Prosanta Chakrabarty

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
102 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Prosanta Chakrabarty is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Prosanta Chakrabarty has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 60 papers in Aquatic Science and 19 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Prosanta Chakrabarty's work include Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (60 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (59 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (49 papers). Prosanta Chakrabarty is often cited by papers focused on Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (60 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (59 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (49 papers). Prosanta Chakrabarty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Canada. Prosanta Chakrabarty's co-authors include John S. Sparks, Daniele Silvestro, Christine D. Bacon, Carlos Jaramillo, Brian Tilston Smith, Alexandre Antonelli, Caleb D. McMahan, Daniel L. Erickson, Ellen K. Pikitch and Phaedra Doukakis and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Prosanta Chakrabarty

98 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama

2015 433 citations Prosanta Chakrabarty et al. profile →
Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous

2022 75 citations Richard Harrington, Edward D. Burress et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Prosanta Chakrabarty United States	25	1.6k	953	623	569	566	102	2.6k
Nathan R. Lovejoy Canada	30	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	568 0.9×	513 0.9×	505 0.9×	84	2.6k
Lynne R. Parenti United States	26	1.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	481 0.8×	504 0.9×	614 1.1×	99	3.1k
Tomas Hrbek Brazil	33	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	899 1.4×	677 1.2×	1.1k 1.9×	153	3.5k
Lukas Rüber Switzerland	30	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	857 1.4×	899 1.6×	1.1k 1.9×	70	2.9k
Ricardo Betancur‐R United States	26	1.5k 0.9×	820 0.9×	626 1.0×	833 1.5×	668 1.2×	78	2.7k
Hernán López‐Fernández United States	25	1.6k 1.0×	952 1.0×	405 0.7×	333 0.6×	356 0.6×	66	2.1k
Francisco J. García-Dé León Mexico	30	1.4k 0.9×	759 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	654 1.1×	1.1k 2.0×	145	3.2k
Brian L. Sidlauskas United States	22	1.1k 0.7×	535 0.6×	525 0.8×	340 0.6×	691 1.2×	57	2.6k
Sébastien Lavoué Malaysia	26	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	458 0.7×	785 1.4×	544 1.0×	96	2.4k
Ulrich K. Schliewen Germany	29	1.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.9×	642 1.1×	1.2k 2.2×	99	3.1k

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Alda, Fernando, et al.. (2025). Phylogenomic and Population Genomic Analyses of Ultraconserved Elements Reveal Deep Coalescence and Introgression Shaped Diversification Patterns in Lamprologine Cichlids of the Congo River. Systematic Biology. 74(4). 600–621.

McMahan, Caleb D., et al.. (2023). Disentangling historical relationships within Poeciliidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) using ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 190. 107965–107965. 6 indexed citations

Ludt, William B., et al.. (2023). A reference genome for Bluegill (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(3). 2 indexed citations

Albert, James S., Adam P. Summers, Brandon P. Hedrick, et al.. (2023). A New Era of Morphological Investigations: Reviewing Methods for Comparative Anatomical Studies. Integrative Organismal Biology. 5(1). obad008–obad008. 9 indexed citations

Randall, Zachary S., et al.. (2022). They like to move it (move it): walking kinematics of balitorid loaches of Thailand. Journal of Experimental Biology. 225(6). 4 indexed citations

Harrington, Richard, Edward D. Burress, Matthew A. Campbell, et al.. (2022). Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1211–1220. 75 indexed citations breakdown →

Girard, Matthew G., Matthew P. Davis, Heok Hui Tan, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetics of Archerfishes (Toxotidae) and Evolution of the Toxotid Shooting Apparatus. Integrative Organismal Biology. 4(1). obac013–obac013. 6 indexed citations

Faircloth, Brant C., Fernando Alda, Kendra Hoekzema, et al.. (2020). A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes. Copeia. 108(1). 47–47. 27 indexed citations

Randall, Zachary S., et al.. (2020). Skeletal and muscular pelvic morphology of hillstream loaches (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae). Journal of Morphology. 281(10). 1280–1295. 12 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Prosanta, et al.. (2020). Anatomical basis of diverse jaw protrusion directionality in ponyfishes (Family Leiognathidae). Journal of Morphology. 282(3). 427–437. 3 indexed citations

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Ludt, William B., Luiz A. Rocha, & Prosanta Chakrabarty. (2019). The first complete mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(1). 212–213. 1 indexed citations

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Ludt, William B., Christopher P. Burridge, & Prosanta Chakrabarty. (2019). A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Centrarchiformes: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa. 4585(1). zootaxa.4585.1.7–zootaxa.4585.1.7. 7 indexed citations

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Tornabene, Luke, Jingyan Li, Jiamei Jiang, et al.. (2018). Phylogenomic analysis on the exceptionally diverse fish clade Gobioidei (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes) and data-filtering based on molecular clocklikeness. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 128. 192–202. 31 indexed citations

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Ng, Heok Hee, Heok Hui Tan, Kelvin K. P. Lim, William B. Ludt, & Prosanta Chakrabarty. (2015). Fishes of the Eastern Johor Strait. The Raffles bulletin of zoology. 2015. 303. 6 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Prosanta, et al.. (2014). The Hoosier cavefish, a new and endangered species (Amblyopsidae, Amblyopsis) from the caves of southern Indiana. ZooKeys. 412(412). 41–57. 9 indexed citations

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Ludt, William B., et al.. (2014). Examining evolutionary relationships and shifts in depth preferences in batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 84. 27–33. 4 indexed citations

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McMahan, Caleb D., et al.. (2013). Checklist of the Inland Fishes of El Salvador. Zootaxa. 3608(6). 440–56. 21 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Prosanta, et al.. (2011). Evolution of the light organ system in ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). Journal of Morphology. 272(6). 704–721. 38 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Prosanta, et al.. (2010). Review of theHalieutichthys aculeatusspecies complex (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Fish Biology. 77(4). 841–869. 6 indexed citations

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Chakrabarty, Prosanta & John S. Sparks. (2008). Diagnoses for Leiognathus Lacepède 1802, Equula Cuvier 1815, Equulites Fowler 1904, Eubleekeria Fowler 1904, and a new ponyfish genus (Teleostei, Leiognathidae) ; American Museum novitates, no. 3623. American Museum Novitates. 8 indexed citations

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