Fausto Nomura

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Fausto Nomura is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Fausto Nomura has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Fausto Nomura's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (44 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (16 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Fausto Nomura is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (44 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (16 papers) and Plant and animal studies (16 papers). Fausto Nomura collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Canada. Fausto Nomura's co-authors include Denise de Cerqueira Rossa‐Feres, Diogo S. M. Samia, Daniel T. Blumstein, Shinichi Nakagawa, Thiago F. Rangel, Rogério Pereira Bastos, Vitor Hugo Mendonça do Prado, Francisco Langeani, Aparecido Divino da Cruz and Daniela de Melo e Silva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Oecologia.

In The Last Decade

Fausto Nomura

55 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

2015 260 citations Diogo S. M. Samia, Shinichi Nakagawa et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fausto Nomura Brazil	18	554	500	425	222	205	58	1.1k
Miguel Lizana Spain	21	687 1.2×	300 0.6×	564 1.3×	275 1.2×	332 1.6×	67	1.2k
Adolfo Ludovico Martino Argentina	17	593 1.1×	241 0.5×	304 0.7×	107 0.5×	100 0.5×	85	891
Flora Acuña Juncá Brazil	17	602 1.1×	374 0.7×	140 0.3×	173 0.8×	172 0.8×	61	741
Tiágo Gomes dos Santos Brazil	16	723 1.3×	319 0.6×	327 0.8×	247 1.1×	278 1.4×	66	932
Sônia Zanini Cechin Brazil	19	833 1.5×	368 0.7×	417 1.0×	285 1.3×	272 1.3×	75	1.1k
Néstor G. Basso Argentina	18	561 1.0×	238 0.5×	235 0.6×	239 1.1×	155 0.8×	70	940
Betsy A. Bancroft United States	12	657 1.2×	264 0.5×	335 0.8×	215 1.0×	450 2.2×	15	1.0k
Tamí Mott Brazil	18	598 1.1×	284 0.6×	190 0.4×	195 0.9×	194 0.9×	75	858
Lawrence E. Licht Canada	19	743 1.3×	442 0.9×	303 0.7×	199 0.9×	241 1.2×	39	1.2k
Leonardo Vignoli Italy	17	536 1.0×	255 0.5×	501 1.2×	311 1.4×	325 1.6×	104	970

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fausto Nomura

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Ribeiro, Ana R., Jean Carlo Gonçalves Ortega, Luis Maurício Bini, et al.. (2025). The effect of fire on the structure of animal metacommunities in a Cerrado landscape: A 10-year survey of anurans, birds and moth assemblages. Journal for Nature Conservation. 84. 126856–126856. 2 indexed citations

Wassersug, Richard J., et al.. (2023). The case for studying tadpole autecology, with comments on strategies to study other small,fast‐movinganimals in nature. Austral Ecology. 48(5). 855–876. 2 indexed citations

Garey, Michel Varajão, Thiago Gonçalves‐Souza, Fausto Nomura, et al.. (2023). Explaining the anuran beta diversity by pond‐living tadpoles: the role of dispersal limitation and environmental gradients through multiple scales. Diversity and Distributions. 29(12). 1609–1622.

Feio, Renato Neves, et al.. (2023). Morphological characterization and taxonomic key for tadpoles of Brazilian Cerrado. Biota Neotropica. 23(3).

Nomura, Fausto, Fernando Rogério Carvalho, & Denise de Cerqueira Rossa‐Feres. (2022). Temporal distribution, reproductive synchrony, and mating patterns of the explosive breeder frog Dermatonotus muelleri (Anura: Microhylidae). LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 19(esp). 99–110. 1 indexed citations

Antoniazzi, Marta Maria, Pedro Luiz Mailho‐Fontana, Fausto Nomura, et al.. (2022). Reproductive behaviour, cutaneous morphology, and skin secretion analysis in the anuran Dermatonotus muelleri. iScience. 25(4). 104073–104073. 3 indexed citations

Maciel, Natan Medeiros, Fausto Nomura, Alessandro Ribeiro de Morais, et al.. (2020). Guia de identificação das espécies de anfíbios (Anura e Gymnophiona) do estado de Goiás e do Distrito Federal, Brasil Central. 22 indexed citations

Venesky, Matthew D., et al.. (2019). Smooth, striated, or rough: how substrate textures affect the feeding performance of tadpoles with different oral morphologies. Zoomorphology. 139(1). 97–110. 13 indexed citations

Bastos, Rogério Pereira, et al.. (2019). The Tadpole of Scinax constrictus Lima, Bastos & Giaretta, 2004 (Amphibia, Hylidae). Journal of Herpetology. 53(1). 62–62.

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Brandão, Reuber Albuquerque, et al.. (2018). The larvae of two species of Bokermannohyla (Anura, Hylidae, Cophomantini) endemic to the highlands of central Brazil. Zootaxa. 4527(4). 501–520. 12 indexed citations

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Cruz, Aparecido Divino da, Natan Medeiros Maciel, Fausto Nomura, et al.. (2017). The agricultural impact of pesticides on Physalaemus cuvieri tadpoles (Amphibia: Anura) ascertained by comet assay. Zoologia (Curitiba). 34. 1–8. 26 indexed citations

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Solé, Mirco, et al.. (2017). Agropastoral activities increase fluctuating asymmetry in tadpoles of two neotropical anuran species. Austral Ecology. 42(7). 801–809. 9 indexed citations

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Bastos, Rogério Pereira, et al.. (2016). Vocal Repertoire during Reproductive and Aggressive Contexts of Three Brazilian Tree Frogs: Bokermannohyla sapiranga, Hypsiboas albopunctatus and H. goianus (Anura: Hylidae). South American Journal of Herpetology. 11(2). 136–136. 12 indexed citations

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Samia, Diogo S. M., Shinichi Nakagawa, Fausto Nomura, Thiago F. Rangel, & Daniel T. Blumstein. (2015). Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8877–8877. 260 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vieira, Thiago Bernardi, Natan Medeiros Maciel, Aparecido Divino da Cruz, et al.. (2014). Detecting genomic damages in the frog Dendropsophus minutus: preserved versus perturbed areas. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(5). 3947–3954. 21 indexed citations

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Bastos, Rogério Pereira, et al.. (2013). Diversidade de Anuros (Amphibia) na reserva extrativista Lago do Cedro e seu entorno, Aruanã, Goiás. Biota Neopropica. 13(2). 205–217. 12 indexed citations

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Nomura, Fausto, et al.. (2013). Análises Mutagênicas de Anuros em Áreas de Mineração de Níquel. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 4 indexed citations

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Nomura, Fausto, Natan Medeiros Maciel, Elisa Barreto, & Rogério Pereira Bastos. (2012). Diversidade de anuros (Amphibia) em áreas recuperada de atividade mineradora no cerrado e de plantio de Eucalyptus urophyla no Brasil Central. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Romero, Gustavo Q., et al.. (2009). Nitrogen fluxes from treefrogs to tank epiphytic bromeliads: an isotopic and physiological approach. Oecologia. 162(4). 941–949. 49 indexed citations

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Pezzuti, Tiago Leite, Felipe Sá Fortes Leite, & Fausto Nomura. (2009). The Tadpole of Phyllomedusa itacolomi (Anura, Hylidae), with a Description of the Internal Oral Morphology. South American Journal of Herpetology. 4(2). 117–117. 10 indexed citations

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