Hussam Zaher

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
149 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Hussam Zaher is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hussam Zaher has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 60 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 44 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Hussam Zaher's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (123 papers), Turtle Biology and Conservation (31 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers). Hussam Zaher is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (123 papers), Turtle Biology and Conservation (31 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers). Hussam Zaher collaborates with scholars based in Brazil, United States and Argentina. Hussam Zaher's co-authors include Olivier Rieppel, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Robert W. Murphy, Sebastián Apesteguı́a, Paulo Miranda Nascimento, Sandro L. Bonatto, Alberto B. Carvalho, Diego Pol, Michael J. Polcyn and Eitan Tchernov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Hussam Zaher

145 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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  1. Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)
    2019 196 citations Hussam Zaher, Robert W. Murphy et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hussam Zaher Brazil 33 2.8k 1.7k 1.7k 989 942 149 4.1k
Mark Wilkinson United Kingdom 31 2.2k 0.8× 880 0.5× 877 0.5× 994 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 123 3.8k
James A. Schulte United States 32 2.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.8× 921 0.5× 1.7k 1.8× 2.0k 2.1× 60 4.9k
Jacques Gauthier United States 15 1.3k 0.5× 3.1k 1.8× 1.7k 1.0× 523 0.5× 1.1k 1.1× 30 4.5k
Mark N. Hutchinson Australia 32 1.8k 0.7× 843 0.5× 634 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 878 0.9× 114 3.2k
C. Darrin Hulsey United States 31 949 0.3× 661 0.4× 2.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 74 4.9k
Joseph B. Slowinski United States 26 1.6k 0.6× 974 0.6× 820 0.5× 2.1k 2.1× 1.3k 1.3× 43 3.8k
Ted M. Townsend United States 19 1.6k 0.6× 829 0.5× 536 0.3× 998 1.0× 857 0.9× 19 2.5k
Izeni Pires Farias Brazil 36 790 0.3× 648 0.4× 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.1× 623 0.7× 201 4.2k
Theodore J. Papenfuss United States 34 3.3k 1.2× 815 0.5× 942 0.6× 2.4k 2.4× 1.4k 1.5× 94 5.2k
John B. Iverson United States 39 3.0k 1.1× 666 0.4× 3.8k 2.3× 684 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 161 5.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zaher, Hussam, et al.. (2024). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the dwarf boas of the family Tropidophiidae (Serpentes: Alethinophidia). Systematics and Biodiversity. 22(1). 4 indexed citations
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Graboski, Roberta, et al.. (2022). Reassessing the systematics of Leptodeira (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) with emphasis in the South American species. Zoologica Scripta. 51(4). 415–433. 9 indexed citations
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Graboski, Roberta, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente, et al.. (2022). Revealing the cryptic diversity of the widespread and poorly known South American blind snake genusAmerotyphlops(Typhlopidae: Scolecophidia) through integrative taxonomy. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 197(3). 719–751. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Chaochao, Dechun Jiang, Jin‐Long Ren, et al.. (2022). Genomic evidence reveals intraspecific divergence of the hot‐spring snake (Thermophis baileyi), an endangered reptile endemic to the Qinghai‐Tibet plateau. Molecular Ecology. 32(6). 1335–1350. 8 indexed citations
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Hoogmoed, Marinus Steven, et al.. (2021). A new species of Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 from western Amazonia, with notes on morphology for members of the Thamnodynastes pallidus group (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini). Zootaxa. 4952(2). zootaxa.4952.2.2–zootaxa.4952.2.2. 1 indexed citations
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Montingelli, Giovanna G., Fausto Erritto Barbo, Gindomar Gomes Santana, et al.. (2020). A second new species for the rare dipsadid genus Caaeteboia Zaher et al., 2009 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Atlantic Forest of northeastern Brazil. Cuadernos de herpetología. 34(2). 1 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel, et al.. (2020). A review of the fossil record of caecilians (Lissamphibia: Gymnophionomorpha) with comments on its use to calibrate molecular timetrees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131(4). 737–755. 6 indexed citations
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Zaher, Hussam & Krister T. Smith. (2020). Pythons in the Eocene of Europe reveal a much older divergence of the group in sympatry with boas. Biology Letters. 16(12). 20200735–20200735. 19 indexed citations
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Azevedo, Josué A. R., Thaís Guedes, Cristiano de Campos Nogueira, et al.. (2019). Museums and cradles of diversity are geographically coincident for narrowly distributed Neotropical snakes. Ecography. 43(2). 328–339. 40 indexed citations
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Montingelli, Giovanna G., Felipe G. Grazziotin, Jaqueline Battilana, et al.. (2019). Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genusMastigodryasAmaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus forMastigodryas bifossatus. Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research. 57(2). 205–239. 9 indexed citations
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Zaher, Hussam, et al.. (2018). A new teiid lizard of the genus Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838 (Squamata, Teiidae), from the Lower Miocene of Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38(4). (1)–(18). 8 indexed citations
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Graboski, Roberta, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente, et al.. (2018). Molecular phylogeny and hemipenial diversity of South American species ofAmerotyphlops(Typhlopidae, Scolecophidia). Zoologica Scripta. 48(2). 139–156. 14 indexed citations
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Graboski, Roberta, et al.. (2015). A new species of Amerotyphlops from Northeastern Brazil, with comments on distribution of related species. Zootaxa. 3920(3). 443–52. 13 indexed citations
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Grazziotin, Felipe G., et al.. (2014). Higher-level molecular phylogeny of snakes: Conflicts and congruence. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Santos, Tiágo Gomes dos, et al.. (2009). First record of Trachemys dorbigni (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) (Testudines, Emydidae) in a remnant of mesophytic semideciduous forest of São Paulo State, southeastern Brazil. Herpetological Bulletin. 27–30. 4 indexed citations
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Zaher, Hussam & Ulisses Caramaschi. (1992). Sur le statut taxinomique d'Oxyrhopus trigeminus et O. guibei (Serpentes, Xenodontinae). Bulletin du Muséum national d histoire naturelle. 14(3). 805–827. 15 indexed citations

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