Gerold Kier

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Gerold Kier is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerold Kier has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 6 papers in Ecological Modeling and 5 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Gerold Kier's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (3 papers). Gerold Kier is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (6 papers) and Plant and animal studies (3 papers). Gerold Kier collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Gerold Kier's co-authors include Wilhelm Barthlott, Jens Mutke, Holger Kreft, Walter Jetz, Tien Ming Lee, Pierre L. Ibisch, Eric Dinerstein, Taylor H. Ricketts, Wolfgang Küper and Jan Henning Sommer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecology Letters and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gerold Kier

13 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

2009 889 citations Gerold Kier, Holger Kreft et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerold Kier Germany	10	1.2k	1.0k	817	759	458	13	2.4k
Tony Rebelo South Africa	15	1.1k 0.9×	836 0.8×	852 1.0×	651 0.9×	362 0.8×	21	2.0k
Jens Mutke Germany	18	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	924 1.1×	841 1.1×	454 1.0×	25	3.0k
Caroline M. Tucker Canada	18	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	821 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	454 1.0×	27	2.6k
Roger Earl Latham United States	15	1.3k 1.1×	752 0.7×	423 0.5×	852 1.1×	534 1.2×	24	2.1k
Naia Morueta‐Holme Denmark	21	1.2k 1.0×	876 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	789 1.0×	514 1.1×	35	2.4k
Salomón Aguilar United States	15	1.9k 1.6×	1.2k 1.2×	594 0.7×	788 1.0×	627 1.4×	21	2.6k
Julien Renaud France	28	1.4k 1.2×	919 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	720 1.6×	64	2.9k
Gunnar Keppel Australia	28	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.6×	818 1.8×	98	3.3k
Niels Raes Netherlands	25	1.3k 1.1×	902 0.9×	1.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.4×	647 1.4×	58	3.0k
Gorky Villa United States	5	1.2k 1.0×	860 0.9×	432 0.5×	619 0.8×	432 0.9×	5	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerold Kier

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Sommer, Jan Henning, Holger Kreft, Gerold Kier, et al.. (2010). Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1692). 2271–2280. 102 indexed citations

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Kier, Gerold, Holger Kreft, Tien Ming Lee, et al.. (2009). A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(23). 9322–9327. 889 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kreft, Holger, Walter Jetz, Jens Mutke, Gerold Kier, & Wilhelm Barthlott. (2007). Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective. Ecology Letters. 11(2). 116–127. 282 indexed citations

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Barthlott, Wilhelm, et al.. (2007). Geographic patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales. Erdkunde. 61(4). 305–315. 136 indexed citations

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Barthlott, Wilhelm, et al.. (2005). Global Centers of Vascular Plant Diversity. 171 indexed citations

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Kier, Gerold, Jens Mutke, Eric Dinerstein, et al.. (2005). Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge. Journal of Biogeography. 32(7). 1107–1116. 461 indexed citations

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Ferrier, Simon, Glenn Manion, Gerold Kier, et al.. (2004). Mapping More of Terrestrial Biodiversity for Global Conservation Assessment. BioScience. 54(12). 1101–1101. 136 indexed citations

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Ferrier, Simon, George V. N. Powell, Karen Richardson, et al.. (2004). Mapping more of terrestrial biodiversity for global conservation assessment: a new approach to integrating disparate sources of biological and environmental data. 54(12). 5 indexed citations

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Kier, Gerold, Karl Mueller, & T. Rockwell. (2001). Origin of Regional Uplift Across Southern California and Northern Baja California. AGUFM. 2001. 3 indexed citations

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Kier, Gerold & Wilhelm Barthlott. (2001). Measuring and mapping endemism and species richness: a new methodological approach and its application on the flora of Africa. Biodiversity and Conservation. 10(9). 1513–1529. 98 indexed citations

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Mutke, Jens, et al.. (2001). Patterns of African Vascular Plant Diversity: A GIS Based Analysis. 71(2). 1125–1125. 42 indexed citations

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Barthlott, Wilhelm, et al.. (1999). Terminological and methodological aspects of the mapping and analysis of the global biodiversity. elib (German Aerospace Center). 86 indexed citations

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Barthlott, Wilhelm, et al.. (1999). Biodiversity - the uneven distribution of a treasure.. 18–28. 6 indexed citations

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