Paul Upchurch

10.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Paul Upchurch is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Upchurch has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Paleontology, 54 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 21 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Paul Upchurch's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (100 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (48 papers). Paul Upchurch is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (100 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (48 papers). Paul Upchurch collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Paul Upchurch's co-authors include Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett, David Norman, Roger Benson, Richard J. Butler, Jeffrey A. Wilson, Anjali Goswami, Matthew T. Carrano, John M. Martin and Octávio Mateus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Paul Upchurch

125 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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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.

Rates of Dinosaur Body Mass Evolution Indicate 170 Million Years of Sustained Ecological Innovation on the Avian Stem Lineage

2014 307 citations Philip D. Mannion, Corwin Sullivan et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Upchurch United Kingdom	52	6.9k	4.3k	1.2k	469	401	125	7.5k
Richard J. Butler United Kingdom	52	7.1k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	368 0.8×	374 0.9×	190	7.5k
Roger Benson United Kingdom	53	7.7k 1.1×	4.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	544 1.2×	634 1.6×	194	8.5k
Stephen L. Brusatte United Kingdom	50	7.3k 1.1×	4.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	478 1.0×	372 0.9×	218	7.8k
Matthew T. Carrano United States	41	4.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	308 0.7×	383 1.0×	81	5.3k
Hans‐Dieter Sues United States	46	5.9k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	529 1.1×	214 0.5×	190	6.5k
Paul C. Sereno United States	55	9.5k 1.4×	6.4k 1.5×	1.8k 1.5×	607 1.3×	412 1.0×	91	10.4k
Philip D. Mannion United Kingdom	44	4.3k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	734 0.6×	265 0.6×	361 0.9×	108	4.9k
Diego Pol Argentina	50	5.9k 0.9×	3.9k 0.9×	896 0.8×	482 1.0×	229 0.6×	166	6.5k
Michel Laurin France	42	4.3k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	743 1.6×	650 1.6×	179	5.7k
Michael W. Caldwell Canada	43	4.1k 0.6×	2.6k 0.6×	2.4k 2.0×	470 1.0×	339 0.8×	172	5.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Upchurch

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Mannion, Philip D., et al.. (2025). The earliest fossil cetacean with Osedax borings: narrowing the spatiotemporal gap between Cretaceous marine reptiles and late Cenozoic whales. Royal Society Open Science. 12(6). 250446–250446. 1 indexed citations

Upchurch, Paul, et al.. (2025). Accounting for sampling heterogeneity suggests a low paleolatitude origin for dinosaurs. Current Biology. 35(5). 941–953.e5. 3 indexed citations

Chapelle, Kimberley E. J., et al.. (2025). A new large ‘silesaur’ specimen from the ?Late Triassic of Zambia; taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary implications. Royal Society Open Science. 12(7). 250762–250762. 1 indexed citations

Upchurch, Paul & Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza. (2024). A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus. Biology Letters. 20(10). 20240429–20240429. 5 indexed citations

Higgins, Robert, Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett, & Paul Upchurch. (2024). A new sauropod dinosaur hindlimb from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, UK. Royal Society Open Science. 11(10). 240642–240642. 2 indexed citations

Maxwell, Simon, Philip J. Hopley, Paul Upchurch, & Christophe Soligo. (2018). Sporadic sampling not climatic forcing drives early hominin diversity. 1 indexed citations

Bennett, Verity, Paul Upchurch, Francisco J. Goin, & Anjali Goswami. (2018). Deep time diversity of metatherian mammals: implications for evolutionary history and fossil-record quality. Paleobiology. 44(2). 171–198. 16 indexed citations

Tennant, Jonathan, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Mark D. Sutton, & Gregory D. Price. (2016). Biotic and environmental dynamics through the L ate J urassic– E arly C retaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 92(2). 776–814. 104 indexed citations

McPhee, Blair W., Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, et al.. (2016). A revision of Sanpasaurus yaoi Young, 1944 from the Early Jurassic of China, and its relevance to the early evolution of Sauropoda (Dinosauria). PeerJ. 4. e2578–e2578. 15 indexed citations

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Halliday, Thomas J. D., Paul Upchurch, & Anjali Goswami. (2016). Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1833). 20153026–20153026. 39 indexed citations

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Chatterjee, Sankar, Zhijun Dong, & Paul Upchurch. (2010). A complete skeleton of a basal sauropod dinosaur from the early jurassic of china and the origin of sauropoda.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Mannion, Philip D. & Paul Upchurch. (2010). A quantitative analysis of environmental associations in sauropod dinosaurs. Paleobiology. 36(2). 253–282. 72 indexed citations

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Wilson, Jeffrey A. & Paul Upchurch. (2009). Redescription and reassessment of the phylogenetic affinities of euhelopus zdanskyi (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the early cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 7(2). 199–239. 199 indexed citations

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Butler, Richard J., et al.. (2009). Estimating the effects of sampling biases on pterosaur diversity patterns: implications for hypotheses of bird/pterosaur competitive replacement. Paleobiology. 35(3). 432–446. 98 indexed citations

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Upchurch, Paul, Yukimitsu Tomida, & Paul M. Barrett. (2004). A NEW SPECIMEN OF APATOSAURUS AJAX (SAUROPODA: DIPLODOCIDAE) FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION (UPPER JURASSIC) OF WYOMING, USA. 26. 76 indexed citations

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Upchurch, Paul, Yukimitsu Tomida, & Paul M. Barrett. (2004). A new specimen of Apatosaurus ajax (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae) from the Morrison Formation of Wyoming, USA.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations

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Barrett, Paul M. & Paul Upchurch. (1995). Sauropod feeding mechanisms: their bearing on palaeoecology.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 8 indexed citations

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Upchurch, Paul. (1994). Sauropod phylogeny and palaeoecology.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 7 indexed citations

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Barrett, Paul M. & Paul Upchurch. (1994). Feeding mechanisms of Diplodocus.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 26 indexed citations

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Upchurch, Paul. (1994). Manus claw function in sauropod dinosaurs.. UCL Discovery (University College London). 26 indexed citations

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