Michel Laurin

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
179 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Michel Laurin is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Michel Laurin has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 137 papers in Paleontology, 55 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 47 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Michel Laurin's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (119 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (46 papers). Michel Laurin is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (119 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (46 papers). Michel Laurin collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and Canada. Michel Laurin's co-authors include Robert R. Reisz, David Marjanović, Aurore Canoville, Damien Germain, Marc Girondot, Vivian de Buffrénil, Graciela Piñeiro, Gilles Didier, William Parker and Rodrigo Soler‐Gijón 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

Michel Laurin

168 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 25 50 75
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.

  1. Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology
    2021 88 citations Vivian de Buffrénil, Michel Laurin et al. profile →

Peers

Michel Laurin
Julia A. Clarke United States
Robert R. Reisz Canada
Susan E. Evans United Kingdom
Paul M. Barrett United Kingdom
Marcello Ruta United Kingdom
Jacques Gauthier United States
Roger Benson United Kingdom
Timothy B. Rowe United States
Gérald Mayr Germany
Paul Upchurch United Kingdom
Julia A. Clarke United States
Michel Laurin
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Countries citing papers authored by Michel Laurin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michel Laurin

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michel Laurin

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

All Works

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Bailón, Salvador, et al.. (2025). New pipimorphs from the Late Cretaceous of Niger. Annales de Paléontologie. 111(2). 102751–102751.
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Laurin, Michel & Gilles Didier. (2025). The rise and fall of Varanopidae† (Amniota, Synapsida). Frontiers in Earth Science. 13.
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Luca, Laurival A. De, Michel Laurin, & José Vanderlei Menani. (2024). Control of fluid intake in dehydrated rats and evolution of sodium appetite. Physiology & Behavior. 284. 114642–114642.
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Gol’din, Pavel, et al.. (2021). Hypersalinity drives convergent bone mass increases in Miocene marine mammals from the Paratethys. Current Biology. 32(1). 248–255.e2. 10 indexed citations
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Didier, Gilles & Michel Laurin. (2020). Exact Distribution of Divergence Times from Fossil Ages and Tree Topologies. Systematic Biology. 69(6). 1068–1087. 19 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel, et al.. (2020). The relationship between genome size and metabolic rate in extant vertebrates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1793). 20190146–20190146. 32 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel, et al.. (2020). A review of the fossil record of caecilians (Lissamphibia: Gymnophionomorpha) with comments on its use to calibrate molecular timetrees. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 131(4). 737–755. 6 indexed citations
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Merle, Didier, et al.. (2020). Raising names from the dead: A time-calibrated phylogeny of frog shells (Bursidae, Tonnoidea, Gastropoda) using mitogenomic data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 156. 107040–107040. 4 indexed citations
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Didier, Gilles, et al.. (2017). Likelihood of Tree Topologies with Fossils and Diversification Rate Estimation. Systematic Biology. 66(6). 964–987. 26 indexed citations
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Smith, Heather F., William Parker, Sanet H. Kotzé, & Michel Laurin. (2016). Morphological evolution of the mammalian cecum and cecal appendix. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16(1). 39–57. 30 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel. (2015). Analyse d’ouvrage. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 14(2). 163–166.
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Smith, Heather F., William Parker, Sanet H. Kotzé, & Michel Laurin. (2013). Multiple independent appearances of the cecal appendix in mammalian evolution and an investigation of related ecological and anatomical factors. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12(6). 339–354. 33 indexed citations
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Rage, Jean‐Claude, et al.. (2013). A Re-Interpretation of the Eocene Anuran Thaumastosaurus Based on MicroCT Examination of a ‘Mummified’ Specimen. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74874–e74874. 40 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel & Damien Germain. (2011). Developmental Characters in Phylogenetic Inference and Their Absolute Timing Information. Systematic Biology. 60(5). 630–644. 39 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel. (2011). A preliminary biography of Armand de Ricqlès (1938–), the great synthesizer of bone histology. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 10(5-6). 293–301. 3 indexed citations
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Germain, Damien, et al.. (2008). Evolution of bone microanatomy of the tetrapod tibia and its use in palaeobiological inference. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(3). 807–826. 115 indexed citations
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Laurin, Michel. (1993). Anatomy and relationships of Haptodus garnettensis , a Pennsylvanian synapsid from Kansas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 13(2). 200–229. 62 indexed citations

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