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Maria A. Gandolfo

Maria A. Gandolfo

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
39
Citations
6149
World Ranking
4126
National Ranking
1024

Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4001
World Ranking
8383
National Ranking
2772

Maria A. Gandolfo 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 Maria A. Gandolfo sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 133 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Maria A. Gandolfo 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 Maria A. Gandolfo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Oldest known Eucalyptus macrofossils are from South America.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Monocot fossils suitable for molecular dating analyses

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Early angiosperm diversification: evidence from southern South America

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

  • Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science

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

  • Triuridaceae fossil flowers from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey.

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

  • Casuarinaceae from the Eocene of Patagonia, Argentina

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

  • Selection of Fossils for Calibration of Molecular Dating Models

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

  • Oldest known fossils of monocotyledons

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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin C. Nixon
Kevin C. Nixon Cornell University
Peter Wilf
Peter Wilf Pennsylvania State University
William L. Crepet
William L. Crepet Cornell University
Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Barry Smith
Barry Smith University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Kirk R. Johnson
Kirk R. Johnson National Museum of Natural History
Pankaj Jaiswal
Pankaj Jaiswal Oregon State University
Christopher J. Mungall
Christopher J. Mungall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Walter G. Joyce
Walter G. Joyce University of Fribourg
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol

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