Ralf B. Schäfer

409 total papers · 16.4k total citations
235 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Ralf B. Schäfer is a scholar working on Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf B. Schäfer has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Ecology, 66 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 54 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ralf B. Schäfer’s work include Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (62 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (51 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers). Ralf B. Schäfer is often cited by papers focused on Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology (62 papers), Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology (51 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (47 papers). Ralf B. Schäfer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United States. Ralf B. Schäfer's co-authors include Matthias Liess, Ben J. Kefford, Mikhail A. Beketov, Peter C. von der Ohe, Miguel Cañedo‐Argüelles, Eduard Szöcs, Mirco Bundschuh, Ralph Kühne, Ralf Schulz and Matthias Franz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf B. Schäfer

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

Ralf B. Schäfer

223 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf B. Schäfer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Ralf B. Schäfer

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