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Austria
2023

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Earth Science

D-Index
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Citations
9811
World Ranking
3386
National Ranking
13

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Mathias Harzhauser is affiliated with the Natural History Museum Vienna in Austria. Their primary field of study is Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The main research topics covered in Harzhauser's work encompass:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology

Harzhauser has contributed to a number of recent papers, reflecting a range of topics and collaborations. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Current extinction rate in European freshwater gastropods greatly exceeds that of the late Cretaceous mass extinction" (2021) published in Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Miocene lithostratigraphy of the northern and central Vienna Basin (Austria)" (2020) published in Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences
  • "Calculating dissolved marine oxygen values based on an enhanced Benthic Foraminifera Oxygen Index" (2022) published in Scientific Reports
  • "40AR/39AR geochronology using high sensitivity mass spectrometry: examples from middle Miocene horizons of the Central Paratethys" (2020) published in Geologica Carpathica
  • "Early and middle Miocene paleobathymetry of the Vienna Basin (Austria)" (2021) published in Marine and Petroleum Geology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Harzhauser include:

  • Oleg Mandić (24 publications)
  • Bernard Landau (20 publications)
  • Matthias Kranner (19 publications)
  • Thomas A. Neubauer (17 publications)
  • Werner E. Piller (15 publications)

Harzhauser's work has often been published in these venues:

  • Zootaxa (15 publications)
  • Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft/Austrian journal of earth sciences (7 publications)
  • Scientific Reports (6 publications)
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (5 publications)
  • Taxonomy (4 publications)

In addition to research articles, Harzhauser has contributed to book publications, including a work titled Wiener Naturgeschichten published in 2021 by Böhlau Verlag.

Best Publications

  • Benchmark data of a changing sea — Palaeogeography, Palaeobiogeography and events in the Central Paratethys during the Miocene

    Mathias Harzhauser;Werner E. Piller

  • Miocene Central Paratethys stratigraphy - current status and future directions

    Werner E. Piller;Mathias Harzhauser;Oleg Mandic

  • Biogeographic responses to geodynamics: A key study all around the Oligo–Miocene Tethyan Seaway ☆

    Mathias Harzhauser;Andreas Kroh;Oleg Mandic;Werner E. Piller

  • Badenian evolution of the Central Paratethys Sea: paleogeography, climate and eustatic sea level changes

    Michal Kováč;Aida Andreyeva-Grigorovič;Zlatan Bajraktarević;Rostislav Brzobohatý

  • Circum-Mediterranean Oligo-Miocene biogeographic evolution - the gastropods' point of view

    Mathias Harzhauser;Werner E Piller;Fritz F Steininger

  • The Oligo-/Miocene Qom Formation (Iran): evidence for an early Burdigalian restriction of the Tethyan Seaway and closure of its Iranian gateways

    Markus Reuter;W. E. Piller;M. Harzhauser;O. Mandic

  • Neogene lake systems of Central and South-Eastern Europe: Faunal diversity, gradients and interrelations

    Mathias Harzhauser;Oleg Mandic

  • Integrated stratigraphy of the Sarmatian (Upper Middle Miocene) in the western Central Paratethys

    Mathias Harzhauser;Werner E. Piller

  • Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway

    Silja K. Hüsing;Willem-Jan Zachariasse;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Wout Krijgsman

  • Changes in Paratethyan marine molluscs at the Early/Middle Miocene transition - diversity, palaeogeography and palaeoclimate

    Mathias Harzhauser;Oleg Mandic;Martin Zuschin

  • The myth of the brackish Sarmatian Sea

    Werner E. Piller;Mathias Harzhauser

  • An integrated stratigraphy of the Pannonian (Late Miocene) in the Vienna Basin

    Vienna Basin;Mathias Harzhauser;Gudrun Daxner-Höck;Werner E. Piller

  • A gastropod-based biogeographic scheme for the European Neogene freshwater systems

    Thomas Alan Neubauer;Mathias Harzhauser;Andreas Kroh;Elisabeth Georgopoulou

  • Sarmatian (Late Middle Miocene) gastropod assemblages of the Central Paratethys

    Mathias Harzhauser;Thorsten Kowalke

  • Sequence stratigraphy in a classic pull-apart basin (Neogene, Vienna Basin). A 3D seismic based integrated approach

    Philipp Strauss;Mathias Harzhauser;Ralph Hinsch;Michael Wagreich

  • Ontogeny and habitat change in Mesozoic cephalopods revealed by stable isotopes (δ18O, δ13C)

    Alexander Lukeneder;Mathias Harzhauser;Stefan Müllegger;Werner E. Piller

  • Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the Middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey

    B.M. Landau;M. Harzhauser;Y. Islamoglu;C.M. Da Silva

  • Analysis of heat transport mechanisms from a Late Miocene model experiment with a fully-coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model

    Arne Micheels;Angela A. Bruch;Jussi Eronen;Mikael Fortelius

  • Palaeogene and Neogene

    Michael W. Rasser;Mathias Harzhauser;Olga Y. Anistratenko;Vitaliy V. Anistratenko

  • Hypoxic Events on a Middle Miocene Carbonate Platform of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Badenian, 14 Ma)

    Hanns Peter Schmid;Mathias Harzhauser;Andreas Kroh;Stjepan C Oric

Frequent Co-Authors

Oleg Mandic
Oleg Mandic Natural History Museum Vienna
Werner E. Piller
Werner E. Piller University of Graz
Andreas Kroh
Andreas Kroh Natural History Museum Vienna
Martin Zuschin
Martin Zuschin University of Vienna
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno
Gonzalo Jiménez-Moreno University of Granada
Wout Krijgsman
Wout Krijgsman Utrecht University
Michal Kováč
Michal Kováč Comenius University
Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer
Reinhard F. Sachsenhofer University of Leoben
Gábor Molnár
Gábor Molnár Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

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