Sonja Matthee

2.9k total citations
100 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sonja Matthee is a scholar working on Parasitology, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sonja Matthee has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Parasitology, 52 papers in Ecology and 32 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sonja Matthee's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (44 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (30 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers). Sonja Matthee is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (44 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (30 papers) and Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (27 papers). Sonja Matthee collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Israel and Russia. Sonja Matthee's co-authors include Conrad A. Matthee, Boris R. Krasnov, Luther van der Mescht, Mélodie A. McGeoch, Ivan G. Horak, Götz Froeschke, R.C. Krecek, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Edward A. Ueckermann and Simone Sommer and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Sonja Matthee

89 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sonja Matthee South Africa	22	686	633	426	387	340	100	1.4k
Joë̈lle Goü̈y de Bellocq Czechia	22	358 0.5×	721 1.1×	334 0.8×	404 1.0×	435 1.3×	77	1.5k
Jesús M. Pérez Spain	25	551 0.8×	674 1.1×	583 1.4×	321 0.8×	771 2.3×	149	2.0k
Alexis Ribas Spain	24	556 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	185 0.4×	336 0.9×	225 0.7×	123	1.7k
Ali Halajian South Africa	20	816 1.2×	675 1.1×	170 0.4×	179 0.5×	279 0.8×	112	1.3k
Stephanie S. Godfrey Australia	23	426 0.6×	715 1.1×	716 1.7×	373 1.0×	202 0.6×	84	1.8k
Gábor Majoros Hungary	18	1.3k 1.9×	1.0k 1.7×	542 1.3×	270 0.7×	686 2.0×	44	2.1k
Lajos Rózsa Hungary	22	1.4k 2.1×	1.8k 2.8×	711 1.7×	317 0.8×	299 0.9×	78	2.6k
Emmanuelle Gilot‐Fromont France	31	1.1k 1.7×	481 0.8×	326 0.8×	289 0.7×	420 1.2×	97	2.4k
Benoît Pisanu France	21	384 0.6×	762 1.2×	372 0.9×	273 0.7×	267 0.8×	59	1.3k
Paulino Fandós Spain	21	237 0.3×	520 0.8×	295 0.7×	246 0.6×	397 1.2×	80	1.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Troskie, Milana, Sonja Matthee, B.L. Penzhorn, Raymond Jansen, & Marinda C. Oosthuizen. (2025). Occurrence of tick-borne haemoparasites in South African rodent species and evidence of Babesia microti-like sequence variants in two Rhabdomys species. International Journal for Parasitology Parasites and Wildlife. 26. 101051–101051.

Matthee, Sonja, et al.. (2025). Exploring factors hampering the performance of business incubators in South Africa: – a public, private, and university business incubator cross-case analysis. Small Enterprise Research. 32(2-3). 117–139.

Stekolnikov, Alexandr A., et al.. (2025). Contribution to the fauna of chigger mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of South Africa, with descriptions of three new genera and ten new species. Zootaxa. 5691(3). 495–538.

Matthee, Conrad A., et al.. (2025). The ectoparasites and gastrointestinal helminths associated with Smith’s bush squirrel ( Paraxerus cepapi ) in South Africa. Parasitology. 1–10.

Matthee, Conrad A., et al.. (2025). Host associations, host switching, geographic location, and potential reticulate evolution shape the systematics of sucking lice (Psocodea: Anoplura) belonging to the genera Hoplopleura and Polyplax. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 204(4).

Krasnov, Boris R., Irina S. Khokhlova, Anne Laudisoit, et al.. (2024). Congruence between co-occurrence and trait-based networks is scale-dependent: a case study with flea parasites of small mammalian hosts. Parasitology. 151(8). 853–863.

Krasnov, Boris R., Irina S. Khokhlova, Natalia P. Korallo‐Vinarskaya, et al.. (2024). Structure of compound and component communities of fleas parasitic on small mammals in six different regions as revealed by environmental‐based co‐occurrence geometry analyses. Integrative Zoology. 20(2). 274–288.

Little, Alex G., Conrad A. Matthee, Edward A. Ueckermann, et al.. (2024). Host and habitat shape ectoparasite diversity on Mastomys natalensis and Mastomys coucha (Muridae). Parasitology. 151(8). 769–783. 1 indexed citations

Krasnov, Boris R., et al.. (2023). Ectoparasites associated with the Bushveld gerbil (Gerbilliscus leucogaster) and the role of the host and habitat in shaping ectoparasite diversity and infestations. Parasitology. 150(9). 792–804. 4 indexed citations

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Matthee, Conrad A., et al.. (2023). Documenting the microbiome diversity and distribution in selected fleas from South Africa with an emphasis on the cat flea, Ctenocephalides f. felis.. Parasitology. 150(11). 979–989. 1 indexed citations

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Krasnov, Boris R., Irina S. Khokhlova, Daniel Kiefer, et al.. (2023). Multi‐site interaction turnover in flea–mammal networks from four continents: Application of zeta diversity concept and multi‐site generalised dissimilarity modelling. Ecological Entomology. 48(4). 466–484. 1 indexed citations

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Matthee, Sonja, et al.. (2020). Comparative phylogeography between parasitic sucking lice and their host the Namaqua rock mouse, Micaelamys namaquensis (Rodentia: Muridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 192(3). 1017–1028. 8 indexed citations

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Matthee, Sonja, et al.. (2019). The evolutionary history of parasitic sucking lice and their rodent hosts: A case of evolutionary co‐divergences. Zoologica Scripta. 49(1). 72–85. 11 indexed citations

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Kerr, Tanya J., Sonja Matthee, Danny Govender, et al.. (2018). Viruses as indicators of contemporary host dispersal and phylogeography: an example of feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV_P_le) in free‐ranging African lion (Panthera leo). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(10). 1529–1543. 7 indexed citations

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Matthee, Conrad A., et al.. (2018). Comparative phylogeography of parasitic Laelaps mites contribute new insights into the specialist-generalist variation hypothesis (SGVH). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 131–131. 17 indexed citations

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Wessels, C. Brand, et al.. (2018). Comparative mtDNA phylogeographic patterns reveal marked differences in population genetic structure between generalist and specialist ectoparasites of the African penguin (Spheniscus demersus). Parasitology Research. 118(2). 667–672. 9 indexed citations

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Sands, Arthur F., Dmitry A. Apanaskevich, Sonja Matthee, Ivan G. Horak, & Conrad A. Matthee. (2017). The effect of host vicariance and parasite life history on the dispersal of the multi‐host ectoparasite, Hyalomma truncatum. Journal of Biogeography. 44(5). 1124–1136. 16 indexed citations

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Nyangiwe, Nkululeko, Ivan G. Horak, Luther van der Mescht, & Sonja Matthee. (2017). Range expansion of the economically important Asiatic blue tick, <i>Rhipicephalus microplus</i>, in South Africa. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association. 88(0). e1–e7. 26 indexed citations

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Matthee, Sonja, et al.. (2010). Ixodid ticks on domestic dogs in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa and in Namibia : short communication. Journal of the South African Veterinary Association. 81(2). 126–128. 15 indexed citations

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Matthee, Sonja & Edward A. Ueckermann. (2008). Ectoparasites of rodents in Southern Africa: a new species of Androlaelaps Berlese, 1903 (Acari: Parasitiformes: Laelapidae) from Rhabdomys pumilio (Sparrman) (Rodentia: Muridae). Systematic Parasitology. 70(3). 185–190. 8 indexed citations

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