Fabrizia Ronco

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 654 citations indexed

About

Fabrizia Ronco is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Genetics and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabrizia Ronco has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 654 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 10 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Fabrizia Ronco's work include Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (8 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (8 papers). Fabrizia Ronco is often cited by papers focused on Fish Ecology and Management Studies (12 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (8 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (8 papers). Fabrizia Ronco collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Norway. Fabrizia Ronco's co-authors include Walter Salzburger, Adrian Indermaur, Astrid Böhne, Michael Matschiner, Athimed El Taher, Heinz H. Büscher, A. Boila, Milan Malinsky, Ansgar Kahmen and Sissel Jentoft and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fabrizia Ronco

26 papers receiving 644 citations

Hit Papers

Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in c... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 50 100 150 200
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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. Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes
    2020 204 citations Fabrizia Ronco, Michael Matschiner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fabrizia Ronco Switzerland 14 284 265 203 164 135 27 654
Benjamin P. Ngatunga Tanzania 16 339 1.2× 441 1.7× 330 1.6× 281 1.7× 250 1.9× 41 877
Alexandra M. Tyers United Kingdom 10 239 0.8× 500 1.9× 207 1.0× 136 0.8× 298 2.2× 14 855
Justin C. Bagley United States 13 216 0.8× 224 0.8× 126 0.6× 92 0.6× 129 1.0× 24 476
Lubomír Piálek Czechia 14 377 1.3× 172 0.6× 201 1.0× 279 1.7× 68 0.5× 39 718
Anne C. Dalziel Canada 14 260 0.9× 325 1.2× 392 1.9× 119 0.7× 186 1.4× 26 760
Georgina M. Cooke Australia 15 255 0.9× 192 0.7× 161 0.8× 123 0.8× 115 0.9× 19 513
Tetsumi Takahashi Japan 14 420 1.5× 259 1.0× 332 1.6× 319 1.9× 100 0.7× 64 765
Anna B. Sellas United States 12 240 0.8× 237 0.9× 302 1.5× 80 0.5× 182 1.3× 19 717
J. K. J. VAN HOUDT Belgium 17 320 1.1× 484 1.8× 254 1.3× 190 1.2× 294 2.2× 31 839
Mahesh Panchal United Kingdom 10 134 0.5× 467 1.8× 190 0.9× 47 0.3× 192 1.4× 12 660

Countries citing papers authored by Fabrizia Ronco

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabrizia Ronco

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabrizia Ronco

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fages, Antoine, Fabrizia Ronco, Adrian Indermaur, et al.. (2025). Metagenomic Insights Into the Dietary Diversity of the Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes in Lake Tanganyika. Molecular Ecology. 34(9). e17743–e17743.
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Costa, Vincenzo A., Fabrizia Ronco, Jonathon C. O. Mifsud, et al.. (2024). Host adaptive radiation is associated with rapid virus diversification and cross-species transmission in African cichlid fishes. Current Biology. 34(6). 1247–1257.e3. 14 indexed citations
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Clements, Kendall D., Carlo Meloro, Fabrizia Ronco, et al.. (2024). Diet and habitat as determinants of intestine length in fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 34(3). 1017–1034. 13 indexed citations
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Santos, M. Emília, Marco Werner, Antoine Fages, et al.. (2024). The genetics of niche-specific behavioral tendencies in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes. Science. 384(6694). 470–475. 13 indexed citations
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Laurentino, Telma G., Fabrizia Ronco, Francisco Pina‐Martins, et al.. (2021). evALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multisensory tree of life. Evolution Education and Outreach. 14(1). 5–5. 3 indexed citations
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Ronco, Fabrizia & Walter Salzburger. (2021). The non-gradual nature of adaptive radiation. Zoology. 146. 125925–125925. 2 indexed citations
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Salzburger, Walter, et al.. (2021). Comparative scale morphology in the adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes (Perciformes: Cichlidae) from Lake Tanganyika. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 134(3). 541–556. 16 indexed citations
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Taher, Athimed El, Fabrizia Ronco, Michael Matschiner, Walter Salzburger, & Astrid Böhne. (2021). Dynamics of sex chromosome evolution in a rapid radiation of cichlid fishes. Science Advances. 7(36). eabe8215–eabe8215. 52 indexed citations
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Bose, Aneesh P. H., Alex Böhm, Fabrizia Ronco, et al.. (2020). Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1927). 20200127–20200127. 17 indexed citations
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Ronco, Fabrizia, Michael Matschiner, Astrid Böhne, et al.. (2020). Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes. Nature. 589(7840). 76–81. 204 indexed citations breakdown →
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Laurentino, Telma G., et al.. (2020). Genomic release-recapture experiment in the wild reveals within-generation polygenic selection in stickleback fish. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1928–1928. 19 indexed citations
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Matschiner, Michael, Astrid Böhne, Fabrizia Ronco, & Walter Salzburger. (2020). The genomic timeline of cichlid fish diversification across continents. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5895–5895. 44 indexed citations
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Taher, Athimed El, Astrid Böhne, Nicolas Boileau, et al.. (2020). Gene expression dynamics during rapid organismal diversification in African cichlid fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(2). 243–250. 35 indexed citations
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Ronco, Fabrizia, Heinz H. Büscher, Adrian Indermaur, & Walter Salzburger. (2019). The taxonomic diversity of the cichlid fish fauna of ancient Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 46(5). 1067–1078. 54 indexed citations
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Taher, Athimed El, Michael Matschiner, Fabrizia Ronco, Walter Salzburger, & Astrid Böhne. (2019). Comparative genomics reveals an outstanding sex chromosome diversity in cichlid fishes driven by genomic novelties and convergent evolution. Frontiers in Marine Science. 6. 1 indexed citations
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Colombo, Marco, et al.. (2019). Point‐Combination Transect (PCT): Incorporation of small underwater cameras to study fish communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(6). 891–901. 11 indexed citations
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Ronco, Fabrizia, Marius Roesti, & Walter Salzburger. (2019). A functional trade-off between trophic adaptation and parental care predicts sexual dimorphism in cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1909). 20191050–20191050. 24 indexed citations

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