Franz Essl

584 total papers · 33.2k total citations
279 papers, 10.8k citations indexed

About

Franz Essl is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Franz Essl has authored 279 papers receiving a total of 10.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 117 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 105 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Franz Essl’s work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (150 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (105 papers) and Plant and animal studies (88 papers). Franz Essl is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (150 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (105 papers) and Plant and animal studies (88 papers). Franz Essl collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Czechia. Franz Essl's co-authors include Stefan Dullinger, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Petr Pyšek, Dietmar Moser, Jan Pergl, Hanno Seebens, Philip E. Hulme, Mark van Kleunen, Marten Winter and Thomas Dirnböck and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franz Essl

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

Franz Essl

263 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Franz Essl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Franz Essl. 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 Franz Essl. The network helps show where Franz Essl may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Franz Essl

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