Christian Kiffner

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Christian Kiffner is a scholar working on Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Kiffner has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Ecology, 22 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and 18 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christian Kiffner's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (66 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers). Christian Kiffner is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (66 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (18 papers). Christian Kiffner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Tanzania. Christian Kiffner's co-authors include John Kioko, Ferdinand Rühe, Torsten Vor, Hannes König, Oliver Keuling, Adam T. Ford, Christine Fürst, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, Matthias Niedrig and Bernard M. Kissui and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Christian Kiffner

85 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Human–wildlife coexistence in a changing world

2020 303 citations Hannes König, Christian Kiffner et al. profile →

Peers

Christian Kiffner

ECOLO

PARAS

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Richard Hoare Tanzania

Clayton K. Nielsen United States

Miguel Delibes‐Mateos Spain

Christopher S. DePerno United States

Christer M. Rolandsen Norway

Urs Breitenmoser Switzerland

Konstans Wells Germany

Jonas Kindberg Sweden

Johannes Foufopoulos United States

Abi Tamim Vanak South Africa

Richard Hoare Tanzania

Christian Kiffner

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ECOLO

104 ×0.2

PARAS

442 ×0.9

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208 ×0.5

153 ×0.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Christian Kiffner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Kiffner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Kiffner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christian Kiffner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christian Kiffner 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 Christian Kiffner. Christian Kiffner is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Eklund, Ann, Darragh Hare, H.A.H. Jansman, et al.. (2025). Bridging the gap between science, policy and stakeholders: Towards sustainable wolf–livestock coexistence in human‐dominated landscapes. People and Nature. 5 indexed citations

Kiffner, Christian, John D. C. Linnell, Marco Ciolli, et al.. (2025). Comparative stakeholder perceptions of wildlife management in five European multi-use landscapes. Journal of Environmental Management. 389. 126186–126186. 2 indexed citations

Eriksson, Louise, Lovisa Nilsson, Johan Månsson, et al.. (2025). Farmers' tolerance for crop damage caused by wildlife: the role of compensation. Wildlife Biology. 2025(4).

König, Hannes, et al.. (2023). Opportunities and challenges for monitoring a recolonizing large herbivore using citizen science. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10484–e10484. 4 indexed citations

König, Hannes, et al.. (2023). Planning for wolf-livestock coexistence: landscape context predicts livestock depredation risk in agricultural landscapes. animal. 17(3). 100719–100719. 6 indexed citations

Kiffner, Christian, et al.. (2023). Assessing protected area effectiveness in western Tanzania: Insights from repeated line transect surveys. African Journal of Ecology. 61(4). 966–979. 2 indexed citations

Kiffner, Christian, John Kioko, Thomas M. Butynski, Yvonne A. de Jong, & Dietmar Zinner. (2022). Population dynamics of the Manyara monkey (Cercopithecus mitismanyaraensis) and vervet monkey (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(2). 33–43. 2 indexed citations

Riggio, Jason, et al.. (2022). Predicting wildlife corridors for multiple species in an East African ungulate community. PLoS ONE. 17(4). e0265136–e0265136. 20 indexed citations

König, Hannes, et al.. (2021). Zoning has little impact on the seasonal diel activity and distribution patterns of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in an UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Ecology and Evolution. 11(23). 17091–17105. 10 indexed citations

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Cherney, D. J. R., et al.. (2021). Conventional knowledge, general attitudes and risk perceptions towards zoonotic diseases among Maasai in northern Tanzania. Heliyon. 7(5). e07041–e07041. 5 indexed citations

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Wood, Brian M., et al.. (2021). Hunter-Gatherers in context: Mammal community composition in a northern Tanzania landscape used by Hadza foragers and Datoga pastoralists. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0251076–e0251076. 8 indexed citations

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Schneider, Daniel, et al.. (2018). Large mammal declines and the incipient loss of mammal-bird mutualisms in an African savanna ecosystem. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202536–e0202536. 18 indexed citations

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Maurer, Taylor, et al.. (2017). Effects of acaricide treatment and host intrinsic factors on tick acquisition and mortality in Boran cattle. Parasitology Research. 116(11). 3163–3173. 4 indexed citations

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Kioko, John, et al.. (2016). Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis interactions with large mammals in the Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania. Scopus. 36(1). 15–20. 7 indexed citations

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Kioko, John, et al.. (2015). Ethnoecological knowledge of ticks and treatment of tick-borne diseases among Maasai people in Northern Tanzania. Veterinary World. 8(6). 755–762. 23 indexed citations

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Kiffner, Christian, et al.. (2014). Seasonal Patterns of Mixed Species Groups in Large East African Mammals. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e113446–e113446. 29 indexed citations

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Achazi, Katharina, Daniel Růžek, Oliver Donoso-Mantke, et al.. (2011). Rodents as Sentinels for the Prevalence of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 11(6). 641–647. 102 indexed citations

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Kiffner, Christian, et al.. (2010). Abundance estimation of Ixodes ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on roe deer (Capreolus capreolus). Experimental and Applied Acarology. 52(1). 73–84. 62 indexed citations

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Kiffner, Christian, Walter Zucchini, Torsten Vor, et al.. (2010). Determinants of tick-borne encephalitis in counties of southern Germany, 2001-2008. International Journal of Health Geographics. 9(1). 42–42. 34 indexed citations

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Rühe, Ferdinand, et al.. (2008). Conversion factors in carnivore scat analysis: sources of bias. Wildlife Biology. 14(4). 500–506. 27 indexed citations

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