Alexander Nützel

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Nützel is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Nützel has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Paleontology, 66 papers in Oceanography and 20 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Alexander Nützel's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (102 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (65 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (26 papers). Alexander Nützel is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (102 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (65 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (26 papers). Alexander Nützel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Alexander Nützel's co-authors include Andrzej Kaim, Royal H. Mapes, Jiří Frýda, Hugo Bucher, Michael Hautmann, Michael Schrödl, Oliver Lehnert, Yasunori Kano, Douglas H. Erwin and Philippe Bouchet and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Nützel

114 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of G... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod and Monoplacophoran Families
    2017 486 citations Andrzej Kaim, Yasunori Kano et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Nützel Germany 30 2.2k 1.5k 668 653 646 122 3.1k
Andrzej Kaim Poland 24 1.1k 0.5× 927 0.6× 492 0.7× 469 0.7× 490 0.8× 81 1.9k
Klaus Bändel Germany 28 1.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 420 0.6× 483 0.7× 374 0.6× 106 2.2k
Steffen Kiel Germany 34 1.2k 0.5× 1.6k 1.0× 1.0k 1.5× 729 1.1× 189 0.3× 138 2.9k
John S. Peel Sweden 34 3.5k 1.6× 1.8k 1.2× 1.3k 2.0× 263 0.4× 235 0.4× 226 4.1k
Oleg Mandić Austria 36 1.6k 0.7× 1.5k 1.0× 2.2k 3.3× 795 1.2× 302 0.5× 167 4.7k
James S. Crampton New Zealand 33 1.9k 0.8× 690 0.5× 1.4k 2.0× 665 1.0× 97 0.2× 101 3.2k
Royal H. Mapes United States 28 1.5k 0.7× 882 0.6× 531 0.8× 455 0.7× 89 0.1× 149 2.3k
Ellis L. Yochelson United States 26 1.7k 0.8× 948 0.6× 638 1.0× 330 0.5× 175 0.3× 169 2.3k
Andreas Kroh Austria 27 1.1k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 839 1.3× 817 1.3× 139 0.2× 142 2.9k
Olev Vinn Estonia 28 2.2k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 824 1.2× 623 1.0× 44 0.1× 254 3.1k

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All Works

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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2025). The earliest cowries: the origin of cypraeoid gastropods. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 70(2). 213–223.
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Late Jurassic (Upper Kimmeridgian) gastropods from Saal near Kelheim (Germany, Bavaria). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 98. 19–72.
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2023). On Triassic Murchisonia-like gastropods – surviving the end-Permian extinction to become extinct in the Late Triassic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 68. 2 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2023). On Paleozoic platycerate gastropods. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 97. 29–51. 2 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Slit-band gastropods (Pleurotomariida) from the Upper Triassic St. Cassian Formation and their diversity dynamics in the Triassic. Zootaxa. 5042(1). 1–165. 11 indexed citations
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Charoentitirat, Thasinee, et al.. (2020). Middle Permian (Roadian) gastropods from the Khao Khad Formation, Central Thailand: Implications for palaeogeography of the Indochina Terrane. Zootaxa. 4766(1). zootaxa.4766.1.1–zootaxa.4766.1.1. 10 indexed citations
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Fürsich, Franz T., et al.. (2020). Ecology of the Early Jurassic bivalve Harpax spinosus (J. Sowerby, 1819). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 297(2). 227–243. 3 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2016). Depositional Environment of Permian Tak Fa Formation, Nakhonsawan, Northern Thailand. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Kano, Yasunori, Bastian Brenzinger, Alexander Nützel, Nerida G. Wilson, & Michael Schrödl. (2016). Ringiculid bubble snails recovered as the sister group to sea slugs (Nudipleura). Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30908–30908. 39 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, et al.. (2012). Evolution and classification of Mesozoic mathildoid gastropods. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 22 indexed citations
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Payne, Jonathan L., et al.. (2011). Local and global abundance associated with extinction risk in late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic gastropods. Paleobiology. 37(4). 616–632. 21 indexed citations
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Mapes, Royal H., et al.. (2011). Exceptional Cameral Deposits in a Sublethally Injured Carboniferous Orthoconic Nautiloid from the Buckhorn Asphalt Lagerstätte in Oklahoma, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57(2). 375–390. 18 indexed citations
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Kaim, Andrzej, Alexander Nützel, Hugo Bucher, Thomas Brühwiler, & Nicolas Goudemand. (2010). Early Triassic (Late Griesbachian) gastropods from South China (Shanggan, Guangxi). Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 103(1). 121–128. 35 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, Jiří Frýda, Thomas E. Yancey, & John R. Anderson. (2007). Larval shells of Late Palaeozoic naticopsid gastropods (Neritopsoidea: Neritimorpha) with a discussion of the early neritimorph evolution. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 81(3). 213–228. 29 indexed citations
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Lehnert, Oliver, Jiří Frýda, Werner Buggisch, et al.. (2006). δ13C records across the late Silurian Lau event: New data from middle palaeo-latitudes of northern peri-Gondwana (Prague Basin, Czech Republic). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 245(1-2). 227–244. 70 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander, Oliver Lehnert, & Jiří Frýda. (2006). Origin of planktotrophy—evidence from early molluscs. Evolution & Development. 8(4). 325–330. 79 indexed citations
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Nützel, Alexander & Klaus Bändel. (1992). [Proceedings of the symposium 'Molluscan Palaeontology' : 11th International Malacological Congress, Siena (Italy) 30th August - 5th September 1992 / A.W. Janssen and R. Janssen (editors)]: Studies on the side-branch planorbids (Mollusca, Gastropoda) of the Miocene crater lake of Steinheim am Albuch (southern Germany). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2(16). 313–357. 9 indexed citations

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