Laura Tensen

413 total citations
23 papers, 265 citations indexed

About

Laura Tensen is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Tensen has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 265 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 18 papers in Ecology and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Laura Tensen's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (18 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (14 papers). Laura Tensen is often cited by papers focused on Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (18 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (14 papers). Laura Tensen collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Germany and Denmark. Laura Tensen's co-authors include Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Klaus Fischer, Marine Drouilly, David G. Marneweck, Rosemary J. Groom, Harriet T. Davies‐Mostert, Isabela Dias-Freedman, Laura D. Bertola, G.R. de Snoo and Anthony Caragiulo and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Laura Tensen

20 papers receiving 258 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Tensen South Africa 8 186 125 36 35 34 23 265
Bibhab Kumar Talukdar India 9 196 1.1× 57 0.5× 40 1.1× 22 0.6× 19 0.6× 28 251
Esther van der Meer Zimbabwe 11 221 1.2× 102 0.8× 42 1.2× 22 0.6× 13 0.4× 23 290
Darren W. Pietersen South Africa 9 188 1.0× 90 0.7× 49 1.4× 28 0.8× 21 0.6× 23 308
Philippe Chardonnet France 12 285 1.5× 111 0.9× 42 1.2× 37 1.1× 30 0.9× 45 427
Valéria Amorim Conforti United States 9 195 1.0× 63 0.5× 33 0.9× 22 0.6× 43 1.3× 12 306
Kristin E. Brzeski United States 13 268 1.4× 287 2.3× 43 1.2× 49 1.4× 15 0.4× 34 445
Megan Parker United States 6 219 1.2× 153 1.2× 44 1.2× 16 0.5× 10 0.3× 11 287
Hans de Iongh Netherlands 5 322 1.7× 98 0.8× 71 2.0× 44 1.3× 24 0.7× 13 393
Sovanna Prum Cambodia 9 247 1.3× 84 0.7× 63 1.8× 17 0.5× 10 0.3× 15 269
Christopher Nagy United States 10 155 0.8× 81 0.6× 45 1.3× 32 0.9× 11 0.3× 19 228

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Tensen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Tensen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Tensen

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pečnerová, Patrícia, et al.. (2025). Q&A: inbreeding and its implications for conservation. BMC Biology. 23(1). 314–314.
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2025). Little variation, lots of repetition: mitogenomic diversity in African wild dogs. Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 35(5-6). 197–206.
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Tensen, Laura & Klaus Fischer. (2024). Heterozygosity is low where rare color variants in wild carnivores prevail. Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). e10881–e10881. 5 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2024). Mitogenomic Characterization of South African Leopards and the Effect of Past Climatic Events. Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research. 2024. 1–14. 2 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2024). Dark Mystery Solved: A Captive Black Leopard from South Africa is of Asian Descent. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 54(1). 2 indexed citations
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Fischer, Klaus, et al.. (2024). Color polymorphic carnivores have faster speciation rates. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 23721–23721. 3 indexed citations
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Bosse, Mirte, et al.. (2024). Red, gold, and green: comparative genomics of polymorphic leopards from South Africa. Evolution. 79(3). 442–456.
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2023). Neutral and Adaptive Genetic Variation in Indian Snow Leopards, <i>Panthera uncia</i>. Current Science. 125(2). 204–204. 1 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2023). Genetic surfing during the range expansion of an endangered large carnivore. Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(1). 361–378. 3 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura & Klaus Fischer. (2023). Evaluating hybrid speciation and swamping in wild carnivores with a decision‐tree approach. Conservation Biology. 38(1). e14197–e14197. 4 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, Marine Drouilly, & Bettine Jansen van Vuuren. (2019). Insights into the Genetic Population Structure of Black-Backed Jackal and Caracal in South Africa. African Journal of Wildlife Research. 49(1). 5 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2019). Unravelling the taxonomy and distribution of two problematic small mammal genera in the Karoo biome. African Zoology. 54(3). 125–135. 2 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2019). African wild dogs: Genetic viability of translocated populations across South Africa. Biological Conservation. 234. 131–139. 18 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, Marine Drouilly, & Bettine Jansen van Vuuren. (2018). Genetic structure and diversity within lethally managed populations of two mesopredators in South Africa. Journal of Mammalogy. 14 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura. (2018). Biases in wildlife and conservation research, using felids and canids as a case study. Global Ecology and Conservation. 15. e00423–e00423. 40 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura, et al.. (2016). Genetic diversity and spatial genetic structure of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in the Greater Limpopo transfrontier conservation area. Conservation Genetics. 17(4). 785–794. 14 indexed citations
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Tensen, Laura. (2016). Under what circumstances can wildlife farming benefit species conservation?. Global Ecology and Conservation. 6. 286–298. 102 indexed citations
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Bertola, Laura D., Laura Tensen, Pim van Hooft, et al.. (2015). Autosomal and mtDNA Markers Affirm the Distinctiveness of Lions in West and Central Africa. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0137975–e0137975. 23 indexed citations

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