Vera Weisbecker

3.1k total citations
78 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Vera Weisbecker is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geometry and Topology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Weisbecker has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Geometry and Topology and 25 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Vera Weisbecker's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (54 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (27 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (20 papers). Vera Weisbecker is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (54 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (27 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (20 papers). Vera Weisbecker collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Vera Weisbecker's co-authors include Anjali Goswami, Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra, Stephen Wroe, Michael Archer, Lionel Hautier, Robin M. D. Beck, Matthew J. Phillips, Robert J. Asher, Suzanne J. Hand and Thomas Guillerme and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Vera Weisbecker

75 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vera Weisbecker Australia 25 1.2k 571 555 469 236 78 1.8k
Lionel Hautier France 27 1.7k 1.4× 784 1.4× 674 1.2× 793 1.7× 208 0.9× 109 2.3k
Hideki Endo Japan 23 900 0.8× 439 0.8× 263 0.5× 700 1.5× 213 0.9× 181 1.9k
Anne‐Claire Fabre France 27 1.2k 1.0× 586 1.0× 875 1.6× 551 1.2× 222 0.9× 76 2.0k
Emma Sherratt Australia 27 1.1k 0.9× 613 1.1× 912 1.6× 564 1.2× 393 1.7× 80 2.3k
Guillaume Billet France 24 1.5k 1.3× 869 1.5× 355 0.6× 527 1.1× 149 0.6× 64 1.8k
Per Christiansen Denmark 30 1.8k 1.6× 502 0.9× 481 0.9× 1.1k 2.4× 342 1.4× 67 2.5k
Julien Clavel France 18 715 0.6× 482 0.8× 297 0.5× 344 0.7× 288 1.2× 31 1.3k
Timothy J. Gaudin United States 21 1.4k 1.2× 895 1.6× 179 0.3× 423 0.9× 145 0.6× 59 1.6k
Carlo Meloro United Kingdom 28 1.4k 1.2× 352 0.6× 853 1.5× 1.1k 2.3× 159 0.7× 100 2.1k
Gabriel Marroig Brazil 26 1.4k 1.2× 779 1.4× 1.4k 2.6× 666 1.4× 193 0.8× 53 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Vera Weisbecker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vera Weisbecker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Weisbecker

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cunha, Felipe, et al.. (2025). Avian telencephalon and cerebellum volumes can be accurately estimated from digital brain endocasts. Biology Letters. 21(1). 20240596–20240596. 1 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera, et al.. (2025). Ozboneviz: an Australian precedent in FAIR 3D imagery and extended biodiversity collections. BioScience. 75(9). 747–756.
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Ledogar, Justin A., et al.. (2024). The mechanical properties of bettong and potoroo foods. Australian Mammalogy. 46(3). 2 indexed citations
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Potter, Sally, et al.. (2024). Functionally mediated cranial allometry evidenced in a genus of rock-wallabies. Biology Letters. 20(3). 20240045–20240045. 4 indexed citations
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McNiven, Ian J., et al.. (2024). Fishboneviz: Enhancing the availability of zooarchaeological fish reference collections through an open access 3D database. Australian Archaeology. 90(2). 236–248. 2 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera, Robin M. D. Beck, Thomas Guillerme, et al.. (2023). Multiple modes of inference reveal less phylogenetic signal in marsupial basicranial shape compared with the rest of the cranium. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1880). 20220085–20220085. 7 indexed citations
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Blomberg, Simon P., et al.. (2023). The relative performance of geometric morphometrics and linear‐based methods in the taxonomic resolution of a mammalian species complex. Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). e9698–e9698. 12 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera, et al.. (2022). Cranial anatomy of the mekosuchine crocodylian Trilophosuchus rackhami Willis, 1993. The Anatomical Record. 306(2). 239–297. 15 indexed citations
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Baker, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Using 3D geometric morphometrics to aid taxonomic and ecological understanding of a recent speciation event within a small Australian marsupial ( Antechinus : Dasyuridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 196(3). 963–978. 7 indexed citations
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Yates, Adam M., et al.. (2020). Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genusPallimnarchusde Vis, 1886. PeerJ. 8. e10466–e10466. 22 indexed citations
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Ramírez-Cháves, Héctor E., Stephen Wroe, Lynne Selwood, et al.. (2016). Mammalian development does not recapitulate suspected key transformations in the evolutionary detachment of the mammalian middle ear. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1822). 20152606–20152606. 26 indexed citations
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Goswami, Anjali, Marcela Randau, P. David Polly, et al.. (2016). Do Developmental Constraints and High Integration Limit the Evolution of the Marsupial Oral Apparatus?. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 56(3). 404–415. 46 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera, et al.. (2015). The Evolution of Relative Brain Size in Marsupials Is Energetically Constrained but Not Driven by Behavioral Complexity. Brain Behavior and Evolution. 85(2). 125–135. 32 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera. (2011). Distortion in formalin-fixed brains: using geometric morphometrics to quantify the worst-case scenario in mice. Brain Structure and Function. 217(2). 677–685. 39 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera, et al.. (2009). Methods for inexpensive, nonintrusive detection of skeletal elements in small zoological specimens using micro-computed tomography. Herpetological review. 40(2). 165–168. 2 indexed citations
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Goswami, Anjali, Vera Weisbecker, & Marcelo R. Sánchez‐Villagra. (2009). Developmental modularity and the marsupial–placental dichotomy. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 312B(3). 186–195. 81 indexed citations
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Beck, Robin M. D., Henk Godthelp, Vera Weisbecker, Michael Archer, & Suzanne J. Hand. (2008). Australia's Oldest Marsupial Fossils and their Biogeographical Implications. PLoS ONE. 3(3). e1858–e1858. 96 indexed citations
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Sánchez‐Villagra, Marcelo R., Anjali Goswami, Vera Weisbecker, Orin B. Mock, & Shigeru Kuratani. (2008). Conserved relative timing of cranial ossification patterns in early mammalian evolution. Evolution & Development. 10(5). 519–530. 89 indexed citations
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Weisbecker, Vera & Maria A. Nilsson. (2008). Integration, heterochrony, and adaptation in pedal digits of syndactylous marsupials. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 160–160. 16 indexed citations

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