Corwin Sullivan

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
88 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Corwin Sullivan is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Corwin Sullivan has authored 88 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Paleontology, 56 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Corwin Sullivan's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (85 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (79 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (55 papers). Corwin Sullivan is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (85 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (79 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (55 papers). Corwin Sullivan collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Corwin Sullivan's co-authors include Xing Xu, David W. E. Hone, Robert R. Reisz, Fucheng Zhang, Zhonghe Zhou, Fenglu Han, Roger Benson, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch and Xiaolin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Corwin Sullivan

87 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

2014 307 citations Roger Benson, Nicolás E. Campione et al. PLoS Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Corwin Sullivan China	31	2.8k	1.6k	508	234	194	88	3.0k
Xing Xu China	30	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	459 0.9×	289 1.2×	140 0.7×	105	2.6k
David W. E. Hone United Kingdom	30	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	579 1.1×	346 1.5×	205 1.1×	98	2.9k
Darren Naish United Kingdom	31	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	411 0.8×	223 1.0×	136 0.7×	93	2.6k
Scott D. Sampson United States	30	3.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	709 1.4×	199 0.9×	134 0.7×	52	3.6k
Pascal Godefroit Belgium	35	2.9k 1.0×	1.8k 1.1×	581 1.1×	145 0.6×	127 0.7×	111	3.2k
Nicholas R. Longrich United Kingdom	32	2.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	591 1.2×	183 0.8×	111 0.6×	74	2.4k
Christian A. Sidor United States	35	4.4k 1.6×	2.6k 1.6×	732 1.4×	245 1.0×	220 1.1×	125	4.7k
Ángela D. Buscalioni Spain	34	2.8k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	418 0.8×	242 1.0×	266 1.4×	116	3.1k
Ryosuke Motani United States	33	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	472 0.9×	227 1.0×	177 0.9×	100	3.3k
Benjamin P. Kear Sweden	34	3.1k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	415 0.8×	343 1.5×	90 0.5×	159	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Corwin Sullivan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Corwin Sullivan

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All Works

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Sullivan, Corwin, et al.. (2025). Skull morphology and histology indicate the presence of an unexpected buccal soft tissue structure in dinosaurs. Journal of Anatomy. 247(3-4). 790–818. 2 indexed citations

Sullivan, Corwin, et al.. (2024). Skeletal reconstruction of fossil vertebrates as a process of hypothesis testing and a source of anatomical and palaeobiological inferences. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 23(5). 1 indexed citations

Sullivan, Corwin, John‐Paul Zonneveld, Phil R. Bell, et al.. (2024). Enigmatic vertebrate swimming trace fossils from the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada, and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces. 31(4). 275–292. 1 indexed citations

Fowler, Denver W., et al.. (2024). The category-modifier system: a hierarchical classification scheme for vertebrate tooth marks. Paleobiology. 50(4). 513–531. 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Haishui, et al.. (2022). A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Autonomous Region, South China. PeerJ. 10. e13209–e13209. 4 indexed citations

Campione, Nicolás E., et al.. (2020). Probable deinonychosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Geological Magazine. 158(6). 1115–1128. 6 indexed citations

Campione, Nicolás E., Federico Fanti, Matt A. White, et al.. (2020). Exploring possible ontogenetic trajectories in tyrannosaurids using tracks from the Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(6). e1878201–e1878201. 8 indexed citations

Zheng, Xiaoting, Xiaoli Wang, Corwin Sullivan, et al.. (2018). Exceptional dinosaur fossils reveal early origin of avian-style digestion. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 14217–14217. 19 indexed citations

Xu, Xing, Jonah N. Choiniere, Qingwei Tan, et al.. (2018). Two Early Cretaceous Fossils Document Transitional Stages in Alvarezsaurian Dinosaur Evolution. Current Biology. 28(17). 2853–2860.e3. 46 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, Jin Zhang, Frank E. Rheindt, et al.. (2017). Genomic evidence reveals a radiation of placental mammals uninterrupted by the KPg boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(35). E7282–E7290. 100 indexed citations

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Wang, Min, Zhonghe Zhou, & Corwin Sullivan. (2016). A Fish-Eating Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous of China Provides Evidence of Modern Avian Digestive Features. Current Biology. 26(9). 1170–1176. 31 indexed citations

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He, Yiming, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, et al.. (2015). A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144148–e0144148. 18 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Jingmai K., Xiaoting Zheng, Corwin Sullivan, et al.. (2015). Evolution and functional significance of derived sternal ossification patterns in ornithothoracine birds. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28(8). 1550–1567. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Deyou, Fenglu Han, Corwin Sullivan, et al.. (2014). A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e98821–e98821. 35 indexed citations

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Benson, Roger, Nicolás E. Campione, Matthew T. Carrano, et al.. (2014). Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage. PLoS Biology. 12(5). e1001853–e1001853. 307 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sullivan, Corwin, et al.. (2013). Pelvic morphology of a tritylodontid (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) from the Lower Jurassic of China, and some functional and phylogenetic implications. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12(7-8). 505–518. 13 indexed citations

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Xu, Xing, Kebai Wang, Qingyu Ma, et al.. (2012). A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Nature. 484(7392). 92–95. 110 indexed citations

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Xu, Xing, Qingwei Tan, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, & Dong Xiao. (2011). A Short-Armed Troodontid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its Implications for Troodontid Evolution. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e22916–e22916. 37 indexed citations

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Xu, Xing, Kebai Wang, Zhao Xijin, Corwin Sullivan, & Shuqing Chen. (2010). A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong, China and Its Implications for Neoceratopsian Evolution. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e13835–e13835. 41 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Corwin, et al.. (2009). A NEW OCCURRENCE OF SMALL THEROPOD TRACKS IN THE HOUCHENG(TUCHENGZI) FORMATION OF HEBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. Gujizhui dongwu xuebao. 14 indexed citations

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