K. Christopher Beard

5.0k total citations
124 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

K. Christopher Beard is a scholar working on Paleontology, Social Psychology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Christopher Beard has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Paleontology, 60 papers in Social Psychology and 51 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in K. Christopher Beard's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (89 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (59 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (45 papers). K. Christopher Beard is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (89 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (59 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (45 papers). K. Christopher Beard collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and China. K. Christopher Beard's co-authors include Mary R. Dawson, Daniel L. Gebo, Tao Qi, Marian Dagosto, Xijun Ni, Marc Godinot, Jin Meng, Laurent Marivaux, Grégoire Métais and Leonard Krishtalka and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

K. Christopher Beard

119 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
K. Christopher Beard United States 34 2.0k 1.7k 1.1k 689 661 124 3.1k
Yaowalak Chaimanee France 34 2.5k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 369 0.5× 825 1.2× 139 3.5k
Jonathan I. Bloch United States 34 2.2k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 752 1.1× 692 1.0× 99 3.5k
Erik R. Seiffert United States 31 2.1k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 969 0.9× 610 0.9× 688 1.0× 90 2.8k
Gregg F. Gunnell United States 29 1.8k 0.9× 920 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 493 0.7× 781 1.2× 101 3.3k
Laurent Marivaux France 35 3.1k 1.6× 995 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 529 0.8× 1.4k 2.0× 167 4.2k
Stéphane Ducrocq France 28 1.5k 0.8× 767 0.5× 870 0.8× 235 0.3× 513 0.8× 81 2.0k
Frederick S. Szalay United States 26 1.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 947 0.9× 447 0.6× 611 0.9× 75 2.5k
Eric Delson United States 28 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 475 0.4× 227 0.3× 551 0.8× 87 2.8k
Russell L. Ciochon United States 30 1.6k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 488 0.5× 275 0.4× 478 0.7× 77 2.9k
Terry Harrison United States 32 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 573 0.5× 213 0.3× 651 1.0× 107 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Christopher Beard

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All Works

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Anemone, Robert L., et al.. (2024). A latest Paleocene mammal fauna from the Great Divide Basin in southern Wyoming and a revised biozonation of the Clarkforkian land mammal age. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 44(3). 2 indexed citations
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Métais, Grégoire, Pauline Coster, Mustafa Kaya, et al.. (2024). Rapid colonization and diversification of a large-bodied mammalian herbivore clade in an insular context: New embrithopods from the Eocene of Balkanatolia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 31(2). 1 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher, Pauline Coster, Faruk Ocakoğlu, Alexis Licht, & Grégoire Métais. (2023). Dental anatomy, phylogenetic relationships and paleoecology of Orhaniyeia nauta (Metatheria, Anatoliadelphyidae), a Gondwanan component of the insular Eocene mammal fauna of Balkanatolia (north-central Turkey). Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30(4). 859–872. 5 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher & Grégoire Métais. (2023). Oldest record of Apatemyidae (Mammalia, Apatotheria) from Spain and the taxonomic status of Spanish paromomyids (Mammalia, Primatomorpha). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43(3).
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Licht, Alexis, Grégoire Métais, Pauline Coster, et al.. (2022). Balkanatolia: The insular mammalian biogeographic province that partly paved the way to the Grande Coupure. Earth-Science Reviews. 226. 103929–103929. 19 indexed citations
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Licht, Alexis, Faruk Ocakoğlu, Grégoire Métais, et al.. (2021). Sedimentary Provenance From the Evolving Forearc‐to‐Foreland Central Sakarya Basin, Western Anatolia Reveals Multi‐Phase Intercontinental Collision. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 23(3). 11 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher, et al.. (2021). A new parapithecine (Primates: Anthropoidea) from the early Oligocene of Libya supports parallel evolution of large body size among parapithecids. Journal of Human Evolution. 153. 102957–102957. 1 indexed citations
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Métais, Grégoire, Pauline Coster, Alexis Licht, et al.. (2018). Eocene metatherians from Anatolia illuminate the assembly of an island fauna during Deep Time. PLoS ONE. 13(11). e0206181–e0206181. 22 indexed citations
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Gebo, Daniel L., Marian Dagosto, K. Christopher Beard, & Xijun Ni. (2016). Cuboid morphology of a basal anthropoid from the Eocene of China. Journal of Human Evolution. 102. 72–74. 1 indexed citations
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Gebo, Daniel L., Marian Dagosto, Jin Meng, et al.. (2013). The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution. Nature. 498(7452). 60–64. 141 indexed citations
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Gebo, Daniel L., Marian Dagosto, Xijun Ni, & K. Christopher Beard. (2012). Species diversity and postcranial anatomy of eocene primates from Shanghuang, China. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 21(6). 224–238. 11 indexed citations
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Dagosto, Marian, Laurent Marivaux, Daniel L. Gebo, et al.. (2010). The phylogenetic affinities of the Pondaung tali. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143(2). 223–234. 14 indexed citations
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Gebo, Daniel L., Marian Dagosto, K. Christopher Beard, & Xijun Ni. (2008). New primate hind limb elements from the middle Eocene of China. Journal of Human Evolution. 55(6). 999–1014. 20 indexed citations
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Marivaux, Laurent, K. Christopher Beard, Yaowalak Chaimanee, et al.. (2007). Anatomy of the bony pelvis of a relatively large-bodied strepsirrhine primate from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation (central Myanmar). Journal of Human Evolution. 54(3). 391–404. 13 indexed citations
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Métais, Grégoire, Aung Naing Soe, Laurent Marivaux, & K. Christopher Beard. (2007). Artiodactyls from the Pondaung Formation (Myanmar): new data and reevaluation of the South Asian Faunal Province during the Middle Eocene. Die Naturwissenschaften. 94(9). 759–768. 17 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher, Jean‐Jacques Jaeger, Yaowalak Chaimanee, et al.. (2005). Taxonomic status of purported primate frontal bones from the Eocene Pondaung Formation of Myanmar. Journal of Human Evolution. 49(4). 468–481. 20 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher & Jingwen Wang. (2004). The eosimiid primates (Anthropoidea) of the Heti Formation, Yuanqu Basin, Shanxi and Henan Provinces, People's Republic of China. Journal of Human Evolution. 46(4). 401–432. 50 indexed citations
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Beard, K. Christopher, et al.. (1992). A primitive vespertilionoid bat from the early Eocene of central Wyoming. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 13 indexed citations

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