2026 Ole Madsen: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	46	2775	2516	74	66	119	14370

Overview

Ole Madsen is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, contributing extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, predominantly Genetics and Molecular Biology, alongside Cancer Research, Oncology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

They have published research primarily in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Genetics, and Nature Genetics, with additional contributions to Molecular Biology and Evolution, and Genetics Selection Evolution.

Their research interests focus on genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetic diversity and population structure, cancer-related molecular mechanisms, epigenetics and DNA methylation, animal genetics and reproduction, and cancer cell metastasis.

Frequent collaborators of Ole Madsen include Martien A. M. Groenen, Marta Gòdia, Martijn F. L. Derks, R.P.M.A. Crooijmans, and Lingzhao Fang, reflecting a range of joint efforts within their research network.

Notable recent publications by Madsen include:

A compendium of genetic regulatory effects across pig tissues, 2024, Nature Genetics
Organoids: a promising new in vitro platform in livestock and veterinary research, 2021, Veterinary Research
Congruence of Transcription Programs in Adult Stem Cell-Derived Jejunum Organoids and Original Tissue During Long-Term Culture, 2020, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
RNA-Seq Analysis Reveals Hub Genes Involved in Chicken Intramuscular Fat and Abdominal Fat Deposition During Development, 2020, Frontiers in Genetics
Genetic consequences of long-term small effective population size in the critically endangered pygmy hog, 2020, Evolutionary Applications

Best Publications

Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics

William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Stephen J. O'Brien;Ole Madsen

2047
Citations
Analyses of pig genomes provide insight into porcine demography and evolution

Martien A. M. Groenen;Alan L. Archibald;Hirohide Uenishi;Christopher K. Tuggle

1625
Citations
A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record.

Emma C. Teeling;Emma C. Teeling;Mark S. Springer;Ole Madsen;Paul Bates

1394
Citations
Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals

Michael J. Stanhope;Victor G. Waddell;Ole Madsen;Wilfried de Jong

485
Citations
Molecules consolidate the placental mammal tree

Mark S. Springer;Michael J. Stanhope;Ole Madsen;Wilfried W. de Jong

466
Citations
Endemic African mammals shake the phylogenetic tree

G.C. Cleven;O. Madsen;W.W. de Jong;W.W. de Jong

408
Citations
Rodent Phylogeny and a Timescale for the Evolution of Glires: Evidence from an Extensive Taxon Sampling Using Three Nuclear Genes

Dorothée Huchon;Ole Madsen;Mark J. J. B. Sibbald;Kai Ament

389
Citations
Evidence of long-term gene flow and selection during domestication from analyses of Eurasian wild and domestic pig genomes.

Laurent A F Frantz;Laurent A F Frantz;Joshua G Schraiber;Ole Madsen;Hendrik-Jan Megens

351
Citations
Regions of homozygosity in the porcine genome: consequence of demography and the recombination landscape.

Mirte Bosse;Hendrik Jan Megens;Ole Madsen;Yogesh Paudel

343
Citations
Integrated fossil and molecular data reconstruct bat echolocation

Mark S. Springer;Emma C. Teeling;Ole Madsen;Michael J. Stanhope

341
Citations
Asynchronous colonization of Madagascar by the four endemic clades of primates, tenrecs, carnivores, and rodents as inferred from nuclear genes.

Céline Poux;Ole Madsen;Elisabeth Marquard;Elisabeth Marquard;David R. Vieites

325
Citations
Molecular Phylogeny of Living Xenarthrans and the Impact of Character and Taxon Sampling on the Placental Tree Rooting

Frédéric Delsuc;Mark Scally;Ole Madsen;Michael J. Stanhope

302
Citations
Microbat paraphyly and the convergent evolution of a key innovation in Old World rhinolophoid microbats

Emma C. Teeling;Ole Madsen;Ronald A. Van Den Bussche;Wilfried W. de Jong

290
Citations
Mitochondrial Versus Nuclear Gene Sequences in Deep-Level Mammalian Phylogeny Reconstruction

Mark S. Springer;Ronald W. DeBry;Christophe Douady;Heather M. Amrine

269
Citations
Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

228
Citations
Genomic analysis reveals selection for Asian genes in European pigs following human-mediated introgression

Mirte Bosse;Hendrik-Jan Megens;Laurent A. F. Frantz;Ole Madsen

226
Citations
Evolutionary diversity of vertebrate small heat shock proteins.

Erik Franck;Ole Madsen;Teun van Rheede;Guénola Ricard

222
Citations
Genome sequencing reveals fine scale diversification and reticulation history during speciation in Sus

Laurent A.F. Frantz;Joshua G. Schraiber;Ole Madsen;Hendrik Jan Megens

198
Citations
Molecular Evolution of the Mammalian Prion Protein

Teun van Rheede;Marcel M. W. Smolenaars;Ole Madsen;Wilfried W. de Jong

197
Citations
Molecular diversity and evolution of the large lipid transfer protein superfamily

Marcel M.W. Smolenaars;Ole Madsen;Kees W. Rodenburg;Dick J. Van der Horst

184
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martien A. M. Groenen Wageningen University & Research

Hendrik-Jan Megens Wageningen University & Research

Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans Wageningen University & Research

Wilfried W. de Jong Radboud University

Mirte Bosse Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Michael J. Stanhope Cornell University

Lawrence B. Schook University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Christophe J. Douady Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

Mark S. Springer University of California, Riverside

Emma C. Teeling University College Dublin

External Links

Personal website of Ole Madsen

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