Walther Parson

28.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
433 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Walther Parson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walther Parson has authored 433 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 256 papers in Molecular Biology, 254 papers in Genetics and 48 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Walther Parson's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (226 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (132 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (56 papers). Walther Parson is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (226 papers), Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications (132 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (56 papers). Walther Parson collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Walther Parson's co-authors include Harald Niederstätter, Arne Dür, Burkhard Berger, Arieh Warshel, Peter M. Schneider, Anita Kloss‐Brandstätter, Martin Steinlechner, Thomas J. Parsons, Niels Morling and Guy Hollifield and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Walther Parson

418 papers receiving 15.3k citations

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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.

Modeling electrostatic effects in proteins

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walther Parson Austria	67	9.1k	8.2k	1.7k	1.7k	916	433	15.8k
António Amorim Portugal	48	3.9k 0.4×	5.5k 0.7×	536 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	427 0.5×	451	9.4k
Andrey Sivachenko United States	22	15.1k 1.7×	10.9k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	106 0.1×	1.3k 1.4×	51	28.8k
Jesper V. Olsen Denmark	83	30.3k 3.3×	2.6k 0.3×	917 0.5×	489 0.3×	2.2k 2.4×	260	40.2k
Stephen K. Anderson United States	47	10.4k 1.1×	3.0k 0.4×	732 0.4×	388 0.2×	3.4k 3.7×	174	15.9k
Jun Z. Li United States	36	3.4k 0.4×	2.8k 0.3×	170 0.1×	155 0.1×	429 0.5×	92	10.2k
Paul I. W. de Bakker United States	37	12.8k 1.4×	16.6k 2.0×	1.0k 0.6×	127 0.1×	3.1k 3.4×	89	34.6k
Ãngel Carracedo Spain	62	8.6k 0.9×	10.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	486 0.5×	696	17.9k
B. G. Barrell United Kingdom	36	15.2k 1.7×	4.3k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	380 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	41	22.1k
Bruce Budowle United States	61	9.5k 1.0×	10.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.4×	1.3k 0.8×	322 0.4×	560	15.0k
Alec J. Jeffreys United Kingdom	54	8.7k 0.9×	7.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	301 0.2×	474 0.5×	131	14.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Walther Parson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walther Parson

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20 of 20 papers shown

D’Amato, María Eugenia, et al.. (2025). Persistence of Ancestral KhoeSan Mitochondrial Patterns in Contemporary South African Populations. Annals of Human Genetics. 89(4). 195–207.

Gettings, Katherine B., Martin Bodner, Lisa A. Borsuk, et al.. (2023). Recommendations of the DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) on short tandem repeat sequence nomenclature. Forensic Science International Genetics. 68. 102946–102946. 17 indexed citations

Anderson, Elise, et al.. (2023). Evaluating the Usefulness of Human DNA Quantification to Predict DNA Profiling Success of Historical Bone Samples. Genes. 14(5). 994–994. 8 indexed citations

Endler, Georg, Walther Parson, Andreas Zuckermann, et al.. (2023). Cumulative UV Exposure or a Modified SCINEXA™-Skin Aging Score Do Not Play a Substantial Role in Predicting the Risk of Developing Keratinocyte Cancers after Solid Organ Transplantation—A Case Control Study. Cancers. 15(3). 864–864. 2 indexed citations

Sturk‐Andreaggi, Kimberly, Martin Bodner, J. Ring, et al.. (2023). Complete Mitochondrial DNA Genome Variation in the Swedish Population. Genes. 14(11). 1989–1989. 1 indexed citations

Parson, Walther & Clemens Burda. (2023). Modern Optical Spectroscopy. 10 indexed citations

Sturk‐Andreaggi, Kimberly, J. Ring, Adam Ameur, et al.. (2022). The Value of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Mitochondrial DNA Population Studies: Strategies and Criteria for Extracting High-Quality Mitogenome Haplotypes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(4). 2244–2244. 6 indexed citations

Bodner, Martin, Anna Olivieri, Francesca Gandini, et al.. (2022). Helena’s Many Daughters: More Mitogenome Diversity behind the Most Common West Eurasian mtDNA Control Region Haplotype in an Extended Italian Population Sample. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(12). 6725–6725. 4 indexed citations

Berger, Cordula, et al.. (2021). Towards Forensic DNA Phenotyping for Predicting Visible Traits in Dogs. Genes. 12(6). 908–908. 5 indexed citations

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Puente, M. de la, Catarina Xavier, Jacobo Pardo‐Seco, et al.. (2021). Development and Evaluation of the Ancestry Informative Marker Panel of the VISAGE Basic Tool. Genes. 12(8). 1284–1284. 20 indexed citations

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Marshall, Charla, Kimberly Sturk‐Andreaggi, J. Ring, Arne Dür, & Walther Parson. (2020). Pathogenic Variant Filtering for Mitochondrial Genome Haplotype Reporting. Genes. 11(10). 1140–1140. 6 indexed citations

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Pany‐Kucera, Doris, Walther Parson, Christina Strobl, et al.. (2020). Social Relations, Deprivation and Violence at Schleinbach, Lower Austria. Insights from an Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Early Bronze Age Human Remains. Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). Band 104/2020. 13–52. 6 indexed citations

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Churchill, Jennifer D., et al.. (2020). Developmental Validation of a MPS Workflow with a PCR-Based Short Amplicon Whole Mitochondrial Genome Panel. Genes. 11(11). 1345–1345. 29 indexed citations

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Churchill, Jennifer D., et al.. (2020). The lot-to-lot variability in the mitochondrial genome of controls. Forensic Science International Genetics. 47. 102298–102298. 7 indexed citations

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Handle, Florian, Holger H.H. Erb, Birgit Luef, et al.. (2016). SOCS3 Modulates the Response to Enzalutamide and Is Regulated by Androgen Receptor Signaling and CpG Methylation in Prostate Cancer Cells. Molecular Cancer Research. 14(6). 574–585. 36 indexed citations

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Parson, Walther, Leonor Gusmão, Douglas R. Hares, et al.. (2014). DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics: Revised and extended guidelines for mitochondrial DNA typing. Forensic Science International Genetics. 13. 134–142. 230 indexed citations

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Santer, Frédéric R., Su Jung Oh, Holger H.H. Erb, et al.. (2011). Inhibition of the Acetyltransferases p300 and CBP Reveals a Targetable Function for p300 in the Survival and Invasion Pathways of Prostate Cancer Cell Lines. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 10(9). 1644–1655. 163 indexed citations

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Weiskopf, Daniela, Angelika Schwanninger, Birgit Weinberger, et al.. (2009). Oxidative stress can alter the antigenicity of immunodominant peptides. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 87(1). 165–172. 32 indexed citations

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Parson, Walther. (2007). Modern optical spectroscopy : with examples from biophysics and biochemistry. Springer eBooks. 25 indexed citations

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Steinlechner, Martin & Walther Parson. (2001). Automation and high through-put for a DNA database laboratory: development of a laboratory information management system.. PubMed. 42(3). 252–5. 24 indexed citations

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