Vera Zizka

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Vera Zizka is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Zizka has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Vera Zizka's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (21 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Vera Zizka is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (21 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Vera Zizka collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Vera Zizka's co-authors include Florian Leese, Alexander Zizka, Camila Duarte Ritter, María Ariza, Andrei Herdean, Ruud Scharn, Sten Svantesson, Tobias Andermann, Daniele Silvestro and Niklas Wengström and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Science of The Total Environment and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Vera Zizka

26 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vera Zizka Germany	13	628	478	356	346	333	26	1.1k
Jun Ying Lim Singapore	15	469 0.7×	178 0.4×	254 0.7×	342 1.0×	307 0.9×	27	1.0k
Ruud Scharn Sweden	8	306 0.5×	495 1.0×	519 1.5×	626 1.8×	170 0.5×	10	1.3k
Sten Svantesson Sweden	6	259 0.4×	373 0.8×	303 0.9×	348 1.0×	154 0.5×	14	877
María Ariza Norway	6	287 0.5×	411 0.9×	349 1.0×	365 1.1×	94 0.3×	7	870
Valeria Di Cola Argentina	8	461 0.7×	673 1.4×	309 0.9×	317 0.9×	94 0.3×	16	1.0k
Josué A. R. Azevedo Brazil	9	297 0.5×	498 1.0×	438 1.2×	458 1.3×	91 0.3×	21	1.0k
Gleb Tikhonov Finland	11	693 1.1×	531 1.1×	569 1.6×	335 1.0×	98 0.3×	19	1.4k
Julie A. Lee‐Yaw Canada	15	552 0.9×	644 1.3×	473 1.3×	473 1.4×	192 0.6×	23	1.4k
Kathrin Theißinger Germany	18	736 1.2×	276 0.6×	273 0.8×	222 0.6×	142 0.4×	61	1.2k
Jordan B. Bemmels United States	11	359 0.6×	494 1.0×	473 1.3×	316 0.9×	165 0.5×	17	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Zizka

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Scherber, Christoph, et al.. (2025). The clockwork of insect activity: Advancing ecological understanding through automation. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 597–610. 1 indexed citations

Zizka, Vera, et al.. (2025). Environmental DNA supports importance of heterogeneous pond landscapes for arthropod diversity conservation. Ecosphere. 16(2). 1 indexed citations

Zizka, Vera, et al.. (2024). Three steps towards comparability and standardization among molecular methods for characterizing insect communities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1904). 20230118–20230118. 7 indexed citations

Zizka, Vera, et al.. (2023). Exploring macroinvertebrate biodiversity in the dynamic southern Balkan stream network of the Vjosa using preservative-based DNA metabarcoding. Aquatic Sciences. 85(2). 1 indexed citations

Laini, Alex, Rachel Stubbington, Arne J. Beermann, et al.. (2023). Dissecting biodiversity: assessing the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic structure of an insect metacommunity in a river network using morphological and metabarcoding data. The European Zoological Journal. 90(1). 320–332. 4 indexed citations

Schneider, Florian D., Nikita Bakanov, Carsten A. Brühl, et al.. (2022). Improving insect conservation management through insect monitoring and stakeholder involvement. Biodiversity and Conservation. 32(2). 691–713. 13 indexed citations

Zizka, Vera, et al.. (2022). Repeated subsamples during DNA extraction reveal increased diversity estimates in DNA metabarcoding of Malaise traps. Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). e9502–e9502. 8 indexed citations

Beermann, Arne J., Dominik Buchner, Vasco Elbrecht, et al.. (2021). Improved freshwater macroinvertebrate detection from environmental DNA through minimized nontarget amplification. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4. 1 indexed citations

Elbrecht, Vasco, Sarah J. Bourlat, Thomas Hörren, et al.. (2021). Pooling size sorted Malaise trap fractions to maximize taxon recovery with metabarcoding. PeerJ. 9. e12177–e12177. 18 indexed citations

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Zizka, Vera, Martina Weiss, & Florian Leese. (2020). Can metabarcoding resolve intraspecific genetic diversity changes to environmental stressors? A test case using river macrozoobenthos. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 23 indexed citations

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Laini, Alex, Arne J. Beermann, Rossano Bolpagni, et al.. (2020). Exploring the potential of metabarcoding to disentangle macroinvertebrate community dynamics in intermittent streams. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 12 indexed citations

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Zizka, Vera, Matthias F. Geiger, & Florian Leese. (2020). DNA metabarcoding of stream invertebrates reveals spatio-temporal variation but consistent status class assessments in a natural and urban river. Ecological Indicators. 115. 106383–106383. 25 indexed citations

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Leese, Florian, et al.. (2020). Improved freshwater macroinvertebrate detection from environmental DNA through minimized nontarget amplification. Environmental DNA. 3(1). 261–276. 85 indexed citations

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Beermann, Arne J., et al.. (2020). DNA metabarcoding improves the detection of multiple stressor responses of stream invertebrates to increased salinity, fine sediment deposition and reduced flow velocity. The Science of The Total Environment. 750. 141969–141969. 16 indexed citations

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Zizka, Vera, Vasco Elbrecht, Jan‐Niklas Macher, & Florian Leese. (2019). Assessing the influence of sample tagging and library preparation on DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(4). 893–899. 39 indexed citations

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Zizka, Vera, et al.. (2018). DNA metabarcoding from sample fixative as a quick and voucher-preserving biodiversity assessment method. Genome. 62(3). 122–136. 62 indexed citations

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Kühn, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Lighten up the dark: metazoan parasites as indicators for the ecology of Antarctic crocodile icefish (Channichthyidae) from the north-west Antarctic Peninsula. PeerJ. 6. e4638–e4638. 12 indexed citations

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Beermann, Arne J., Vera Zizka, Vasco Elbrecht, Viktor Baranov, & Florian Leese. (2018). DNA metabarcoding reveals the complex and hidden responses of chironomids to multiple stressors. Environmental Sciences Europe. 30(1). 59 indexed citations

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Macher, Jan‐Niklas, Vera Zizka, Alexander Weigand, & Florian Leese. (2017). A simple centrifugation protocol for metagenomic studies increases mitochondrial DNA yield by two orders of magnitude. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(4). 1070–1074. 9 indexed citations

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Lammers, Fritjof, et al.. (2017). Screening for the ancient polar bear mitochondrial genome reveals low integration of mitochondrial pseudogenes ( numts ) in bears. Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2(1). 251–254. 5 indexed citations

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