Adnan Moussalli

6.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Adnan Moussalli is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Adnan Moussalli has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Adnan Moussalli's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Adnan Moussalli is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (19 papers). Adnan Moussalli collaborates with scholars based in Australia, South Africa and United Kingdom. Adnan Moussalli's co-authors include Matthew R. E. Symonds, Devi Stuart‐Fox, Craig Moritz, Andrew F. Hugall, Martin J. Whiting, Ian P. F. Owens, John Stanisic, Claire A. McLean, N. Justin Marshall and Timothy D. O’Hara and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Adnan Moussalli

53 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A brief guide to model selection, multimodel inference and model averaging in behavioural ecology using Akaike’s information criterion

2010 1.9k citations Matthew R. E. Symonds, Adnan Moussalli profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adnan Moussalli Australia	28	2.2k	1.7k	1.4k	921	769	54	4.7k
Daniel W. A. Noble Australia	34	1.9k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	790 0.9×	800 1.0×	121	4.6k
Philip W. Bateman Australia	35	2.1k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	637 0.8×	188	4.7k
Matthew R. E. Symonds Australia	33	2.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	689 0.5×	1.1k 1.2×	760 1.0×	103	5.2k
Robbie S. Wilson Australia	41	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	908 1.0×	909 1.2×	154	5.2k
Carlos A. Navas Brazil	39	2.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.6×	3.2k 2.3×	906 1.0×	907 1.2×	152	5.9k
R. D. Stevenson United States	25	2.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	962 1.0×	788 1.0×	67	4.8k
Evan P. Economo Japan	32	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	601 0.4×	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.4×	142	4.1k
Bob B. M. Wong Australia	45	4.3k 1.9×	2.8k 1.7×	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	1.9k 2.4×	219	8.0k
Thomas J. DeWitt United States	26	2.6k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.6×	1.8k 2.3×	49	5.3k
Sarah E. Diamond United States	36	2.2k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	736 0.5×	1.6k 1.7×	838 1.1×	84	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adnan Moussalli

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O’Hara, Timothy D., Andrew F. Hugall, Alexandra Anh‐Thu Weber, et al.. (2025). Spatiotemporal faunal connectivity across global sea floors. Nature. 645(8080). 423–428.

Medina, Iliana, Andrew F. Hugall, Katrina J. Rankin, et al.. (2024). Polarization and reflectance are linked to climate, size and mechanistic constraints in a group of scarab beetles. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29349–29349. 1 indexed citations

Köhler, Frank, et al.. (2023). Genetic diversity of a short‐ranged endemic terrestrial snail. Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). e10785–e10785. 2 indexed citations

Köhler, Frank, et al.. (2023). Fire severity is an important driver of land snail declines after the black summer bushfires in Australia. Biological Conservation. 279. 109906–109906. 7 indexed citations

Roycroft, Emily, Anna J. MacDonald, Craig Moritz, et al.. (2021). Museum genomics reveals the rapid decline and extinction of Australian rodents since European settlement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(27). 51 indexed citations

Bertozzi, Terry, et al.. (2018). Characterisation of major histocompatibility complex class I transcripts in an Australian dragon lizard. Developmental & Comparative Immunology. 84. 164–171. 2 indexed citations

McLean, Claire A., Adrian Lutz, Katrina J. Rankin, Devi Stuart‐Fox, & Adnan Moussalli. (2017). Revealing the Biochemical and Genetic Basis of Color Variation in a Polymorphic Lizard. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(8). 1924–1935. 53 indexed citations

Köhler, Frank, et al.. (2016). Identification and qualification of 500 nuclear, single‐copy, orthologous genes for the Eupulmonata (Gastropoda) using transcriptome sequencing and exon capture. Molecular Ecology Resources. 16(5). 1107–1123. 39 indexed citations

Rosauer, Dan F., Renee A. Catullo, Jeremy VanDerWal, Adnan Moussalli, & Craig Moritz. (2015). Lineage Range Estimation Method Reveals Fine-Scale Endemism Linked to Pleistocene Stability in Australian Rainforest Herpetofauna. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0126274–e0126274. 43 indexed citations

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Hugall, Andrew F., et al.. (2015). An Exon-Capture System for the Entire Class Ophiuroidea. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(1). 281–294. 86 indexed citations

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O’Hara, Timothy D., Andrew F. Hugall, Ben Thuy, & Adnan Moussalli. (2014). Phylogenomic Resolution of the Class Ophiuroidea Unlocks a Global Microfossil Record. Current Biology. 24(16). 1874–1879. 112 indexed citations

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McLean, Claire A., Adnan Moussalli, & Devi Stuart‐Fox. (2010). The predation cost of female resistance. Behavioral Ecology. 21(4). 861–867. 19 indexed citations

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Symonds, Matthew R. E., Adnan Moussalli, & Mark A. Elgar. (2009). The evolution of sex pheromones in an ecologically diverse genus of flies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 97(3). 594–603. 46 indexed citations

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Stuart‐Fox, Devi, Raquel Godinho, Joë̈lle Goü̈y de Bellocq, et al.. (2009). Variation in Phenotype, Parasite Load and Male Competitive Ability across a Cryptic Hybrid Zone. PLoS ONE. 4(5). e5677–e5677. 19 indexed citations

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Hugall, Andrew F., Adnan Moussalli, José Carlos Brito, et al.. (2009). Can scent-mediated female mate preference explain an abrupt mtDNA cline in Lacerta schreiberi?. Behaviour. 146(6). 831–841. 3 indexed citations

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Bell, Karen L., Craig Moritz, Adnan Moussalli, & David K. Yeates. (2007). Comparative phylogeography and speciation of dung beetles from the Australian Wet Tropics rainforest. Molecular Ecology. 16(23). 4984–4998. 46 indexed citations

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Stuart‐Fox, Devi & Adnan Moussalli. (2007). Sex‐specific ecomorphological variation and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion spp.). Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 20(3). 1073–1081. 34 indexed citations

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Stuart‐Fox, Devi, Adnan Moussalli, Gregory R. Johnston, & Ian P. F. Owens. (2004). EVOLUTION OF COLOR VARIATION IN DRAGON LIZARDS: QUANTITATIVE TESTS OF THE ROLE OF CRYPSIS AND LOCAL ADAPTATION. Evolution. 58(7). 1549–1559. 127 indexed citations

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Kearney, Michael, Adnan Moussalli, Jared L. Strasburg, David B. Lindenmayer, & Craig Moritz. (2003). Geographic parthenogenesis in the Australian arid zone: I. A climatic analysis of the Heteronotia binoei complex (Gekkonidae). Cureus. 5(7). 953–976. 28 indexed citations

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Kearney, Michael & Adnan Moussalli. (2003). Geographic parthenogenesis in the Australian arid zone: II. Climatic analyses of orthopteroid insects of the genera Warramaba and Sipyloidea. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(7). 977–997. 12 indexed citations

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