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Gerald M. Schneeweiss

Gerald M. Schneeweiss

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
47
Citations
7780
World Ranking
4463
National Ranking
31

Gerald M. Schneeweiss publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald M. Schneeweiss sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Gerald M. Schneeweiss D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerald M. Schneeweiss sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Gerald M. Schneeweiss is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans across multiple subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientific topics explored by Schneeweiss focus on Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, and Plant Diversity and Evolution.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Schneeweiss include Jalil Noroozi, Michael H. J. Barfuss, Peter Schönswetter, Sina Khalvati, and Haniyeh Nafisi.

Their research output is commonly published in venues such as Alpine Botany, Frontiers in Plant Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), BioScience, and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Representative recent papers by Schneeweiss include:

  • "Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal," 2024, BioScience
  • "Endemics determine bioregionalization in the alpine zone of the Irano-Anatolian biodiversity hotspot (South-West Asia)," 2021, Alpine Botany
  • "A multilocus phylogeny of the non-photosynthetic parasitic plant Cistanche (Orobanchaceae) refutes current taxonomy and identifies four major morphologically distinct clades," 2020, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Hotspots of (sub)alpine plants in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot are insufficiently protected," 2022, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Addressing alpine plant phylogeography using integrative distributional, demographic and coalescent modeling," 2021, Alpine Botany

Best Publications

  • The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function.

    Susann Wicke;Susann Wicke;Gerald M. Schneeweiss;Claude W. dePamphilis;Kai F. Müller

  • Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

    Susann Wicke;Kai F. Müller;Claude W. de Pamphilis;Dietmar Quandt

  • Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot - areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges.

    Jalil Noroozi;Amir Talebi;Moslem Doostmohammadi;Sabine B. Rumpf

  • Evolutionary Consequences, Constraints and Potential of Polyploidy in Plants

    H. Weiss-Schneeweiss;K. Emadzade;T.-S. Jang;G.M. Schneeweiss

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Mechanistic model of evolutionary rate variation en route to a nonphotosynthetic lifestyle in plants

    Susann Wicke;Kai F. Müller;Claude W. dePamphilis;Dietmar Quandt

  • Phylogeny of holoparasitic Orobanche (Orobanchaceae) inferred from nuclear ITS sequences

    Gerald M Schneeweiss;Alison Colwell;Jeong-Mi Park;Chang-Gee Jang

  • Complex distribution patterns of di-, tetra-, and hexaploid cytotypes in the European high mountain plant Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae)

    Jan Suda;Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss;Andreas Tribsch;Gerald M. Schneeweiss

  • Genome size evolution in holoparasitic Orobanche (Orobanchaceae) and related genera

    Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss;Johann Greilhuber;Gerald M. Schneeweiss

  • Molecular phylogeny and evolution of floral characters of Artemisia and allies (Anthemideae, Asteraceae): evidence from nrDNA ETS and ITS sequences

    María Sanz;Roser Vilatersana;Oriane Hidalgo;Núria Garcia-Jacas

  • Quaternary range dynamics of ecologically divergent species (Edraianthus serpyllifolius and E. tenuifolius, Campanulaceae) within the Balkan refugium

    Boštjan Surina;Boštjan Surina;Peter Schönswetter;Peter Schönswetter;Gerald M. Schneeweiss

  • Endemic diversity and distribution of the Iranian vascular flora across phytogeographical regions, biodiversity hotspots and areas of endemism

    Jalil Noroozi;Amir Talebi;Moslem Doostmohammadi;Sara Manafzadeh

  • Karyotype Diversity and Evolutionary Trends in Angiosperms

    Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss;Gerald M. Schneeweiss

  • Heterostyly accelerates diversification via reduced extinction in primroses

    Jurriaan M. de Vos;Colin E. Hughes;Gerald M. Schneeweiss;Brian R. Moore

  • Karyotype Diversification and Evolution in Diploid and Polyploid South American Hypochaeris (Asteraceae) Inferred from rDNA Localization and Genetic Fingerprint Data

    Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss;Karin Tremetsberger;Karin Tremetsberger;Gerald M. Schneeweiss;John S. Parker

  • Distribution and habitat segregation on different spatial scales among diploid, tetraploid and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) in the Eastern Alps

    Michaela Sonnleitner;Ruth Flatscher;Pedro Escobar García;Jana Rauchová;Jana Rauchová

  • Chromosome numbers and karyotype evolution in holoparasitic Orobanche (Orobanchaceae) and related genera

    Gerald M. Schneeweiss;Teresa Palomeque;Alison E. Colwell;Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss

  • Phylogeny and Biogeography of Isophyllous Species of Campanula (Campanulaceae) in the Mediterranean Area

    Jeong-Mi Park;Sanja Kovačić;Zlatko Liber;William M. M. Eddie

  • Five molecular markers reveal extensive morphological homoplasy and reticulate evolution in the Malva alliance (Malvaceae)

    Pedro Escobar García;Peter Schönswetter;Javier Fuertes Aguilar;Gonzalo Nieto Feliner

  • Rooting and Dating Maples (Acer) with an Uncorrelated-Rates Molecular Clock : Implications for North American/Asian Disjunctions

    Susanne S. Renner;Guido W. Grimm;Gerald M. Schneeweiss;Tod F. Stuessy

  • Sympatric diploid and hexaploid cytotypes of Senecio carniolicus (Asteraceae) in the Eastern Alps are separated along an altitudinal gradient.

    Peter Schönswetter;Margarita Lachmayer;Christian Lettner;David Prehsler

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Schönswetter
Peter Schönswetter University of Innsbruck
Manuela Winkler
Manuela Winkler BOKU University
Jan Suda
Jan Suda Charles University
Karl Hülber
Karl Hülber University of Vienna
Andreas Tribsch
Andreas Tribsch University of Salzburg
Tod F. Stuessy
Tod F. Stuessy The Ohio State University
Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
Dietmar Quandt
Dietmar Quandt University of Bonn
Dirk C. Albach
Dirk C. Albach Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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