Bill Branch
Impact in
- Ecological Modeling top 5%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Global and Planetary Change top 10%
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
Papers in
-
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology 8
- Ecology 5
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation 3
- Co-authors
- Stephen Spawls (2 shared papers)Carol V. Brown (1 shared paper)Peter G. Ryan (1 shared paper)Barbara H. Wixom (1 shared paper)Marius Burger (1 shared paper)Aaron M. Bauer (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa (1 paper)Copeia (1 paper)MIS Quarterly Executive (1 paper)Herpetological review (1 paper)The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa (6 papers)
- Partner nations
- South AfricaUnited States
In The Last Decade
Bill Branch
14 papers receiving 346 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 63
- Ecological Modeling 75
- Global and Planetary Change 242
- Virology 44
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 126
- Nature and Landscape Conservation 66
Countries citing papers authored by Bill Branch
This map shows the geographic impact of Bill Branch's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Bill Branch with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Bill Branch more than expected).
Fields of papers citing papers by Bill Branch
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bill Branch. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bill Branch. The network helps show where Bill Branch may publish in the future.
Co-authors
The 6 scholars most cited alongside Bill Branch, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The dangerous snakes of Africa | 1995 | 123 |
| 2 | Bill Branch's Field Guide to the Snakes and Other Reptiles of Southern Africa | 1988 | 113 |
| 3 | 2010 | 70 | |
| 4 | 1996 | 36 | |
| 5 | 2008 | 11 | |
| 6 | A Photographic Guide to Snakes: Other Reptiles and Amphibians of East Africa | 2005 | 11 |
| 7 | 2006 | 10 | |
| 8 | 1984 | 7 | |
| 9 | Additions to the Mozambique herpetofauna Two new lizards from the Namuli Massif | 2001 | 6 |
| 10 | 1992 | 4 | |
| 11 | 1992 | 3 | |
| 12 | Southern African snakes and other reptiles: A photographic guide | 1993 | 3 |
| 13 | 1992 | 1 | |
| 14 | A plan for phylogenetic studies of Southern African reptiles | 2006 | 1 |
| 15 | 1980 | 0 | |
| 16 | 1980 | 0 |
About Bill Branch
Bill Branch is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Genetics, Social Psychology and Ecological Modeling, having authored 16 papers that have together received 399 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (8 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (3 papers), Animal and Plant Science Education (3 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (3 papers), Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies (2 papers), Turtle Biology and Conservation (2 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (2 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (75 citations), Global and Planetary Change (242 citations), Virology (44 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (126 citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (66 citations). Bill Branch has collaborated with scholars based in South Africa and United States. Frequent co-authors include Stephen Spawls, Carol V. Brown, Peter G. Ryan, Barbara H. Wixom, Marius Burger and Aaron M. Bauer. Their work appears in journals such as Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, Copeia, MIS Quarterly Executive, Herpetological review and The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa.
Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.