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Johannes Krause

Johannes Krause

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Biology and Biochemistry
Germany
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
111
Citations
52493
World Ranking
927
National Ranking
61

Johannes Krause 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 Johannes Krause sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 316 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Johannes Krause 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 Johannes Krause sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 111 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Johannes Krause is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and specializes in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their extensive research output includes 197 publications in this primary field, with significant contributions in subfields including Genetics, Archeology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of topical areas such as forensic and genetic research, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, as well as archaeology and ancient environmental studies. Additional research topics include the study of Yersinia bacterium and plague-related ectoparasites, genetic diversity and population structure, race and genetics in society, and bacterial research involving Bacillus and Francisella.

Recent publications demonstrate the scientist's focus on ancient DNA and population genomics, including:

  • Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia, 2021, Nature
  • Ancient DNA analysis, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe, 2020, Cell
  • Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians Reveal Connections with First Americans and across Eurasia, 2020, Cell

Krause frequently publishes in several high-profile venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Science Advances

Frequent collaborators reflect a network of researchers active in similar domains, such as Wolfgang Haak, Adam B. Rohrlach, Cosimo Posth, Stephan Schiffels, and Philipp W. Stockhammer.

The scientist also has academic contributions in book publications, with titles including PopEventKulturen an den Schnittstellen von Management und Politik (2022) published under Transdisziplinäre Popkulturstudien, and the Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 24/2019 (2021) published by Annals of the history and philosophy of biology.

Best Publications

  • A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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

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

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

  • Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

    Wolfgang Haak;Iosif Lazaridis;Nick Patterson;Nadin Rohland

  • Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

    Iain Mathieson;Iosif Lazaridis;Iosif Lazaridis;Nadin Rohland;Nadin Rohland;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick

  • Genetic Analyses from Ancient DNA

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

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

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

  • The genetic history of Ice Age Europe

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

  • The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

    Johannes Krause;Qiaomei Fu;Jeffrey M. Good;Bence Viola

  • Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA

    Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Susan E. Ptak;Adrian W. Briggs

  • Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

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

  • Genomic insights into the origin of farming in the ancient Near East

    Iosif Lazaridis;Dani Nadel;Gary Rollefson;Deborah C. Merrett

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

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

  • The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals

    Johannes Krause;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Ludovic Orlando;Wolfgang Enard

  • The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

    Iñigo Olalde;Selina Brace;Morten E. Allentoft;Ian Armit

  • The genomic history of southeastern Europe

    Iain Mathieson;Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg;Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy

  • Sequencing and analysis of Neanderthal genomic DNA

    James P. Noonan;James P. Noonan;Graham Coop;Sridhar Kudaravalli;Doug Smith

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

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

  • A Revised Timescale for Human Evolution Based on Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes

    Qiaomei Fu;Qiaomei Fu;Alissa Mittnik;Philip L.F. Johnson;Kirsten Bos;Kirsten Bos

  • Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Ancient Canids Suggest a European Origin of Domestic Dogs

    O. Thalmann;B. Shapiro;Pin Cui;V. J. Schuenemann

  • Targeted retrieval and analysis of five Neandertal mtDNA genomes

    Adrian W. Briggs;Jeffrey M. Good;Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause

Frequent Co-Authors

David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Wolfgang Haak
Wolfgang Haak Max Planck Society
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen
Michal Feldman
Michal Feldman Tel Aviv University
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France

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