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Hendrik N. Poinar

Hendrik N. Poinar

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
20539
World Ranking
10011
National Ranking
342

Hendrik N. Poinar publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hendrik N. Poinar sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 165 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Hendrik N. Poinar D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Hendrik N. Poinar sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Hendrik N. Poinar is an active researcher affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their work predominantly spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, comprising 59 publications in this area. The subfields covered include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Infectious Diseases.

The research topics of Hendrik N. Poinar feature a focus on several key areas:

  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Dental development and anomalies
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Poxvirus research and outbreaks

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Poinar include Jennifer Klunk, Ana T. Duggan, G. Brian Golding, Melanie Kuch, and Katherine Eaton. These collaborations reflect ongoing scientific partnerships contributing to the body of work attributed to Poinar.

Hendrik N. Poinar has contributed several recent papers published in established scientific journals. Notable examples include:

  • Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death, 2022, Nature
  • The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Optimizing extraction and targeted capture of ancient environmental DNA for reconstructing past environments using the PalaeoChip Arctic-1.0 bait-set, 2020, Quaternary Research
  • The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes, 2020, Current Biology

The scientist's publications appear frequently in several prominent journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature, Current Biology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Antibiotic resistance is ancient

    Vanessa M. D’Costa;Christine E. King;Lindsay Kalan;Mariya Morar

  • Genetic Analyses from Ancient DNA

    Svante Pääbo;Hendrik Poinar;Hendrik Poinar;David Serre;Viviane Jaenicke-Després

  • Ancient DNA: Do It Right or Not at All

    Alan Cooper;Hendrik N. Poinar

  • A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

    Kirsten I. Bos;Verena J. Schuenemann;G. Brian Golding;Hernán A. Burbano

  • Metagenomics to paleogenomics: large-scale sequencing of mammoth DNA.

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Carsten Schwarz;Ji Qi;Beth Shapiro

  • Molecular coproscopy: Dung and diet of the extinct ground sloth Nothrotheriops shastensis

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Michael Hofreiter;W. Geoffrey Spaulding;Paul S. Martin

  • Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland

    Eske Willerslev;Enrico Cappellini;Wouter Boomsma;Rasmus Nielsen

  • Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541-543 AD: a genomic analysis

    David M. Wagner;Jennifer Klunk;Michaela Harbeck;Alison Devault

  • Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Matthias Höss;Jeffrey L. Bada;Svante Pääbo

  • Complete genomes reveal signatures of demographic and genetic declines in the woolly mammoth.

    Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund;Jacob Enk

  • Isolation of nucleic acids and cultures from fossil ice and permafrost

    Eske Willerslev;Eske Willerslev;Anders J. Hansen;Hendrik N. Poinar

  • Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

    Verena J. Schuenemann;Kirsten I. Bos;Sharon DeWitte;Sarah Schmedes

  • Unreliable mtDNA data due to nuclear insertions: a cautionary tale from analysis of humans and other great apes

    Olaf Thalmann;Juliane Hebler;Hendrik N. Poinar;Svante Pääbo

  • 17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox

    Ana T. Duggan;Maria F. Perdomo;Dario Piombino-Mascali;Stephanie Marciniak

  • Shotgun Mitogenomics Provides a Reference Phylogenetic Framework and Timescale for Living Xenarthrans

    Gillian C. Gibb;Fabien L. Condamine;Melanie Kuch;Jacob Enk

  • A molecular analysis of ground sloth diet through the last glaciation

    Hofreiter M;Poinar Hn;Spaulding Wg;Bauer K

  • A molecular analysis of dietary diversity for three archaic Native Americans

    Hendrik N. Poinar;Melanie Kuch;Kristin D. Sobolik;Ian Barnes

  • Recharacterization of ancient DNA miscoding lesions: insights in the era of sequencing-by-synthesis

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Jonas Binladen;Webb Miller;Carsten Wiuf

  • New insights from old bones: DNA preservation and degradation in permafrost preserved mammoth remains

    Carsten Schwarz;Regis Debruyne;Melanie Kuch;Elizabeth McNally

  • CompleteGenomesRevealSignaturesofDemographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth

    Eleftheria Palkopoulou;Swapan Mallick;Pontus Skoglund;Jacob Enk

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward C. Holmes
Edward C. Holmes University of Sydney
Ross D. E. MacPhee
Ross D. E. MacPhee American Museum of Natural History
Duane G. Froese
Duane G. Froese University of Alberta
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
John Southon
John Southon University of California, Irvine
Eske Willerslev
Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Gerard D. Wright
Gerard D. Wright McMaster University
Paul Keim
Paul Keim Northern Arizona University

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