Urmas Saarma

6.1k total citations
84 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Urmas Saarma is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Urmas Saarma has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Ecology, 41 papers in Genetics and 30 papers in Pathology and Forensic Medicine. Recurrent topics in Urmas Saarma's work include Parasitic infections in humans and animals (30 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). Urmas Saarma is often cited by papers focused on Parasitic infections in humans and animals (30 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (29 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (24 papers). Urmas Saarma collaborates with scholars based in Estonia, Finland and Italy. Urmas Saarma's co-authors include Harri Valdmann, Epp Moks, John Davison, Simon Y. W. Ho, Peep Männil, Leidi Laurimaa, Ross Barnett, Beth Shapiro, James Haile and Antti Lavikainen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Urmas Saarma

81 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Urmas Saarma Estonia 33 1.3k 1.1k 956 818 741 84 2.7k
Voitto Haukisalmi Finland 28 1.9k 1.5× 443 0.4× 454 0.5× 163 0.2× 675 0.9× 99 2.4k
Jean‐Pierre Quéré France 22 723 0.6× 582 0.6× 300 0.3× 375 0.5× 293 0.4× 48 1.4k
Robert L. Rausch United States 35 1.7k 1.3× 1.9k 1.8× 326 0.3× 1.1k 1.3× 1.3k 1.8× 172 3.7k
Sandra Gloor Switzerland 14 945 0.7× 668 0.6× 394 0.4× 439 0.5× 428 0.6× 24 1.6k
Vasyl V. Tkach United States 31 4.7k 3.6× 304 0.3× 456 0.5× 103 0.1× 2.6k 3.5× 254 5.4k
Pádraig J. Duignan United States 31 1.5k 1.2× 231 0.2× 259 0.3× 241 0.3× 512 0.7× 132 2.9k
Harri Valdmann Estonia 17 758 0.6× 228 0.2× 407 0.4× 135 0.2× 193 0.3× 27 1.1k
Pierre Delattre France 21 839 0.6× 569 0.5× 152 0.2× 327 0.4× 318 0.4× 64 1.5k
Fabio Bontadina Switzerland 27 1.6k 1.2× 235 0.2× 481 0.5× 147 0.2× 165 0.2× 54 2.5k
Marie‐Lazarine Poulle France 26 659 0.5× 234 0.2× 324 0.3× 131 0.2× 829 1.1× 51 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Urmas Saarma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Urmas Saarma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Urmas Saarma

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

All Works

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Biedermann, Alex, Teivi Laurimäe, Laura Kamenetzky, et al.. (2025). Zoonotic Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato genotypes G6 and G7: new insights from the global mitogenome analysis. International Journal for Parasitology. 55(11). 569–579.
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Laurimäe, Teivi, Liina Kinkar, Epp Moks, Guna Bagrade, & Urmas Saarma. (2023). Exploring the genetic diversity of genotypes G8 and G10 of the Echinococcus canadensis cluster in Europe based on complete mitochondrial genomes (13 550–13 552 bp). Parasitology. 150(7). 631–637. 5 indexed citations
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Kinkar, Liina, Pasi K. Korhonen, Urmas Saarma, et al.. (2023). Genome‐wide exploration reveals distinctive northern and southern variants of Clonorchis sinensis in the Far East. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(4). 833–843. 4 indexed citations
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Rannamäe, Eve, Urmas Saarma, Juha Kantanen, & Auli Bläuer. (2022). Maternal genetic diversity of ancient goats in Finland and Estonia and comparison with extant northern European goat breeds. Animal Genetics. 54(2). 177–188. 2 indexed citations
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Valdmann, Harri, et al.. (2022). Free-ranging rural dogs are highly infected with helminths, contaminating environment nine times more than urban dogs. Journal of Helminthology. 96. e19–e19. 5 indexed citations
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Valdmann, Harri, et al.. (2022). High overlap of zoonotic helminths between wild mammalian predators and rural dogs – an emerging One Health concern?. Parasitology. 149(12). 1565–1574. 7 indexed citations
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Rannamäe, Eve, Urmas Saarma, & Auli Bläuer. (2021). Cultural influences on the castration age of cattle in the northern Baltic Sea region during the medieval and post-medieval periods. Journal of Archaeological Science. 137. 105517–105517. 3 indexed citations
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Mehmood, Naunain, Giorgia Dessì, Claudia Tamponi, et al.. (2021). Cystic echinococcosis in sheep and goats of Lebanon. Parasitology. 148(7). 871–878. 15 indexed citations
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Tammeleht, Egle, et al.. (2019). Ants in brown bear diet, and discovery of a new ant species for Estonia from brown bear scats. Hystrix. 30(2). 112–119. 5 indexed citations
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Laurimäe, Teivi, Liina Kinkar, Antonio Varcasia, et al.. (2019). First detection of zoonotic tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato genotype G7 in continental Italy. Parasitology Research. 118(7). 2193–2201. 19 indexed citations
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Kinkar, Liina, Teivi Laurimäe, İbrahim Balkaya, et al.. (2018). Genetic diversity and phylogeography of the elusive, but epidemiologically importantEchinococcus granulosussensu stricto genotype G3. Parasitology. 145(12). 1613–1622. 37 indexed citations
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Ho, Simon Y. W., John Davison, Egle Tammeleht, et al.. (2017). Large‐scale migrations of brown bears in Eurasia and to North America during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Biogeography. 45(2). 394–405. 26 indexed citations
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Kinkar, Liina, Teivi Laurimäe, Mitra Sharbatkhori, et al.. (2017). New mitogenome and nuclear evidence on the phylogeny and taxonomy of the highly zoonotic tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 52. 52–58. 96 indexed citations
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Saarma, Urmas & И. Л. Туманов. (2006). Phylogenetic Evaluation of Three Subspecies from the Mustela nivalis Group. Zoological studies. 45(3). 435–442. 5 indexed citations

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