Walter Salzburger

16.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
199 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Walter Salzburger is a scholar working on Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Salzburger has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Genetics, 83 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 58 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Walter Salzburger's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (83 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (48 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (47 papers). Walter Salzburger is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (83 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (48 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (47 papers). Walter Salzburger collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Walter Salzburger's co-authors include Axel Meyer, Michael Matschiner, Christian Sturmbauer, Erik Verheyen, Moritz Muschick, Marta Barluenga, Daniel Berner, Sanja Baric, Adrian Indermaur and Marius Roesti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Walter Salzburger

191 papers receiving 10.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish

2006 505 citations Walter Salzburger et al. profile →
Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes

2020 204 citations Fabrizia Ronco, Michael Matschiner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Salzburger Switzerland	60	5.0k	4.1k	3.3k	2.8k	2.5k	199	10.7k
Thomas J. Near United States	55	3.4k 0.7×	5.0k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	186	9.8k
Guillermo Ortı́ United States	48	2.4k 0.5×	3.9k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	114	7.4k
Rafael Zardoya Spain	58	3.6k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	2.9k 0.9×	6.4k 2.3×	1.5k 0.6×	147	12.5k
Gary R. Carvalho United Kingdom	66	6.0k 1.2×	4.5k 1.1×	7.1k 2.1×	5.7k 2.1×	2.0k 0.8×	191	15.1k
Michael E. Alfaro United States	55	3.0k 0.6×	4.0k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	137	11.0k
Masaki Miya Japan	70	3.5k 0.7×	6.1k 1.5×	5.0k 1.5×	9.2k 3.3×	3.5k 1.4×	191	14.7k
Craig R. Primmer Finland	54	6.3k 1.3×	3.4k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.4×	211	10.0k
William A. Cresko United States	36	8.2k 1.7×	2.3k 0.5×	2.9k 0.9×	4.7k 1.7×	820 0.3×	91	12.9k
Ole Seehausen Switzerland	64	9.0k 1.8×	7.0k 1.7×	7.1k 2.2×	2.8k 1.0×	3.1k 1.3×	269	18.3k
Richard L. Mayden United States	45	2.8k 0.6×	4.8k 1.2×	2.1k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	3.3k 1.3×	202	7.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Salzburger

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fogg, Lily G., et al.. (2026). Deep-sea fish reveal an alternative developmental trajectory for vertebrate vision. Science Advances. 12(7). eadx2596–eadx2596.

Fogg, Lily G., et al.. (2025). Evolution of the Nonvisual and Visual Opsin Gene Repertoire in Ray-Finned Fishes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(7).

Nichols, Annika L. A., Maxwell E. R. Shafer, Adrian Indermaur, et al.. (2025). Widespread temporal niche partitioning in an adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1938–1950.

Matschiner, Michael, et al.. (2024). Haemoglobin Gene Repertoire in Teleost and Cichlid Fishes Shaped by Gene Duplications and Genome Rearrangements. Molecular Ecology. 33(22). e17559–e17559. 2 indexed citations

Salzburger, Walter, et al.. (2023). No evidence for sex chromosomes in natural populations of the cichlid fish Astatotilapia burtoni. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(3). 7 indexed citations

Barth, Julia M. I., Scott A. Handley, Guy Leonard, et al.. (2023). The history and organization of the Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics. Evolution Education and Outreach. 16(1). 2–2. 1 indexed citations

Weber, Alexandra Anh‐Thu, et al.. (2021). Speciation dynamics and extent of parallel evolution along a lake-stream environmental contrast in African cichlid fishes. Science Advances. 7(45). eabg5391–eabg5391. 12 indexed citations

Bose, Aneesh P. H., Alex Böhm, Fabrizia Ronco, et al.. (2020). Structural manipulations of a shelter resource reveal underlying preference functions in a shell-dwelling cichlid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1927). 20200127–20200127. 17 indexed citations

Svardal, Hannes, Milan Malinsky, Benjamin P. Ngatunga, et al.. (2019). Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(4). 1100–1113. 96 indexed citations

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Corrêa, Fabiano, et al.. (2019). Morphological differences between an artificial lentic and adjacent lotic environments in a characid species. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 29(4). 935–949. 9 indexed citations

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Böhne, Astrid, et al.. (2019). Repeated Evolution Versus Common Ancestry: Sex Chromosome Evolution in the Haplochromine CichlidPseudocrenilabrus philander. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(2). 439–458. 23 indexed citations

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Corrêa, Fabiano, et al.. (2018). Shape and size variation of Jenynsia lineata (Jenyns 1842) (Cyprinodontiformes: Anablepidae) from different coastal environments. Hydrobiologia. 828(1). 21–39. 7 indexed citations

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Weber, Alexandra Anh‐Thu, et al.. (2018). Adaptive phenotypic plasticity contributes to divergence between lake and river populations of an East African cichlid fish. Ecology and Evolution. 8(15). 7323–7333. 14 indexed citations

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Baalsrud, Helle Tessand, Ole K. Tørresen, Monica Hongrø Solbakken, et al.. (2017). De Novo Gene Evolution of Antifreeze Glycoproteins in Codfishes Revealed by Whole Genome Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(3). 593–606. 66 indexed citations

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Baalsrud, Helle Tessand, Kjetil Lysne Voje, Ole K. Tørresen, et al.. (2017). Evolution of Hemoglobin Genes in Codfishes Influenced by Ocean Depth. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 7956–7956. 24 indexed citations

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Harris, H., et al.. (2016). Inhibition of Aromatase Induces Partial Sex Change in a Cichlid Fish: Distinct Functions for Sex Steroids in Brains and Gonads. Sexual Development. 10(2). 97–110. 28 indexed citations

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Cortesi, Fabio, William E. Feeney, Maud C. O. Ferrari, et al.. (2015). Phenotypic Plasticity Confers Multiple Fitness Benefits to a Mimic. Current Biology. 25(7). 949–954. 45 indexed citations

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Salzburger, Walter, et al.. (2014). Genetics of Sexual Development: An Evolutionary Playground for Fish. Genetics. 196(3). 579–591. 122 indexed citations

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Roesti, Marius, Sergey Gavrilets, Andrew P. Hendry, Walter Salzburger, & Daniel Berner. (2014). The genomic signature of parallel adaptation from shared genetic variation. Molecular Ecology. 23(16). 3944–3956. 118 indexed citations

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Sturmbauer, Christian, Walter Salzburger, Nina Duftner, Robert C. Schelly, & Stephan Koblmüller. (2010). Evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini (Teleostei: Perciformes) derived from mitochondrial and nuclear DNA data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(1). 266–284. 76 indexed citations

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