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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Germany

Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo publishes mostly in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Archeology, on topics such as Forensic and Genetic Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4670-6311 OpenAlex
World rank
#345
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#10
of 364,343
Works
477
Citations
104k
Citations per work
218.8
h-index
161
i10-index 351Top 0.1% in Molecular Biology
Svante Pääbo

What does Svante Pääbo research?

Svante Pääbo's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (52%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Social Sciences (7%).

Life Sciences: 247 works · 51.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 247 works · 51.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 133 works · 27.9% of their workGenetics: 114 works · 23.8% of their workEverything else: 125 works · 26.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 73 works · 15.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 39 works · 8.2% of their workArcheology: 39 works · 8.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 7.0% of their workAnthropology: 33 works · 7.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 33 works · 6.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 23 works · 4.8% of their workPaleontology: 23 works · 4.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 10 works · 2.1% of their workEcology: 10 works · 2.1% of their workTHEIR WORKSvante Pääbo477works
Life Sciences52%Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences15%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24751.7%
  2. Everything else12526.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities398.2%
    2. Social Sciences337.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences234.8%
    2. Environmental Science102.1%
  1. 1Molecular Biology28% of their works
  2. 2Genetics24% of their works
  3. 3Archeology8% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology7% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Svante Pääbo's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient DNA, Genomic Analysis, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, RNA-Seq and sequence alignment.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Ancient DNA1231 topic
  2. Genomic Analysis1231 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics861 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology861 topic
  5. Age Estimation761 topic
  6. Sex Determination761 topic
  7. RNA-Seq641 topic
  8. sequence alignment641 topic
  9. Agricultural Origins461 topic
  10. Genetic Structure461 topic
  11. Population Genetics461 topic
  12. Radiocarbon Dating461 topic
  13. Ribosome361 topic
  14. Translation361 topic
  15. Chromatin271 topic
  16. Transcription271 topic

Where does Svante Pääbo work?

Svante Pääbo's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Svante Pääbo have?

OpenAlex counts 477 works and 104,382 citations for Svante Pääbo, an h-index of 161, ranking #345 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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