Marc S.M. Sosef

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Marc S.M. Sosef is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Forestry. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc S.M. Sosef has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 21 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Forestry. Recurrent topics in Marc S.M. Sosef's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (21 papers), African Botany and Ecology Studies (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (15 papers). Marc S.M. Sosef is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (21 papers), African Botany and Ecology Studies (17 papers) and Plant and animal studies (15 papers). Marc S.M. Sosef collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Netherlands and United States. Marc S.M. Sosef's co-authors include Jan J. Wieringa, Niels Raes, A.S.J. van Proosdij, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Lars W. Chatrou, James Richardson, Gilles Dauby, Tariq Stévart, Vincent Droissart and Tinde van Andel and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, New Phytologist and Science Advances.

In The Last Decade

Marc S.M. Sosef

50 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

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    2015 556 citations A.S.J. van Proosdij, Marc S.M. Sosef et al. profile →

Peers

Marc S.M. Sosef
Jan J. Wieringa Netherlands
Barnabas H. Daru South Africa
Colin A. Pendry United Kingdom
Dominique Strasberg Réunion
Steven P. Bachman United Kingdom
Tariq Stévart Belgium
Gilles Dauby Belgium
Mariana Pires de Campos Telles Brazil
Victoria Sosa Mexico
Aelys M. Humphreys Sweden
Jan J. Wieringa Netherlands
Marc S.M. Sosef
Citations per year, relative to Marc S.M. Sosef Marc S.M. Sosef (= 1×) peers Jan J. Wieringa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marc S.M. Sosef

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc S.M. Sosef

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marc S.M. Sosef. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marc S.M. Sosef 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 Marc S.M. Sosef. Marc S.M. Sosef 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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Sosef, Marc S.M., et al.. (2022). The vascular plant diversity of Burundi. Plant Ecology and Evolution. 155(3). 404–416. 1 indexed citations
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Meerts, Pierre & Marc S.M. Sosef. (2022). (2911) Proposal to conserve the name Clerodendrum umbellatum (Labiatae) with a conserved type. Taxon. 71(4). 914–915. 1 indexed citations
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Sosef, Marc S.M., Jérôme Degreef, Henry Engledow, & Pierre Meerts. (2021). Clasificación botánica y nomenclatura, una introducción. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Stévart, Tariq, Gilles Dauby, Porter P. Lowry, et al.. (2019). A third of the tropical African flora is potentially threatened with extinction. Science Advances. 5(11). eaax9444–eaax9444. 85 indexed citations
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Dagallier, Léo‐Paul M. J., Steven B. Janssens, Gilles Dauby, et al.. (2019). Cradles and museums of generic plant diversity across tropical Africa. New Phytologist. 225(5). 2196–2213. 91 indexed citations
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Duminil, Jérôme, Emmanuel Kasongo Yakusu, Hans Beeckman, et al.. (2018). The African timber tree Entandrophragma congoense (Pierre ex De Wild.) A.Chev. is morphologically and genetically distinct from Entandrophragma angolense (Welw.) C.DC. Tree Genetics & Genomes. 14(5). 9 indexed citations
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Droissart, Vincent, Gilles Dauby, Olivier J. Hardy, et al.. (2018). Beyond trees: Biogeographical regionalization of tropical Africa. Journal of Biogeography. 45(5). 1153–1167. 74 indexed citations
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Dauby, Gilles, Tariq Stévart, Vincent Droissart, et al.. (2017). ConR: An R package to assist large‐scale multispecies preliminary conservation assessments using distribution data. Ecology and Evolution. 7(24). 11292–11303. 155 indexed citations
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Proosdij, A.S.J. van, Niels Raes, Jan J. Wieringa, & Marc S.M. Sosef. (2016). Unequal Contribution of Widespread and Narrow-Ranged Species to Botanical Diversity Patterns. PLoS ONE. 11(12). e0169200–e0169200. 7 indexed citations
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Quiroz, Diana, Marc S.M. Sosef, & Tinde van Andel. (2016). Why ritual plant use has ethnopharmacological relevance. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 188. 48–56. 16 indexed citations
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Schneider, Julio V., Pulchérie Bissiengou, Maria do Carmo Estanislau do Amaral, et al.. (2014). Phylogenetics, ancestral state reconstruction, and a new infrafamilial classification of the pantropical Ochnaceae (Medusagynaceae, Ochnaceae s.str., Quiinaceae) based on five DNA regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 78. 199–214. 36 indexed citations
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Kidane, Berhane, L.J.G. van der Maesen, Zemede Asfaw, Marc S.M. Sosef, & Tinde van Andel. (2014). Wild and semi-wild leafy vegetables used by the Maale and Ari ethnic communities in southern Ethiopia. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 62(2). 221–234. 17 indexed citations
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Hamann, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Detailed mark‐up of semi‐monographic legacy taxonomic works using FlorML. Taxon. 63(2). 377–393. 8 indexed citations
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Quiroz, Diana, et al.. (2013). Quantifying the domestic market in herbal medicine in Benin, West Africa. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 151(3). 1100–1108. 62 indexed citations
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Couvreur, Thomas L. P., Gerrit Gort, James Richardson, Marc S.M. Sosef, & Lars W. Chatrou. (2010). Insights into the Influence of Priors in Posterior Mapping of Discrete Morphological Characters: A Case Study in Annonaceae. PLoS ONE. 5(5). e10473–e10473. 9 indexed citations
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Couvreur, Thomas L. P., James Richardson, Marc S.M. Sosef, Roy H. J. Erkens, & Lars W. Chatrou. (2008). Evolution of syncarpy and other morphological characters in African Annonaceae: A posterior mapping approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47(1). 302–318. 62 indexed citations
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Couvreur, Thomas L. P., Lars W. Chatrou, Marc S.M. Sosef, & James Richardson. (2008). Molecular phylogenetics reveal multiple tertiary vicariance origins of the African rain forest trees. BMC Biology. 6(1). 54–54. 156 indexed citations
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Küper, Wolfgang, Jon C. Lovett, Henk Beentje, et al.. (2004). Africa's hotspots of biodiversity redefined. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 91(4). 525–535. 108 indexed citations

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