Research Impact
A summary of where my research has landed beyond the academic literature: news coverage, expert commentary, policy and government use, and consulting engagements. Numbers and figures on this page draw from an Altmetric snapshot dated 2026-04-01; for full per-paper coverage lists, see Media Outreach.
At a glance
- 34 peer-reviewed publications (live record on ORCID).
- 800+ tracked news mentions across 47 countries.
- Peak Altmetric Attention Score: 2,519 — Souilmi et al., Current Biology, 2021 (ancient coronavirus epidemic in East Asia).
- 2 government / intergovernmental policy citations (WMO, Finnish Prime Minister’s Office).
- 2 active government and industry advisory engagements (Centre for Invasive Species Solutions, PIRSA).
- Tier-1 coverage in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic, New Scientist, Der Spiegel, Forbes, Discover, Gizmodo, Science News, and Cosmos.
Tier-1 media coverage
Across nine papers covered in the press, my work has been picked up by the following marquee outlets (counts are distinct articles in the Altmetric snapshot):
| Tier | Outlets reached |
|---|---|
| Broadsheet | New York Times (5), Daily Mail (4), CNN (5), The Guardian (2), Times of India (2), Hindustan Times (2), Telegraph UK, Irish Times, The Independent, Der Spiegel |
| Science press | The Conversation (13), National Geographic (7 — incl. Spanish and Dutch editions), Cosmos Magazine (5), Smithsonian Magazine (3), Gizmodo (3), Forbes (2), Science News (2), Discover Magazine, New Scientist |
For per-paper coverage in full, see Media Outreach.
Geographic and linguistic breadth
The English-speaking press dominates volume — the United States (234 mentions), United Kingdom (143), Australia (139), India (74), New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, Singapore — accounting for roughly 624 of the ~800 tracked mentions. The remainder is distributed across 26 languages: German (37), Spanish (28), Portuguese (26), Russian (22), French (19), Italian (8), Arabic, Polish, Chinese, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch, and a long tail.
Non-English outlets that have covered my work include Der Spiegel (Germany), La Vanguardia and ABC (Spain), National Geographic en Español and National Geographic NL, Le Figaro (France), and the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office COVID-19 research review.
Engagement over time
Two 2021 papers — Cooper et al. in Science (42,000-year environmental crisis) and Souilmi et al. in Current Biology (ancient coronavirus epidemic) — anchored most of the cumulative attention. International coverage continued well past the news cycle: the dingo population-structure paper (Souilmi et al., PNAS, 2024) drew a fresh wave of tier-1 coverage three years later, and a 2026 New Scientist commentary on convergent post-Neolithic evolution kept the conversation current.
Policy and government impact
- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) — Report of Part II of the Twelfth Meeting of the Ozone Research Managers of the Parties to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer (2024). Cites Cooper et al., Science 2021 in an intergovernmental ozone-science assessment.
- Finnish Prime Minister’s Office — COVID-19-tutkimuskatsaus 8/2020 (December 2020). Cites Souilmi et al., Current Biology 2021 in a national COVID-19 research review.
- Government and industry consulting — ongoing advisory engagements with the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia (PIRSA) on applied genomics and bioinformatics.
Expert commentary on others’ work
- Nine Newspapers (The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times, WA Today), 21 April 2026 — quoted in Could gene-edited ‘super-quolls’ fight back against cane toads?, commenting on gene-editing approaches in conservation and de-extinction. (The Age, SMH, Brisbane Times, WA Today)
- New Scientist, 10 March 2026 — quoted in Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming, commenting on Colbran et al.’s analysis of parallel selection across populations following the Neolithic transition.
[Further expert commentary entries to be added.]
Cross-references
- Media Outreach — full per-paper coverage list with article links.
- Advisory and Consulting — government and industry engagements.
- Research Outputs — live ORCID publication feed.
Methodology and data: Altmetric Adelaide University export, snapshot 2026-04-01; rows filtered to publications attributed to Yassine Souilmi. Aggregated summary CSVs are in data/impact/. The two figures are generated by scripts/build_impact_plots.py.