Erhard Christian

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Erhard Christian is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erhard Christian has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 21 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Erhard Christian's work include Plant and animal studies (18 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (17 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (10 papers). Erhard Christian is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (18 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (17 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (10 papers). Erhard Christian collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Slovakia. Erhard Christian's co-authors include Florian M. Steiner, Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Christian Stauffer, Bernhard Seifert, Ross H. Crozier, Karl Moder, Matthias Sanetra, Eric Dyreson, Heino Konrad and Andrzej Szeptycki and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Biology and Annual Review of Entomology.

In The Last Decade

Erhard Christian

43 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Integrative Taxonomy: A Multisource Approach to Exploring Biodiversity

2009 797 citations Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Florian M. Steiner et al. Annual Review of Entomology profile →

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Erhard Christian

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Hervé Jourdan France

Daegan Inward United Kingdom

Jesse W. Breinholt United States

Derek S. Sikes United States

Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint United States

Mary Morgan‐Richards New Zealand

Ryan C. Garrick United States

R. Craig Stillwell United States

James K. Liebherr United States

Bernhard Seifert Germany

Hervé Jourdan France

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Countries citing papers authored by Erhard Christian

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erhard Christian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erhard Christian

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moog, Otto, et al.. (2021). Increased cave use by butterflies and moths: a response to climate warming?. International Journal of Speleology. 50(1). 15–24. 1 indexed citations

Zittra, Carina, Otto Moog, Erhard Christian, & Hans‐Peter Fuehrer. (2019). DNA-aided identification of Culex mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) reveals unexpected diversity in underground cavities in Austria. Parasitology Research. 118(5). 1385–1391. 10 indexed citations

Christian, Erhard, et al.. (2014). Differentiation among cave populations of the Eukoenenia spelaea species-complex (Arachnida: Palpigradi) in the southwestern Alps. Zootaxa. 3794(1). 52–86. 8 indexed citations

Christian, Erhard, et al.. (2013). Eukoenenia florenciae (Arachnida: Palpigradi): Lessons from a newcomer to Central Europe and the island of Tenerife. Biologia. 68(6). 1182–1188. 11 indexed citations

Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Bernhard Seifert, et al.. (2009). Integrative Taxonomy: A Multisource Approach to Exploring Biodiversity. Annual Review of Entomology. 55(1). 421–438. 797 indexed citations breakdown →

Steiner, Florian M., Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Jeremy VanDerWal, et al.. (2008). Combined modelling of distribution and niche in invasion biology: a case study of two invasive Tetramorium ant species. Diversity and Distributions. 14(3). 538–545. 94 indexed citations

Steiner, Florian M., Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Karl Moder, et al.. (2007). Abandoning Aggression but Maintaining Self-Nonself Discrimination as a First Stage in Ant Supercolony Formation. Current Biology. 17(21). 1903–1907. 35 indexed citations

Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Matthias Sanetra, et al.. (2007). Lineage specific evolution of an alternative social strategy in Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 91(2). 247–255. 19 indexed citations

Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Heino Konrad, et al.. (2006). More than one species of Messor harvester ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Central Europe. European Journal of Entomology. 103(2). 469–476. 27 indexed citations

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Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Karl Moder, et al.. (2006). A multidisciplinary approach reveals cryptic diversity in Western Palearctic Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 40(1). 259–273. 145 indexed citations

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Steiner, Florian M., Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Heino Konrad, et al.. (2006). Phylogeny and evolutionary history of queen polymorphic Myrmecina ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). European Journal of Entomology. 103(3). 619–626. 11 indexed citations

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Steiner, Florian M., et al.. (2005). Towards DNA-aided biogeography: An example from Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annales Zoologici Fennici. 42(1). 23–35. 28 indexed citations

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Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Matthias Sanetra, et al.. (2005). Queen size dimorphism in the ant Tetramorium moravicum (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): Morphometric, molecular genetic and experimental evidence. Insectes Sociaux. 52(2). 186–193. 23 indexed citations

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Steiner, Florian M., Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Werner E. Holzinger, et al.. (2004). A novel relationship between ants and a leafhopper (Hymenoptera: Formicidae; Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). European Journal of Entomology. 101(4). 689–692. 10 indexed citations

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Schlick‐Steiner, Birgit C., Florian M. Steiner, Alexej Nikiforov, et al.. (2004). A butterfly?s chemical key to various ant forts: intersection-odour or aggregate-odour multi-host mimicry?. Die Naturwissenschaften. 91(5). 209–214. 40 indexed citations

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Steiner, Florian M., Birgit C. Schlick‐Steiner, Xavier Espadaler, et al.. (2004). Phylogeny and bionomics of Lasius austriacus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Insectes Sociaux. 51(1). 24–29. 26 indexed citations

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Christian, Erhard, et al.. (1998). Short-Term Effects of Bolero on the Gill Apparatus of a Small Number of Mosquitofish ( Gambusia affinis ). Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 61(2). 162–168. 1 indexed citations

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Christian, Erhard. (1992). Verbreitung und Habitatpräferenz von Doppel- und Zangenschwänzen in der Großstadt Wien (Diplura: Campodeidae, Japygidae). Entomologia Generalis. 17(3). 195–205. 4 indexed citations

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Christian, Erhard. (1989). Biogeography, Substrate Preference, and Feeding Types of North Adriatic Intertidal Collembola. Marine Ecology. 10(1). 79–93. 7 indexed citations

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Christian, Erhard. (1978). The jump of the springtails. Die Naturwissenschaften. 65(9). 495–496. 46 indexed citations

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