Vincent Macaulay

14.2k citations

70 papers · 7.8k · 2 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Genetics top 0.1%
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Race, Genetics, and Society
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
Archeology top 0.05%
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Papers in

Genetics 48
- Forensic and Genetic Research 41
- Genetic diversity and population structure 21
- Race, Genetics, and Society 7
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research 5
Molecular Biology 34
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 18
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology 9

Co-authors: Martin Richards (39 shared papers)Antonio Salas (14 shared papers)Antonio Torroni (13 shared papers)Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt (12 shared papers)Bryan Sykes (7 shared papers)Rosaria Scozzari (9 shared papers)Ãngel Carracedo (9 shared papers)Pedro Soares (11 shared papers)
Journals: The American Journal of Human Genetics (23 papers)PLoS ONE (4 papers)Annals of Human Genetics (4 papers)Molecular Biology and Evolution (4 papers)Genome Research (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Spain Germany

In The Last Decade

Vincent Macaulay

69 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Vincent Macaulay's Hit Papers

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Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock 2009 · 539 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2002 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dan Mishmar, Eduardo Ruiz‐Pesini, Paweł Golik, Vincent Macaulay, Andrew G. Clark, Seyed Vali Hosseini, Martin Brandon, Kirk A. Easley, Estella Chen, Michael D. Brown, R. I. Sukernik, Antonel Olckers, Douglas C. Wallace Hit paper breakdown →	2002	792
2	Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Pedro Soares, Luca Ermini, Noel Thomson, Maru Mormina, Teresa Rito, Arne Röhl, Antonio Salas, Stephen Oppenheimer, Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards Hit paper breakdown →	2009	539
3	The Emerging Tree of West Eurasian mtDNAs: A Synthesis of Control-Region Sequences and RFLPs The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards, Eileen Hickey, Emilce Vega, Fulvio Cruciani, Valentina Guida, Rosaria Scozzari, Batsheva Bonné‐Tamir, Bryan Sykes, Antonio Torroni	1999	492
4	The Making of the African mtDNA Landscape The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Antonio Salas, Martin Richards, T De La Fé, M.V. Lareu, Beatriz Sobrino, Paula Sánchez‐Diz, Vincent Macaulay, Ãngel Carracedo	2002	375
5	Harvesting the fruit of the human mtDNA tree Trends in Genetics ·Antonio Torroni, Alessandro Achilli, Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards, Hj Bandelt	2006	326
6	Phylogeography of mitochondrial DNA in western Europe Annals of Human Genetics ·Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay, H. -J. Bandelt, Bryan Sykes	1998	325
7	A Back Migration from Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa Is Supported by High-Resolution Analysis of Human Y-Chromosome Haplotypes The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Fulvio Cruciani, P. Santolamazza, Peidong Shen, Vincent Macaulay, Pedro Moral, Antonel Olckers, David Modiano, Susan Holmes, Giovanni Destro‐Bisol, Valentina Coia, Douglas C. Wallace, Peter J. Oefner, Antonio Torroni, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Rosaria Scozzari, Peter A. Underhill	2002	276
8	The Fingerprint of Phantom Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA Data The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Lluís Quintana‐Murci, Antonio Salas, Vincent Macaulay	2002	219
9	The African Diaspora: Mitochondrial DNA and the Atlantic Slave Trade The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Antonio Salas, Martin Richards, M.V. Lareu, Rosaria Scozzari, Alfredo Coppa, Antonio Torroni, Vincent Macaulay, Ãngel Carracedo	2004	199
10	A Mitochondrial Stratigraphy for Island Southeast Asia The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Catherine Hill, Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, Vincent Macaulay, (unknown), Petya B. Blumbach, Matthieu Vizuete-Forster, Peter Forster, David Bulbeck, Stephen Oppenheimer, Martin Richards	2006	194
11	Genetic diversity in the Iberian Peninsula determined from mitochondrial sequence analysis Annals of Human Genetics ·Helena B.S.M. Côrte-Real, Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards, Ghania Hariti, M. S. ISSAD, Anne Cambon‐Thomsen, S.S. Papiha, Jaume Bertranpetit, B C Sykes	1996	181
12	The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Pedro Soares, Farida Alshamali, Joana B. Pereira, Verónica Fernandes, N. M. Silva, Carlos Afonso, Marta D. Costa, Eliška Musilová, Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards, (unknown), Luı́sa Pereira	2011	180
13	Median Networks: Speedy Construction and Greedy Reduction, One Simulation, and Two Case Studies from Human mtDNA Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Vincent Macaulay, Martin Richards	2000	178
14	The Archaeogenetics of Europe Current Biology ·Pedro Soares, Alessandro Achilli, Ornella Semino, William Davies, Vincent Macaulay, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Antonio Torroni, Martin Richards	2010	168
15	Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates? The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Antonio Torroni, Chiara Rengo, Valentina Guida, Fulvio Cruciani, Daniele Sellitto, Alfredo Coppa, Fernando Luna Calderón, Barbara Simionati, Giorgio Valle, Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay, Rosaria Scozzari	2001	165
16	A Critical Reassessment of the Role of Mitochondria in Tumorigenesis PLoS Medicine ·Antonio Salas, Yong‐Gang Yao, Vincent Macaulay, Ana Vega, Ãngel Carracedo, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt	2005	161
17	Detecting errors in mtDNA data by phylogenetic analysis International Journal of Legal Medicine ·H. -J. Bandelt, Päivi Lahermo, Martin Richards, Vincent Macaulay	2001	160
18	Climate Change and Postglacial Human Dispersals in Southeast Asia Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Pedro Soares, J. Tréjaut, J.-H. Loo, Catherine Hill, Maru Mormina, Chien‐Liang Lee, Y.-M. Chen, Georgi Hudjashov, Peter Forster, Vincent Macaulay, David Bulbeck, Stephen Oppenheimer, Marie Lin, Martin Richards	2008	151
19	Phylogeography and Ethnogenesis of Aboriginal Southeast Asians Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Catherine Hill, Pedro Soares, Maru Mormina, Vincent Macaulay, William J. Meehan, James Blackburn, Douglas J. Clarke, Joseph Maripa Raja, Patimah Ismail, David Bulbeck, Stephen Oppenheimer, Martin Richards	2006	139
20	High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium Genome Research ·Luı́sa Pereira, Martin Richards, Ana Goios, Antonio Alonso, Cristina Albarrán, Oscar Garcı́a, Doron M. Behar, Mukaddes Gölge, Jiřı́ Hatina, Lihadh Al‐Gazali, Daniel G. Bradley, Vincent Macaulay, António Amorim	2005	136

About Vincent Macaulay

Vincent Macaulay is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology, Archeology, Ecology and Clinical Biochemistry, having authored 70 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Forensic and Genetic Research (41 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers), Mitochondrial Function and Pathology (9 papers), Race, Genetics, and Society (7 papers), Metabolism and Genetic Disorders (5 papers) and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (5.3k citations), Archeology (1.7k citations), Clinical Biochemistry (644 citations), Paleontology (564 citations) and Anthropology (522 citations). Vincent Macaulay has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Martin Richards, Antonio Salas, Antonio Torroni, Hans‐Jürgen Bandelt, Bryan Sykes, Rosaria Scozzari, Ãngel Carracedo, Pedro Soares, H. -J. Bandelt and Luı́sa Pereira. Their work appears in journals such as The American Journal of Human Genetics, PLoS ONE, Annals of Human Genetics, Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Research.

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