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Mikkel H. Schierup

Mikkel H. Schierup

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
68
Citations
22264
World Ranking
2408
National Ranking
25

Mikkel H. Schierup publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mikkel H. Schierup sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 175 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Mikkel H. Schierup D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mikkel H. Schierup sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mikkel H. Schierup is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including genetics, molecular biology, plant science, anthropology, and social psychology. Their research covers a wide range of topics such as genomics and phylogenetic studies, chromosomal and genetic variations, genetic diversity and population structure, evolution and genetic dynamics, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology.

Mikkel H. Schierup has published extensively across various academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

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

The scientist has collaborated often with several co-authors, including:

  • Guojie Zhang
  • Juraj Bergman
  • Søren Besenbacher
  • Tomàs Marquès-Bonet
  • Kristian Almstrup

Recent notable publications by Mikkel H. Schierup include:

  • Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes, 2024, published in Nature
  • Evolution of the germline mutation rate across vertebrates, 2023, published in Nature
  • A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species, 2023, published in Science
  • The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis across mammals, 2022, published in Nature
  • The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates, 2023, published in Science

Best Publications

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores

    Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Jian Yang;Hilary K. Finucane;Alexander Gusev

  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history

    Javier Prado-Martinez;Peter H. Sudmant;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Heng Li

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • RNA Exosome Depletion Reveals Transcription Upstream of Active Human Promoters

    Pascal Preker;Jesper Nielsen;Susanne Kammler;Søren Lykke-Andersen

  • Gene Genealogies, Variation and Evolution: A Primer in Coalescent Theory

    Jotun Hein;Mikkel H. Schierup;Carsten Wiuf

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Anna Sapfo Malaspinas;Michael C. Westaway;Craig Muller;Vitor C. Sousa;Vitor C. Sousa

  • Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes.

    Devin P. Locke;LaDeana W. Hillier;Wesley C. Warren;Kim C. Worley

  • The bonobo genome compared with the chimpanzee and human genomes

    Kay Prüfer;Kasper Munch;Ines Hellmann;Keiko Akagi

  • A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Vindija Cave in Croatia

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

  • Consequences of recombination on traditional phylogenetic analysis.

    Mikkel H. Schierup;Jotun Hein

  • Pigs in sequence space: a 0.66X coverage pig genome survey based on shotgun sequencing.

    Rasmus Wernersson;Mikkel H Schierup;Frank G Jørgensen;Jan Gorodkin

  • Genomic relationships and speciation times of human, chimpanzee, and gorilla inferred from a coalescent hidden Markov model.

    Asger Hobolth;Ole Fredslund Christensen;Thomas Mailund;Thomas Mailund;Mikkel Heide Schierup

  • Spider genomes provide insight into composition and evolution of venom and silk

    Kristian W. Sanggaard;Jesper S. Bechsgaard;Xiaodong Fang;Jinjie Duan

  • Recent speciation of Capsella rubella from Capsella grandiflora, associated with loss of self-incompatibility and an extreme bottleneck

    Ya-Long Guo;Jesper S. Bechsgaard;Tanja Slotte;Barbara Neuffer

  • Incomplete lineage sorting patterns among human, chimpanzee, and orangutan suggest recent orangutan speciation and widespread selection

    Asger Hobolth;Julien Y. Dutheil;John Hawks;Mikkel H. Schierup

  • The making of a new pathogen: Insights from comparative population genomics of the domesticated wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola and its wild sister species

    Eva H. Stukenbrock;Thomas Bataillon;Julien Y. Dutheil;Troels T. Hansen

  • The effect of subdivision on variation at multi-allelic loci under balancing selection.

    Mikkel H. Schierup;Xavier Vekemans;Deborah Charlesworth

  • Using biological networks to search for interacting loci in genome-wide association studies

    Mathieu Emily;Mathieu Emily;Thomas Mailund;Jotun Hein;Leif Schauser

  • Novel variation and de novo mutation rates in population-wide de novo assembled Danish trios

    Søren Besenbacher;Siyang Liu;José M. G. Izarzugaza;Jakob Grove

Frequent Co-Authors

Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
Stig Uggerhøj Andersen
Stig Uggerhøj Andersen Aarhus University
Thomas Bataillon
Thomas Bataillon Aarhus University
Xavier Vekemans
Xavier Vekemans University of Lille
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Lars Bolund
Lars Bolund Aarhus University
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Gerton Lunter
Gerton Lunter University of Oxford
Søren Brunak
Søren Brunak University of Copenhagen
Guojie Zhang
Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University

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