Stéphane Peyrégne

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 633 citations indexed

About

Stéphane Peyrégne is a scholar working on Genetics, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stéphane Peyrégne has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 633 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Genetics, 5 papers in Paleontology and 5 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Stéphane Peyrégne's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 papers). Stéphane Peyrégne is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (11 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 papers). Stéphane Peyrégne collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Russia. Stéphane Peyrégne's co-authors include Kay Prüfer, Benjamin M. Peter, Janet Kelso, Viviane Slon, Svante Pääbo, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote, Matthias Meyer, Cesare de Filippo and Bence Viola and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stéphane Peyrégne

13 papers receiving 614 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.

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

2018 239 citations Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni et al. Nature profile →
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave

2020 137 citations Fabrizio Mafessoni, Steffi Grote et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Stéphane Peyrégne

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ARCHE

ANTHR

PALEO

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Steffi Grote Germany

Silvia Ghirotto Italy

Chiara Barbieri Germany

Nicolas Brucato France

Melinda A. Yang United States

Serena Tucci United States

Arielle R. Munters Sweden

Elena Gigli Spain

Choongwon Jeong United States

Samantha Brown Germany

Steffi Grote Germany

Stéphane Peyrégne

333 ×1.1

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292 ×1.1

ARCHE

302 ×1.3

ANTHR

198 ×1.1

PALEO

137 ×0.9

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Citations per year, relative to Stéphane Peyrégne Stéphane Peyrégne (= 1×) peers Steffi Grote

Countries citing papers authored by Stéphane Peyrégne

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stéphane Peyrégne

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stéphane Peyrégne

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

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Jacobs, Zenobia, Elena I. Zavala, Bo Li, et al.. (2025). Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4738–4738. 1 indexed citations

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Kelso, Janet, et al.. (2025). Resolving the source of branch length variation in the Y chromosome phylogeny. Genome biology. 26(1). 4–4. 1 indexed citations

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Yang, Jiaqi, Leonardo Nicola Martin Iasi, Qiaomei Fu, et al.. (2025). An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry. Current Biology. 35(20). 4898–4908.e4.

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Peyrégne, Stéphane, Viviane Slon, & Janet Kelso. (2023). More than a decade of genetic research on the Denisovans. Nature Reviews Genetics. 25(2). 83–103. 20 indexed citations

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Peyrégne, Stéphane, et al.. (2023). KIN: a method to infer relatedness from low-coverage ancient DNA. Genome biology. 24(1). 10–10. 36 indexed citations

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Peyrégne, Stéphane, Janet Kelso, Benjamin M. Peter, & Svante Pääbo. (2022). The evolutionary history of human spindle genes includes back-and-forth gene flow with Neandertals. eLife. 11. 14 indexed citations

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Manuel, Marc de, Stéphane Peyrégne, Kay Prüfer, et al.. (2020). Multiple Genomic Events Altering Hominin SIGLEC Biology and Innate Immunity Predated the Common Ancestor of Humans and Archaic Hominins. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(7). 1040–1050. 15 indexed citations

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Mafessoni, Fabrizio, Steffi Grote, Cesare de Filippo, et al.. (2020). A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(26). 15132–15136. 137 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peyrégne, Stéphane & Benjamin M. Peter. (2020). AuthentiCT: a model of ancient DNA damage to estimate the proportion of present-day DNA contamination. Genome biology. 21(1). 246–246. 31 indexed citations

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Peyrégne, Stéphane & Kay Prüfer. (2020). Present‐Day DNA Contamination in Ancient DNA Datasets. BioEssays. 42(9). e2000081–e2000081. 26 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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Laval, Guillaume, Stéphane Peyrégne, Nora Zidane, et al.. (2019). Recent Adaptive Acquisition by African Rainforest Hunter-Gatherers of the Late Pleistocene Sickle-Cell Mutation Suggests Past Differences in Malaria Exposure. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 104(3). 553–561. 28 indexed citations

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Slon, Viviane, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Benjamin Vernot, et al.. (2018). The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father. Nature. 561(7721). 113–116. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Peyrégne, Stéphane, Michael James Boyle, Michael Dannemann, & Kay Prüfer. (2017). Detecting ancient positive selection in humans using extended lineage sorting. Genome Research. 27(9). 1563–1572. 58 indexed citations

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