Svante Pääbo

101.8k citations
305 papers · 50.5k indexed · 71 hit papers · h-index 122

Impact in

  • Paleontology top 0.02%
    • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Genetics top 0.01%
    • Forensic and Genetic Research
    • Genetic diversity and population structure

Papers in

    • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 31
    • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies 46

Svante Pääbo

302 papers receiving 48.2k citations

Hit Papers

The genetic changes that shaped Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans 2024 · 23 citations
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Peers

Svante Pääbo
Comparison fields: 5 of 221
  • Paleontology 7.2k
  • Genetics 24.3k
  • Archeology 7.9k
  • Anthropology 5.4k
  • Molecular Biology 23.1k
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Svante Pääbo, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20251
2 202346
3
Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals
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202276
4 202230
5
A genomic region associated with protection against severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neandertals
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2021126
6 202123
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Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave
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202167
8 202054
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A parietal fragment from Denisova cave
20196
10
Limits of long-term selection against Neandertal introgression
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2019112
11 201927
12 201871
13
Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations
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2018105
14
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
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2016196
15
Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development
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2015767
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Nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences from two Denisovan individuals
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2015124
17 2014102
18 201443
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Sequencing and Analysis of Neanderthal Genomic DNA
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2006359
20 2006315

About Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology, Genetics, Anthropology and Molecular Biology, having authored 305 papers that have together received 50.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Forensic and Genetic Research (84 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (46 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (45 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (31 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (20 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (7.2k citations), Genetics (24.3k citations), Archeology (7.9k citations), Anthropology (5.4k citations) and Molecular Biology (23.1k citations). Svante Pääbo has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Alex C. C. Wilson, W. Kelley Thomas, Francis X. Villablanca, Johannes Krause, Scott V. Edwards, Axel Meyer, Thomas D. Kocher, Janet Kelso, Wolfgang Enard and Philipp Khaitovich. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Science, PLoS ONE and PLoS Biology.

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