Davide Pisani

13.4k citations

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

Paleontology top 0.1%
Molecular Biology top 2%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
Ecology top 1%
Genetics top 1%

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
Topics: Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers)Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers)Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers)
Cited by: Paleontology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United Kingdom Ireland United States

In The Last Decade

Davide Pisani

113 papers receiving 8.4k 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 Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

2011 983 citations Erik A. Sperling, Davide Pisani et al. Science profile →
The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

2018 325 citations Mark N. Puttick, Tom A. Williams et al. Current Biology profile →
Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

2022 180 citations Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system

2024 74 citations Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history 2026 ·Science Advances ·(unknown),Joseph N. Keating,Nathan J. Kenny,Mattia Giacomelli,Sandra Álvarez-Carretero,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Vasiliki Koutsouveli,(unknown),(unknown),Davide Pisani	0
2	A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation 2025 ·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,(unknown),Davide Pisani,James Hemp,Woodward W. Fischer,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Anja Spang,Philip Hugenholtz,Tom A. Williams,Gergely J. Szöllősi	7
3	The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth systembreakdown → 2024 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Edmund R. R. Moody,Sandra Álvarez-Carretero,Tara Mahendrarajah,James Clark,(unknown),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	74
4	Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis 2023 ·Current Biology ·Philip C. J. Donoghue,Chris Kay,Anja Spang,Gergely J. Szöllősi,Anna Nenarokova,Edmund R. R. Moody,Davide Pisani,Tom A. Williams	15
5	The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships 2023 ·Biology Letters ·(unknown),Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	10
6	Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetlesbreakdown → 2022 ·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	180
7	MicroRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication Events 2021 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Kevin J. Peterson,(unknown),(unknown),Mark A. McPeek,Davide Pisani,Bastian Fromm,Oleg Simakov	16
8	Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity 2021 ·Palaeontology ·(unknown),Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	7
9	Phylogenomics of Opsin Genes in Diptera Reveals Lineage-Specific Events and Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila 2021 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Roberto Feuda,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Ezio Rosato,Davide Pisani,Annapaola Rizzoli,Nicola Segata,Lino Ometto,Omar Rota‐Stabelli	15
10	Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data 2021 ·Palaeontology ·(unknown),Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	10
11	New Tardigrade Opsins and Differential Expression Analyses Show Ontogenic Variation in Light Perception 2021 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·James F. Fleming,Davide Pisani,Kazuharu Arakawa	5
12	The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content 2019 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Walker Pett,Marcin Adamski,Maja Adamska,Warren R. Francis,Michael Eitel,Davide Pisani,Gert Wörheide	38
13	The impact of fossil stratigraphic ranges on tip‐calibration, and the accuracy and precision of divergence time estimates 2019 ·Palaeontology ·(unknown),Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	23
14	Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it: a reply to Goloboff et al. 2018 ·Palaeontology ·Joseph O’Reilly,Mark N. Puttick,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	24
15	Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model 2018 ·Palaeontology ·Mark N. Puttick,Joseph O’Reilly,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	54
16	Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data 2017 ·Palaeontology ·Joseph O’Reilly,Mark N. Puttick,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue	65
17	Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data 2016 ·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	169
18	Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals 2015 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Davide Pisani,Walker Pett,Martin Dohrmann,Roberto Feuda,Omar Rota‐Stabelli,Hervé Philippe,Nicolas Lartillot,Gert Wörheide	219
19	miRNAs: Small Genes with Big Potential in Metazoan Phylogenetics 2013 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·James E. Tarver,Erik A. Sperling,(unknown),Alysha M. Heimberg,Jeffrey Robinson,Benjamin L. King,Davide Pisani,Philip C. J. Donoghue,Kevin J. Peterson	99
20	Testing the Molecular Clock: Molecular and Paleontological Estimates of Divergence Times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata) 2006 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Andrew B. Smith,Davide Pisani,Jacqueline Mackenzie‐Dodds,Bruce Stockley,Bonnie L. Webster,D. Timothy J. Littlewood	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) and Genetic diversity and population structure (28 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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