2026 Maria A. Gandolfo: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	39	4126	3860	1024	917	133	6149
Earth Science	33	8382	7778	2773	2453	99	4001

Overview

Maria A. Gandolfo is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist focuses on several main topics which include:

Plant Diversity and Evolution
Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
Plant and animal studies
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Fern and Epiphyte Biology
Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maria A. Gandolfo include:

New South American record of the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary interval (La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina), 2021, published in Cretaceous Research
Cretaceous-Paleogene plant extinction and recovery in Patagonia, 2020, published in Paleobiology
Early Eocene Spore and Pollen Assemblages from the Laguna del Hunco Fossil Lake Beds, Patagonia, Argentina, 2020, published in International Journal of Plant Sciences
An image dataset of cleared, x-rayed, and fossil leaves vetted to plant family for human and machine learning, 2021, published in PhytoKeys
Paleoaltingia gen. nov., a new genus of Altingiaceae from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey, 2021, published in American Journal of Botany

Maria A. Gandolfo frequently collaborates with several researchers, among whom are:

Peter Wilf
N. Rubén Cúneo
María C. Zamaloa
Facundo De Benedetti
Ari Iglesias

The common venues for their publications include:

American Journal of Botany
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
International Journal of Plant Sciences
Cretaceous Research
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

Michael D. Crisp;Mary T. K. Arroyo;Lyn G. Cook;Maria A. Gandolfo

794
Citations
Testing the Impact of Calibration on Molecular Divergence Times Using a Fossil-Rich Group: The Case of Nothofagus (Fagales)

Hervé Sauquet;Simon Y. W. Ho;Simon Y. W. Ho;Maria A. Gandolfo;Gregory J. Jordan

447
Citations
Fossil evidence and phylogeny: the age of major angiosperm clades based on mesofossil and macrofossil evidence from Cretaceous deposits.

William L. Crepet;Kevin C. Nixon;Maria A. Gandolfo

295
Citations
Eocene Plant Diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Río Pichileufú, Patagonia, Argentina

Peter Wilf;Kirk R. Johnson;N. Rubén Cúneo;M. Elliot Smith

289
Citations
Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots.

Thomas J. Givnish;Alejandro Zuluaga;Daniel Spalink;Marybel Soto Gomez

245
Citations
A Phylogeny of the Monocots, as Inferred from rbcL and atpA Sequence Variation, and a Comparison of Methods for Calculating Jackknife and Bootstrap Values

Jerrold I. Davis;Dennis W. Stevenson;Gitte Petersen;Ole Seberg

235
Citations
The Plant Ontology as a Tool for Comparative Plant Anatomy and Genomic Analyses

Laurel Cooper;Ramona L. Walls;Justin Elser;María A. Gandolfo

177
Citations
Oldest known Eucalyptus macrofossils are from South America.

María A. Gandolfo;Elizabeth J. Hermsen;María C. Zamaloa;Kevin C. Nixon

154
Citations
Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early Angiosperms

M. A. Gandolfo;K. C. Nixon;W. L. Crepet

142
Citations
Eocene lantern fruits from Gondwanan Patagonia and the early origins of Solanaceae

Peter Wilf;Mónica R. Carvalho;María A. Gandolfo;N. Rubén Cúneo

129
Citations
Papuacedrus (Cupressaceae) in Eocene Patagonia: A new fossil link to Australasian rainforests.

Peter Wilf;Stefan A. Little;Ari Iglesias;Ari Iglesias;María del Carmen Zamaloa

127
Citations
Monocot fossils suitable for molecular dating analyses

William J. D. Iles;William J. D. Iles;Selena Y. Smith;Maria A. Gandolfo;Sean W. Graham

127
Citations
Phylogenetics, divergence times and diversification from three genomic partitions in monocots

Kate L. Hertweck;Kate L. Hertweck;Michael S. Kinney;Stephanie A. Stuart;Olivier Maurin

112
Citations
A new fossil flower from the Turonian of New Jersey: Dressiantha bicarpellata gen. et sp. nov. (Capparales).

Maria A. Gandolfo;Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

111
Citations
Early angiosperm diversification: evidence from southern South America

Sergio Archangelsky;Viviana Barreda;Mauro G. Passalia;Maria Gandolfo

110
Citations
Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science

Ramona L. Walls;Balaji Athreya;Laurel Cooper;Justin Elser

108
Citations
Triuridaceae fossil flowers from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey.

María A. Gandolfo;Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

92
Citations
Casuarinaceae from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina

Maria del C. Zamaloa;Maria A. Gandolfo;Cynthia C. González;Edgardo J. Romero

86
Citations
Selection of Fossils for Calibration of Molecular Dating Models

Maria A. Gandolfo;Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

84
Citations
Oldest known fossils of monocotyledons

M. A Gandolfo;K. C. Nixon;W. L. Crepet;D. W. Stevenson

84
Citations
A new fossil fern assignable to Gleicheniaceae from Late Cretaceous sediments of New Jersey.

Maria A. Gandolfo;Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet;Gene E. Ratcliffe

77
Citations
Divisestylus gen. nov. (aff. Iteaceae), a fossil saxifrage from the Late Cretaceous of New Jersey, USA.

Elizabeth J. Hermsen;María A. Gandolfo;Kevin C. Nixon;William L. Crepet

72
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