Marina Melchionna

1.2k total citations
50 papers, 782 citations indexed

About

Marina Melchionna is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Melchionna has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 782 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Paleontology, 22 papers in Anthropology and 16 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Marina Melchionna's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (16 papers). Marina Melchionna is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (31 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (16 papers). Marina Melchionna collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Australia. Marina Melchionna's co-authors include Pasquale Raia, Silvia Castiglione, Alessandro Mondanaro, Carmela Serio, Mirko Di Febbraro, Antonio Profico, Francesco Carotenuto, Lorenzo Rook, Alessio Veneziano and Paolo Piras and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Marina Melchionna

48 papers receiving 768 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marina Melchionna Italy 18 428 272 196 193 127 50 782
Alessandro Mondanaro Italy 17 438 1.0× 261 1.0× 141 0.7× 207 1.1× 131 1.0× 50 802
Silvia Castiglione Italy 18 437 1.0× 229 0.8× 160 0.8× 220 1.1× 148 1.2× 50 784
Carmela Serio Italy 16 374 0.9× 189 0.7× 139 0.7× 173 0.9× 135 1.1× 46 668
W. Andrew Barr United States 16 347 0.8× 299 1.1× 69 0.4× 257 1.3× 145 1.1× 35 677
Siobhán B. Cooke United States 15 449 1.0× 159 0.6× 202 1.0× 240 1.2× 169 1.3× 48 763
Juha Saarinen Finland 18 612 1.4× 311 1.1× 75 0.4× 383 2.0× 177 1.4× 42 868
Alexandra van der Geer Netherlands 19 755 1.8× 379 1.4× 150 0.8× 574 3.0× 210 1.7× 59 1.2k
Arthur Porto United States 14 543 1.3× 178 0.7× 615 3.1× 254 1.3× 215 1.7× 25 1.1k
George Lyras Greece 16 486 1.1× 253 0.9× 87 0.4× 347 1.8× 138 1.1× 37 752
John P. Hunter United States 12 636 1.5× 121 0.4× 132 0.7× 243 1.3× 326 2.6× 28 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Marina Melchionna

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marina Melchionna

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Melchionna

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marina Melchionna. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marina Melchionna 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 Marina Melchionna. Marina Melchionna 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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Melchionna, Marina, Silvia Castiglione, Antonio Profico, et al.. (2025). Cortical areas associated to higher cognition drove primate brain evolution. Communications Biology. 8(1). 80–80. 3 indexed citations
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Mondanaro, Alessandro, Axel Timmermann, Elke Zeller, et al.. (2025). EutherianCoP. An integrated biotic and climate database for conservation paleobiology based on eutherian mammals. Scientific Data. 12(1). 6–6.
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Mondanaro, Alessandro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2024). Modelling reveals the effect of climate and land use change on Madagascar’s chameleons fauna. Communications Biology. 7(1). 889–889. 3 indexed citations
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Mondanaro, Alessandro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Silvia Castiglione, et al.. (2023). ENphylo : A new method to model the distribution of extremely rare species. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). 911–922. 20 indexed citations
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Sansalone, Gabriele, Antonio Profico, Kari Allen, et al.. (2023). Homo sapiens and Neanderthals share high cerebral cortex integration into adulthood. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(1). 42–50. 9 indexed citations
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Castiglione, Silvia, Carmela Serio, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2021). Correction: A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0252264–e0252264. 1 indexed citations
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Mondanaro, Alessandro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2021). The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia. Ecography. 44(11). 1619–1630. 20 indexed citations
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Raia, Pasquale, Alessandro Mondanaro, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2021). Past extinctions of homo species coincided with increased vulnerability to climatic change. Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology. 1 indexed citations
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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
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Castiglione, Silvia, Carmela Serio, Alessandro Mondanaro, et al.. (2020). Ancestral State Estimation with Phylogenetic Ridge Regression. Evolutionary Biology. 47(3). 220–232. 21 indexed citations
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Raia, Pasquale, Alessandro Mondanaro, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2020). Past Extinctions of Homo Species Coincided with Increased Vulnerability to Climatic Change. One Earth. 3(4). 480–490. 39 indexed citations
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Castiglione, Silvia, Carmela Serio, Alessandro Mondanaro, et al.. (2020). The influence of domestication, insularity and sociality on the tempo and mode of brain size evolution in mammals. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 132(1). 221–231. 22 indexed citations
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Sansalone, Gabriele, Kari Allen, Justin A. Ledogar, et al.. (2020). Supplementary material from "Variation in the strength of allometry drives rates of evolution in primate brain shape". Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Profico, Antonio, Paolo Piras, Ana Bove, et al.. (2019). Seeing the wood through the trees. Combining shape information from different landmark configurations. Hystrix. 30(2). 157–165. 4 indexed citations
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Castiglione, Silvia, Carmela Serio, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2019). A new, fast method to search for morphological convergence with shape data. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226949–e0226949. 41 indexed citations
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Mondanaro, Alessandro, Mirko Di Febbraro, Marina Melchionna, et al.. (2019). Additive effects of climate change and human hunting explain population decline and extinction in cave bears. Boreas. 48(3). 605–615. 13 indexed citations
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Melchionna, Marina, Alessandro Mondanaro, Carmela Serio, et al.. (2019). Macroevolutionary trends of brain mass in Primates. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 23 indexed citations
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Melo, Geruza Leal, Jonas Sponchiado, Carmela Serio, et al.. (2018). Rensch’s and Bergmann’s Rules in Cis-Andean South-American Howler Monkeys (Mammalia: Alouatta). Liverpool John Moores University. 3 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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Raia, Pasquale, Francesco Carotenuto, Alessandro Mondanaro, et al.. (2016). Progress to extinction: increased specialisation causes the demise of animal clades. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30965–30965. 32 indexed citations

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