Jean Lescure

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 776 citations indexed

About

Jean Lescure is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean Lescure has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 776 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 11 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Jean Lescure's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Jean Lescure is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). Jean Lescure collaborates with scholars based in France, Chile and Belgium. Jean Lescure's co-authors include Tim Halliday, Julien Gasc, T. S. Sofianidou, M. E. M. de Oliveira, Michael Veith, Kurt Grossenbacher, Patrick Haffner, Juan Pablo Martínez Rica, Marinus Steven Hoogmoed and Maxime Lamotte and has published in prestigious journals such as Copeia, Animals and Comptes Rendus Palevol.

In The Last Decade

Jean Lescure

26 papers receiving 668 citations

Hit Papers

Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Europe 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Europe
    1998 500 citations Jean Lescure et al. Copeia profile →

Peers

Jean Lescure
J. C. Poynton United Kingdom
Samuel S. Sweet United States
James Lazell United States
Stephen D. Busack United States
Walter C. Brown United Kingdom
Kurt Grossenbacher Switzerland
Glenn M. Shea Australia
Gustavo Scrocchi Argentina
Ross A. Sadlier Australia
Albert Schwartz United States
J. C. Poynton United Kingdom
Jean Lescure
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Countries citing papers authored by Jean Lescure

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jean Lescure

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean Lescure

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jean Lescure. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jean Lescure 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 Jean Lescure. Jean Lescure 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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Chevallier, Damien, Jacques Fretey, Jean Lescure, & Marc Girondot. (2024). First Record of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle, Lepidochelys kempii (Garman, 1880), in the Waters of Martinique Island (Lesser Antilles). Animals. 14(4). 596–596.
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Lescure, Jean, et al.. (2013). Development and Field Trial of a Non-Aqueous-Based Mud Lubricant. 8 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean, Roger Bour, Ivan Ineich, Annemarie Ohler, & Juan Carlos Ortiz. (2002). Liste inédite des Reptiles et Amphibiens récoltés par Alcide dˈOrbigny en Amérique méridionale. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 1(7). 527–532. 6 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean, et al.. (1993). [Genetic studies of relationship between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta with mitochondrial marker].. PubMed. 316(10). 1233–9. 12 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean, et al.. (1989). Les types d'Amphibiens Anoures du Chili dans les collections du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Catalogue critique. Bulletin du Muséum national d histoire naturelle. 11(3). 113–122. 7 indexed citations
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Renous, Sabine, Jean Lescure, Jean‐Pierre Gasc, & Vincent Bels. (1989). Intervention des membres dans la locomotion et le creusement du nid chez la tortue luth. Amphibia-Reptilia. 10(4). 355–369. 3 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean & Jean‐Pierre Gasc. (1986). Partage de l'espace forestier par les amphibiens et les reptiles en Amazonie du nord-ouest. Caldasia. 15. 707–723. 8 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean & Jean‐Pierre Gasc. (1986). Proposition d'une nouvelle classification des amphibiens gymnophiones. 17 indexed citations
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Cei, José Miguel Alfredo María & Jean Lescure. (1985). Identité de <i>Lacerta palluma</i> Molina, 1782, et revalidation de <i>Centrura flagellifer</i> Bell, 1843 (Reptilia, Sauria). El Servicio de Difusión de la Creación Intelectual (National University of La Plata). 6 indexed citations
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Hoogmoed, Marinus Steven & Jean Lescure. (1984). A new genus and two new species of minute leptodactylid frogs from northern South America, with comments upon Phyzelaphryne (Amphibia: Anura: Leptodactylidae). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 58(6). 85–115. 24 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean, et al.. (1981). Vie d'un homme.
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Lynch, John D. & Jean Lescure. (1980). A collection of eleutherodactyline frogs from Northeastern Amazonian Peru with the descriptions of two new species (Amphibia, Salientia, Leptodactylidae). Bulletin du Muséum national d histoire naturelle. 2(1). 303–316. 2 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean. (1979). Étude taxinomique et éco-éthologique d'un Amphibien des petites Antilles : Leptodactylus fallax Müller, 1926 (Leptodactylidae). Bulletin du Muséum national d histoire naturelle. 1(3). 757–774. 8 indexed citations
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Hoogmoed, Marinus Steven, John D. Lynch, & Jean Lescure. (1977). A new species of Eleutherodactylus from Guiana (Leptodactylidae, Anura). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 51(3). 33–41. 5 indexed citations
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Fretey, Jacques, Marinus Steven Hoogmoed, & Jean Lescure. (1977). Etude taxinomique de Rhinoclemmys punctularia punctularia (Daudin) (Testudinata, Emydidae). Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 52(6). 63–80. 5 indexed citations
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Lamotte, Maxime & Jean Lescure. (1977). Tendances adaptatives à l’affranchissement du milieu aquatique chez les Amphibiens Anoures. La Terre et La Vie Revue d Histoire naturelle. 31(2). 225–311. 38 indexed citations
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Hoogmoed, Marinus Steven & Jean Lescure. (1975). An annotated checklist of the lizards of French Guiana, mainly based on two recent collections. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 49(13). 141–171. 15 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean. (1975). The Effect of a Total Sun Eclipse on the Vocal Behavior of Some Amphibians. Copeia. 1975(4). 764–764. 2 indexed citations
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Lescure, Jean & Jacques Fretey. (1975). Étude taxinomique de Phrynops (Batrachemys) nasutus (Schweigger) (Testudinata, Chelidae). Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.. 337(239). 1317–1328. 1 indexed citations

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