Theodora Petanidou

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
130 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Theodora Petanidou is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Theodora Petanidou has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 72 papers in Plant Science and 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Theodora Petanidou's work include Plant and animal studies (97 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (63 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers). Theodora Petanidou is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (97 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (63 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers). Theodora Petanidou collaborates with scholars based in Greece, Serbia and Spain. Theodora Petanidou's co-authors include Thomas Tscheulin, Erik Smets, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, Willem N. Ellis, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Despoina Vokou, Simon G. Potts, John D. Pantis, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter and Stuart P. M. Roberts and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Theodora Petanidou

126 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

MEASURING BEE DIVERSITY IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN HABITATS AND BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS

2008 614 citations Ellen Lamborn, Theodora Petanidou et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Theodora Petanidou Greece	43	5.0k	3.1k	2.0k	2.0k	1.2k	130	5.9k
Andreas Müller Switzerland	33	4.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.3×	109	5.7k
Arjen Biere Netherlands	45	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	1.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	120	6.0k
Adam J. Vanbergen United Kingdom	32	3.9k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	3.2k 1.6×	1.3k 0.6×	1.8k 1.4×	63	5.6k
Lee A. Dyer United States	40	3.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.6×	2.2k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	156	5.6k
Catrin Westphal Germany	31	4.1k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.0×	76	5.4k
Leonardo Galetto Argentina	34	3.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	1.7k 0.8×	698 0.6×	198	4.8k
Ramiro Aguilar Argentina	23	3.0k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	888 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	70	4.1k
Arthur E. Weis United States	36	4.8k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	102	6.7k
George D. Weiblen United States	43	4.1k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	98	6.3k
Candace Galen United States	48	5.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.3×	880 0.4×	3.1k 1.5×	955 0.8×	109	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Theodora Petanidou

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20 of 20 papers shown

Petanidou, Theodora, et al.. (2025). Contribution to the Diversity of the Genus Sarcophaga (Diptera: Sarcophagidae): Checklist, Species Distribution, and New Records for Greece. Insects. 16(4). 359–359.

Costantino, R. F., Gherardo Bogo, Jelle Devalez, et al.. (2025). LIFE 4 Pollinators’ platform: How citizen science can help monitoring plants and pollinators. AoB Plants. 17(3). plaf023–plaf023.

Koutsias, Nikos, et al.. (2024). The importance of landscape and fire-history as factors explaining post-fire vegetation recovery in a Mediterranean island using Sentinel-2 satellite data. The Science of The Total Environment. 957. 177443–177443. 1 indexed citations

Aronne, Giovanna, Edy Fantinato, Sandro Strumia, et al.. (2023). Identifying bottlenecks in the life cycle of plants living on cliffs and rocky slopes: Lack of knowledge hinders conservation actions. Biological Conservation. 286. 110289–110289. 9 indexed citations

Kantsa, Aphrodite, et al.. (2023). Recent fire in a Mediterranean ecosystem strengthens hoverfly populations and their interaction networks with plants. Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). e9803–e9803. 7 indexed citations

Lazarina, Maria, et al.. (2023). The response to fire by two eusocial bee species. Ecological Entomology. 49(1). 41–53. 3 indexed citations

Skoulikidis, Nikolaos, Νikolaos P. Nikolaidis, Andreas Panagopoulos, et al.. (2021). The LTER-Greece Environmental Observatory Network: Design and Initial Achievements. Water. 13(21). 2971–2971. 3 indexed citations

González, Víctor H., Eunice Enríquez, Thomas Tscheulin, et al.. (2020). Effect of pan trap size on the diversity of sampled bees and abundance of bycatch. Journal of Insect Conservation. 24(3). 409–420. 21 indexed citations

Kantsa, Aphrodite, Robert A. Raguso, Themistokles D. Lekkas, Olga‐Ioanna Kalantzi, & Theodora Petanidou. (2019). Floral volatiles and visitors: A meta‐network of associations in a natural community. Journal of Ecology. 107(6). 2574–2586. 42 indexed citations

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Takkis, Krista, Thomas Tscheulin, & Theodora Petanidou. (2018). Differential Effects of Climate Warming on the Nectar Secretion of Early- and Late-Flowering Mediterranean Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 874–874. 48 indexed citations

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Tscheulin, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Geography, climate, ecology: What is more important in determining bee diversity in the Aegean Archipelago?. Journal of Biogeography. 45(12). 2690–2700. 13 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, Mary V. Price, Judith L. Bronstein, et al.. (2018). Pollination and reproduction of an invasive plant inside and outside its ancestral range. Acta Oecologica. 89. 11–20. 18 indexed citations

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Lazarina, Maria, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, Thomas Tscheulin, et al.. (2016). Bee response to fire regimes in Mediterranean pine forests: The role of nesting preference, trophic specialization, and body size. Basic and Applied Ecology. 17(4). 308–320. 36 indexed citations

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Kantsa, Aphrodite, et al.. (2015). Plant Volatilome in Greece: a Review on the Properties, Prospects, and Chemogeography. Chemistry & Biodiversity. 12(10). 1466–1480. 9 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, et al.. (2014). Variable flowering phenology and pollinator use in a community suggest future phenological mismatch. Acta Oecologica. 59. 104–111. 68 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, et al.. (2013). Mediterranean's changing saltscapes; a study of the abandonment of salt-making business in Greece. Global NEST Journal. 11(4). 415–433. 14 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, Athanasios S. Kallimanis, Joseph Tzanopoulos, Stefanos P. Sgardelis, & John D. Pantis. (2008). Long‐term observation of a pollination network: fluctuation in species and interactions, relative invariance of network structure and implications for estimates of specialization. Ecology Letters. 11(6). 564–575. 427 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora & Ellen Lamborn. (2005). A land for flowers and bees: studying pollination ecology in Mediterranean communities. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 139(3). 279–294. 62 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, et al.. (2000). Nectary structure of Labiatae in relation to their nectar secretion and characteristics in a Mediterranean shrub community ? Does flowering time matter?. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 225(1-4). 103–118. 61 indexed citations

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Petanidou, Theodora, et al.. (1995). Pollination ecology and patch‐dependent reproductive success of the rare perennialGentiana pneumonantheL.. New Phytologist. 129(1). 155–163. 49 indexed citations

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