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Researcher · Flinders University · Australia

Vera Weisbecker

Vera Weisbecker publishes mostly in Paleontology, Geometry and Topology and Ecology, on topics such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Morphological variations and asymmetry and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

ORCID 0000-0003-2370-4046 OpenAlex
World rank
#175,881
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#6,087
of 140,210
Works
182
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
18.0
h-index
33
i10-index 62Top 7.9% in Paleontology
Vera Weisbecker

What does Vera Weisbecker research?

Vera Weisbecker's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (32%), Mathematics (13%), Environmental Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 98 works · 53.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 58 works · 32.1% of their workPaleontology: 58 works · 32.1% of their workMathematics: 23 works · 12.6% of their workGeometry and Topology: 23 works · 12.6% of their workEnvironmental Science: 17 works · 9.1% of their workEcology: 17 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 51 works · 27.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 10.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 6.3% of their workAnthropology: 11 works · 6.3% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 7 works · 4.0% of their workLife Sciences: 15 works · 8.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 15 works · 8.1% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 15 works · 8.1% of their workTHEIR WORKVera Weisbecker182works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences10%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5832.1%
    2. Mathematics2312.6%
    3. Environmental Science179.1%
  2. Everything else5127.8%
    1. Social Sciences116.3%
    2. Psychology74.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences158.1%
  1. 1Paleontology32% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology13% of their works
  3. 3Ecology9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Vera Weisbecker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Phylogeny, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Phylogenetic Analysis, Geometric Morphometrics, Morphological Integration, Evolution and Climate Change.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Phylogeny1192 topics
  2. Mammal Evolution921 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis921 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Analysis913 topics
  5. Geometric Morphometrics501 topic
  6. Morphological Integration501 topic
  7. Evolution452 topics
  8. Climate Change382 topics
  9. Population Dynamics322 topics
  10. Dinosaur301 topic
  11. Paleontology301 topic
  12. Bats271 topic
  13. Hibernation271 topic
  14. Hominin Genetics251 topic
  15. Paleolithic Archaeology251 topic
  16. Animal Movement211 topic
  17. Occupancy Rates211 topic
  18. Primates151 topic
  19. Social Behavior151 topic
  20. Amphibian Declines111 topic
  21. Chytridiomycosis111 topic

Where does Vera Weisbecker work?

Vera Weisbecker's main affiliation in the publication record is Flinders University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Vera Weisbecker have?

OpenAlex counts 182 works and 3,276 citations for Vera Weisbecker, an h-index of 33, ranking #175,881 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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