Héctor Botella

1.3k total citations
60 papers, 957 citations indexed

About

Héctor Botella is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Héctor Botella has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 957 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Paleontology, 37 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 9 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Héctor Botella's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (41 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (34 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (27 papers). Héctor Botella is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (41 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (34 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (27 papers). Héctor Botella collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United Kingdom and Germany. Héctor Botella's co-authors include Carlos Martínez‐Pérez, Humberto G. Ferrón, Diego Rasskin‐Gutman, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Borja Esteve‐Altava, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Andrés Moyá, L. Bernad, Carlos Lloréns and Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Héctor Botella

55 papers receiving 931 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Héctor Botella Spain 17 586 426 149 126 113 60 957
Jonathan E. Jeffery Netherlands 14 421 0.7× 236 0.6× 187 1.3× 128 1.0× 88 0.8× 20 748
Robert S. Sansom United Kingdom 22 1.0k 1.8× 407 1.0× 185 1.2× 136 1.1× 129 1.1× 49 1.3k
Edward B. Daeschler United States 19 1.4k 2.4× 1.0k 2.4× 239 1.6× 70 0.6× 110 1.0× 54 1.9k
Jessica H. Arbour United States 14 336 0.6× 361 0.8× 73 0.5× 183 1.5× 155 1.4× 30 767
Mark Webster United States 17 769 1.3× 133 0.3× 141 0.9× 445 3.5× 236 2.1× 37 1.4k
Aurore Canoville France 18 843 1.4× 483 1.1× 57 0.4× 124 1.0× 172 1.5× 32 1.0k
Sylvain Gerber France 17 589 1.0× 131 0.3× 136 0.9× 312 2.5× 121 1.1× 32 972
Timothy R. Smithson United Kingdom 20 1.1k 1.9× 674 1.6× 84 0.6× 56 0.4× 85 0.8× 46 1.2k
Martin Brazeau United Kingdom 17 930 1.6× 716 1.7× 183 1.2× 75 0.6× 90 0.8× 32 1.2k
Mee-mann Chang China 20 773 1.3× 695 1.6× 149 1.0× 17 0.1× 91 0.8× 38 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Héctor Botella

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Fields of papers citing papers by Héctor Botella

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Héctor Botella

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Héctor Botella. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Héctor Botella based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Héctor Botella. Héctor Botella is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rossignol, Camille, Xiao Shi, Nathan Cogné, et al.. (2025). New age constraints for the Perdasdefogu Basin, Italy: implications for vertebrate paleobiogeography during the early Permian. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 675. 113085–113085.
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2024). Testing dental microwear as a proxy for characterising trophic ecology in fossil elasmobranchs (chondrichthyans). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 143(1). 1 indexed citations
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Botella, Héctor, Richard A. Fariña, & Francisco Huera-Huarte. (2024). Delta wing design in earliest nektonic vertebrates. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1153–1153.
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Ferrón, Humberto G., et al.. (2023). New data on the Late Miocene chondrichthyans from the Western Mediterranean region (Alcoy Basin, Eastern Spain). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43(4).
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Vidal, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Is Onychodontida (Osteichthyes, Sarcopterygii) monophyletic? Assessing discordant phylogenies with quantitative comparative cladistics. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology. 37(1). 87–100. 2 indexed citations
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Ferrón, Humberto G., et al.. (2021). Functional assessment of morphological homoplasy in stem-gnathostomes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1943). 20202719–20202719. 12 indexed citations
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2020). First occurrence of fossil vertebrates from the Carboniferous of Colombia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(1). e1764967–e1764967. 3 indexed citations
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2020). Use of nursery areas by the extinct megatooth shark Otodus megalodon (Chondrichthyes: Lamniformes). Biology Letters. 16(11). 20200746–20200746. 14 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Pérez, Carlos, et al.. (2019). Late Devonian (Famennian) Chondrichthyes from Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39(6).
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2019). The palaeontological virtual collection of the University of Valencia’s Natural History Museum: a new tool for palaeontological heritage outreach. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology. 34(1). 139–144. 2 indexed citations
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2018). On the enameloid microstructure of Archaeobatidae (Neoselachii, Chondrichthyes). Journal of Iberian Geology. 44(1). 67–74. 6 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Pérez, Carlos, et al.. (2018). Vascular structure of the earliest shark teeth. Acta Geologica Polonica. 68(3). 457–465. 5 indexed citations
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Ferrón, Humberto G., et al.. (2017). Middle-Late Triassic chondrichthyans remains from the Betic Range (Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology. 44(1). 129–138. 11 indexed citations
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Ferrón, Humberto G., Carlos Martínez‐Pérez, & Héctor Botella. (2017). Ecomorphological inferences in early vertebrates: reconstructing Dunkleosteus terrelli (Arthrodira, Placodermi) caudal fin from palaeoecological data. PeerJ. 5. e4081–e4081. 10 indexed citations
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Ferrón, Humberto G. & Héctor Botella. (2017). Squamation and ecology of thelodonts. PLoS ONE. 12(2). e0172781–e0172781. 34 indexed citations
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Ferrón, Humberto G., Carlos Martínez‐Pérez, & Héctor Botella. (2017). The evolution of gigantism in active marine predators. Historical Biology. 30(5). 712–716. 26 indexed citations
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Martínez‐Pérez, Carlos, et al.. (2014). Exploring the major depletions of conodont diversity during the Triassic. Historical Biology. 27(5). 503–507. 7 indexed citations
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Botella, Héctor, et al.. (2014). Obruchevacanthus ireneae gen. et sp. nov., a new ischnacanthiform (Acanthodii) from the Lower Devonian of Spain. Paleontological Journal. 48(10). 1067–1076. 3 indexed citations
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Lloréns, Carlos, Alfonso Muñoz-Pomer Fuentes, L. Bernad, Héctor Botella, & Andrés Moyá. (2009). Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees. Biology Direct. 4(1). 41–41. 109 indexed citations
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Ríos, José Ignacio Valenzuela & Héctor Botella. (1999). Datos preliminares sobre la fauna de vertebrados (Pisces) del Devónico Inferior de Nigüella (Cadenas Ibéricas). Geogaceta. 149–152. 6 indexed citations

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