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Eske Willerslev

Eske Willerslev publishes mostly in Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Forensic and Genetic Research, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research.

World rank
#6,057
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Denmark
#40
of 10,734
Works
58
Citations
1.6k
Citations per work
27.8

What does Eske Willerslev research?

Genetics: 27.3%Ecology: 16.7%Molecular Biology: 13.6%Paleontology: 10.6%other fields: 31.8%27%top field
Genetics27.3%Ecology16.7%Molecular Biology13.6%Paleontology10.6%other fields31.8%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Genetics27% of their works
  2. 2Ecology17% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology14% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology11% of their works
  5. 5Archeology9% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Eske Willerslev's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient DNA, Genomic Analysis, Population History, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Population Genetics, plague and Yersinia pestis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Ancient DNA112 topics
  2. Genomic Analysis71 topic
  3. Population History71 topic
  4. Age Estimation61 topic
  5. Sex Determination61 topic
  6. Population Genetics52 topics
  7. Yersinia pestis41 topic
  8. plague41 topic
  9. Climate Change31 topic
  10. Genetic Structure31 topic
  11. Mammal Evolution31 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  13. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis31 topic
  14. Population Dynamics31 topic
  15. RNA-Seq31 topic
  16. sequence alignment31 topic
  17. Genetics21 topic
  18. Race21 topic

Where does Eske Willerslev work?

Eske Willerslev's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

How many publications and citations does Eske Willerslev have?

Science Explorer counts 58 works and 1,615 citations for Eske Willerslev, ranking #6,057 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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