Andrea Cau

2.2k total citations
60 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Andrea Cau is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Cau has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Paleontology, 44 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Andrea Cau's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (59 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (51 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (44 papers). Andrea Cau is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (59 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (51 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (44 papers). Andrea Cau collaborates with scholars based in Italy, China and United Kingdom. Andrea Cau's co-authors include Federico Fanti, Darren Naish, Gareth J. Dyke, Pascal Godefroit, Michael S. Y. Lee, Daniel Madzia, François Escuillié, Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, Simone Maganuco and Dongyu Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Cau

57 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Andrea Cau Italy 25 1.5k 921 225 101 95 60 1.6k
Fabien Knoll Spain 23 1.3k 0.9× 801 0.9× 246 1.1× 69 0.7× 91 1.0× 71 1.4k
Dongyu Hu China 19 1.2k 0.8× 642 0.7× 202 0.9× 95 0.9× 124 1.3× 37 1.3k
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Japan 27 1.7k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 325 1.4× 83 0.8× 97 1.0× 90 1.9k
W. Scott Persons China 24 1.4k 0.9× 792 0.9× 206 0.9× 53 0.5× 105 1.1× 110 1.5k
Lindsay E. Zanno United States 26 2.0k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 383 1.7× 123 1.2× 94 1.0× 74 2.1k
Kristina Curry Rogers United States 17 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 302 1.3× 99 1.0× 76 0.8× 19 1.8k
Ronan Allain France 23 1.2k 0.8× 836 0.9× 187 0.8× 57 0.6× 96 1.0× 47 1.3k
Adam M. Yates South Africa 29 2.3k 1.5× 1.4k 1.5× 391 1.7× 114 1.1× 96 1.0× 71 2.4k
JI Shu'an China 19 1.6k 1.0× 843 0.9× 239 1.1× 70 0.7× 235 2.5× 37 1.7k
Mahito Watabe Japan 20 1.1k 0.8× 604 0.7× 195 0.9× 85 0.8× 93 1.0× 53 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrea Cau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrea Cau

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All Works

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Naish, Darren & Andrea Cau. (2022). The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi , a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England. PeerJ. 10. e12727–e12727. 16 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuri, Andrea Cau, Martin Kundrát, et al.. (2022). A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous of China fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity. Journal of Paleontology. 96(4). 961–976. 9 indexed citations
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Cau, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Unusual pectoral apparatus in a predatory dinosaur resolves avian wishbone homology. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14722–14722. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Xuri, Andrea Cau, Martin Kundrát, et al.. (2020). A new advanced ornithuromorph bird from Inner Mongolia documents the northernmost geographic distribution of the Jehol paleornithofauna in China. Historical Biology. 33(9). 1705–1717. 13 indexed citations
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Cau, Andrea, et al.. (2017). Origin attachments of the caudofemoralis longus muscle in the Jurassic dinosaur Allosaurus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 62. 3 indexed citations
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Cau, Andrea, Dennis F. A. E. Voeten, Vincent Fernández, et al.. (2017). Synchrotron scanning reveals amphibious ecomorphology in a new clade of bird-like dinosaurs. Nature. 552(7685). 395–399. 119 indexed citations
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Cau, Andrea, et al.. (2017). A new Jurassic theropod from China documents a transitional step in the macrostructure of feathers. Die Naturwissenschaften. 104(9-10). 74–74. 35 indexed citations
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Sasso, Cristiano Dal, et al.. (2016). First sauropod bones from Italy offer new insights on the radiation of Titanosauria between Africa and Europe. Cretaceous Research. 64. 88–109. 24 indexed citations
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Lee, Minho, Andrea Cau, Darren Naish, & Gareth J. Dyke. (2014). Morphological Clocks in Paleontology, and a Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Crown Aves. Systematic Biology. 63(3). 442–449. 99 indexed citations
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Godefroit, Pascal, Andrea Cau, Dongyu Hu, et al.. (2013). A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds. Nature. 498(7454). 359–362. 128 indexed citations
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Fanti, Federico, et al.. (2013). A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia with extreme avian-like pneumatization. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2080–2080. 61 indexed citations
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Cau, Andrea & Federico Fanti. (2013). A pliosaurid (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation of Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 10 indexed citations
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Fanti, Federico, et al.. (2013). Evidence of titanosauriforms and rebbachisaurids (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 90. 1–8. 20 indexed citations
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Maganuco, Simone, et al.. (2007). Evidence of large theropods from the Middle Jurassic of the Mahajanga Basin, NW Madagascar, with implications for ceratosaurian pedal ungual evolution. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 12 indexed citations

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