Davide Pisani

13.4k citations

117 papers · 8.5k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 54

Paleontology top 0.1%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 30
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils 16
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology 11
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
Oceanography top 1%
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 15
Ecology top 1%
Genetics top 1%
- Genetic diversity and population structure 28
Molecular Biology
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 37
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 19
Global and Planetary Change
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology 12

Co-authors: Kevin J. Peterson Erik A. Sperling Philip C. J. Donoghue Omar Rota‐Stabelli James O. McInerney Marc Laflamme Douglas H. Erwin Sarah M. Tweedt
Cited by: Paleontology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography
Journals: Nature (2 papers)Science (2 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Ireland United States

In The Last Decade

Davide Pisani

113 papers receiving 8.4k citations

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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.

2024 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2022 Royal Society Open Science
2018 Current Biology
2011 Science

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1	Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history Science Advances ·Maria Eleonora Rossi,Joseph N. Keating,Nathan J. Kenny,Mattia Giacomelli,Sandra Álvarez-Carretero,Astrid Schuster,Paco Cárdenas,Sergi Taboada,Vasiliki Koutsouveli,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Ana Farrar Riesgo,Davide Pisani	2026	0
2	A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation Science ·Adrián Davín,Ben J. Woodcroft,Rochelle M. Soo,Benoît Morel,Ranjani Murali,Dominik Schrempf,James Clark,Sandra Álvarez-Carretero,Bastien Boussau,Edmund R. R. Moody,Lénárd L. Szánthó,Étienne Richy,Davide Pisani,James Hemp,Woodward W. Fischer,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Anja Spang,Philip Hugenholtz,Tom A. Williams,Gergely J. Szöllősi	2025	7
3	The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth systembreakdown → Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Edmund R. R. Moody,Sandra Álvarez-Carretero,Tara Mahendrarajah,James Clark,Holly C. Betts,Nina Dombrowski,Lénárd L. Szánthó,Richard A. Boyle,Stuart J. Daines,Xi Chen,Nick Lane,Ziheng Yang,Graham Shields,Gergely J. Szöllősi,Anja Spang,Davide Pisani,Tom A. Williams,Timothy M. Lenton,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2024	74
4	Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis Current Biology ·Philip C. J. Donoghue,Chris Kay,Anja Spang,Gergely J. Szöllősi,Anna Nenarokova,Edmund R. R. Moody,Davide Pisani,Tom A. Williams	2023	15
5	The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships Biology Letters ·Ruolin Wu,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2023	10
6	Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetlesbreakdown → Royal Society Open Science ·Chenyang Cai,Erik Tihelka,Mattia Giacomelli,John F. Lawrence,Adam Ślipiński,Robin Kundrata,Shûhei Yamamoto,Margaret K. Thayer,Alfred F. Newton,Richard A. B. Leschen,Matthew L. Gimmel,Liang Lü,Michael S. Engel,Patrice Bouchard,Diying Huang,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2022	180
7	MicroRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication Events Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Kevin J. Peterson,Alan J. S. Beavan,Peter J. Chabot,Mark A. McPeek,Davide Pisani,Bastian Fromm,Oleg Simakov	2021	16
8	Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity Palaeontology ·Thomas J. Smith,Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2021	7
9	Phylogenomics of Opsin Genes in Diptera Reveals Lineage-Specific Events and Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila Genome Biology and Evolution ·Roberto Feuda,Matthew Goulty,Nicola Zadra,Tiziana Gasparetti,Ezio Rosato,Davide Pisani,Annapaola Rizzoli,Nicola Segata,Lino Ometto,Omar Rota‐Stabelli	2021	15
10	Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data Palaeontology ·Jodie L. Murphy,Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2021	10
11	New Tardigrade Opsins and Differential Expression Analyses Show Ontogenic Variation in Light Perception Genome Biology and Evolution ·James F. Fleming,Davide Pisani,Kazuharu Arakawa	2021	5
12	The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Walker Pett,Marcin Adamski,Maja Adamska,Warren R. Francis,Michael Eitel,Davide Pisani,Gert Wörheide	2019	38
13	The impact of fossil stratigraphic ranges on tip‐calibration, and the accuracy and precision of divergence time estimates Palaeontology ·Hans P. Püschel,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2019	23
14	Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it: a reply to Goloboff et al. Palaeontology ·Joseph O’Reilly,Mark N. Puttick,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	24
15	Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model Palaeontology ·Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	54
16	Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data Palaeontology ·Joseph O’Reilly,Mark N. Puttick,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2017	65
17	Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data Biology Letters ·Joseph O’Reilly,Mark N. Puttick,Luke A. Parry,Alastair R. Tanner,James E. Tarver,James F. Fleming,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	2016	169
18	Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Davide Pisani,Walker Pett,Martin Dohrmann,Roberto Feuda,Omar Rota‐Stabelli,Hervé Philippe,Nicolas Lartillot,Gert Wörheide	2015	219
19	miRNAs: Small Genes with Big Potential in Metazoan Phylogenetics Molecular Biology and Evolution ·James E. Tarver,Erik A. Sperling,Audrey Nailor,Alysha M. Heimberg,Jeffrey Robinson,Benjamin L. King,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Kevin J. Peterson	2013	99
20	Testing the Molecular Clock: Molecular and Paleontological Estimates of Divergence Times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata) Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Andrew B. Smith,Davide Pisani,Jacqueline Mackenzie‐Dodds,Bruce Stockley,Bonnie L. Webster,D. Timothy J. Littlewood	2006	143

About Davide Pisani

Davide Pisani is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics, having authored 117 papers that have together received 8.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (19 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (16 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (15 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (12 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (3.6k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.1k citations) and Oceanography (1.2k citations). Davide Pisani has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Frequent co-authors include Kevin J. Peterson, Erik A. Sperling, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Omar Rota‐Stabelli, James O. McInerney, Marc Laflamme, Douglas H. Erwin, Sarah M. Tweedt, Mark N. Puttick and James A. Cotton. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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