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D-Index
73
Citations
24173
World Ranking
1170
National Ranking
22

Harald Schneider 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 Harald Schneider sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 259 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harald Schneider 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 Harald Schneider sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Harald Schneider is affiliated with the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden in China. Their research spans a broad spectrum within agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these broad areas, Schneider's subfields of specialization cover:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Genetics

The primary topics addressed in Schneider's body of work are:

  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

Recent notable publications include:

  • "The evolutionary emergence of land plants," 2021, Current Biology
  • "Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data': Myanmar amber," 2020, Paläontologische Zeitschrift
  • "Simultaneous diversification of Polypodiales and angiosperms in the Mesozoic," 2021, Cladistics
  • "Forecasting the effects of bioclimatic characteristics and climate change on the potential distribution of Colophospermum mopane in southern Africa using Maximum Entropy (Maxent)," 2021, Ecological Informatics
  • "Fire-prone Rhamnaceae with South African affinities in Cretaceous Myanmar amber," 2022, Nature Plants

Schneider often collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Phyo Kay Khine
  • Shabir A. Rather
  • Tao Fujiwara
  • Yongdong Wang
  • Boniface K. Ngarega

The scientist publishes regularly in several journals, with multiple contributions in the following venues:

  • Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • Integrative Conservation
  • PhytoKeys
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Harald Schneider has also authored at least one book, titled "Das Rechtsformularbuch," published by Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt eBooks in 2025.

Best Publications

  • A DNA barcode for land plants.

    Peter M. Hollingsworth;Laura L. Forrest;John L. Spouge

  • A classification for extant ferns

    Alan R. Smith;Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Petra Korall;Petra Korall

  • A community-derived classification for extant lycophytes and ferns

    Eric Schuettpelz;Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Peter Hovenkamp

  • Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms

    Harald Schneider;Eric Schuettpelz;Kathleen M. Pryer;Raymond Cranfill

  • The timescale of early land plant evolution

    Jennifer L. Morris;Mark N. Puttick;James W. Clark;Dianne Edwards

  • Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Paul G. Wolf;Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider

  • A linear sequence of extant families and genera of lycophytes and ferns

    Maarten Christenhusz;Xian-Chun Zhang;Harald Schneider

  • The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

    Mark N. Puttick;Mark N. Puttick;Jennifer L. Morris;Jennifer L. Morris;Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox

  • Molecular Phylogeny of the New World Monkeys (Platyrrhini, Primates)

    H. Schneider;M.P.C. Schneider;I. Sampaio;M.L. Harada

  • A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

    Paul Kenrick;Charles H. Wellman;Harald Schneider;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • Unraveling the phylogeny of polygrammoid ferns (Polypodiaceae and Grammitidaceae): exploring aspects of the diversification of epiphytic plants

    Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Raymond Cranfill;Terri J. Hildebrand

  • A molecular phylogeny of the fern family Pteridaceae: Assessing overall relationships and the affinities of previously unsampled genera

    Eric Schuettpelz;Harald Schneider;Layne Huiet;Michael D. Windham;Michael D. Windham

  • Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

    B. Laenen;B. Laenen;B. Shaw;H. Schneider;B. Goffinet

  • Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

    Jose Barba-Montoya;Mario dos Reis;Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider;Philip C. J. Donoghue

  • Tree ferns: monophyletic groups and their relationships as revealed by four protein-coding plastid loci.

    Petra Korall;Kathleen M. Pryer;Jordan S. Metzgar;Harald Schneider

  • Chloroplast Phylogeny of Asplenioid Ferns based on rbcL and trnL-F Spacer Sequences (Polypodiidae, Aspleniaceae) and its Implications for Biogeography

    Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider;Steve J. Russell;Cymon J. Cox;Freek Bakker

  • Geographic distributions of homosporous ferns: does dispersal obscure evidence of vicariance?

    Paul G. Wolf;H. Schneider;T. A. Ranker

  • Towards a natural classification of liverworts (Marchantiophyta) based on the chloroplast gene rbcL

    Jochen Heinrichs;S. Robbert Gradstein;Rosemary Wilson;Harald Schneider

  • Molecular phylogeny of the New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, primates) based on two unlinked nuclear genes: IRBP intron 1 and epsilon-globin sequences.

    H. Schneider;I. Sampaio;M. L. Harada;C. M. L. Barroso

  • Phylogeny and evolution of grammitid ferns (Grammitidaceae): a case of rampant morphological homoplasy

    Tom A. Ranker;Alan R. Smith;Barbara S. Parris;Jennifer M.O. Geiger

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochen Heinrichs
Jochen Heinrichs Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kathleen M. Pryer
Kathleen M. Pryer Duke University
Paul G. Wolf
Paul G. Wolf University of Alabama in Huntsville
Eric Schuettpelz
Eric Schuettpelz National Museum of Natural History
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London
Silvia Pressel
Silvia Pressel Natural History Museum
S. Robbert Gradstein
S. Robbert Gradstein University of Göttingen
Philip C. J. Donoghue
Philip C. J. Donoghue University of Bristol
Iracilda Sampaio
Iracilda Sampaio Federal University of Para
Michael Krings
Michael Krings Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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