Topic · Race, Genetics, and Society
Most cited papers in Race, Genetics, and Society
What are the most cited papers in Race, Genetics, and Society?
The most cited paper in Race, Genetics, and Society is "Genetic Structure of Human Populations" (Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber et al., 2002), with 3,080 citations. Next come "Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution" (3,076) and "“Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States" (2,534).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 473 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genetic Structure of Human Populations Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber et al. · Science | 19 Dec 2002 | 3,080 |
| 2 | Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking, Allan C. Wilson · Nature | 1987 | 3,076 |
| 3 | “Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States Arline T. Geronimus, Margaret T. Hicken, Danya E. Keene et al. · American Journal of Public Health | 27 Dec 2005 | 2,534 |
| 4 | The Swedish personal identity number: possibilities and pitfalls in healthcare and medical research Jonas Filip Ludvigsson, P Otterblad-Olausson, Birgitta U. Pettersson et al. · European Journal of Epidemiology | 5 Jun 2009 | 2,439 |
| 5 | THE EMERGENCE OF MULTISPECIES ETHNOGRAPHY Eben Kirksey, Stefan Helmreich · Cultural Anthropology | 13 Oct 2010 | 2,243 |
| 6 | Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: be sparing with Occam’s razor Marc Haber, Massimo Mezzavilla, Yali Xue et al. · Genome biology | 11 Jan 2016 | 2,034 |
| 7 | The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations Swapan Mallick et al. · Nature | 20 Sep 2016 | 1,804 |
| 8 | Reconstructing Indian population history David Emil Reich, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Nick J. Patterson et al. · Nature | Sep 2009 | 1,801 |
| 9 | Ethnic and Racial Studies Nasar Meer | 2010 | 1,769 |
| 10 | Enhancements to the ADMIXTURE algorithm for individual ancestry estimation David H. Alexander, Kenneth L. Lange · BMC Bioinformatics | 18 Jun 2011 | 1,758 |
| 11 | Hidden in Plain Sight — Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms Darshali A. Vyas, Leo G. Eisenstein, David Shumway Jones · New England Journal of Medicine | 17 Jun 2020 | 1,747 |
| 12 | History and Geography of Human Genes Alberto Piazza · Advances in forensic haemogenetics | 1994 | 1,663 |
| 13 | Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia Morten E. Allentoft et al. · Nature | 9 Jun 2015 | 1,663 |
| 14 | Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians Iain Mathieson et al. · Nature | 23 Nov 2015 | 1,658 |
| 15 | The Missing Diversity in Human Genetic Studies Giorgio Sirugo, Scott M. Williams, Sarah A. Tishkoff · Cell | Mar 2019 | 1,625 |
| 16 | The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans Sarah A. Tishkoff et al. · Science | 30 Apr 2009 | 1,617 |
| 17 | Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health Merrill C. Singer, Nicola L. Bulled, Bayla M. M. Ostrach et al. · The Lancet | Mar 2017 | 1,509 |
| 18 | Racial discrimination and blood pressure: the CARDIA Study of young black and white adults. Nancy R Krieger, Stephen S Sidney · American Journal of Public Health | Oct 1996 | 1,307 |
| 19 | Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race. Audrey Smedley, Brian D. Smedley · American Psychologist | 2005 | 1,271 |
| 20 | Million Veteran Program: A mega-biobank to study genetic influences on health and disease John Michael Gaziano et al. · Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 19 Oct 2015 | 1,154 |
| 21 | The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv, Natasha E. Coyle et al. · New England Journal of Medicine | 19 Mar 2003 | 1,126 |
| 22 | Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes Anders Bergström et al. · Science | 19 Mar 2020 | 1,112 |
| 23 | Distrust, Race, and Research Giselle M. Corbie-Smith, Stephen B. Thomas, Diane Marie M. St. George · Archives of Internal Medicine | 25 Nov 2002 | 1,092 |
| 24 | Anticipation: Technoscience, life, affect, temporality Vincanne Adams, Michelle Murphy, Adele E. Clarke · Subjectivity | Sep 2009 | 1,076 |
| 25 | In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity Charles E. Rosenberg, Daniel J. Kevles · Journal of American History | Jun 1986 | 1,072 |
| 26 | The Genetics of Human Adaptation: Hard Sweeps, Soft Sweeps, and Polygenic Adaptation Jonathan K. Pritchard, Joseph K. Pickrell, Graham Coop · Current Biology | Feb 2010 | 1,034 |
| 27 | Attitudes and beliefs of african americans toward participation in medical research Giselle M. Corbie-Smith, Stephen B. Thomas, Mark V. Williams et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine | Sep 1999 | 1,029 |
| 28 | Color and genomic ancestry in Brazilians Flavia C Parra, Roberto Campos Amado, José Roberto Lambertucci et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 30 Dec 2002 | 983 |
| 29 | Not in our Genes; Biology, Ideology and Human Nature Alan Emery · Trends in Neurosciences | 1985 | 949 |
| 30 | Embodiment: a conceptual glossary for epidemiology Nancy R Krieger · Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health | 14 Apr 2005 | 945 |
| 31 | A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History Garrett Hellenthal, George Busby, Gavin Band et al. · Science | 14 Feb 2014 | 934 |
| 32 | DNA methylation: a historical perspective Alexandra L. Mattei, Nina Bailly, Alexander Meissner · Trends in Genetics | 30 Apr 2022 | 905 |
| 33 | Race and Trust in the Health Care System L. Ebony Boulware · Public Health Reports | 18 Jun 2003 | 905 |
| 34 | African Genetic Diversity: Implications for Human Demographic History, Modern Human Origins, and Complex Disease Mapping Michael C. Campbell, Sarah A. Tishkoff · Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics | Jul 2008 | 903 |
| 35 | Life of the mind: The interface of psychopharmaceuticals, domestic economies, and social abandonment João Guilherme Biehl · American Ethnologist | Nov 2004 | 902 |
| 36 | How culture shaped the human genome: bringing genetics and the human sciences together Kevin N. Laland, John Odling‐Smee, Sean Myles · Nature Reviews Genetics | 18 Jan 2010 | 884 |
| 37 | Are Racial and Ethnic Minorities Less Willing to Participate in Health Research? David S. Wendler, Raynard S. Kington, Jennifer H. Madans et al. · PLoS Medicine | 30 Nov 2005 | 872 |
| 38 | Race and health: Basic questions, emerging directions David R. Williams · Annals of Epidemiology | Jul 1997 | 837 |
| 39 | An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia Morten Rasmussen et al. · Science | 22 Sep 2011 | 817 |
| 40 | Alterlife and Decolonial Chemical Relations Michelle Murphy · Cultural Anthropology | 18 Nov 2017 | 806 |
| 41 | The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations P. A. Underhill, Giuseppe Passarino, Ashleigh Lin et al. · Annals of Human Genetics | 2001 | 801 |
| 42 | Ancient DNA Michael Hofreiter, David Serre, Hendrik N. Poinar et al. · Nature Reviews Genetics | May 2001 | 794 |
| 43 | The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective Ornella Semino, Giuseppe Passarino, Peter J. Oefner et al. · Science | 10 Nov 2000 | 791 |
| 44 | How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequality Clarence C. Gravlee · American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 18 Feb 2009 | 767 |
| 45 | Genetic essentialism: On the deceptive determinism of DNA. Ilan Dar‐Nimrod, Steven J. Heine · Psychological Bulletin | 13 Dec 2010 | 765 |
| 46 | Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease. NEIL J. RISCH, Esteban G. Burchard, Elad Ziv et al. · Genome biology | 2002 | 762 |
| 47 | The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States Katarzyna Bryc, Éric Durand, J. Michael Macpherson et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics | 20 Dec 2014 | 759 |
| 48 | A functional approach to craniology Melvin L. Moss, Richard W. Young · American Journal of Physical Anthropology | Dec 1960 | 749 |
| 49 | The genomic history of southeastern Europe Iain Mathieson et al. · Nature | 21 Feb 2018 | 745 |
| 50 | Informativeness of Genetic Markers for Inference of Ancestry* Noah A. Rosenberg, Lei M. Li, Ryk H. Ward et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics | Dec 2003 | 740 |
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