Ralf Britz

3.4k total citations
121 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Ralf Britz is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Britz has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 89 papers in Aquatic Science and 18 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ralf Britz's work include Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (89 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (78 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (55 papers). Ralf Britz is often cited by papers focused on Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (89 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (78 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (55 papers). Ralf Britz collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Ralf Britz's co-authors include Lukas Rüber, Kevin W. Conway, G. David Johnson, Maurice Kottelat, Rafael Zardoya, Heok Hui Tan, George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox, Mônica Toledo‐Piza, Sven Gemballa and Peter K. L. Ng and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Britz

118 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Britz United Kingdom 26 1.4k 1.2k 537 310 269 121 2.1k
Terry Grande United States 11 1.2k 0.8× 707 0.6× 505 0.9× 442 1.4× 222 0.8× 23 1.8k
Hernán López‐Fernández United States 25 1.6k 1.1× 952 0.8× 333 0.6× 405 1.3× 356 1.3× 66 2.1k
Sébastien Lavoué Malaysia 26 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 785 1.5× 458 1.5× 544 2.0× 96 2.4k
W. Leo Smith United States 22 1.6k 1.1× 764 0.7× 843 1.6× 593 1.9× 486 1.8× 38 2.5k
Ron I. Eytan United States 16 1.2k 0.8× 506 0.4× 610 1.1× 540 1.7× 484 1.8× 27 2.1k
John S. Sparks United States 23 1.1k 0.8× 646 0.6× 618 1.2× 514 1.7× 247 0.9× 81 2.0k
Jon A. Moore United States 15 1.0k 0.7× 393 0.3× 446 0.8× 531 1.7× 304 1.1× 43 1.8k
Andrew M. Simons United States 23 1.1k 0.7× 800 0.7× 585 1.1× 420 1.4× 678 2.5× 56 1.8k
Nathan R. Lovejoy Canada 30 1.9k 1.3× 1.1k 0.9× 513 1.0× 568 1.8× 505 1.9× 84 2.6k
Prosanta Chakrabarty United States 25 1.6k 1.1× 953 0.8× 569 1.1× 623 2.0× 566 2.1× 102 2.6k

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All Works

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Mattox, George Mendes Taliaferro, et al.. (2024). Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Vertebrate Zoology. 74. 533–550. 1 indexed citations
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Mattox, George Mendes Taliaferro, et al.. (2023). Two new species of miniature tetras of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Juruá drainage, Acre, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 101(4). 248–266. 7 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, George Mendes Taliaferro Mattox, & Kevin W. Conway. (2023). The quadrate-metapterygoid fenestra of otophysan fishes, its development and homology. Vertebrate Zoology. 73. 35–55. 1 indexed citations
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Raghavan, Rajeev, et al.. (2023). Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis. Vertebrate Zoology. 73. 57–74. 4 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, et al.. (2022). Three scleral ossicles in the West African Denticle herring Denticeps clupeoides (Clupeiformes: Denticipitidae). Journal of Fish Biology. 100(3). 852–855. 1 indexed citations
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Mattox, George Mendes Taliaferro, et al.. (2022). Notes on the skeletal anatomy of Priocharax ariel Weitzman & Vari, 1987 with implications for its taxonomy (Teleostei: Characiformes). Zootaxa. 5138(5). 597–599. 3 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, S. Kullander, & Lukas Rüber. (2022). Dario tigris and Dario melanogrammus, two new species of miniature chameleon fishes from northern Myanmar (Teleostei: Badidae). Zootaxa. 5138(1). 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Raghavan, Rajeev, et al.. (2022). Diversity and distribution of dragon snakeheads of the family Aenigmachannidae, and the identity of Aenigmachanna mahabali. Zootaxa. 5120(2). 295–300. 1 indexed citations
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Siegel, Dustin S., et al.. (2021). The larval attachment organ of the tropical gar Atractosteus tropicus Gill, 1863 (Lepisosteiformes: Lepisosteidae). Journal of Fish Biology. 99(2). 418–424. 3 indexed citations
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Rüber, Lukas, Heok Hui Tan, & Ralf Britz. (2019). Snakehead (Teleostei: Channidae) diversity and the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research. 58(1). 356–386. 28 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, et al.. (2019). Channa auroflammea, a new species of snakehead fish of the Marulius group from the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia (Teleostei: Channidae). Zootaxa. 4571(3). zootaxa.4571.3.7–zootaxa.4571.3.7. 3 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, Neelesh Dahanukar, Rajeev Raghavan, et al.. (2017). Barcoding snakeheads (Teleostei, Channidae) revisited: Discovering greater species diversity and resolving perpetuated taxonomic confusions. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184017–e0184017. 52 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, et al.. (2016). Monopterus luticolus, a new species of swamp eel from Cameroon (Teleostei: Synbranchidae). Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 6 indexed citations
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Mattox, George Mendes Taliaferro, Ralf Britz, & Mônica Toledo‐Piza. (2014). Skeletal development and ossification sequence of the characiform Salminus brasiliensis (Ostariophysi: Characidae). 25(2). 103. 31 indexed citations
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Mattox, George Mendes Taliaferro, Ralf Britz, Mônica Toledo‐Piza, & Manoela Marinho. (2013). Cyanogaster noctivaga, a remarkable new genus and species of miniature fish from the Rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characidae). 23(4). 297–318. 16 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, et al.. (2010). New insights into the complex structure and ontogeny of the occipito‐vertebral gap in barbeled dragonfishes (Stomiidae, Teleostei). Journal of Morphology. 271(8). 1006–1022. 18 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf, Kevin W. Conway, & Lukas Rüber. (2009). Spectacular morphological novelty in a miniature cyprinid fish, Danionella dracula n. sp.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 276(1665). 2179–2186. 77 indexed citations
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Britz, Ralf. (2004). Egg structure and larval development of Pantodon buchholzi (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha), with a review of data on reproduction and early life history in other osteoglossomorphs. 15(3). 209–224. 11 indexed citations
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