Lorenzo Rook

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
252 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Rook is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Rook has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Paleontology, 124 papers in Anthropology and 97 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Rook's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (185 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (124 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (63 papers). Lorenzo Rook is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (185 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (124 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (63 papers). Lorenzo Rook collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Lorenzo Rook's co-authors include Bienvenido Martı́nez-Navarro, Massimo Delfino, Raffaele Sardella, Salvador Moyà‐Solà, Mauro Papini, David Lordkipanidze, Danilo Torre, Meike Köhler, Saverio Bartolini Lucenti and Roberto Macchiarelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Rook

232 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

2007 418 citations David Lordkipanidze, Oriol Oms et al. profile →

Peers

Lorenzo Rook

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Meave G. Leakey United States

Denis Geraads France

Jordi Agustı́ Spain

Nikos Solounias United States

Paul Palmqvist Spain

David M. Alba Spain

Mikael Fortelius Finland

Gildas Merceron France

Anna K. Behrensmeyer United States

Salvador Moyà‐Solà Spain

Meave G. Leakey United States

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1.9k ×1.1

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1.8k ×1.8

764 ×0.9

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Countries citing papers authored by Lorenzo Rook

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lorenzo Rook

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lorenzo Rook

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lorenzo Rook. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lorenzo Rook 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 Lorenzo Rook. Lorenzo Rook is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pandolfi, Luca, et al.. (2024). New early Pliocene Rhinocerotidae findings from Tuscany (Italy) and the Pliocene rhinocerotine record in Italy. Geobios. 88-89. 197–204. 1 indexed citations

Madurell‐Malapeira, Joan, et al.. (2024). A Review on the Latest Early Pleistocene Carnivoran Guild from the Vallparadís Section (NE Iberia). Quaternary. 7(3). 40–40. 2 indexed citations

Martı́nez-Navarro, Bienvenido, Joan Madurell‐Malapeira, Sergio Ros‐Montoya, et al.. (2024). The Late Villafranchian Absence of Pigs in Europe. Comment on Iannucci, A. The Occurrence of Suids in the Post-Olduvai to Pre-Jaramillo Pleistocene of Europe and Implications for Late Villafranchian Biochronology and Faunal Dynamics. Quaternary 2024, 7, 11. Quaternary. 7(4). 51–51. 1 indexed citations

Cirilli, Omar, Luca Pandolfi, David M. Alba, et al.. (2023). The last Plio-Pleistocene hipparions of Western Eurasia. A review with remarks on their taxonomy, paleobiogeography and evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews. 306. 107976–107976. 5 indexed citations

Pandolfi, Luca & Lorenzo Rook. (2023). An enigmatic giraffid from the latest Miocene of Italy: Taxonomy, affinity, and paleobiogeographic implications. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 30(2). 403–413.

Martı́nez-Navarro, Bienvenido, Francesco Carotenuto, Saverio Bartolini Lucenti, et al.. (2023). The earliest Ethiopian wolf: implications for the species evolution and its future survival. Communications Biology. 6(1). 530–530. 4 indexed citations

Cirilli, Omar, Joaquı́n Arroyo-Cabrales, Edward Davis, et al.. (2022). Evolution of the Family Equidae, Subfamily Equinae, in North, Central and South America, Eurasia and Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene. Biology. 11(9). 1258–1258. 19 indexed citations

Carotenuto, Francesco, Mirko Di Febbraro, Alessandro Mondanaro, et al.. (2020). MInOSSE: A new method to reconstruct geographic ranges of fossil species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 1121–1132. 8 indexed citations

Georgalis, Georgios L., et al.. (2019). A new colubroid snake (Serpentes) from the early Pleistocene of Sardinia, Italy. Florence Research (University of Florence). 5 indexed citations

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Raia, Pasquale, Francesco Carotenuto, Silvia Castiglione, et al.. (2018). Unexpectedly rapid evolution of mandibular shape in hominins. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7340–7340. 14 indexed citations

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Scarciglia, Fabio, Víctor Fondevilla, Pere Anadón, et al.. (2018). Pleistocene paleosol development and paleoenvironmental dynamics in East Africa: A multiproxy record from the Homo-bearing Aalat pedostratigraphic succession, Dandiero basin (Eritrea). Quaternary Science Reviews. 191. 275–298. 6 indexed citations

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Rook, Lorenzo, Omar Cirilli, & Raymond L. Bernor. (2017). A Late Occurring “Hipparion” from the middle Villafranchian of Monopoly, Italy (early Pleistocene; MN16b; ca. 2.5 Ma). CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 56. 333–339. 7 indexed citations

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Pillola, Gian Luigi, et al.. (2016). New remains of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 (Primates, Cercopithecidae) from Is Oreris (Fluminimaggiore, southwestern Sardinia). Florence Research (University of Florence). 55(3). 227–230. 7 indexed citations

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DeMiguel, Daniel, et al.. (2016). New Hoplitomeryx Leinders, 1984 remains from the Late Miocene of Gargano (Apulia, Italy). Hystrix. 27(2). 129–136. 1 indexed citations

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Rook, Lorenzo, et al.. (2009). Changing faces: an examination of robust craniofacial features in Macaca majori and implications for the hominid fossil record. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 1 indexed citations

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Abbazzi, L., et al.. (2008). The end of the Lago-Mare time in the SE Valdelsa Basin (Central Italy): interference between local tectonism and regional sea-level rise. Geodiversitas. 30(3). 611–639. 29 indexed citations

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Bianucci, Giovanni, et al.. (2006). Peri-Messinian Dwarfing in Mediterranean Metaxytherium (Mammalia: Sirenia): Evidence of Habitat Degradation Related to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 6 indexed citations

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Torre, D., L. Abbazzi, Adèle Bertini, et al.. (2001). Structural changes in Italian Late Pliocene - Pleistocene large Mammal assemblages. Florence Research (University of Florence). 40(2). 303–306. 21 indexed citations

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Fejfar, Oldřich, et al.. (1996). First record of a copemyine-peromyscine cricetid [ Rodentia, Mammalia ] in South America: hypotheses regarding its ancestry in the Palaearctic. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 39(1). 12 indexed citations

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Rook, Lorenzo & D. Torre. (1996). The latest Villafranchian - early Galerian small dogs of the Mediterranean area. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 39(1). 25 indexed citations

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