Chris Walzer

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
145 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Chris Walzer is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Small Animals. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Walzer has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Small Animals. Recurrent topics in Chris Walzer's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (26 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (25 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (19 papers). Chris Walzer is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (26 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (25 papers) and Zoonotic diseases and public health (19 papers). Chris Walzer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Chris Walzer's co-authors include Petra Kaczensky, Gabrielle Stalder, Nicholas D. Youngblut, Georg H. Reischer, Andreas H. Farnleitner, Ruth E. Ley, Franz Schwarzenberger, Nathalie Schuster, William A. Walters and Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Chris Walzer

139 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Host diet and evolutionary history explain different aspects of gut microbiome diversity among vertebrate clades

2019 361 citations Nicholas D. Youngblut, Georg H. Reischer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Walzer Austria	31	1.2k	680	617	457	437	145	3.3k
Carlos Fonseca Portugal	32	2.8k 2.4×	956 1.4×	224 0.4×	295 0.6×	680 1.6×	237	4.6k
Emmanuel Serrano Spain	31	1.1k 1.0×	374 0.6×	171 0.3×	305 0.7×	536 1.2×	191	2.9k
David L. Hoover United States	45	886 0.7×	214 0.3×	689 1.1×	321 0.7×	824 1.9×	133	5.4k
Kurt C. VerCauteren United States	35	2.8k 2.4×	569 0.8×	606 1.0×	540 1.2×	1.1k 2.6×	296	5.0k
Michael R. Hutchings United Kingdom	38	1.6k 1.3×	632 0.9×	458 0.7×	547 1.2×	1.3k 3.1×	132	4.4k
James W. Carpenter United States	29	1.9k 1.6×	740 1.1×	416 0.7×	226 0.5×	891 2.0×	192	5.4k
Sharon L. Deem United States	32	1.0k 0.9×	612 0.9×	170 0.3×	633 1.4×	374 0.9×	150	3.9k
Robert A. Robinson United Kingdom	39	3.5k 2.9×	467 0.7×	316 0.5×	339 0.7×	430 1.0×	211	6.9k
Walter M. Boyce United States	42	2.5k 2.1×	1.1k 1.6×	304 0.5×	388 0.8×	600 1.4×	177	5.2k
Anna E. Jolles United States	29	1.2k 1.0×	783 1.2×	269 0.4×	1.3k 2.7×	430 1.0×	86	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Walzer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Walzer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Walzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Walzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Walzer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris Walzer. Chris Walzer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Camp, Jeremy V., Amélie Desvars-Larrive, Norbert Nowotny, & Chris Walzer. (2022). Monitoring Urban Zoonotic Virus Activity: Are City Rats a Promising Surveillance Tool for Emerging Viruses?. Viruses. 14(7). 1516–1516. 6 indexed citations

Sorger, Johannes, et al.. (2022). SARS-ANI: a global open access dataset of reported SARS-CoV-2 events in animals. Scientific Data. 9(1). 438–438. 21 indexed citations

Youngblut, Nicholas D., Jacobo de la Cuesta‐Zuluaga, Georg H. Reischer, et al.. (2020). Large-Scale Metagenome Assembly Reveals Novel Animal-Associated Microbial Genomes, Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, and Other Genetic Diversity. mSystems. 5(6). 52 indexed citations

Luskin, Matthew Scott, et al.. (2020). African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species. Conservation Letters. 14(3). 48 indexed citations

Desvars-Larrive, Amélie, et al.. (2020). Prevalence and risk factors of Leptospira infection in urban brown rats (Rattus norvegicus), Vienna, Austria. Urban Ecosystems. 23(4). 775–784. 21 indexed citations

Pisanu, Benoît, et al.. (2020). Helminths of urban rats in developed countries: a systematic review to identify research gaps. Parasitology Research. 119(8). 2383–2397. 12 indexed citations

Felkel, Sabine, Barbara Wallner, Bernard Faye, et al.. (2019). A First Y-Chromosomal Haplotype Network to Investigate Male-Driven Population Dynamics in Domestic and Wild Bactrian Camels. Frontiers in Genetics. 10. 423–423. 13 indexed citations

Costantini, David, Peter A. Seeber, Walid Azab, et al.. (2018). Physiological costs of infection: herpesvirus replication is linked to blood oxidative stress in equids. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10347–10347. 16 indexed citations

Desvars-Larrive, Amélie, et al.. (2018). Brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in urban ecosystems: are the constraints related to fieldwork a limit to their study?. Urban Ecosystems. 21(5). 951–964. 23 indexed citations

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Posautz, Annika, et al.. (2017). Seroprevalence of Francisella tularensis in Austrian Hunting Dogs. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 18(2). 117–119. 5 indexed citations

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Posautz, Annika, Felix Knauer, & Chris Walzer. (2015). Health and health management of captive white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum): results from an online survey. 3(4). 128–133. 1 indexed citations

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Ruf, Thomas, Ulrike Streicher, Gabrielle Stalder, Tilo Nadler, & Chris Walzer. (2015). Hibernation in the pygmy slow loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus): multiday torpor in primates is not restricted to Madagascar. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17392–17392. 26 indexed citations

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Walzer, Chris, Thierry Petit, Gabrielle Stalder, et al.. (2013). Surgical castration of the male common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius). Theriogenology. 81(3). 514–518. 2 indexed citations

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Kaczensky, Petra, Henrik von Wehrden, Mijiddorj Batmunkh, et al.. (2013). Space and habitat use by wild Bactrian camels in the Transaltai Gobi of southern Mongolia. Biological Conservation. 169. 311–318. 27 indexed citations

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Stalder, Gabrielle, et al.. (2012). Comparison of S(+)-ketamine and ketamine, with medetomidine, for field anaesthesia in the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus). Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia. 39(5). 511–519. 7 indexed citations

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Walzer, Chris, et al.. (2012). Working in a Freezer: Capturing and Collaring Wild Bactrian Camels. ISBN. 451. 61–68. 3 indexed citations

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Farnleitner, Andreas H., et al.. (2011). Hazard- and risk based concepts for the assessment of microbiological water quality - Part 2.. Wiener Tierarztliche Monatsschrift. 98. 54–65. 3 indexed citations

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Steiger, Andreas, Chris Walzer, Nadège Robert, et al.. (2007). A scoring system to evaluate physical condition and quality of life in geriatric zoo mammals. Animal Welfare. 16(3). 309–318. 25 indexed citations

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Walzer, Chris, et al.. (2006). Capture and Anaesthesia of Wild Mongolian Equids – the Przewalski’s Horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) and Khulan (E. hemionus). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 8 indexed citations

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Hoby, Stefan, Franz Schwarzenberger, Marcus G. Doherr, Nadia Robert, & Chris Walzer. (2006). Steroid hormone related male biased parasitism in chamois, Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra. Veterinary Parasitology. 138(3-4). 337–348. 46 indexed citations

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