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Wolfgang Haak

Wolfgang Haak

Max Planck Society
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
24431
World Ranking
8958
National Ranking
653

Wolfgang Haak 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 Wolfgang Haak sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 134 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Haak 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 Wolfgang Haak 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: 65 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Wolfgang Haak is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the life sciences and humanities, with a strong emphasis on genetics and archaeology. The scientist has made contributions to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Arts and Humanities.

Their main areas of study include:

  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research

Haak has published extensively in the subfields of Genetics, Archeology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology, and Ecology.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Wolfgang Haak include:

  • "A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe," 2020, Cell
  • "A Paleogenomic Reconstruction of the Deep Population History of the Andes," 2020, Cell
  • "The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool," 2022, Nature
  • "Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Genetic history from the Middle Neolithic to present on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia," 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Haak include:

  • Johannes Krause
  • Adam B. Rohrlach
  • Ainash Childebayeva
  • Stephan Schiffels
  • Maïté Rivollat

Wolfgang Haak's work is often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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 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 ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

    Christina J Adler;Keith Dobney;Laura S Weyrich;John Kaidonis

  • Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7500-year-old Neolithic sites

    Wolfgang Haak;Peter Forster;Barbara Bramanti;Shuichi Matsumura

  • Genetic Discontinuity Between Local Hunter-Gatherers and Central Europe’s First Farmers

    B. Bramanti;M. G. Thomas;Wolfgang Haak;M. Unterlaender

  • Ancient DNA from European early Neolithic farmers reveals their Near Eastern affinities

    Wolfgang Haak;Oleg Balanovsky;Juan J. Sanchez;Sergey Koshel

  • Absence of the lactase-persistence-associated allele in early Neolithic Europeans

    J. Burger;M. Kirchner;B. Bramanti;Wolfgang Haak

  • The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years.

    Iñigo Olalde;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Nick Patterson;Nadin Rohland

  • Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

    Laura S. Weyrich;Sebastian Duchene;Julien Soubrier;Luis Arriola

  • Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe

    Cosimo Posth;Gabriel Renaud;Alissa Mittnik;Alissa Mittnik;Dorothée G. Drucker

  • Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas

    Bastien Llamas;Lars Fehren-Schmitz;Guido Valverde;Julien Soubrier

  • Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity.

    Guido Brandt;Wolfgang Haak;Christina J. Adler;Christina Roth

  • Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

    Cosimo Posth;Cosimo Posth;Nathan Nakatsuka;Nathan Nakatsuka;Iosif Lazaridis;Pontus Skoglund;Pontus Skoglund

  • Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age

    Wolfgang Haak;Guido Brandt;Hylke N. de Jong;Christian Meyer

  • Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers.

    Mark Lipson;Anna Szécsényi-Nagy;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Annamária Pósa

  • Aboriginal mitogenomes reveal 50,000 years of regionalism in Australia

    Ray Tobler;Adam Rohrlach;Julien Soubrier;Julien Soubrier;Pere Bover

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Nadin Rohland
Nadin Rohland Harvard University
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Joachim Burger
Joachim Burger Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Carles Lalueza-Fox
Carles Lalueza-Fox Pompeu Fabra University

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