Peter Ranacher

780 total citations
18 papers, 327 citations indexed

About

Peter Ranacher is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Transportation and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Ranacher has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 327 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Linguistics and Language, 5 papers in Transportation and 5 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Peter Ranacher's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 papers), Language and cultural evolution (5 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (4 papers). Peter Ranacher is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 papers), Language and cultural evolution (5 papers) and Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (4 papers). Peter Ranacher collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and Austria. Peter Ranacher's co-authors include Richard Brunauer, Stefan van der Spek, Siegfried Reich, Robert Weibel, Wolfgang Trutschnig, Martin Tomko, Balthasar Bickel, Rik van Gijn, Paul Widmer and Gereon A. Kaiping and has published in prestigious journals such as Science Advances, Language and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Peter Ranacher

15 papers receiving 314 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Ranacher Switzerland 9 83 55 50 45 36 18 327
A. Paolo Masucci United Kingdom 10 219 2.6× 20 0.4× 10 0.2× 38 0.8× 81 2.3× 16 620
C.P.J.M. van Elzakker Netherlands 11 67 0.8× 84 1.5× 3 0.1× 5 0.1× 26 0.7× 50 439
Kenneth Field United States 8 113 1.4× 53 1.0× 2 0.0× 7 0.2× 21 0.6× 33 373
Richard Brunauer Austria 10 78 0.9× 42 0.8× 27 0.6× 16 0.4× 18 305
Jiechen Wang China 11 43 0.5× 30 0.5× 37 0.8× 20 0.6× 32 300
Anuraj Singh India 15 7 0.1× 9 0.2× 16 0.3× 32 0.7× 21 0.6× 44 761
Andrew Hunter Canada 8 58 0.7× 51 0.9× 56 1.2× 21 0.6× 22 335
C.A. Blok Netherlands 7 39 0.5× 121 2.2× 1 0.0× 15 0.3× 32 0.9× 20 410
P. Nye United States 5 114 1.4× 117 2.1× 116 2.6× 30 0.8× 7 337
Walied Othman Belgium 10 187 2.3× 133 2.4× 43 1.0× 26 0.7× 15 363

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Ranacher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Ranacher

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ranacher, Peter, Robert Forkel, Matthias Urban, et al.. (2025). A global and interoperable dataset of linguistic distributions derived from the Atlas of the World’s Languages. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1466–1466.
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Liechti, Félix, et al.. (2024). High‐intensity bird migration along Alpine valleys calls for protective measures against anthropogenically induced avian mortality. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 10(3). 360–373. 7 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2024). High altitude dilemmas: assessing academic air travel reduction measures by comparing reduction potential and willingness. Environmental Research Communications. 6(10). 105019–105019. 3 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2022). Gone with the wind: Inferring bird migration with light‐level geolocation, wind and activity measurements. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(6). 1265–1274. 5 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2022). Detecting contact in language trees: a Bayesian phylogenetic model with horizontal transfer. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 9(1). 21 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2022). Linguistic traits as heritable units? Spatial Bayesian clustering reveals Swiss German dialect regions. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 10(1). 11–22. 2 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?. Royal Society Open Science. 8(1). 201079–201079. 9 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(181). 20201031–20201031. 19 indexed citations
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Matsumae, Hiromi, Peter Ranacher, Patrick E. Savage, et al.. (2021). Exploring correlations in genetic and cultural variation across language families in northeast Asia. Science Advances. 7(34). 26 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2019). Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a Linguistic Area. Language. 95(3). 498–522. 2 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2019). Evidence for Britain and Ireland as a linguistic area: Supplementary material. Language. 95(3).
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Tomko, Martin, et al.. (2018). Travelers or locals? Identifying meaningful sub-populations from human movement data in the absence of ground truth. EPJ Data Science. 7(1). 32 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, Rik van Gijn, & Curdin Derungs. (2017). Identifying probable pathways of language diffusion in South America. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, Richard Brunauer, Stefan van der Spek, & Siegfried Reich. (2016). A model to estimate and interpret the energy-efficiency of movement patterns in urban road traffic. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 59. 152–163. 9 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, Richard Brunauer, Stefan van der Spek, & Siegfried Reich. (2016). What is an Appropriate Temporal Sampling Rate to Record Floating Car Data with a GPS?. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 5(1). 1–1. 44 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, Richard Brunauer, Wolfgang Trutschnig, Stefan van der Spek, & Siegfried Reich. (2015). Why GPS makes distances bigger than they are. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems. 30(2). 316–333. 85 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2014). How to compare movement? A review of physical movement similarity measures in geographic information science and beyond. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 41(3). 286–307. 61 indexed citations

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