Juan C. Santos

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Juan C. Santos is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Juan C. Santos has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Juan C. Santos's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (37 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Juan C. Santos is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (37 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Juan C. Santos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ecuador and Brazil. Juan C. Santos's co-authors include David C. Cannatella, Luis A. Coloma, Santiago R. Ron, Christopher J. Schneider, Catherine H. Graham, Craig Moritz, Rebecca D. Tarvin, Richard H. Ree, Janalee P. Caldwell and Kyle Summers and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Juan C. Santos

44 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

INTEGRATING PHYLOGENETICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE MODELS TO EXPLORE SPECIATION MECHANISMS IN DENDROBATID FROGS

2004 501 citations Catherine H. Graham, Santiago R. Ron et al. Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Juan C. Santos United States	20	991	759	724	706	393	46	2.0k
Robert W. Bryson United States	25	775 0.8×	673 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	577 0.8×	439 1.1×	66	2.0k
Jonathon C. Marshall United States	16	567 0.6×	964 1.3×	874 1.2×	472 0.7×	695 1.8×	26	2.3k
Chris R. Feldman United States	23	806 0.8×	579 0.8×	679 0.9×	335 0.5×	630 1.6×	53	2.0k
Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero United States	21	1.3k 1.3×	763 1.0×	621 0.9×	563 0.8×	339 0.9×	55	2.0k
Noah M. Reid United States	15	402 0.4×	680 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	379 0.5×	805 2.0×	25	2.5k
Yann Surget‐Groba France	22	570 0.6×	535 0.7×	618 0.9×	328 0.5×	433 1.1×	48	1.5k
Xin Lü China	28	986 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	426 0.6×	413 0.6×	1.2k 3.2×	155	2.5k
Javier A. Rodríguez‐Robles United States	25	919 0.9×	835 1.1×	459 0.6×	300 0.4×	405 1.0×	53	1.5k
Ke Bi United States	27	512 0.5×	610 0.8×	1.4k 1.9×	454 0.6×	725 1.8×	70	2.5k
Christophe Dufresnes Switzerland	28	1.0k 1.0×	723 1.0×	1.5k 2.0×	620 0.9×	558 1.4×	109	2.3k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Santos, Juan C., et al.. (2025). Caecilians maintain a functional long-wavelength-sensitive cone opsin gene despite signatures of relaxed selection and more than 200 million years of fossoriality. Evolution. 79(12). 2756–2775.

Tarvin, Rebecca D., David A. Donoso, Jacqueline Smith, et al.. (2024). Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Tarvin, Rebecca D., David A. Donoso, Santiago R. Ron, et al.. (2024). Passive accumulation of alkaloids in inconspicuously colored frogs refines the evolutionary paradigm of acquired chemical defenses. eLife. 13. 1 indexed citations

O’Connell, Lauren A., Lawrence H. Uricchio, Alexandre B. Roland, et al.. (2023). Selection on Visual Opsin Genes in Diurnal Neotropical Frogs and Loss of the SWS2 Opsin in Poison Frogs. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(10). 8 indexed citations

Chambers, E. Anne, Rebecca D. Tarvin, Juan C. Santos, et al.. (2023). 2b or not 2b? 2bRAD is an effective alternative to ddRAD for phylogenomics. Ecology and Evolution. 13(3). e9842–e9842. 5 indexed citations

Sinervo, Barry, Rafael A. Lara‐Reséndiz, Donald B. Miles, et al.. (2023). Climate change and collapsing thermal niches of desert reptiles and amphibians: Assisted migration and acclimation rescue from extirpation. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168431–168431. 8 indexed citations

Santos, Juan C., et al.. (2021). Noise constrains the evolution of call frequency contours in flowing water frogs: a comparative analysis in two clades. Frontiers in Zoology. 18(1). 37–37. 7 indexed citations

Vargas‐Salinas, Fernando, et al.. (2021). Aposematism facilitates the diversification of parental care strategies in poison frogs. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 19047–19047. 29 indexed citations

Laspiur, Alejandro, et al.. (2021). Vulnerability to climate change of a microendemic lizard species from the central Andes. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 11653–11653. 14 indexed citations

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Santos, Juan C., et al.. (2020). Much more than a clasp: evolutionary patterns of amplexus diversity in anurans. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129(3). 652–663. 24 indexed citations

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Caetano, Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira, Juan C. Santos, Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas, et al.. (2020). Time of activity is a better predictor of the distribution of a tropical lizard than pure environmental temperatures. Oikos. 129(7). 953–963. 30 indexed citations

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Shik, Jonathan Z., Pepijn W. Kooij, David A. Donoso, et al.. (2020). Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(1). 122–134. 16 indexed citations

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Vigle, Gregory O., et al.. (2020). A new species of Leucostethus (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Cordillera Mache-Chindul in northwestern Ecuador, with comments on similar Colostethus and Hyloxalus. Zootaxa. 4896(3). zootaxa.4896.3.2–zootaxa.4896.3.2. 4 indexed citations

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Tarvin, Rebecca D., Cecilia M. Borghese, Juan C. Santos, et al.. (2017). Interacting amino acid replacements allow poison frogs to evolve epibatidine resistance. Science. 357(6357). 1261–1266. 52 indexed citations

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Shik, Jonathan Z., Juan C. Santos, Jon N. Seal, et al.. (2014). Metabolism and the Rise of Fungus Cultivation by Ants. The American Naturalist. 184(3). 364–373. 26 indexed citations

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Barrio‐Amorós, César L., et al.. (2010). An addition to the diversity of dendrobatid frogs in Venezuela: description of three new collared frogs (Anura: Dendrobatidae: Mannophryne). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Santos, Juan C., Luis A. Coloma, Kyle Summers, et al.. (2009). Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Is Primarily Derived from Late Miocene Andean Lineages. PLoS Biology. 7(3). e1000056–e1000056. 250 indexed citations

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Ron, Santiago R., Juan C. Santos, & David C. Cannatella. (2006). Phylogeny of the túngara frog genus Engystomops (=Physalaemus pustulosus species group; Anura: Leptodactylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 39(2). 392–403. 50 indexed citations

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Santos, Juan C., Roger D. Finlay, & Anders Tehler. (2006). Molecular analysis of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonising a semi‐natural grassland along a fertilisation gradient. New Phytologist. 172(1). 159–168. 102 indexed citations

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Graham, Catherine H., Santiago R. Ron, Juan C. Santos, Christopher J. Schneider, & Craig Moritz. (2004). INTEGRATING PHYLOGENETICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE MODELS TO EXPLORE SPECIATION MECHANISMS IN DENDROBATID FROGS. Evolution. 58(8). 1781–1793. 501 indexed citations breakdown →

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