Michael Traugott

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Michael Traugott is a scholar working on Ecology, Insect Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Traugott has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Ecology, 70 papers in Insect Science and 51 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Michael Traugott's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (50 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers) and Plant and animal studies (32 papers). Michael Traugott is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (50 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (49 papers) and Plant and animal studies (32 papers). Michael Traugott collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Canada. Michael Traugott's co-authors include Anita Juen, William O. C. Symondson, Daniela Sint, R. Andrew King, Daniel S. Read, Corinna Wallinger, Karin Staudacher, Bettina Thalinger, Nikolaus Schallhart and Wolfgang Donsbach and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michael Traugott

128 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

INVITED REVIEW: Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA‐based approaches

2008 552 citations Michael Traugott, William O. C. Symondson et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Traugott Austria	40	2.3k	2.1k	1.5k	1.4k	962	132	4.7k
Pavel Kindlmann Czechia	34	1.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	2.5k 1.6×	556 0.4×	1.6k 1.7×	183	4.4k
Marc Kenis Switzerland	43	3.0k 1.3×	4.9k 2.4×	2.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.2k 2.2×	214	7.5k
William E. Snyder United States	41	1.4k 0.6×	3.7k 1.8×	2.9k 1.9×	566 0.4×	2.3k 2.4×	147	6.2k
John E. Losey United States	25	759 0.3×	2.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	573 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	79	4.3k
Matthew J.W. Cock United Kingdom	25	804 0.3×	2.5k 1.2×	996 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	141	3.8k
Michael F. Antolin United States	38	1.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	722 0.5×	850 0.9×	116	5.2k
Ruth A. Hufbauer United States	36	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.3×	424 0.3×	1.7k 1.8×	115	4.8k
George Roderick United States	47	2.2k 1.0×	3.7k 1.8×	2.7k 1.8×	1.3k 0.9×	1.6k 1.7×	121	7.7k
Paul J. De Barro Australia	40	980 0.4×	5.2k 2.5×	1.7k 1.1×	844 0.6×	3.4k 3.6×	96	6.8k
Nicholas J. Mills United States	43	1.1k 0.5×	4.0k 1.9×	2.3k 1.5×	498 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	178	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Traugott

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Michael Traugott's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Michael Traugott with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Michael Traugott more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Traugott

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Traugott. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Michael Traugott. The network helps show where Michael Traugott may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Traugott

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Chatelain, Marion, et al.. (2025). Urbanisation and habitat shape resource-driven dietary shifts in wild birds. Landscape and Urban Planning. 268. 105552–105552.

Rodriguez, Lauren, Caterina Lanfredi, Maddalena Jahoda, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Environmental DNA Sampling Efficiency for Cetacean Detection on Whale Watching Tours. Environmental DNA. 7(3). 3 indexed citations

Traugott, Michael, et al.. (2025). OlfactionROOM: An optimised, low‐cost olfactometer and easy‐to‐apply setup to mitigate the escape behaviour of insects. Ecological Entomology. 50(4). 609–617. 1 indexed citations

Staudacher, Karin, et al.. (2024). Prey Switching and Natural Pest Control Potential of Carabid Communities over the Winter Wheat Cropping Season. Insects. 15(8). 610–610. 2 indexed citations

Grabenweger, Giselher, et al.. (2024). Trap crops enhance the control efficacy of Metarhizium brunneum against a soil-dwelling pest. Journal of Pest Science. 97(3). 1633–1645. 5 indexed citations

Bohan, David A., et al.. (2023). Consumer identity but not food availability affects carabid diet in cereal crops. Journal of Pest Science. 97(1). 281–296. 6 indexed citations

Wallinger, Corinna, et al.. (2023). Secondary predation by omnivores: Cereal aphid consumption bears no risk of misinterpretation in DNA‐based diet analysis. Journal of Applied Entomology. 147(5). 356–360. 3 indexed citations

Thalinger, Bettina, et al.. (2021). Endpoint PCR coupled with capillary electrophoresis (celPCR) provides sensitive and quantitative measures of environmental DNA in singleplex and multiplex reactions. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254356–e0254356. 6 indexed citations

Wallinger, Corinna, et al.. (2021). The amount of environmental DNA increases with freshwater crayfish density and over time. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4. 1 indexed citations

10.

Thalinger, Bettina, et al.. (2020). Lateral and longitudinal fish environmental DNA distribution in dynamic riverine habitats. Environmental DNA. 3(1). 305–318. 41 indexed citations

11.

Kamenova, Stefaniya, et al.. (2018). Comparing three types of dietary samples for prey DNA decay in an insect generalist predator. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(5). 966–973. 35 indexed citations

12.

Roslin, Tomas, Michael Traugott, Mattias Jonsson, et al.. (2018). Introduction: Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics – Untangling the entangled bank using molecular techniques. Molecular Ecology. 28(2). 157–164. 12 indexed citations

13.

Staudacher, Karin, Mattias Jonsson, & Michael Traugott. (2015). Diagnostic PCR assays to unravel food web interactions in cereal crops with focus on biological control of aphids. Journal of Pest Science. 89(1). 281–293. 46 indexed citations

14.

Staudacher, Karin, Nikolaus Schallhart, Bettina Thalinger, et al.. (2013). Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield. Ecological Applications. 23(5). 1135–1145. 44 indexed citations

15.

Wallinger, Corinna, et al.. (2012). The effect of plant identity and the level of plant decay on molecular gut content analysis in a herbivorous soil insect. Molecular Ecology Resources. 13(1). 75–83. 44 indexed citations

16.

Staudacher, Karin, et al.. (2011). Occurrence of Agriotes wireworms in Austrian agricultural land. Journal of Pest Science. 86(1). 33–39. 29 indexed citations

17.

Traugott, Michael, et al.. (2011). Generalist predators disrupt parasitoid aphid control by direct and coincidental intraguild predation. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 102(2). 239–247. 81 indexed citations

18.

Juen, Anita, et al.. (2011). Molecular scatology: how to improve prey DNA detection success in avian faeces?. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(4). 620–628. 98 indexed citations

19.

Sint, Daniela, et al.. (2011). Optimizing methods for PCR‐based analysis of predation. Molecular Ecology Resources. 11(5). 795–801. 58 indexed citations

20.

Volkmar, Christa, et al.. (2007). Spider communities in Bt maize and conventional maize fields. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 2 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact