Wolfgang Kiessling

16.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
171 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Kiessling is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Kiessling has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Paleontology, 69 papers in Oceanography and 62 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Kiessling's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (74 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (52 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (51 papers). Wolfgang Kiessling is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (74 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (52 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (51 papers). Wolfgang Kiessling collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Wolfgang Kiessling's co-authors include Martin Aberhan, John M. Pandolfi, Michael T. Burrows, David S. Schoeman, Pippa J. Moore, Benjamin S. Halpern, Elvira S. Poloczanska, Anthony J. Richardson, Christopher J. Brown and Carl Simpson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Kiessling

167 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global imprint of climate change on marine life

2013 1.6k citations Wolfgang Kiessling, Michael T. Burrows et al. profile →
The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems

2011 987 citations Michael T. Burrows, Carlos M. Duarte et al. Science profile →
Climate velocity and the future global redistribution of marine biodiversity

2015 456 citations Wolfgang Kiessling, John M. Pandolfi et al. profile →
Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts

2023 237 citations Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Robert J. Scholes et al. Science profile →
Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance

2021 185 citations Mark J. Costello, Wolfgang Kiessling et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wolfgang Kiessling Germany	43	3.7k	3.1k	2.9k	2.5k	1.4k	171	8.5k
David Jablonski United States	62	3.9k 1.1×	5.2k 1.7×	3.8k 1.3×	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 1.5×	152	11.2k
Mark E. Siddall United States	52	4.2k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	3.5k 2.6×	225	11.9k
James W. Valentine United States	55	3.0k 0.8×	3.7k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	157	8.9k
Susan M. Kidwell United States	48	7.8k 2.1×	3.8k 1.2×	4.8k 1.7×	5.4k 2.2×	3.3k 2.4×	92	14.7k
Alan M. Haywood United Kingdom	50	2.0k 0.5×	2.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	5.6k 4.0×	137	7.8k
Daniel J. Lunt United Kingdom	59	2.0k 0.5×	3.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	7.6k 5.5×	197	10.4k
Gabriel J. Bowen United States	54	5.9k 1.6×	2.8k 0.9×	885 0.3×	2.9k 1.2×	5.3k 3.8×	195	12.5k
Jonathan L. Payne United States	47	1.8k 0.5×	6.1k 2.0×	1.8k 0.6×	780 0.3×	2.2k 1.6×	157	8.8k
Charles R. Marshall United States	37	1.9k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	575 0.2×	997 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	75	7.7k
Lisa C. Sloan United States	33	1.9k 0.5×	3.7k 1.2×	1.4k 0.5×	3.5k 1.4×	7.2k 5.2×	56	12.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Kiessling

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Staples, Timothy L., Jessica L. Blois, Katie L. Cramer, et al.. (2025). A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Ecological Novelty. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(2). 1 indexed citations

Patzkowsky, Mark E. & Wolfgang Kiessling. (2025). Introduction: Fifty years of Paleobiology. Paleobiology. 51(1). 1–7. 1 indexed citations

Kiessling, Wolfgang, et al.. (2024). Marine biological responses to abrupt climate change in deep time. Paleobiology. 51(1). 97–111. 2 indexed citations

Pörtner, Hans‐Otto, Robert J. Scholes, Almut Arneth, et al.. (2023). Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science. 380(6642). eabl4881–eabl4881. 237 indexed citations breakdown →

Hodapp, Dorothee, Dario Fiorentino, Cristina Garilao, et al.. (2023). Climate change disrupts core habitats of marine species. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3304–3317. 50 indexed citations

Dieterle, Martin Philipp, Ayman Husari, Albrecht Stenzinger, et al.. (2023). An Uncommon Cause of Recurrent Presyncope, Dizziness, and Tachycardia: A Case Report of Diffuse, Adult-Onset Nesidioblastosis/Non-Insulinoma Pancreatogenous Hypoglycemia Syndrome (NIPHS). Biomedicines. 11(6). 1741–1741. 1 indexed citations

Reddin, Carl J., Martin Aberhan, Ádám T. Kocsis, et al.. (2023). Oversimplification risks too much: a response to ‘How predictable are mass extinction events?'. Royal Society Open Science. 10(8). 230400–230400. 1 indexed citations

Raja, Nussaïbah B., et al.. (2022). fossilbrush : An R package for automated detection and resolution of anomalies in palaeontological occurrence data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2404–2418. 16 indexed citations

Kocsis, Ádám T., et al.. (2021). Not all biodiversity rich spots are climate refugia. Biogeosciences. 18(24). 6567–6578. 5 indexed citations

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Kocsis, Ádám T., et al.. (2021). Not all biodiversity richspots are climate refugia. 2 indexed citations

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Kocsis, Ádám T., Carl J. Reddin, Christopher R. Scotese, Paul J. Valdes, & Wolfgang Kiessling. (2021). Increase in marine provinciality over the last 250 million years governed more by climate change than plate tectonics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1957). 20211342–20211342. 11 indexed citations

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Glöckler, Falko, et al.. (2018). History and development of ABCDEFG: a data standard for geosciences. Fossil record. 21(1). 47–53. 5 indexed citations

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Kiessling, Wolfgang & Ádám T. Kocsis. (2016). Adding fossil occupancy trajectories to the assessment of modern extinction risk. Biology Letters. 12(10). 20150813–20150813. 13 indexed citations

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Kocsis, Ádám T., Wolfgang Kiessling, & József Pálfy. (2014). Radiolarian biodiversity dynamics through the Triassic and Jurassic: implications for proximate causes of the end-Triassic mass extinction. Paleobiology. 40(4). 625–639. 16 indexed citations

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Kiessling, Wolfgang, et al.. (2012). Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(52). 21378–21383. 83 indexed citations

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Aberhan, Martin, Sabine Nürnberg, & Wolfgang Kiessling. (2012). Vision and the diversification of Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Paleobiology. 38(2). 187–204. 17 indexed citations

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Madin, Joshua S., John Alroy, Martin Aberhan, et al.. (2006). Statistical Independence of Escalatory Ecological Trends in Phanerozoic Marine Invertebrates. Science. 312(5775). 897–900. 70 indexed citations

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Kiessling, Wolfgang. (2006). Towards an unbiased estimate of fluctuations in reef abundance and volume during the Phanerozoic. Biogeosciences. 3(1). 15–27. 20 indexed citations

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Aberhan, Martin, Wolfgang Kiessling, & Franz T. Fürsich. (2006). Testing the role of biological interactions in the evolution of mid-Mesozoic marine benthic ecosystems. Paleobiology. 32(2). 259–277. 103 indexed citations

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Golonka, Jan, et al.. (2001). Przewidywana wartość skał macierzystych: Małopolska Prowincja Naftowa na tle prowincji światowych w późnej jurze-wczesnej kredzie. Przegląd Geologiczny. 49(5). 408–411. 1 indexed citations

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