Rolf Santesson

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Rolf Santesson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rolf Santesson has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Plant Science, 29 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Rolf Santesson's work include Lichen and fungal ecology (28 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (23 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (16 papers). Rolf Santesson is often cited by papers focused on Lichen and fungal ecology (28 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (23 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (16 papers). Rolf Santesson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Rolf Santesson's co-authors include Irwin M. Brodo, Tor Tønsberg, Anders Nordin, Roland Moberg, Orvo Vitikainen, Ove Almborn, David L. Hawksworth, Mikhail P. Zhurbenko, Robert Lücking and Leif Tibell and has published in prestigious journals such as Taxon, The Bryologist and The Lichenologist.

In The Last Decade

Rolf Santesson

34 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Foliicolous lichens I : a revision of the taxonomy of the... 1952 2026 1976 2001 1952 50 100 150 200
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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.

  1. Foliicolous lichens I : a revision of the taxonomy of the obligately foliicolous, lichenized fungi
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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rolf Santesson Sweden 14 1.2k 1.1k 308 112 86 34 1.3k
Orvo Vitikainen Finland 12 805 0.7× 717 0.6× 129 0.4× 74 0.7× 49 0.6× 29 855
Anders Nordin Sweden 13 924 0.8× 863 0.8× 244 0.8× 86 0.8× 42 0.5× 58 978
Alan Orange United Kingdom 12 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 400 1.3× 90 0.8× 57 0.7× 48 1.5k
Alan M. Fryday United States 17 947 0.8× 806 0.7× 287 0.9× 51 0.5× 77 0.9× 108 1.0k
R. Troy McMullin Canada 15 711 0.6× 526 0.5× 171 0.6× 256 2.3× 74 0.9× 103 830
Frank Bungartz Ecuador 17 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 486 1.6× 38 0.3× 67 0.8× 54 1.4k
Martin Kukwa Poland 24 1.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.5× 400 1.3× 211 1.9× 74 0.9× 188 2.0k
Jiří Košnar Czechia 15 384 0.3× 412 0.4× 96 0.3× 64 0.6× 91 1.1× 48 612
Andres Saag Estonia 13 443 0.4× 421 0.4× 126 0.4× 64 0.6× 34 0.4× 44 517
Zdeněk Palice Czechia 19 819 0.7× 780 0.7× 202 0.7× 177 1.6× 29 0.3× 60 891

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All Works

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Lücking, Robert, et al.. (2002). Ceratopycnidium Citricola is Byssoloma Lueckingii. The Lichenologist. 34(3). 270–272. 3 indexed citations
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Lücking, Robert & Rolf Santesson. (2001). New Species or Interesting Records of Foliicolous Lichens. VIII. Two New Taxa from Tropical Africa, with a Key to Sorediate Fellhanera Species. The Lichenologist. 33(2). 111–116. 7 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf & Robert Lücking. (1999). Additions to the foliicolous lichen flora of the Ivory Coast and Guinea (Tropical West Africa). Nordic Journal of Botany. 19(6). 719–734. 13 indexed citations
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Brodo, Irwin M. & Rolf Santesson. (1997). Lichens of the Queen Charlotte Islands,British Columbia,Canada(3)Marine species of Verrucaria(Verrucariaceae,Ascomycotina) (Bryological and Lichenological Papers Presented to Wilfred Borden Schofield on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday). Journal of The Hattori Botanical Laboratory. 27–37. 1 indexed citations
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Heiðmarsson, Starri, Jan‐Eric Mattsson, Roland Moberg, et al.. (1997). Classification of lichen photomorphs. Taxon. 46(3). 519–520. 11 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf & Tor Tønsberg. (1994). Arthrorhaphis Aeruginosa and A. Olivaceae, Two New Lichenicolous Fungi. The Lichenologist. 26(3). 295–299. 20 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf & Tor Tønsberg. (1994). Arthrorhaphis Aeruginosa and A. Olivaceae, Two New Lichenicolous Fungi. The Lichenologist. 26(3). 295–295. 7 indexed citations
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Brodo, Irwin M. & Rolf Santesson. (1994). The Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi of Sweden and Norway. The Bryologist. 97(4). 468–468. 248 indexed citations
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Jørgensen, Per M. & Rolf Santesson. (1993). (1074‐1082) Nine proposals to conserve generic names of lichenized fungi. Taxon. 42(4). 881–887. 8 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf. (1992). Pyrenocollema Elegans, A New Marine Lichen. The Lichenologist. 24(1). 7–11. 3 indexed citations
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Jørgensen, Per M. & Rolf Santesson. (1989). Three new species in the lichen genus Ionaspis. Nordic Journal of Botany. 9(4). 431–434. 2 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf & Leif Tibell. (1988). Foliicolous Lichens from Australia. Austrobaileya A Journal of Plant Systematics. 2(5). 529–545. 15 indexed citations
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Hawksworth, David L. & Rolf Santesson. (1988). Skyttella, a new genus for Phacopsis mulleri Willey (syn. Agyrium flavescens Rehm). 2. 13 indexed citations
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Almborn, Ove & Rolf Santesson. (1985). The Lichens of Sweden and Norway. Taxon. 34(1). 172–172. 103 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf & William Louis Culberson. (1966). The Typification of the Homonymic Generic Names Platisma (Platysma) Proposed for Lichens. The Bryologist. 69(1). 100–100. 3 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf. (1966). CLADONIA SYLVATICA AND THE DESCRIPTIVE METHOD OF LINNAEUS. Taxon. 15(2). 64–66. 3 indexed citations
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Santesson, Rolf. (1954). FUNGAL SYMBIONTS OF LICHENS. Taxon. 3(5). 147–148. 5 indexed citations
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