Jacques A. Gauthier

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

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Jacques A. Gauthier is a scholar working on Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacques A. Gauthier has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Paleontology, 20 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jacques A. Gauthier's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (27 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (20 papers). Jacques A. Gauthier is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (27 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (26 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (20 papers). Jacques A. Gauthier collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Jacques A. Gauthier's co-authors include Walter G. Joyce, Kevin Padian, James F. Parham, Gabe S. Bever, Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar, Jessica A. Maisano, Olivier Rieppel, Tyler R. Lyson, Günter P. Wagner and Maureen Kearney and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jacques A. Gauthier

41 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record

2012 426 citations Jacques A. Gauthier, Jessica A. Maisano et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jacques A. Gauthier United States	28	2.3k	1.6k	1.5k	554	287	42	3.3k
Ke‐Qin Gao China	33	2.4k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	610 1.1×	235 0.8×	79	3.2k
Marcello Ruta United Kingdom	34	3.3k 1.4×	1.4k 0.9×	812 0.6×	487 0.9×	292 1.0×	100	4.0k
James F. Parham United States	29	1.5k 0.7×	1.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	314 0.6×	513 1.8×	71	2.8k
Jacques Gauthier United States	15	3.1k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.9×	1.1k 2.0×	523 1.8×	30	4.5k
Peter A. Meylan United States	24	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	952 0.7×	265 0.5×	289 1.0×	65	2.6k
Massimo Delfino Italy	32	2.2k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	514 0.9×	212 0.7×	199	3.2k
Julia A. Clarke United States	37	3.8k 1.6×	2.3k 1.4×	567 0.4×	690 1.2×	417 1.5×	150	5.1k
Michel Laurin France	42	4.3k 1.8×	2.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	743 1.3×	399 1.4×	179	5.7k
Gareth J. Dyke United Kingdom	36	3.4k 1.4×	1.8k 1.1×	491 0.3×	448 0.8×	295 1.0×	162	4.3k
David M. Unwin United Kingdom	36	3.1k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	475 0.3×	869 1.6×	374 1.3×	100	4.3k

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Hoffman, Eva A., Matteo Fabbri, Jacques A. Gauthier, et al.. (2025). Deep-time history of primate behavior and ecology as revealed by ancestral state reconstructions. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32(2).

Wiemann, Jasmina, Jason M. Crawford, Matteo Fabbri, et al.. (2022). Fossil biomolecules reveal an avian metabolism in the ancestral dinosaur. Nature. 606(7914). 522–526. 42 indexed citations

Queiroz, Kevin de, Philip D. Cantino, & Jacques A. Gauthier. (2020). Phylonyms. 35 indexed citations

Koch, Nicolás Mongiardino & Jacques A. Gauthier. (2018). Noise and biases in genomic data may underlie radically different hypotheses for the position of Iguania within Squamata. PLoS ONE. 13(8). e0202729–e0202729. 23 indexed citations

Field, Daniel J., Antoine Bercovici, Jacob S. Berv, et al.. (2018). Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction. Current Biology. 28(11). 1825–1831.e2. 90 indexed citations

Koch, Nicolás Mongiardino, et al.. (2017). Osteohistology and sequence of suture fusion reveal complex environmentally influenced growth in the teiid lizard Aspidoscelis tigris — Implications for fossil squamates. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 475. 12–22. 21 indexed citations

Hsiang, Allison Y., Daniel J. Field, Timothy H. Webster, et al.. (2015). The origin of snakes: revealing the ecology, behavior, and evolutionary history of early snakes using genomics, phenomics, and the fossil record. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 87–87. 162 indexed citations

Field, Daniel J., Jacques A. Gauthier, Benjamin L. King, et al.. (2014). Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles. Evolution & Development. 16(4). 189–196. 95 indexed citations

Lyson, Tyler R., Gabe S. Bever, Torsten M. Scheyer, Allison Y. Hsiang, & Jacques A. Gauthier. (2013). Evolutionary Origin of the Turtle Shell. Current Biology. 23(12). 1113–1119. 100 indexed citations

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Longrich, Nicholas R., Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar, & Jacques A. Gauthier. (2012). A transitional snake from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. Nature. 488(7410). 205–208. 72 indexed citations

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Bever, Gabe S., Jacques A. Gauthier, & Günter P. Wagner. (2011). Finding the frame shift: digit loss, developmental variability, and the origin of the avian hand. Evolution & Development. 13(3). 269–279. 37 indexed citations

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Conrad, Jack L., Olivier Rieppel, Jacques A. Gauthier, & Mark A. Norell. (2011). Osteology of Gobiderma pulchrum (Monstersauria, Lepidosauria, Reptilia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 362. 1–88. 24 indexed citations

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Truong, Vouy Linh, Jacques A. Gauthier, Michael J. Boyd, Bruno Roy, & John Scheigetz. (2005). Practical and Efficient Route to (S)-γ-Fluoroleucine. Synlett. 2005(8). 1279–1280. 12 indexed citations

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Maisano, Jessica A., Christopher J. Bell, Jacques A. Gauthier, & Timothy B. Rowe. (2002). The Osteoderms and Palpebral in Lanthanotus borneensis (Squamata: Anguimorpha). Journal of Herpetology. 36(4). 678–682. 32 indexed citations

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Wagner, Günter P. & Jacques A. Gauthier. (1999). 1,2,3 = 2,3,4: A solution to the problem of the homology of the digits in the avian hand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96(9). 5111–5116. 151 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Jacques A.. (1994). The Diversification of the Amniotes. 7. 129–159. 35 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Jacques A. & Kevin Padian. (1989). The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight. 2. 121–133. 275 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Jacques A.. (1988). Joints of the crocodile-reversed archosaurs. Nature. 331(6153). 218–218. 2 indexed citations

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Pregill, Gregory K., Jacques A. Gauthier, & Harry W. Greene. (1986). The evolution of helodermatid squamatesc with description of a new taxon and an overview of Varanoidea. 21. 167–202. 91 indexed citations

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Gauthier, Jacques A.. (1982). Fossil xenosaurid and anguid lizards from the early Eocene Wasatch Formation, Southeast Wyoming, and a revision of the Anguioidea. Rocky Mountain geology. 21(1). 7–54. 100 indexed citations

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