Fernando Abdala

4.4k total citations
130 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Fernando Abdala is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fernando Abdala has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Paleontology, 64 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 13 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Fernando Abdala's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (118 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (101 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (64 papers). Fernando Abdala is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (118 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (101 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (64 papers). Fernando Abdala collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. Fernando Abdala's co-authors include Norberto P. Giannini, Bruce S. Rubidge, Ana María Ribeiro, David A. Flores, Roger M. H. Smith, Leandro C. Gaetano, Sandra C. Jasinoski, Vincent Fernández, Juan Carlos Cisneros and Johann Neveling and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Fernando Abdala

125 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fernando Abdala South Africa	35	3.3k	1.9k	345	341	262	130	3.4k
Ángela D. Buscalioni Spain	34	2.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	266 0.8×	418 1.2×	242 0.9×	116	3.1k
Christian A. Sidor United States	35	4.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	220 0.6×	732 2.1×	245 0.9×	125	4.7k
Corwin Sullivan China	31	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	194 0.6×	508 1.5×	234 0.9×	88	3.0k
Oliver W. M. Rauhut Germany	41	4.5k 1.4×	3.0k 1.6×	224 0.6×	820 2.4×	193 0.7×	107	4.7k
Benjamin P. Kear Sweden	34	3.1k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	90 0.3×	415 1.2×	343 1.3×	159	3.5k
Alexander O. Averianov Russia	33	3.9k 1.2×	1.8k 1.0×	202 0.6×	599 1.8×	732 2.8×	284	4.1k
Haiyan Tong France	31	2.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	132 0.4×	458 1.3×	119 0.5×	113	2.7k
Pascal Godefroit Belgium	35	2.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	127 0.4×	581 1.7×	145 0.6×	111	3.2k
Darren Naish United Kingdom	31	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.8×	136 0.4×	411 1.2×	223 0.9×	93	2.6k
Gregory P. Wilson United States	23	2.0k 0.6×	632 0.3×	214 0.6×	321 0.9×	475 1.8×	63	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Abdala, Fernando, et al.. (2025). Techniques for digital restoration of cranial elements on three-dimensional surface models. Palaeontologia Electronica. 1 indexed citations

Hendrickx, Christophe, et al.. (2024). Evolution of postcanine complexity in Gomphodontia (Therapsida: Cynodontia). The Anatomical Record. 307(4). 1613–1633. 3 indexed citations

Cisneros, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2023). Cranial osteology and a new diagnosis of the late Permian pareiasaur Nanoparia luckhoffi (Broom, 1936) from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, and a consolidated pareiasaurian phylogeny. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 26(4). 288–314.

Wilson, Laura A. B., Michael Archer, Suzanne J. Hand, et al.. (2023). Patterns of ontogenetic evolution across extant marsupials reflect different allometric pathways to ecomorphological diversity. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2689–2689. 2 indexed citations

Kammerer, Christian F., Richard J. Butler, Christophe Hendrickx, et al.. (2021). A new large gomphodont from the Triassic of South Africa and its implications for Gondwanan biostratigraphy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41(2). 5 indexed citations

Hendrickx, Christophe, Leandro C. Gaetano, Jonah N. Choiniere, Helke Mocke, & Fernando Abdala. (2020). A new traversodontid cynodont with a peculiar postcanine dentition from the Middle/Late Triassic of Namibia and dental evolution in basal gomphodonts. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18(20). 1669–1706. 22 indexed citations

Abdala, Fernando, et al.. (2020). Tooth replacement patterns in the Early Triassic epicynodont Galesaurus planiceps (Therapsida, Cynodontia). PLoS ONE. 15(12). e0243985–e0243985. 14 indexed citations

Liu, Jun & Fernando Abdala. (2020). The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: 5. Caodeyao liuyufengi gen. et sp. nov., a new peculiar therocephalian. PeerJ. 8. e9160–e9160. 8 indexed citations

Amiot, Romain, François Fourel, Fernando Abdala, et al.. (2017). Oxygen isotopes suggest elevated thermometabolism within multiple Permo-Triassic therapsid clades. eLife. 6. 41 indexed citations

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Gaetano, Leandro C., et al.. (2015). THE POSTCRANIAL SKELETON OF THE LOWER JURASSIC TRITYLODON LONGAEVUS FROM SOUTHERN AFRICA -- Preprint doi:10.5710/AMGH.11.09.2016.3011. Ameghiniana. 1 indexed citations

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Benoît, Julien, et al.. (2015). Physiological implications of the abnormal absence of the parietal foramen in a late Permian cynodont (Therapsida). Die Naturwissenschaften. 102(11-12). 69–69. 22 indexed citations

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Chinsamy, Anusuya & Fernando Abdala. (2008). Palaeobiological implications of the bone microstructure of South American traversodontids (Therapsida: Cynodontia). South African Journal of Science. 104. 225–230. 22 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando, Helke Mocke, & P. John Hancox. (2007). Lower Triassic postcanine teeth with allotherian-like crowns. South African Journal of Science. 103. 245–247. 14 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando. (2003). Galesaurid cynodonts from the Early Triassic of South Africa : another example of conflicting distribution of characters in non-mammalian cynodonts : research letter. South African Journal of Science. 99. 95–96. 8 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando. (2000). "Catalogue of non-mammalian cynodonts in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, with comments on species". Ameghiniana. 37(4). 463–475. 13 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando & M. Mónica Díaz. (2000). Anatomía craneana de Akodon albiventer (Rodentia, Muridae, Sigmodontinae). Iheringia Série Zoologia. 33–50. 4 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando. (1996). REDESCRIPCIÓN DEL CRÁNEO Y RECONSIDERACIÓN DE LA VALIDEZ DE CYNOGNATHUS MINOR (EUCYNODONTIA-CYNOGNATHIDAE) DEL TRIÁSICO INFERIOR DE MENDOZA. Ameghiniana. 33(2). 115–126. 26 indexed citations

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Rogers, Raymond R., Andrea B. Arcucci, Catherine A. Forster, Fernando Abdala, & Paul C. Sereno. (1994). "Stratigraphic Context and Taphonomy of the Middle Triassic Los Chañares Fauna, La Rioja Province, Argentina.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 14. 1 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando, et al.. (1992). Nuevos restos de Scelidotherium (Edentata) del Rosario de la Frontera, provincia de Salta, Argentina: consideraciones sistemáticas basadas en aspectos morfológicos del carpo. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Sección geológica. 87(1). 27–35. 5 indexed citations

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Abdala, Fernando, et al.. (1988). CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE LA MORFOLOGIA CRANEODENTARIA DE RUSCONIODON MIGNONEI BONAPARTE (CYNODONTIA, TRAVERSODONTIDAE): DIAGNOSIS, AFINIDADES Y VARIACIONES ONTOGENÉTICAS. Ameghiniana. 25(3). 237–244. 9 indexed citations

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