Tiina Särkinen

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Tiina Särkinen is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tiina Särkinen has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 24 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Tiina Särkinen's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (39 papers), Plant and animal studies (25 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (18 papers). Tiina Särkinen is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (39 papers), Plant and animal studies (25 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (18 papers). Tiina Särkinen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Tiina Särkinen's co-authors include Sandra Knapp, Lynn Bohs, Richard G. Olmstead, Colin E. Hughes, Frank P. Wesselingh, A. Mora, Douglas Riff, Cajsa Lisa Anderson, Isabel Sanmartín and H. Hooghiemstra and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tiina Särkinen

60 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Lan... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2013 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity
    2010 1.7k citations Tiina Särkinen, Alexandre Antonelli et al. profile →
  2. A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree
    2013 417 citations Tiina Särkinen, Lynn Bohs et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tiina Särkinen United Kingdom 23 2.1k 1.1k 1.0k 985 768 64 4.1k
Peter H. Weston Australia 32 2.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 678 0.9× 94 3.8k
Thomas L. P. Couvreur France 37 3.0k 1.5× 1.9k 1.7× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 748 1.0× 117 4.5k
Cajsa Lisa Anderson Sweden 14 1.6k 0.8× 790 0.7× 1.1k 1.1× 491 0.5× 772 1.0× 21 3.6k
Christine D. Bacon Sweden 27 1.6k 0.8× 798 0.7× 718 0.7× 478 0.5× 697 0.9× 96 2.8k
Alexandra N. Muellner‐Riehl Germany 28 1.8k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 687 0.7× 615 0.6× 713 0.9× 69 3.2k
Pauline Y. Ladiges Australia 32 1.9k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 987 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 652 0.8× 106 3.5k
Andrew L. Hipp United States 38 2.3k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 2.0k 2.0× 1.6k 2.0× 126 4.8k
Andrea S. Meseguer France 20 1.3k 0.6× 480 0.4× 848 0.8× 440 0.4× 616 0.8× 34 2.9k
Nigel P. Barker South Africa 33 2.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 996 1.0× 1.4k 1.4× 1.0k 1.3× 175 4.4k
Wolf L. Eiserhardt Denmark 25 1.4k 0.7× 607 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 525 0.5× 436 0.6× 57 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Särkinen, Tiina, Yuri Gouvêa, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, et al.. (2025). Taming the beasts: challenges of identification in big plant genera. Annals of Botany.
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Vargas‐Ponce, Ofelia, et al.. (2025). Comparative and phylogenomic plastome analysis of the Physalideae tribe (Solanaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution. 311(2). 1 indexed citations
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Särkinen, Tiina, et al.. (2025). On the geography of big plant genera. Annals of Botany.
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Moonlight, Peter W., Domingos Cardoso, Elmar Veenendaal, et al.. (2023). Mapping wood volume in seasonally dry vegetation of Caatinga in Bahia State, Brazil. Scientia Agricola. 80. 1 indexed citations
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Knapp, Sandra, Tiina Särkinen, & Gloria E. Barboza. (2023). A revision of the South American species of the Morelloid clade (Solanum L., Solanaceae). PhytoKeys. 231. 1–342. 4 indexed citations
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Castillo, Joaquina Albán, Asunción Cano, Edeline Gagnon, et al.. (2023). Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru. Plants People Planet. 6(1). 174–185. 10 indexed citations
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Gagnon, Edeline, Sandra Knapp, Xavier Aubriot, et al.. (2023). Morphological trait evolution inSolanum(Solanaceae): Evolutionary lability of key taxonomic characters. Taxon. 72(4). 811–847. 15 indexed citations
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Gagnon, Edeline, et al.. (2023). Functional and ecological diversification of underground organs in Solanum. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1231413–1231413. 4 indexed citations
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Grace, Olwen M., Oscar A. Pérez‐Escobar, Eve Lucas, et al.. (2021). Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene. Trends in Plant Science. 26(5). 433–441. 33 indexed citations
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Echeverría‐Londoño, Susy, Tiina Särkinen, Isabel S. Fenton, Andy Purvis, & Sandra Knapp. (2020). Dynamism and context‐dependency in diversification of the megadiverse plant genus Solanum (Solanaceae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 58(6). 767–782. 29 indexed citations
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Moonlight, Peter W., Pedro Luiz Silva de Miranda, Domingos Cardoso, et al.. (2020). The strengths and weaknesses of species distribution models in biome delimitation. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(10). 1770–1784. 16 indexed citations
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Knapp, Sandra, Gloria E. Barboza, Lynn Bohs, & Tiina Särkinen. (2019). A revision of the Morelloid Clade of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in North and Central America and the Caribbean. PhytoKeys. 123. 1–144. 25 indexed citations
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Knapp, Sandra, Maria S. Vorontsova, & Tiina Särkinen. (2019). Dichotomous keys to the species of Solanum L. (Solanaceae) in continental Africa, Madagascar (incl. the Indian Ocean islands), Macaronesia and the Cape Verde Islands. PhytoKeys. 127. 39–76. 11 indexed citations
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Dupin, Julia, Nicholas J. Matzke, Tiina Särkinen, et al.. (2016). Bayesian estimation of the global biogeographical history of the Solanaceae. Journal of Biogeography. 44(4). 887–899. 228 indexed citations
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Syfert, Mindy M., Nora P Castañeda Álvarez, Colin K. Khoury, et al.. (2016). Crop wild relatives of the brinjal eggplant (Solanum melongena): Poorly represented in genebanks and many species at risk of extinction. American Journal of Botany. 103(4). 635–651. 55 indexed citations
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Särkinen, Tiina, Martijn Staats, James Richardson, Robyn S. Cowan, & Freek T. Bakker. (2012). How to Open the Treasure Chest? Optimising DNA Extraction from Herbarium Specimens. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e43808–e43808. 192 indexed citations
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Simon, Marcelo Fragomeni, Rosaura Grether, Luciano Paganucci de Queiroz, et al.. (2011). The evolutionary history of Mimosa (Leguminosae): Toward a phylogeny of the sensitive plants. American Journal of Botany. 98(7). 1201–1221. 164 indexed citations
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Särkinen, Tiina, Mark F. Newman, Paul Maas, et al.. (2007). Recent oceanic long-distance dispersal and divergence in the amphi-Atlantic rain forest genus Renealmia L.f. (Zingiberaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44(3). 968–980. 47 indexed citations

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