Bruce S. Rubidge

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Bruce S. Rubidge is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Geology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce S. Rubidge has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 151 papers in Paleontology, 64 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 19 papers in Geology. Recurrent topics in Bruce S. Rubidge's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (132 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (116 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (61 papers). Bruce S. Rubidge is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (132 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (116 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (61 papers). Bruce S. Rubidge collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Bruce S. Rubidge's co-authors include P. John Hancox, Roger M. H. Smith, Michael O. Day, Fernando Abdala, Christian A. Sidor, Julien Benoît, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Bruce Cairncross, Octavian Catuneanu and Paul R. Manger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bruce S. Rubidge

158 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Karoo basins of south-central Africa

2005 519 citations Bruce S. Rubidge, P. John Hancox et al. Journal of African Earth Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce S. Rubidge South Africa	39	4.3k	2.1k	571	561	502	162	5.2k
David A. Eberth Canada	39	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	452 0.8×	620 1.1×	265 0.5×	91	3.8k
Roger M. H. Smith South Africa	49	6.3k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	755 1.3×	921 1.8×	138	7.5k
Éric Buffetaut France	45	7.3k 1.7×	4.5k 2.2×	249 0.4×	1.0k 1.8×	567 1.1×	341	8.1k
David M. Martill United Kingdom	43	5.1k 1.2×	3.0k 1.4×	384 0.7×	700 1.2×	239 0.5×	232	6.4k
Ismar de Souza Carvalho Brazil	31	2.7k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	339 0.6×	322 0.6×	154 0.3×	212	3.5k
José Ignacio Canudo Spain	37	3.6k 0.8×	2.0k 1.0×	253 0.4×	434 0.8×	288 0.6×	169	3.9k
Martin G. Lockley United States	48	9.2k 2.1×	4.8k 2.3×	1.9k 3.4×	974 1.7×	462 0.9×	423	10.0k
Donald B. Brinkman Canada	38	3.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	172 0.3×	846 1.5×	156 0.3×	140	4.0k
César Leandro Schultz Brazil	39	4.3k 1.0×	3.0k 1.4×	332 0.6×	477 0.9×	184 0.4×	171	4.8k
Henri Cappetta France	38	3.1k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	208 0.4×	429 0.8×	745 1.5×	129	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce S. Rubidge

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Cisneros, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2023). Cranial osteology and a new diagnosis of the late Permian pareiasaur Nanoparia luckhoffi (Broom, 1936) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, and a consolidated pareiasaurian phylogeny. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 26(4). 288–314.

Prevec, Rose, André Nel, Michael O. Day, et al.. (2022). South African Lagerstätte reveals middle Permian Gondwanan lakeshore ecosystem in exquisite detail. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1154–1154. 10 indexed citations

Day, Michael O., Roger Benson, Christian F. Kammerer, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2018). Evolutionary rates of mid-Permian tetrapods from South Africa and the role of temporal resolution in turnover reconstruction. Paleobiology. 44(3). 347–367. 23 indexed citations

Barbolini, Natasha, Bruce S. Rubidge, & Marion K. Bamford. (2017). A new approach to biostratigraphy in the Karoo retroarc foreland system: Utilising restricted-range palynomorphs and their first appearance datums for correlation. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 140. 114–133. 28 indexed citations

Benoît, Julien, Paul R. Manger, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2016). Palaeoneurological clues to the evolution of defining mammalian soft tissue traits. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 25604–25604. 72 indexed citations

Benoît, Julien, Paul R. Manger, Vincent Fernández, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2016). Cranial Bosses of Choerosaurus dejageri (Therapsida, Therocephalia): Earliest Evidence of Cranial Display Structures in Eutheriodonts. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0161457–e0161457. 29 indexed citations

Cooper, Antony K, et al.. (2015). Putting fossils on the map: Applying a geographical information system to heritage resources. South African Journal of Science. 111(11/12). 7–7. 7 indexed citations

Benoît, Julien, et al.. (2015). Physiological implications of the abnormal absence of the parietal foramen in a late Permian cynodont (Therapsida). Die Naturwissenschaften. 102(11-12). 69–69. 22 indexed citations

Rubidge, Bruce S., et al.. (2013). Re-Evaluation of Kestrosaurus Haughton, a Capitosaurid Temnospondyl Amphibian from the Upper Beaufort Group of South Africa. Russian Journal of Herpetology. 11(2). 121–138. 10 indexed citations

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Rubidge, Bruce S., et al.. (2012). Waterford Formation in the south-eastern Karoo: Implications for basin development. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Jinnah, Zubair & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2007). A double-tusked dicynodont and its biostratigraphic significance. South African Journal of Science. 103. 51–53. 18 indexed citations

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Gess, Robert W., Michael I. Coates, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2006). A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa. Nature. 443(7114). 981–984. 192 indexed citations

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Neveling, Johann, P. John Hancox, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2005). Biostratigraphy of the lower Burgersdorp Formation (Beaufort Group; Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa – implications for the stratigraphic ranges of early Triassic tetrapods. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 251-252. 106961–106961. 19 indexed citations

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Yates, Adam M., P. John Hancox, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2004). First record of a sauropod dinosaur from the upper Elliot Formation (Early Jurassic) of South Africa : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 100. 504–506. 28 indexed citations

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Hancox, P. John, et al.. (2002). The temnospondyl amphibian Uranocentrodon, another victim of the end-Permian extinction event : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 98. 191–193. 13 indexed citations

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Rubidge, Bruce S., et al.. (2002). The first complete vertebral column of a basal tapinocephalid dinocephalian (Synapsida : Therapsida) : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 98. 391–392. 6 indexed citations

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Welman, Johann, et al.. (2001). New evidence for diachroneity of the Ecca-Beaufort contact (Karoo Supergroup, South Africa) : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 97. 320–322. 14 indexed citations

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Modesto, Sean P., Bruce S. Rubidge, W. J. de Klerk, & Johann Welman. (2001). A dinocephalian therapsid fauna on the Ecca-Beaufort contact in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 97. 161–163. 14 indexed citations

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Hancox, P. John & Bruce S. Rubidge. (1996). The first specimen of the Mid-Triassic dicynodont Angonisaurus from the Karoo of South Africa: implications for the dating and biostratigraphy of the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone, Upper Beaufort Group. South African Journal of Science. 92(8). 391–392. 31 indexed citations

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Rubidge, Bruce S., et al.. (1996). A new lydekkerinid (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) fro the lower Triassic of South Africa: implications for evolution of the early capitosauroid cranial pattern. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1347). 1635–1659. 49 indexed citations

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