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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy 50 2149 1980 137 120 186 8848
Ecology and Evolution 51 3658 3524 204 200 194 9404

Karsten Wesche publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Karsten Wesche between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Karsten Wesche published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 8 papers a year. Output peaked at 19 publications in 2016. 23 of the 233 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1997 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 19. Peak 19 publications in 2016. 1997: 1 publication 1998: 0 publications 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 1 publication 2003: 3 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 8 publications 2006: 8 publications 2007: 10 publications 2008: 11 publications 2009: 5 publications 2010: 11 publications 2011: 10 publications 2012: 14 publications 2013: 7 publications 2014: 2 publications 2015: 6 publications 2016: 19 publications 2017: 11 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 11 publications 2020: 15 publications 2021: 17 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 9 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 16 publications
1997 2025

233 publications in total across all disciplines

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Karsten Wesche: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year Publications
1997 1
1998 0
1999 1
2000 2
2001 1
2002 1
2003 3
2004 2
2005 8
2006 8
2007 10
2008 11
2009 5
2010 11
2011 10
2012 14
2013 7
2014 2
2015 6
2016 19
2017 11
2018 12
2019 11
2020 15
2021 17
2022 13
2023 9
2024 7
2025 16
Total 233
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Karsten Wesche publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karsten Wesche sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 88 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 36–40 to 467+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 255. Most scientists, 255, have 111–115 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 186–190 publications, is where this scientist sits. 36–40 publications: 2 scientists 41–45 publications: 7 scientists 46–50 publications: 40 scientists 51–55 publications: 58 scientists 56–60 publications: 60 scientists 61–65 publications: 107 scientists 66–70 publications: 130 scientists 71–75 publications: 153 scientists 76–80 publications: 191 scientists 81–85 publications: 199 scientists 86–90 publications: 206 scientists 91–95 publications: 218 scientists 96–100 publications: 226 scientists 101–105 publications: 227 scientists 106–110 publications: 247 scientists 111–115 publications: 255 scientists 116–120 publications: 253 scientists 121–125 publications: 233 scientists 126–130 publications: 219 scientists 131–135 publications: 201 scientists 136–140 publications: 194 scientists 141–145 publications: 176 scientists 146–150 publications: 157 scientists 151–155 publications: 147 scientists 156–160 publications: 151 scientists 161–165 publications: 159 scientists 166–170 publications: 137 scientists 171–175 publications: 128 scientists 176–180 publications: 126 scientists 181–185 publications: 98 scientists 186–190 publications: 114 scientists 191–195 publications: 100 scientists 196–200 publications: 90 scientists 201–205 publications: 71 scientists 206–210 publications: 98 scientists 211–215 publications: 70 scientists 216–220 publications: 86 scientists 221–225 publications: 61 scientists 226–230 publications: 58 scientists 231–235 publications: 53 scientists 236–240 publications: 64 scientists 241–245 publications: 39 scientists 246–250 publications: 46 scientists 251–255 publications: 51 scientists 256–260 publications: 36 scientists 261–265 publications: 44 scientists 266–270 publications: 35 scientists 271–275 publications: 30 scientists 276–280 publications: 33 scientists 281–285 publications: 35 scientists 286–290 publications: 36 scientists 291–295 publications: 26 scientists 296–300 publications: 26 scientists 301–305 publications: 31 scientists 306–310 publications: 30 scientists 311–315 publications: 21 scientists 316–320 publications: 29 scientists 321–325 publications: 14 scientists 326–330 publications: 15 scientists 331–335 publications: 15 scientists 336–340 publications: 17 scientists 341–345 publications: 15 scientists 346–350 publications: 12 scientists 351–355 publications: 17 scientists 356–360 publications: 18 scientists 361–365 publications: 12 scientists 366–370 publications: 11 scientists 371–375 publications: 6 scientists 376–380 publications: 6 scientists 381–385 publications: 11 scientists 386–390 publications: 9 scientists 391–395 publications: 10 scientists 396–400 publications: 8 scientists 401–405 publications: 4 scientists 406–410 publications: 9 scientists 411–415 publications: 11 scientists 416–420 publications: 4 scientists 421–425 publications: 7 scientists 426–430 publications: 4 scientists 431–435 publications: 3 scientists 436–440 publications: 5 scientists 441–445 publications: 8 scientists 446–450 publications: 6 scientists 451–455 publications: 7 scientists 456–460 publications: 5 scientists 461–465 publications: 6 scientists 466 publications: 2 scientists 467+ publications: 99 scientists
36–40 publications 467+

This scientist: 186 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
36–40 2
41–45 7
46–50 40
51–55 58
56–60 60
61–65 107
66–70 130
71–75 153
76–80 191
81–85 199
86–90 206
91–95 218
96–100 226
101–105 227
106–110 247
111–115 255
116–120 253
121–125 233
126–130 219
131–135 201
136–140 194
141–145 176
146–150 157
151–155 147
156–160 151
161–165 159
166–170 137
171–175 128
176–180 126
181–185 98
186–190 114 186
191–195 100
196–200 90
201–205 71
206–210 98
211–215 70
216–220 86
221–225 61
226–230 58
231–235 53
236–240 64
241–245 39
246–250 46
251–255 51
256–260 36
261–265 44
266–270 35
271–275 30
276–280 33
281–285 35
286–290 36
291–295 26
296–300 26
301–305 31
306–310 30
311–315 21
316–320 29
321–325 14
326–330 15
331–335 15
336–340 17
341–345 15
346–350 12
351–355 17
356–360 18
361–365 12
366–370 11
371–375 6
376–380 6
381–385 11
386–390 9
391–395 10
396–400 8
401–405 4
406–410 9
411–415 11
416–420 4
421–425 7
426–430 4
431–435 3
436–440 5
441–445 8
446–450 6
451–455 7
456–460 5
461–465 6
466 2
467+ 99
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Karsten Wesche D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Karsten Wesche sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150 200 250
Bar chart with 80 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 109+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 288. Most scientists, 288, have 34 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 50 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 200 scientists 31 D-Index: 236 scientists 32 D-Index: 253 scientists 33 D-Index: 283 scientists 34 D-Index: 288 scientists 35 D-Index: 240 scientists 36 D-Index: 246 scientists 37 D-Index: 243 scientists 38 D-Index: 247 scientists 39 D-Index: 229 scientists 40 D-Index: 232 scientists 41 D-Index: 230 scientists 42 D-Index: 228 scientists 43 D-Index: 219 scientists 44 D-Index: 193 scientists 45 D-Index: 164 scientists 46 D-Index: 158 scientists 47 D-Index: 143 scientists 48 D-Index: 131 scientists 49 D-Index: 127 scientists 50 D-Index: 122 scientists 51 D-Index: 122 scientists 52 D-Index: 110 scientists 53 D-Index: 102 scientists 54 D-Index: 98 scientists 55 D-Index: 79 scientists 56 D-Index: 85 scientists 57 D-Index: 88 scientists 58 D-Index: 91 scientists 59 D-Index: 62 scientists 60 D-Index: 61 scientists 61 D-Index: 59 scientists 62 D-Index: 54 scientists 63 D-Index: 61 scientists 64 D-Index: 59 scientists 65 D-Index: 58 scientists 66 D-Index: 41 scientists 67 D-Index: 49 scientists 68 D-Index: 39 scientists 69 D-Index: 32 scientists 70 D-Index: 40 scientists 71 D-Index: 47 scientists 72 D-Index: 38 scientists 73 D-Index: 28 scientists 74 D-Index: 29 scientists 75 D-Index: 28 scientists 76 D-Index: 22 scientists 77 D-Index: 21 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 26 scientists 80 D-Index: 19 scientists 81 D-Index: 16 scientists 82 D-Index: 12 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 14 scientists 85 D-Index: 11 scientists 86 D-Index: 17 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 10 scientists 89 D-Index: 12 scientists 90 D-Index: 18 scientists 91 D-Index: 16 scientists 92 D-Index: 16 scientists 93 D-Index: 17 scientists 94 D-Index: 12 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 9 scientists 97 D-Index: 9 scientists 98 D-Index: 11 scientists 99 D-Index: 12 scientists 100 D-Index: 5 scientists 101 D-Index: 8 scientists 102 D-Index: 4 scientists 103 D-Index: 11 scientists 104 D-Index: 5 scientists 105 D-Index: 9 scientists 106 D-Index: 7 scientists 107 D-Index: 4 scientists 108 D-Index: 8 scientists 109+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

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Number of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 6,494 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 200
31 236
32 253
33 283
34 288
35 240
36 246
37 243
38 247
39 229
40 232
41 230
42 228
43 219
44 193
45 164
46 158
47 143
48 131
49 127
50 122 50
51 122
52 110
53 102
54 98
55 79
56 85
57 88
58 91
59 62
60 61
61 59
62 54
63 61
64 59
65 58
66 41
67 49
68 39
69 32
70 40
71 47
72 38
73 28
74 29
75 28
76 22
77 21
78 25
79 26
80 19
81 16
82 12
83 16
84 14
85 11
86 17
87 13
88 10
89 12
90 18
91 16
92 16
93 17
94 12
95 8
96 9
97 9
98 11
99 12
100 5
101 8
102 4
103 11
104 5
105 9
106 7
107 4
108 8
109+ 99
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Overview

Karsten Wesche is affiliated with the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz in Germany. Their research focuses on multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant concentration on ecology and vegetation dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields covered by their work comprise:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

Key topics in Wesche's research involve:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
  • Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Wesche has contributed to several papers reflecting varied aspects of plant ecology and biodiversity. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale" published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity" published in 2022 in Nature Communications
  • "More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany" published in 2022 in Nature
  • "Grazing Effects on Mongolian Steppe Vegetation-A Systematic Review of Local Literature" published in 2021 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context" published in 2022 in Nature Sustainability

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Flora
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Research Ideas and Outcomes

Wesche collaborates often with several co-authors, the most frequent of whom are:

  • Jürgen Dengler
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Aletta Bonn
  • Khurelpurev Oyundelger

Best Publications

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband

    Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane Ritz;Erik Welk

  • The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

    Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

  • Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants

    Karsten Wesche;Benjamin Krause;Heike Culmsee;Christoph Leuschner

  • The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

    Karsten Wesche;Didem Ambarlı;Johannes Kamp;Peter Török

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Dramatic losses of specialist arable plants in Central Germany since the 1950s/60s – a cross‐regional analysis

    Stefan Meyer;Karsten Wesche;Benjamin Krause;Christoph Leuschner

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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  • Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands.

    Henrik von Wehrden;Jan Hanspach;Jan Hanspach;Petra Kaczensky;Joern Fischer

  • Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature

    Yun Wang;Karsten Wesche

  • Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures.

    L. W. Lehnert;K. Wesche;K. Trachte;C. Reudenbach

  • The performance of Polylepis australis trees along their entire altitudinal range : implications of climate change for their conservation

    Paula Marcora;Isabell Hensen;Daniel Renison;Peggy Seltmann

  • Impact of Grazing Livestock and Distance from Water Source on Soil Fertility in Southern Mongolia

    Markus Stumpp;Karsten Wesche;Vroni Retzer;Georg Miehe

  • Exkursionsflora von Deutschland

    Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane M. Ritz;Erik Welk

  • More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

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  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • The Significance of Fire for Afroalpine Ericaceous Vegetation

    Karsten Wesche;Georg Miehe;Meinhard Kaeppeli

  • Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

    Benjamin Krause;Heike Culmsee;Karsten Wesche;Erwin Bergmeier

  • Meta‐analysis of ANPP and rain‐use efficiency confirms indicative value for degradation and supports non‐linear response along precipitation gradients in drylands

    Jan C. Ruppert;Alexander Holm;Sabine Miehe;Esteban Muldavin

  • Plant communities of central Tibetan pastures in the Alpine Steppe / Kobresia pygmaea ecotone

    Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Kerstin Bach;J. Nölling

  • Effects of altitude and livestock on the regeneration of two tree line forming Polylepis species in Ecuador

    Arne Cierjacks;Nadine Katrin Rühr;Karsten Wesche;Isabell Hensen

  • Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes

    Karsten Wesche;Karin Nadrowski;Vroni Retzer

  • Lack of sexual reproduction within mountain steppe populations of the clonal shrub Juniperus sabina L. in semi-arid southern Mongolia

    K. Wesche;K. Ronnenberg;I. Hensen

  • Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes

    Karsten Wesche;Katrin Ronnenberg;Vroni Retzer;Georg Miehe

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabell Hensen
Isabell Hensen Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Henrik von Wehrden
Henrik von Wehrden Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Georg Miehe
Georg Miehe Philipp University of Marburg
Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Erik Welk
Erik Welk Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Christine Römermann
Christine Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jiří Danihelka
Jiří Danihelka Masaryk University
Lars Götzenberger
Lars Götzenberger Czech Academy of Sciences
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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