2026 Janet Kelso: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	74	1927	1834	142	136	148	46203

Overview

Janet Kelso is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Genetics, Archeology, Anthropology, Molecular Biology, and Paleontology as subfields of study.

The main topics covered in their work include:

Forensic and Genetic Research
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
Genetic diversity and population structure
Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Janet Kelso has published papers in several prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature
Science
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Current Biology

Some of their recent papers are:

A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave (2020) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau (2020) in Science
Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry (2021) in Nature
The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes (2020) in Science
Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals (2022) in Nature

Frequent co-authors in Janet Kelso's research include:

Matthias Meyer
Svante Pääbo
Stéphane Peyrégne
Benjamin M. Peter
Viviane Slon

Best Publications

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs;Tomislav Maricic

4869
Citations
The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

4200
Citations
The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

Kay Prüfer;Fernando Racimo;Nick Patterson;Flora Jay

2399
Citations
Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

David Reich;Richard E. Green;Martin Kircher;Johannes Krause

2284
Citations
A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

Matthias Meyer;Martin Kircher;Marie Theres Gansauge;Heng Li

2176
Citations
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Alissa Mittnik;Gabriel Renaud

1526
Citations
The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

1500
Citations
Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

Qiaomei Fu;Heng Li;Priya Moorjani;Flora Jay

1328
Citations
The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

Sriram Sankararaman;Swapan Mallick;Michael Dannemann;Kay Prüfer

1229
Citations
Deep proteome and transcriptome mapping of a human cancer cell line

Nagarjuna Nagaraj;Jacek R Wisniewski;Tamar Geiger;Juergen Cox

1172
Citations
The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

Qiaomei Fu;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Mateja Hajdinjak;Martin Petr

1093
Citations
Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

Adrian W. Briggs;Udo Stenzel;Philip L. F. Johnson;Richard E. Green

999
Citations
High-throughput DNA sequencing – concepts and limitations

Martin Kircher;Janet Kelso

862
Citations
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

Qiaomei Fu;Mateja Hajdinjak;Oana Teodora Moldovan;Silviu Constantin

837
Citations
A complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing

Richard E. Green;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs

783
Citations
Human-specific gene ARHGAP11B promotes basal progenitor amplification and neocortex expansion

Marta Florio;Mareike Albert;Elena Taverna;Takashi Namba

673
Citations
The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

Kay Prüfer;Kasper Munch;Ines Hellmann;Keiko Akagi

671
Citations
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

Kay Prüfer;Cesare de Filippo;Steffi Grote;Fabrizio Mafessoni

665
Citations
DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

Qiaomei Fu;Matthias Meyer;Xing Gao;Udo Stenzel

615
Citations
Methods, Models & Techniques High-throughput DNA sequencing - concepts and limitations

Martin Kircher;Janet Kelso

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Kay Prüfer Max Planck Society

Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society

David Reich Harvard Medical School

Robert Hoehndorf King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School

Johannes Krause Max Planck Society

Nick Patterson Harvard University

Richard E. Green University of California, Santa Cruz

Martin Kircher Charité - University Medicine Berlin

External Links

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