Catarina Rato

715 total citations
42 papers, 491 citations indexed

About

Catarina Rato is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Catarina Rato has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 491 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 21 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Catarina Rato's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (27 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (13 papers). Catarina Rato is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (27 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (13 papers). Catarina Rato collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, Spain and Italy. Catarina Rato's co-authors include D. James Harris, Salvador Carranza, Miguel Á. Carretero, Ana Perera, Xavier Santos, Sílvia B. Carvalho, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Dennis Rödder, Daniele Salvi and Ricardo Rocha and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Catarina Rato

39 papers receiving 479 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Catarina Rato Portugal 13 288 260 229 168 167 42 491
Κostas Sagonas Greece 14 290 1.0× 164 0.6× 195 0.9× 223 1.3× 169 1.0× 29 535
Mian Hou China 10 372 1.3× 211 0.8× 192 0.8× 124 0.7× 82 0.5× 56 523
Roman A. Nazarov Russia 13 383 1.3× 257 1.0× 196 0.9× 133 0.8× 52 0.3× 55 452
Parinya Pawangkhanant Thailand 12 401 1.4× 223 0.9× 188 0.8× 166 1.0× 56 0.3× 42 441
Anchalee Aowphol Thailand 12 348 1.2× 168 0.6× 166 0.7× 182 1.1× 75 0.4× 51 444
Margarita Metallinou Spain 12 350 1.2× 291 1.1× 255 1.1× 121 0.7× 94 0.6× 17 485
Adriana Bellati Italy 15 310 1.1× 154 0.6× 123 0.5× 244 1.5× 144 0.9× 32 530
Peter Geißler Germany 13 311 1.1× 163 0.6× 152 0.7× 140 0.8× 63 0.4× 32 395
Gamaliel Castañeda‐Gaytán Mexico 11 214 0.7× 204 0.8× 100 0.4× 120 0.7× 80 0.5× 40 427
Panagiotis Kornilios Greece 15 326 1.1× 335 1.3× 155 0.7× 119 0.7× 105 0.6× 29 495

Countries citing papers authored by Catarina Rato

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Catarina Rato's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Catarina Rato with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Catarina Rato more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Catarina Rato

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Catarina Rato. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Catarina Rato. The network helps show where Catarina Rato may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Catarina Rato

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Catarina Rato. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Catarina Rato based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Catarina Rato. Catarina Rato is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Mata, Vanessa A., et al.. (2023). Insights into the habitat associations, phylogeny, and diet of Pipistrellus maderensis in Porto Santo, northeastern Macaronesia. Web Ecology. 23(2). 87–98. 3 indexed citations
6.
Rato, Catarina, et al.. (2023). Colonization routes uncovered in a widely introduced Mediterranean gecko, Tarentola mauritanica. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 16681–16681. 2 indexed citations
7.
Rato, Catarina, Iolanda Silva‐Rocha, & Neftalí Sillero. (2023). What does the future hold for a thermophilic and widely introduced gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae)?. Biological Invasions. 26(4). 1061–1074. 2 indexed citations
8.
Rato, Catarina, et al.. (2021). Uncovered genetic diversity in Hemidactylus mabouia (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Madeira Island reveals uncertain sources of introduction. Amphibia-Reptilia. 42(3). 369–375. 5 indexed citations
9.
Rato, Catarina, Neftalí Sillero, Francisco Ceacero, Enrique García-Muñoz, & Miguel Á. Carretero. (2021). A survival story: evolutionary history of the Iberian Algyroides (Squamata: Lacertidae), an endemic lizard relict. Biodiversity and Conservation. 30(10). 2707–2729. 7 indexed citations
10.
Sannolo, Marco, et al.. (2020). Evidence from Tarentola mauritanica (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) helps validate thermography as a tool to infer internal body temperatures of lizards. Journal of Thermal Biology. 93. 102700–102700. 5 indexed citations
11.
Žagar, Anamarija, Catarina Rato, César Ayres, et al.. (2018). Phylogeographic evidence for multiple long-distance introductions of the common wall lizard associated with human trade and transport. Amphibia-Reptilia. 40(1). 121–127. 17 indexed citations
12.
Rato, Catarina. (2015). La salamanquesa común (Tarentola mauritanica) en la península ibérica e islas Baleares. Boletín de la Asociación Herpetológica Española. 26(2). 55–58. 1 indexed citations
13.
Rato, Catarina, Mehmet Zülfü Yıldız, Naşit İğci, et al.. (2015). Phylogenetic relationships of the populations of Iranolacerta brandtii (de Filippi, 1863) (Squamata: Lacertidae) recently found in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East. 61(4). 324–331. 2 indexed citations
14.
Rato, Catarina & Miguel Á. Carretero. (2015). Ecophysiology Tracks Phylogeny and Meets Ecological Models in an Iberian Gecko. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology. 88(5). 564–575. 18 indexed citations
15.
Rato, Catarina, D. James Harris, Ana Perera, et al.. (2015). A Combination of Divergence and Conservatism in the Niche Evolution of the Moorish Gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae). PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127980–e0127980. 36 indexed citations
16.
Rato, Catarina, et al.. (2015). The taxonomy of the Tarentola mauritanica species complex (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae): Bayesian species delimitation supports six candidate species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94(Pt A). 271–278. 35 indexed citations
17.
Rato, Catarina, Salvador Carranza, & D. James Harris. (2012). Evolutionary history of the genus Tarentola (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) from the Mediterranean Basin, estimated using multilocus sequence data. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 14–14. 42 indexed citations
18.
Rato, Catarina, Salvador Carranza, Ana Perera, & D. James Harris. (2012). Evolutionary patterns of the mitochondrial genome in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica. Gene. 512(1). 166–173. 6 indexed citations
19.
Rato, Catarina, Salvador Carranza, Ana Perera, Miguel Á. Carretero, & D. James Harris. (2010). Conflicting patterns of nucleotide diversity between mtDNA and nDNA in the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 56(3). 962–971. 61 indexed citations
20.
Rato, Catarina, et al.. (2007). Phylogeography and genetic diversity ofPsammophis schokari(Serpentes) in North Africa based on mitochondrial DNA sequences. African Zoology. 42(1). 112–117. 10 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Κostas Sagonas Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mian Hou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Roman A. Nazarov Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Parinya Pawangkhanant Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Anchalee Aowphol Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Margarita Metallinou Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Adriana Bellati Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Peter Geißler Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gamaliel Castañeda‐Gaytán Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Panagiotis Kornilios
Rankless by CCL
2026