Marcello Ruta

5.2k total citations
100 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Marcello Ruta is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Marcello Ruta has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Paleontology, 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 18 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Marcello Ruta's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (71 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (71 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (25 papers). Marcello Ruta is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (71 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (71 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (25 papers). Marcello Ruta collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Slovakia. Marcello Ruta's co-authors include Michael J. Benton, Michael I. Coates, Stephen L. Brusatte, Graeme T. Lloyd, Manabu Sakamoto, Donаld L. J. Quicke, Jennifer A. Clack, Jozef Klembara, Jonathan E. Jeffery and Kenneth D. Angielczyk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marcello Ruta

96 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marcello Ruta United Kingdom 34 3.3k 1.4k 812 503 487 100 4.0k
Graeme T. Lloyd United Kingdom 30 2.5k 0.8× 919 0.6× 521 0.6× 332 0.7× 452 0.9× 51 3.1k
Kenneth D. Angielczyk United States 44 4.3k 1.3× 2.0k 1.4× 652 0.8× 690 1.4× 407 0.8× 155 4.9k
Michel Laurin France 42 4.3k 1.3× 2.3k 1.6× 1.5k 1.8× 478 1.0× 743 1.5× 179 5.7k
Gareth J. Dyke United Kingdom 36 3.4k 1.0× 1.8k 1.3× 491 0.6× 233 0.5× 448 0.9× 162 4.3k
Michael I. Coates United States 42 3.6k 1.1× 2.8k 2.0× 680 0.8× 319 0.6× 352 0.7× 111 5.4k
Paul Upchurch United Kingdom 52 6.9k 2.1× 4.3k 3.0× 1.2k 1.5× 301 0.6× 469 1.0× 125 7.5k
Jennifer A. Clack United Kingdom 38 3.0k 0.9× 1.9k 1.4× 637 0.8× 242 0.5× 263 0.5× 108 3.8k
Roger Benson United Kingdom 53 7.7k 2.3× 4.5k 3.2× 1.5k 1.8× 612 1.2× 544 1.1× 194 8.5k
Philip D. Mannion United Kingdom 44 4.3k 1.3× 2.6k 1.9× 734 0.9× 209 0.4× 265 0.5× 108 4.9k
Richard L. Cifelli United States 40 4.4k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 710 0.9× 268 0.5× 1.2k 2.4× 142 5.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marcello Ruta

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marcello Ruta

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Smithson, Timothy R., Marcello Ruta, & Jennifer A. Clack. (2024). On Ossirarus kierani, a stem tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Burnmouth, Berwickshire, Scotland, and the phylogeny of early tetrapods. Fossil record. 27(3). 333–352.
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Smithson, Timothy R., Marcello Ruta, & Jennifer A. Clack. (2024). On Ossirarus kierani, a stem tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Burnmouth, Berwickshire, Scotland, and the phylogeny of early tetrapods. Fossil record. 27(3). 333–352. 1 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello, et al.. (2023). Locomotor, ecological and phylogenetic drivers of skeletal proportions in frogs. Journal of Anatomy. 243(3). 404–420. 5 indexed citations
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Green, Emily, et al.. (2023). Bird clades with less complex appendicular skeletons tend to have higher species richness. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5817–5817. 6 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello, Anli Gao, Karine A. Viaud‐Martinez, et al.. (2023). Skull morphology of bottlenose dolphins worldwide and patterns of adaptation between coastal and offshore environments. Journal of Zoology. 322(1). 42–57. 1 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello, et al.. (2023). Bird species with wider geographical ranges have higher blood parasite diversity but not prevalence across the African-Eurasian flyway. International Journal for Parasitology. 53(14). 787–796. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Yimeng, et al.. (2023). Divergent vertebral formulae shape the evolution of axial complexity in mammals. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(3). 367–381. 9 indexed citations
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Sakamoto, Manabu, Marcello Ruta, & Chris Venditti. (2019). Extreme and rapid bursts of functional adaptations shape bite force in amniotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1894). 20181932–20181932. 22 indexed citations
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Clack, Jennifer A., Carys E. Bennett, Sarah J. Davies, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(1). 2–2. 73 indexed citations
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Pincheira‐Donoso, Daniel, Lilly P. Harvey, & Marcello Ruta. (2015). What defines an adaptive radiation? Macroevolutionary diversification dynamics of an exceptionally species-rich continental lizard radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 153–153. 68 indexed citations
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Brocklehurst, Neil, Marcello Ruta, Johannes Müller, & Jörg Fröbisch. (2015). Elevated Extinction Rates as a Trigger for Diversification Rate Shifts: Early Amniotes as a Case Study. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 17104–17104. 28 indexed citations
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Deeming, D. Charles & Marcello Ruta. (2014). Egg shape changes at the theropod–bird transition, and a morphometric study of amniote eggs. Royal Society Open Science. 1(3). 140311–140311. 40 indexed citations
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Coates, Michael I., Jonathan E. Jeffery, & Marcello Ruta. (2002). Fins to limbs: what the fossils say1. Evolution & Development. 4(5). 390–401. 103 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello & Peter A. Jell. (1999). Adoketocarpus gen. nov., a mitrate from the Ludlovian Kilmore Siltstone and Lochkovian Humevale Formation of central Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 43. 377–398. 7 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello & Peter A. Jell. (1999). Protocytidium gen. nov., a new anomalocystitid mitrate from the Victorian latest Ordovician and evolution of the Allanicytidiidae. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 43(1). 353–376. 13 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello & Peter A. Jell. (1999). Two new anomalocystitid mitrates from the Lower Devonian Humevale Formation of central Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 43. 399–422. 19 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello & Peter A. Jell. (1999). A note on Victoriacystis wilkinsi (Anomalocystitida: Mitrata) from the Upper Silurian of Victoria. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 43. 423–430. 3 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello. (1999). Brief review of the stylophoran debate. Evolution & Development. 1(2). 123–135. 30 indexed citations
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Ruta, Marcello & Peter A. Jell. (1999). Revision of Silurian and Devonian Allanicytidiidae (Anomalocystitida: Mitrata) from south–eastern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 43. 431–451. 14 indexed citations

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