Thomas Wesener‍

1.4k total citations
90 papers, 956 citations indexed

About

Thomas Wesener‍ is a scholar working on Paleontology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Wesener‍ has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 956 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Paleontology, 62 papers in Genetics and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Wesener‍'s work include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (76 papers), Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (49 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (25 papers). Thomas Wesener‍ is often cited by papers focused on Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (76 papers), Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies (49 papers) and Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (25 papers). Thomas Wesener‍ collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Russia. Thomas Wesener‍'s co-authors include Petra Sierwald, S. I. Golovatch, Alexander Blanke, Didier VandenSpiegel, Henrik Enghoff, Weixin Liu, Michael J. Raupach, Johann‐Wolfgang Wägele, Mingyi Tian and Peter Decker and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Science Advances and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Wesener‍

84 papers receiving 930 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Wesener‍ Germany	18	679	562	352	277	213	90	956
Ligia R. Benavides United States	14	430 0.6×	432 0.8×	210 0.6×	262 0.9×	290 1.4×	32	911
Shahan Derkarabetian United States	19	302 0.4×	596 1.1×	271 0.8×	251 0.9×	363 1.7×	47	998
Lucio Bonato Italy	18	622 0.9×	466 0.8×	214 0.6×	397 1.4×	181 0.8×	77	989
Stuart J. Longhorn United Kingdom	13	217 0.3×	319 0.6×	185 0.5×	378 1.4×	300 1.4×	22	859
Jesús A. Ballesteros United States	14	303 0.4×	469 0.8×	111 0.3×	187 0.7×	394 1.8×	22	841
Tone Novak Slovenia	17	359 0.5×	202 0.4×	195 0.6×	157 0.6×	63 0.3×	56	667
Glenn Litsios Switzerland	18	162 0.2×	320 0.6×	307 0.9×	319 1.2×	217 1.0×	28	890
Michael G. Rix Australia	18	268 0.4×	829 1.5×	158 0.4×	268 1.0×	246 1.2×	61	1.1k
Harald Letsch Germany	16	162 0.2×	386 0.7×	254 0.7×	548 2.0×	226 1.1×	26	917
Rebecca J. Rundell United States	11	202 0.3×	373 0.7×	329 0.9×	364 1.3×	190 0.9×	22	1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Wesener‍

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Thomas Wesener‍'s research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Thomas Wesener‍ with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Thomas Wesener‍ more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Wesener‍

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas Wesener‍. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thomas Wesener‍. The network helps show where Thomas Wesener‍ may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Wesener‍

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Wesener‍, Thomas & Peter T. Rühr. (2025). Internal gonopod reconstruction in an amber-preserved millipede from the Cretaceous: Laeviglyphiulus patrickmuelleri n. gen., n. sp. (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 144(1). 1 indexed citations

Antić, Dragan, Thomas Wesener‍, & Nesrine Akkari. (2024). Natural history collections help resurrecting Glomeris herzogowinensis Verhoeff, 1898 and further clarify the nomenclature of two Onychoglomeris subspecies of Attems (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae). Zoosystematics and Evolution. 100(2). 493–513.

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, et al.. (2024). Integrative taxonomy reveals two new giant pill-millipedes of the genus Zephronia Gray, 1832 from eastern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). ZooKeys. 1212. 29–64.

Bonato, Lucio, Peter Decker, Marco Orlando, et al.. (2023). Towards elucidating species diversity of European inlandStrigamia(Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha): a first reassessment integrating multiple lines of evidence. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 199(4). 945–966. 3 indexed citations

Dietz, Lars, Jonas Eberle, Christoph Mayer, et al.. (2022). Standardized nuclear markers improve and homogenize species delimitation in Metazoa. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(2). 543–555. 31 indexed citations

Ahrens, Dirk, Shane T. Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, et al.. (2021). Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses? - A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

Ahrens, Dirk, Shane T. Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, et al.. (2021). Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021). Zootaxa. 5027(2). 151–159. 40 indexed citations

Wesener‍, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Description of the first species of Glomeridesmida from Thailand (Diplopoda, Glomeridesmida, Glomeridesmidae). ZooKeys. 1024. 137–156. 3 indexed citations

Semenyuk, I. I., S. I. Golovatch, & Thomas Wesener‍. (2020). Some new or poorly-known Zephroniidae (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) from Vietnam. ZooKeys. 930. 37–60. 8 indexed citations

10.

Wesener‍, Thomas. (2020). Ecotone shifts in southern Madagascar: first barcoding data and six new species of the endemic millipede genus Riotintobolus (Spirobolida, Pachybolidae). ZooKeys. 953. 1–29. 3 indexed citations

11.

Pallarés, Susana, et al.. (2019). Heat tolerance and acclimation capacity in subterranean arthropods living under common and stable thermal conditions. Ecology and Evolution. 9(24). 13731–13739. 21 indexed citations

12.

Wesener‍, Thomas, et al.. (2018). An apparently non-swinging tentorium in the Diplopoda (Myriapoda): comparative morphology of the tentorial complex in giant pill-millipedes (Sphaerotheriida). ZooKeys. 741(741). 77–91. 4 indexed citations

13.

Semenyuk, I. I., S. I. Golovatch, & Thomas Wesener‍. (2018). Four new species of giant pill-millipedes from Vietnam (Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). Zootaxa. 4459(3). 535–550. 9 indexed citations

14.

Liu, Weixin, S. I. Golovatch, & Thomas Wesener‍. (2017). Four new species of the millipede genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Laos, including two with reduced ozopores (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae). ZooKeys. 660(660). 43–65. 5 indexed citations

15.

Liu, Weixin, Thomas Wesener‍, S. I. Golovatch, & Mingyi Tian. (2017). Contributions to the millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979 from China, with four new species and first results on phylogeny based on DNA-barcoding (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae). Zootaxa. 4243(3). 455–482. 5 indexed citations

16.

Wesener‍, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Local Hotspots of Endemism or Artifacts of Incorrect Taxonomy? The Status of Microendemic Pill Millipede Species of the Genus Glomeris in Northern Italy (Diplopoda, Glomerida). PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162284–e0162284. 13 indexed citations

17.

Wesener‍, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Barcoding of Central European Cryptops centipedes reveals large interspecific distances with ghost lineages and new species records from Germany and Austria (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha). ZooKeys. 564(564). 21–46. 16 indexed citations

18.

Wesener‍, Thomas. (2014). Redescription of 'Polyzonium' malagassum, a new synonym of Rhinotus purpureus (Pocock, 1894), with notes about the occurrence of the order Polyzoniida on Madagascar (Diplopoda). Zootaxa. 3790(4). 587–94. 9 indexed citations

19.

Wesener‍, Thomas. (2011). Re-discovery after more than a century: a redefinition of the Malagasy endemic millipede genus Zehntnerobolus, with a description of a new species (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae) THOMAS WESENER (Germany). Zootaxa. 3018(1). 3 indexed citations

20.

Wesener‍, Thomas & Henrik Enghoff. (2009). Revision of the millipede subfamily Spiromiminae, a Malagasy group with Indian connections? (Diplopoda Spirobolida Pachybolidae).. Tropical Zoology. 22(1). 71–120. 10 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact