Svante Pääbo

Active 1981–2025

252
Papers
97,765
Citations
159
h-index
249
i10-index

Citations

Citations per year for Svante Pääbo1978: 1 citations1981: 2 citations1982: 4 citations1983: 11 citations1984: 5 citations1985: 7 citations1986: 6 citations1987: 13 citations1988: 21 citations1989: 51 citations1990: 73 citations1991: 126 citations1992: 126 citations1993: 133 citations1994: 192 citations1995: 170 citations1996: 284 citations1997: 257 citations1998: 286 citations1999: 356 citations2000: 344 citations2001: 391 citations2002: 419 citations2003: 490 citations2004: 596 citations2005: 660 citations2006: 597 citations2007: 648 citations2008: 576 citations2009: 611 citations2010: 664 citations2011: 710 citations2012: 782 citations2013: 799 citations2014: 1,036 citations2015: 849 citations2016: 1,159 citations2017: 893 citations2018: 1,006 citations2019: 2,096 citations2020: 2,282 citations2021: 2,324 citations2022: 1,524 citations2023: 1,257 citations2024: 1,572 citations2025: 758 citations2026: 44 citations1979–1980: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 7,301 citing papers, 23.7% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 2,635 citing papers, 8.6% of this breakdownGermany: 2,469 citing papers, 8% of this breakdownChina: 1,542 citing papers, 5% of this breakdownFrance: 1,272 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownSpain: 1,024 citing papers, 3.3% of this breakdownAustralia: 982 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownCanada: 942 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSweden: 853 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownItaly: 852 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 735 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownDenmark: 710 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdown
0%23.7%Other 30.7%

Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology63%
  • Medicine7.7%
  • Environmental Science6.1%
  • Neuroscience5%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences4.9%
  • Social Sciences2.4%
  • Other10.9%

Topics

  • Genetic diversity and population structure6.5%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies5.4%
  • Forensic and Genetic Research4.8%
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation2.3%
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies2.1%
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations1.8%
  • Other77.1%

Coauthors

All papers

Open in search
  1. A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Nathaniel Novod, Jason P. Affourtit, Michael D. Miller, Christine Verna, Pavao Rudan, Dejana Brajković, Željko Kućan, Ivan Gušić, Vladimir B. Doronichev, Liubov V. Golovanova, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Marco de la Rasilla Vives, Javier Fortea, Antonio Rosas, Ralf W. Schmitz, Philip L. Johnson, Evan E. Eichler, Daniel Falush, Ewan Birney, James C. Mullikin, Montgomery Slatkin, Rasmus Nielsen, Janet Kelso, Michael Lachmann, David Reich, Svante Pääbo - Science 2010 cited by 4,594

  2. The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Tor Hervig, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada, Olga L. Posukh, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Sena Karachanak-Yankova, Hovhannes Sahakyan, Драга Тончева, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Chris Tyler‐Smith, Yali Xue, Muhammad Syafiq Abdullah, Andrés Ruiz‐Linares, Cynthia M. Beall, Anna Di Rienzo, Choongwon Jeong, Elena B. Starikovskaya, Ene Metspalu, Jüri Parik, Richard Villems, Brenna M. Henn, Uğur Hodoğlugil, Robert W. Mahley, Antti Sajantila, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Joseph Wee, Р. И. Хусаинова, Э. К. Хуснутдинова, Sergey Litvinov, George Ayodo, David Comas, Michael F. Hammer, Toomas Kivisild, William Klitz, Cheryl A. Winkler, Damian Labuda, Michael J. Bamshad, Lynn B. Jorde, Sarah A. Tishkoff, W. Scott Watkins, Mait Metspalu, Stanislav Dryomov, R. I. Sukernik, Lalji Singh, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson, David Reich - Nature 2016 cited by 1,797

  3. Organoid single-cell genomic atlas uncovers human-specific features of brain development

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2019 cited by 848

  4. Human cerebral organoids recapitulate gene expression programs of fetal neocortex development

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2015 cited by 1,167

  5. Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of a Middle Pleistocene cave bear reconstructed from ultrashort DNA fragments

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 1,515

  6. The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Howard M. Cann, Jacob O. Kitzman, Jay Shendure, Evan E. Eichler, Ed S. Lein, Trygve E. Bakken, Liubov V. Golovanova, Vladimir B. Doronichev, M.V. Shunkov, А. П. Деревянко, Bence Viola, Montgomery Slatkin, David Reich, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo - Nature 2013 cited by 2,442

  7. A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Montgomery Slatkin, David Reich, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo - Science 2012 cited by 2,148

  8. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Maria Teschler‐Nicola, Silviu Constantin, Oana Teodora Moldovan, Stefano Benazzi, Marco Peresani, Donato Coppola, Martina Lari, Stefano Ricci, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Frédérique Valentin, Corinne Thévenet, Kurt Wehrberger, Dan Grigorescu, Hélène Rougier, Isabelle Crèvecoeur, Damien Flas, Patrick Semal, Marcello A. Mannino, Christophe Cupillard, Hervé Bocherens, Nicholas J. Conard, Katerina Harvati, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Dorothée G. Drucker, Jiřı́ Svoboda, Michael P. Richards, David Caramelli, Ron Pinhasi, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson, Johannes Krause, Svante Pääbo, David Reich - Nature 2016 cited by 996

  9. The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2011 cited by 1,389

  10. Distribution, silencing potential and evolutionary impact of promoter DNA methylation in the human genome

    Authors: , , , , , , - Nature Genetics 2007 cited by 2,255

  11. A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Montgomery Slatkin, Mikkel Heide Schierup, Aida M. Andrés, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo - Science 2017 cited by 808

  12. Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Science 2015 cited by 645

  13. The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

    Authors: , , , , , , , - Nature 2014 cited by 1,227

  14. An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2015 cited by 841

  15. Separating endogenous ancient DNA from modern day contamination in a Siberian Neandertal

    Authors: , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2014 cited by 515

  16. Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2010 cited by 2,043

  17. Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 1,036

  18. Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature 2014 cited by 1,100

  19. A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Current Biology 2013 cited by 744

  20. Efficient high-precision homology-directed repair-dependent genome editing by HDRobust

    Authors: , , , , , , , , - Nature Methods 2023 cited by 81

  21. Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

    Authors: , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1989 cited by 5,041

  22. DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

    Authors: , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2013 cited by 627

  23. Removal of deaminated cytosines and detection of in vivo methylation in ancient DNA

    Authors: , , , , , - Nucleic Acids Research 2009 cited by 523

  24. Transcriptomes of germinal zones of human and mouse fetal neocortex suggest a role of extracellular matrix in progenitor self-renewal

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2012 cited by 348