Chris Venditti

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Chris Venditti is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Venditti has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Paleontology, 19 papers in Ecology and 18 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Chris Venditti's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (10 papers). Chris Venditti is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (10 papers). Chris Venditti collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Chile. Chris Venditti's co-authors include Mark Pagel, Andrew Meade, Robert A. Barton, Isabella Capellini, Joanna Baker, Manabu Sakamoto, Natalie Cooper, Robert P. Freckleton, Gavin H. Thomas and Koen Bostoen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chris Venditti

49 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals
    2015 195 citations Andrew Meade, Chris Venditti et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Chris Venditti
Jeffrey C. Long United States
Jan Zrzavý Czechia
Gerd B. Müller Austria
Mathias Currat Switzerland
Alessandro Minelli Italy
Catherine Hänni France
Daniel W. McShea United States
Giorgio Bertorelle Italy
Ian Tattersall United States
Michael M. Miyamoto United States
Jeffrey C. Long United States
Chris Venditti
Citations per year, relative to Chris Venditti Chris Venditti (= 1×) peers Jeffrey C. Long

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Venditti

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Venditti

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Venditti

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Venditti. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Venditti 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 Chris Venditti. Chris Venditti 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
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Butler, George B., Joanna Baker, Sarah R. Amend, Kenneth J. Pienta, & Chris Venditti. (2025). Divergent evolutionary dynamics of benign and malignant tumors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(45). e2519203122–e2519203122.
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Venditti, Chris, Carlos P. Carmona, Joanna Baker, et al.. (2025). Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(8). 1499–1511. 1 indexed citations
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Baker, Joanna, Robert A. Barton, & Chris Venditti. (2025). Human dexterity and brains evolved hand in hand. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1257–1257.
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Venditti, Chris, Joanna Baker, & Robert A. Barton. (2024). Co-evolutionary dynamics of mammalian brain and body size. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(8). 1534–1542. 10 indexed citations
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Püschel, Thomas A., et al.. (2024). Hominin brain size increase has emerged from within-species encephalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(49). e2409542121–e2409542121. 4 indexed citations
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Furness, Andrew I., Chris Venditti, & Isabella Capellini. (2022). Terrestrial reproduction and parental care drive rapid evolution in the trade-off between offspring size and number across amphibians. PLoS Biology. 20(1). e3001495–e3001495. 27 indexed citations
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Venditti, Chris, et al.. (2021). Historical warming consistently decreased size, dispersal and speciation rate of fish. Nature Climate Change. 11(9). 787–793. 36 indexed citations
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Baker, Joanna, Andrew Meade, & Chris Venditti. (2021). Genes underlying the evolution of tetrapod testes size. BMC Biology. 19(1). 162–162. 5 indexed citations
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Kubo, Tai, Manabu Sakamoto, Andrew Meade, & Chris Venditti. (2019). Transitions between foot postures are associated with elevated rates of body size evolution in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(7). 2618–2623. 24 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Manabu, Marcello Ruta, & Chris Venditti. (2019). Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1894). 20181932–20181932. 22 indexed citations
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Hernández, Cristián E., et al.. (2019). The decoupled nature of basal metabolic rate and body temperature in endotherm evolution. Nature. 572(7771). 651–654. 28 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Manabu & Chris Venditti. (2018). Phylogenetic non-independence in rates of trait evolution. Biology Letters. 14(10). 20180502–20180502. 14 indexed citations
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Meade, Andrew, et al.. (2018). Dinosaurs reveal the geographical signature of an evolutionary radiation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(3). 452–458. 31 indexed citations
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Cooper, Natalie, Gavin H. Thomas, Chris Venditti, Andrew Meade, & Robert P. Freckleton. (2015). A cautionary note on the use of Ornstein Uhlenbeck models in macroevolutionary studies. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 118(1). 64–77. 227 indexed citations
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Wilson, Melissa A., Chris Venditti, Mark Pagel, & Kateryna D. Makova. (2011). DO VARIATIONS IN SUBSTITUTION RATES AND MALE MUTATION BIAS CORRELATE WITH LIFE-HISTORY TRAITS? A STUDY OF 32 MAMMALIAN GENOMES. Evolution. 65(10). 2800–2815. 71 indexed citations
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Gomes, Nuno, Oliver A. Ryder, Marlys L. Houck, et al.. (2011). Comparative biology of mammalian telomeres: hypotheses on ancestral states and the roles of telomeres in longevity determination. Aging Cell. 10(5). 761–768. 342 indexed citations
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Capellini, Isabella, Chris Venditti, & Robert A. Barton. (2010). Phylogeny and metabolic scaling in mammals. Ecology. 91(9). 2783–2793. 128 indexed citations
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Capellini, Isabella, Chris Venditti, & Robert A. Barton. (2010). Placentation and Maternal Investment in Mammals. The American Naturalist. 177(1). 86–98. 61 indexed citations
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Venditti, Chris & Mark Pagel. (2009). Speciation as an active force in promoting genetic evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(1). 14–20. 70 indexed citations
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Pagel, Mark, Chris Venditti, & Andrew Meade. (2006). Large Punctuational Contribution of Speciation to Evolutionary Divergence at the Molecular Level. Science. 314(5796). 119–121. 171 indexed citations

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