Sylvia Schäffer

415 total citations
27 papers, 320 citations indexed

About

Sylvia Schäffer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Schäffer has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 320 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 14 papers in Insect Science and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Schäffer's work include Study of Mite Species (21 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (13 papers) and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (10 papers). Sylvia Schäffer is often cited by papers focused on Study of Mite Species (21 papers), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (13 papers) and Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (10 papers). Sylvia Schäffer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Japan and Croatia. Sylvia Schäffer's co-authors include Stephan Koblmüller, Günther Krisper, Tobias Pfingstl, Christian Sturmbauer, Frank E. Zachos, Gerhard Thallinger, Ingeborg Klymiuk, Axel L. Schönhofer, Günther Raspotnig and Satoshi Shimano and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Schäffer

24 papers receiving 318 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sylvia Schäffer Austria 12 219 150 119 67 39 27 320
Michael Laumann Germany 9 260 1.2× 101 0.7× 159 1.3× 33 0.5× 77 2.0× 17 352
Eirik Rindal Norway 7 203 0.9× 124 0.8× 99 0.8× 84 1.3× 142 3.6× 14 351
Jayanthi Puniamoorthy Singapore 8 128 0.6× 207 1.4× 91 0.8× 142 2.1× 65 1.7× 10 367
Bruno Cancian de Araújo Germany 8 75 0.3× 117 0.8× 77 0.6× 57 0.9× 57 1.5× 16 242
Dávid Murányi Hungary 13 155 0.7× 388 2.6× 63 0.5× 75 1.1× 99 2.5× 102 519
Valerie Levesque‐Beaudin Canada 6 222 1.0× 185 1.2× 153 1.3× 86 1.3× 118 3.0× 13 417
Ekgachai Jeratthitikul Thailand 13 146 0.7× 218 1.5× 174 1.5× 37 0.6× 62 1.6× 54 386
Peter E. Stüben Germany 6 209 1.0× 223 1.5× 85 0.7× 52 0.8× 104 2.7× 23 387
Megan Milton Canada 4 176 0.8× 153 1.0× 125 1.1× 81 1.2× 94 2.4× 4 342
Rodger Gwiazdowski United States 12 194 0.9× 128 0.9× 211 1.8× 73 1.1× 101 2.6× 23 389

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Schäffer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sylvia Schäffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Schäffer

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

All Works

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Koblmüller, Stephan, et al.. (2025). Unique and Under Pressure: Conservation Genetics of an Isolated Alpine Salamander Population. Biology. 14(10). 1428–1428.
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Pfingstl, Tobias, et al.. (2023). The Caribbean intertidal mite Alismobates inexpectatus (Acari, Oribatida), an unexpected case of cryptic diversity?. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 23(4). 811–832. 1 indexed citations
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Krisper, Günther, et al.. (2023). Reinhart Schuster (1930-2023) - Obituary. Acarologia. 63(4). 1085–1093.
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Pfingstl, Tobias, Maria A. Minor, Sylvia Schäffer, & Satoshi Shimano. (2023). Coastal oribatid mites (Acari) from New Zealand: new morphological, ecological, and developmental data. International Journal of Acarology. 49(7-8). 422–439. 1 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, et al.. (2022). A comprehensive DNA barcode inventory of Austria’s fish species. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0268694–e0268694. 11 indexed citations
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Pfingstl, Tobias, et al.. (2022). A closer look reveals hidden diversity in the intertidal Caribbean Fortuyniidae (Acari, Oribatida). PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0268964–e0268964. 4 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia & Stephan Koblmüller. (2020). Unexpected diversity in the host-generalist oribatid miteParaleius leontonychus(Oribatida, Scheloribatidae) phoretic on Palearctic bark beetles. PeerJ. 8. e9710–e9710. 9 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, et al.. (2019). Extracting the invisible: obtaining high quality DNA is a challenging task in small arthropods. PeerJ. 7. e6753–e6753. 31 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, et al.. (2019). Multiple new species: Cryptic diversity in the widespread mite species Cymbaeremaeus cymba (Oribatida, Cymbaeremaeidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 135. 185–192. 29 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, Stephan Koblmüller, Ingeborg Klymiuk, & Gerhard Thallinger. (2018). The mitochondrial genome of the oribatid mite Paraleius leontonychus: new insights into tRNA evolution and phylogenetic relationships in acariform mites. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7558–7558. 17 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, Frank E. Zachos, & Stephan Koblmüller. (2017). Opening the treasure chest: A DNA-barcoding primer set for most higher taxa of Central European birds and mammals from museum collections. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0174449–e0174449. 18 indexed citations
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Schäffer, Sylvia, Stephan Koblmüller, Tobias Pfingstl, Christian Sturmbauer, & Günther Krisper. (2010). Ancestral state reconstruction reveals multiple independent evolution of diagnostic morphological characters in the "Higher Oribatida" (Acari), conflicting with current classification schemes. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 10(1). 246–246. 32 indexed citations
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Pfingstl, Tobias, Sylvia Schäffer, & Günther Krisper. (2010). Re-evaluation of the synonymy ofLatovertexMahunka, 1987 andExochocepheusWoolley and Higgins, 1968 (Acari: Oribatida: Scutoverticidae). International Journal of Acarology. 36(4). 327–342. 6 indexed citations
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Pfingstl, Tobias, et al.. (2010). Scutovertex alpinusWillmann, 1953 (Acari: Oribatida: Scutoverticidae) – redescription and geographical distribution. Journal of Natural History. 44(5-6). 379–388.
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Schäffer, Sylvia, Stephan Koblmüller, Tobias Pfingstl, Christian Sturmbauer, & Günther Krisper. (2009). Contrasting mitochondrial DNA diversity estimates in Austrian Scutovertex minutus and S. sculptus (Acari, Oribatida, Brachypylina, Scutoverticidae). Pedobiologia. 53(3). 203–211. 16 indexed citations
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Nerad, Thomas A., et al.. (1995). Trimyema shoalsia sp.n., an anaerobic, microaerotolerant marine ciliate from Appledore Island, Gulf of Maine, USA. Acta Protozoologica. 34(4). 9 indexed citations

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