Davide Pisani

13.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
117 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Davide Pisani is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Pisani has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Paleontology, 55 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Davide Pisani's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers). Davide Pisani is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (37 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (28 papers). Davide Pisani collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and United States. Davide Pisani's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Pisani United Kingdom	54	3.6k	3.2k	2.1k	1.6k	1.6k	117	8.5k
Kevin J. Peterson United States	53	3.5k 1.0×	4.5k 1.4×	991 0.5×	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	92	9.9k
Christophe J. Douady France	40	1.9k 0.5×	2.8k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	2.7k 1.6×	1.8k 1.1×	86	6.5k
Gert Wörheide Germany	50	2.4k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	844 0.4×	3.6k 2.2×	1.5k 0.9×	216	9.6k
Charles R. Marshall United States	37	3.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.3×	1.9k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	75	7.7k
Maximilian J. Telford United Kingdom	41	1.5k 0.4×	3.5k 1.1×	1.5k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	95	6.7k
Philip C. J. Donoghue United Kingdom	71	8.2k 2.3×	5.0k 1.6×	3.1k 1.5×	1.7k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	273	15.9k
Nicolas Lartillot France	37	2.2k 0.6×	5.5k 1.8×	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.1×	3.1k 1.9×	84	8.8k
Casey W. Dunn United States	32	2.7k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	80	6.7k
Nicholas J. Matzke United States	32	1.9k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	3.0k 1.4×	2.2k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	69	8.5k
Gregory D. Edgecombe United Kingdom	55	8.0k 2.3×	3.6k 1.1×	3.6k 1.7×	2.5k 1.5×	2.8k 1.7×	318	14.2k

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Keating, Joseph N., Nathan J. Kenny, Mattia Giacomelli, et al.. (2026). Independent origins of spicules reconcile paleontological and molecular evidence of sponge evolutionary history. Science Advances. 12(2). eadx1754–eadx1754.

Davín, Adrián, Ben J. Woodcroft, Rochelle M. Soo, et al.. (2025). A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation. Science. 388(6742). eadp1853–eadp1853. 7 indexed citations

Moody, Edmund R. R., Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara Mahendrarajah, et al.. (2024). The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(9). 1654–1666. 74 indexed citations breakdown →

Donoghue, Philip C. J., Chris Kay, Anja Spang, et al.. (2023). Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis. Current Biology. 33(17). R919–R929. 15 indexed citations

Pisani, Davide, et al.. (2023). The unbearable uncertainty of panarthropod relationships. Biology Letters. 19(1). 20220497–20220497. 10 indexed citations

Cai, Chenyang, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli, et al.. (2022). Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 211771–211771. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

Peterson, Kevin J., et al.. (2021). MicroRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication Events. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(1). 16 indexed citations

Puttick, Mark N., et al.. (2021). Phylogenetic sampling affects evolutionary patterns of morphological disparity. Palaeontology. 64(6). 765–787. 7 indexed citations

Feuda, Roberto, Ezio Rosato, Davide Pisani, et al.. (2021). Phylogenomics of Opsin Genes in Diptera Reveals Lineage-Specific Events and Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(8). 15 indexed citations

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Puttick, Mark N., et al.. (2021). Empirical distributions of homoplasy in morphological data. Palaeontology. 64(4). 505–518. 10 indexed citations

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Fleming, James F., Davide Pisani, & Kazuharu Arakawa. (2021). New Tardigrade Opsins and Differential Expression Analyses Show Ontogenic Variation in Light Perception. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(8). 5 indexed citations

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Pett, Walker, Marcin Adamski, Maja Adamska, et al.. (2019). The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(4). 643–649. 38 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Joseph, et al.. (2019). The impact of fossil stratigraphic ranges on tip‐calibration, and the accuracy and precision of divergence time estimates. Palaeontology. 63(1). 67–83. 23 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Joseph, Mark N. Puttick, Davide Pisani, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2018). Empirical realism of simulated data is more important than the model used to generate it: a reply to Goloboff et al.. Palaeontology. 61(4). 631–635. 24 indexed citations

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Puttick, Mark N., Joseph O’Reilly, Davide Pisani, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2018). Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model. Palaeontology. 62(1). 1–17. 54 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Joseph, Mark N. Puttick, Davide Pisani, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2017). Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data. Palaeontology. 61(1). 105–118. 65 indexed citations

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O’Reilly, Joseph, Mark N. Puttick, Luke A. Parry, et al.. (2016). Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data. Biology Letters. 12(4). 20160081–20160081. 169 indexed citations

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Pisani, Davide, Walker Pett, Martin Dohrmann, et al.. (2015). Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(50). 15402–15407. 219 indexed citations

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Tarver, James E., Erik A. Sperling, Alysha M. Heimberg, et al.. (2013). miRNAs: Small Genes with Big Potential in Metazoan Phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(11). 2369–2382. 99 indexed citations

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Smith, Andrew B., Davide Pisani, Jacqueline Mackenzie‐Dodds, et al.. (2006). Testing the Molecular Clock: Molecular and Paleontological Estimates of Divergence Times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(10). 1832–1851. 143 indexed citations

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