Christian Peter Klingenberg

21.5k total citations · 15 hit papers
99 papers, 15.8k citations indexed

About

Christian Peter Klingenberg is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Paleontology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Peter Klingenberg has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 15.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Geometry and Topology, 27 papers in Paleontology and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Christian Peter Klingenberg's work include Morphological variations and asymmetry (74 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (25 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (10 papers). Christian Peter Klingenberg is often cited by papers focused on Morphological variations and asymmetry (74 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (25 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (10 papers). Christian Peter Klingenberg collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Christian Peter Klingenberg's co-authors include Grant S. McIntyre, Axel Meyer, Marta Barluenga, Abby Grace Drake, Larry J. Leamy, Nelly Gidaszewski, Leandro R. Monteiro, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, M. Zimmermann and H. Frederik Nijhout and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christian Peter Klingenberg

97 papers receiving 15.4k citations

Hit Papers

MorphoJ: an integrated software package for geom... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2010 2002 2016 1998 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. MorphoJ: an integrated software package for geometric morphometrics
    2010 3.0k citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →
  2. SHAPE ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES: QUANTIFYING VARIATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND ASYMMETRY
    2002 841 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg, Marta Barluenga et al. Evolution profile →
  3. Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics
    2016 685 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg Development Genes and Evolution profile →
  4. GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS OF DEVELOPMENTAL INSTABILITY: ANALYZING PATTERNS OF FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY WITH PROCRUSTES METHODS
    1998 683 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg et al. Evolution profile →
  5. Morphological Integration and Developmental Modularity
    2008 602 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →
  6. Heterochrony and allometry: the analysis of evolutionary change in ontogeny
    1998 513 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →
  7. Evolution and development of shape: integrating quantitative approaches
    2010 513 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
  8. Morphometric integration and modularity in configurations of landmarks: tools for evaluating a priori hypotheses
    2009 388 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →
  9. The pace of morphological change: historical transformation of skull shape in St Bernard dogs
    2007 354 citations Abby Grace Drake, Christian Peter Klingenberg Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
  10. Geometric Morphometrics of Developmental Instability: Analyzing Patterns of Fluctuating Asymmetry with Procrustes Methods
    1998 332 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg et al. Evolution profile →
  11. Large‐Scale Diversification of Skull Shape in Domestic Dogs: Disparity and Modularity
    2010 317 citations Abby Grace Drake, Christian Peter Klingenberg The American Naturalist profile →
  12. Evolutionary Covariation in Geometric Morphometric Data: Analyzing Integration, Modularity, and Allometry in a Phylogenetic Context
    2013 316 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  13. Analyzing Fluctuating Asymmetry with Geometric Morphometrics: Concepts, Methods, and Applications
    2015 305 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →
  14. Developmental integration in a complex morphological structure: how distinct are the modules in the mouse mandible?
    2003 250 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg et al. profile →
  15. Studying morphological integration and modularity at multiple levels: concepts and analysis
    2014 245 citations Christian Peter Klingenberg profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christian Peter Klingenberg United Kingdom 55 10.2k 5.2k 3.5k 2.9k 2.9k 99 15.8k
Dean C. Adams United States 55 6.2k 0.6× 5.2k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 3.6k 1.2× 3.5k 1.2× 153 14.1k
James M. Cheverud United States 76 5.4k 0.5× 3.5k 0.7× 11.2k 3.2× 5.6k 1.9× 3.4k 1.2× 296 24.0k
Dennis E. Slice United States 27 5.6k 0.6× 3.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 51 9.1k
Miriam Leah Zelditch United States 35 3.5k 0.3× 2.7k 0.5× 1.2k 0.3× 1.0k 0.4× 1.4k 0.5× 75 5.9k
Thomas F. Hansen Norway 49 1.4k 0.1× 2.7k 0.5× 4.7k 1.4× 5.0k 1.7× 2.9k 1.0× 135 11.5k
Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra Switzerland 47 1.4k 0.1× 4.9k 1.0× 1.0k 0.3× 1.9k 0.7× 1.8k 0.6× 261 7.3k
Julien Claude France 29 819 0.1× 2.7k 0.5× 2.9k 0.9× 3.8k 1.3× 3.2k 1.1× 130 12.4k
Anthony Herrel Belgium 66 2.0k 0.2× 4.8k 0.9× 2.1k 0.6× 8.0k 2.7× 4.9k 1.7× 554 17.7k
Anjali Goswami United Kingdom 47 2.8k 0.3× 4.4k 0.9× 769 0.2× 1.3k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 147 6.2k
Luke J. Harmon United States 49 924 0.1× 4.7k 0.9× 4.7k 1.4× 5.1k 1.8× 3.1k 1.1× 114 13.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Drake, Abby Grace, Liam J. Revell, Christian Peter Klingenberg, et al.. (2025). Copy-cat evolution: Divergence and convergence within and between cat and dog breeds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(18). e2413780122–e2413780122. 1 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2022). Methods for studying allometry in geometric morphometrics: a comparison of performance. Evolutionary Ecology. 36(4). 439–470. 23 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2022). Shape asymmetry — what's new?. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences. 6(3). 285–294. 3 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2020). How Exactly Did the Nose Get That Long? A Critical Rethinking of the Pinocchio Effect and How Shape Changes Relate to Landmarks. Evolutionary Biology. 48(1). 115–127. 19 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2020). Walking on Kendall’s Shape Space: Understanding Shape Spaces and Their Coordinate Systems. Evolutionary Biology. 47(4). 334–352. 22 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2016). Size, shape, and form: concepts of allometry in geometric morphometrics. Development Genes and Evolution. 226(3). 113–137. 685 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sherratt, Emma, David J. Gower, Christian Peter Klingenberg, & Mark Wilkinson. (2014). Evolution of Cranial Shape in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona). Evolutionary Biology. 41(4). 528–545. 102 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2013). Cranial integration and modularity: insights into evolution and development from morphometric data. Hystrix. 24(1). 43–58. 152 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2013). Visualizations in geometric morphometrics: How to read and how to make graphs showing shape changes. Hystrix. 24(1). 15–24. 228 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2010). Evolution and development of shape: integrating quantitative approaches. Nature Reviews Genetics. 11(9). 623–635. 513 indexed citations breakdown →
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Drake, Abby Grace & Christian Peter Klingenberg. (2007). The pace of morphological change: historical transformation of skull shape in St Bernard dogs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 275(1630). 71–76. 354 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2004). Evo-devo discovers morphology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 17(2). 472–474. 3 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter. (2004). Integration and Modularity of Quantitative Trait Locus Effects on Geometric Shape in the Mouse Mandible. Genetics. 166(4). 1909–1921. 195 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter, Marta Barluenga, & Axel Meyer. (2002). SHAPE ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES: QUANTIFYING VARIATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND ASYMMETRY. Evolution. 56(10). 1909–1920. 841 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter, et al.. (1997). Influence of gut parasites on growth performance in the water strider Gerris buenoi (Hemiptera: Gerridae). Ecography. 20(1). 29–36. 16 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter & John C. Spence. (1997). On the role of body size for life‐history evolution. Ecological Entomology. 22(1). 55–68. 130 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter, Beat Neuenschwander, & Bernard D. Flury. (1996). Ontogeny and Individual Variation: Analysis of Patterned Covariance Matrices with Common Principal Components. Systematic Biology. 45(2). 135–135. 2 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter, Beat Neuenschwander, & Bernard D. Flury. (1996). Ontogeny and Individual Variation: Analysis of Patterned Covariance Matrices with Common Principal Components. Systematic Biology. 45(2). 135–150. 31 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter & M. Zimmermann. (1992). Static, Ontogenetic, and Evolutionary Allometry: A Multivariate Comparison in Nine Species of Water Striders. The American Naturalist. 140(4). 601–620. 199 indexed citations
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Klingenberg, Christian Peter, et al.. (1991). The use of multivariate morphometrics to determine the nutritional condition of marine fish larvae. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 3 indexed citations

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