Phil R. Bell

2.0k total citations
90 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Phil R. Bell is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil R. Bell has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Paleontology, 53 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Phil R. Bell's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (80 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (66 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (47 papers). Phil R. Bell is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (80 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (66 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (47 papers). Phil R. Bell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and Italy. Phil R. Bell's co-authors include Philip J. Currie, Elizabeth T. Smith, Federico Fanti, Eric Snively, Nicolás E. Campione, Victoria M. Arbour, Derek W. Larson, Lida Xing, Matt A. White and Donald B. Brinkman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Phil R. Bell

84 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phil R. Bell Australia 23 1.3k 806 283 75 70 90 1.5k
Susannah C. R. Maidment United Kingdom 26 1.6k 1.2× 802 1.0× 442 1.6× 73 1.0× 67 1.0× 79 1.8k
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Japan 27 1.7k 1.3× 1.0k 1.3× 325 1.1× 83 1.1× 89 1.3× 90 1.9k
Lindsay E. Zanno United States 26 2.0k 1.5× 1.1k 1.4× 383 1.4× 123 1.6× 65 0.9× 74 2.1k
Daniela Schwarz Germany 23 1.2k 0.9× 797 1.0× 162 0.6× 51 0.7× 58 0.8× 48 1.3k
Kristina Curry Rogers United States 17 1.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.4× 302 1.1× 99 1.3× 123 1.8× 19 1.8k
Angela C. Milner United Kingdom 20 1.6k 1.2× 955 1.2× 310 1.1× 101 1.3× 108 1.5× 40 1.7k
Oliver Wings Germany 23 1.6k 1.2× 893 1.1× 234 0.8× 97 1.3× 151 2.2× 72 1.9k
Fabien Knoll Spain 23 1.3k 1.0× 801 1.0× 246 0.9× 69 0.9× 96 1.4× 71 1.4k
Mahito Watabe Japan 20 1.1k 0.9× 604 0.7× 195 0.7× 85 1.1× 77 1.1× 53 1.2k
Dongyu Hu China 19 1.2k 0.9× 642 0.8× 202 0.7× 95 1.3× 99 1.4× 37 1.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bell, Phil R., et al.. (2025). Articulated hindlimb of a small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 49(4). 975–990.
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Bell, Phil R., et al.. (2024). Revealing the use of dental indices to infer taxonomic variation in sauropod dinosaurs. Palaeontology. 67(5). 4 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Corwin, John‐Paul Zonneveld, Phil R. Bell, et al.. (2024). Enigmatic vertebrate swimming trace fossils from the Wapiti Formation, Alberta, Canada, and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces. 31(4). 275–292. 1 indexed citations
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Poropat, Stephen F., et al.. (2023). An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 47(2). 129–205. 15 indexed citations
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Unwin, David M., et al.. (2023). A new pterosaur specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, China: The oldest fossil record of Nurhachius. Historical Biology. 36(8). 1625–1638. 1 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R., Christophe Hendrickx, Michael Pittman, Thomas G. Kaye, & Gérald Mayr. (2022). The exquisitely preserved integument of Psittacosaurus and the scaly skin of ceratopsian dinosaurs. Communications Biology. 5(1). 809–809. 9 indexed citations
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Pittman, Michael, et al.. (2022). Newly detected data from Haestasaurus and review of sauropod skin morphology suggests Early Jurassic origin of skin papillae. Communications Biology. 5(1). 122–122. 9 indexed citations
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Pittman, Michael, Phil R. Bell, Xiaoli Wang, et al.. (2022). Exceptional preservation and foot structure reveal ecological transitions and lifestyles of early theropod flyers. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7684–7684. 15 indexed citations
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Smith, Elizabeth T., et al.. (2020). Noasaurids are a component of the Australian ‘mid’-Cretaceous theropod fauna. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 1428–1428. 22 indexed citations
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Campione, Nicolás E., et al.. (2020). Probable deinonychosaur tracks from the Upper Cretaceous Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Geological Magazine. 158(6). 1115–1128. 6 indexed citations
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Campione, Nicolás E., Federico Fanti, Matt A. White, et al.. (2020). Exploring possible ontogenetic trajectories in tyrannosaurids using tracks from the Wapiti Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(6). e1878201–e1878201. 8 indexed citations
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Campione, Nicolás E., et al.. (2020). Diversity and palaeoecology of Australia's southern-most sauropods, Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. Lethaia. 54(3). 354–367. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Elizabeth T., et al.. (2019). New theropod (Tetanurae: Avetheropoda) material from the ‘mid’-Cretaceous Griman Greek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Royal Society Open Science. 6(1). 180826–180826. 20 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R., et al.. (2018). Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. PeerJ. 6. e6008–e6008. 28 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R., et al.. (2018). Revised geology, age, and vertebrate diversity of the dinosaur-bearing Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 514. 655–671. 51 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R., Nicolás E. Campione, W. Scott Persons, et al.. (2017). Tyrannosauroid integument reveals conflicting patterns of gigantism and feather evolution. Biology Letters. 13(6). 20170092–20170092. 22 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R.. (2014). A Review of Hadrosaurid Skin Impressions. RUNE (Research UNE). 10 indexed citations
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Bell, Phil R., Federico Fanti, Philip J. Currie, & Victoria M. Arbour. (2013). A Mummified Duck-Billed Dinosaur with a Soft-Tissue Cock’s Comb. Current Biology. 24(1). 70–75. 62 indexed citations

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