graham, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Gertjan Bisschop, et al.. (2022). Demes: a standard format for demographic models. Genetics. 222(3). 22 indexed citations

Wang, Ke, Madeleine Bleasdale, Cäcilia Freund, et al.. (2022). 4000-year-old hair from the Middle Nile highlights unusual ancient DNA degradation pattern and a potential source of early eastern Africa pastoralists. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 20939–20939. 2 indexed citations

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Schiffels, Stephan, et al.. (2021). bleiglas: An R package for interpolation and visualisation of spatiotemporal data with 3D tessellation. The Journal of Open Source Software. 6(60). 3092–3092. 1 indexed citations

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Furtwängler, Anja, Adam B. Rohrlach, Thiseas C. Lamnidis, et al.. (2020). Ancient genomes reveal social and genetic structure of Late Neolithic Switzerland. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1915–1915. 44 indexed citations

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Wang, Ke, Iain Mathieson, Jared O’Connell, & Stephan Schiffels. (2020). Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences. PLoS Genetics. 16(3). e1008552–e1008552. 63 indexed citations

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Potter, Ben A., James F. Baichtal, Alwynne B. Beaudoin, et al.. (2018). Current evidence allows multiple models for the peopling of the Americas. Science Advances. 4(8). eaat5473–eaat5473. 86 indexed citations

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Lamnidis, Thiseas C., Kerttu Majander, Choongwon Jeong, et al.. (2018). Ancient Fennoscandian genomes reveal origin and spread of Siberian ancestry in Europe. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5018–5018. 71 indexed citations

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Loosdrecht, Marieke S. van de, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Louise Humphrey, et al.. (2018). Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations. Science. 360(6388). 548–552. 105 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schuenemann, Verena J., Alexander Peltzer, Martyna Molak, et al.. (2017). Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15694–15694. 97 indexed citations

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Schiffels, Stephan, Wolfgang Haak, Pirita Paajanen, et al.. (2016). Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon genomes from East England reveal British migration history. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10408–10408. 92 indexed citations

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Pagani, Luca, Stephan Schiffels, Deepti Gurdasani, et al.. (2015). Tracing the Route of Modern Humans out of Africa by Using 225 Human Genome Sequences from Ethiopians and Egyptians. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 96(6). 986–991. 110 indexed citations

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Illingworth, Christopher J. R., Leopold Parts, Stephan Schiffels, Gianni Liti, & Ville Mustonen. (2011). Quantifying Selection Acting on a Complex Trait Using Allele Frequency Time Series Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(4). 1187–1197. 45 indexed citations

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Schiffels, Stephan, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Ville Mustonen, & Michael Lässig. (2011). Emergent Neutrality in Adaptive Asexual Evolution. Genetics. 189(4). 1361–1375. 73 indexed citations

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