Olivier Rieppel

13.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
307 papers, 9.5k citations indexed

About

Olivier Rieppel is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Olivier Rieppel has authored 307 papers receiving a total of 9.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 191 papers in Paleontology, 105 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 89 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Olivier Rieppel's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (155 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (147 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (89 papers). Olivier Rieppel is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (155 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (147 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (89 papers). Olivier Rieppel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Olivier Rieppel's co-authors include Maureen Kearney, Hussam Zaher, D. Jiang, Michael deBraga, Ryosuke Motani, Jessica A. Maisano, P. Martin Sander, Gareth Nelson, Andrea Tintori and Robert R. Reisz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Olivier Rieppel

300 papers receiving 8.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Assembling the Squamate Tree of Life: Perspectives from the Phenotype and the Fossil Record

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Olivier Rieppel United States	49	6.7k	4.7k	3.3k	1.4k	996	307	9.5k
Mark A. Norell United States	73	13.0k 2.0×	7.6k 1.6×	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	613 0.6×	285	14.7k
Michael S. Y. Lee Australia	53	4.3k 0.6×	2.4k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	170	7.8k
Jacques Gauthier United States	15	3.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.4×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	629 0.6×	30	4.5k
E. O. Wiley United States	42	1.8k 0.3×	2.4k 0.5×	876 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	96	7.0k
Gareth Nelson United States	40	3.1k 0.5×	1.9k 0.4×	604 0.2×	2.6k 1.8×	1.3k 1.3×	126	7.1k
Joël Cracraft United States	52	4.2k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	978 0.3×	3.0k 2.1×	1.4k 1.4×	163	9.4k
Colin Patterson United Kingdom	34	2.8k 0.4×	3.0k 0.6×	453 0.1×	919 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	92	5.9k
Kevin de Queiroz United States	44	3.1k 0.5×	2.4k 0.5×	3.6k 1.1×	4.4k 3.1×	2.3k 2.3×	126	11.5k
Paul C. Sereno United States	55	9.5k 1.4×	6.4k 1.4×	1.8k 0.5×	607 0.4×	323 0.3×	91	10.4k
Neil H. Shubin United States	41	2.4k 0.4×	1.6k 0.3×	984 0.3×	629 0.4×	1.7k 1.7×	96	5.1k

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Jiang, D., Min Zhou, Ryosuke Motani, et al.. (2023). Emergence and ecological transition of the Mesozoic marine reptiles: Evidence from the Early Triassic Chaohu and the Middle Triassic Xingyi Faunas. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 628. 111750–111750. 12 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (2023). “Living fossils” and the mosaic evolution of characters. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 1 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaohong, Ryosuke Motani, Long Cheng, D. Jiang, & Olivier Rieppel. (2014). A Small Short-Necked Hupehsuchian from the Lower Triassic of Hubei Province, China. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e115244–e115244. 22 indexed citations

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Jiang, D., Ryosuke Motani, Andrea Tintori, et al.. (2014). The Early Triassic eosauropterygian Majiashanosaurus discocoracoidis , gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34(5). 1044–1052. 49 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (2013). ON THE PRESENCE AND FUNCTION OF POST-CLOACAL BONES IN THE LACERTILIA. Monitore Zoologico Italiano-Italian Journal of Zoology. 10(1). 7–13. 2 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (2009). Über die Beziehung zwischen Systematik und Evolution. Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research. 27(3). 193–199.

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Rieppel, Olivier. (2000). Paraplacodus and the phylogeny of the Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 130(4). 635–659. 38 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (2000). The braincases of mosasaurs and Varanus, and the relationships of snakes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129(4). 489–514. 6 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier & Hussam Zaher. (2000). The braincases of mosasaurs and Varanus, and the relationships of snakes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 129(4). 489–514. 63 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier & Hussam Zaher. (2000). The intramandibular joint in squamates, and the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil snake Pachyrhachis problematicus Haas. Field Museum of Natural History eBooks. 72 indexed citations

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O’Keefe, F. Robin, Olivier Rieppel, & P. Martin Sander. (1999). Shape disassociation and inferred heterochrony in a clade of pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia). Paleobiology. 25(4). 504–517. 25 indexed citations

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O’Keefe, F. Robin, Olivier Rieppel, & P. Martin Sander. (1999). Shape disassociation and inferred heterochrony in a clade of pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia). Paleobiology. 25(4). 504–517. 23 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1998). Corosaurus alcovensisCase and the phylogenetic interrelationships of Triassic stem-group Sauropterygia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124(1). 1–41. 1 indexed citations

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Grande, Lance & Olivier Rieppel. (1994). Interpreting the hierarchy of nature : from systematic patterns to evolutionary process theories. Academic Press eBooks. 67 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1993). The role of paleontological data in testing homology by congruence. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 38. 295–302. 12 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1992). Unterwegs zum Anfang : Geschichte und Konsequenzen der Evolutionstheorie. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1990). Ontogeny-a way forward for systematics, a way backward for phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 39(2). 177–191. 26 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1987). Clarazia and Hescheleria: A re-investigation of two problematical reptiles from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland). Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 195. 101–129. 30 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1984). The structure of the skull and jaw adductor musculature in the Gekkota, with comments on the phylogenetic relationships of the Xantusiidae (Reptilia: Lacertilia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 82(3). 291–318. 62 indexed citations

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Rieppel, Olivier. (1978). The throat musculature of Sphenodon, with comments on the primitive character states of the throat muscles in lizards.. PubMed. 144(5). 429–40. 18 indexed citations

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