Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility
The Story So Far
Short impact summary
The research article, “Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility,” has garnered significant academic attention, as demonstrated by its 85 citations across various esteemed journals, including Nature Communications and Genome Biology. This work not only showcases substantial scholarly influence but has also initiated discussions within the community, evident by its inclusion in three Wikipedia entries.
Full narrative
The article has established itself as a significant contribution to the field, with noteworthy backing from key institutions such as the University of Chicago and Aix-Marseille Université. Its substantial funding from organizations including the National Institutes of Health and the Austrian Science Fund highlights a strong institutional investment in the research area. This level of support reinforces the credibility and relevance of the study.
Early sharing of the article in preprint form allowed for immediate engagement within the academic community, reflected in 18 preprint citations and 200 events surrounding the preprint. Such metrics indicate the impact of open science practices, leading to a broader discussion about population structures in Europe amidst historical mobility patterns.
The research has prompted further inquiry, as evidenced by its proven downstream reuse, with 86 instances where the data and materials have been employed in subsequent studies. This demonstrates a strong commitment to scientific stewardship and resource accessibility within the discipline. Furthermore, the open peer reviews associated with the work enhance transparency and accountability, solidifying its place in the ongoing scientific discourse.
Overall, the discussion around this research is not limited to academia; it has also found a footing in public domains, as indicated by its three mentions on Wikipedia. This cross-pollination of academic insights into public knowledge encapsulates the study's broader societal relevance and demonstrates the transformative potential of scholarly communication in enhancing public understanding of complex historical patterns.
Impact metrics
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Total Citations (OpenAlex):
85
🏆 Top 1% Cited
Includes 67 from the published article and 18 from its early preprint version.
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Total Online mentions (Crossref & Open Web): 6
Includes 0 from the published article and 200 from the preprint.
- Citation context (scite): 38
Inferred roles
Heuristic classification from citation composition / usage signals. Not based on full text.
Active public discourse (0.95)
High-visibility uptake (0.85)
Scholarly uptake (0.73)
Sustainability & policy relevance (0.55)
Rapid uptake (0.52)
Access OpenAlex
- DOI: 10.7554/elife.79714
- OA status: Gold
- Landing page: https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.79714
Attention landscape Event Data
This work has 6 recorded events globally (combined from the published article and preprint).
(See specific sources and examples in the Online Mentions section below).
Citation context scite
- Total: 38
- Supporting: 6
- Mentioning: 30
- Contradicting: 2
Scientific Stewardship Europe PMC / DataCite
Associated data repositories and clinical trials.
Data Repositories & Code
Who is citing this work? OpenAlex
Analysis of the 85 most recent citing works.
149.3% of these citations come from the Top 10 institutions below. The median citing paper has gone on to be cited 1.0 times itself.
149.3% of these citations come from the Top 10 institutions below. The median citing paper has gone on to be cited 1.0 times itself.
Global Reach (Top Countries)
United States (33)
Germany (30)
United Kingdom (22)
Austria (18)
Spain (18)
Italy (16)
Croatia (13)
Sweden (10)
Czechia (10)
Hungary (10)
France (7)
Slovenia (7)
Institutional Sectors
Education (61)
Facility (52)
Government (22)
Archive (19)
Nonprofit (19)
Top Citing Institutions
- Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ROR (20)
- University of Vienna ROR (15)
- Eötvös Loránd University ROR (10)
- Harvard University ROR (9)
- Institute for Anthropological Research ROR (9)
- Uppsala University ROR (8)
- ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities ROR (8)
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva ROR (7)
- Broad Institute ROR (7)
- University of Primorska ROR (7)
- Citing work types: article (44) preprint (22) book-chapter (1)
- Top citing venues: bioRxiv (21) Genome biology (6) Cell (3) Nature Communications (3) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3)
- Top citing concepts: Population (16) Geography (15) Biology (13) Ancient DNA (10) Evolutionary biology (8) Computational biology (4) History (4) Ancient history (4)
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Open Peer Review Crossref
Public referee reports and author responses.
Peer Review
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
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Peer Review
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Online mentions & activity Crossref & Open Web
Community Engagement & Discourse
Wikipedia (en)
Genetic history of North Africa
Work cited as a foundational reference in this encyclopedic entry.
Displaying the 3 most detailed mentions. Other aggregated events lack public URLs.
Teaching, Practice & Library Adoption
Evidence of structured teaching use, reading lists, and library availability.
OpenCourseWare Mentions Google Custom Search
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Art and visual culture: Medieval to modern www.open.edu"...This introduction to the history of art and visual culture provides a broad overview of the major developments in western art between c.1100 and the present ......"
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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/25/ ... www.open.edu"...To go to the trouble and expense of transporting it from northern Europe ... large population of relatively affluent city-dwellers. In other countries ......"
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Wales and the Wider World www.open.edu"...Wales has had an impressive record in stocking Westminster front-benches, in terms of seats and personalities: as leaders of the Labour party, Keir Hardie, ......"
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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/f4/18/ ... www.open.edu"...High figures can suggest higher income from investments, but a high yield ... Although they have since been reclassified as 'structured products', they ......"
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https://www.open.edu/openlearn/72/ ... www.open.edu"...Fish from mountain rivers and birds from a high altitude were also 'thinning' in this medical sense, because they were thought to be 'drier' than those ......"
Library & Community Access Open Library
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Contributors & affiliations OpenAlex
97 authors · 36 institutions
Authors
- Margaret L. Antonio First ORCID
- Clemens L. Weiß ORCID
- Ziyue Gao ORCID
- Susanna Sawyer ORCID
- Victoria Oberreiter ORCID
- Hannah M. Moots ORCID
- Jeffrey P. Spence ORCID
- Olivia Cheronet ORCID
- Brina Zagorc ORCID
- Elisa Praxmarer
- Kadir Toykan Özdoğan ORCID
- Lea Demetz
- Pere Gelabert ORCID
- Daniel Fernandes ORCID
- Michaela Lucci ORCID
- Timka Alihodžić
- Selma Amrani ORCID
- Pavel Avetisyan ORCID
- Christèle Baillif-Ducros ORCID
- Željka Bedić ORCID
- Audrey Bertrand ORCID
- Maja Bilić
- Luca Bondioli
- Paulina Borówka ORCID
- Emmanuel Botte ORCID
- Josip Burmaz
- Domagoj Bužanić ORCID
- Francesca Candilio ORCID
- Mirna Cvetko ORCID
- Daniela De Angelis
- Ivan Drnić
- Kristián Elschek ORCID
- Mounir Fantar
- Andrej Gaspari
- Gabriella Gasperetti
- Francesco Genchi
- Snežana Golubović ORCID
- Zuzana Hukeľová ORCID
- Rimantas Jankauskas ORCID
- Kristina Jelinčić Vučković ORCID
- Gordana Jeremić ORCID
- Iva Kaić ORCID
- Kevin Kazek
- Hamazasp Khachatryan ORCID
- Anahit Yu. Khudaverdyan
- Sylvia Kirchengast ORCID
- Miomir Korać
- Valérie Kozlowski
- Maria Krošláková ORCID
- Dora Kušan Špalj ORCID
- Francesco La Pastina
- Marie Laguardia ORCID
- Sandra Legrand
- Tino Leleković ORCID
- Tamara Leskovar ORCID
- Wiesław Lorkiewicz ORCID
- Dženi Los
- Ana María Silva ORCID
- René Masaryk
- Vinka Matijević
- Yahia Mehdi Seddik Cherifi ORCID
- Nicolás Meyer ORCID
- Ilija Mikić ORCID
- Nataša Miladinović-Radmilović ORCID
- Branka Milošević Zakić
- Lina Nacouzi
- Magdalena Natuniewicz-Sekuła ORCID
- Alessia Nava ORCID
- Christine Neugebauer-Maresch ORCID
- Jan Nováček ORCID
- Anna J. Osterholtz ORCID
- Julianne Paige
- Lujana Paraman ORCID
- Dominique Piéri
- Karol Pieta ORCID
- Stefan Pop-Lazić ORCID
- Matej Ruttkay ORCID
- Mirjana Sanader ORCID
- Arkadiusz Sołtysiak ORCID
- Alessandra Sperduti ORCID
- Tijana Stankovic Pesterac
- Maria Teschler‐Nicola ORCID
- Iwona Teul
- Domagoj Tončinić ORCID
- Julien Trapp
- Dragana Vulović ORCID
- Tomasz Waliszewski ORCID
- Diethard Walter
- Miloš Živanović
- Mohamed el Mostefa Filah
- Morana Čaušević-Bully ORCID
- Mario Šlaus ORCID
- Dušan Borić ORCID
- Mario Novak ORCID
- Alfredo Coppa ORCID
- Ron Pinhasi Corresponding ORCID
- Jonathan K. Pritchard ORCID
Institutions
- Stanford University
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Vienna
- University of Chicago
- Utrecht University
- Sapienza University of Rome
- Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
- University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene
- Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography
- Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives
- Institute for Anthropological Research
- Université Gustave Eiffel
- University of Padua
- University of Łódź
- Aix-Marseille Université
- University of Zagreb
- Musée de la Civilisation
- National Archaeological Museum
- Slovak Academy of Sciences
- National Heritage Institute
- University of Ljubljana
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari
- Institute of Archaeology
- Vilnius University
- Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorrain d’Histoire
- National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
- Near East School of Theology
- Harvard University
- Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- University of Lisbon
- Institut français du Proche-Orient
- University of Göttingen
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of Naples - L'Orientale
- Natural History Museum Vienna
- University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda
Concepts & topics OpenAlex
19 specific concepts identified.
Biological dispersal
Population
Demographic history
Geography
Prehistory
Ancient DNA
Period (music)
Human migration
Economic geography
Panmixia
Genetic structure
Demography
Evolutionary biology
Biology
Archaeology
Genetic variation
Physics
Acoustics
Sociology
UN Sustainable Development Goals OpenAlex
1 targets detected.
Decent work and economic growth (0.61)
Research Funding Europe PMC / OpenAlex
7 financial grants and sponsors detected.
Austrian Science Fund FWF
(M 3108)
National Institutes of Health
(HG011432)
National Science Foundation
(Graduate Research Fellowship)
NIH HHS
(HG011432)
NHGRI NIH HHS
(R01 HG011432)
Austrian Science Fund FWF
(M3108-G)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Citations OpenAlex
Displaying 67 most recent citing works
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| 2023 | A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations | Cell | 10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.018 |
| 2025 | High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe | Nature | 10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2 |
| 2024 | Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe | Nature Human Behaviour | 10.1038/s41562-024-01888-7 |
| 2025 | The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age | Nature Communications | 10.1038/s41467-025-62266-z |
| 2024 | The role of emerging elites in the formation and development of communities after the fall of the Roman Empire | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 10.1073/pnas.2317868121 |
| 2025 | Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 10.1073/pnas.2418485122 |
| 2024 | Human Y chromosome haplogroup L1-M22 traces Neolithic expansion in West Asia and supports the Elamite and Dravidian connection | iScience | 10.1016/j.isci.2024.110016 |
| 2024 | Human genetic structure in Northwest France provides new insights into West European historical demography | Nature Communications | 10.1038/s41467-024-51087-1 |
| 2024 | Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin | Science Advances | 10.1126/sciadv.adq5864 |
| 2025 | Population history and admixture of the Fulani people from the Sahel | The American Journal of Human Genetics | 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.12.015 |
| 2025 | Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs | Nature | 10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6 |
| 2025 | Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1 |
| 2025 | The genetic history of Portugal over the past 5,000 years | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-025-03707-2 |
| 2025 | Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-025-03580-z |
| 2025 | Museum Genomics Reveals Temporal Genetic Stasis and Global Genetic Diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana | Molecular Ecology | 10.1111/mec.70081 |
| 2025 | Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihoods | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 10.1073/pnas.2502158122 |
| 2025 | Most males in modern Poland carry Y-chromosomal lineages from clades that have recently expanded over Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe | Human Genetics | 10.1007/s00439-025-02781-7 |
| 2024 | An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson's f -statistics | Genetics | 10.1093/genetics/iyae144 |
| 2025 | Patterns of genetic admixture reveal similar rates of borrowing across diverse scenarios of language contact | Science Advances | 10.1126/sciadv.adv7521 |
| 2026 | Analysis of medieval burials from Ibiza reveals genetic and pathogenic diversity during the Islamic period | Nature Communications | 10.1038/s41467-026-70615-9 |
| 2024 | Geographic origin, ancestry, and death circumstances at the Cornaux/Les Sauges Iron Age bridge, Switzerland | Scientific Reports | 10.1038/s41598-024-62524-y |
| 2024 | Improved detection of methylation in ancient DNA | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-024-03405-5 |
| 2024 | Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James's tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain) | Antiquity | 10.15184/aqy.2024.91 |
| 2024 | Echoes from the past: Bioarchaeological insights into the burial grounds of Portus Romae | Journal of Archaeological Science Reports | 10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104931 |
| 2025 | Ancient genomes provide evidence of demographic shift to Slavic-associated groups in Moravia | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-025-03700-9 |
| 2024 | Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Late Antiquity in Dalmatia: Paleogenetic, Dietary, and Population Studies of the Hvar—Radošević burial site | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences | 10.1007/s12520-024-02050-0 |
| 2025 | Death and burial of a set of fraternal twins from Tragurium: An osteobiographical approach | Journal of Archaeological Science Reports | 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105071 |
| 2025 | The process of nucleation amongst the early cities of central Italy in the first millennium BC | Frontiers in Human Dynamics | 10.3389/fhumd.2025.1569997 |
| 2025 | The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility | Cell | 10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.013 |
| 2025 | Long shared haplotypes identify the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians | Cell | 10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.002 |
| 2025 | Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans | Current Biology | 10.1016/j.cub.2025.10.054 |
| 2024 | Y Chromosome Story—Ancient Genetic Data as a Supplementary Tool for the Analysis of Modern Croatian Genetic Pool | Genes | 10.3390/genes15060748 |
| 2024 | Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.09.14.613021 |
| 2023 | Performance of qpAdm -based screens for genetic admixture on admixture-graph-shaped histories and stepping-stone landscapes | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2023.04.25.538339 |
| 2024 | High-resolution genomic ancestry reveals mobility in early medieval Europe | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.03.15.585102 |
| 2025 | Patterns of population structure and genetic variation within the Saudi Arabian population | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.01.10.632500 |
| 2024 | An explanation for the sister repulsion phenomenon in Patterson’s f-statistics | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.02.17.580509 |
| 2024 | The Genomic portrait of the Picene culture: new insights into the Italic Iron Age and the legacy of the Roman expansion in Central Italy | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.03.18.585512 |
| 2024 | The Genetic History of the South Caucasus from the Bronze to the Early Middle Ages: 5000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.06.11.597880 |
| 2024 | Long shared haplotypes identify the Southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th century Hungarians | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.07.21.599526 |
| 2024 | Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.10.09.617385 |
| 2025 | High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.07.18.665597 |
| 2025 | Effects of ancestry, agriculture, and lactase persistence on the stature of prehistoric Europeans | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.07.11.664181 |
| 2025 | Unveiling the complexity of post-Roman polity formation using ancient DNA | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.08.18.670760 |
| 2024 | Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Late Antiquity in Dalmatia: Paleogenetic, Dietary, and Population Studies of the Hvar - Radošević burial site | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.05.14.594056 |
| 2024 | Ancient genomes reveal Avar-Hungarian transformations in the 9th-10th centuries CE Carpathian Basin | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.05.29.596386 |
| 2024 | Population History and Admixture of the Fulani People from the Sahel | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.06.22.600206 |
| 2024 | The arrival of the Near Eastern ancestry in Central Italy predates the onset of the Roman Empire | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.10.07.617003 |
| 2024 | Global patterns of genetic admixture reveal effects of language contact | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2024.12.19.629340 |
| 2025 | Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.01.02.631136 |
| 2025 | The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos | Scientific Reports | 10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x |
| 2025 | Museum genomics reveals temporal genetic stasis and global genetic diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.02.06.636844 |
| 2025 | Frequencies of enamel hypomineralisation in permanent and primary molars in a medieval and early-modern-age population (7th − 17th c.) in Sains-en-Gohelle (Pas de Calais, France) | Scientific Reports | 10.1038/s41598-025-87589-1 |
| 2025 | Historic Genomes Uncover Demographic Shifts and Kinship Structures in Post-Roman Central Europe | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.03.01.640862 |
| 2025 | Perspectives of Population Genetics in the Genetic Improvement and Biodiversity Conservation of Fish Species | Genetics. | 10.5772/intechopen.1009878 |
| 2025 | Genetic structure and demographic history of house mice in western Europe inferred using whole-genome sequences | Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 10.1098/rspb.2024.2709 |
| 2025 | A New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire | Genome Biology and Evolution | 10.1093/gbe/evaf149 |
| 2024 | Testes de ancestralidade genética: saiba o que realmente significam seus resultados | Unknown | 10.64628/ade.tkq9qfykp |
| 2024 | DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means | Unknown | 10.64628/aai.7mny6aqkt |
| 2025 | Palaeoproteomic and genetic insights into millennial-scale dairy consumption in Armenia | bioRxiv | 10.1101/2025.08.26.672348 |
| 2025 | Testing the Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology using Ancient and Modern DNA | Research Square | 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7696395/v1 |
| 2025 | Multidisciplinary study of human remains from the 3rd century mass grave in the Roman city of Mursa, Croatia | PLoS ONE | 10.1371/journal.pone.0333440 |
| 2025 | Testing the Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology using Ancient and Modern DNA | Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology | 10.1007/s40750-025-00271-8 |
| 2025 | CTLA4 genetic variants influence immune regulation and susceptibility of HPV associated cervical cancer | Discover Oncology | 10.1007/s12672-025-04179-3 |
| 2026 | Global patterns of natural selection inferred using ancient DNA | bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) | 10.64898/2026.01.07.697984 |
| 2026 | Cosmopolitanism in the depths of Barbaricum evidenced by archaeogenomic data from the Late Iron Age Goth community of the Masłomęcz group | Genome biology | 10.1186/s13059-026-03969-4 |
| 2026 | Uniparental analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals genetic continuity from the pre-Medieval era | Communications Biology | 10.1038/s42003-026-09597-9 |