Hervé Sauquet

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
79 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Hervé Sauquet is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Hervé Sauquet has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 43 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Hervé Sauquet's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (56 papers), Plant and animal studies (55 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (32 papers). Hervé Sauquet is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (56 papers), Plant and animal studies (55 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (32 papers). Hervé Sauquet collaborates with scholars based in Australia, France and United States. Hervé Sauquet's co-authors include Susana Magallón, Peter Wilf, Peter H. Weston, Nigel P. Barker, David J. Cantrill, Santiago Ramírez‐Barahona, Michael J. Benton, Vincent Savolainen, Simon Y. W. Ho and Lars W. Chatrou and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Hervé Sauquet

77 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

2021 190 citations Peter Wilf, Hervé Sauquet et al. New Phytologist profile →
The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families

2020 153 citations Santiago Ramírez‐Barahona, Hervé Sauquet et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hervé Sauquet Australia	30	2.5k	1.6k	938	636	549	79	3.4k
Niklas Wikström Sweden	26	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	564 0.9×	358 0.7×	43	3.0k
Pauline Y. Ladiges Australia	32	1.9k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	987 1.6×	652 1.2×	106	3.5k
Steven J. Wagstaff New Zealand	33	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	363 0.6×	299 0.5×	62	2.8k
Darren M. Crayn Australia	33	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	881 1.4×	770 1.4×	106	4.2k
Peter H. Weston Australia	32	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.9×	678 1.2×	94	3.8k
Sven Buerki United States	27	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.6×	802 0.9×	381 0.6×	416 0.8×	123	2.5k
Thomas L. P. Couvreur France	37	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	748 1.4×	117	4.5k
Robert W. Scotland United Kingdom	31	1.9k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	407 0.6×	525 1.0×	102	3.6k
Zhenxiang Xi China	32	1.6k 0.6×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	306 0.5×	985 1.8×	54	3.5k
Sarah Mathews United States	26	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.4×	322 0.5×	457 0.8×	35	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hervé Sauquet

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hervé Sauquet

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Mesaglio, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Expert identification blitz: A rapid high value approach for assessing and improving iNaturalist identification accuracy and data precision and confidence. Plants People Planet. 7(5). 1469–1484. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Qian, Bing Liu, Limin Lu, et al.. (2024). Meta‐analysis provides insights into the origin and evolution of East Asian evergreen broad‐leaved forests. New Phytologist. 242(5). 2369–2379. 9 indexed citations

Stephens, Ruby E., Rachael V. Gallagher, Marcos Méndez, & Hervé Sauquet. (2024). Zygomorphic flowers last longer: the evolution of floral symmetry and floral longevity. Biology Letters. 20(6). 20240082–20240082. 1 indexed citations

Wenk, Elizabeth, William K. Cornwell, Fonti Kar, et al.. (2024). APCalign: an R package workflow and app for aligning and updating flora names to the Australian Plant Census. Australian Journal of Botany. 72(4). 3 indexed citations

Coleman, David, Rachael V. Gallagher, Daniel S. Falster, Hervé Sauquet, & Elizabeth Wenk. (2023). A workflow to create trait databases from collections of textual taxonomic descriptions. Ecological Informatics. 78. 102312–102312. 6 indexed citations

Helmstetter, Andrew J., Rosana Zenil‐Ferguson, Hervé Sauquet, et al.. (2023). Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data. Ecology Letters. 26(4). 640–657. 29 indexed citations

Stephens, Ruby E., et al.. (2023). Insect pollination for most of angiosperm evolutionary history. New Phytologist. 240(2). 880–891. 39 indexed citations

Deanna, Rocío, Camila Martínez, Steven R. Manchester, et al.. (2023). Fossil berries reveal global radiation of the nightshade family by the early Cenozoic. New Phytologist. 238(6). 2685–2697. 4 indexed citations

Anderson, Bruce, John R. Pannell, Sylvain Billiard, et al.. (2023). Opposing effects of plant traits on diversification. iScience. 26(4). 106362–106362. 9 indexed citations

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Rossetto, Maurizio, Marlien van der Merwe, Patricia Lu‐Irving, et al.. (2022). Chromosome‐level de novo genome assembly of Telopea speciosissima (New South Wales waratah) using long‐reads, linked‐reads and Hi‐C. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(5). 1836–1854. 14 indexed citations

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Stephens, Ruby E., Hervé Sauquet, Greg R. Guerin, et al.. (2022). Climate shapes community flowering periods across biomes. Journal of Biogeography. 49(7). 1205–1218. 6 indexed citations

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Helmstetter, Andrew J., Sylvain Glémin, Jos Käfer, et al.. (2021). Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots, and Modern Macroevolutionary Modeling. Systematic Biology. 71(3). 758–773. 37 indexed citations

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Chartier, Marion, Maria von Balthazar, Susanne Sontag, et al.. (2021). Global patterns and a latitudinal gradient of flower disparity: perspectives from the angiosperm order Ericales. New Phytologist. 230(2). 821–831. 21 indexed citations

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Ramírez‐Barahona, Santiago, Hervé Sauquet, & Susana Magallón. (2020). The delayed and geographically heterogeneous diversification of flowering plant families. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(9). 1232–1238. 153 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reyes, Elisabeth, Sophie Nadot, Maria von Balthazar, Jürg Schönenberger, & Hervé Sauquet. (2018). Testing the impact of morphological rate heterogeneity on ancestral state reconstruction of five floral traits in angiosperms. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9473–9473. 18 indexed citations

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Antonelli, Alexandre, Fabien L. Condamine, R. Henrik Nilsson, et al.. (2016). Toward a Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of Taxa. Systematic Biology. 66(2). syw066–syw066. 38 indexed citations

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Sauquet, Hervé & Sean W. Graham. (2016). Planning the future of plant systematics: Report on a special colloquium at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. American Journal of Botany. 103(12). 2022–2027. 4 indexed citations

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Sauquet, Hervé, et al.. (2015). Zygomorphy evolved from disymmetry in Fumarioideae (Papaveraceae, Ranunculales): new evidence from an expanded molecular phylogenetic framework. Annals of Botany. 115(6). 895–914. 26 indexed citations

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Massoni, Julien, Félix Forest, & Hervé Sauquet. (2013). Increased sampling of both genes and taxa improves resolution of phylogenetic relationships within Magnoliidae, a large and early-diverging clade of angiosperms. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 70. 84–93. 54 indexed citations

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Barker, Nigel P., Peter H. Weston, Frank Rutschmann, & Hervé Sauquet. (2007). Molecular dating of the ‘Gondwanan’ plant family Proteaceae is only partially congruent with the timing of the break‐up of Gondwana. Journal of Biogeography. 34(12). 2012–2027. 162 indexed citations

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