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ArticleNature2022

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia.

Maria A Spyrou, Lyazzat Musralina, Guido A Gnecchi Ruscone, Arthur Kocher, Pier-Giorgio Borbone, Valeri I Khartanovich, Alexandra Buzhilova, Leyla Djansugurova, Kirsten I Bos, Denise Kühnert and 3 more

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
24.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 134 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 5 countries.

Maria A SpyrouInstitute for Archaeological Sciences, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. maria.spyrou@ifu.uni-tuebingen.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3615-3936
Lyazzat MusralinaDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Guido A Gnecchi RusconeDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6490-8101
Arthur KocherDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9499-6472
Pier-Giorgio BorboneDepartment of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Valeri I KhartanovichDepartment of Physical Anthropology, Kunstkamera, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, Russian Federation.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5533-0686
Alexandra BuzhilovaResearch Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6398-2177
Leyla DjansugurovaLaboratory of Population Genetics, Institute of Genetics and Physiology, Almaty, Kazakhstan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6745-9903
Kirsten I BosDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2937-3006
Denise KühnertDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-018X
Wolfgang HaakDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2475-2007
Philip SlavinDivision of History, Heritage and Politics, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK. philip.slavin@stir.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6460-145X
Johannes KrauseDepartment of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. krause@eva.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9144-3920
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEAl-Farabi Kazakh National University · KZLomonosov Moscow State University · RUPeter the Great's Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography · RUUniversity of Pisa · ITUniversity of Stirling · GB

Funding

European Research Council 771234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (AD 1346-1353) has been a topic of continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long-lasting consequences

Indexed as

PlagueYersinia pestisArchaeologyCemeteriesDNA, AncientDNA, BacterialHistory, MedievalHumansKyrgyzstanPandemicsPhylogenyDNA, AncientDNA, Bacterial

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PMID35705810
PMCPMC9217749
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