2026 Rasmus Nielsen: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	159	101	97	51	50	464	122537

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Rasmus Nielsen is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a substantial focus on genetics and molecular biology. The subfields they work in include genetics, molecular biology, ecology, plant science, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research topics cover a variety of areas such as genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, forensic and genetic research, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, evolution and genetic dynamics, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Rasmus Nielsen has contributed to several recent papers, including the following:

Massive haplotypes underlie ecotypic differentiation in sunflowers, 2020, Nature
Population genomics of the Viking world, 2020, Nature
Investigate the origins of COVID-19, 2021, Science
The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians, 2024, Nature
The genetic architecture of sporadic and multiple consecutive miscarriage, 2020, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature
Molecular Ecology

Rasmus Nielsen collaborates often with several co-authors, including:

Lenore Pipes
Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen
Débora Y. C. Brandt
Andrew H. Vaughn
Yun Deng

In addition to these contributions, Rasmus Nielsen was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes

Junjie Qin;Yingrui Li;Zhiming Cai;Shenghui Li

7470
Citations
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

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

4869
Citations
Bayesian inference of phylogeny and its impact on evolutionary biology

John P. Huelsenbeck;Fredrik Ronquist;Rasmus Nielsen;Jonathan P. Bollback

3311
Citations
Codon-Substitution Models for Heterogeneous Selection Pressure at Amino Acid Sites

Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen;Nick Goldman;Anne Mette Krabbe Pedersen

2720
Citations
Bayes Empirical Bayes Inference of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection

Ziheng Yang;Wendy Shuk Wan Wong;Rasmus Nielsen

2538
Citations
ANGSD: Analysis of Next Generation Sequencing Data

Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen;Anders Albrechtsen;Rasmus Nielsen;Rasmus Nielsen

2532
Citations
Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

2336
Citations
Evaluation of an Improved Branch-Site Likelihood Method for Detecting Positive Selection at the Molecular Level

Jianzhi Zhang;Rasmus Nielsen;Ziheng Yang

1983
Citations
Likelihood Models for Detecting Positively Selected Amino Acid Sites and Applications to the HIV-1 Envelope Gene

Rasmus Nielsen;Ziheng Yang;Ziheng Yang

1952
Citations
Estimating Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates Under Realistic Evolutionary Models

Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen

1928
Citations
Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

Morten E. Allentoft;Martin Sikora;Karl-Göran Sjögren;Simon Rasmussen

1893
Citations
Molecular Signatures of Natural Selection

Rasmus Nielsen

1841
Citations
Sequencing of 50 Human Exomes Reveals Adaptation to High Altitude

Xin Yi;Yu Liang;Emilia Huerta-Sanchez;Xin Jin

1717
Citations
Genotype and SNP calling from next-generation sequencing data

Rasmus Nielsen;Joshua S. Paul;Anders Albrechtsen;Yun S. Song

1675
Citations
Multilocus Methods for Estimating Population Sizes, Migration Rates and Divergence Time, With Applications to the Divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis

Jody Hey;Rasmus Nielsen

1645
Citations
Codon-substitution models for detecting molecular adaptation at individual sites along specific lineages.

Ziheng Yang;Rasmus Nielsen

1567
Citations
Distinguishing migration from isolation: a Markov chain Monte Carlo approach.

Rasmus Nielsen;John Wakeley

1547
Citations
Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome

Richard A. Gibbs;Jeffrey Rogers

1514
Citations
The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

Ruiqiang Li;Wei Fan;Geng Tian;Hongmei Zhu

1413
Citations
The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs

David Brawand;Magali Soumillon;Magali Soumillon;Anamaria Necsulea;Anamaria Necsulea;Philippe Julien;Philippe Julien

1336
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen

Anders Albrechtsen University of Copenhagen

Thorfinn Sand Korneliussen University of Copenhagen

Simon Rasmussen University of Copenhagen

Ludovic Orlando Paul Sabatier University

Carlos Bustamante Stanford University

M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen

Torben Hansen University of Copenhagen

Morten E. Allentoft Curtin University

Frank Asche University of Florida

External Links

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