Udo Stenzel

14.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
17 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Udo Stenzel is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Udo Stenzel has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Udo Stenzel's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (9 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers). Udo Stenzel is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (9 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers). Udo Stenzel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Udo Stenzel's co-authors include Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Michael Hofreiter, Adrian W. Briggs, Martin Kircher, Johannes Krause, Kay Prüfer, Richard E. Green and Gabriel Renaud and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Udo Stenzel

17 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neande... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2009 2013 2009 200 400 600
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. Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal
    2007 602 citations Adrian W. Briggs, Udo Stenzel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes
    2009 342 citations Adrian W. Briggs, Jeffrey M. Good et al. Science profile →
  3. DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China
    2013 309 citations Qiaomei Fu, Matthias Meyer et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA
    2009 293 citations Adrian W. Briggs, Udo Stenzel et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Udo Stenzel Germany 16 1.6k 1.4k 648 614 544 17 3.0k
Adrian W. Briggs United States 22 1.8k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 746 1.2× 700 1.1× 661 1.2× 28 3.6k
Aurélien Ginolhac Luxembourg 18 1.5k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 480 0.7× 742 1.2× 485 0.9× 31 2.8k
Mikkel Schubert Denmark 15 1.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 434 0.7× 847 1.4× 483 0.9× 21 3.1k
Melanie Kuch Canada 19 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 0.7× 779 1.2× 925 1.5× 762 1.4× 31 3.0k
Marie-Theres Gansauge Germany 12 1.2k 0.8× 659 0.5× 606 0.9× 479 0.8× 563 1.0× 14 2.0k
Priya Moorjani United States 18 2.3k 1.5× 770 0.5× 492 0.8× 211 0.3× 286 0.5× 30 3.0k
Luca Ermini United Kingdom 19 983 0.6× 843 0.6× 373 0.6× 443 0.7× 257 0.5× 35 2.0k
Gabriel Renaud United States 21 894 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 369 0.6× 215 0.4× 275 0.5× 43 2.6k
Mathias Stiller Germany 29 1.1k 0.7× 560 0.4× 261 0.4× 1.2k 1.9× 694 1.3× 53 2.5k
Hákon Jónsson Iceland 12 1.3k 0.8× 744 0.5× 343 0.5× 417 0.7× 330 0.6× 17 1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Udo Stenzel

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Stenzel, Udo, et al.. (2024). The repertoire and structure of adhesion GPCR transcript variants assembled from publicly available deep-sequenced human samples. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(7). 3823–3836. 8 indexed citations
2.
Renaud, Gabriel, Udo Stenzel, Tomislav Maričić, Victor Wiebe, & Janet Kelso. (2014). deML: robust demultiplexing of Illumina sequences using a likelihood-based approach. Bioinformatics. 31(5). 770–772. 149 indexed citations
3.
Renaud, Gabriel, Udo Stenzel, & Janet Kelso. (2014). leeHom: adaptor trimming and merging for Illumina sequencing reads. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(18). e141–e141. 150 indexed citations
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Fu, Qiaomei, Matthias Meyer, Xing Gao, et al.. (2013). DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(6). 2223–2227. 309 indexed citations breakdown →
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Renaud, Gabriel, Martin Kircher, Udo Stenzel, & Janet Kelso. (2013). freeIbis: an efficient basecaller with calibrated quality scores for Illumina sequencers. Bioinformatics. 29(9). 1208–1209. 53 indexed citations
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Prüfer, Kay, Udo Stenzel, Michael Hofreiter, et al.. (2010). Computational challenges in the analysis of ancient DNA. Genome biology. 11(5). R47–R47. 86 indexed citations
7.
Heyn, Patricia, Udo Stenzel, Adrian W. Briggs, et al.. (2010). Road blocks on paleogenomes—polymerase extension profiling reveals the frequency of blocking lesions in ancient DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(16). e161–e161. 42 indexed citations
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Briggs, Adrian W., Jeffrey M. Good, Richard E. Green, et al.. (2009). Primer Extension Capture: Targeted Sequence Retrieval from Heavily Degraded DNA Sources. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1573–1573. 29 indexed citations
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Briggs, Adrian W., Udo Stenzel, Matthias Meyer, et al.. (2009). Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(6). e87–e87. 293 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Kircher, Martin, Udo Stenzel, & Janet Kelso. (2009). Improved base calling for the Illumina Genome Analyzer using machine learning strategies. Genome biology. 10(8). R83–R83. 192 indexed citations
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Stiller, Mathias, Michael Knapp, Udo Stenzel, Michael Hofreiter, & Matthias Meyer. (2009). Direct multiplex sequencing (DMPS)—a novel method for targeted high-throughput sequencing of ancient and highly degraded DNA. Genome Research. 19(10). 1843–1848. 95 indexed citations
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Briggs, Adrian W., Jeffrey M. Good, Richard E. Green, et al.. (2009). Primer Extension Capture: Targeted Sequence Retrieval from Heavily Degraded DNA Sources. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 21 indexed citations
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Briggs, Adrian W., Jeffrey M. Good, Richard E. Green, et al.. (2009). Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes. Science. 325(5938). 318–321. 342 indexed citations breakdown →
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Meyer, Matthias, Udo Stenzel, & Michael Hofreiter. (2008). Parallel tagged sequencing on the 454 platform. Nature Protocols. 3(2). 267–278. 264 indexed citations
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Prüfer, Kay, Udo Stenzel, Michael Dannemann, et al.. (2008). PatMaN: rapid alignment of short sequences to large databases. Bioinformatics. 24(13). 1530–1531. 154 indexed citations
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Meyer, Matthias, Udo Stenzel, Sean Myles, Kay Prüfer, & Michael Hofreiter. (2007). Targeted high-throughput sequencing of tagged nucleic acid samples. Nucleic Acids Research. 35(15). e97–e97. 163 indexed citations
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Briggs, Adrian W., Udo Stenzel, Philip L. Johnson, et al.. (2007). Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(37). 14616–14621. 602 indexed citations breakdown →

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