Carsten Nowak

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
115 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Carsten Nowak is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Nowak has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, 70 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Carsten Nowak's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (58 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (48 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Carsten Nowak is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (58 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (48 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (27 papers). Carsten Nowak collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Portugal and Norway. Carsten Nowak's co-authors include Markus Pfenninger, Steffen U. Pauls, Miklós Bálint, Peter Haase, Christian Vogt, Jan Sauer, Jörg Oehlmann, Klaus Schwenk, Matthias Oetken and Sami Domisch and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Science of The Total Environment and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Nowak

112 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The impact of global climate change on genetic diversity within populations and species

2012 503 citations Steffen U. Pauls, Carsten Nowak et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carsten Nowak Germany	30	1.9k	1.4k	699	574	528	115	3.3k
Phillip C. Watts United Kingdom	34	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	364 0.5×	776 1.4×	496 0.9×	136	3.3k
Vicki L. Friesen Canada	38	2.6k 1.4×	2.7k 1.9×	566 0.8×	832 1.4×	606 1.1×	121	4.2k
Erik Verheyen Belgium	40	2.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	352 0.5×	710 1.2×	1.6k 3.1×	164	5.1k
Thales Renato Ochotorena de Freitas Brazil	30	1.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	304 0.4×	393 0.7×	307 0.6×	173	3.2k
Carla E. Cáceres United States	40	2.8k 1.5×	1.9k 1.3×	239 0.3×	237 0.4×	1.4k 2.7×	102	5.2k
Niko Balkenhol Germany	31	2.9k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	859 1.2×	148 0.3×	814 1.5×	96	4.0k
Yvonne Willi Switzerland	26	829 0.4×	1.7k 1.2×	553 0.8×	455 0.8×	898 1.7×	61	3.0k
Susan M. Haig United States	39	4.3k 2.3×	1.7k 1.2×	957 1.4×	475 0.8×	1.4k 2.7×	163	5.8k
Paul L. Leberg United States	26	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	429 0.6×	218 0.4×	716 1.4×	94	2.7k
Ian D. Hogg New Zealand	33	2.7k 1.5×	593 0.4×	277 0.4×	580 1.0×	513 1.0×	118	3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Carsten Nowak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carsten Nowak

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Tokarska, Małgorzata, et al.. (2024). A reduced SNP panel optimised for non-invasive genetic assessment of a genetically impoverished conservation icon, the European bison. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 1875–1875. 7 indexed citations

Hulva, Pavel, et al.. (2024). Genetic admixture between Central European and Alpine wolf populations. Wildlife Biology. 2024(6). 2 indexed citations

Konec, Marjeta, et al.. (2024). Dispersal of a wolf with complex ancestry from the Dinaric–Alpine region to Germany demonstrates the value of transboundary monitoring networks. Conservation Science and Practice. 6(9).

Mergeay, Joachim, Stefaan De Smet, Sabina Nowak, et al.. (2024). Estimating the Effective Size of European Wolf Populations. Evolutionary Applications. 17(10). e70021–e70021. 4 indexed citations

Jamieson, Alexandra, Alberto Carmagnini, Isa‐Rita M. Russo, et al.. (2023). Genetic swamping of the critically endangered Scottish wildcat was recent and accelerated by disease. Current Biology. 33(21). 4761–4769.e5. 15 indexed citations

Warren, Dan L., Berardino Cocchiararo, Tobias Erik Reiners, et al.. (2023). Using eDNA to understand predator–prey interactions influenced by invasive species. Oecologia. 202(4). 757–767. 7 indexed citations

Belotti, Elisa, Luděk Bufka, Sybille Wölfl, et al.. (2023). Long-term genetic monitoring of a reintroduced Eurasian lynx population does not indicate an ongoing loss of genetic diversity. Global Ecology and Conservation. 42. e02399–e02399. 6 indexed citations

Cocchiararo, Berardino, Carsten Nowak, Hermann Ansorge, et al.. (2022). Genotyping-by-sequencing based SNP discovery in a non-model rodent, the endangered hazel dormouse. Conservation Genetics Resources. 14(2). 195–201. 1 indexed citations

Lang, Johannes, et al.. (2022). Combining citizen science and conservation genomics to reveal the causes of rapid population decline in the Garden Dormouse (Eliomys quercinus). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5. 1 indexed citations

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Sunde, Peter, Carsten Nowak, Philip Francis Thomsen, et al.. (2021). Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany. Conservation Letters. 14(5). 27 indexed citations

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Rocha, Rita Gomes, Koen De Smet, José Carlos Brito, et al.. (2020). Demographic expansion of an African opportunistic carnivore during the Neolithic revolution. Biology Letters. 16(1). 20190560–20190560. 9 indexed citations

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Bálint, Miklós, Carsten Nowak, Steffen U. Pauls, et al.. (2018). Accuracy, limitations and cost efficiency of eDNA‐based community survey in tropical frogs. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(6). 1415–1426. 73 indexed citations

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Förster, Daniel W., Dorina Lenz, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, et al.. (2018). Targeted resequencing of coding DNA sequences for SNP discovery in nonmodel species. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(6). 1356–1373. 17 indexed citations

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Steyer, Katharina, Annika Tiesmeyer, Violeta Muñoz‐Fuentes, & Carsten Nowak. (2018). Low rates of hybridization between European wildcats and domestic cats in a human‐dominated landscape. Ecology and Evolution. 8(4). 2290–2304. 28 indexed citations

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Karamanlidis, Alexandros A., et al.. (2017). History-driven population structure and asymmetric gene flow in a recovering large carnivore at the rear-edge of its European range. Heredity. 120(2). 168–182. 19 indexed citations

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Nowak, Carsten, Christian Vogt, Jörg Oehlmann, et al.. (2012). Impact of genetic diversity and inbreeding on the life-history of Chironomus midges over consecutive generations. Chemosphere. 88(8). 988–993. 7 indexed citations

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Nowak, Carsten. (2011). Europarecht nach Lissabon. Nomos eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Zakharov, Evgeny V., Neil F. Lobo, Carsten Nowak, & Jessica J. Hellmann. (2009). Introgression as a likely cause of mtDNA paraphyly in two allopatric skippers (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). Heredity. 102(6). 590–599. 71 indexed citations

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Nowak, Carsten, Christian Vogt, Markus Pfenninger, et al.. (2008). Rapid genetic erosion in pollutant-exposed experimental chironomid populations. Environmental Pollution. 157(3). 881–886. 61 indexed citations

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Pfenninger, Markus, et al.. (2007). Utility of DNA taxonomy and barcoding for the inference of larval community structure in morphologically crypticChironomus(Diptera) species. Molecular Ecology. 16(9). 1957–1968. 123 indexed citations

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