Michael Krings

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
211 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Krings is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Krings has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 178 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 100 papers in Plant Science and 72 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Michael Krings's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (155 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (72 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (60 papers). Michael Krings is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (155 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (72 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (60 papers). Michael Krings collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Michael Krings's co-authors include Thomas N. Taylor, Hans Kerp, Edith L. Taylor, Nora Dotzler, Hagen Hass, Carla J. Harper, Christian Pott, Jean Galtier, Sharon D. Klavins and Elizabeth J. Hermsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Krings

204 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Krings	3.3k	1.8k	1.4k	1.2k	714	211	4.4k
Paul Kenrick	2.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	716 1.0×	82	5.3k
Hagen Hass	1.9k 0.6×	2.2k 1.2×	732 0.5×	659 0.5×	539 0.8×	51	3.4k
Hans Kerp	4.1k 1.2×	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	2.0k 1.7×	1.3k 1.9×	185	6.6k
Ruth A. Stockey	4.4k 1.3×	1.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.8×	708 0.6×	359 0.5×	215	5.0k
Dianne Edwards	3.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	1.3k 1.8×	116	4.9k
Edith L. Taylor	3.9k 1.2×	994 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	163	5.3k
Thomas Denk	2.0k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	454 0.4×	663 0.9×	109	3.1k
Gar W. Rothwell	6.5k 2.0×	2.2k 1.2×	3.4k 2.5×	1.5k 1.3×	891 1.2×	278	7.5k
W. Punt	3.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	492 0.4×	936 1.3×	69	4.3k
Silvia Pressel	1.7k 0.5×	2.1k 1.2×	731 0.5×	190 0.2×	224 0.3×	76	3.1k

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Loron, Corentin, Laura Cooper, Seán F. Jordan, et al.. (2026). Prototaxites fossils are structurally and chemically distinct from extinct and extant Fungi. Science Advances. 12(4). eaec6277–eaec6277.

Krings, Michael. (2025). Unusual chytrid-like fossils in a land plant cell from the Rhynie cherts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 337. 105315–105315.

Liu, Fengxiang, et al.. (2024). Fossil Xenoxylon (Coniferopsida) wood from the Upper Cretaceous of Heilongjiang, China: Evidence of a tripartite plant-arthropod-fungal association. Cretaceous Research. 157. 105822–105822. 2 indexed citations

Krings, Michael. (2024). Algae from the Lower Devonian Rhynie chert: Harpericystis verecunda gen. et sp. nov., a probable green alga (Chlorophyta) that forms few-celled colonies. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 331. 105190–105190.

Krings, Michael. (2024). Further observations on stalked microfossils from the Lower Devonian Rhynie cherts that resemble the algae Characiopsis (Eustigmatophyceae) and Characium (Chlorophyceae). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 324. 105081–105081. 1 indexed citations

Kiel, Steffen, James L. Goedert, Tony L. Huynh, et al.. (2024). Early Oligocene kelp holdfasts and stepwise evolution of the kelp ecosystem in the North Pacific. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(4). e2317054121–e2317054121. 8 indexed citations

Decombeix, Anne‐Laure, et al.. (2023). Fossil evidence of tylosis formation in Late Devonian plants. Nature Plants. 9(5). 695–698. 2 indexed citations

McMahon, Sean, Corentin Loron, Laura Cooper, Alexander J. Hetherington, & Michael Krings. (2023). Entophysalis in the Rhynie chert (Lower Devonian, Scotland): implications for cyanobacterial evolution. Geological Magazine. 160(10). 1946–1952. 2 indexed citations

Kustatscher, Evelyn, Helmut Martin, Guido Roghi, & Michael Krings. (2022). A whole-plant specimen of the marine macroalga Pterigophycos from the Eocene of Bolca (Veneto, N-Italy). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 78(1). 145–156. 1 indexed citations

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Regalado, Ledis, et al.. (2019). Heinrichsia cheilanthoides gen. et sp. nov., a fossil fern in the family Pteridaceae (Polypodiales) from the Cretaceous amber forests of Myanmar. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 57(4). 329–338. 13 indexed citations

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Kustatscher, Evelyn, Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg‐van Cittert, Cindy V. Looy, et al.. (2018). The Lopingian (late Permian) flora from the Bletterbach Gorge in the Dolomites, Northern Italy: a review. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 12 indexed citations

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Harper, Carla J., Edith L. Taylor, Christopher Walker, et al.. (2018). Fungal sporulation in a Permian plant fragment from Antarctica. Bulletin of Geosciences. 13–26. 4 indexed citations

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Krings, Michael, et al.. (2016). An enigmatic fossil fungus from the 410 Ma Rhynie chert that resembles Macrochytrium (Chytridiomycota) and Blastocladiella (Blastocladiomycota). Mycologia. 108(2). 303–312. 14 indexed citations

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Harper, Carla J., Thomas N. Taylor, Michael Krings, & Edith L. Taylor. (2016). Structurally preserved fungi from Antarctica: diversity and interactions in late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic polar forest ecosystems. Antarctic Science. 28(3). 153–173. 32 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, Neha, Michael Krings, Neerja Jha, & Thomas N. Taylor. (2015). Unusual spheroidal inclusions in Late Permian gymnosperm pollen grains from southern India revisited: evidence of a fungal nature. Grana. 54(3). 174–183. 5 indexed citations

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Taylor, Thomas N., et al.. (2013). Paleomycology of the Princeton Chert I. Fossil hyphomycetes associated with the early Eocene aquatic angiosperm, Eorhiza arnoldii. Mycologia. 105(3). 521–529. 10 indexed citations

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Krings, Michael, et al.. (2012). Fossil fungi with suggested affinities to the Endogonaceae from the Middle Triassic of Antarctica. Mycologia. 104(4). 835–844. 23 indexed citations

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Krings, Michael, Thomas N. Taylor, Nora Dotzler, & Jean Galtier. (2011). Fungal remains in cordaite (Cordaitales) leaves from the Upper Pennsylvanian of central France. Bulletin of Geosciences. 777–784. 16 indexed citations

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Krings, Michael, Thomas N. Taylor, Hagen Hass, et al.. (2007). An Alternative Mode of Early Land Plant Colonization by Putative Endomycorrhizal Fungi. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 2(2). 125–126. 23 indexed citations

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Klavins, Sharon D., et al.. (2005). Coprolites in a Middle Triassic cycad pollen cone: evidence for insect pollination in early cycads?. Evolutionary ecology research. 7(3). 479–488. 42 indexed citations

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